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What are your future plans for your campervan!AU?

Planning to write it!!! Just not right at this moment. But she still lives rent free in my brain for sure

Thanks for asking about it!!

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Hi! First off, I am a HUGE fan of your fic centre of gravity. I could ramble for paragraphs about the pacing, the world building, the prose, the characterization, etc, but I'll leave that for my ao3 comments

I wanted to ask if you'd be open to a podfic? (I believe that's what they're called). A reading of your story? Your dialouge Compels Me. Absolutely not worries if not, and no pressure to answer! I hope you're doing well and having fun with chapter 5 :)

Oh my days, HI!!! First off, thank you so so much, this is so lovely of you ahhh!!

Second - I would be SO open to a podfic, oh my days!! Yes yes yes!! I love podfics so much!! Please go ahead, you have my blessing - and if you wanna pick my brain about anything (I have strong opinions about the rhythm of my sentences but am also very open to hearing other people's interpretations) then feel free to dm me!

This is so exciting ahhh 😭💜🙌

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I just finished the soulmates fic and….*sniff* I’m not crying!! U are!! Na but in all seriousness this was an amazing fic!! And I wanted to tell you my idea I got because this fic hasn’t left my mind since finishing it

what if Simon WAS in the same universe? Like imagine grace writing on his arm and getting a reply in KOREAN!! that be so interesting!!! and I feel like the cult would still exist, and Simon would sneak some markers to write to Grace, and I feel like the whole “ the markings are a test “ thing will still exist because like what if someone gets a soulmate outside of the cult? The father can just say it’s a test so they never leaves. The possibilities. THE ANGST.

Ooh, I think you may have gotten the wrong person because I haven't written a bloodymary soulmate au!! My fic is centre of gravity, the superpower au. However...I now REALLY wanna read whatever fic you read because that sounds SO good oh my days, and I looooove your idea for it (I'm assuming it's like, a soulmate au where they can write messages on their skin to each other?). I actually love it when people have Simon and Grace not speak the same language, I haven't seen it done much but I am beta-reading a fic like that and it is SO so cool. I find them most interesting when the cultural differences between the two of them are really dug into and that's one reaaaaally cool way to do it. And then YEAH WITH EDEN, the idea of having a soulmate outside the cult could actually be SO dangerous for Simon?? Like that's such a threat to the cult because then they can't control the information that Simon is getting. Like that's a link to the outside world...damn!! That's such a cool idea, you should totally write that as a fic!! And then link me when you're done!! 👀

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I just read centre of gravity, loved it! You've absolutely nailed Grace's characterization, and I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your take on Simon's POV.

I was wondering, if spydoc were humans in this universe, what sort of Petrova powers do you think they might get? Time manipulation is the obvious one, but I bet you've got some idea that's less on the nose but just as thematically appropriate

(I'm also quite fond of the idea of Graham getting Petrova powers and running a support group like the companion support group he and Dan make.)

Oh my days HI!! This is so delightful and funny to me, because I recognised your username in my kudos email this morning and was like AH HA!! I got another one of the spydoc kids!! And then you commented too, so seeing you in my askbox is just a beautiful hat trick hahah bless!! <3 I am so so happy that you enjoyed the fic so much!!

And then I cackled at this question because YES OH MY DAYS LET'S GO okay so my first instinct for the Doctor was actually not chronokinesis, but teleportation - because the key role the Doctor plays in the entire plot of Doctor Who is taking her companions to new and exciting places. She's the tour guide of the universe! Or, in the case of a human au, just of Earth haha. And I do really really like that for Thirteen, actually, because it nicely encapsulates another thing about her character: the fact that she runs away. She's constantly keeping everyone at arm's length, disappearing off on her own and then coming back later than she should. In a world where she DOESN'T have a time machine, teleportation would allow her to keep those two really important aspects of her character. HOWEVER. The only problem with this? Teleportation is...not actually a 'kinetic' ability. A kinesis is a manipulation based power. So gyrokinesis = manipulation of gravity, haemokinesis = manipulation of blood, picnokinesis = manipulation of density (see: can walk through walls, can make bullets bounce off them etc), clauditiskinesis = manipulation of locks...I could go on and flex my nerdery, but the point is that teleportation isn't really manipulation, I don't think?? Unless it's like...manipulation of space? I guess it depends on how it works, exactly? Like would she be bending the fabric of space around herself in order to get where she wants to be? Maybe! In that case it would be a kinesis, idk what it would be called though. It would be the same level of spacetime bending as Grace's gravity powers though (although actually, Grace's are worse in that regard. Read up on black holes and you'll understand why Grace is so concerned lol)

Regarding the Master - this is so predictable of me, but I haven't spent the last six years using forest fire imagery for him in almost every single fic to not give him pyrokinesis lmao. He has to. The Master embodies destruction as solution and revels in being a destructive force (because it's all he believes he can be, and he's clinging to the identity of the villain because the Doctor's secret past has thrown everything else about him into question). If I wanted to go harder with it, I could give him nitrokinesis (explosion manipulation, IGNORE WHAT THE SUPERPOWER WIKIA TELLS YOU, it is not self-detonation, that is stupid and makes no sense. Self-detonation is not a manipulation based power!! It just isn't!! Follow the taxonomy correctly geez -)...and actually part of me really likes that because it's a lot less common than pyrokinesis and I have a MASSIVE soft spot for it because I gave it to one of my ocs, and it's a particularly difficult power to use for good (although it CAN be, I have strong feelings about this).

And then sksksksk GRAHAM I'm crying, but actually I wouldn't give Graham any Petrova powers because he's already psychic. I have very strong opinions about this. There is more evidence for him being psychic in canon compared to literally ANY other companion in thirteen's era with the SOLE exception of Claire Brown. My man is seeing ghosts on the reg. But I think this makes him perfect for a petrova power therapy group lol because he gets it without actually getting it, if that makes sense.

Anyway thank you for the BEST question anyone has asked me about this entire fic LMAO I'M SO DELIGHTED <3 <3

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dusting off my unused tumblr account for this, I LOVE CENTRE OF GRAVITY SO MUCH HOLY FUCKKKKK!!!!!!! i've had the worst bloodymary hyperfixation for the last like. month. (my family hates me LMAO) AND YOUR FIC IS EASILY MY MOST FAVOURITE BLOODYMARY FIC OF THEM ALL!!!! it's genuinely the coolest fic i've ever read and i've been literally losing my mind over it for a solid 36 hours now, i almost punched a door i got so excited over it!!!! my friends and family can confirm this btw the autism is down BAD for this one, idk what it is but your writing and worldbuilding is so captivating, every word you've written lives in the back of my mind like my own Line and i can NOT stop thinking about this fic!!! if you don't post a new chapter soon i will break into your house and stare at you autistically until you do 👁👁

that is a joke, please take as much time as you need!! (but also please update soon please please please pleasepleasepleasepl)

Oh my days HI!! Ahh!! Thank you so so much ahh <3 <3 I'm genuinely so honoured that you like this fic so much, like there are a LOT of excellent fics in this fandom, so!!! That's wild to me, ahh!!!

I haven't had much chance to work on Chapter 5 these last couple of weeks, thanks mostly to work (*shakes fist at sky*), so it may be a little while yet, but she's cooking. In the meantime though, please accept this doodle of the roadtrip which is going So Great already.

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ok ok i feel like i'm vaguely familiar with a few of these wips (fletching my beloved) (PART 8!!!!) but what on earth is and the ceiling is a ceremony 👀

oh my days okay so the ceiling is a ceremony is actually a fic I've wanted to finish for aaaaaages, and I have a plan for it written out on the back of till receipts from work! But I came up with it after writing Disarmed, if I remember right - which, as you know, is a fic where I play around with the master's timesense being out of whack. I wanted to push that even further - and so this fic is actually told non-chronologically in terms of normal time, but in chronological order of how the master actually experiences it. So it's a scattered of scenes around the same incident, where the doctor experiences it in linear time, but the master does not. And the fun thing about it is that it centres around a spaceship crash, which the master causes by sabotaging, but then later realises that he does NOT want the ship to crash, and starts attempting to undo his previous work (but, of course, he can't prevent what he's already started...because he already knows where it leads). Eventually, the Doctor realises that he's not been experiencing things in the right order. She tries to ask him why he tried to stop the ship from crashing, but when she asks him he doesn't actually know why yet, so he says 'ask me later. or earlier'

It's a hard story to explain sksk and would be harder to write. I only really started it...but here's a little snippet:

He has no idea how he got here or what came before this – but that’s how it seems to go, this time around. All he knows – all he can cling to – is the Doctor, stood next to him, blood weeping from a cut at her hairline, trembling with utter fury. “You’re right,” she says, her voice splintering with betrayal and grief. “I don’t understand.” She turns to face him, eyes hollow with horror and grief – for him or for someone else, he doesn’t know. “Why did you do this?” she breathes. The Master, of course, has no idea what he’s done – but if a lack of context was ever going to stop him, he’d have curled up and hidden in the Zero Room of his TARDIS back when he first regenerated, desperately coaxing his time sense into something that worked, something that made sense, something that didn’t hurt. There are, after all, slight consequences of regeneration as a result of a personal paradox – the crossing of timelines, for the sole purpose of stabbing himself in the back. Murder-suicide, going both ways. And that, of course, might not have been so bad if it hadn’t all happened on a colony ship heading straight for the event horizon of a black hole, which had naturally caused the extensive time-warping relativistic effects that had made the whole sorry thing come about in the first place. (It had been glorious, and it had been awful, and it had been all he’d ever wanted and everything she’d tried not to become, and the Doctor had reached out his hand and she’d –) He takes that thought by the throat and snaps its neck. He’s not Missy anymore. Because he’s better than that. Fueled by a fury and determination that were burning him from the inside out, but it was that and that alone that had given him the strength he needed to keep going, despite his new…condition, regarding his inability to experience time in a chronological order. His time sense, scrambled and raw, would have sent any other self-respecting Time Lord to their knees from the sheer disorientation, let alone the constant pain and general inability to keep everything in order. They’d probably have had themselves killed just to bring on the next regeneration faster and fix the problem. But the Master – he’s not like them. He’s not weak, he’s not pathetic, and he’s always been able to make the best out of a bad hand. Or the worst, perhaps. And so, he stares right back at the Doctor, stepping closer, utterly contextless, and he grins. “Sorry, love,” he says, knowing it’ll only raise her hackles further – and, oh, it’s things like this that he lives for. These moments where she stares at him, baring her teeth like the wild creature of the universe that she truly is. “I don’t think I caught that.” Another step closer, right into her space, eyes locked with hers. “Speak up, dear.”

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Hello! Sorry to poke but I LOVEE your “centre of gravity” fic I read it all today and it helped me pull through my body just.. idk shutting down I think I’m sick but the sillies… their gonna have one hell of a road trip aren’t they??

Also ROCKYYYY <3 AND ALSO ADRIAN MENTION!

oh my days hi!! please never apologies, I love getting poked about my writing!! <3 <3 ALSO RIP DUDE I hope you're okay!! Sorry that you're sick, I hope things get better for you soon!! And I'm very glad that my story could bring you some joy in the meantime <3

Oh, it's gonna be a hell of a road trip, that's for sure. Y'all don't even know the half of it

ROCKY AND ADRIAN!! I'm so excited about both of those two hahaha, they're the best. You can't have a story with Rocky without Adrian, it just doesn't work! I also, as a side note, lowkey love that I've managed to preserve the trope inversion that is Rocky having the most alloromantic storyline in the whole thing, because normally the aroace character is the alien or the robot character, but here it's the robot that's actually whipped lmao, and simon and grace are just here like ??? okay??? anyway -

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Hi I love your campervan!AU and your feral little investigative journalist! How is the next part coming along? I would love some juicy details

Hi there ahh!!

I am SO so sorry about campervan, genuinely. I know it's been forever since I posted anything. Let me explain what's happened:

1 - I wrote chapter 1, and started chapter 2, and then realised it was the most Important Chapter in the Entire Series, which I had been leading up to for FIVE YEARS, and freaked out a touch

2 - at the same time, work got absolutely crazy bc we hit summer season (at which I usually get creative burnout like clockwork, for that very reason)

3- at the same time, i bought a HOUSE (which has required major renovations bc uh. turns out when you buy a house cheap it doesn't have any heating system or a working bathroom lmaoooooo)

4 - I really really wanted this particular chapter to be as good as it could be. I needed to stick the landing and felt like my writing wasn't up to snuff. And I also wanted to enjoy writing it, not dread it

5 - right as work died down, I got very VERY distracted from September to January with an original project. The funniest thing about this to me is that, from the perspective of you guys, I wrote nothing in this time. In reality, I actually wrote over 100k, but it was for an audience of like...two people LMAO

6 - uh, life became MORE nuts. had to deal with multiple medical emergencies in my family rip (everyone is okay! but, twas a lot)

7 - still renovating house (although I'm currently sat IN my house right now! I have a bed in here, hooray!!)

8 - I made the mistake of watching Iron Lung, and as you've probably noted, I've been dragged headfirst into bloodymary

So, in short...a lot has gone on. But campervan never leaves my brain. It still sits there in the back, biding it's time. I was genuinely thinking about it earlier today, and reread some of the early chapters of part 1, and I actually feel like taking a step away from it for a year (it's legit been a year since I wrote any of part 8) has been a good thing. Parts 8 and 9 are so important to me. I want them to be GOOD. I want them to be right. And, most importantly, I want to enjoy the process of writing it. So, at some point, I'm gonna sit down and write them. It's not gonna be today, but it will happen. I can't have written part 7, my nemesis, and then drop the ball at part 8, aka the best part.

I miss my feral baby too. I will return to her, some day. She's not gonna let things lie, if nothing else. But I can't promise when it'll be, sorry! I trust it'll come though, when it's ready.

Thanks for asking about it, though!! It's really lovely to know people are still invested in the story!! <3