Really, I am writing

[rthstewart]

It's just that I'm working on a Star Wars/Doctor Who cross over and have returned to writing a particular character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe after 17 years. Eeep. It's going slowly (5,000 words or so) but it's really, really fun and I'll shove it into the femgenficathon as satisfying both my previously written prompts.

And speaking of Doctor Who, being reported all over the place this morning, including here the Doctor Who Christmas special is supposed to be a cross over with the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, complete with creepy old house and World War 2 evacuees. There are lots of great Who/Narnia cross overs including ilysia_039's touch the sky with two arms and be_themoon's Whose_Other_Side_Is_Salvation. metonomia has done several, including with Susan, the Doctor, and Merlin, and one with the Doctor and Polly for the NFE here. I think wingedflight21 might have at least one as well. Please add others in the comments!!

Also, and this is edenfalling's fault because I really wanted more Shezan and Ilgamuth or Cor and Aravis, so I bit, even though I don't usually do this, but you know, I could use a kickstart to get back to AW and maybe this well help on the Spare Oom sides of things.

The first five people to comment on this post get to request that I write a drabble/ficlet of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to could post this in their journal, regardless of their own writing ability level. Or bake me cookies. [edited]

So, if you want to play, just ask in the comments and hopefully it will get me going on Lionsgate (the next chapter) and how I'm going to write Peter at Normandy and Susan in France short of a full blown, multi-chaptered epic war story.

Comments

[l-a-r-m.livejournal.com]

Ah rth, am I seriously going to have to start watching Doctor Who seriously now that you are writing fic about it?! OMG how many signs and nudges do I need, universe! I even have RL friends who are watching it now!!! >:{

I am fully in favor of diving back into AW! YES PLEASE! ...Can I play, but only the first half? :D

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Can I play, but only the first half? :D
Did you mean you wanted me to write something but don't want to write anything? Really, could you not write like a single line of Lucy/Caspian? You know you could. Or Anakin/Padme and a wetsuit and squid. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. But of course I do not care if you prompt and then don't write -- I won't go demanding payment with threats of cutting off your Internet access and breaking your knee caps.

[lauren-titmus.livejournal.com]

I think you'd really enjoy DW at least until S5. Does this mean you'll watch it now?? PLEASE!*brings out puppydog eyes*

I'd love some Cor/Aravis because not enough people write about them!!

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Star Wars/Doctor Who crossover? This sounds superb!

And yup! I wrote To Be Left Behind ( http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5843513/1/To_Be_Left_Behind ) with Susan and the Doctor. And sh! don't tell, but I just may be working on another one right now. *shifty eyes*

And I am absolutely thrilled for the Christmas special. This is going to be amaaaazing!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

HA! I knew you had done one! Thanks for the link! As for the SW/DW xover, well, we'll see. I'll feel like an idiot if it's terrible.

[lady_songsmith]

Polly, Mary, South America, and the time all the books but one got soaked.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I can do that!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Done! http://rthstewart.livejournal.com/55381.html

[autumnia]

I heard about this storyline from one of the BBC blogs, and thought of Narnia (the article did not mention it was a take on Lewis' series)! And I'm going to be very thrilled that by that time, I'll have caught up on Doctor Who.

(Just finished watching the 2-parter that introduced Captain Jack. Hah. Maybe I should go find myself copies of Torchwood next.)

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Captain Jack Harkness is awesome, but Torchwood is a bit silly. It sounds like the Xmas special is a stand alone? The spoiler bit I saw had mentioned a winter land and an evil something or other.

[snitchnipped.livejournal.com]

Aha! I'll take you up on your challenge (mainly because I know my flist is so incredibly short that I'm bound to have few to zero requests).

I know you hate it when people request more of him, but I like YOUR Peridan and how incredibly entertaining he is. Any time, any place, with anyone, it matters not.

[snitchnipped.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm THRILLED about the DW Christmas special, especially since I was just recently introduced to the fantasticness that Narnia/DW crossovers are via the NFE.

And hooray for more AW!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

xovers are wonderful and there are certain verses that lend themselves to them really well, including Buffy and Narnia because there are these portals to places. And Peridan, huh? Hmmm

lag (v.): see "to lag behind", also: Syrena

[(Anonymous)]

I am woefully behind on your posts and stories, but what do I find on one of my ever-more-infrequent forays online? Temptation. Oh dear. Well, I have no LJ, but I did have a strange dream the other night involving a crotchety tiger and a bake-off. Don't ask. I shall attempt to tell (if you don't mind me playing around in your Narnia, that is!), but it might take me a while to get it off the ground. I'm not one to attempt to drag the sleeping tiger around by his tail, you see.

If that rambling mess and teaser earns me a request, I would love to hear about Sallowpad's first mission abroad. Or the first time Edmund attempted to offer him a Shiny.

Sadly, not even I would want the cookies that I bake, so I'll refrain from offering them so as not to earn your ire. I want drabbles, not ire. In return, I shall (someday) give you a castle reeking of cabbage, a clever raccoon, and a rant about opposable thumbs. Fin.
~Syrena

Re: lag (v.): see "to lag behind", also: Syrena

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh it is lovely, lovely to see you! Crotchety tiger and a bake off -- I would like to hear about that. OK, we've got requests for Peridan, Sallowpad, and Rat and Crow, and Concert of Minds. So, it seems this could be one thing... And what's this about a clever raccoon?

Re: lag (v.): see "to lag behind", also: Syrena

[(Anonymous)]

Well, have you ever known a raccoon that *isn't* clever? ;-)

[min023.livejournal.com]

With an offer like that, I think maybe even I can manage to come and play (albeit slowly - next week will be the mega work week from hell, and after that I'm having a breakdown, because I will have darn well earned it!). Ahem, anyway... Pretty please, how did the Concert of Minds get together with Rats and Crows anyway? Doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would necessarily fly into a child's mind - even exceptional ones with Beast advisors.

I bet we don't get that Who special until weeks (if not not months) later than you will - just as well the interwebs are my friend ;-)

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the work from hell! As I told Syrena, we've got a mish mash of Rat, Crow, Concert of Minds, Peridan, and Sallowpad, so I should be able to pull something together with all of them. I had thought maybe I'd see some TSG/Spare Oom and that might get me over the "OMG I SUCK" angst insofar as that is concerned. But... Narnia it is.

[min023.livejournal.com]

Oh, silly me. Yes, you did say AW. Right then.

Well, what about the reaction when Edmund asked his teachers to learn Russian and German-that must surely have raised eyebrows in 1940s England? Or the reaction of the eminent parties to Lucy's remonstration re the Merchant Navy seamen? Or Kwong Lee's reaction? Or the scene where Peter decided to blitz the recruiting trials, or for that matter, when someone sent the local newspaper clipping to Mr Pevensie in New York? Mary's delight on reading Eustace's paper? A vignette from Susan's meeting with Yvonne Renee-Simon? What Lucy and Marjorie actually did to Anne Featherstone? Lucy's first big argument with the school vicar?

Or looking forwards - Jill's reaction on first meeting the unDragoned Eustace? The Pevensies' first meeting with Jill? The maternal reaction to the French finishing school proposal? Mary's first meeting with Susan? Walker-Smythe's first meeting with Asim, or maybe Colonel Clark. A later meeting between Susan and Agnes? Did Ruby find something befitting her skills and training? Did Mary go find something suitable for Ruby, turning half of Oxford upside down in the process? First Officer Mum Pole's first meeting with the Pevensies?

Take your pick - there must be something in that lot that will strike a chord. Oh, and BTW, no sucky angst allowed.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

oh wow. GREAT ideas there. I need to write a heist and then there's definitely some possibilities. THANKS! And Anastigmat has gone and done it again with commentfic in the next entry. I turn my back for a minute and suddenly Peter and Mary are in bed? Again? with steel toed boots and a bottle gin.

[(Anonymous)]

Just to make you sure - yes, there are some people here waiting for the new chapter of AW. Especially those, who are completely unfamiliar with Dr Who.
Krystyna

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks for stopping by Krystyna! It's lovely to hear from you! I have been doing Narnia work -- the Jess_in_Time story for the NFE, I love not man less for the NFE which is also on FF.net, and the Hwin and Aravis story! It's not AW, but there is Narnia there!

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I read them. I'm sorry I gave no feedback, but I was quite busy lately - I've just moved to Edinburgh. In that circumstances I decided not to feel obligated to comment fics which does not have Peter, Edmund or Lucy as one of main characters. And "I love not the man less..." is too difficult, too complicated and too deep to write anything about it fast. It certainly deserves something more then two and half sentences written in hurry. So - I had to leave it without comment.
Krystyna

[elouise82.livejournal.com]

I have no request for a ficlet, but I have to chime in to say - WOO-HOO Star Wars and Dr Who crossover!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you watched Who? In this case, on the SW side, and you'll appreciate this, I'm going back to Mara Jade after 16 years. When I last wrote her, we were about the same age -- I wrote her about 10 years after Wayland, 15 years post ROTJ. Now, I'm 16 years older and I'm writing her within a year of Wayland. Gawd, I hope this does not suck. I've sent the first 7,000 words off to a SW/DW friend so we'll see what she says. Mara Jade and River Song are truly BFFs. They were obviously separated at birth because no galaxy is big enough for the two of them. And, I've not written Talon Karrde since... oh, well, better not GO THERE. but that's been a long time, too. And Karrde really has a very low opinion of River Song. Blasters! Lightsabers that are really large tubes of lipstick! Shopping! Drinking! Frightening drunk pilots! Stealing things! Smashball betting pools!

Errr, right. need to write their con/break in and then I've got a complete draft. Gosh I hope it does not suck.

[elouise82.livejournal.com]

YAY MARA JADE.

I've never actually made it past the Ninth Doctor (or even all the way through his series), but I know enough about Dr Who that I can usually enjoy a good fanfic. And I keep planning to get through the rest of the series, it's just hard to find them all at my library (hey, we moved - I wonder if my new library has them?), and I have to be in the right mood to watch.

But smashball betting pools? I am SO in.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

“How did you know I have flight suits made for me?” Mara asked.

It was not something Mara discussed with anyone but in fact, she did have a weakness for well made things, good designs, and fine craftsmanship – whether in a blaster, boots, or evening dress. It was one of those regrettable results of a growing up in the Emperor’s company. Mara had a taste for the best quality money could buy and did not have the money now to afford it.

“Of course I can tell, Mara. I love shopping, so let’s go together and you can show me where you got it.”

As for the sambuca, Mara could guess what that was and where you would find it. Shopping with River. Mara had never shopped with a woman before.

She thumbed her comm. “Karrde, you there?”

“Yes, Mara?” her boss asked. He always took her calls and was probably looking for the pool results, but with her plan for what River called “retail therapy,” now was not a good time to tell Karrde that his smashball team had crashed and burned in the semi-final.

“River and I are going into the City to get some supplies for the job.”

“Can’t you get what you need out of our stores?”

“She’s an archaeological consultant and I’m her research assistant and bag carrier, so no, what we need for our cover to work on Wayland with the NRI isn’t going to be in our supply closet.” She’d need to dye her hair, too, and she wasn’t going to trust her hair to a bottle of propellant from the company store.

Mara waited.

“Oh, Karrde,” River put in. “Congratulations. You just pulled ahead in the smashball pool.”

Mara kicked River.

He did! River mouthed.

And you cheated!

“That’s fine, Mara,” Karrde said. “Draw what you need from our account.”

“We might stop and get something to eat afterwards, Karrde. Would you like to join us?” River asked.

Mara kicked River again.

“Thank you, but no,” Karrde said and abruptly disconnected.

“Why did you…” Oh, Mara realized.

River nodded. “I thought of mentioning we were going to stop at a beauty shop first, but he’d never believe it and get suspicious.”