Off-switch

This story has already been archived on the Teaspoon, but I'm posting to lj at the bequest of its inspiration; my very good online friend abbyromana  who has made some lovely banner art to go with it.

Title: Blending in
Word Count: 700 (aprox.)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Ten, Jenny
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I think I'm addicted to memes, and I also have serious difficultly in saying no to memes which pop up on my Flist, especially memes of a writerly persuasion, such as this little number I picked up from jjpor :

Give me two characters from different fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a dialogue happening between the two of them. Without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed or how they could even meet each other. Just a silly crossover conversation with no backstory, for fun.

Fandoms I'm familiar with, well, by familiar I mean 'seen enough to be somewhat comfortable writing in':

*Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, New, Classic, Audio, the SJAs etc. (I could probably write Torchwood at a stretch, but, erm, probably not your best bet if you're looking for stellar characterization)
*Firefly
*Buffy (though only up to s.5)
*Lord of the Rings
*Dead Like Me
*Redwall (don't judge me)
*Narnia
*Dr. Horrible
*Repo! The Genetic Opera
*The Lion King (I'm not sure if I'm familar with the fandom, but I do like the movie, though why this cross-over would come up...?)
*Magic School Bus (Ditto with the Lion King)

I could probably do CSI: NY at a stretch. Actually, I could probably do Animorphs as well if you REALLY wanted to stretch it, but I haven't read those in ages.

but still, HAPPY BIRTHDAY (of the belated kind) to thisbluespirit 

So, I've finally contributed money to that great and noble company which we call Big Finish. I got two audios: Night Thoughts (which I didn't like much over-all, but had some great character moments) and Arrangements for War (which I liked quite a bit, except for the ending which made me scratch my head a bit; I couldn't figure out why the Doctor was willing to allow all of the collateral damage that the love story brought about; and why he seemed relatively unconcerned by said collateral, but meh. Was a good story and good character moments). I highly recommend.

Anyway, I'm back at work on my Seven-Ace-Hex jungle thriller thing, though I should really, really, REALLY be working on my WIPs (I did plug in a new 2000 words for Forever Tomorrow though, I'm just trying to get the conclusion sorted... I knew where I was going with that story, and then it all just sort of got away from me).

What I want to know is, do any of you think there'd be an audience for a story which contains: a spot-light stealing OC who swears a lot, a Big Finish character (Hex), an-absent-for-most-of-the-fic Doctor (Seven), a-half-dead-for-quite-a-bit companion (Ace),  and a combination of near-future politics (and by near I mean, fifty years hence, and in the DW universe), random historical stuff, archaeology, and aliens? And timey-wimey, lots of timey-wimey... It's also looking to be quite long, if I ever get it done that is. I've got around 6000 words and I'm just finishing up the second chapter. So, probably a doosey.

Also, is anyone familiar enough with Seven, Ace, and Hex to be willing to beta for them? I'm thinking this will be a relatively early on adventure to make up for the fact that I haven't heard most of their audios, but I'm afraid I'm getting the dialogue wrong and maybe contradicting established characterisation?

Mostly I'm just concerned people aren't going to stand for reading half a chapter of my OC stamping around swearing. 
 

I don't remember where I picked this up, but I found it, completed, in my back folders when rummaging through my documents. The rules are: take a band which you like, each answer must be a song by that band. I choose Great Big Sea, because they are awesome and I love them.

 

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Pinched from jjpor 

Open up your "Manage Stories" page on Teaspoon and unfold all the chapters. For the purposes of this meme, disregard first chapters of multichapter fics. [Teaspoon counts any hits on the TOC as a hit on the first chapter.]

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Once again it becomes obvious that the amount of time I spend on the interwebs being pointless is tied in direct correlation to the amount of actual work which I must get done. Really, I must kick this procrastination problem before it gets me into serious donkey shit (if it hasn't already) but... *sighs*

Anyway, I suppose I ought to really go work on my presentation -
and how does it make sense that I'm procrastinating when I am really interested in my topic and enjoy researching it? Khipu! Khipu! The knot language of the Andes, was it an actual writing system or merely a means of recording numeric data?

Now, before I run off...

 

( According to my procrastination quizzes I am... )
 

I keep mentioning them, so I figured I'd give a nice reference picture. From left to right they are: Shelfish, Obo (who looks a mite possessed for some reason), and Pebbles. This is a rare photo containing all three. Usually Shelfish tries to kill Pebbles while Obo rolls his eyes (in a metaphorical cat way) and walks away. In fact, that is what happened almost immediately after this picture was taken.

Go figure.


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As I continue not to sleep, I wanted to take this time to ask a question that has been bugging me for some time: does Matt Smith not bear an uncanny resemblance to a young Martin Clunes? Because one of my first thoughts on seeing him... after the requisit "The HAIR! the HAIR" and the "face!palm, well... THIS should appeal to Twilight fans; a vampire in the TARDIS" was "My, doesn't he look like that really effeminant dude from Snake Dance?"

I've got a nice little picture hidden below the cut (for those friends of mine who are bravely avoiding spoilers, somehow) that, thanks to the marvels of paint, shows Clunes and Smith together. On a final note, I heard somewhere that Clunes was actually short-listed to BE 11 at some point, but something fell through last minute. I don't know the truth of that story, but... O.o

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