Litgeekery

[raven]

Well, this is embarrassing. I can't think of any ideas for my own ficathon entry. One would think that as I actually chose which challenge I wanted to do, I wouldn't have this problem. Apparently not. All along I've been half-wondering if the litgeek!Doctor fic (which ohmygod, I have actually finished) would serve the purpose, but I eventually decided that's probably not the way to go about it.

So, I need to write a new fic in eight days, and it has to fit a (fairly vague) challenge. You never realise how many historical periods there are in history until you actually have to pick one. I can't decide between imperial China, peace-and-love Woodstock or Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Sigh. Because I still have no real life and everything is dominated by fandom, I give you a rec: Rose Sings and the Doctor Dances (Or How All of Europe Almost Had Their Brains Melted) - in which the Ninth Doctor and Rose accidentally crash the Eurovision Song Contest. It's much better than it sounds, very very funny and has Terry Wogan in it. And a reference to whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, which just gets funnier every time I click on it. This week's front page is brilliantly wacky and topical.

Actually, what I said a second ago about no longer having a real life is not quite true. In every entry I make until June 30th, I am going to include an important fact that it is vital I revise. If this bothers anyone... well, let's hope it doesn't.

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Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I can't decide between imperial China, peace-and-love Woodstock or Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Woodstock, yay! If you go the Northern Ireland route, I'm available to give it a local beta (unless you're from here, in which case, never mind)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* See, they are all yay but in different ways. Sadly I am not from Northern Ireland, I'm from Liverpool.

Maybe I could set it during Beatlemania? *dies*

[cedara]

Speaking of ficathon... are you going to make a posting in one of the communties where we're all post our links to?

Since I don't have the girl I write the story for on my flist, I was already wondering how I'd make her notice it. :-)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

On the day of the deadline, I'll post a ficathon masterlist in my own journal and link it everywhere else, inviting all participants to comment with story links. I should have made this clear, I'm sorry.

[cedara]

Hey, no worries. You can't think of *everything*. Besides, that's why I have a mouth fingers for - to ask. *g*