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DW Fic: Like Little Lies

Dec 31, 2010 18:58

Title: Like Little Lies

by MuseDePandora (see: Master List of FanficsDisclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to various persons and corporations that are not me or associated with me. This piece of fanfiction is written with the admiration and respect for the original work. I claim no ownership of Doctor Who's creations. No profit is made from this ( Read more... )

character: river song, fic; like little lies, fandom: doctor who, character: doctor, pairing: river/doctor, fanfic, ficathon, pairing: river/ten, fanfiction

Comments 14

honeynoir January 5 2011, 17:53:37 UTC

This is fabulous! Perfectly River, perfectly Ten, perfectly fun!

Also, this: (whole paragraph copy-paste, sorry)
"What are you laughing about? That wasn't funny! Know what else that wasn't? That was certainly not tiny or little or any sort of mild," he rebuked. Despite the fact that her face was full of hair, her wrist was bleeding from where the handcuff had dug in during the fall, and the ground around them was littered with burning debris, River Song smiled like an angel.

"Oops," she said.
<3<3<3

(Oh, and my prompt could just as easily have said River/any Doctor, so this totally counts as a fill. ;))

cinderbella333 January 6 2011, 01:23:12 UTC

I'm thrilled that you liked this and feel that it fulfills the spirit of your prompt. That means a lot to me! Also, so happy that you liked that paragraph in particular. I did like the idea in my head of this being an instance where the Doctor was taking something too seriously (probably more to do with his conflicted emotions with River more than anything) and River's the one dismissive of the gravity of the situation. I'm glad that translated well to you as the reader. I'm also completely jazzed that you felt this was in-character for both of them.

Thanks so much for reading and letting me know you enjoyed it!

promethia_tenk January 13 2011, 07:18:14 UTC

Ok, I'm actually a bit glad now that I was in fic-burnout mode and saved this one because the first time I read it I had Eleven lodged really solidly in my brain and it was interfering badly with me reading Ten in this. This time, though, no such problem--heard Ten's voice perfectly, and the humor just came to life (somehow they are so very different in that respect--as you said in a comment above, this seemed to *want* to be a Ten story).

Anyway, this was all sorts of good fun to read, funny and character-y as ever with you. I did like particularly Ten reflecting on how nice it was to do something fun amidst his long dark spell and this:

Yet, he still did it. He'd probably do it again. She was just too interesting to not get pulled back in. That was scary, since it felt a lot like destiny. It was also brilliant, because it felt a little bit like freedom.

struck me as oddly poignant and very right--a unexpected moment of insight in a mostly lighter piece.

cinderbella333 January 13 2011, 13:55:25 UTC

Oh, I'm so glad you agree with me that this seemed to *want* to be a Ten story. Especially when I realized I had voided so many of my prompts, I had wondered whether or not I should've forced it to be Eleven. Your comment reassures me that I chose correctly to embrace Ten.

I'm very happy that you found this fun to read. Thank you for saying it was character-y. Also, I'm happy that you liked his statement about this being fun during his dark spell toward the end of his time as Ten. I'm also thrilled that you thought that bit of insight from Ten felt right and poignant. I thought there needed to be something a bit deeper, about him thinking about what it means that he's there with River after the Library, because even when the Doctor is laughing or smiling or joking, I don't see him as forgetting his melancholy thoughts completely. Anyway, I'm glad you liked that.

Thank you for saving this story to read after your little hiatus and then leaving me a really lovely comment! I really appreciate your feedback.

promethia_tenk January 13 2011, 18:57:24 UTC

Especially when I realized I had voided so many of my prompts, I had wondered whether or not I should've forced it to be Eleven.

Oh . . . meh? Absolutely you should let it be Ten if it wants to be Ten. *has a history of going wildly off-prompt* The way I look at it is this: if I have something very specific that I want to see, I write it myself. Or, at the very least, if I thought I wouldn't be able to do it justice, I would write a very detailed prompt so that it was clear that I wanted to see this very specific thing. But the vast majority of prompts I put out I figure you have to just think of as scattering seeds, or sparks, or what have you: you have no real control over what you're going to get back--you're more or less just sending things out in the hope that *something* will grow from it. The real point is to write, to have some fun, to be a part of this community, and to end up with a good story. Prompts are like a little bit of good will: GO! WRITE THINGS ( ... )