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I think I need an emotional support writer to sit with me when I'm working on fics and reassure me that it's okay for two stories to have a similar scene. I ran into this when I basically re-wrote my 3-year-gap fic and I'm running into it again now on my current project.

Like, you're using the same characters and sometimes they're going to have similar reactions or similar traumas. It's going to happen, it's fine.

No one's going to look at two similar scenes across two entirely different stories and say, "Well this writer just can't come up with original ideas."

Sometimes the same people just choose to do the same things in different universes. Chill out, it's all fiction, buddy.

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Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

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TRRST Ch. 5: The Sapphire Chateau

After like three months (apologies :,) life got busy), you, too, can enjoy the Doctor having a bad time

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sometimes the best fanfics are written by middle aged adults with years of writing experience who simply know how to craft a good story. but also sometimes the best fanfics are written by a sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her

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simm master appreciation post bc I love him

look at his smile

he's so silly

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Stunning. Thank you, thank you

I think I’ve gone for the ‘ole amber/hazel route but tbh I don’t remember haha - just that it’s always been a struggle!

Ooo what I need now is some else asking the Doctor what colour the Master’s eyes are and him describing it all dreamy-eyed.

Then clearing his throat and blushing like he’s not stupid in love with that maniac, but you can’t hide, Doctor. They know!

I know it's part of the straight jacket or whatever but it was absolutely INSANE of them to put simm master in a collar. Like

His ass is NOT beating the puppyboy allegations

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Seeing his face that close up brings me back to my ten!simm woes of WHAT COLOUR ARE JOHN SIMM’S EYES

I have published 173k words worth of Thoschei smut, and I still could not tell you 💀

I know it's part of the straight jacket or whatever but it was absolutely INSANE of them to put simm master in a collar. Like

His ass is NOT beating the puppyboy allegations

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The Master, probably: So, if my boyfriend thinks I’m dead, and he starts seeing other people…that’s cheating, right? I’m pretty sure it’s cheating.

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“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

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"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

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writer’s block (dry) = no desire to write, no ability to write (bearable)

writer’s block (wet) = HUGE desire to write, no ability to write (very evil)

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Not done yet, actually.

There was some implication that he created his own political party and then like hypnotised all of the MPs to join up--which makes even less sense.

That would, in fact, be MORE work than starting in a party that already exists because he would have had to manufacture a by-election (murder will do), win and then ??? right back to our chicken and egg: GE or leadership election

My Favourite Doctor Who Plot Hole

AKA: The Way Harold Saxon Becomes PM Doesn't Make Any Sense

By: me, Fiver NotSimplySusurrus

There will be a General Election in the UK sometime this year, and I have spent my bank holiday pondering the question of how in the hell Harold Saxon's campaign worked.

Bear with me!

Harold Saxon's campaign would make sense if there were a presidential system in the UK.

But there isn't. We have a parliamentary system, meaning the Prime Minister is the leader of the political party with the most seats in parliament.

Additionally, there is no set date for the General Election, only general parameters--for example, there was a snap GE in 2019 after the previous GE in 2017.

But the next GE must take place before the something or another of January 2025.

This leaves a few problems for the Master:

Who called the GE?

Which Party was he a member of?

How did he become an MP in the first place?

And how did he become minister of defence??

This, of course, all rests on the idea that Doctor Who takes place in "our" universe more or less. Perhaps their concepts of presidency and premiership are backwards to ours idk.

There are two ways to become Prime Minister in the UK: by taking control of Parliament in a General Election while being the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament (like Blair) or win a leadership election while your party—which already holds the majority of seats in Parliament—is in Government (like Sunak). 

A leadership election is usually put to the party’s membership (e.g. Starmer) but can be put to your members of Parliament instead (e.g. also Sunak). 

But, again, it’s not like a presidential election. You’re trying to convince your members to vote for you—not the whole country. 

And, in the case that he was the leader of a party set to take control of the House of Commons (and he’d already won a leadership contest), he’d need to ensure members of his party won their seats. 

So then, Martha must conveniently live in his constituency—that's the only reason you’d see all the ‘Vote Saxon’ posters.

And then there's the minister of defence question. Government ministers are just that--government ministers. That he was minister of defence implies he was already a member of the majority party in parliament and was appointed to this position.

It just becomes a chicken-egg problem I cannot escape!

He'd had to have won a leadership election--not a general election. But, again, that's something only members vote in! So what party is Martha a member of??

The funniest concept to me is that the Master was a Labour Prime Minister. And that's my headcanon bc Labour was in power at the time.

But there is just no way to square this circle! Gahhh

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My Favourite Doctor Who Plot Hole

AKA: The Way Harold Saxon Becomes PM Doesn't Make Any Sense

By: me, Fiver NotSimplySusurrus

There will be a General Election in the UK sometime this year, and I have spent my bank holiday pondering the question of how in the hell Harold Saxon's campaign worked.

Bear with me!

Harold Saxon's campaign would make sense if there were a presidential system in the UK.

But there isn't. We have a parliamentary system, meaning the Prime Minister is the leader of the political party with the most seats in parliament.

Additionally, there is no set date for the General Election, only general parameters--for example, there was a snap GE in 2019 after the previous GE in 2017.

But the next GE must take place before the something or another of January 2025.

This leaves a few problems for the Master:

Who called the GE?

Which Party was he a member of?

How did he become an MP in the first place?

And how did he become minister of defence??

This, of course, all rests on the idea that Doctor Who takes place in "our" universe more or less. Perhaps their concepts of presidency and premiership are backwards to ours idk.

There are two ways to become Prime Minister in the UK: by taking control of Parliament in a General Election while being the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament (like Blair) or win a leadership election while your party—which already holds the majority of seats in Parliament—is in Government (like Sunak). 

A leadership election is usually put to the party’s membership (e.g. Starmer) but can be put to your members of Parliament instead (e.g. also Sunak). 

But, again, it’s not like a presidential election. You’re trying to convince your members to vote for you—not the whole country. 

And, in the case that he was the leader of a party set to take control of the House of Commons (and he’d already won a leadership contest), he’d need to ensure members of his party won their seats. 

So then, Martha must conveniently live in his constituency—that's the only reason you’d see all the ‘Vote Saxon’ posters.

And then there's the minister of defence question. Government ministers are just that--government ministers. That he was minister of defence implies he was already a member of the majority party in parliament and was appointed to this position.

It just becomes a chicken-egg problem I cannot escape!

He'd had to have won a leadership election--not a general election. But, again, that's something only members vote in! So what party is Martha a member of??

The funniest concept to me is that the Master was a Labour Prime Minister. And that's my headcanon bc Labour was in power at the time.

But there is just no way to square this circle! Gahhh