I watched the latest Doctor Who episode, Ascension of the Cybermen, the first part of the two-part finale. Comments ahead, full of spoilers for the episode.

( Here be spoilers )

Some comments on the latest Doctor Who episode, Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror.

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Just noticed the new teaser trailer for the Doctor Who New Year's special, Resolution, on YouTube. (Link takes you to the video on YouTube. While it's short, it is spoilery for something in the episode that hasn't been shown or mentioned before, so don't watch it if you don't want to know!


Putting my quick comments behind the cut. Don't read if you don't want spoilers on teaser and what info it gives!



( Comments, contains spoilers! )

My Public Call fic, which is a gift for the lovely shopfront, was the first to be revealed in the exchange! Here:

Spark of Life (2427 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply (er, I wasn't sure which one I should pick, considering we've got 12-to-13 regeneration, so I seem to have left both checked)

Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts, Thirteenth Doctor & Bill Potts, Thirteenth Doctor/Bill Potts

Characters: Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor

Additional Tags: Regeneration, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Friendship, Pre-Femslash, Fix-It, Canonical Character Death, Character Death Fix, canonical character death is Twelve's regeneration, References to S11 elements, nobody else dies, Post-Season/Series 10

Summary:Suddenly, it's the end for Bill's Doctor. Except that it's also a beginning, and Bill is there to see it.

Canon divergence AU, where Bill didn't join the Doctor for that last fateful adventure in "World Enough and Time". Everything else from the Series 10 finale happens, but he comes back to her. And then there's an explosion of light and a blonde woman with a Yorkshire accent.

In which we fix Bill's fate and put her together with Thirteen. As one does. I'd wanted to do such a thing for a long time, so when the first fic I started didn't come together, I realized I could write this. So I did.

No lesbians or people of colour were harmed in the making of this adventure.

Quick, soon-after-watching comments on the latest Doctor Who episode.

( Spoilers ahoy, obviously )

I haven't yet posted about the new Doctor Who because I've waited for a time when I felt like doing a proper structured post about all my thoughts and feelings... And well, that doesn't happen, so instead you get this post, which is rambling on all the things that happen to occur to me in the order they occur to me! At least there's some logic to that order, but I'm not necessarily giving everything the proper attention or explaining everything I say. This was going to be a short post, but oh, you know me and short posts. Doesn't happen that often.

In a nutshell, I really really like it. And I've got my favourite New Who Doctor. (There are decent chances for all time favourite Doctor, but I need to see more before I decide if I love her even more than Troughton or "only" equally much.) I really hope that also people who've been doubtful give her, and all of the new series, a chance.

( More under the cut, totally includes spoilers for both Episode 1 and Episode 2, so don't click if you haven't seen them yet, unless you want all the spoilers anyway. )

Time of various exchanges and fests is upon us! I've successfully finished my Yuletide fic in time, though it still needs some editing (when have I not edited up to the reveals?), and I've taken a bit of a look at requests to consider treats. Though there are also so many other options for fic-writing in the near future! Such as fandom_stocking, where the sign-ups ended last week. Here is my stocking if you want to take a look at it and maybe even drop something in there!

public_call fics are in the process of being revealed. I wrote a Jack/Ten story, which has been posted: find the post with the link here.



And I got this lovely Bill/Heather fic from the exchange!

Bubblegum, Fire, Salt Water (1141 words) by florencedrunk

Also, more on the femslash front, due to my general posting fail I haven't posted links to all of my previous exchange fics either, so here's my femslashex fic, a Thirteen/Missy fic I wrote for the dear trobadora and had ever so much fun writing.

Hope and Chocolate (2442 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor/Missy
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Missy (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Fix-It of Sorts, Femslash, Femslash Exchange 2017, Crossing Timelines
Summary:

The Doctor goes back to find Missy during her time in the Vault. She has a plan. Also, there is a date.

I'm mostly caught up on Doctor Who now - I'm struggling in early S9 because I just don't like Clara enough and I don't like her and Twelve together (I love Twelve, but he works so much better with Bill!) and the writing has been getting steadily worse, and I don't think I'm finishing it before the Christmas special airs. But anyway, it means I've pretty much seen all the Missy episodes there are to see, and whatever I think of other things, Missy is freaking fantastic. I'm not even often fond of villains or quasi-villains or whatever she is, and I wasn't as into Simm!Master as much of the fandom seems to be, but Missy is my lady.

I really hope we will somehow get her and Thirteen together on the screen at some point.

What else? I basically binged through S1 of Broadchurch this weekend. Damn, it's so good. And the cast is fantastic, Olivia Colman and David Tennant are fantastic in the leads, I freaking love Jodie Whittaker's acting, and Arthur Darvill is at least as lovely in this as he was as Rory. And many others gave wonderful performances, too, and I just loved the writing, the way it focused so much on the characters and the community and the effect of the events on all that, not just solving the mystery.

I'll try to post more things some time soon. Like more thoughts about Doctor Who, and other things I've watched and read. I know I've been really quiet on the journalling side of things, but I'll be trying to fix that in the near future! I miss this.