joyful sentient yeast and other stories

[aria]

i. The Effect of Dimensional Transcendence on Mozzarella Cheese, or: Diane Duane writes fic about Five and Nyssa making pizza. (Complete with recipe at the end.) My heart. I am not-so-secretly shattered that DD hasn't written roughly a million Fifth Doctor novels. On the other hand, she has written a handful of Star Trek novels ...? And, like, novels about Spock. I may be kind of doomed.

ii. Also, because I am obviously feeling talky tonight: Name any character in any fandom that you think I would be passingly familiar with. In return, I will give you five pieces of my headcanon or a ficlet, my choice. (Or everyone can just reply 'Methos' because I will never, ever run out of headcanon.) Have at it!

Comments

[gehayi]

she did give him a cameo in one of the Young Wizards books!)

She did? WHERE? How? What happened?

[ellen_fremedon]

I don't remember which one it is, but Kit and Nita run into him at the Crossings on Rirhath B and he helps them... get away from something-or-other, I really don't recall. It's just a brief scene, but it's definitely Five.

[wintercreek]

High Wizardry! He helps Dairine escape from the minions the Lone One has after her. *g*

[aria]

It's in the third Young Wizards book, High Wizardry: Dairine, on Ordeal, is being chased across the intergalactic Crossings spaceport by bug-eyed aliens who work for the Lone Power, and, stumbling terrified and exhausted into a bar, happens to run into the Fifth Doctor. Being quite good at running from hostile aliens, he knows what to do: he tells her it'll be all right, directs her to hide in an alien restroom (because that's a bit of a taboo across all species, and they won't look for her there right away) and then, while she's making her getaway, he fakes a drunken scene to slow them down further. It's awesome.

Also, the ErrantryWiki has an entry on him, with photographic evidence, so you know it's definitely Five: Man in the Crossings bar. :D