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"The Bookshop"
Nov. 25th, 2025 12:10 pmTitle: "The Bookshop"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who, Good Omens (TV)
Characters: Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Aziraphale, Muriel
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1219
Summary: Shopping in Soho, the Doctor and Donna find a quaint old bookshop.
Read it on AO3.
Author's Notes: This is the DW/GO doppleganger crossover that no one wanted.
I seem to do that every few fics or so, write things that go in directions that no one wanted them to go. I suppose it's a good thing that I don't care. :D
I've wanted to write a Ten-meets-Crowley fic ever since GO came out in 2018, but every idea I came up with seemed so cliché, the same as everyone else was writing, so I never bothered. But, this week, I thought of this. And I made it Fourteen-meets-Aziraphale only partly because it's amusing to me to write a story which doesn't have either of the characters I originally wanted to write. Mostly, though, it's because Fourteen's timeline actually matches the GO timeline and there's a good reason for him and Donna to be in Soho.
To be honest, my husband is to blame for this idea. He found a list of words online and suggested I use them as prompts for stories, and the first word on the list was "hubris". That and a comment he made a couple of days ago about the Doctor probably being able to see the demons' and angels' wings even when they're hidden (because they are more metaphysical than physical) sparked this.
I'm noticing, in my attempt to write a story a month, that while I'm spending most of the early part of the month working on completing WIPs, I rarely ever actually do so, and that what I end up posting is usually some idea that comes to me on the 20th and doesn't have enough time to develop well. It's actually really disappointing, the quality of my work over the last year. Maybe I need to work on trying to get the cool idea early in the month, to give me time to actually do a good job on the story, and use the end of the month (if I have it) to do WIP work. Or, perhaps, have some tripe ready to post, so that if I get an idea late in the month, I can post the tripe for that month and then work on the idea for the next month.
I just feel, though, that I'm just trying to game the system, which was not the intent of this "a story a month" goal.
Fandom(s): Doctor Who, Good Omens (TV)
Characters: Fourteenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Aziraphale, Muriel
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 1219
Summary: Shopping in Soho, the Doctor and Donna find a quaint old bookshop.
Read it on AO3.
Author's Notes: This is the DW/GO doppleganger crossover that no one wanted.
I seem to do that every few fics or so, write things that go in directions that no one wanted them to go. I suppose it's a good thing that I don't care. :D
I've wanted to write a Ten-meets-Crowley fic ever since GO came out in 2018, but every idea I came up with seemed so cliché, the same as everyone else was writing, so I never bothered. But, this week, I thought of this. And I made it Fourteen-meets-Aziraphale only partly because it's amusing to me to write a story which doesn't have either of the characters I originally wanted to write. Mostly, though, it's because Fourteen's timeline actually matches the GO timeline and there's a good reason for him and Donna to be in Soho.
To be honest, my husband is to blame for this idea. He found a list of words online and suggested I use them as prompts for stories, and the first word on the list was "hubris". That and a comment he made a couple of days ago about the Doctor probably being able to see the demons' and angels' wings even when they're hidden (because they are more metaphysical than physical) sparked this.
I'm noticing, in my attempt to write a story a month, that while I'm spending most of the early part of the month working on completing WIPs, I rarely ever actually do so, and that what I end up posting is usually some idea that comes to me on the 20th and doesn't have enough time to develop well. It's actually really disappointing, the quality of my work over the last year. Maybe I need to work on trying to get the cool idea early in the month, to give me time to actually do a good job on the story, and use the end of the month (if I have it) to do WIP work. Or, perhaps, have some tripe ready to post, so that if I get an idea late in the month, I can post the tripe for that month and then work on the idea for the next month.
I just feel, though, that I'm just trying to game the system, which was not the intent of this "a story a month" goal.
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