best_enemies | Intro Digest 25: "Snakes are cool, goo is cool"

In much the style of my predecessors we have only so far to go with new intro posts, and so we're mixing it up with some older ones. We're talking 2008, ladies and gents, and I would like to say I have the mental capacity right now to make some kind of Single Ladies joke, but frankly we'll take what we can get.

I would tell you to give extra comments to

alt_universe_me for the cybearshark love, but that would be a blatant misuse of my powers. ... Do it anyway.

So! Intro digest! This week!

alt_universe_me

lestrade

insanitysorigin

hitlikehammers

dirty_smudge

alt_universe_me
Hi :)

I'm Amy, and I've been a Who fan since I was a kid, whenever I could stay up late and watch with my dad. Tom Baker was my first Doctor, and will forever be *my* Doctor. Not to say that he's my favorite all the time, but he will forever hold a special place in my heart.

I joined this comm a few months ago when I first joined online fandom, and it has taken me awhile to learn the ropes, so hopefully I haven't bollocksed anything up too badly in the meantime. I kept meaning to do an intro, I swear! I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to online discussion, meta, fanfic, etc, but not so much a newbie when it comes to Classic Who :)

I try not to lurk too much and offer comments, since I think it's only fair if I'm enjoying your work :) I have to say that cybearshark was one of the most hilarious memes, and all of you lovely artists are awesome individuals :)

As for Doctor/Master, it's such a very intense pairing. I definitely think that they have some deep feelings for each other, and that saying about the 'thin line between love and hate' definitely applies to them. I love messed up pairing liek whoa, and these two are the most messed up couple that I know of.

So, anyways, you are all lovely people and this is a wonderful comm. Thanks so much for all the fish...I mean, um, thanks for everything :)

lestrade
Er, hey there? I've been a bad likkle member, lurking on the peripheries, haven't even bothered to introduce myself. A mighty shame. But I'd like to be more active, and even hop into writing some fic myself, so here I am. Better late than never? :)

I'm Ainsley, for starters, or Lestrade. Whatever floats your time-traveling boat. I grew up with Who; my parents loved the show, and so I watched it on PBS alllll the time, and I guess this makes me a rare breed -- I haven't met any other Yanks who've grown up with the Classic series, online or off. I was hella late to the party when it came to New Who: a friend gifted me the first season for my birthday this last April, which proves that I live in a subterranean cave underneath a rock, but that's neither here nor there.

When it comes to Doctor/Master, I'm still sort of stuck in the shallows, so to speak. I've always seen the two of them as frenemies who are obnoxious and/or homicidal towards one another, which makes me a hesitant shipper, I guess? I'm fond of Three/Delgado and Two/War Chief, though, and I pretty much blame this lovely fic for bringing me into the lair of D/M in the first place.

And a secret? I sort of love Goosnake!Master too. Snakes are cool, goo is cool (don't take that out of context, you silly ninnies), I can dig it. I can't be the only one, right? ...Right?

insanitysorigin
*Peeks tentatively out of Lurkerdom*

...Uh, hi?

*Waves*

I'm Mikki, one half of the Origins of Insanity, the co-user of this account is a irredeemable Doctor/Rose shipper so I'm here all on my lonesome. I'm 17, house-trained, I clean, cook and don't bite (much).

I started watching Doctor Who in 2005 when the new stuff came out. My dad is majorly into it and told my sister and me too watch it, possibly in some attempt at parent-child bonding. I watched happily until Nine died, and then refused to watch anymore because Nine is my Doctor and watching Ten seemed like a betrayal.

Cut to early this year, I'd been kind of reading/hearing/seeing stuff about John Barrowman and ended up watching Torchwood because I thought it sounded interesting. I realized he was the guy from Doctor Who and did a rewatch of Nine and was very depressed when there was no more. I remembered seeing a AU for something called the Year That Never Was and decided to watch up to that, but in order because skipping stuff would have been cheating. Oops.
I; Got hooked, adored Ten almost as much as Nine, fell madly in love with the Master, thought he and Ten would look very pretty together, kept watching, and watching, and watching, and mourned when there was no more Doctor Who to watch. Then, I remembered hearing that there was more, very, very old stuff and that there were, in fact, other Doctors and other Masters.
This realization has left me watching all the Old Who, in order, because skipping stuff would be cheating. I'm almost through Three already. Somehow, I don't think I should feel as proud of that as I do.

The reason I'm coming out of Lurkerdom now after all all these months, is that Me and Rae, my co-user/best friend/beta/co-writer/etc have signed up for NaNo this year and the only thing I'm completely 100% sure of is that my fic will be Ten/Simm and/or Metacrisis/Simm and/or Ten/Simm/Metacrisis. Thus, since you guys all seem like a nice bunch, I wanted to post it here. And I thought it seemed a little rude to just burst out of the walls in early November going "Look! Read This! Isn't it Pretty?"

hitlikehammers
Hello there! This is rather overdue, but I suppose that the whole "better late than never" mentality may apply here.

I am hitlikehammers, and I found my way over to this comm looking for some good Master/Doctor fic, which has inspired me recently to embark on writing my own. I'm a Who fan who was hooked through the new series, but has done her best to catch up on the old where she can - therefore, my Doctor/Master enjoyment is both vast and varied. I've always been a sucker for the love/hate relationship in just about any fandom - this just happens to be one of the best ;)

If I had to pick, though, I am rather partial to one of two extremes - Theta/Koschei, or Simm!Master/Ten. Not extremely consistent in terms of themes or atmosphere, but yeah. I like my share of D/S, but I ultimately thrive off of complex characterization - I also enjoy when the Master can be written as a believably romantic sociopath.

dirty_smudge
Um, *flails a bit trying to introduce self*

I never watched any Doctor Who until it started up again in 2005, mostly because I wasn't old enough to catch it the first time. I haven't really got around to searching out old stuff, but if people want to recommend stuff to me I promise to listen. Obviously I'd be interested in episodes with the Master in :p

So... I pretty much saw the obviousness of this pairing as soon as the Master was re-Timelordified in Utopia. I recently drew a silly piece of fanart with hugging and TARDIS love and I want to join this fandom properly (by which I mean "write slashy fanfic"), so I guess I'll be posting stuff here when I get my arse into gear and actually sit down to write stuff.

(This may never happen. I am lazy.)

My personal fanon? Um... when the Master gets drunk he turns all cuddly. The Doctor has sensitive nipples. In every regeneration. And the TARDIS is a total fangirl who a) wants to slash the Doctor with everyone and b) wants to join in.

Psychic connection. Is all I'm saying. *cough*threesome*cough*

*waves randomly*