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Title: The Day(ish) Night(ish) Time(ish) of the Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Fandom: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Rating: All ages
Characters: "Peter Davison" (5ish Doctors version), "Colin Baker" (5ish Doctors version), "Sylvester McCoy" (5ish Doctors version), "Steven Moffat" (5ish Doctors version), other cameos (5ish Doctors versions)
Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction, offered freely.
Summary: Steven Moffat wants to do another multi-Doctor special. Will Peter, Colin, and Sylvester get any voicemail messages this time? Read on, because this fic is not about some flash-in-the-pan 500-million-dollar picture! This is important!
A/N: Written for thinkatory for Yuletide 2014. If you've wandered in without knowing the fandom, please be aware that character names notwithstanding, this fic is not about any of the actual actors or creators of Doctor Who. These are parody characters who appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Which you should go watch right away, because the real Peter Davison (writer and director of that special) is a comedy genius.

Thanks go to Persiflage for the beta.

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I got "Curse of Fatal Death" fic for Yuletide! Twice!!!

One is this great Madness treat that takes a seriously brilliant, cracky premise and follows it through to its glorious cracky completion. (As a side note, I will never be able to use a whisk with a straight face again. Never.) Bake Cake Not War

The other is my main Yuletide gift, and it's as if my author looked at all the various CoFD prompts in my letter and said, "That's what you want? Okay, I'll give you ALL OF THEM." It's just completely ridiculous, and cracktastic, and full of win: title to be explained later

I've been having fun reading through the rest of the archive, too. As for the guessing game of Yuletide, I think that, for the first time ever, I might have identified the author of a Yuletide story before reveals. (Not one of my gifts, though; this is a completely different fic.) And, for the first time ever, I'm wondering if I've been identified by someone as the author of my fic. Wondering about that is almost as much fun as wondering if I'm right about my own guess. Even if it means that I wasn't very stealthy this time around. (I wasn't very stealthy. I am never very stealthy. I have lack of stealth.)

I got not one, but TWO wonderful new Gita fics, and I love them both for lots and lots of reasons! But here on my journal, I can confess that I especially love them both because not only did they give me Gita, but they gave me Sarah. Which is not what I asked for, but what I now realize I secretly also really wanted. In fact, it was so much of a secret that I didn't even realize it myself until I got it, twice. I was mulling over what made me happy about my gift fics, and of course Gita because I love her, and I asked for her, and there's not nearly enough fic with her . . . but then I realized that the presence of Sarah -- well-written Sarah -- warmed another very special area of my heart. I still miss Elisabeth Sladen so much, but Sarah Jane Smith will never be gone as long as we have fic. And now I have TWO more fics with her, and with Gita. What a great Yuletide!

So, apparently hosting a ficathon with a late-November deadline was not the best way to get going on my Yuletide writing. I was way too caught up in it, and way too caught up in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, to make any significant progress on Yuletide writing. I have finally come back to it, though, and I'm slowly making progress. I've been using WrittenKitten, and it's been really helpful, especially since I haven't passed the magic 1,000-word mark yet. Right now I have 5 kittens to go! Well, 5 kittens, plus however many additional kittens it takes me to actually finish the fic. Right now I don't know how many that will be; I'll have to wait and see where I am once I've gotten a few more kittens.

I feel badly because the last time I did Yuletide, my fic was finished early, and it was well over the word limit, and this time it looks like it's going to be down to the wire in terms of both time and words. Although I guess neither of those things ultimately matters in the end. My recipient won't get to read the fic any earlier if it's turned in before the deadline, and I really do think that fic length is unrelated to fic quality. I once recced a fic on Calufrax that had only 52 words. I wonder if I hold the record for reccer of the shortest fic?

Anyway, this Yuletide fic of mine does have to be longer than it currently is, but instead of just writing it, I feel like I have to anxiously watch the word count go up until I've at least reached 1,000. But after that, I will hopefully be able to relax and just write. And, at least there's a website that will count up the words for me, and give me kittens along the way.

Also, it's fic_rush this weekend! Hurrah!

Yuletide scares the hell out of me. Seriously, the whole "what if my recipient requests something I can't write?" issue is terrifying. The first year I signed up for Yuletide, which was several years ago now, I felt extremely lucky because my recipient requested something that I felt I could write. After several years off, I have finally screwed up my courage to do Yuletide again, and I just read my assignment . . .

. . . and I must be extremely lucky again, because my recipient has requested something that I think I can write. :D

In fact, the list of likes and dislikes in my recipient's letter are not at all dissimilar to the likes and dislikes I put in my own letter.

Did I get extremely lucky twice? Or are the odds of matching up with someone who really wants smut (or something else I absolutely can't write) smaller than I fear? The only other possibility I can think of is that the matching program used my Yuletide letter as part of its algorithm, which seems unlikely. ; )

All four of my Yuletide nominations have been approved, including Sarah Jane Adventures!

I'm excited, because I really want to do Yuletide this year. It's been too long!

I've decided not to do Yuletide after all. I'm just not feeling it this year, for several reasons. First, it's looking like I might have a busy work month. I also notice that two of the four fandoms I wanted to offer have no requests -- how sad! -- and one of the fandoms I wanted to request has no other requests, and possibly no offers. (I realize you can't tell that for sure from the summary, but if no one else wants it, what are the odds that someone has offered it?) Finally, my biggest fanfic wish right now is to have something posted on my WIP by the end of the year, and if there's any chance of that happening, I need to keep myself free from other fic-writing commitments. So, no Yuletide. Instead I'll just sit back and enjoy the action from the sidelines, and look forward to reading the archive once it opens.

In other news, my S5 DVD boxset has arrived! I'm starting to make my way through the extras. Any particularly good commentaries I should listen to right away?

I also had the slightly surreal experience of seeing Matt Smith on the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Doctor Who on American mainstream network television! Go Matt! And go Craig for being a huge fan and inviting him on! Now we need to get Matt onto other talk shows before he wraps up the Utah filming and leaves the country. Conan, you seem like the type of person who might be a closet Doctor Who fan, how about it?

The eligible fandom list just came out for Yuletide, and Sarah Jane Adventures made the list!! Actually, I initially thought it hadn't made the list and I was all set to write a "special bonus whimpering" plea for reconsideration (seriously, that's what they call it) when I thought to check under "The Sarah Jane Adventures," and there it was!

*happy dance*

Now I just have to decide if I'm willing to sign up and write a 1,000-word story to a strict deadline in return for the possibility of getting Gita!fic. What to do, what to do . . .

So not only did I write a Yuletide story, but I ended up writing a drabble-ish little thing for Yuletide Madness because the prompt was so cool and I couldn't resist. Since I have some fellow Gilbert and Sullivan fans on my flist, I've decided it's worth sharing here even though it's just a short and silly "Yuletide folly" (I like the sound of that; sounds very G&S-ish).

Title: The Pirates of Iolanthe
Fandoms: The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe (yes, they count as two different fandoms for Yuletide!)
Rating: G
Characters: Pirates, Daughters and Fairies
Summary: What if the pirates from Pirates of Penzance, having resumed their ranks and legislative duties, were in the House of Lords during Iolanthe? (Note -- this was El Staplador's brilliant prompt; I was just inspired by it.)
A/N: Written for El Staplador in the 2009 Yuletide Madness challenge. It's not quite drabble-length, but it rhymes!
Disclaimer: No disclaimer needed because public domain, baby!!!!

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