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[sheliesshattered]

Well then, my dear... WIP QUOTE! Pretty please? :3

Thank you for sending this ask, darling! And sorry to take so long to reply, I had such a hard time picking a quote, I have so many WIPs, lol. 

I’m working my way through a final editing pass on chapter 2 of First Christmas so I can post it later today, and it’s tempting to post something from that or from chapter 3. But since those are going to be posted so soon anyway, I thought I’d go with something from the two stories that I skipped over so that I could post First Christmas in time for the holidays. Eventually, For As Long As We Get will also have parts that correspond to both In The Forest Of The Night and Dark Water/Death In Heaven, and hopefully I’ll get those both finished and posted sometime early next year.

This is a bit from the AU story that goes with In The Forest Of The Night, currently titled Strangely Compelling, but that may change by the time I post it. Like the rest of For As Long As We Get, the events of the episode happen more or less the same, but the emotional context has shifted completely. I’d love to hear what you think!

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“I didn’t realise you two were...” Danny trailed off, waving one hand vaguely.

“Married,” the Doctor supplied, in the same moment Danny said, “...still ‘travelling’ together.”

For a fraction of a second, Clara managed to hold out hope that maybe Danny hadn’t heard the Doctor’s interjection, but then his eyes went wide and his mouth hitched up in a disbelieving smile.

“Married?” he demanded.

“Thanks for that,” she muttered dryly to the Doctor.

“How was I to know you hadn’t told him?” he shot back.

“You married him?” Danny continued, ignoring their exchange. “Less than a month after we broke up?”

The Doctor opened his mouth to respond, but Clara wrapped her hand around his wrist and thought LEAVE. IT. at him as loudly as she could.

“Time travel makes the whole ‘less than a month’ thing kind of irrelevant,” she said instead, cleanly sidestepping the truth that, in fact, she had married the Doctor within about a week of breaking up with Danny. “Much like this entire conversation!” she went on. “Our focus needs to be on figuring out what’s going on with the trees, and keeping the children safe. My private life is no one’s business. Now, both of you: back to work.”

Danny nodded, still smiling that bitter, mocking smile. “I had it wrong, didn’t I? Which one of you is the officer, I mean.”

She felt the Doctor’s hand twitch beneath her grip, felt his emotions spiralling out from his skin, muddling with her own. They didn’t have time for this. “Trees,” she said sternly, looking to him. “Children,” she said to Danny in the same tone. “Go!”

“Yes, sir!” Danny said with a crisp salute, then turned on his heel and headed back towards the cluster of students.

The Doctor was looking at her from under his brows, and his anger would have been easy to read even if she hadn’t been able to feel it through their telepathic bond.

It doesn’t matter, she thought at him silently. Solve the problem and save the day, my impossible man.

His expression relaxed marginally and he nodded, turning his hand over to give her fingers a quick squeeze before going back into the TARDIS.

[sirtadcooper]

A-Z Tag

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better.

I was tagged by @capaldys, @clara-is-brave, @tounknowndestinations, @lowercasev and @magnumrevolver. Thank you, I love you all! :)

A - Age: 23.

B - Birthplace: Belfast.

C - Current time: 7:18PM.

D - Drink you last had: Water.

E - Easiest person to talk to: My friends are very easy to talk to, both in real and life and Tumblr! I love ya!

F - Favourite song: I’m really digging Burn The House Down by AJR, as suggested by @toadbrotzmn. A really great song!

G - Grossest memory: It is lambing related and really very horrible and I don’t like to think about it. If you really want me to tell you I will, but in a private message.

H - Horror yes or horror no: No way!

I - In love?: With my animas and making icons, hehe!

J - Jealous of people?: Not really? Very occasionally.

L - Love at first sight or should i walk by again?: Walk by again.

M - Middle name: Elizabeth.

N - Number of siblings: None, just little old me!

O - One wish: That the sick lamb in my kitchen is still living come the morning. Please! Please, please, please...

P - Person you called last: My Dad.

Q - Question you are always asked: At this time of year it’s usually, “I suppose you have the lambing finished now” or something similar.

R - Reason to smile: My visiting family is gone. Peace and quiet restored!

S - Song you sang last: Hey Jude by the Beatles.

T - Time you woke up: About 7ish.

U - Underwear colour: White.

V - Vacation destination: Suffolk. Both my favourite breed of horse and one of my favourite breeds of sheep are from there.

W - Worst habit: Eating too much.

X - X-rays: Only at the dentist once a year.

Y - Your favourite food: Ice cream is beautiful.

Z - Zodiac sign: Pisces.

I’m tagging ten of my newest friends: @seculrhaze, @leopoldjamesfitz, @taikka, @erebusgaster, @jonbernthaln, @fearthespork, @julielilac, @smarvills, @inyouriridescenteyes and @toadbrotzmn if you want to! :)

[loversandantiheroes]

tounknowndestinations replied to your photoset “¦and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories.” ―...”

omg! this is gorgeous. All the feels! i wasn't prepared...

Thank you <3  I’ve been really itching to make something in line with the repeated themes of  war and ptsd between 8/9 and 11/12, and I found that quote again when I went spelunking for that last edit I did and really couldn’t resist.

[pepaldi]

If you shipped Whouffle did you go on to ship Whouffaldi or did your ship die with 11′s regeneration?

Thank you so much for answering this. Was interesting to read your thoughts and thought you might wanna read your fellow fans replies also. 

(If not let me know and I’ll remove it.)

alianthasintobrits:

tbh my ship startet with 11’s regeneration… Don’t get me wrong, I loved Clara with 11, but it was so easy and they talked a lot. What really got me was Clara’s struggle to accept the Doctor’s new face, how she was finally able to *see* him and all the unspoken love. Two different relationships im my opinion, I prefered the latter:)

chrysthebadwolf:

Whouffle was a very cute relationship. Clara came to Eleven the moment he needed her the most and gave him new energy and will for adventure. That said. It does not compare to Whouffaldi. The moment Twelve said ''please, just see me'' i was destroyed for life, haven't been the same since.

dreameater1988:

I lowkey shipped Whouffle. But it was more like a “aww, they’re cute together” or “that is so not a platonic relationship”. When I saw the first filming pictures from Depp Breath, however, I went full Titanic and knew I’d sell my soul to see a kiss happen.

infiniteregress17:

It didn’t even occur to me to ship Clara & 11, for some reason.But at Christmas 2015 Whouffaldi stole my heart, and I’ve never been the same since. 

randomthunk :

I went from lowkey to overdrive shipping, but I’m curious about other people too.

kcarrollworld:  

I’m with @randomthunk

anotheruserwithnoname:

I shipped Whouffle but I don’t recall that I did so intensely; in fact I thought the better match was Eleven and Clara OSWIN Oswald from The Snowmen. However I was fully invested in it, especially from The Crimson Horror (“boop!”) onwards.

When Deep Breath came along I was worried they’d scale it back because of ageism attitudes that were being expressed in fandom and in the media after Capaldi was cast. And then there was PCap’s own alleged “there’ll be no romance” comment (I say “alleged” because I’ve heard tell that was overplayed and I only recently discovered that he was calling Twelve-Clara a romance in interviews as early as the 2014 World Tour). So I had somewhat saddened … until I realized that Doctor Rule No. 1 was in full effect in the final scene with the “I’m not your boyfriend” bit - which at the same time, though, confirmed in canon that Eleven did have those feelings for Clara.

Needless to say, I did NOT like the introduction of Danny Pink and if it wasn’t for the fact I thought Into the Dalek was a cool concept and Listen became, for a time, the best Doctor Who episode of all time in my estimation, I might have turned a bit against S9. But then came Mummy on the Orient Express and the penny dropped and I was away at the races again. But I didn’t become truly intensely Whouffaldi until I got hit with a one-two-three punch at the end of 2014-early 2015: Jenna confirming that Clara’s “I love you” in Mummy was meant for the Doctor; her Doctor Who Magazine cover story (”Clara’s heart belongs to the Doctor”) and Last Christmas. After that, it was full speed ahead. And it reached its zenith with the Raven Trilogy.

shutupityby:

I liked Whouffle, but i will die for Whouffaldi!

twelviesfluffyhair:

I thought Eleven and Clara made a cute couple but Matt just didn’t interest me. Twelve did. It took a while to realize that Whouffaldi was a legitimate concept; I think it was Dark Water that finally sold me.

annapropaganda:

I ship both of them so hard, man. It breaks my soul.

aeolianminor7th:

I second what @randomthunk said. I never really full on shipped 11 and Clara, just kinda sorta? then regeneration and a few episodes in and whoops!!

kendrixtermina:

Different Case, same Software - like, to begin with my view is that the Doctor’s basically essentially the same person throughout his many forms. Also, consistency - I mean when a new Companion is first introduced I don’t particularly care whether or not they’ll get love interestey I just want a good story, but it would just have been inconsistent if 10 & Rose continued right where they left off but the rules were somehow different now, especially with the whole situation in ‘Deep Breath’.

from-mars-to-venus:

didn't start shipping it until series nine and HOOO BOY

tounknowndestinations:

I shipped 11 and Clara really hard. I thought it’d end with his regeneration and then the restaurant scene in Deep Breath made me realise that he was the same man and that only their relationship has slightly changed, being a little bit bumpier for now on… i see this scene like the end of their honeymoon, if i can say it like that! I now ship 12 and Clara even harder.If it helps… Even today my bunch of tags intitled OTP still is: #souffez (i think we are only a few now to use this one) #time...

christyvourcos:

I shipped Whouffle and shipped it even more with Whouffaldi.

leondrmccoys:

I always shipped Whouffle and Whouffaldi, but Whouffle is my ultimate otp (even that whouffaldi is one of my otp's too), I always loved eleven and clara together and I miss them so much.

[bliphany]

Tagged by @tounknowndestinations​ thanks for having me dear.

Tag nine people you want to get to know better:

Relationship status: Single.

Favourite colour: I love teal, too!

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick.

Last songs I listened to: Since it's plural I'm gonna leave my latest personal playlist here lol:

Howl by Florence And The Machine.

I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys.

Because the Night by Patti Smith.

I Love You by Woodkid.

Dance for Me Wallis from W./E. Soundtrack.

Amongster by Polica.

Angel by Massive Attack.

Crown of Love by Arcade Fire.

Graffiti on the Train by Stereophonics.

In the Backseat by Arcade Fire.

Last movie I watched: Rogue One. (Yeah I haven't watched many movies this year so far.)

Top three tv shows: There are so many I love, so I'll list three of them that mean something to me here; in no particular order: Doctor Who, Person of Interest, and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (aka the show that bent every cliche rule of heterosexual romantic/sexual relationship scripts in mass media and it surprised you when you expected the plot to develop in a way but it bent beautifully and that made you happy and reflect on how the society influenced you really I love it so SO much.)

Top three characters: I am so happy that I can have three of them here yay: Clara Oswald from Doctor Who, Harold Finch from Person of Interest, and I’ll say Trish Walker from Jessica Jones because I’m thinking about her these couple of days and still feel wow she is amazing.

Top three ships: Hey please allow me to present you my blog description, you can see it under the whouffaldi holding hands photo lol. Okay, seriously, they're: Whouffaldi (You probably already knew,) Rinch (You probably also already knew,) and Jessikara (Yeah the rarest of rare pairing which is Jessica Arndt and Kara Stanton from Person of Interest. I'm a self-made Jessikara shipper since Feb this year Yay.)

I’d like to tag @nervouscupcakestudent​​, @xlostlenore​, @potcpoi​, @theragnarokd​, @elloette​, @the-emef only if you want to, and tag anyone who is interested in these questions, too :)))

[sheliesshattered]

Hello! I'm very intrigued by Gallifrey, Someday WIP. Is there some lil' details and spoilers you may share about it? Thank you!

Gallifrey, Someday is one of a couple of different in-progress fics where I’m playing around with a more abbreviated style of storytelling -- short scenes with larger time gaps between them that convey a mood and a series of events, but don’t follow the characters day to day or minute to minute like most of my fics do. So far I haven’t actually finished any of the stories I’ve tried writing in that style, but it’s a technique that intrigues me, one I’d like to achieve some level of skill with.

This particular fic is an alternate ending for Death In Heaven, where the final conversation in the coffee shop goes a completely different direction. The whole thing would go AU after that, bypassing Last Christmas and s9 completely. I have a couple of thousand words written for it, but I’m still not entirely sure where I want it to go just yet. 

Here are a couple of the finished scenes as a little taste, starting with the opening sequence:

“Danny’s dead,” Clara says, stopping the Doctor’s babbling mid-sentence, her large eyes fixed on her fingers, fidgeting as restlessly as his insides.

“But the bracelet—”

“He figured it out, but he,” she shakes her head, tries again. “He sent someone else back in his place. A boy whose death he felt responsible for. It doesn’t matter. I don’t want to be here, Doctor,” she says, finally meeting his gaze again. “You don’t want to make the commute, and I don’t want to be here, so let’s just go.”

“Go?”

“To Gallifrey,” she clarifies. “Or anywhere else you like. Just— just away. I don’t want to come back here.”

“You’re serious?”

“Very.”

It takes him a moment to recalibrate for this. He came because she asked him to, utterly certain that this was it, the final goodbye for them. A happy ending for Clara, one he couldn’t — shouldn’t, wouldn’t — weigh down with his own grief. But here she is, eyes wide and sincere, asking to run away with him, and there would only ever be one answer for Clara when she looks at him like that.

“Alright,” he says, throat dry, and watches her break into a wide smile, some of the sadness receding from her eyes, and knows he made the right decision.

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It’s only later — hours later, everything packed from her flat, a few quick visits for hasty goodbyes and false explanations, one last stop for chips because she means what she says about not coming back to Earth, and has been a frequent critic of the rest of the universe’s ability to properly fry potatoes — that he realises that he lied to her about Gallifrey, and then agreed to take her there.

Or anywhere else you like, she said, and he decides to start with that.

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“You know,” he says, once she’s finished fitting the remnants of her Earth life into her room on the TARDIS, “this is a time machine. We don’t have to go directly to Gallifrey, we could stop off a few places first, no one would notice.”

“Take the long way ‘round?” she asks, smiling up at him.

“The scenic route,” he agrees, watching her from the corner of his eye.

“Well, go on then,” she says easily. “Show me some planets.”

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And then this scene, from later in the story:

“It’s wonderful to meet you,” Clara says, looking at him expectantly. There’s something wrong with her voice, her accent gone all garbly. 

“What?” he says, his eyebrows finding a confused scowl.

“Did I not say it right?” she asks, voice back to normal and sounding concerned. “It’s wonderful to meet you,” she says again, emphatically, each syllable formed intentionally. 

It’s only then that he realises that she’s speaking Gallifreyan, that he’s grown so used to the TARDIS’s translation circuits over so many hundreds of years of not hearing his native tongue that he completely missed it the first time around. He spots the book in her hand a moment later, a crisp paperback with the sort of ridiculous, overly long title that tells him it was produced specifically by the TARDIS for Clara’s benefit, rather than actually published somewhere in the universe at a real point in spacetime.

Well, that makes one of them that’s convinced she’ll have a reason to speak Gallifreyan, someday.

He repeats it back to her, the words tripping off his tongue like music, and is rewarded with Clara’s beaming smile. She tries again, less garbled, and again, striving to match his cadence. 

“It’s always wonderful to see you,” he tells her, a slight shift in conjugation changing the meaning from one of first encounter to that of meeting a beloved friend after an absence.

She catches the difference, book flying open to decypher what he’s said, and he wonders fleetingly just whose benefit the TARDIS had in mind when she produced what is likely the only English to Gallifreyan phrasebook in existence. 

This fic would need a lot more work before it would be ready to post, but I’ve had a lot fun trying out the slightly more pulled back storytelling style. I would really love to finish this at some point. Thank you for asking about it, my dear! 

Ask me anything about my WIP fics!

[sirtadcooper]

edit request meme → doctor who + favourite villain

requested by @tounknowndestinations​

[sirtadcooper]

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