Eleventy_Fest

[clocketpatch]

All has been revealed, the fest is now, for most intents and purposes, finished, and I'm left wondering where I'm going to get my daily dose of Eleventy now that it's all over...

Because that was A LOT of fun. The format, with dispensing of only a few fics a day and the anonymous creators, made for such an atmosphere of suspense and mystery, and the end result was so many lovely things.

I was the proud recipient of:

20 Eleven icons by coffeesuperhero.

And gah, aren't they pretty? Lookit his face! And the colours! Coffeesuperhero does such a wonderful job with the green and brown palette, making them Bright and Cheerful colours. I don't know if she/he knew those were my favourites, but I'm so happy and impressed. I've stopped requesting those colours because the results are usually a bit... mixed... but these are brilliant! And, so long as Coffeesuperhero is okay with it, anyone who wants can grab and use. I know that's always a bit of an odd point with icons made for another person. Hmmm... I should probably put that on the post itself to. Such pretties should not be squandered and I've got only so many icon spots to show them off in!

The Humpday Party Mix by eve11.

Summary: Shuffle. Record. Rewind. Play.
Word count: 3997
Characters: Eleven, Clara, Surprise Guest

OMG, THIS! THIS! eve11 snuck this in right under the line at the point where I wasn't expecting anything else to be posted to the fest - let alone something else for me. It perfectly fulfilled my longing for some plot-based gen fic about Eleven and Clara just... having an adventure together without angst, or plot arcs, or mad timey-wimey circumstances to detract from the adorableness of their sass and bicker. There's a bit of timey-wimey (because with those two, it's inevitable), but it's more of a bonus epilogue to the actual plot (and it's so well done and moving). Plus, there are judgmental plants, amazing world building, and that Surprise Gust who had me making most undignified sounds of squee when he showed up.

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Myself, I had a more than a little bit too much fun creating things. My two assignments (I signed up to pinch hit) were:

Doubt is a pain too lonely, for nancybrown who requested a fic where Rita survived after The God Complex.
Word count: 1893
Characters: Eleven. Rita
Warnings: Brief discussion of suicide, brief mentions of what happened to Donna, lots of stuff about faith and religion
Links: HERE at Eleventy_Fest and HERE on the Teaspoon

and

Story About a Girl, for kaydeefalls who requested Clara encounters any past companion of the Doctor as the Impossible Girl and Clara's mum died on the day the Autons attacked in Rose
Word count: 3752
Characters: Clara, Nina, Nine, Rose
Summary: The most precious moments come between waking up and falling asleep
Warnings: Character death, but that should be obvious from the characters and the prompts
Links: HERE at Ao3 and HERE on the Teaspoon

We were also allowed to make anonymous gifts as we felt for for any prompts that we found inspiring.

I did a cake!fic for nonelvis (which she guessed was me right away... it was pretty obvious, what with the cake and all). Don't Pretend This Wasn't Intentional is 323 words and is posted HERE at Ao3 and HERE on the Teaspoon. (Lost_spook, you can move it into the collection if you'd like).

I also did a bit of fanart for NancyBrown's other prompts. One was on Jenny and Vastra adopting a homicidal potato, the other was on how River's sex life didn't stop after being downloaded into the Library. Both (completely pg) attempts are HERE. I'll get them uploaded to DeviantArt at some later date.

And finally, for hearyoume I learned how to make .gifs out of video clips, a skill which I am certain will come in handy in the future. Hearyoume wanted an animated Friends Only banner based on Vincent and the Doctor's starry night scene. Over HERE.

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There is also a TON of other stuff over at the com. I'd make recs, but I'd end up reccing all of it I think (though, lucky me, my Calufrax posting is coming up so I'll be able to do some on there maybe). I recommend that anyone on my flist who wasn't involved check out the MASTER POST there are so many amazing fics, and vids, and graphics, artworks, podfics... it''s just astonishing. The vids especially. I've had You're No God stuck in my head ALL MONTH because of them.

Big shout out of thanks to the mods. And also to eve11 for beta'ing for me.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

The art is amazing and the cakefic is hilarious and I shall hope one day to look at everything else (by which I mean your fics but also all of this fest's goodies) if I am allowed to have significant amounts of brain again any time soon. :-)

I shall snaffle the cakefic into the collection, of course, if you'll add the AO3 one to the collection there yourself. (You can add fics to as many different collections as appropriate on AO3, but the owner of said collection cannot, unlike Teaspoon, wander round stealing fics and calling them cakefic at will. Sad but true.) (I can't believe I missed that there was cakefic, because I did have at least half on eye on the fest and read some short pieces.)

Anyway, it seems to have been lovely and produced lots of nice things - so glad you had fun!!

Next 50th anniversary stuff, or yuletide, or... who knows? :-D

[clocketpatch]

The fic has been caked in with the rest of the Ao3 collection (the Teaspoon has the oddest, most counter-intuitive way of making collections, I think).

I hope that you get more brain soon! *hugs* In the meantime, the videos might be good? They're all fairly short. I especially liked the You're No God one and the one with all the NuWho Doctors dancing around the TARDIS because they were so cheerful.

[thisbluespirit]

\o/

And I love the idea that you could create random series without permission on Teaspoon. It's just completely back-to-front, as you say.

I do feel a bit better today. Vids are difficult because they don't play as well any more on my computer these days, and I can read a bit better, but I'm practicing with actual books and I can't necessarily do both. It's all very awkward, but I'll get there. Or just one day get an e-reader and download all the long fic. At which point you and JJ will be getting masses of long-overdue reviews from me, that's for sure!! And many others...

:-)

(I'm taking part in fic_corner - I have a gift waiting for me, but can't see it till Sunday! *is impatient* And after that, Yuletide, of course. Were you around last year? I got SEVEN gifts. I'll never get over it.)

[eve11]

You are very welcome for the beta. I still think it is a pitch perfect and beautiful story. And of course both the stories you wrote were marvelous. I especially love in the second one how you tackle how Clara lives her lives but then wakes up to save the Doctor. And I loved the interaction between her and Nine when she saves him from the fire. The grace note of her mum's fate was well done.

Also I loved the cake fic. The mouthing of words killed me!

And you made a gif and art too, which were lovely! :)

And thanks for your wonderful comments on my story too, here and at AO3. They made my day :)

[clocketpatch]

You don't know how many edits that Rita fic went through. I don't think I've ever edited a fic that hard. Whole hundreds and hundreds of words just got the delete treatment and what was left was copy-pasted round and round the page so many times. By the time I sent it to you I was convinced that it was awful and offensive and I should just delete the whole thing and try a different prompt so thank you for convincing me otherwise because now reading it I'm more, "Okay. This is okay"

If that makes sense.

Anyway, I'm still a bit astounded at how many fic you wrote! There were a bunch on the archive that I suspected to be you, but I was thinking, "No, they can't all be" and then... they were. :D

[eve11]

I am very glad you chose to share it instead of deleting it! I knew your recipient would love it.

I didn't suspect you for the Clara and Nina and Nine fic, though I thought you might have done the "Ghost Girl" fic treat for astrogirl2 but then that turned out to be nancybrown.

(Incidentally, did the timey-wimey bit of my fic make sense to you? I got a comment on Teaspoon where the person was like... I know something timey-wimey happened but I don't know what and I explained it in response but now am second guessing how much of that was clear from the story)

[clocketpatch]

It made perfect sense to me: Eleven picked up the mix-tape from the trash, but there was a per-destination paradox because Clara told him that she had it in her room already, so Eleven got Frobisher!Six to return it into 14 year old Clara's bag...

And he told her it would be in her bag, because it would be (when she was fourteen), and because Eleven had no clue where it would be in her room, obviously.

I did have a bit of a moment of confusion when Clara was staring at her tape deck, but then all of the threads snapped together suddenly and I went oooohh! And felt very clever.

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I loved Ghost Girl. It was so fun-tragic-adorable-sad

[eve11]

oh good, yes, thanks! I tried to make it as clear as possible that he picked up the tape when he was investigating Clara's history, before they even went to Akhaten, so that's why he had it to begin with. Also he told her it was in her bag because otherwise he'd have gotten more grief from her for being in her room (even though he wasn't...)

Yay, I'm glad that came through, that he realized yeah, he had to give it back to her but earlier in her timeline. Otherwise she wouldn't have had it at all.

(ha, now i feel the need to warn for spoilers in this thread. :D)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Yay, Eleventyfest! I loved your Rita story when I read it. :)

Making gifs sounds so cool. :D

[clocketpatch]

Er... well... I actually used a website for the .gif making and then edited the result in GIMP. That counts though right?

Eleventy_fest was far too much fun. I'm a bit sad now that it's over. I wanted it to never end!

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

That totally counts. :)