Maius Intra Qua Extra

Title: "How to Fight a God in Three Easy Lessons"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: The TARDIS, Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1585

Summary: The TARDIS' uninvited passenger is waking, and the Doctor isn't prepared.

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Author's Notes: Two fics this month (so far)! Though the last one really doesn't count and I didn't even post it here.

Basically, my husband and I had a lot of questions about how things went down during the 60th and the last season, and after coming up with answers that satisfied us (i.e. a dual headcanon), I decided that writing a story about them would be more fun and interesting than discussing them in a meta post.

I wrote the story, then my husband reviewed it, offered suggestions, and worked with me to shore it up. While 98% of the words and the overall shape and progress of the story is mine, I definitely want to credit him here because he definitely made important contributions. He's done some proofreading on my stories before, but this time, his contribution was much more substantial.

Also, I got to practice some CSS here, something I haven't done in nearly a decade. I have no idea how I'm going to post this to Teaspoon, as they have only very basic formatting options.

Omg, I'm actually reading! What is this, two books and one comic in about three weeks? Well, that's mostly because they finally released the comic and 60th novelizations in the U.S. I hadn't wanted to buy them early on the Kindle, so I only got them now.

Anyway, on to The Star Beast. I'm not likely to get to Wild Blue Yonder any time soon, since I know, from Mark Morris at Gallifrey One, that he wasn't allowed to deviate from the script or add anything, so it's less of a draw. I'll get there eventually, just not this entirely too-busy week.

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The novelizations of the 60th specials are finally available in the U.S.! Well, okay, they've been on the Kindle for months now, but I wanted hard copies for myself, so I've waited this long. After Gallifrey One and meeting all of the authors (Gary Russell, Mark Morris, and James Goss) and attending their panels and kaffeeklatschen where they talked about how they were written, I've been excited to finally get to read them. Especially The Giggle, because of all of the stories Mr Goss told about writing it. (Sadly, "Wild Blue Yonder" is the least interesting, because Mr Morris said that he was forced to keep strictly to the script, so he couldn't innovate in any way.)

The Giggle arrived in the mail last week and, well, I stayed up real late reading the entire thing.

My review? It was fantastic. I'd say it's the best novelization I've ever read, but that doesn't mean much, as I haven't read many. I will say that I think it captured the tone of the episode perfectly, possibly even better than the episode itself did.

And I'm not even saying this as a James Goss fangirl. I think one of the things that made this work is that he's a master of working with the medium he has. In Dead Air, the story was crafted to work entirely on sound, building the tension on the fact that the listener couldn't see what was going on. This novelization capitalizes on the print medium, on both the prose and the not-prose. You'll just have to read it to see what I mean.

It was so good, I read it twice. That should tell you something, since I so rarely read anything at all. And now I'm going to go re-watch the episode.

Quite a lot of thoughts, but really only firsts. I haven't had all that much time to think about it, and we are planning a rewatch, probably tomorrow.

Very spoilerific.

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Not spoiler but behind cut anyway, because I know people don't like to be spoiled and may get spoiled anyway.

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