daibhidc | WIP meme

Memed from

lost_spook

Post a line or snippet from each of your fannish works in progress, and invite people to ask questions about them.

Unlike the last time I did something like this, I've decided to interprete "work in progess" as meaning "things I have at least read over and thought 'I should do some more work on this' in the past six months" rather than "all the stuff I've ever written but haven't completed". So instead of 27, we've got five. And despite the fact I only completed one filk out of those 27 works, only two of them are on this list as well. (The Wold Newton stuff in particular I kind of gave up on when the site that was publishing it stopped accepting submissions.)

And after some deliberation, I have decided to finally reveal what The Novel-Length Storytime That I've Been Working On Since May 2008 actually is.

(In the comments to my previous go at this, I say "at the speed it's currently progressing at, look out for the first six chapters some time after Matt Smith regenerates". I thought I was exaggerating for humorous effect...)

1.
JACK/RATTY:
Beyond the Meadow, outside the Wild Wood, the River sets its own rules.

IANTO/MOLE:
That last bit's not in the book. It does sort of work, though.

2.
[1] Herringford Soap: A popular fictional detective, who at the time of this story was being portrayed at the Dysk Theatre by the actor Basilbret Razorback.

3.
While on television we get the first episode of Professor X, a TV show about a Temporal Vavasour known as the Professor who can be contractually renewed multiple times, has six kidneys and travels through time and space in a TASID disguised as a pillar box. Over the next fifty years it will become an essential part of BBC television, spawn an industry of toy robots that don’t really look like the ones on screen, get cancelled, spawn another industry of books that don’t really read like the adventures on screen, get that cancelled as well, and finally come triumphantly back to TV, helmed first by Daffyd Russell (creator of the acclaimed Channel 4 drama about the gay scene in Birmingham, Gay As Blazes) and then by Steve Taylor (creator of the less acclaimed BBC 3 sitcom about a sitcom writer, Writing A Sitcom Is Cheaper Than Therapy).

Our hypothetical 1963 viewer doesn’t know any of that, of course, so it’s all totally irrelevant to watching the first episode. I probably shouldn’t have mentioned it, really.

4.
Chang Lee arrived in This Time Round to find it apparently filled with cackling corpses.

“Okay, is anyone going to explain this? Why do we have a surplus of regeneration-gone-wrong Masters?”

5.
The Second Doctor played by Jim

The Second Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. When the Doctor was killed by the Cybermen, Jim created a new character with the same name and background.

Jim is a rather gung-ho roleplayer, interested in action, cool fight scenes, and lucrative spoils over careful consideration or puzzle solving. He frequently acts before he thinks, which includes fixating on his own strange explanations for setting details that the GM hasn't explained yet.