Maius Intra Qua Extra

Oh, this is gorgeous. This is absolutely perfect ♥ Donna, Donna, Donna. You really captured this wonderfully, these moments with her circle of friends, the warmth there, the teasing and laughter and harder times, working smoothly around canon, the things Donna saw and the things she didn't and the things she couldn't remember. It was sweet and funny and moving and sad and full of such life. I love the ritual feel of it. I love the girls finding men and having babies and seeing their life change, and that fear of having their ritual slip away. The girls with their resolutions at the beginning were so sweet. Most of all, I love your subtle portrayal of Nerys—we're all too quick to label her as "bitchy", but little hints let us see that her connection to Donna is strong, even if her personality is… peculiar ;)

Donna's voice and characterization were perfect. I love the way you handled her evolution throughout the show—her hard times, after Lance, then after losing her memory, her stand towards the aliens, from laughing disbelief to acknowledgement and having to keep secrets and then back (:(), the wanting to travel and see the world. The girls teasing Donna about the Doctor were hilarious and cute :) The parts about Sylvia were well handled too, showing how exhausting it is to live with such a person, yet in the end Sylvia's efforts, that weirded Donna out so much, were really moving. ♥ Wilf's parts too. So sad. It was obvious Donna was so disoriented and a bit lost at the end, that was really moving—she'd lost so much of what she'd lived, but she wasn't quite back to square one, either, she still wanted to do something, make something for herself. No more traveling… but still wanting to make her life better, and she had Shaun besides. It was all so bittersweet, that ending, all the things she'd lost that couldn't be regained, and where she stood now was neither bad nor good… just in-between. But she's Donna. She's so very strong ♥

Thank you for sharing this! :D