Unfeathered Notes

Been feeling very 'meh' lately so haven't got round to posting, but here's some stuff!

1. For my Intoabar assignment, to meet Giles I was given Najia Khan (Doctor Who). My first reaction was 'Who???'. After a few moments, I realised I'd literally just rewatched Arachnids in the UK and that this was Yaz's mum. Wish I'd been paying more attention while I was watching! Will have to go back and watch it again. But an okay character. She's brave and up for an adventure, at least. At the moment, I'm picturing Giles rocking up to the hotel after the episode, having heard about the mutant spiders, or something. I did think briefly about some flashbacks to them having met in his Ripper days, but I think Najia's a bit young for that. Will see if anything comes to me!

2. She-Hulk. Jackster and I just finished watching this series and, whilst Tatiana Maslany has been very good in it, it's mostly bored me and all the fourth wall breaking annoyed me. Until the last pair of episodes, when the introduction of Matt Murdock and some actual chemistry finally had me sitting up, and then the mega-fourth-wall-breaking had me giggling like a schoolgirl (is that the right phrase?) and really loving it for going there.

3. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Got this on DVD for Christmas and finally got round to watching it. Really, really enjoyed it. Strong script, good story, amazing cast of actors, and even the dinosaurs didn't look as dodgy as I'd been led to expect. It was 1973 for goodness sake! I thought they were pretty amazing for the time, and the story more than made up for any failings in the special effects anyway. I'm not a huge Sarah Jane fan but thought she really shone in this, her second story, and I've decided that Jon Pertwee is quite possibly my favourite Doctor after Peter Capaldi. So suave and cool and funny. The UNIT guys had a lot of good stuff in this one too, including the surprise of Mike Yates turning traitor. A really interesting story, which I enjoyed re-watching with the commentary and informative captions.

Got my intoabar fic finished just in time, after having added a whole new part to it last night! It's not beta'd and not as polished as it would once have been, but these days I'm just happy to have finished something I'm pleased with and got it posted by the deadline!!

Also? This is my first time ever writing Star Trek, so I'm rather pleased with that too!

Title: The Unlikely Diner and the Impossible Girl
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Doctor Who
Character(s): Jean-Luc Picard, Clara Oswald
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1975
Spoilers: Next Gen: mid-series (specifically the semi-canonical comic Assimilation), Doctor Who: Hell Bent
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jean-Luc Picard goes into a bar (or, rather, a diner) and meets… Clara Oswald
Author's Note: Written for intoabar (actual post here)

Read it on AO3

And do go and check out all the other amazing crossovers at the community: intoabar

I've been dithering over my sign-up, because I had this idea to choose Jean-Luc Picard as my main character, because we've been watching ST: The Next Gen and ST: Picard S1 (to remind ourselves what happened before we venture into S2) and so for the first time I thought I'd try writing a Star Trek character. Then I kept getting cold feet and putting off signing up. But now I've done it. After all, the worst that can happen is that I don't post a fic!

I've elminated Torchwood from the possible choice of fandoms he'll venture into, because I've ended up with TW characters the last two times. I added SJA this time instead. Looking forward to seeing who I get, now!

Username: unfeathered
Who goes into the bar?: Jean-Luc Picard
What fandom are they from?: Star Trek The Next Generation
What other fandoms can you write? (1-4): Doctor Who (Doctors 9-13), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series

(Signups are still open for another couple of days, if anyone else is interested!)

I almost forgot, but got in just in time!

I had such fun with Garcia last year that I was tempted to choose her again, but decided to go for something different. I *was* going to go with Buffy Summers crossed with the Whoniverse, as I've been watching a lot of Buffy and Angel and re-reading some of my (very) old Buffy roleplay threads. However, I have literally just finished Chosen and will be focussing on Angel S5 for the moment, plus rewatching Conviction last night reminded me how much I adore S5 Harmony! It's weird, because I couldn't stand her until S5, and then something flipped with her in this context and I love her! I roleplayed her for quite a while too, about a decade ago. :-)

So since that's what I shall be watching for the period I'll be writing this fic, I've gone with Harmony Kendall crossed with New Who (I'm not brave enough to do the whole of the classic series like astrogirl!), Torchwood or The Sarah Jane Adventures.

(Rather pleased I suddenly remembered SJA, because I love those and the amazing characters in them but hadn't thought of adding them before!)

So... yay! Can't wait to see who I get!

I'm supposed to be going through my Intoabar Garcia/Tosh fic, because it needs to be done by the 21st (and it's mostly there, just needs tidying up and filling out a bit). Or if not that, then looking at some of my Jack/Giles fics to get one ready for Summer of Giles on 5 July.

So what am I writing instead? Master/Jack body fluids kink (blood, sweat, tears) for my Season of Kink bingo card, due at the end of September...

Ah well.

On the other hand, hello there, Master, I'd missed you! :-D

I have been looking forward to this one, because it's about crossovers, and crossovers are something I absolutely adore. It's one of the main things I've got out of role-playing - throwing Jack up against all sorts of different people (sometimes literally! :-D), from Merlin to Hannibal, from Loki to, well, himself! I just love that.

So, hopefully I can achieve that in fic too. Well, I already have, given that a good proportion of my fics are crossovers between the Whoverse and the Buffyverse, but now it's time for something else. Because I'm going to have Doctor Who, Torchwood, Buffy and Angel as my four fics to be given a random character from, but my main character, the one I know I'll definitely be writing, the one who walks into the bar, is going to be something else.

Only thing is, I need to choose, and that's hard! (I'm really bad at making decisions.)

Here's what I'm thinking, in order of preference at this point in time:

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