amberfocus: (Time Traveller TARDIS)
It's been so long since I've posted anything on here. I don't even know how long. I don't know if anything will come of it or not, bit I have this INSANE plot bunny running around in my head that has characters from Supernatural, Buffy, Angel, and Dr. Who. But Supernatural is from dimension 1, most of the Buffy characters are from dimension 2, the rest are from dimension 3, the one Angel character (not Angel) is from dimension 3, and the Doctor who character, possibly two, I haven't decided yet, is/are from dimension 4. There is also a 5th dimension. Supernatural is dimension 1 because it is the only one that will run true to it's TV show universe up to the point of this story. Buffy's storyline and the character from Angel's storyline will have diverged. The Doctor Who character or two will probably fit right back into their storylines due to time travel.

Time runs at different speeds in each dimension, but it also gets messed up a little with what happens in the story, so it takes place late in season 5 of Buffy, but doesn't match what season of Angel it would be then. It takes place post season 5 of Supernatural, even though that was years after Buffy ended. The Doctor Who character/s was/were well after Buffy ended and might have been congruent with Supernatural, I'd have to check. Not that it matters, time and dimensions have run amok.

So far I've written a little over 1000 words. I wrote it on the 12th, my 53rd birthday. Maybe I gave myself a present, getting back into the writing game. I need to pull my thoughts together more and try to iron out an outline. I haven't written anything at all in maybe two years, I think, so anything that gets that going again is a good thing, even if it ends up going nowhere. Even if I do write it, I'd have no idea where to post it. I don't know if there will be enough Dr. Who content to put it up on Teaspoon. I have stayed far away from the Supernatural online fandom for the most part. It might be great at conventions, but online it got a little crazy. I'd read a bit here and there, but I didn't participate in conversations because they often devolved into fights between factions.

I was active in the BtVS fandom back in the day under a different name. I didn't write in it, but that was bulletin board stuff and there were a lot of word limits due to space constraints. LJ, while it existed, was not then what it became later, and I wasn't on it until well after I started posting DW fic on Teaspoon. When I was in the Buffy fandom, Google was a brand new sparkling baby, having to compete hard with Ask Jeeves. Most people still didn't know what it was when Willow said her famous line about "googling her" in Conversations with Dead People. Now people don't know what Ask Jeeves was.

I only ever wrote one Buffy fic and that was a fix it fic for myself, because I hated the whole way things ended with Spike and Buffy's last scene in season six so I rewrote it so it didn't happen, but Spike was still driven to leave and get his soul back. I was so angry that those writers would do that to them. I was content to read others' stories. Nothing really got me fired up to write until the end of season 2 of Doctor Who. That broke me and I wrote fix it after fix it. But I digress.

Anywho, I'm going to give it a whirl and see how it goes. It may go nowhere at all. I'll see if I can get a few chapters banged out in the next few weeks before I'll even think of actually posting anything. Don't want to just post an introductory chapter and never post anything on it again. And yes, I know I have about 3 or 5 other stories that I need to finish, but there are not "finish me" plot bunnies nipping at my heels. There is this.

I've only ever written one crossover fic and it was a one shot with Claude Raines from Heroes and Rose Tyler from Doctor Who. This is not a one shot. I don't think it will be an epic, but it will definitely be a decent multi-chapter if I can get it off the ground. I'll write if for me if for no one else. I love these fandoms and I love writing. If anything can get me back in the habit so I can get back to work on novel writing, I'll be more than happy to pound it out.

Working Title is Dimensions Torn Open.

Sorry, I don't even remember how to do a cut so you all aren't hit with a wall of text. Is there anyone still around who can remind me?
amberfocus: (Time Traveller TARDIS)
There is something about paths, Rose Tyler thinks, which she hates. It’s the deception of them. It’s the invitation that leads you forward to explore and to find new and wondrous things. It’s the expectation that if so many people have been down this path before, it must lead to something fantastic. Rose doesn’t like those paths. They always lie. She adjusts the Dimension Cannon and tries again.

The first time it happens she is so close. It is three days before she loses him and one day after they’ve made private vows to each other. Nothing like “in sickness and in health,” but as binding as any formal ceremony ever could be. She’s in time to see them kissing just past the roses and it hurts, because it’s been so long and she aches to have that with him again. Wrong path, wrong time. Try again.

The second time it happens she’s not sure at first it is even him. He’s short, his hair is curly, and he’s just stepped out of the TARDIS when he’s shot. She stands in shock, knowing he’s had other lives and realizing that this one is ending, again, in front of her. Her heart tells her to run forward, to try to help, to interfere, but her head is cool, calm, calculating. If he doesn’t die here and now, he might not turn into her doctor at the appointed time. Don’t change history, Rose. She hates herself for turning around and walking away, down a path that leads her back into darkness.

She emerges the third time at the place she grew up. It’s New Year’s Eve and the bells are ringing. She sees him lurking in the darkness, sees herself, too young, she’s too young, she hasn’t even met him yet! What is he playing at? She hears the murmur of voices, realizes they’re speaking. She remembers that night, the drunken stranger in the shadows telling her what a great year she’s about to have. And she did, with a man who wore a different face, but was still the being before her, emitting artron energy. He’s about to die and the last face he wanted to see was hers. She’s too late. She turns away. She won’t watch him die again. She adjusts the device.

The fourth time, Torchwood technology has advanced. She’s found a way to scan through time, found a creature who can change someone’s path, arranges for it to find Donna Noble, who is now the most important woman to her future, to Earth’s future, to the Doctor’s future. Turn Left, Turn Right, toss the coin, cheat fate, control the path, control Donna’s outcome, control her own. She almost gets it right. She will next time, if the madness doesn’t take her first.

The fifth attempt is the right one. He’s here. Right time, right place, right in front of her. Her mind cascades into fragments, so many paths branching before her, and before she can even choose the right one, she’s running, he’s running, and they are in each other’s arms and her mind is crystal, back in a solid state. They save the world, of course they do, and she thinks maybe now everything will be all right. They are together, as it should be, and nothing else matters, nothing will ever part them again. This path is illusion.

She doesn’t get to walk the final path with him. He abandons her and yet doesn’t. He tears from her her choice of him, of time, of space, of adventure. Settles her down and rips all the branches away. One path left, one she never wanted to walk, one she’s left to walk with someone who is half stranger and half her heart. There is another version of the cannon. She could go back, rip her way across time and space one more time, walk that path with him, give him a piece of her mind. The other him knows what she is thinking.

“Could you really?” he asks, his r ringing with a soft burr.

She makes up her mind, shakes her head no, and the madness clears. She’s tired. She won’t walk that path. She never could.

“You’ve still got me,” he says echoing words she said to another him a lifetime ago. There is no uncertainty in his voice, but his eyes betray him.

She takes his hand and smiles at him, keeping the tears in her eyes at bay. “Not a bad life,” she says. “Not a bad life at all.”
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Title: Leap of Faith
Author: [livejournal.com profile] amberfocus
Characters/Pairings: John Smith (alt!Nine)/Rose Tyler, Toshiko Sato, Jake Simmonds, Mickey Smith, Ianto Jones, Jackie Tyler/Pete Tyler, Tony Tyler, various original characters.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Fluff
Rating: Adult
Betas: [livejournal.com profile] amyo67
Summary: Hiding from the Family of Blood, the alt!Ninth Doctor turns himself into John Smith via the chameleon arch and with his companion Toshiko Sato, takes a job at Torchwood. He clashes with everyone he meets and Rose Tyler, the beautiful young director of Torchwood Field Operative Training and the daughter of his boss, is no exception. AU after season 2.

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Title: Leap of Faith
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Characters/Pairings: John Smith (alt!Nine)/Rose Tyler, Toshiko Sato, Jake Simmonds, Mickey Smith, Ianto Jones, Jackie Tyler/Pete Tyler, Tony Tyler, various original characters.
Genre: Romance, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure, Alternate Universe, Fluff
Rating: Adult
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Summary: Hiding from the Family of Blood, the alt!Ninth Doctor turns himself into John Smith via the chameleon arch and with his companion Toshiko Sato, takes a job at Torchwood. He clashes with everyone he meets and Rose Tyler, the beautiful young director of Torchwood Field Operative Training and the daughter of his boss, is no exception. AU after season 2.

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Title: The Watchmaker's Daughter (10/?)
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Characters/Pairings: The Tenth Doctor(John Smith)/Rose Tyler, Pete Tyler, Martha Jones, Joan Redfern, Timothy Lattimer, various original characters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance, HN/FOB rewrite
Rating: Teen (for now, may go up later)
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Summary: At the Doomsday wall an unexpected twist of fate sends Rose and Pete Tyler back to 1913 instead of to the parallel universe. While the Doctor and Martha are hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School for Boys the Tylers try to make a life for themselves in the nearby village.
Author's Notes: Recognizable dialogue is from the episode Human Nature though the characters saying it might be switched about a bit.

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Drabble 5

Jan. 11th, 2014 01:20 am
amberfocus: (Rose--Brown Eyes)
[livejournal.com profile] hungrytiger11 wanted the War Doctor and the Rose shaped character and the prompt was future. It kind of turned into a poem, but still qualifies as a drabble at 100 words.

This is how the Storm arises
When the Wolf is at the door
She is more than just a woman
Or a girl that wanted more

She’s the Moment for his taking
Rattling him down to the core
With her golden eyes revealing
He doesn’t have to fight this war

He’s a soldier with one future
Limited by time and place
A warrior built for fighting
Not a man that’s granted grace

He’s not one that’s meant for peace
He gave up that comely face
Still he takes the chance she offers
To save his home, his hearts, his race.
amberfocus: (Clara)
Spoilers )

Does anyone know of LJ comms for the new Doctor? Or if anyone is making icons yet?
amberfocus: (Cartoon Rory and Amy)
This vid really reminded me of the tragedy in the love story of Amy and Rory. It's beautifully put together. Makes me tear up every time I watch it.

amberfocus: (Food--Iced Tea)
I'm trying to get my equalibrium back and actually write on some of my fanfic, but I'm being overwhelmed by three different original stories. One of them I have been working on for years. I mean, like since 1998. And I could never figure out how to open it. It was one of those things that I started writing in the middle. Guess who figured out how to open it this month?

There's another I've been working on off and on for the last year and then there's the one that I think will actually get finished and possibly go somewhere at some point and is actually more like a novel and its sequel. It wants to be a trilogy, but there isn't enough story for that I don't think.

So between original novel writing and taking care of the livestock and homeschooling and preparing the garden, I just have no idea about any of my DW WIPs right now. I'm a little apathetic because of season 7B and I think it might take me a bit longer for my normal override of reverting to shipper's headcanon kicks in. This has basically happened to me after every series since the David Tennant specials started airing so I guess I should expect it. It's frustrating though. I don't like leaving stories hanging. But it's just not where the muse is at.

I am glad that I am writing at all. Especially on the one story. Because the idea is fresh and I haven't seen it and I want to do it. I've just not been in the proper head space for it until now. I just want it out of my head and down on paper (or Word document, technically).
amberfocus: (Nine and Rose--BW Embrace)
I am not reading my f-list this week until after I've watched the upcoming episode of Doctor Who. There are too many spoilers being thrown around from the leak and I don't want to know until I watch it what is going on.

I might post a couple of things, but probably not.
amberfocus: (CE Birthday Present Icon--Do Not Take)
...but I have a feeling it's going to be a really great year. Yep, it's my birthday today and as such there will be no Tuesday Tears vid, because who wants an angst fest on their birthday? But I do have a vid for you to share. May TROCK never die.

Also, in case you missed it, [livejournal.com profile] then_theres_us is back up and running. My fic Blonde is here: http://then-theres-us.livejournal.com/331309.html

I also recommend you take a gander at the fic Impossible if you want a little choking up (well, it should be Tuesday Tears, right?): http://then-theres-us.livejournal.com/331216.html

Actually go read them all. They're very good.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes and Dev, thanks for the v-gift. You couldn't know it, but every election Chris and I do this thing: Cthulu for President: Why Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils. Saw it on a bumper sticker years ago. It's still funny.

Now without further ado--TROCK vid Sonic Screwdriver. (I tried to make the ad go away).

amberfocus: (Cartoon Rory and Amy)
I've seen this song vidded a lot to basically any immortalish type relationship out there, but it somehow seems so much more fitting for these two. Rory definitely did put the time in, didn't he? And the love. It's a weepy one. Of course it is. It's Tuesday.

amberfocus: (10 The Doctor art background with Tardis)
Almost everything I have loved about Doctor Who since I was a little kid all rolled into one vid. I just really love the scope of it all.

amberfocus: (Cartoon Eleven with Sonic)
I think I almost ship Eleven and Clara. The chemistry between Matt and Jenna when they were finally acting face to face was incredible. I didn't think I'd ever see him happy again, to be honest. I think I actually have hope that the series will redeem itself. Also, does anyone know where Matt and Clara/Oswin icons might be popping up? I only belong to one Eleventh Doctor comm and it doesn't do icons or stories. I need at least one good icon of these two.

I may or may not do a reaction post. Depends on whether I have a good pain day this week or not (torqued my knee). I think I need to watch it again, too. General impression was a good romp with a few hand wavy moments and a bit of DW revisionist history. I am looking forward to the rest of the season now and I really wasn't before watching this. They better not screw it up (SM, I'm looking at you.)

P.S. If anyone on my f-list reviewed this ep will you give me a link to it in the comments? I really don't want to try to page back that far on my friends list, but I put off reading them until I watched it and now I'd really like to see what everyone had to say.

Reminiscing

Dec. 3rd, 2012 03:26 pm
amberfocus: (Ten Time Lord Clock)
Remember the days of the epic Doctor Who/Torchwood what if vid trailers?  This was always my favorite.

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