#Tenth Doctor Redux

[phoenix]

Back for all of five seconds, and Davies and Tennant already have the Doctor saying "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" 🙄

[wintermoth]

With Starlight in Their Wake: Redux

Go forth and enjoy the rewrite of my S3 with Rose AU.

[jossujb]

Cos I complain a lot in this blog about Big Finish cover art despite me loving Big Finish products, let me give my opinion on all Jago & Litefoot covers.

S1 basic, you can see the clash of poor quality rip of Jago & Litefoot’s appearances from The Talons of Weng-Chiang and the ridiculously crisp pictures of Dr. Tulp and digitally created werewolf and stuff, but it is not ugly, and it communicates the inside content rather well.

S2 The same problems as above, especially the poor quality picture chosen for Litefoot drives me nuts in how ugly it is. Gabriel Sanders looks cool, tho I never imagined him looking like that based on audio.

S3 Just about the best of the early season, basically the best quality photos for Jago & Litefoot they ever had in their disposal, and that particular picture of Jago is for that exact reason reused multiple times. This one also has a thought put into composition and visual interest.

S4 I love the Kempson & Hardwick part of, just these black and white eery images, but the portraits or J&L, Leela and the Doctor are ugly as sin and I wanna rip my eyes out.

Voyage to Venus: Beautiful. This one I would buy as a poster. Sure it looks a collage of images glued together, but it fits the sort of whimsical Jules Verse - style of the story. This will clearly influence the latter half of the covers, but none of the others Make the sort of awkwardness of digital composition work for it.

Voyage to the New World: Ugly as sin. I would make a better one eyes closed.

S5 The worst quality of Jago & Litefoot portrait pictures so far, you can almost count the pixels with your own eyes xDDD Still, my favorite of the early cover by a long mile by just the trippyness of it and how lovingly their profiles combine into this psychedelic circle.

S6 Last of the old style of covers. Tries to be S3 but isn’t.

S7 First of the new, higher quality covers that have clearly gone through more substansial level of graphic design. Litefoot has been photoshopped with Homburg hat and Jago with a bowler, and that’s just  adorable and fitting their social status.

S8 My favorite of the new cover style. Quite frankly, they never came close to merging the poor references and digital mashes so well. The Scorchies are just delightfully cursed and the fire of the New Regency theatre ring lighting their heads, ah <3 I love it, I am actually making a big Jago wall decoration based out this one in particular.

S9 I really loved this one when I first saw it, but it has kinda annoyed me since... I don’t think the elements are particularly well blended together, and it kinda looks like random pictures overlayed with each other. First time Jago is pushed forwards in the composition tho, which is interesting trope that comes around - maybe as a reflection of his internal belief that he’s a protector of Litefoot haha.

S10 Same problems as above, but where as S9 was still pleasing enough to look at, this just makes me angry. And Summerton looks nothing like like I imagined either xD

S11 Second time Jago is pushed forwards. The Master looks good, so does the 6th Doctor in flamboyant but still period accurate clothing, but it’s still kinda awkward in composition.

S12 I hate it. I hate it so much. Everyone looks like a papercut out - which granted, I am willing to forgive with Litefoot, as it is the fake!Scarlet Gallery!Litefoot, but jesus no.

S13 This one I hate the most. I’ve ranted on my blog about this one in particular so many times it’s not even funny. Why is Litefoot inside a hexagon of shame? Why is Dr. Betterman there, but he’s not accompanied my Mr. Aubrey? The LOW POLY RATS. The awkward way Xiu Xiu looks straight at the camera when Jago doesn’t I hate it. I hate it so much.

Jago & Litefoot Forever: Basically just S1 redux, with same faults and benefits. Kinda fitting for something that was fairly designed as series finale.

Jago & Litefoot Revival: Cute, I love the gimmick of you having the room to choose if you want Tenth or Eleventh Doctor on the cover. Nothing much fancier than that, it’s a short trip after all.

S14 Funny thing, I had exactly the opposite reaction to this one than S9, that I really made a gnarly expression when I saw it the first time. Reusing the the same old picture of Jago they used so many times and coupling it with a picture of Litefoot, that I get feeling was some unrelated to DW picture of Trevor Baxter edited to suit the cover made me cringe. Plus the lantern is is held very awkwardly, like it has no wight at all. But somehow it’s become my second favorite of the new covers and like, maybe fourth in overall ranking. You can’t really go wrong wit blue-orange color scheme, plus all the element in it are coherent and relevant.

My top five is rather obvious, from bottom up S7, S5, S14, S8, Voyage to Venus. 

The worst of the worst are Voyage to the New World and S13, especially S13 I seriously wish they would just do a new one.

[partial-bouquet]

Since I see other people doing propaganda for their characters. I’m throwing my own Propaganda in there with both some fun facts and snippets from my fanfic.

Attorney What was initially just a joke character that was based on that one tumblr post that went like “Doctor Who. Surgeon What. Dentist Why.” Or something. And for the most part they stayed a silly character until about a year ago when I started writing more stuff. The fought in the Time War after their parents died. They also met both Eight and War a handful of times. The first incarnation they met was War.

Now onto the writing. Most of these are interactions with their companion Val.

They looked at the wall. There was a framed piece of paper.

“Is that—“

“My law degree? Yes.”

Val got to their feet and looked at it.

“1914 Harvard?”

“Yes! You’d be surprised how often they just leave windows open!”

The mental image of Attorney What scrambling through a window like a cartoon character made Val giggle.

“Your first name is Joan?”

“No. It’s Attorney. But I’ve been informed that’s weird to have on paper. So I picked that name.”

“Wow very trans of you.”

“Thank you!”

-

Val yawned as they walked out of the bedroom that was put up for them and into the TARDIS console room.

“Do you ever sleep?” Was the first thing they asked Attorney What when they saw the Time Lord still in roughly the same spot as they were before Val took a nap.

“Mmm…” they hummed. “At least once.”

Val looked at them.

“Okay. Not an answer. What are we gonna do today?”

-

“Hey Attorney What.”

“Yes Val?” The Time Lord said from under the console.

“Do you like kin Phoenix Wright.”

There was a sharp noise as Attorney What hit their head on the console. They muttered something in a different language that sounded like cursing.

“Val Marx, my dear friend, who the fuck is that?”

-

(A short interaction with Tenth Doctor Redux, I really hate calling him Fourteen, in which he tells Attorney What about The Timeless Child)

There was a long silence afterwards. The Attorney, also known as Sheyar or Sheyarloglorhill, was staring into the middle distance. They had their hand over their mouth and their brains were whirring a million miles a minute.

When they moved their hand their mouth blurted some dumb words.

“So, does this make me your like child?” Attorney What asked the Doctor. They couldn’t tell if they were asking him a serious question or trying to lighten the mood.

The Doctor stared at them for a long time, eyebrows knitted together.

“No. You have your own parents.”

-

(Finally a fun little one shot where Attorney What gets involved in Trial of A Time Lord)

“Who are you? What the hell are you doing?” The Doctor demanded.

“I’m your attorney. Shush.” They straightened their coat. “Doing you a favor.” This did not seem to make The Doctor anymore comfortable.

“Do you actually have a law degree?” He was only inches from them.

“Yes!” They looked insulted. “From Harvard in 1914!”

“That doesn’t do well in a Time Lord court does it?!”

“Mr. Technicolor Jacket telling his attorney how laws work.” They scoffed.

“EARTH LAWS DON'T WORK IN SPACE!” The Doctor looked like he was ready to hit Attorney What.

Round 1, Match-Up 14

Attorney What ( @partial-bouquet )

Species: Time Lord

Pronouns: they/them

Extra Facts: on their second regeneration, their TARDIS shifts between a briefcase and a podium, and they cover their trauma with silliness 

Era: 8th Doctor onwards

Tewson ( @capybaraonabicycle )

Extra Facts: used to be a security guard

Pronouns: she/her

Era: future era, alongside an oc version of the 14th

Species: Vinvocci

[televinita]

TV show ask meme: 30-35!

Oooooh, look at all those shiny numbers, yay!

30. What’s one show you could probably write a 2,000 word essay on, and what would be your topic?

I wrote, like, 4x that many words about the “Journey’s End” episode of Doctor Who. To supplement my thoughts, I pulled quotes. From sources.No matter how many people have already done it, I’m pretty sure I have enough raw material to put together one coherent essay about Bad Wolf Bay Redux – what makes it hurt and why it was necessary.

31. Do you use subtitles while watching TV if you can?

No. Terrible. Distracting. I end up just staring at the words the whole time (even when I don’t need them to understand), and miss out on the imagery.

32. What’s one show you could watch over and over?

Seinfeld. Can, and have. Zero bad episodes. Even Friends has a bad one or two (remember that time Charlie Sheen was there?); Seinfeld does not.

33. Would you be interested in trying a show in another language?

Not really, due to the issue in #31, but there was that one Turkish remake of The O.C. that looked kind of interesting.

34. What are your top 5 shows right now?

I’m so deep in a Doctor Who / Broadchurch place I legit had to think about what I’m enjoying on air. Add Survivor & NCIS: LA to that list, plus….Blood and Treasure! It won’t be back for ages but it’s better than anything else new right now.

35. Who are your top 5 TV characters right now?

*sneaks in six*

The (Tenth) Doctor, Rose Tyler, Donna Noble; Alec Hardy; Kensi Blye & Deeks

[rincewindtheeternal]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tenth Doctor/The Master (Simm), Doctor/Master, Tenth Doctor/The Master (Shalka), Ninth Doctor/The Master (Shalka) Characters: Tenth Doctor, The Master (Simm), The Master (Shalka), Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, Ninth Doctor Additional Tags: Episode Tag, Robots, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

In Scream of the Shalka, REG!Doctor (the ninth Doctor who almost was) was seen travelling round the universe with a robotic Master for no apparent reason. The ninth Doctor (who actually was) has a much better reason for travelling with a robotic Master, given that his entire race are dead. This fic assumes that he was and that the Master just kept out of sight so as not to alarm anyone.

[tomatopudding]

This started out with a simple thought: "What if Temperence Brennan went to Cardiff after she found out she was Joy Keenan and she got involved in Torchwood?" Now, it kind of has a mind of it's own and I keep getting more and more ideas for stories. This universe stretches out the time between aired episodes IMMENSELY and also pretends that season 1 of Bones happened at the same time as the beginning of Torchwood season 2 (In other words, in 2008 instead of 2005). I’ll admit that my OC is a bit Mary Sue-ish, but I had fun writing these to whatevs.

Torchwood, Bones, Life on Mars UK (briefly), Doctor Who Seeley Booth/Temperance Brennan, Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones, Toshiko Sato/Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper/Rhys Williams, Emmy Harkness-Jones (OC)/Lance Sweets, Zack Addy/Jack Hodgins/Angela Montenegro, Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Jake Simmonds/Mickey Smith, Andy Davidson/Lois Habiba crossover, het and slash, alternate universe, episode related, episode remix, family, time travel, F/M/M poly, goodbyes