January 2012
21 posts
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Fanfiction: A Thousand Dreams →
These visions are driving me mad, Merlin. I see so many things, so many contradictory things. They never stop. Sometimes, I can’t tell which is the reality and which are the dreams. I can’t remember who I (the real I) am supposed to hate and who I’m supposed to love. Is the real world the one where you poisoned me, or the one where I bore you children? Do I know how Gwen looks...
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A Dream Deferred, Chapter 1 →
“Oi! Spaceman! Can you hear me?” Her eyes are closed, and her face and body are as slack as a sleeping child’s, but her voice is confident and very much awake.
Donna’s memories are suppressed…at least, in her conscious mind. When she sleeps, things become more complicated. Post-Journey’s-End, spoilers through The End of Time. G/PG, eventual Shaun/Donna, not exactly a...
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Words Both True and Kind →
Follow the link in the title for yet another Merlin Season 2 fix-fic. :D Yeah, I know, everyone writes these. This one was necessary as background to a planned oneshot series (two parts of which already exist if you’re interested). Possibly unusual in that things are not instantly easy the moment he tells her the truth? I hope so. And Morgana saves the day in the end, which I enjoyed...
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The Ood Still Remember →
Donna, Noble Donna, do you hear us in your dreams? Does your heart cry out against a world as empty as it seems? Oh Donna, Noble Donna, she who came to right our wrong, We’re still singing in your honor, though you cannot hear our song!
Doctor-Donna came to help us when our spirit had run dry. Doctor-Donna wept our tears when we’d forgotten how to cry. Her bright fire burns in legend with...
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Our Secret →
We say it’s for the thrills and chills, For handsome faces, stunning eyes, To see whom this week’s monster kills… But deep inside we know we lie.
The motive’s simpler than we knew, More childish than we dared to say: We hope that box of purest blue Will land in our backyard someday
Click link in title for more.
The REAL reason we watch Doctor Who, in 28 lines of rhyming...
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The Centurion's Vigil →
He finds that he rather enjoys being a mystical guardian. People don’t normally take Rory Williams very seriously, but the Knights Templar are very superstitious and the antiquity of his Latin is actually a help in intimidating them. He hears them whispering at night (plastic must resonate better than flesh, he notes, and files that fact away for future reference); they aren’t sure...
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Appalling Arthur →
Arthur opens the door and pokes his head inside.
“It never ceases to amaze me how long women can take to fuss with clothing. I was expecting you half an hour ago.”
“Worth the delay, though?” Gwen asks, pushing her handiwork towards her husband. He lays his hands on his sister’s shoulders and looks her up and down, shaking his head in feigned disbelief. “You...
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'Till He Returns →
“No.” Not death. Not death with defeat and regret. Not for Arthur, the king who was once young and golden-haired and gave all of himself to his people.
Freya understands, and her voice is kind.
“This is his destiny, Merlin. He will sleep in peace, caught between the world of the dead and the world of the living. While he sleeps, time will stop for him. Albion will need him...
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Keeping Watch, Keeping Faith →
We keep the faith In little cottages on mountaintops Set apart from the kingdoms that we serve. We look down from lonely heights On Rohan’s plains and Gondor’s glories. We watch the people pass below Specks small with distance But precious to us. No lore-master sings a lay of the keepers of the beacons Of how we wait through long years, ever watchful. But we are proud to serve,...
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Like Sand Through an Hourglass →
He always knows that he’ll outlive everyone he loves. Just this once, though, he knows and he doesn’t have to pretend to deny it. He’s seen her die, watched the life leave her body before he ever really met her. And, because he’s seen her death, he can share her life without reservations. He can treasure every moment, and measure out the days with River like sand through...
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Always the Doctor →
One day he’s a geezer who goes on the run
The next he’s a midget who yoyos for fun
Then maybe a dandy with cape and cravat
He’s been all these things but he’s never forgot
To be always the Doctor, the man in the box
With the interesting hair and unusual togs
He’s always been brave and he’s always been clever
And the universe hopes he’ll be like...
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It Feels Like Death →
It’s a funny old thing, regeneration. Normally, when humans ask about it, he tells them that, after all, they become more than one person during their life, too. It’s called growing up, and all well-adjusted species do it. The only difference is that the Time Lords do it a little more abruptly than most, and that their bodies change a little more drastically. And, generally speaking,...
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The Most Important Thing →
She smiles weakly and asks the question she knows he’s looking for:
“What is the most important part, Arthur?”
“The most important part,” he says gently, blue eyes tender, “Is trust. Do you trust me, Guinevere Pendragon?”
It’s a fair question, after the events of the past few months. There’s some part of her that still can’t believe...
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Legends of a Madman →
“When all was dark and full of fear, He fell out of a stormy sky. He saved us all and staunched our tears And never stopped to say goodbye.”
The Doctor seems to inspire legends on a daily basis. This is my attempt to reproduce a selection of them. No spoilers, no particular warnings, a bit angsty in places.
Day 7 of my New Year’s fic-a-day project. Click link in title for...
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Never Forgotten →
“Sometimes, just for a moment, you feel a connection to someone which shocks you by its depth –that’s not to say that such a connection must be permanent or even mutual. When Morgana looks at Merlin and tells him that maybe magic is something that chooses you, he feels for a dizzying moment that they are the same, that she’s putting words around everything in his heart and...
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New Year's Project: January 5th →
The Way to Wisdom
So few reach Dictionopolis
Where letters grow on trees
And stimulating breezes blow
From Wisdom’s bracing seas
But someone showed me, long ago
The precious, hidden way
To lose myself in twisting words
And linger there all day
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An ode to Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth. Follow the link in the title for the rest.
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The First Rule of Pilotin' →
“He became a pilot to begin with because he’s always been a mite too fond of powerful things. He gets a little bit tipsy on the way engines purr to life at his touch. He loves knowin’ that a hamfisted pilot would give her too much fuel and let her burn too hot or a nervy one would be too shy and leave her cold, but his fingers dance. He has a kind of horse sense for just where...
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New Year's Project: January 3rd →
An Eternal Choice
“The child by his side will try to pull him away, wanting him to look at the shinier, newer ships, but I will catch his eye and hold it. Of course I did. I know the moment I sense him that we were, are, will be a space-time event unlike anything the universe has seen, can see, will ever see.”
The Tardis reflects on her Doctor. Normal verb conjugation gives up and...
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New Year's Project: January 2nd →
Fantastic Rose
“I met you in my normal way
I grabbed your hand and told you “run!”
I thought I’d only spend the day
You wanted to know more. You won.”
If the Ninth Doctor were inclined to write poetry (doubtful), this might be what he’d say about Rose Tyler.
Warm and cheerful, G-rated, rhyming, Rose/9 friendship, spoilers through 1x13. Click link in title...
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New Year's Project: January 1st →
The Commendable Institution
“You should try being married sometime, Merlin,” Arthur observes, lazily folding his arms behind his head and settling deeper into his pillow with a satisfied smirk.
“Oh?” Merlin busies himself with picking the King’s trousers off the floor. The Queen, always more naturally industrious than her husband, is already up and performing her...
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Hello, Tumblr!
This here blog is going to be a place where I can deposit my fanfiction.
To inaugurate it, I’m going to do something that I’ve been considering for a few weeks, which I’m calling my “New Year’s Project”. I have a massive backlog of oneshots and (for Doctor Who) poems which I need to clean up and post. I have enough, in fact, that I will only need to write a...
