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Ever-Fixed Mark

Nov 15, 2014 02:07

Title: Ever-Fixed Mark
Author: x_los
Rating: G
Pairing: The Doctor/The Master: Three/Delgado!Master, Five/Ainley!Master, Ten/Simm!Master
Characters: Three, Eleven, Five, Ten, River Song, Jo Grant, mentions of others
Summary: "...there it is. Neat, looking fresh-drawn. It apparently came with the Master’s assumption of the body, with his transformation ( Read more... )

ten/master, i crack naturally, doctor/master, eleven/master, five/master, ainley!master, simm!master, three/master, delgado!master

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unknown20troper November 15 2014, 02:16:00 UTC

My feels!

This really shows how heartbreaking a pairing Doctor/Master is, how much conflict is involved in it. Like, you say this is "crack" but it doesn't read like crack, really.

And I like the mention of the Master trying to show his mark at the end, to make it visible and that contrasted with how Six's outfit shifts attention away from his mark.

x_losfic November 15 2014, 04:42:02 UTC

Soul-bond marks always strain my credulity--how does biology know /language/ etc., obvious stuff like that, are we straight-up admitting the existence of magic bc if so we should maybe deal with that, etc., so I sort of always parse Soul Bonds as crackitty crack, like arranged marriage/slave fic/Tropes generally, even if they way they play out is grim ( ... )

unknown20troper November 15 2014, 05:25:02 UTC

Yeah, I see how that could qualify as crack, though really, wouldn't much of fantasy/sci-fi stuff be crack than? Wouldn't Doctor Who be crack? What even is the barrier between the ridiculous and the not?

WARNING: Don't mean to offend at all, but I might. If so, sorry, Christians!

Like, just look at, say, Christianity, with its zombie, virgin-born namesake. The idea commonplace and not really viewed as ridiculous, not the same way as those tropes are, but nonetheless, it kinda is. So yeah, I guess, ridiculousness as a function of familiarity and culture, not necessarily objective truth all the time.

Possibly offensive part over.And yeah, the Master's POV isn't included here. Which, in the style or whatever in which this is written, makes a lot of sense. Like, I didn't ever really expect his POV. (What I did expect was Missy, for some strange reason [maybe I thought the gender/sex/whatever change, like the burnt-up body of Crispy and the Traken body of Ainley!Master, to be more significant than it is], never mind that you stopped ( ... )

x_los November 15 2014, 17:46:09 UTC

You have a point re: all SFF sooort of being Like That, though I would still grant... that body of tropes which could easily crop up on a Trope Bingo a certain extra-ridiculous status? In a way I think--almost because they're marmite-y? People who are totally down with SFF and fic generally can still be DEEPLY turned off by the very OTT tropeyness of that clutch of reoccurring devices for forcing altered character interaction--the sheer number of people who wanted to reassure me they 'didn't like slave-fic BUT!!'--dude whooo do you think it judging you here? It almost sort of comes off (and I know this in ENTIRELY unintended!) as a snub of you-the-writer, who wrote This Cliche, and who... therefor has probably read a lot of it? It's certainly not my fav by any means, but like, no one sits down and INVENTS the Cliche Fic ex nihilo (unless you're an ST:TOS writer ( ... )

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