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Purimgifts reveal
Mar. 12th, 2012 08:24 amWhat an excellent Purimgifts. I'll have a recs post for you soon, but for now, here's what I got and what I wrote. It all ended up being Who fic!
fetchmeagiraffe wrote a series called the sound of miles passed beneath your feet for me. It's on Donna, Martha, and their lives after the Doctor, and it is really great, with lots of magnificent bits like 'It took five weeks for Mickey to suggest bringing in a third person to do research and coordinate jobs. (This followed the incident where Martha showed up at an abandoned car park looking for an autopsy while Mickey was at hospital searching for an anonymous informant.)' There are comics and a music playlist treat and it must have taken so much effort. Thank you so much, fetchmeagiraffe.
For lferion, I wrote:
Five Times Nancy Gathered a Spark. Summary: 'The ethical choice doesn’t always feel like the right one. In which Nancy of "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" saves the world in ways the Doctor never can.'
I was trying to get a Jewish presence in my stories, and I thought, well, World War II, the healing nanogenes in TEC/TDD might be said to resemble the Lurianic sparks... let's make Nancy an Ashkenazi woman who is hiding her Jewishness as well as her motherhood. It was interesting to write because, for one, I don't speak Yiddish as Nancy does, but do use little bits of it in my daily life as she does in the story, and I wanted to go on the good side of the line between "Ashkenazi woman struggling with language by way of struggling with racism and integration" and "Yiddish as irritatingly represented in US popular culture". I didn't provide a glossary because I wanted to make people feel as alienated by the language and culture divide as Nancy does herself. It's probably worth looking things up, but I make a lot of the meanings evident from context.
Originally, I was going to have Nancy's mother as a much stronger presence in the story, and something about her parents being taken to a British internment camp, and Nancy escaping into Whitechapel. I was going to tie that with the terrifying sameness and death represented by the gas mask people. But it didn't work timeline-wise, and I can't write World War II stories. And I like this idea of five mitzvot, which don't feel like goodness, which gather sparks and save the world.
A Little Time and Space to Oneself. Summary: 'Sometimes, Donna needs a little time for celebration and survival. In which Ten is very silly, and there is pastry.' It's silly, it's fun, there's spandex and a planet full of Jews. Not much more to say on it.
Gorgeous White Boys. Summary: '‘Gorgeous white boys aren’t going to swoop down from the sky and save you.’ A medical students’ night at the pub goes a bit wrong. A prelude to Martha’s meeting the Doctor.' From the notes: 'The racial politics of Doctor Who can always do with exploring, and that’s something of which the relationship between Martha and Ten is in particular need.' It hinges on Martha's speech to the Doctor as she leaves her travels with him, and making her friend Vicky Mizrahi and Sean white. Here are my original notes:
Anyway, I think it looks at the Martha/Ten/Rose thing pretty well without actually including Ten or Rose.
fetchmeagiraffe wrote a series called the sound of miles passed beneath your feet for me. It's on Donna, Martha, and their lives after the Doctor, and it is really great, with lots of magnificent bits like 'It took five weeks for Mickey to suggest bringing in a third person to do research and coordinate jobs. (This followed the incident where Martha showed up at an abandoned car park looking for an autopsy while Mickey was at hospital searching for an anonymous informant.)' There are comics and a music playlist treat and it must have taken so much effort. Thank you so much, fetchmeagiraffe.
For lferion, I wrote:
Five Times Nancy Gathered a Spark. Summary: 'The ethical choice doesn’t always feel like the right one. In which Nancy of "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" saves the world in ways the Doctor never can.'
I was trying to get a Jewish presence in my stories, and I thought, well, World War II, the healing nanogenes in TEC/TDD might be said to resemble the Lurianic sparks... let's make Nancy an Ashkenazi woman who is hiding her Jewishness as well as her motherhood. It was interesting to write because, for one, I don't speak Yiddish as Nancy does, but do use little bits of it in my daily life as she does in the story, and I wanted to go on the good side of the line between "Ashkenazi woman struggling with language by way of struggling with racism and integration" and "Yiddish as irritatingly represented in US popular culture". I didn't provide a glossary because I wanted to make people feel as alienated by the language and culture divide as Nancy does herself. It's probably worth looking things up, but I make a lot of the meanings evident from context.
Originally, I was going to have Nancy's mother as a much stronger presence in the story, and something about her parents being taken to a British internment camp, and Nancy escaping into Whitechapel. I was going to tie that with the terrifying sameness and death represented by the gas mask people. But it didn't work timeline-wise, and I can't write World War II stories. And I like this idea of five mitzvot, which don't feel like goodness, which gather sparks and save the world.
A Little Time and Space to Oneself. Summary: 'Sometimes, Donna needs a little time for celebration and survival. In which Ten is very silly, and there is pastry.' It's silly, it's fun, there's spandex and a planet full of Jews. Not much more to say on it.
Gorgeous White Boys. Summary: '‘Gorgeous white boys aren’t going to swoop down from the sky and save you.’ A medical students’ night at the pub goes a bit wrong. A prelude to Martha’s meeting the Doctor.' From the notes: 'The racial politics of Doctor Who can always do with exploring, and that’s something of which the relationship between Martha and Ten is in particular need.' It hinges on Martha's speech to the Doctor as she leaves her travels with him, and making her friend Vicky Mizrahi and Sean white. Here are my original notes:
I think something about Martha and being out of water, and gorgeous white boys, and maybe about her engagement breaking off, but then that feeds into Mickey in a bad way so maybe a younger Martha, or what happened leading up until she met the doctor
Anyway, I think it looks at the Martha/Ten/Rose thing pretty well without actually including Ten or Rose.
