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Dr Who AU - Every 3 Years

So this is a crazy idea I floated a while back that I'm enjoying tinkering around with, but what if each actor who played the Doctor only did three years each (i.e., the 'Troughton rule'). Now, I'm not saying this timeline is 'superior' to reality or anything, but it's fun coming up with an alternate history for the program...

William Hartnell 1963 - 1966 Patrick Troughton 1966 - 1969 Jon Pertwee 1970 - 1972 Ron Moody 1972 - 1975 Tom Baker 1975 - 1978 David Collings 1978 - 1981 Peter Davison 1981 - 1984 Colin Baker 1984 - 1987 Sylvester McCoy 1987 - 1990 Paul McGann 1996 Christopher Eccleston 2005 - 2007 David Tennant 2007 - 2010 Matt Smith 2010 - 2013 Peter Capaldi 2013 - 2016 Jodie Whittaker 2016 - 2019 Jo Martin 2019 - 2022 Ncuti Gatwa 2022 - 2025

AU History below:

Hartnell and Troughton eras remain largely the same, except - in the interest of giving each actor three seasons exactly, some stories get moved around. 'The Tenth Planet' is now the Season 3 finale, and 'Power of the Daleks' becomes the Season 4 premiere. Two stories from S3 get pulled into S4 (I chose The Gunfighters and The Smugglers) and become 2/Ben/Polly stories before getting back on track with The Highlanders (and Jamie).

Pertwee now does Seasons 7 - 9, all of which remain exactly the same, save for the Season 9 finale, which is now a regeneration story. Either we move The Three Doctors to the S9 finale, or some other story entirely is created - in either case, the exile storyline still ends here with the Doctor regenerating in the presence of Jo, Benton and the Brig, and the Time Lords restore his ability to pilot the TARDIS with a new dematerialisation circuit, and the Third Doctor's last words are, "Well, that's something to look forward to." Why Pertwee leaves is anyone's guess, but perhaps he gets a movie offer that he decides to take up (*coughcoughWillyWonka*).

Faced with having to recast the part, Barry Letts decides to go back and try offering it to Ron Moody again, who had been his first choice but had turned it down saying he didn't want to work on a children's programme. It's a decision he always said he regretted, so when offered the part again, he agrees. His Fourth Doctor is more of an absentminded professor (on the surface) who sings while he works and continues to help out UNIT whenever he's on Earth. He sees of Jo and meets Sarah Jane (and maybe Harry), and he encounters the Master, Linx, and Davros before finally meeting his end in Terror of the Zygons, with Moody deciding to leave to get back to doing films.

Tom Baker is now the Fifth Doctor, making his debut alongside Sarah Jane in Planet of Evil. Seasons 13 - 15 go much the way they did in real life, with him travelling with Sarah Jane, and then Leela and K9. His reasons for leaving are more unfortunate as he finally pushes producer Graham Williams too far and gets sacked, with the ending to Invasion of Time being reshot with a body-double in his costume and a brown curly wig collapsing to the floor (a la Time and the Rani), and a figure in a white dress enters the console room to turn him over as he regenerates into...

David Collings as the Sixth Doctor. I've had him in this role before, so nothing too different from my earlier AUs. He acts alongside K9 and both Romanas, he undergoes the stresses of the Williams era before JNT takes over, with him now being the first Dr to don the dreaded question marks and get a set costume. He departs after Season 18, merging with the Watcher at the end of Logopolis, citing creative differences with JNT.

Peter Davison is now the Seventh Doctor, and his era, much like Hartnell and Troughton's, is almost identical to our reality, with two minor differences -- the 20th Anniversary special is now The Seven Doctors (Hartnell is said to be trapped in a time eddy alongside Tom Baker, and Troughton, Pertwee, Moody and Collings all return with Susan, the Brig, Sarah Jane and Romana respectively) and The Caves of Androzani is now the S21 finale (as it should've been), and the penultimate serial an extra story with Peri, preferably The Rogue TARDIS (and NOT The Twin Dilemma).

Colin Baker is now the Eighth Doctor, with Attack of the Cybermen now his debut story. His era is (sadly) largely unchanged, hiatus and all, but he is successfully able to convince the higher-ups to let him do S24. Mel gets a proper intro story, and he regenerates at the end of Dragonfire.

Sylvester McCoy is now the Ninth Doctor, and he is now a machiavellian Chess Master from the start, with Seasons 25 & 26 otherwise unchanged. JNT is able to keep the series afloat for exactly one more season with Season 27. The finale is the unmade serial Ice Time wherein Ace is written out, with a few dangling plot threads just in case, but the Doctor simply sails off for more adventures, allowing McCoy to be the face of the franchise during the 'Wilderness Years'.

The TV Movie is the same as in our reality, with Paul McGann now the Tenth Doctor.

Big Finish would still make its audios, with Davison, C Baker, McCoy and McGann being joined by Moody and Collings as their respective Drs (Baker still holds out until 2012), allowing many more adventures with their various companions until their deaths in 2015 and 2020 respectively.

Granted, this is all much easier with Classic Who than with NuWho, but for the sake of the experiment, lets continue.

Eccleston is now the Eleventh Doctor, and he would still undoubtedly have his troubles BTS with RTD & co. However, let's surmise that they have him under a three-year contract instead of a one-year, and despite some attempts to get out of it, they keep him on. Perhaps having more time in the role helps him deal with whatever problems he had (unlikely, I know, but still), and he ultimately regenerates at the end of Voyage of the Damned.

Tennant is now the Twelfth Doctor and plays the part from Series 4 thru 6, with a full Series 5 in 2009 instead of a year of specials (maybe Lady Christina as his companion). Series 6 sees him joined by Amy and Rory, much like Moffat's original vision for a series with Tennant, with his Dr regenerating at the end of The Big Bang.

Matt Smith is now the Thirteenth Doctor, and he plays the part from 2011 to 2013, again with a full series every year. He gets a year with Amy and Rory, then a series with a new companion, and then is joined by Clara in his final series - which includes The Day of the Doctor, with Tennant and (hopefully) either Eccleston or McGann (no room for John Hurt, I'm afraid).

Peter Capaldi is now the Fourteenth Doctor, and his first two series are the same as his actual ones. His third series airs in 2016, and he (hopefully) still travels with Bill and Nardole with much the same ending we got.

Jodie Whittaker is now the Fifteenth Doctor, with her first series in 2017 - which I like to think could mean she gets a series with Bill and Nardole (I love the idea of her Doctor continuing giving lectures at the University as if nothing changed). In 2018, she meets Ryan, Graham and Yaz, and we get what we got in our reality into 2019, with her regenerating at the end of The Timeless Children into...

Jo Martin, the Sixteenth Doctor. Maybe her predecessor subconsciously chose to regenerate into her forgotten self in tribute or something. In any case, I love Martin's Dr (or Doc Martin lol) and want to give her a proper era. So she gets a full proper series that airs in 2020, then 'The Flux' in '21, and then one more series in '22 that ends with her regenerating on a clifftop overlooking a sunset...

At last, Ncuti Gatwa as the Seventeenth Doctor, who gets a proper series in 2023, which sees a proper 60th Anniversary special with a few returning Drs, and then gets a series each with Ruby and Belinda as in our reality before regenerating at the end of The Reality War... :P

And that's my latest Who AU. Not remotely likely, especially the NuWho part, but it was fun to put together.

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🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜

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Just for fun, here's an AU where Jon Pertwee leaves earlier and Barry Letts decides to try asking Ron Moody if he's changed his mind about playing the part -- something which Moody takes as his greatest second chance...

Don't worry, Tom Baker still plays the Doctor in this AU, he just doesn't show up until Season 13.

[hellowisconsin]

I’m luving your unpopular opinion takes! They are good controversial ones not like ‘unpopular opinion but I wish brooke had stayed on and ended up with Kelso’ lol

Ha! Thanks! I have some more and I’m getting more comfortable sharing them too.

[einsteinsugly]

Unpopular T7S opinion tag game? Share as many as you'd like.

1. I hate Fez and Kelso's dynamic, platonic or otherwise. They're even more toxic than Jackie and Kelso, because they bring out each other's reckless sides (and creepy sides).

2. I think s8 can be canon, too (it's part of the OG show). Either post s7 or post s8 is post canon, to me. T9S is another universe entirely (you can't fit in Jay's existence anywhere, at all). Like post s4, if everyone was somehow aged up or something.

3. I think T9S is worse than s8, because you can't fix it. You can undo s8, but not T9S.

4. Jackie's style isn't perfect. I mean, who wears a shirt with their own face on it? Eww.

5. I find Eric's Star Wars obsession to be really, really annoying. Not just a little annoying. But then again, I don't like Star Wars, so yeah.

6. I think Jackie would retain some of her questionable social takes, even after spending years with Hyde. She wants her children to fit in, and she wants to fit in, too. Like a shining star amongst everyone else, simply.

7. Hyde has a vengeful side. It's not OOC. He's just in a serious relationship for the first time, and has a jealous streak.

8. Donna is not an ESTP. She doesn't thrive on impulses, like Kelso, Fez, and Laurie. She needs structure and stability in her life in order to thrive, so she's more of a XNTJ, in my opinion.

9. I like ED more than JH.

10. Kelso is incapable of anything more than convoluted master plans. If he was smarter, he'd be far more dangerous.

Tagging you, @winnie-the-monster, @starryjonquil, @ariandrine, @kissandships, @alienscareme, @randomwriter23, @cruelparty, @those70scomics, @queenbookbuff, @tht70sblog, @getyoursorryasstomine, and anyone else who wants to join.

[hellowisconsin]

Another one of my unpopular opinions?

I think Leo is overrated and only good in small doses. I think there are other secondary characters I would have liked to be take his place as recurring throughout the show. Pastor Dave I found much more interesting, funny and engaging with more characters. Leo is just a walking singular punchline.

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My unpopular T7S opinion — I think Eric’s dislike of Jackie is mostly justified. I know she gives Donna a lot of (mostly) good advice to keep their relationship afloat, but she mostly treats Eric himself like dirt, throws him under the bus to save her own skin a couple of times, and acts like he’s the least important member of the group (“Michael’s the Looks, Steven’s the Brains, and Eric — well your house has food.”) and while I like that she paid for their engagement ring, her constant mockery of how small it was got super annoying after awhile. So while Eric could stand to go easier on the insults for all the relationship advice she gives them, I totally get why he doesn’t like her even after seven seasons

[lizardsfromspace]

Russell T Davies having the Doctor regenerate into Billie Piper hoping this would resurrect interest in the show, only for the twist to be mocked to hell and back by everyone & make both fans and the general public turn on it even harder

[marcosperfeito]

Doctor Who Christmas Special Cancellation, 2026

I propose Piper Pause as the name for this hiatus of Doctor Who since Billie Piper's big smiling face was the last thing we saw, to date, of the show.

There she is, unresolved:

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[that70sshowgoldencouple]

Would You Rather

Series ended at Season 7 finale (exactly as it is)

Series had one more season (season 9)

Voting ended onJun 9

[thestupidhelmet]

My vote is contingent on the Filgos returning to fix the mess. S8 is a nightmare Eric has while traveling to Africa (or however they want to dismiss it). S9 starts with Hyde proposing to Jackie in the Chicago motel room; no towel-wrapped Kelso, confusing the hell out of the audience. But all is cleared up as S4 of Community is by Dan Harmon by blaming it in-universe on a gas leak (and S4 is actually okay but off-model whereas T7S S8 is a completely different show with different characters).

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Or have Donna wake up one morning to find Eric in the shower. “Good morning!”

Donna: “Oh god Eric I just had the craziest dream! You left me to become a teacher in Africa, and Hyde turned into a total a-hole and ditched Jackie for a stripper, and she started dating Fez even though he turned into a total sleezebag, and Kelso moved to Chicago but NOT to be with Brooke and Betsy - it was just so he could get paid to ogle women, and we broke up and I dated this guy called Randy who had this weird BeeGees hair, and Leo was the only really normal person left and — !”

Eric: “Okay slow down, speed boat. I think you need to stop being blonde. The bleach might be having an effect on you.”

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Retconning Red Dwarf -- Series VII onwards

So this is another less intensive AU episode guide for an alternate version of the 'lesser' Red Dwarf seasons. This is how I would retcon VII and VIII, doing it in a way that would end the series in 1999, allowing Doug Naylor to put the sitcom to rest while moving on to the (still ill-fated) Red Dwarf movie.

AU from VII onwards:

Series VII (1997)

Back in Time

Tikka to Ride

Ace in the Hole

The Linkway

Duct Soup

Beyond a Joke

Epideme

Nanarchy

Chris Barrie initially only wants to do two episodes but is talked into doing four with the promise of one of them being an Ace episode, one being a spiritual sequel to ‘Marooned’ and Rimmer going out on a heroic note. As such, Rimmer only ‘stars’ in Episodes 2, 3, 5 and 7, while ‘appearing’ via deleted footage in Episode 1 and brief ‘voice only’ cameos in Episodes 4 and 6. 

Episode 1 guest stars Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle as the ‘Time Police’ who arrest Lister, Cat and Kryten for their future selves’ Crimes Against Causality. Rimmer can not be present as he is trapped at the ‘heart’ of the paradox.

Episode 2 is most similar to ‘our’ version of Tikka, albeit the crew traveling back to 1963 via different means

Episode 3 – Ace returns to our dimension with serious injuries, so he and the others force Rimmer to pose as Ace during one of his heroic missions. Hilarity ensues, but maybe Rimmer, spurned on from his heroics in 'Out of Time', manages to pull it off, if only temporarily.

Episode 4 – Clare Grogan returns as Kochanski for a one-off (no offense to Chloe Annett, but in this timeline, Rimmer's not being replaced). More focus is put on the Alternate Lister and how much he had to change to be in a relationship with her, making ‘our’ Lister question everything about his infatuation with her. Rimmer is absent, having to power down due to dwindling energy supplies.

Episode 5 – The crew are forced into the ductwork by a small cybernetic creature (similar to a Cybermat from Dr Who, represented by a POV camera chasing them).

Episode 6 – Rimmer is absent again, having taken the escape pod to go ‘moon hopping’. Similar plot, but Kryten’s nega-drive is activated thanks to a trap laid by the Simulant. Able is portrayed by David Ross.

Episode 7 – Potentially Rimmer’s final episode. He gets Epideme to infect him (as he did in Paul Alexander's original script), saving Lister, but the virus damages his light bee in retaliation. Rimmer’s image is deactivated, leaving the virus vulnerable enough to be eradicated by Kryten.

Episode 8 – Lister’s depression is now from a lack of arm and the loss of Rimmer. They still retrace their steps and find that the nanobots stole Red Dwarf, reuniting with Holly in the process. We end with the possibility that the nanobots can repair Rimmer’s light bee, but they aren’t sure…

So that gives a different exit for Rimmer, who -- should Barrie decide not to return -- at least gets a heroic exit, sacrificing himself to save Lister. Of course, Barrie enjoyed VII so much that he apparently agreed to return for VIII before VII had completed production.

Now we go to a version of Series VIII that does not resurrect the crew. I'm not necessarily against that plot line (I like the idea of each series kind of having its own individual feel -- V being more horror-themed, VI searching for Red Dwarf, VII being a dramedy, etc), my main objection was the prison story line, but I'm more interested in the idea of them simply going back aboard Red Dwarf and getting back to the status quo.

So, because most of the episodes from canon!VIII wouldn't work here, I've picked (what I think are) some of the better Dave-era eps to fill the slots.

Series VIII (1999)

Back in the Red

Cassandra

Tempus

Lemons

Give and Take

Krysis

M-Corp

Twentica

Rimmer is successfully reactivated in the first scene of Episode 1, and the episode is about the crew on a Super-Sized Red Dwarf. 

Episode 2 – Standard derelict raiding episode.

Episode 3 – Similar to Paul Alexander’s original idea wherein Lister wakes up one morning aged into an old man with no clue how it happened, with the eventual reveal that the Time Wand is being used by some unscrupulous person to ‘save time’ for himself.

Episode 4 – Similar to the Series X episode (maybe the Time Wand is utilized instead of being destroyed).

Episode 5 – Similar to the Series XI episode.

Episode 6 – Similar to the Series XI episode, but with a different series of events. The crew meet Butler at the beginning of the episode, but he’s a younger model than Kryten aboard the Nova 7, and Kryten is dismayed at how much more he’s accomplished in half the time, kickstarting the midlife crisis.

Episode 7 – Similar to the Series XII episode.

Episode 8 – Similar to the XI episode.

Now, at this point, Doug Naylor was looking to end the series to make Red Dwarf: DA MOVIE, but he wanted that to be a continuity reboot (similar to the novels), so he should really be thinking about ending the sitcom at this point. So, rather than make a Series IX, he decides on an hour long special to wrap things up...

Hour-Long Special (2001)

Back to Earth

Hour long series finale to wrap things up. The Boyz find a Faster Than Light Drive that will propel Red Dwarf back to Earth in a matter of hours. The special ends with them successfully making it back and going into orbit around the planet, but they have no idea what’s down there. The final shot is them flying Starbug down to the planet’s surface while Red Dwarf is left behind – empty.

And the credits roll over that image, similar to the End Credits for S I - IV

[thestupidhelmet]

Good Omens 3: An Academic Read

Spoilers Ahead

I will preface this analysis by sharing I am an a-religious religion scholar, literature scholar, and linguistics scholar (to a lesser but significant extent) through higher education and on-going self-directed study. I'm also an author IRL, again taught the craft of fiction through higher education, post-college study, and self-directed education.

Michael Sheen and David Tennant give an incredibly moving performance. What sits wrong in my gut about the final installment of the TV version is how it contradicts and rewrites what exists in both the novel and how Good Omens 1 and 2 accurately represent what's in the novel. This post explains my interpretation. Fiction can have many equally valid interpretations based on facts from the text.

I'm going to begin by quoting every mention of free will from the novel, some of which contains relevant information about other aspects of the novel that GO3 contradicts or rewrites.

And that'd be that. No more world. Just endless Heaven or, depending on who won, endless Hell. Crowley didn't know which was worse.

(...)

But there was no getting out of it. You couldn't be a demon and have free will.

***

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

***

And just when you'd think they [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, the could occasionally show more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of. Often the same individual was involved. It was this free-will thing, of course. It was a bugger.

Aziraphale had tried to explain it to [Crowley] once. The whole point, he'd said (...) was that when a human was good or bad it was because they wanted to be.

***

[Humans had] come up with some stomach-churning idea no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil made me do it" and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was the devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to. That was what humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.

***

I DON'T UNDERSTAND, he said. SURELY YOUR VERY EXISTENCE REQUIRES THE END OF THE WORLD. IT IS WRITTEN.

"I dunt see why anyone has to go an' write things like that," Adam said calmly. "The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had a chance to find out about it. So you can all just go away."

***

Then [Adam] said: "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out."

***

Humans have free will according to Good Omens. True free will, but the thesis of Good Omens 3 is that they don't. The true issue is that angels and demons are beholden to the toxicity of Hell and Heaven toward them. Aziraphale and Crowley don't have the freedom humans do to "be on their own side."

God's ineffable plan is always framed in GO1 and GO2 as separate than the Great Plan the Metatron tries to push through. GO3 makes God complicit or, perhaps, the architect of the Great Plan. This conflation retcons what is already well-established.

In GO1, both Gabriel (head archangel and lacky of the Metatron) and Beezlbub (Duke of Hell and Satan's lacky) argue the Great Plan is necessary, Heaven and Hell's final war to prove, once and for all, which side is stronger. It's to take place on Earth as the apocalypse that will destroy Earth.

As Adam says in the novel, humans wrote this idea themselves and can cross it out. In GO1, Aziraphale questions Gabriel and Beezlbub whether the Great Plan is God's ineffable plan. The answer is clearly no, and both sides stand down. The God of the novel and GO1 is not the God portrayed in GO3.

In the prologue of GO2, Aziraphale informs Angel!Crowley that the universe will be shut down after 6,000 years. This introduces a new element that seems to be part of God's ineffable plan. In and of itself, it's a problem that can be solved according to the philosophy wrought through the novel and GO1.

GO3, however, frames the issue as humans not having true free will due to the interference of Heaven and Hell and, ultimately, God. This frame directly contradicts the novel and GO1's philosophy that humans indeed have free will, that God doesn't "play games with the universe."

The frame of GO3 should've been, to be consistent, about the dissolution of the Great Plan, dismantling of Heaven and Hell's bureaucracy, and God -- Her presence expressed through Her voice rather than as a physical manifestation -- agreeing not to end Her creation after all.

Jesus, after experiencing humanity again, likely would've (or should've) been part of arguing the case with Crowley and Aziraphale. Theologically (as Christianity eventually developed), Jesus is also God, one who had a human experience and compassion for all humanity.

Because of the compression of a six-hour story into ninety-six minutes, plus a rewrite by people other than the original novel's authors, GO3 was unlikely to be a continuation and ending consistent with GO1 and GO2. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Good Omens TV series but many TV series where the original creator and showrunner leaves (for whatever reason).

At the end of GO2, the story promise is that the Second Coming will be Heaven's attempt to carry out the Great Plan. As Crowley tells Aziraphale in GO1 after they helped thwart the apocalypse, the next attempt will be all of humanity against Heaven and Hell. Not God. Heaven and Hell.

Adam in Hebrew means man as in human. Genesis in the Torah uses adam to refer to humanity and to refer to a specific human, Adam. The choice of naming the Antichrist in the novel Adam is not about reflecting the first human but all of humanity. Adam is human at his core. He has ultimate free will, and he understands humanity also has true or real, to use Crowley's GO3 word, free will.

Jesus and Adam Young in the original six episode GO3 had a subplot. I hope that Adam's conversations with Jesus were largely about human free will and were consistent with the Adam of the novel and GO1.

Unfortunately, Jesus is essentially irrelevant in GO3. Remove him from the story, nothing changes. Truncating his role doesn't fulfill the promise of GO2, where his return is clearly meant to be inextricably connected to the events and outcome of GO3. The Book of Life replaces Jesus's role as the potential catalyst of changing Earth and existence as a whole.

Instead, Michael's anger at her lot in existence, at her lack of control, becomes nihilistic. Aziraphale seems to have circumvented the Great Plan once again, and Michael is the one who destroys existence by destroying the Book of Life. This character arc or plotline may well have been part of the original six episode GO3, but its development and execution was likely different.

Aziraphale and Crowley need not have sacrificed themselves had GO3 remained true to the source material and the story setup in GO2. They needed to risk challenging God, yes, but the ask would not be to make human free will real. It is real. The ask would be been to restore creation without the arbitrary 6,000-year time limit, without Heaven and Hell's interference or existence.

The consequence -- the sacrifice and reward -- to Crowley and Aziraphale would've been the loss of their divinity and immortality. God wouldn't tell them as such, only that they would experience death as a consequence of their request.

Their disintegration would be a fake-out. We'd think they're gone, but Aziraphale would awake in his bookshop, Crowley in his Bentley, both utterly confused. They'd find each other and Aziraphale would say, "I thought we were supposed die."

Crowley, realizing the truth before Aziraphale, grins. "Oh, we will. Just not today, Angel."

"Do you mean ... ?"

"We're human. Completely flawed humans -- " he laughs -- "with the free will to be as stupid or as brilliant as we want."

"Our lives are our own," Aziraphale whispers. "To do good because we believe it's the right thing to do, not because it's an order."

Crowley says, "Well, what do you want do to now? Adopt a dozen orphans or something like that?"

"I want to dine at the Ritz." Aziraphale grasps Crowley's hand. "With you."

Crowley gestures to the Bentley. They enter. Next scene is the two former angels dining at the Ritz, a parallel to the end of GO1. They toast to the world -- "and," Aziraphale adds, "to us."

Then the show flash-forwards twenty years to their cottage in the South Downs. Nightingales sing. Crowley and Aziraphale have aged and their wedding rings are present, just as they are in the GO3 that exists. Their conversation is both mundane and profound.

They so loved humanity that they become human themselves. But as themselves. That's the inevitable conclusion I see.

They've chosen Earth and humanity since the beginning of Good Omens. Thus, they choose Earth and humanity at the end.

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@mirrorleaf Definitely worth a read when you get a minute :)

[srmcd1]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

All right! Season 2 of the "Jesse McNally Lives AU Fic Thingy" is finished! Season 3 is in the works. Not committing to when it's going to be posted, but the first chapter might drop either late summer or early autumn!

Hope you all enjoyed!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Next chapter in my Jesse McNally Lives story. Season 2 is almost over. Here's part one of 'Becoming', which, when you take out all the creepy flashbacks of Angel falling in love with 15 year old Buffy, it's actually kind of short.

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[doctorwhogifs]

[rochelle-templer]

I love how Three is just done with the whole coin-flipping thing by that point. He already knows that he’ll have to go first since he can’t rely on his “irresponsible” younger self to go. :)

[gravelgirty]

I also love how Two just simply can’t resist pushing his buttons just to see a) how far he can go, and b) will his future self actually stand up to himself?  Because Two is NOT about to do that with The Original Doctor.  I think Three is a fascinating being to him.

[srmcd1]

Missed trick here -- when Three snatches the coin and walks away with it, he should've stopped, looked at it, then chuckled and said, "Huh. I always wondered where this disappeared to."

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Red Dwarf Script Rewrite - Mechocracy

Found this on my hard drive, reread it and realized I'm actually really proud of it. This was my AU take on the Red Dwarf episode 'Mechocracy', wherein I changed the plot from Rimmer vs Kryten to Cat vs Kryten -- and the Cat WINS!

Considering the political landscape of the time (then and now), it feels very pertinent (if I'm using the word' pertinent' correctly).

Hope you all enjoy!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The latest chapter to my Potential Friend series, now covering the events of Go Fish, but with Jesse getting yanked out of the plot for a detour with a very irate Angelus, and Amy is about to learn the big secret he's been keeping from her...

Oh and I totally see Jesse as a Monty Python fan, so that comes up in a pivotal moment that will have repercussions in future seasons...

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"I'm a Monster of a Man"

I've had this idea for ages where you could take the song from the 2011 Muppet movie [the one with Jason Segel] called 'Man or Muppet' and change it to 'Man or Monster' for Buffy.

And it's set during Season 6 and it's about Spike's inner-conflict -- is he a man or a monster? If I'm a monster, then I'm a very manly monster

Then it intercuts with Warren's arc that season -- is he a man or a monster? If I'm a man, that makes me a monster of a man

And in the end, Spike chooses to be a man, and Warren chooses to be a monster