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Feb. 18th, 2015 08:10 amThe last time I chose between cheese and peanut butter to give up for Lent, I chose cheese, so it's peanut butter's turn. But at the moment I've been avoiding peanut butter already because I think it's a sensitivity that's one cause of nighttime post-nasal drip coughing/insomnia. Giving up peanut butter wouldn't be the trial it used to be, but giving up cheese when I'm already avoiding peanut butter would be outright torture and would leave me nothing to eat for lunch.
So for this Lent I'm giving up putting the Doctor in triangle fanfiction. On the one hand, the Doctor's my favorite, and the cartoons' usual authorial voice; and the TARDIS is the literal and literary device which has facilitated the crossovers in my fanfiction since I discovered the show. Also, did I mention, favorite. On the other hand, the cartoons have established Guinan and Buffy's gang as crossover ennablers also, and other characters like Starfleet officers and superheroes could contrive means to do so at need as well. So I'd be denying myself Doctor Who-specific jokes but not the primary premise of the cartoons, the crossovers.
That's a reasonable trial, and it might drive me to develop Guinan's and the scoobies' places in the cartoons in a way that doesn't happen normally when I have the Doctor to reflexively fall back on.
Similarly, if I should come up with a joke about, say, Daleks that I really can't bear not to run right away, instead of the Doctor I could for a change plumb the casts of one of the Doctor Who spinoffs, Sarah Jane Adventures or Torchwood. Or the spinoffs that started development and only got a pilot or not even that, K-9 And Company or Rose Tyler: Defender Of The Earth or Terry Nation's American Daleks. Or even the spinoffs that won't ever happen, The Paternoster Gang or 13 Bannerman Road or Torchwood Two or Love & Guns In The 51st Century or Yes Lord President or ... Maybe that's defeating the purpose. Though seriously I think SJA and Torchwood are fair game.
So for this Lent I'm giving up putting the Doctor in triangle fanfiction. On the one hand, the Doctor's my favorite, and the cartoons' usual authorial voice; and the TARDIS is the literal and literary device which has facilitated the crossovers in my fanfiction since I discovered the show. Also, did I mention, favorite. On the other hand, the cartoons have established Guinan and Buffy's gang as crossover ennablers also, and other characters like Starfleet officers and superheroes could contrive means to do so at need as well. So I'd be denying myself Doctor Who-specific jokes but not the primary premise of the cartoons, the crossovers.
That's a reasonable trial, and it might drive me to develop Guinan's and the scoobies' places in the cartoons in a way that doesn't happen normally when I have the Doctor to reflexively fall back on.
Similarly, if I should come up with a joke about, say, Daleks that I really can't bear not to run right away, instead of the Doctor I could for a change plumb the casts of one of the Doctor Who spinoffs, Sarah Jane Adventures or Torchwood. Or the spinoffs that started development and only got a pilot or not even that, K-9 And Company or Rose Tyler: Defender Of The Earth or Terry Nation's American Daleks. Or even the spinoffs that won't ever happen, The Paternoster Gang or 13 Bannerman Road or Torchwood Two or Love & Guns In The 51st Century or Yes Lord President or ... Maybe that's defeating the purpose. Though seriously I think SJA and Torchwood are fair game.
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