Weekly Drabble Challenge 3

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FIRST: Please to be noting the shiny new links over to the left. Use them! Love them! Validate the five whole minutes I spent putting those up! Because seriously, I could have re-polishing my nails in that time guys, and they're in a shameful state. Like, West Virginia.* My nails are there.

This week's prompt is:  Patient


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*You thought this was going to be a disclaimer? No, I stand by that. West Virginia is for Haters.

REC: "The Space Between Opposites," by Storyseller

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This is the second of my three recs. The story has been recced at calufrax, but it's still not as widely read as I think it deserves.

Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Simm!Master
Length: 5393
Warnings: None needed
Author on LJ: There's a storyseller on LJ, but I don't know if it's the same person. That LJ has no entries and no information.
Author website: Storyseller has three stories on Teaspoon.
Why this must be read: A post-"Last of the Time Lords" AU in which the Doctor and the Master travel the universe together, this story uses what's become a fairly common trope (the Gallifreyan language as symbol for the Doctor/Master relationship) in a thought-provoking and emotionally complex way. There's serious linguistics in this story, and that delights my inner language geek, but those details are very much in service of a story about two people who've loved and fought over many lifetimes, and who are now the only inheritors of the culture that shaped them. Storyseller shows the profound alienness of the Gallifreyan culture and language while creating recognizable, resonant emotions. The story has some typos and the occasional awkward phrase, but they don't really detract from its impact.

Excerpt: ( click here )

Link: Here on Teaspoon.

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This month's DWM just told me about this wonderful little clip. CBaker and Nicola Bryant are manning the phones in costume on an 80s chat show thing, but then who should call in?

Some chap, says he's called "the Master"...