Queen Of Disaster

[ao3commentoftheday]

as part of tumblr's aging userbase, I'm going to take a moment and shoutout my new glasses which are 'office progressives'

if you're in the bifocal club and you're constantly annoyed by trying to find the right angle for the computer work or crafting that you're doing, I recommend talking to your optometrist. seriously lifechanging shit.

[i-like-to-think-that-im-cool]

“You had the reception without me?”

My stomach sinks every time I watch that scene. Donna Noble nobody in your life deserved you.

[dear-julien]

What's your favorite horror movie

Doctor Who Journey's End when the Doctor has to wipe Donna's memory. Never been so horrified in my life. Dare I say it was traumatic. A literal NIGHTMARE.

she had THE most impactful character exit in science fiction history and I'll die on that hill

[ezra-didntreallyfall]

Hey, don't cry, doctor who series 4 will always be there for you

[secret-smut-sideblog]

love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

[a-rapunzel]

Happy Doomsday!

20 years ago today these two soulmates met for the 1st time

[mikesseleven]

And so, the woman dies. The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. - The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda

[janetm74fics]

Someone's Got To Do It

@whumperless-whump-event Day Two: Someone’s Got To Do It. Doctor Who. The Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble. 100 words

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‘Someone’s got to do it.’ ‘But why does it have to be you?’

The Doctor looks at her and Donna almost flinches.

His eyes are infinite wells of sadness. It radiates off him and she can feel it.

‘There isn’t anyone else who can.’

Can what? Survive??

Donna wants to scream at him.

Why can’t he put himself first for once? Be selfish…stay alive.

Stay himself?

But that’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it?

If he stayed he wouldn’t be himself. Wouldn’t be The Doctor.

So she says nothing. And, with a bright but sad smile, he is gone.

[draqua]

There’s a difference between a female character who exists in a story and has a romantic relationship with a male character versus a female character who exists in a story to have a romantic relationship with a male character

[a-rapunzel]

To Anonymous - (Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred)

I’ve 100 words a minute

And not one of them’s for you.

You’re a thing I can’t describe

Don’t know your what or why or who.

You’re an itch I’m not meant to scratch

A take-a-way unordered,

A song that doesn’t come on shuffle,

A shopping trip afforded,

The answer to my horoscope.

“Strangers are friends you’ve not yet met”

It says so in my magazine

Along with Katie’s Diet Secrets,

Psychic poodles and Sudoku,

Plus a girl whose husband minced her,

All human life’s therein - but mine.

“You’ve got it all!” - I’m not convinced

I’m not seeking tall, dark and handsome

More sort of wiry, sort of lanky.

No muscled Sven, no hirsute Barry.

Just suited with a pocket hanky.

The missing hit in my life’s sky.

No lover - just that bear, best friend.

It’s your name carried on their heart.

They’re your laugh, your mate, your end.*

*we all deserve one of these (except for Nerys)

You’re the bus that I’ve just missed

Like when there’s aliens arriving

And I’m on safari, karaoke,

A hen night, or scuba diving.

I’ve skipped a page in my life’s book

Some brilliant’s missing from my history

I guess we all feel that I guess

And yet it’s so my mystery.

A stone I saw in a museum

“Grandad! It’s me - in Ancient Rome!”

And it was, I’m so sure it hurt.

“Is it, luv? It’s late. Let’s go home.”

Like there’s something I’m not being told

A locked door’s in my memory.

Something’s gone and gone for good

In a life of mist and rain and grey

I cannot put my finger on

Why they’d take my sunny day.

A film without car explosion

A year without December

Beckham in a bunny onesie

The shape of just can’t remember.

You’re that one trick that mothers know

Terms and conditions, PPI

That lucky thousandth visitor

You’re what’s missing - Life’s Big Why.

Seeking the best friend I’ll never know

I give up. I always do.

I’ve a hundred words a minute

And not one of them for you.

[a-rapunzel]

I must have done something right, First Born just asked to watch Doctor Who - but only the ones with Donna 🙌

[addiemilfgomery]

This time, I'll love you much better. This time, I'll hold you forever. This time will never end.

If Ever You're In My Arms Again by Peabo Bryson

[rotund-squirrelmeister]

dalek caan honestly what an absolutely unbothered icon

casually temporal shifted through the (supposedly IMPENETRABLE) time lock of the time war just to save his daddy, went slightly (extremely) insane, and then goes on to sit in his little chair, paint me like one of your french girls, davros style, and chat whimsical poetic prophetic shit — which is oftentimes disconcertingly accurate — for the majority of his life. but oh wait! he actually got his shit together and spent an unholy amount of time tweaking time lines and the like to get donna noble in the perfect place to save the universe (bc he’s no1 dalek hater lowk), only to then get himself blown up (for pure love of the game, you understand).

[a-rapunzel]

Dalek Caan - Blog of Doom artwork

“This would always have happened; I only helped, Doctor”

Dalek Caan saw that red string of fate and tied it in a bow 🎀

[stonesense]

my favourite thing is characters who just met the person theyre literally going to be wildly in love with for the rest of their lives and theyre like “:/ they’re not all that” this is so embarrassing for u

[a-rapunzel]

Ten meets Donna “you’re not special, you’re not powerful, you’re not connected, you’re not clever, you’re not important”

To “one shining moment she was the most important women in all of creation”, “I remember every second with you”,

[mist-fire]

Tagged by @camellcat to share my wip titles, of which I have many, but alas I fear most of them aren't actually titled oops. still, here we go:

for all the love I never got to give (thirteenrose, what I've affectionately dubbed my grief fic despite it being a club fic)

Daemon AU (timepetals, and a daemon au yup that's it)

Belle/Rose (explicit selfcest fic I'll finish one day)

elevenrose???? (reunionfic, finished, waiting for editing)

the dynamic is so fucked up I'm trying to eat it (meredith/addison a grey's anatomy fic despite never having watched the show)

gala thing am I ever going to finish this? (thirteenrose why did I even start this one?)

my extremely daft and not well thought out DW and Broadchurch crossover (bethrose my beloved you are so long and I adore you)

jackie character study (self explanatory I hope)

nine turns into thirteen (what am I even doing anymore. probably not going to finish this one)

the -tober (thirteenrose kinktober fic that's multiple years late to being finished oops)

thirteen dress drabble (thirteenrose ofc. probably not finishing)

And then not really with anything written but existing ever presently in my mind are:

beloved cam's gift fic (explicit ninerose I WILL WRITE THIS I SWEAR)

ten and sixteen fuck shit and each other up (explicit tensixteen bc they could be so BAD)

So. Uh. Turns out I only have one wip that has a genuine title and everything else gets funky with it.

Okayyyyyyy tagging these people and anyone else who wants to do it: @tablox @freckles-a-constellation @eventhorizon0556

[freckles-a-constellation]

ahhhh those all sound so good! mine under the cut

I have a fuckload of wips so I'll only be listing ones that I more or less recently worked on, have something solid for and care about. Also most of this will be song lyrics lol

Doctor Who:

let everybody know (you're coming back for me) [Doctor/Rose, the Doctor keeps seeing the words Bad Wolf, eventual reunion]

come find me [Ten/Rose, musician au + soulmate au, the Doctor being hopeless af, I have like 2k words of it but it's a right mess]

it's hard to know that you still care [TenToo/Rose, them coming to terms with eachother, planned out for 4 chapters but fighting me]

hold me down until I'm fine [Ten&Martha, canon complaiant Smith and Jones fic]

the Doctor had a shred of communication skills [Ten~Martha, them having an actual conversation post-42. I'll figure out something better to call it... eventually]

things are better if I stay [Ten&Martha, wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey]

character analysis of the Time Lord Victorious [dunno what to call this one but it's what it says on the tin]

would you let me, baby, lose on losing dogs [Ten&Martha, Martha sees her favourite ice-skating performance live and the Doctor is an angst lord]

you don't mean nothing at all to me [Doctor/Martha, 5+1 things, multiple incarnations]

stubborn companion [10/Reader, post-JE, someone sneaks into the TARDIS despite the Doctor's instance that he doesn't need a companion]

Girl from Mars [fem!Ten/Donna]

try now we can only lose (and our love become a funeral pyre) [14/Simm!Master]

nothing to pray to you know [Doctor/Rose, Bad Wolf is like legit a goddess and the Doctor is a guilty mess]

Non-DW:

and we'll make our escape [Broadchurch, transfemme!Hardy/Tess, their marriage is failing and they accidentally fall in love with eachother on an anonymous support forum for closeted queer people (Tess is bi)]

sleeping dogs lie (at your feet) [The Bridge, Saga Norén/Alice Sabroe]

all I do is for you (Night Agent, Diane/Michelle)

can't say what it means [Helluva Boss, Blitzø/Stolas, canon divergence in which Blitzø visits Stolas in the hospital post Western Energy]

tagging: @brere-bush @flamesandpages @phoenixqueenwrites

[phoenixqueenwrites]

First, I am so flattered that you would tag me, @freckles-a-constellation Thank you so much!

Alright, this is WIPs right? OH BOY

We're going to start with non-Doctor Who

The Destiny We Choose- Dragon Age fic that novelizes Dragon Age Inquisition written from the perspective of my Inquisitor. Started it 11 years ago and I do intend to someday finish it.

Seventeen Foot Lowtown Tallship- Another Dragon Age fic that... it started out as a throwaway crack story in which, during Hawke's time as Champion of Kirkwall someone lists a ship for sale that is supposedly owned by Varric. So Varric spends an irritating several months being hounded by various people who "want to buy the ship" or just "didn't know he had a ship" or "didn't take him for the seafaring type." This was a fireside story told in the previously listed WIP but accidentally became a fully fledged outline that I would very much like to have the time to write into a very funny short story from Varric's perspective.

The Memory of Light- extremely angsty Rings of Power fic (don't judge) focusing on Galadriel's guilt, self-doubt, and self-reflection following her accidental betrayal of her people and Middle-Earth. As of the premiere of the second season is is extremely AU. I am honestly not sure I will ever finish it, but we'll see if that hyperfocus will come back to me with the new season this fall.

ANYWAY, given who tagged me, I'm guessing that there is some degree of curiosity about what Doctor Who Things I have cooking.

[Listed in Chronological order in my Doctor Who Timeline, not based on readiness for publication.]

Stitches in Time- (Ten and Donna) A sort of... Season 4, between the running type of a fic? Focuses on the friendship between the Doctor and Donna and how it grows over the course of the season. Loosely episode tag-y and the central plot of the who thing is a jumper. yep... Currently up to the penultimate chapter. Should be finished within the next couple of weeks.

The Precarious Art of Friendship- (Ten and Donna) (<- Nathaylee will tell you this designation is BS, but I stand by it... mostly.) Set post-Midnight. The Doctor and Donna decide to crash a harvest garden party on an agricultural world, for a total change of pace, but it both turns out to be a huge, upper crust political, aristocratic-type thing AND a murder mystery because seriously... The Doctor cannot go anywhere without something going tits up.

The Nile: A Treatise (working title)- (Ten and Donna or... something like that) I have no idea if this one will ever be posted publicly, but if you message me, I might send you a link once its finished. It's definitely not right now.

The Power Within- (Fourteen and Donna) The second installment of my AU series. Sequel to The Gift of Chance.

The Vanguard Code- (Fourteen and Donna) The third installment of my AU series. Sequel to The Power Within

The Ghosts of Nimrud- (Fourteen and Donna) The nth installment of my AU series.

The Soldier's Rest- (Fourteen and Donna and Wilf) sort of a side story for my AU series

The Onerous Task of Admitting Defeat- (Fourteen/Donna) not gonna try to tag this one friendship; it literally starts with them in bed together. XD As the tin implies, a fic about how the people in their lives find out they're together. utterly pointless, self-indulgent, but it was started initially because a good deal of my fics have been very heavy emotionally and I wanted a breather piece. Stitches sort of also filled this roll, though it has its moments too. Sequel to The Dangerous Act of Acknowledgement.

... and these are just the ones that have names.

I might be insane. I might also be writing an entire AU series of Doctor Who. I still haven't picked how many "episodes" but... yeaaahhh

Tagging @nathaylee @ghost-bison @gallifreyrises @vhen-harel @rinliner

No obligation to reblog or tag. I very often don't.

[nathaylee]

PROFOUNDLY unsurprised to be tagged in a WIP post — @phoenixqueenwrites knows exactly how little encouragement I need to babble about my WIPs!!! (needless to say, these are all Doctor Who fics and Doctor/Donna)

The Collabs:

Go and See the Stars: this is a glorious Wilf-travels-with-Nine AU that I ADORE so much!! over 150k words are posted, but we're stalled on series 3. but we DO have that whole series planned out already!! Isa's just been taking an extended break from writing.

Sail Away With Me: this Persuasion AU was Isa's and my first collab!!! it's a high-effort novel-length thing written in Austenian style that I'd personally LOVE to go back to some day when Isa's up for it—it's 95% outlined and maybe 15% written, so it's a matter of actually writing the rest!

DoctorDonna Day: a Groundhog Day-esque time loop situation where the Doctor's desperately trying to figure a way out of Journey's End! this is another Isa collab that is mostly her baby, so her writing break means it's indefinitely on the back-burner.

Shared Custody: Donna wakes up to find she doesn't remember years of her life—AND that she's sharing custody of her kids with an ex-husband she doesn't remember! (yes, this is a Doctor/Donna post-Journey's End fic, lol.) @winterjameson and I had a beautiful little nugget of an idea on Discord that's 75% outlined!! someday we'll dig into it properly—I'm manifesting that HARD

The Non-Collabs:

Singletons

Close Encounters of the More Than Friendly Kind: a complete smut-fest, lol. it's mostly complete, just got to massage a couple of later chapters and get the epilogue finished. I'm already in the midst of posting it!

Time People Nobles: the Doctor's at the Noble home for tea when he notices certain oddities about Wilf...no points for guessing what's so strange about him!! this is separate from my Time-Lady-Donna series, but when I was struck with an opening scene out of the blue I simply HAD to outline a much larger fic following up on it!! maybe 60% outlined

Sprawling AUS

Geoff Lives AU: Geoff Noble lives another day and gets REAL judgemental of the badly-behaved broomstick in a suit who's leading his daughter on a merry chase!! this is maybe 20% written and 40% outlined, lol

iPod Shuffle AU: what if the Doctor was sucked into the void between worlds in Doomsday and the TARDIS went wandering through the cosmos to find him? THIS one started with a simple TARDIS POV one-shot and ended up spiralling into a HUGE sprawling outline that shuffles Series 3—5 episodes together in a random order to tell a brand new story!!! the one-shot's 95% done—it's next on my list to polish up after my current WIP—but the larger AU might or might not ever materialize simply due to scale lol.

Oneshots

Viva Las Vegas: a little one-shot situation that spiralled out from a goofy married-in-Vegas idea on the Doctor/Donna Discord!! I've got maybe 25% of the writing done, but the whole plot needs some doctoring to get the character motivations up to snuff.

Game, Set, Match: little one-shot where Sylvia watches Donna mope after The Runaway Bride and adds two and two together to make twenty-seven. clearly she's moping after that ridiculously-named bloke in the suit from the reception.....hilarity ensues!! this one's maybe 20% written.

Sequels

'Many Happy Returns' Sequel: don't wanna get too specific, but a one-shot follow-up IS on my list!! I've got the main idea nailed down, but I need to plan out more of what's going on there!

'Think of the Children' Sequel: THIS is one I've done some high-level ideating about!! might not be AT ALL what you'd expect, but it'll be a long one for SURE. lots of angst lined for this one, folks, be warned!!

good LORD that's a lot—SOMEDAY MAYBE I'll have the time to crank all of these out!! or maybe just most of them, lol. let me know which ones are piquing your interest most!!!

[a-rapunzel]

not sure when these will see the light of day (I write at night) all TenDonna ❤️

Runaway Bride/Season 3 AU - where Donna says yes when asked to go with Ten, I think most TenDonnas wonder what would have happened if Donna had gone with him then

Jenny regenerates - Jenny is less then 15 hours old when she dies and is born again. Now Ten & Donna are back in Chiswick with a surprise baby in tow

Turn Left AU - 12th Doctor: People always get it wrong with Time Lords. We take forever to die. Even if we are too injured to regenerate, every cell in our bodies keeps trying.Dying properly can take days. That's why we like to die among our own kind. They know not to bury us early.

Ten doesn’t die in the flood. But neither is he alive.

Two lonely people find each other at the end of the world.

High angst. Threads meets 28 Days Later

i could watch forever while you shine on everyone - human nature/family of blood AU x under the blue sky

This one has a title! ended up down a rabbit hole, and then realised John Smith & Graham had a few things in common

Journeys End to End of Time fix it - Donna gets her memories back as a consequence of a consequence of bumping into Ten at Easter

Doctors Surgery AU - human AU, Donna starts work as a secretary at The Arcadian Road Doctors Institute Surgery. Very romcom, lovingly inspired by Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

[rosetherat]

[npinkbin]

I don't remember all the insane sexist shit anymore during amy ponds era, which was horrifying, BUT I still think the most misogynistic crime ever committed by doctor who was insisting that donna and ten must be platonic simply by choosing an actress ONLY TWO YEARS OLDER than david instead of fucking ten years younger or whatever AND constantly making fun of her and pretending she wasn't one of the hottest characters in the show??? LOUD HAGS FOREVER ON TOP!!!!!!!!!!

[a-rapunzel]

This! The jokes at her expense are just really uncomfortable and serve no purpose