The Tenth Doctor ficathon

[raven]

Sign-ups are now closed. Assignments to come shortly, I hope.

It's that time of year again, folks. I promised I'd do this last year, and now I give you:



"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy."
-the Tenth Doctor, School Reunion

Welcome to the Tenth Doctor ficathon, a gen, het and slash ficathon where all fic is welcome - so long as it features our beloved Tenth Doctor in some shape or form.

Sign-ups begin today, June 21st, and run until June 28th. I hope to have assignments out by July 1st at the latest. Stories will be due in a month, on July 31st, 2006. I will post a masterlist on my journal (loneraven) at midnight BST where everyone can comment with links to their fics.

If for whatever reason you sign up and can't make the deadline, the thing to do is to tell me. I won't be pissed off if only you tell me, so I can assign a back-up author and your recipient gets a story and everyone's happy. If you then get your story to me later, everyone's even happier. Just let me know.

To sign up, comment on this post with the following:

Your name and LJ name
Your email address
Three things you want in your story
One thing you don't want in your story
One thing you'd rather not write
Can you be a back-up writer?

Here's my sign-up, as an example:

Your name and LJ name: Raven (loneraven)
Your email address: iona.raven[at]gmail.com
Three things you want in your story: Ten being ruthless, gen, ghosts
One thing you don't want in your story: explicit romance
One thing you'd rather not write: smut
Can you be a back-up writer? yes

All stories submitted must have Ten in them somewhere. I'm willing to be flexible over this - if, for example, you want to see what happens to Sarah Jane and K9 after School Reunion, but Ten doesn't actually appear, that would be acceptable, as would a story about one of the members of LINDA, or the adventures of Mickey and Rose whilst the former was a companion. You get the picture. What wouldn't be acceptable would be a story about, say, Nine and Rose on Satellite Five.

Edited to add: Minimum word count is 1000 words, and you can write as much as you like above that.

Also, regarding old-skool requests, which some people enquired about - I've thought about this, and, well, whilst I don't object in principle, they make assigning requests very difficult. If you want to make a specific old-skool request (e.g., Ten/Romana, a cameo from Tegan, etc.) that's fine, but I won't be able to ensure your assigned author will be familiar with that bit of canon. If they are, then that's good and they'll write it for you, but if they're not, then they won't and you'll lose one of your three things. It's your call whether you want to make the old-skool request to start with. And of course, if you get an assignment that asks for something old-skool that you don't know about, then just produce a story based on the prompts that you can write.

One last note to the Yanks among us: if you don't want to be spoiled massively for season 2/28, then I recommend you don't sign up, as I'm sure many fics will have spoilers.

I think that's it. If you have any further questions, post a comment or email me at iona.raven[at]gmail.com. In the meantime, get signing up!

Comments

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE A CRAZY PERSON. And I love you for it. *clings*

Your name and LJ name Hathor, hathy_col
Your email address hathor _ sgc @ hotmail . com
Three things you want in your story A historical setting, the specs, one of the old companions (in any form; a mention would do, and it's not essential)
One thing you don't want in your story Overt Ten/Rose (subtle is okay, declarations of love and inappropriate uses of the sonic screwdriver less so)
One thing you'd rather not write Inappropriate uses of the sonic screwdriver (metaphorical or nay)
Can you be a back-up writer? Why the hell not? THE CRAZY IS CONTAGIOUS. (Although is my plan to work two jobs this summer comes through, I will have to decline the second story - I'll let you know.)

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Good luck with this, dear ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Is done, my dear. Was worried that people would try and sign up in more than one place, but have realised that I didn't provide the signing-up info in the pimping post.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*CLIIIING* I have lost my mind Colleen please help me find it ohmygod.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! *g*

ohmygod I am crazy

[nisciocco.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: nats nisciocco
Your email address natazzle [at] gmail.com
Three things you want in your story ten, ten slash paring or ten/rose pairing and a good villain
One thing you don't want in your story ten being all asexual. thats boring..
One thing you'd rather not write anything that involves previous series.
Can you be a back-up writer? probably not..

[nisciocco.livejournal.com]

also this is a cool cool idea. :D

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Seanan (cadhla)
Your email address: cadhla-at-livejournal-dot-com
Three things you want in your story: Respect for pre-Nine canon, good dialogue, in-character actions
One thing you don't want in your story: Any variation of 'the Doctor's one true love'
One thing you'd rather not write: Really, I'll write anything but actually explicit sex
Can you be a back-up writer? Yes

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

We shall go on a quest to find it, and it shall be most marvellous, yes. you have SUNSHINE down there still. *pouts at the gale outside*

[megoddess2.livejournal.com]

Name and username: Meg (megoddess2)
E-mail: hooliganmoo[at]hotmail.com
3 things i'd like: gen, fire, Ten being "old" or "almighty"
One thing i wouldn't like: explicit violence
I'd rather not write: smut
Back up writer?: yes

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Doyle/doyle_sb4
Your email address: doyle@exitseraphim.net
Three things you want in your story: Mickey as the Doctor's companion. A party. Snarky interaction with an undercurrent of genuine regard/friendship would be lovely.
One thing you don't want in your story: Rose - don't care if it's AU, or she's at her mum's, or she's present but offstage.
One thing you'd rather not write: NC-17
Can you be a back-up writer? Yup

[silvernatasha.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Natasha, silvernatasha
Your email address: silvernatasha @ gmail.com
Three things you want in your story: An alien planet, gen, a bit of humour
One thing you don't want in your story: Overt shippiness
One thing you'd rather not write: Smut (not in this fandom!)
Can you be a back-up writer? Possibly

[brunette-jedi.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Susie (brunette_jedi)
Your email address: sarky_nutter123@hotmail.com
Three things you want in your story: Ten making some sort of difficult decision, painful memories, someone comforting Ten after he makes choices.
One thing you don't want in your story: Death of a main character, if it's at all avoidable (If it's not, that's okay. Just rather not. ^^)
One thing you'd rather not write: Smut
Can you be a back-up writer?: Possibly. Put me down as a 'last resort'? I can't promise I can back up, but if you need someone urgently, I'll give it a go.

[faded-memories.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. :)

Your name and LJ name: Arabella (_bellacosity)
Your email address: airavanya@(NOMORESPAM)gmail.com (with the appropriate bits removed, obviously)
Three things you want in your story: Ten/Rose/Jack or Ten/Jack (if there's no Rose in the story), PLOT, kissing
One thing you don't want in your story: "Liek, OMG, don't use words like 'glorious passage!'"
One thing you'd rather not write: I'm up for pretty much anything plot-wise, but as I'm not familiar with Doctor Who previous to the new series, I really can't include any reference to previous seasons.
Can you be a back-up writer? I'm willing to try, just send a quick e-mail to make sure that life hasn't taken to beating me up first.

[sweetestdrain]

Cool idea! And what a lovely chance for a fandom lurker like me to finally take the leap in. :)

Your name and LJ name: sweetestdrain (sweetestdrain)
Your email address: mlefay @ gmail.com
Three things you want in your story:
1. The strange little impulse, the voice in the Doctor's head that says "go on, go on, go over, go on..." (You can attribute whatever meaning or significance to it you want, and don't have to explicitly reference the quote -- just seeing that impulse in action is enough.)
2. Someone with a gun or some other projectile weapon.
3. A moment of homoerotic subtext (or hey, even text) between two characters (your choice).
One thing you don't want in your story: Character bashing (especially not of Rose).
One thing you'd rather not write: PWP (although shippiness or specific pairings of some sort are more than fine).
Can you be a back-up writer? Probably not, unfortunately. This summer is kinda crazy.

[slartibartfast.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Laura (eternie)
Your email address: eternie @ livejournal.com
Three things you want in your story: Ten ♥s the TARDIS, Ten and Rose's intense friendship, the horse from The Girl in the Fireplace.
One thing you don't want in your story: Sex.
One thing you'd rather not write: Full out relationships between Ten and Rose. Others are okay. (Also I'm kinda new to Doctor Who so I don't know canon pre-new series beyond the basics yet.)
Can you be a back-up writer?: In dire emergencies, yes.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name Wendy; wendymr
Your email address wendy at lcfanfic dot com
Three things you want in your story Jack returned but unhappy; shippiness; an impossible choice
One thing you don't want in your story main character death
One thing you'd rather not write Reinette
Can you be a back-up writer? Probably.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Eee! Not signing up but good luck you crazy, crazy person. :)

[dark-aegis.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Gillian Taylor (dark_aegis)
Your email address: usshorizon [at] yahoo [dot] com
Three things you want in your story: An impossible choice (Rose vrs. the world, a child vrs the world, whatever), angst, Jack returned
One thing you don't want in your story: Regeneration
One thing you'd rather not write: Reinette
Can you be a back-up writer? no

[crediniaeth.livejournal.com]

Your name and LJ name: Faith (gloryliberty)
Your email address: gloryliberty[at]gmail.com
Three things you want in your story: Ten/Rose/Jack ("relationship" not necessary, but welcome), various rooms in the TARDIS, and a ficus tree. ;)
One thing you don't want in your story: liberal amounts of sappiness
One thing you'd rather not write: smut, I'm a major fluff-bunny with no talent for "Tab A into Slot B".
Can you be a back-up writer? Sure.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be bothersome and ask questions I'm afraid.
. Is this so a) people can request fics, b) people can tell you what fics they're writing and write lots of them, c) you can pick people to write fics for other people, d) something else which I haven't cottoned on to.
I can't seem to work it out. I know there's a lot of writing fics involved. :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sorry. People sign up as above, I collate all the requests and hand them out, so each person writes a specific fic for one other person, and on the due date the whole lot are posted at once (hopefully).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I am crazier than a fruitcake. And I mix my metaphors liek woah.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

You nutso. :D