Academic Doctor Who Poll

[neadods]

So, there's someone in Australia who's working on a Chicks Dig Timelords-style book, only it's about race and Doctor Who. And I have been known to have opinions on the subject. (In fact, one of the links on the website under "This is the kind of thing I want" is to Mickey, Martha, and the Message that Doesn't Belong on Who.) About a week ago I was directly approached to either expand the essay into something longer or give permission to reprint the original blog post.

Given those two options, I'll take Door A: there's more to be said after Martha's first season, and certainly I never mind giving my opinion, especially in print.

On the other hand, as I started to rough draft the essay and realized how much ground I have to go back over and episodes I'd have to rewatch even for just 5000 words, my overwhelming reaction was "BLAAARGH!"

So:

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Comments

[songfire3.livejournal.com]

I went with A, but C would work as well! ;)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh, C is in the works! Sort of. As in "I'd love to do it if I could think of a plot."

[zinelady.livejournal.com]

I voted C. Not that I'm not interested in Who, (I know it's a double negative) but I've become very enamored of Sherlock. What kind of zine is it? Gen or slash? I was hoping for some Sherlock this year at MWC. I had Janice looking out, but she couldn't find any.

If you get stuck on time, you could always email your file to me, I could print it out and drop it in the post here in New Zealand. It just takes a few days to get across the pond. Did they say why they want a hard copy? Surely a file would be less work unless they are phobic about computer viruses.

As for plots, personally, I enjoy original stories rather than ones based on the 3 cases of the series or even the other Sherlock Holmes stories. I've read enough 'missing scenes' to last me a long time. When you just have 3 stories in a TV series, missing scenes can lose their appeal after a while.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

OMG I love you and will totally take you up on that mailing offer. It gives me more time to write to not worry about mail service.

And yeah, viruses appear to be the issue.

It's a gen zine, but we're to focus on bromance.

[zinelady.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun. Bromance works well for Sherlock, better than slash, I think. I can see Sherlock jealous of Sarah, but not because she may be romantically involved with John, but because she takes John's time and focus away from Sherlock. Very similar to House, Wilson and Wilson's wives.

We'll be in the US for November to visit family over Thanksgiving (and to take advantage of Black Friday) but we will be flying back to New Zealand on the 26th of November, so I can mail it anytime in December.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It has to reach its destination by December 15, so if I get it to you Dec 1, it should be good.

I want to do a bromancy case fic, but am having a failure of the imagination.

[zinelady.livejournal.com]

One of the things I really enjoyed in the stories was when Sherlock went under disguise. Maybe he could go undercover? Or what about someone reenacting Jack the Ripper's crimes? Or some other less famous serial killer. Or someone is killing homeless people, but the Yard isn't that concerned about it to call Sherlock in because TPTB don't care, but Sherlock does because they are 'his network'. Maybe someone kidnaps Mycroft for some reason and his assistant comes to Sherlock to get help to find out where they are hiding him. You could have someone kidnap Sherlock and John has to come to his rescue...or vice versa. If you want angst in it, it could be something that is beyond Sherlock's abilities to fix and John's in danger. Sherlock could be going crazy knowing he can't help. Depending on what you want, you could have Sherlock collapse on a case because he hasn't eaten (I really think this would have happened sometime) and John putting his foot down as a doctor and making him eat.