And now for something completely different...

[auronlu]

This is a Final Fantasy blog. But it's also a fandom blog. So, here's something that's been distracting me, in a good way, for the past several months. The entire rough draft is finished (around 30K words), but later parts need more spit and polish before posting.

Doctor Who (Big Finish) Fanfiction, Team Five
—> Read it on AO3

Title: “Master’s Thesis” (Chapter 1 of Fiveish)
Characters: Fifth Doctor, older!Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Lasarti, and *cough* Matt Herse
Word Count: 2600
Summary: When Nyssa all but hijacks the TARDIS to return home, she discovers an old enemy taking a sinister interest in her family. Tiptoeing around temporal paradoxes means she can’t let the Doctor find out. It’s a good thing she has a friend like Tegan to rely on.
Continuity: Between Heroes of Sontar and Kiss of Death, but you don’t have to have listened to any Big Finish audio episodes to follow what’s going on here.

(photomanip mimicking the CD cover art used for Doctor Who audio episodes)

This was one of my favorite TARDIS teams back in 1980, except that the writers back then were clueless about how to write stubborn and/or smart women. Poor scriptwriting and sexism are usually NOT a problem in Big Finish studio's Doctor Who radio plays of the past several years, reuniting classic Who actors and giving their characters more development and respect than the TV series did. 

Comments

[samuraiter]

*applause*

As a Big Finish fan (especially of Doctor Eight), I heartily approve!

Thanks!

[auronlu]

I haven't yet fallen down the Eight rabbit hole, having first devoured every last Nyssa story. I've got the Sarah Jane Adventures and Gallifrey on my listening menu first, but I've picked up Dark Eyes (original) on a sale, intend to pick up Light at the End once I've finished current purchases (I think that's the only story with Nyssa I'm missing), and I am sure I'm going to love Eight when I finally get there. And Charley. And everybody. SO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON.

I can't believe I didn't know about Big Finish until last December. There are fifteen years of adventures with many of my favorite Doctors and companions, far longer than when each of them was originally on TV!

...and I'm editing chapter 2 of this story right now; it should be up by this evening. For once, I managed to hold off until I'd written the whole thing, although there's a chunk towards the end that needs to be beaten with a stick before I post it.

When I saw down and marked off the divisions yesterday, it turned out to be 11 chapters. Oops.

Re: Thanks!

[samuraiter]

:-) It feels good to be inspired, no? And it feels even better when you've got a whole new wealth of material upon which to draw.