Throwing exceptions

[scarfman]

Today I did something I haven't done in awhile. I added new stories to the fanfiction index file of my original website.

Now there's a reason I stopped adding stories to that website in 2006: it ran out of available diskspace. I essentially retired the crossover multiverse then, having taken the occasion of Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary in 2003 to produce the long-planned story for answering all the questions in my universe I'd purposefully left unanswered till then, and having started Arthur, King of Time and Space in 2004. I started loading the occasional fanfiction triangle comic strips, or just sketches, I still turned out to The Hero of Three Faces at its initial Webcomics Nation home, which I sought out because I wanted to keep fanfiction and AKOTAS viewer stats separate. But that can't have been very important to me because I forgot all about it when I decided I'd rather host The Hero of Three Faces myself instead of at a free space, and gave it a subdirectory at AKOTAS. The Doctor Who fanfiction I wrote from 2007 was a different paradigm than what I wrote 1997-2004, being not crossovers and almost entirely speculation/wish fullfillment about the upcoming season, and got archived here at LJ.

Except.

There was one story posted to LJ that was actually wholly set in the old continuity, neatly tying the Star Trek: Enterprise temporal cold war into the Doctor Who Time War. It was conceived as the first of a series that never manifested, but it was definitely Old School Gadzikowski Webfanfiction, one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other. I even eventually posted it to Usenet, where all the other prose in that continuity premiered, out of a sense of fairness. But other than that, since 2003 crossovers were confined to Three Faces.

Except.

When I did come up with a crossover continuity story idea in 2005 (just before the site retirement), instead of writing it prose I made it a comic strip of a dozen panels or so with dialog that was calculatedly cliche in aid of brevity.

Which was brought to mind recently when I remembered that, when next the Doctor was recast, I was going to answer the only question that the 40th anniversary story opened instead of closed; and, when I announced that, I'd said I was going to do it in the same format as that 2005 crossover.

Except.

Then I blogged the other day about that digital comics thing and recalled that I've done the sort of thing myself once or twice, and the insidious idea came to me that I could do the answer story in that style. I had a hard time sleeping last night until I decided to try it, even though that essentially means storyboarding the Rebel Alliance assault on Coruscant between now and the end of May while both in school half time and either jobhunting or starting a new job (hopefully more of the latter than the former). Worst case scenario is, I have a script already for the dozen-panels-of-satirical-brevity version that I can fall back on at need. But the question occurred to me, shouldn't that work - and the other two stories in the trilogy - go on the first fanfiction site?

I decided that I can host the images on AKOTAS's server and link to them from index files on the first fanfiction site's server. So, having decided that, I figured that since the Temporal Time Cold War War story was text, and the satirical brevity crossover was already on the first fanfiction site server, there was probably room there for them both to be added to the story index, and if not I could move some of the image files that were there to AKOTAS's server to make room.

So, ladies, and gentlemen, I give you The Generals and The Cook and the Criminal. And I give notice that Episode VII: The Battle for Coruscant will appear on that website in some form or other at the end of May.