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- Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (38)
- Sherlock (TV) (22)
- Doctor Who (2005) (21)
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Continuity, Change, and Casting: "The Timeless Children" by PlaidAdder
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
31 Jul 2020
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It is apparently going to be a rule that every new Doctor Who showrunner does a major reset of the show’s mythology about Gallifrey and the Time Lords. The purpose of it, as far as I can tell, is to create what the new showrunner considers a clear field for the stories he wants to tell. It is to some extent, then, always a utilitarian decision. Chris Chibnall has now done his own reboot, for what seem to me to be very specific reasons.
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- Part 18 of Doctor Who Meta
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She Was The Universe: The Haunting of Villa Diodati by PlaidAdder
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
26 Jul 2020
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- Part 17 of Doctor Who Meta
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- English
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- 1,840
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I liked this one so much I watched it twice. I have really appreciated the simpler storytelling and the stronger character work in the episodes thus far; but it’s nice to finally have an episode that works more with the speculative aspect of science fiction. “It Takes You Away” proves that you can in fact combine plot twists and wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey with character development and have everything enhance everything else. After several episodes ( “Rosa,” “Demons of the Punjab,” to some extent “Witchfinders”) in which the Doctor has to act by not acting or by transferring her authority to someone else, in “It Takes You Away” the Doctor has to use all her experience and ingenuity to solve this problem and to save all the humans for all the other humans who need them.
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- Part 16 of Doctor Who Meta
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Indistinguishable from Magic: "The Witchfinders" by PlaidAdder
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)
07 Jul 2020
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Many years ago I figured out that the only real difference between fantasy and science fiction lies in the way each genre explains the miraculous. Fantasy uses magic; science fiction uses technology. Fantasy gives us spirits, elves, and other magical beings; science fiction gives us aliens. And so on. The Doctor nods in this direction by quoting Arthur C. Clarke in her exit line to King James: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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- Part 15 of Doctor Who Meta
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Nearly everything I have to say about this episode is a spoiler except: enjoyed the performances; the plot pushed many of my buttons, and not in a good way. Can I rise above my own preconceptions and find something useful in this first of the real Plot Twist episodes? Let’s find out!
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- Part 14 of Doctor Who Meta
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Wild About Harry by PlaidAdder
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
26 Feb 2020
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This started as a post-Reichenbach fic and turned into a series in which Harry Watson is a repeating character. John and Sherlock get together in the first story ("Empty Houses") and thereafter it's either developing relationship or established relationship. Most of this is casefic and long, but there are a few shorter ones. I like plot.
"Empty Houses" is set one month after "The Reichenbach Fall." "The Young Men Carbuncular" is a sequel to it.
"Recovery" is a Doctor Who series 4 Donna fix-it in which Harry gets interested in helping Donna recover her memories. Ten and Donna are the protagonists; Sherlock and John make cameo appearances.
I wanted the series to be canon-compliant, and my original headcanon for Mary Morstan was completely incompatible with S3, so I reset the series timeline in "Last Dance."
"Law Like Love" is a fix-it for "His Last Vow." "Prior Engagements" is a sequel to it, beginning around nine years later.
"Christmas Time After Time" is my fix-it for Series 4.
"Missed Me" was my initial response to "The Final Problem."
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A collection of commentaries on Doctor Who (2005), mostly migrated in from tumblr and livejournal. Please note that I am not a fan of the Moffat Era, though I also have some major issues with the way Russel T. Davies chose to close the book on his own era.
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- 28,301
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Good Omens Meta by PlaidAdder
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Paradise Lost - John Milton
22 Jan 2020
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Essays about Good Omens, both the book and the TV adaptation.
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- 10,958
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Missing Pages by PlaidAdder
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
10 Jan 2020
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This is a group of interlinked short stories (most between 2000 and 7000 words) which tell the story of how Holmes and Watson really came to be separated at the Reichenbach Falls, and how they found each other again. Each story is in the form of a document--a letter, a journal, a surveillance report, an affidavit, etc.--which is linked to one or more ACD canon tales, and which tells us something about that story that was changed or suppressed in Watson's published account of it. Holmes/Watson, with glimpses of other relationships. Only one story ("The Boy in the Boat," which is f/f) is rated M. Everything else is T.
ACD canon stories that inspired "Missing Pages" include: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, "The Final Problem," "The Empty House," "The Naval Treaty," "The Greek Interpreter," "The Gloria Scott," "The Noble Bachelor," "The Copper Beeches," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," "The Devil's Foot," "The Illustrious Client."
Many stories work as stand-alones. If you want the whole arc, just read them in the order in which they are posted. Either way you slice it, I hope you enjoy!
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- 108,516
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- 27
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A Nightingale Sang by PlaidAdder
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
15 Aug 2019
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I appear to have started writing Good Omens fic. I will collect all my GO stories. Aziraphale & Crowley or Arizaphale/Crowley, however you prefer to read them. Enjoy!
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- 12,052
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In the Time of this Mortal Life by OldShrewsburyian
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Dec 2017
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Would Holmes really have left Watson without any word for three years? If he had tried to give Watson a clue to his safety, how would he have done it, and would Watson have understood? Set in the winter of 1891.
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- English
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- 2,709
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 24
- Kudos:
- 123
- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by PlaidAdder
19 Dec 2018
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A beautiful story of love, loss, hope, and music.