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Rec: Basic Physics by Louiseifer
Title: Basic Physics
Pairing: Ten/Simm!Master
Length: 2294 words
Warnings: semi-explicit sex
Author on Teaspoon: Louiseifer
Why this must be read: This is one of my very favourite Doctor/Master stories. Sometime during the year on the Valiant, the Master explains the universe to the Doctor. He lays out everything, the basic physics of the universe to which nihilism is the only rational response. The Doctor listens. This is the story I wanted to write after I saw s3, but then I found that it already existed, and it was already perfect.
Excerpt: He isn’t mad. He is very, very sane. So sane that it hurts.
The Doctor, now, he’s mad, and it takes a special kind of mind to be as far-gone insane as him. Him with his ridiculous morality, his sense of ethics, his desire for universal justice. His belief in hope and kindness and — ha! — good. No, not good; Good. The Doctor’s strength of faith is enough to earn it the capital letter. But where are hope and kindness? What does Good look like, feel like, taste like? What’s the atomic mass of a particle of justice?
Insanity is believing in things that are not real.
No, it isn’t the Master who is insane, if you get the definition right.
Basic Physics
Pairing: Ten/Simm!Master
Length: 2294 words
Warnings: semi-explicit sex
Author on Teaspoon: Louiseifer
Why this must be read: This is one of my very favourite Doctor/Master stories. Sometime during the year on the Valiant, the Master explains the universe to the Doctor. He lays out everything, the basic physics of the universe to which nihilism is the only rational response. The Doctor listens. This is the story I wanted to write after I saw s3, but then I found that it already existed, and it was already perfect.
Excerpt: He isn’t mad. He is very, very sane. So sane that it hurts.
The Doctor, now, he’s mad, and it takes a special kind of mind to be as far-gone insane as him. Him with his ridiculous morality, his sense of ethics, his desire for universal justice. His belief in hope and kindness and — ha! — good. No, not good; Good. The Doctor’s strength of faith is enough to earn it the capital letter. But where are hope and kindness? What does Good look like, feel like, taste like? What’s the atomic mass of a particle of justice?
Insanity is believing in things that are not real.
No, it isn’t the Master who is insane, if you get the definition right.
Basic Physics