Rec: he cannot meet his master's eyes. / when it's over, will i dream?

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Title: he cannot meet his master's eyes. / when it's over, will i dream?
Pairing: Fifth Doctor/android!Master / Sixth Doctor/android!Master.
Length: 2421 / 1180
Author's Summary: "The Fifth Doctor suffers a crisis of conscience and builds himself an android Master, for reasons which will be very clear to anyone who has seen 'Planet of Fire', upon the heels of which this story comes. Said Doctor is unable to retain any sort of self-control." / "The Fifth Doctor suffers a crisis of conscience and builds himself an android Master, for reasons which will be very clear to anyone who has seen 'Planet of Fire', upon the heels of which this story comes. Sadly, the Fifth Doctor is not long to live, and his traumatic regeneration has some painful consequences."
Author on LJ: vonquixote
Why this must be read: I don't think anything captures the ambiguities of men who would make or live as the sort of android Shalka!Master is, in the sort of position he's in, quite so compassionately, brutally, and well as this fic. It's such a good character piece, for everyone involved. SUCH good voices.

And it's not just well-written, thematically toothsome and richly cast--it's got enviable narrative cojones. Stuff happens, and characters and relationships change, and it's heady and great. And talk about accomplishing a LOT in a short length!

This also deals with the gritty, annoying 'third of the universe' bit, giving it due consequences and something like psychological realism (which is more than canon bothered to do, and part of why, I think, fic often skirts the whole issue--not only is it too HUGE to deal with, it's also under-written, insufficiently determined in the source material). This fic is tragically unfinished. I'm really drawn to it, and hope it may someday continue. From what's on the page at present you can feel its velocity, its capacity to really go somewhere. But even if this is all there ever is, this is a full and sufficient read--don't avoid it because WIPs make you wibble--this *stands* as it is.
Excerpt:

"“You died. And I... well, I suppose I brought you back to life.”

“It's happened, hasn't it? You've finally snapped. I could have sworn I didn't shoot you in the head, you know.”

“Could you at least try to take my word for it?”

The Master considers him. “I would appear to have no choice. Am I to assume that my lack of mobility is an intentional feature of my miraculous resurrection?”

“No,” says the Doctor. “I just haven't finished the legs.”

The Master looks down, and what the Doctor can see of his face spasms wide.

“What is this?” he snarls, and the words embed themselves in the Doctor's soul with an almost physical force. (It's him like he was.) “What have you done?”"

Link to the story: he cannot meet his master's eyes. / when it's over, will i dream?

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[fic] Architecture and Mortality

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Title: Architecture and Mortality
Characters/Pairings: vaguely Nine/Yana, Rose Tyler
Rating: PG
Setting/Spoilers: AU branching off from the end of “Rose”
Summary: The Doctor takes a wrong turn at the destruction of Earth, and ends up travelling all the way to the end of the universe.

Note: So, once upon a time I got it into my head that I was going to write an epic fanfic novella where Yana becomes Nine's companion. My completion of that novella is looking increasingly unlikely, as a different project has taken up most of my fandom time for the past few months, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to post the short, self-contained beginning for Nine's birthday.

Huge thanks to neveralarch and janeturenne for for their input on this!


It turns out that the end of the universe is absolutely lousy with humans, and that they've all got big, stupid, human ideas about outlasting space-time itself.

B_E official RP sign ups

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Applications for the official Best_Enemies RP are open again until the 1st of March. Plenty of characters still available. Currently reasonably low commitment level needed. Worth trying it out now to see if you like it, basically.

Find out more and/or sign up at this post, at the steering community the_imperiatrix.

Birthday Challenge 10

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One day late is better than never! Yesterday was the birthday of Christopher Eccleston (Nine!). IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS: write/art some birthday!fic in the comments, or link to it! RECS, META AND RANDOM COMMENTS ABOUT THE SUBJECT ALSO WELCOME!

Celebrate the existence of:

NINE!

Eccles Cake Birthday Cake?

Cheer is not mandatory, it is just AWESOME.
 

This spontaneous funtimes challenge ends aprox. when the 18th of February begins, so don't stress about it: just make us a quick prezzie!