Vid recs.

[elisi]

Gonna Go Far, Kid by missbreese. The discombobulated fun mess that is the Master (Simm). Utterly brilliant!

Pure Imagination by sparking_off. The song is from Willy Wonka, and might be the most perfect S5 song ever... Come with me/And you'll be/In a world of/Pure imagination/Take a look/And you'll see/Into your imagination. Delight in vid form.

a thousand goodbyes by beccatoria. For every hello there's a thousand goodbyes. Doctor/River. Heartbreaking.

Comments

[elisi]

*is very pleased* It's a fabulous vid indeed! I have the hugest soft spot for Simm!Master. And I am now looking forward to your holiday fic with great curiosity!

[promethia_tenk]

Could I trouble you for some Doctor/Master (or Doctor + Master) recs? Fic/meta/vids/whatever. Preferably with critical and/or humorous angles, especially towards the Doctor (in the manner of the one where he summons the Master up with his epic levels of self-pity). Basically, I need a crash course.

I know you've got your own writing you're tangled up in, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I figure you're the expert. *puppy dog eyes*

[elisi]

Could I trouble you for some Doctor/Master (or Doctor + Master) recs?
Oh ABSOLUTELY! Give me a couple of hours and I'll give you more than you'll know what to with. :)

(This is the sort of request that dreams are made of! *rubs hands gleefully*)

[promethia_tenk]

Huzzah! You're a life saver.

[elisi]

Very quickly - if you've got the time, then this fic is the best look at the Master ever ever:

the naming of things: How to become the Master.

It's pretty much all fanon, showing the Doctor/Master friendship during their schooldays and how they (from more or less the same starting point) end up so very, very different. It's unbelievably well written and will give you the best look into the Master's psyche you could possibly want. Long though, but worth it. ETA: The Doctor (in Academy era stories generally) is known as Theta Sigma (this is canon) and the Master as Koschei (which is fanon, but the name fits very well. Info here, but only the first bit is actually relevant.)

[promethia_tenk]

Ah, thanks very much. Will go read. Well, as soon as I can get the characters to shut up. They're all yapping in my head right now and I have to get it down while I can.

Come to think of it, anything you have on the Doctor's attitude towards Jack wouldn't go amiss either (keeping in mind I haven't seen Torchwood). Pls?

[elisi]

Good luck with your writing!

And re. Jack, do you mean the abandonment, or the immortality, or Jack's attitude, or Torchwood or just anything?

[promethia_tenk]

Not the immortality, really. I'm looking for how the Doctor responds to Jack's attitudes, methods, motivations, etc.

[elisi]

Gotcha. Will see what I can do. Tomorrow. (Enjoy your post.)