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[aria]

It is snowing again! My Yuletide has the shape of an actual plot and is coming along nicely! I can't stop listening to nextian's hilarious Ode to Jamie Crawford! The world is a lovely place, so I have decided that it is time for this meme that is going around:

If you were asked to pick one scene, one shot, one detail, one moment of some kind out of all the things I've made and say "This, this, for whatever reason, I remember, this is something that struck home with me, that I wanted to keep," what would it be?

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[songofsongs]

Huh. That's a really interesting meme, actually. I tend to have a goldfish brain and can never remember anything when it comes to fannish things- even when I love something desperately, like head-over-heels, change my life, leave me dreaming about it for days... even then I usually can't remember anything specific about it after a week or two, let alone months or years. The most I get left with is how I felt while reading/watching/listening to it, and even that fades. Not only fandom things either- regular fiction, non-fiction, movies, plays....

It really is a miracle I ever got through college.

But when I think of your writing, the first thing that comes to mind is this scene in one of your Doctor Who fics (one of the season projects, 5th I think?) where the Doctor and the Master are playing that really bizarre game of sorta-chess with bits of string all tied up everywhere and found objects strewn all over the floors. They're playing out this intense, sprawling game of hypothetical universal domination and it stays with me as epitomizing the most entertaining things about the Doctor: his absurd creativity, springing from boredom at being the cleverest swot in school, his vast knowledge and how it lets him come up with the most ridiculous and wonderful details at a moments notice, and of course his fucking giant ego, where everything else in the universe is just a pawn for his amusement. I mean, also, it sounded wicked fun.

[sophia_sol]

Ode to Jamie Crawford! I listened to that a ridiculous number of times when I first came across it, which was actually BEFORE I'd ever read The Demon's Lexicon. And now that I've actually read the book I like it even MORE. It is so great.

The one scene/shot/detail I want to keep out of all the things you've made: Probably I am unduly influenced by having done a podfic of it, but the very end of Fiction, where Methos is lying there on the cusp of sleep, happy, and hopeful that things will actually work out for once. THAT MOMENT.

Also, and I have no idea why, the image that has stuck with me the most from fics of yours that I HAVEN'T podficced is from one of your Doctor Who Season Five. It's the scene with the Doctor and the Master playing chess, bits of string and random objects all over the place. It's just so, idek, so vivid.

HAHA THIS MEME IS SO FUCKING--I DON'T EVEN KNOW

[feverbeats]

Many things, but this one is easy: It will be difficult, and trying, and it will always, Doctor, be difficult and trying. From the s4 project. When things are tough, I automatically describe them to myself as "difficult and trying" in my head.

Also, the scene in the naming of things where Koschei says the first syllable of his name to Theta.

[fahye]

EASY.

Better, better, please just let me be -- (I still have trouble reading that section of the naming of things. I don't know if I wanted to KEEP it, but striking home, oh yes.)

But I also have a very vivid memory of the Doctor playing the psallopiano in S5 <3

[happydork]

"I was wondering if you wanted to come on a picnic with me," Donna says, and takes a deep breath. "Space picnic. Somewhere out there." She looks at Mum. "I'd really love it."

(In fact, all of DWS4 and DWS5, especially the Time Lord Chess and the moments in DWS4 where the Master can't stand the way the Doctor looks at him.)

[polarisnorth]

Maybe because I feel in some odd way it was written for me (even though I know it's mostly that you were on your Peter Wingfield kick), but I love Dissect the Suppositions, and the kiss they have at the end, and this: "I want to be able to say my goodbyes honestly." always makes me flail.

[nextian]

\o/ Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it. My musical stylings are of course deeply genius, as is the way I messed up on like sixteen of the chords.

[tei]

GOOD MEME. I'm going to add to the giant pile of love for absolutely everything in the naming of things? I probably remember the death scenes most, though, because that's just the way my brain works. (Er.) And probably because that was around when I was like, "this thing that is fanfiction, I think it should be in my life for a long time!" But... yeah. You are a rather memorable writer :D

[gehayi]

If you were asked to pick one scene, one shot, one detail, one moment of some kind out of all the things I've made and say "This, this, for whatever reason, I remember, this is something that struck home with me, that I wanted to keep," what would it be?

I can't pick just one. I have to pick three.

Everything in The Naming of Things. That is so canon with me it is ridiculous. But the moments that stand out are these:

1) Koschei deciding that the logical solution to problems in a relationship is suicide and regeneration. Because really, you KNOW that's going to end well.

2) Theta and Koschei joining their minds telepathically.

That one always gets me because it's intimacy on a level that no human can ever know, and it involves masses of trust on both sides (an incredible amount from Koschei just to allow this to happen)...and yet it's not enough. Because he's still concealing the parts of himself that he knows Theta wouldn't react well to, and you can't really blame him for that because everyone wants their partner to think well of them...and yet he's lying to Theta. Very deliberately lying in a fundamental way, and Theta is going to realize sooner or later that there are things he isn't seeing, and he's going to see the distrust and be deeply hurt--as much as he was when Koschei first regenerated, if not more.

And Koschei isn't going to understand WHY.

3) Theta and Koschei meeting as little boys and falling asleep in the same bed after spending half the night talking. It's so cute and it always breaks my heart, because Koschei is just so damaged, and yet it's not immediately apparent. And Theta/Doctor will always wonder if there was ever something he could have done to fix what's wrong. So the scene is both sweet and fundamentally tragic, and I want to hug them both.

[littledust]

t isn't ... what he'd expected. Despite the music, despite the obvious patchwork lie that makes up the final cut, there is something raw and honest about this damn film, something -- something Geoffrey overused and abused, applied with indiscriminate disaster to his own life, something Shakespearean. Geoffrey catches onto it, catches on somewhere during a lonely stretch of highway and thinks, Ah: Pipefitter is your rustic clown, John your honest fool; and Billy is somewhere in a warehouse, rehearsing guitar riffs and grinding his way down to nothing, which makes him impossible to cast, because Geoffrey doesn't know the play. Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, wrong, wrong, Billy's still breathing.

At the end Geoffrey sits through the white noise hum of the credits, wondering how the hell Billy and Joe ended up with scripts for completely different plays.

Because SHAKESPEARE and meta and GEOFFREY. /intelligent reasoning