I didn't come back and update last night... I got through my notes on one chapter.
Tonight I got through the next one. It still has a few rough spots (well, a few spots that have to be filled in), but otherwise it's pretty much done.
AND!! The big news is that I actually worked on something new! Waaaaay back in like 2019 @paigenotblank prompted me to write a masquerade, post Doomsday reunion. I might be fudging it a little (reunion AT a masquerade), but I'm gonna get this thing finished finally.
What?? Me, actually posting fall fic?? What is this, 2018??
📓 for the ask game. doctor x rose (your choice as to which doctor)
Welp in addition to the ones I mentioned in the last answer, There's just... SO MANY Eight/Rose AUs. Just like... terminal brainrot levels of EightRose in my brain.
So how about the one I did ... sort of start writing but never got far with it; A College AU where she was a child star and he's a return student both studying in the same theater program. This got long, so under the cut it goes!
They meet for the first time at open auditions for the term, and they start talking there, and realize they have a class in common when they see each other the next week.
There's two plot threads really, Rose and her attempt at Normalcy and escaping the assumptions of childhood stardom as she's also trying to reset her mind before pursuing more serious roles. And Eight (John, because I'm lame) and his really shitty political family and their expectations and how they constantly have made him put aside his own desires for his life and the consequences for his decision to break away.
One of those consequences is the fact that after awhile, when his rent goes up, he doesn't really have the funds to stay there anymore. But, luckily he and Rose are friends, and she has a spare room, even though her apartment isn't THAT big. So now, they're roommates.
Insert just... so much 'oh my god they were roommates' and romantic pining content here. There's also a lot of hanging out with their friends, even though they're some of the only non-trad students in their friend group. (Also there's guitar playing and music because I'm a sap and that's just a thing I like)
Then former colleague Jack shows up to visit Rose and being mildly drunk when he shows up in the bar, she's like 'you don't have to go to a hotel, you can stay at my place!' because she's just... like that. And five minutes later she's like 'shit, I don't actually have a spare room anymore' and is apologizing to John and proposes that they share for the day or two Jack's around. It... more or less becomes him just moving into her bedroom because they like cuddling. And each other.
Long story short, the pining reaches terminal levels but they don't want to ruin their relationship, but at that point they're on the road to actually getting together. Rose has, slowly over the course of the story to this point, let go of her discomfort with her childhood stardom and the way some of the professors and other students act around her, so that leaves John's family plot to wrap up, so for MAXIMUM DRAMA, his brother's political campaign wants family shots and video for promotional purposes.
His parents more or less demand he comes home for this, and John invites Rose to come along. His family is not happy about him doing that, but John and Rose decide that fuck it, they love each other, they're gonna be there for each other no matter what, no matter the cameras, no matter the family dynamics they're born into, they get to choose and they choose each other.
Then they go back to the apartment, and live happily ever after. lol. (Also the whole thing totally ends with them having an onstage kiss in a play with just.)
Ooh for the WIP thing, tell me more about the Sleepy Hallow AU. Please and thank you!
Thank you for asking! 🧡
Ref: this post with titles in my WIP folder
The idea is that the Doctor and Rose get trapped inside the story of Sleepy Hollow, and Rose forgets who she is and thinks she’s Kathrina Van Tassel. They must escape the headless horseman.
How was he supposed to know the book was enchanted? Well, enchanted isn’t quite the right word, technically it’s more like narrative transmutation. That said, he should have known the book was a trap, but, well, his eyes had been wandering. Who holds a book at chest level, anyway?
The Doctor landed on his arse.
On the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the—
“Who is this?” the Doctor asked, looking up at the grey sky, where the voice was coming from.
“Diedrich Knickerbocker, your humble narrator.”
“Where am I? Where’s Rose?”
“If you’d let me finish what I was saying, you would know,” Diedrich replied.
So, I know you said TenxRose, but the idea for this came into my head and I couldn’t shake it. Technically TenToo, but not really specified?
Anyway… From this prompt list - “Sated”
@doctorroseprompts
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The Doctor collapsed next to her, panting for breath, makingRose grin.
“Sated?” she teased, rolling onto her side and trailing her fingersover his chest. “Had enough?”
“Never,” he denied, despite looking winded and tired. “I could go all night, Rose Tyler.”
She laughed, kissing him. “Dare you.”
He responded to the kiss enthusiastically, rolling on top ofher and pressing himself against her.
“Oi! If you two arefinished,” her mother called, sounding irritated. “I’ll remind you, this bouncy castle is for Tony’sbirthday, not yours, ya plum. Get outand let the kids play, would you? Couldcrush them if they tried to be in there with you, you could. Shift!”
They broke apart, laughing, the Doctor looking somewhatrevived. He scrambled to his feet,shouting towards the castle opening “Never!” as he resumed jumping.
“Just a few more minutes!” Rose called, and they held hands,bouncing in the air.
It was so worth the long talking-to Jackie gave themwhen they finally crawled out.
F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
Oooooh, that’s a tough one. It took a while because I’d never really thought about it before. I think I'll go with this one, from chapter 3 of A Question of Worth, my post-GITF fixit.
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“You don’t get to sit there bein’ angry because some sleazy old wanker was rude to me when you’ve treated me exactly the same way, when you see me exactly the same way he does!”
His eyes burned. “I’ve never-”
“What? Treated me like I didn’t matter? Like I was less?” She scoffed. “That’s exactly what you did! You gave me some spiel about witherin’ and dyin’ and how it hurt too much and then you chucked it all and went after her, someone who was barely in your life a day, because she was worth it- the ‘most accomplished woman who ever lived.” She shook her head, wiping her nose with her sleeve. “He didn’t care that I was nobody- I was somebody to him. But you? I’m not enough for you- not clever enough, not important enough, and you went after someone who was. I reckon that tells me pretty well what you think about me, Doctor. And I’m not tryin’ to stop you, I have no right to stop you lovin’ anyone you want, but don’t you sit there tellin’ me you’re the same man!” She swiped at her face again. “Because my Doctor wouldn’t have treated me like I was nothin’ while he ran off after the King’s mistress, he wouldn’t have left me on that deathtrap! But you did!”
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I’m proud of it because it allowed me to vent my feelings about that stupid episode and its many inconsistencies, but also (and perhaps more importantly) it gave me a chance to give Rose a voice about the way Ten treated her, and to really examine how she felt about it and the consequences it would have had on their relationship, how she saw him, etc. It also gave me the chance to make Ten face it, and have the chance to fix it, which we didn’t really get in canon. One minute there was tension so thick you could cut it with a knife, the next everything was apparently peachy.
S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?
Oh, there are lots! Hurt/Comfort, bed-sharing, fake dating, sick/fic, AUs of varying kinds, fixits....many things!
V: If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?
Oooooh, another tough one. The Winter Season, by Teawithlemon, for sure. I would marry that fic. Annnnnnd...Antidote by @asthewheelwills. And I’d love for @bluedawn0123 Shades of Blue Series to be finished. Just GAH. GIVE ME ALL THE THINGS.
