I've always tended to use (2005) for things that are solely Nu Who and (1963) for things that are solely old. A joke or two doesn't count, though.
*nods* That's how I try to do it, too, and how I prefer it in fics I read! Makes it clear and easy, as clear and easy as things can ever be in the world of Doctor Who and fanfic archives.
With Doctor/Master stories I totally get the line being hard to draw! Even if it's just the New Who versions of the characters, you can still dig a lot into stuff that happened in the Classic Who canon as well. If I see the characters are the Doctor and the Master, I don't tend to blink at both fandoms being included in the tags, because often it makes sense.
A bit similarly, I have trouble drawing the line when I'm writing something about Jack Harkness taking place in the Torchwood years, but interacting only with Doctor Who characters (okay, Martha being a character in both makes things even more complicated!). Sometimes the Torchwood elements may still feature into the plot or the character interactions or just what's going on in Jack's head (if I'm in his head), so in that sense I'm bringing in the Torchwood Jack, not just the Jack we see in the Doctor Who episodes he's in, and I may be using the Torchwood canon as much as the Doctor Who canon to write it. But if I tag Torchwood as well, it can also feel like I'm needlessly tagging the Torchwood fandom, since no other actual Torchwood characters than Jack appear in the story. Well, I haven't written Torchwood era stuff lately, so that's one problem less. ;-)
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Date: 2019-03-25 07:17 pm (UTC)I've always tended to use (2005) for things that are solely Nu Who and (1963) for things that are solely old. A joke or two doesn't count, though.
*nods* That's how I try to do it, too, and how I prefer it in fics I read! Makes it clear and easy, as clear and easy as things can ever be in the world of Doctor Who and fanfic archives.
With Doctor/Master stories I totally get the line being hard to draw! Even if it's just the New Who versions of the characters, you can still dig a lot into stuff that happened in the Classic Who canon as well. If I see the characters are the Doctor and the Master, I don't tend to blink at both fandoms being included in the tags, because often it makes sense.
A bit similarly, I have trouble drawing the line when I'm writing something about Jack Harkness taking place in the Torchwood years, but interacting only with Doctor Who characters (okay, Martha being a character in both makes things even more complicated!). Sometimes the Torchwood elements may still feature into the plot or the character interactions or just what's going on in Jack's head (if I'm in his head), so in that sense I'm bringing in the Torchwood Jack, not just the Jack we see in the Doctor Who episodes he's in, and I may be using the Torchwood canon as much as the Doctor Who canon to write it. But if I tag Torchwood as well, it can also feel like I'm needlessly tagging the Torchwood fandom, since no other actual Torchwood characters than Jack appear in the story. Well, I haven't written Torchwood era stuff lately, so that's one problem less. ;-)