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Sunday Memeage
Oh, because I don't already spend enough time on lj talking about how clever I think I am:
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lindenharp:
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
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''She remembers what it was like to lie there, for what seemed like an eternity, gradually letting the feeling of anticipation grow, running through fantasies and scenarios in her head; by the time he arrived, she was in a definite state of excitement; more than ready for him. The light from the corridor silhouetted him against the open door of the room:
“Romana?” he asked, as he always asked, in what for him counted as a whisper. “Are you awake?”
“Yes, Doctor.” He closed the door, and she lay there in the renewed darkness, listening to him undress. It was always the same; another game that they played. When he climbed into bed with her, she returned his kisses with a passion; a hunger; that she can scarcely believe when she recalls it now. It was all so new and exciting to her, back then; she was so desperate to experience it, as deeply as she could. He was always so careful, though; almost hesitant as he ran his hands and mouth over her body; taking his time, attending to her needs before his own. Maybe he was afraid of hurting her; he was so much larger and stronger than she was; he never hurt her, though. He would gently shush her more passionate exclamations, as if there were somebody other than K-9 (who did not care) to overhear them, and smooth the hair back from her burning face as she shuddered and spasmed beneath him. Afterwards, she lay with her head on his chest, sweaty and exhausted, with his strong arms encircling her; she still remembers the feeling of contentment, of…safety that she always felt when she was with him, like that.''
So, is this an example of your squishy inner shipper, or had you been drinking.;D
Ahem, I'm going to... listen to Black Sabbath or something, now.
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So, yeah, see comments in response to Clocket above regarding "purple" sex scenes. Although, to be fair, it doesn't get into actual anatomical discourse, does it? It is, however, a bit more, er, explicit than the off-camera Romana/Duggan stuff above, and I'm cringing like a very cringey thing indeed just reading it now...er...
Right, this comes from a fic I wrote called "Gaze into the Abyss", which was basically my take on the Time War, from start to bitter finish, as told from the p.o.v. of the Lady President of the High Council of Time Lords herself, our very own Romanadvoratrelundar. And in this early passage, Romana is thinking back from her (as we find out at the end of the story) fairly desperate modern-day situation to what is, with hindsight, the happiest time of her life, namely when she was travelling with Four.
So, she was thinking about their trip to Paris in City of Death, and they've just left Paris and are now...doing things...but unlike in some fics, those things don't involve Duggan. But yes, I did start from the basic assumption that the Doctor and Romana did have a physical relationship, as they say, and that this involved humanoid-type, er, sex. I suspect that actual "time sex" as it were, was probably far weirder and more subtle than we can imagine, if it happened at all (we can argue about Time Lord asexuality or not for a bit, if you like ;D - I have my own thoughts on the subject), but you know, maybe the Doctor picked up this kind of thing from humans or something, and Romana is, as ever, an eager learner. Er...
I'm just waffling to avoid talking about Four and Romana...doing things...to each other now, aren't I?
A thought, and I don't want to squick anyone out, but reading that back now, it occurs to me that there's something a little bit creepy about Four sneaking into Romana's bedroom like that after lights out and getting into bed with her. A bit creepy, if you see what I mean? Quite unconscious on my part, but interesting all the same.
And yeah, the Doctor's great in bed, it seems; very considerate etc (cringes even more cringily). Those of you who like this kind of scene in fic more than I maybe do; do you think I should have had Romana being more take-charge? Er... Look at the kind of questions you've got me asking, Maggadin! XD
You'll notice the little bit of present-tense prose stuck in the middle of the past-tense stuff. Do you think it works? The idea of it was that the whole story is really the last thoughts going through Romana's head in the seconds before the Doctor blows Gallifrey to hell, and her and the Dalek invasion fleet with it. And she's remembering how she's come to that, but mainly she's remembering the good times most of all. And she's in love with the Doctor still (and he's in love with her for that matter) and that's the best time of her life (I'm a sap, aren't I?), but that's the idea. So we have to see all of this, all of this stuff about feeling safe and protected, as being filtered through that. The intention is not to make Romana seem less assertive or less in charge, if that is the way it seems. She needs the Doctor, I guess, but only in a positive way; I don't know if it didn't at some points come across as the other, less good, sort of neediness.
*Imagines K9 listening in on Four and Romana doing it, and trying to make sense of it, and giggles a little*
I suppose the obvious place to go from there (and I'm sure many have) is a Doctor/Romana/TARDIS sex scene... Yes...
Oh, I actually typed that where people could see it, didn't I?
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At least two... It brings us back to that hardy perennial Time Lord sexuality, doesn't it? I lean increasingly toward the view that Looms are real (although they maybe make Time Tots rather than fully-formed adults as the novels seemed to suggest), and that Time Lords, ie fully-paid-up and fully-educated residents of the Citadel are supposed to be above sticky physicality. But as you point out, nature is nature, and the Time Lords are nothing if not hypocritical, so we have Academy students and the like sneaking off and doing untoward things with the Shobogans. Some of them like it so much they end up going on permanent walkabout in Outer Gallifrey.
So yes, Time Lord sexual mores = Victorian hypocrisy tuned up to the max. That's how I've come to see it.
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They totally had days where they went to uninhabitet planets and did nothing else.I totally agree with Time Lords = victorians in that sense (if your ever write the Four-Romana-Wilde fic, you should totally have them talk about that), including the various ''free spirits'' i.e. Byron, Shelley, Wilde etc. In fact, I like thinking that the Doctor and Romana gained that sort of notoriety (although a lot of it would be gossip). As for Looms, they're fun to have around, but I vary in what type of role I give them. My favourite is that they're tools used to correct genetic ''imperfections'' or maybe to add the stuff that makes a Time Lord a Time Lord. However, I enjoy thinking that sex and messy biology plays a greater role than they like to think about. Just like with the Victorians.;)
Also, you do realise you might have to write a K9 Listens In drabble now, don't you?
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It's hard to say how long they were together, isn't it? They were on holiday, and it's easy to lose track of time when you're having fun (and even easier when you live in the TARDIS, I imagine!)
Oh, I'm sure there were the Gallifreyan equivalents of bohemians, aesthetes, etc. In fact, I suspect that is probably how the Master got started - he lives only to indulge his own desires, doesn't he, in disregard for other people's rules? Unfortunately, he is also a sociopath.
And I'm also sure there are quarters on Gallifrey where the Doctor was a hero and an example. As you say, there was more of that sort of thing going on in Victorian society than they liked to think. On the slopes below the Citadel, in the Shobogan villages, there are bars and brothels where quite eminent Time Lords go "in disguise", just as the great and good of Victorian society used to sneak down to the East End of London etc. after dark, while Academy students do all of the things that students usually do, if more discreetly than is usual in freer societies.
[John Leeson voice]"Sexual activity! The intermingling of genetic material by two individuals to ensure greater biological diversity in the next generation!"[/John Leeson voice]
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I like to think that since Time Lords have two hearts and stuff like that, they also have at least somewhat greater stamina than humans, which means that they could... go on for longer. Which is why Time Lord/human relationships just can't work in the long run.;) And I liked it a lot. I totally get what you're saying about being a memory of feeling safe and loved and things (I add ''and things'' because I put up a flippant front like that when discussing emotional stuff). I wonder what the TARDIS thinks...
It's hard to say how long they were together, isn't it? They were on holiday, and it's easy to lose track of time when you're having fun (and even easier when you live in the TARDIS, I imagine!)
My brain canon says at least a century. Maybe two.
And I'm also sure there are quarters on Gallifrey where the Doctor was a hero and an example. As you say, there was more of that sort of thing going on in Victorian society than they liked to think. On the slopes below the Citadel, in the Shobogan villages, there are bars and brothels where quite eminent Time Lords go "in disguise", just as the great and good of Victorian society used to sneak down to the East End of London etc. after dark, while Academy students do all of the things that students usually do, if more discreetly than is usual in freer societies.
I'm sure there were ''freethinkers'' withing the citadel as well who wished to reform society from within. Hey, this world-building thing is fun.
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I too wonder what the TARDIS thought. TARDIS-fic seems like an interesting sideline that I haven't really got into very much, but it'd be nice to do someting TARDIS-POV, I think.
And I am very glad you liked this one. Yeah, humans/Time Lords, it just doesn't work out in the long run. Not in that way, anyway. ;D
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In my fanon, the TARDIS doesn't notice other species the same way it notices Time Lords. She cares about what the Doctor thinks, so she'll protect the people he loves, but she ''connects'' with Time Lords on a different level because that's what she was made for*. When Romana arrived, there hadn't been another Time Lord in her life but the Doctor (after Susan, about whom she cared very deeply), so it was a bit like ''But I thought it was just you and me!'' She got used to it, though.
And I am very glad you liked this one. Yeah, humans/Time Lords, it just doesn't work out in the long run. Not in that way, anyway. ;D
RTD and Moffat need to subsribe to this newsletter.;)
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