"Circular Logic"

[shivver]

Title: "Circular Logic"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1538

Summary: The Doctor is talking about circles. Donna thinks he's talking nonsense.

Read it on AO3.

Author's Notes:

I'm coming in just under the wire for my "post a story a month" thing, at least in Pacific Daylight Time. I wanted to call this "Circular Time", but I didn't want to sully the title of the excellent BF audio of that name.

I'd actually written a completely different story for this month, a Blue Rain thing, and I got the first draft done a week ago, but on the first editing read-through, I realized that it was a piece of complete gosa. It was 1.6k words, and the first half was unnecessary and the last quarter was dense. I could salvage it by rewriting the second half, but honestly, the main idea wasn't all that great in the first place.

But luckily, we happened to watch "The Runaway Bride" for the first time in probably five or six years. (My husband just started to pull random blu-rays from the DW shelf and pop in an episode from whatever he grabs; we're currently on "Terror of the Autons".) And that got me thinking about how David Tennant and Catherine Tate couldn't possibly have dreamed that they'd be playing the same characters (more or less for Tennant) seventeen years later. That's where this story came from.

It's not particularly well-written or well-edited, as I only had a few days to work on it AND my days have been filled with Guild Wars 2's new expansion, but here it is.

Just as a note about timing: this story is set on Christmas Eve 2024, and so the Doctor's statement about having met Donna seventeen years earlier is accurate, as they met on Christmas Eve 2007. (Series 1 after "Aliens of London" was in 2006 and Series 2 was in 2007, so "The Runaway Bride" must have been Christmas Eve 2007.)

Comments

[romanajo123]

I’ve only. glanced at the actual story as of typing this, but I still am in total amazement at your ability to post something every month. ( I’m in EST and it’s a little after 5 pm here)

>>> Blu-rays from the DW shelf

How many do you guys have? I have a couple of random classic DW DVDs ( and sadly, no longer a player) and a handful of physical BF CDs. “ Terror of the Autons “ is pretty good

[shivver]

Thanks! It's honestly not hard. It's just a matter of setting an achievable goal for yourself and then holding yourself to it. Considering that I didn't say that the stories had to be long or good, to me, a story a month is actually is pretty slow, and certainly very achievable.

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We have DVDs or blu-rays of all of the available episodes from classic and blu-rays of the entire modern show except series 8-10 (which we do not care to see again) and Fifteen's second season (because it hasn't come out on blu-ray in the U.S. yet).

I assembled the classic collection of single-story DVDs over about seven years, but now they're putting out blu-ray collections of whole seasons in the UK, so we are slowly replacing the DVDs with those -- takes a lot less shelf space. We have a region-free blu-ray player, so we can play UK discs.

I think we own modern series 10 on Amazon Prime, because we were forced to buy it. (We don't have any streaming services, and were able to watch series 8 and 9 on the TV at work. However, we moved to a new company and lost that ability, so we had to buy series 10 somewhere.) I know that we also do own "The Return of Dr Mysterio" on Amazon Prime, which is good as that's pretty much the only episode in that era that we care to re-watch.