"No, Not the Mind Probe!!?!"

Day Eighteen: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Well, I did swerve the "Favourite Fanfic" question yesterday, partly because I didn't really want to go singling out just one out of all the fanfic I've read, because I didn't think  I could anyway, and you know what about all the other people who've written fanfic on their own time for the love of it, providing me with hours of free entertainment; I don't want them to think I didn't like theirs as much, do I?

Instead, and with a bit of arm-twisting from my associate lost_spook , it has to be said :D, have some recs. These are fics I've favourited on the Teaspoon that I think more people should read. I've tried to pick ones I've read a while ago and maybe forgotten about as opposed to well-worn favourites, things I think you my flist should read if you haven't, because I think they're kind of cool:

( Reccage follows... )

Day Fourteen: The Villain Who Scared You the Most

Sorry to go delving into the childhood nostalgia again, but I was thinking the other day about classic Who* moments that really scared me as a nipper. There were several; I can picture them now and they still give me a little bit of a tingle despite them not seeming objectively scary any more. In no particular order, they would be; the faces getting melted off in Resurrection of the Daleks; the glass Dalek in Revelation of the Daleks; the bit where Mags starts turning into a werewolf in Greatest Show in the Galaxy; the bit where Peri is turning into a bird in Vengeance on Varos. And this bloke:



So yeah, maybe it was the voice, maybe it was the way he was introduced as a shadow before revealing himself, maybe it was the incredibly realistic mask that must have represented a sizeable chunk of S26's effects budget, or maybe it was the drool... Whatever it was, the Destroyer out of Battlefield absolutely scared the proverbial out of me, and he still does in a  way, even all this time later.

The Brig sorted him out though...


*I don't count NuWho scary moments, btw, because that would involve admitting that my 27 or 28-year-old self spent a good part of The Empty Child and indeed The Impossible Planet in a state of absolute dread... It was fantastic, as Nine would say! XD

( The Rest of the Days )

Day Thirteen: Your Favourite Villain

Well, another hardish one I suppose, because there are so many to choose from...

Yes, a day behind on the old meme again!

Day Eleven: Your Favourite Season (Classic or New)

Now, this is a really difficult one because there are quite a few contenders, and unlike the favourite stories questions, there aren't any obvious ones that leap to the fore, because I think there a few really strong Who seasons. S7 is consistently excellent, with some of the most thoughtful and mature stories in the programme's history. All of the Four seasons are excellent in their own different ways, and Seasons 16-18 are especial favourites of mine, for slightly different reasons (yes, even S18). Season 5/31/whatever we're calling it also recently blew me away. And then there's Seven...
 

Day Ten: A Who-Related Photo That You Took

Well, imagine my embarrassment to discover that I apparently have never taken any Who-related photos in my entire life! So I took one especially for the purposes of this meme - I hope you're all happy now...



Yes, it's some of my Doctor Who books, specifically Target novelisations. There are some more slightly to the left (NAs/EDAs start to the right), but I don't actually own all that many really - I read a lot more of these back in the day, either from the library or in school.

( The Rest of the Days... )