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The big post of MEH.
I've been off work for the last couple of days with this bloody cold. By yesterday's standards, today has been rather unproductive - yesterday I produced 2 picspams, a ficlet and wrote up a rather long DW episode recap!
Today? Meh.
It would help if I could stop writing new fics when I've got old ones to finish. Today's effort was probably one of the most angsty, UST-y things I've ever written. It's not finished, and I'm not sure if I'll post it even if I do finish it - it's just so... I dunno. Daft?
I'm having a problem. As someone who has written mostly shippy fic, I'm naturally gravitating towards writing it again.
BUT.
Before, the couple I wrote did at least end up as a couple in canon, and there had also been loads and loads of signposts along the way that that was going to happen eventually.
But in DW, there are no canon ships (well - there might be, but not yet!). No, not even Nine or Ten and Rose. There is some UST but there is no "R", whichever pairing you like best. So I find that I'm continually pulling myself back - not from writing RST, because I can't bring myself to do that, but from piling on the "U" by the truckload.
Those of you out there who write fic - let me ask you a question or two. If you write shippy fic, do you usually write characters who are either together or pretty likely to end up that way? Or doesn't that matter, because this is "just fic"? If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?
I suppose I'm trying to adjust my mindset and I'm interested in your thoughts.
Today? Meh.
It would help if I could stop writing new fics when I've got old ones to finish. Today's effort was probably one of the most angsty, UST-y things I've ever written. It's not finished, and I'm not sure if I'll post it even if I do finish it - it's just so... I dunno. Daft?
I'm having a problem. As someone who has written mostly shippy fic, I'm naturally gravitating towards writing it again.
BUT.
Before, the couple I wrote did at least end up as a couple in canon, and there had also been loads and loads of signposts along the way that that was going to happen eventually.
But in DW, there are no canon ships (well - there might be, but not yet!). No, not even Nine or Ten and Rose. There is some UST but there is no "R", whichever pairing you like best. So I find that I'm continually pulling myself back - not from writing RST, because I can't bring myself to do that, but from piling on the "U" by the truckload.
Those of you out there who write fic - let me ask you a question or two. If you write shippy fic, do you usually write characters who are either together or pretty likely to end up that way? Or doesn't that matter, because this is "just fic"? If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?
I suppose I'm trying to adjust my mindset and I'm interested in your thoughts.
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It is not that it is "just" fic, it is that fic is the artform where we run with our own takes on other people's stories, so it is sort of in its element with non-canonical pairings. Even better is our fandom has a time machine so anyone can get it on with anyone else, yay!
Also "likely to" is in the eye of the beholder. I can see the Doctor shagging Donna before he'd do Rose or Martha, based on his non-sexual relationships with them all. In fact I could quite believe that they Did It between episodes, because there's nothing to say they didn't, unlike with the other two. And the bit I saw of End of Time did convince me at least that the Doctor was madly in love with Donna. So what's canon, really?
If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?
I write pairings that seem win together. Sometimes I get lucky and like a canon one (omg Ten/Reinette <3) but mostly I write pairings that never happened. Cos I want to explore the relationship a bit or just cos it seems like they'd be hot together. Fic lets us see things the show never would. I mean, I can get all the delicious Four/Romana gen/UST I want from the actual episodes, but fic lets us see what it'd be like if they accidentally married and made a baby that destroyed the universe.
Though obviously Adric was their child too.I say don't worry too much about what canon says. It's useful for knowing what colour someone's eyes are but beyond that we're under no obligation to do what we're told. TV!Canon is never going to show me what would happen if the Doctor and Donna got together romantically, but I still want to occasionally see how other people think it would play out. Plus DW has wildly contradictory stories (did the Doctor blow up Skaro or was it still there for the War? What exactly happened to Atlantis?) so I think we can get away with quite a lot in this fandom.
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Hahahahaha!!!!
And the bit I saw of End of Time did convince me at least that the Doctor was madly in love with Donna. - You've not seen all of it? (And which bit? I'm curious...)
It's been stated a lot that there is no canon in DW, so I suppose that makes it easier to 'bend' it!
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You've not seen all of it? (And which bit? I'm curious...)
I've not seen anything since Midnight apart from Planet Of The Dead. But I have seen the cafe bit where the Doctor is all "omg my Donna I need my Donna I love her so" and looking at her adoringly out of love. LOVE!
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And then I remembered that in Rusty's book, the companion in S4 - before the idea of Catherine coming back had even been thought of - was going to have been someone that the Doctor fell for, head-over-heels, WHAM! (as he put it). Of course, Donna coming back meant that that character never happened, but it does make me wonder if that was still in his head somehow and some of it leaked out and got absorbed into his scripts by a process of osmosis!
Or maybe I just need new glasses...