Avernus

Work is really so much more interesting when you can spend the majority of the afternoon writing random Treize fic as I did yesterday afternoon. Very, very random Treize fic. Theoretically it's part of the AAAAAAU fic which was initially spawned at work when I was temping there about four years ago, which should give you some indication of just how long it takes me to write fics ^_^ I only started work actually writing it during this year (as far as I remember...), and it really is tremendously OOC, but I don't care. It's jolly good fun, and one day I'll change the names and sell it as an original novel.

Latest chapter is particularly random because Treize suddenly started getting chatted up by a painter and decorator who I didn't even realise was going to *be* there until he started making eyes at Treize. It was most peculiar. Ah well, shouldn't think he'll make another appearance, so I suppose it doesn't matter. Uh.

Other than random fic, I guess I've been mainly practising my copperplate handwriting (what? Useful lifeskill that.) and watching/reading/fic-reading Doctor Who. It's one of my longest term geekeries, since I've been quietly geeking about Doctor Who since I was too young to watch the last adventure on TV in 1989. I think I still have a badly-spelled Christmas wish-list somewhere asking for 'Doctor Who videos, preferably Sylvester McCoy', or at least that's what I intended to ask for, though since I couldn't spell 'preferably', 'Sylvester' or 'McCoy' I'm not exactly too surprised that I didn't get any. Also my mother thought it would be too frightening for me, and she was probably right. There's also a similarly badly spelled letter from me to the Time Lords, Gallifrey, Kasterborus, asking if they'd let me be one of the Doctor's companions, which at least shows I had a good grasp of Who mythology, even if I didn't have a very good grasp on reality.

I still can't quite work out how I ended up a Who fan at that stage. I know I'd never seen an episode. I still used to play Daleks in the playground. Heh, geek credentials.

Which is, in a roundabout way, why I'm currently rewatching Five Doctors for the umpteenth time. And I can't say I'd noticed it before, but I now find it *really goddamn disturbing* that both Susan and Sarah-Jane seem to have big ol' crushes on Fifth @_@ I mean, Sarah is less disturbing, and she and Third were rather more touchy-feely than I feel is entirely necessary, so one can't exactly say it's uncanonical. But - Susan?! She's his *granddaughter*! Or at least that's what he always calls her, and we have no reason to suspect otherwise; true, they've had to go round the houses a bit to bring it into line with the later (semi-)canon whereby Time Lords can't have children, but they've more or less squared that one. The Doctor should still *think* of Susan in the same way as First did (ie 'granddaughter'), and Susan should damn well still think of him as her Grandfather, for all he looks about her age now! Especially since Gallifreyans largely seem to recognise each other by telepathic pattern rather than physical appearance.

aka 'I know Five Doctors is a travesty in many, many ways, but still uck.'

....nobody but me got three quarters of that, did they. Go and amuse yourselves then you idle lot.