#it would be fun to spot things that happen and match them to tentoo fics haha

[chiaroscuroverse]

Spoilers Ahoy

I don’t even know if this will be that coherent, but overall, I am so full of joy and love for Big Finish and how they continue to make dreams come true!!! 

So anyone who is worried and wanted to wait before listening, go right ahead! The details might vary, their Pete’s World has elements that might not conform the the billion-thousand fics we’ve read, but it gets to the very heart of us (putting a cut here, sorry if mobile borks it):

1. TENTOO IS THE DOCTOR

2. TENTOO LOVES ROSE, OPEN AND COMPLETELY, THEY ARE TOGETHER

Just to think that both Tentoo and Jackie thought it was reasonable that Rose and Pete might conspire to create a mystery and then send Jackie and the Doctor off to handle it together for bonding purposes, just think about how telling that is about EVERYONE’S relationships! I have always loved Jackie written as instantly accepting and motherly, but given the situation this writer was handed (a Camille/Jackie story - make it compelling), it makes total sense to lean into the angst of Jackie’s acceptance. But she got there!

Once again, I am amazed by the little details that let all of us feel exactly how the Doctor must be feeling in this situation. Frustrated by Jackie, but ultimately so full of love for her. I was clinging to every little description of the Doctor’s behavior, and when she said something like “he crossed his legs!” I laughed out loud, because it’s just all soo Doctor. And then the angst and love started flowing and I started crying and basically haven’t stopped. 

I was NOT someone who ever wanted canon Pete’s World content. I was very happy to leave it in the realm of fic, but this series has won me over. Now I am craving David and Billie to get back in there and do some Tentoo and Rose adventures, throw in the entire Tyler family for funny domestics! 

And here’s the thing I keep thinking about - full of amazement...IT IS TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, people!! Our ship has been off the air for ten years! And here we are getting new content! 

With likely more to come depending on fan reaction (and oh, I will be reacting). Please give Big Finish all the love and support and PAID DOWNLOADS (it’s so cheap!!). 

sidenote: This is happening the same week that Chris Eccleston did his first DW con appearance. It is no longer a crazy pipe dream that he might do Big Finish with Billie!!!! Let’s give them all the sales we can!!

see also: @kelkat9​ ‘s recap for more details and all the quote posts that @meanwhileinpetesworld and @tinyconfusion are doing 

eta: one quibble I meant to mention is much more so than the first one, it got confusing as to who was saying what when. Because Camille was doing voices for three characters while telling a story and sometimes flashing back?? yeah, I had to rewind some stuff. So it will definitely benefit from a full re-listen. 

Part 1 review

buy story one here / story two here 

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F H M O

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Hmmm… This is going to come from Perfect Match (because that fic has owned my soul for four months now XD)

It’s the scene where the first official “I love you”s come out, and I love it so much because they’re just making up from their first major fight, and they’re both trying to figure out what each other thinks of their relationship, and there are so many major heartbreaking miscommunications, so it’s so satisfying to finally hear them profess their love and commitment to each other.

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“You don’t have to not have sex. Really. It’s okay. I understand.”No, Rose, you DON’T understand. I don’t WANT to have sex with anyone. I know it’s an old-fashioned notion, and it’s okay if you don’t feel the same. But for me, there’s only you. There’s only ever been you. I’m in love with you, and you alone, and you’re the only one I would ever want to be intimate with.Rose’s head was spinning as her eyes stayed fixed on that four-letter word. I’m in love with you. He loved her? Really, properly, loved her?That didn’t make any sense.“You do?”You’re kidding. Please tell me you’re kidding.Uncertainty started to creep back into Rose’s brain, and a long minute passed where she continued to stare at her arm with her heart beating in her throat before his handwriting quickly and messily appeared on her arm.I thought you knew! Rose, listen to me very carefully: you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Ever. I don’t think I’ve ever told you this, but I want you to know:Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted a soulmate. My parents are soulmates, and I’ve seen the love and happiness they share together, and I desperately wanted that, to share that with someone. When I was five years old, I tried connecting to my soulmate, to you, but you didn’t exist yet. For years I tried connecting with you. But you just weren’t old enough. I finally admitted to myself that I just couldn’t be matched with anyone, and I was convinced I was one of the Unclaimed. Until that New Year’s Day. I woke up and my life was changed forever. You, Rose Tyler, have been the best part of my life since that day. There’s not a day that goes by that I am not incredibly grateful for your existence, and for being your soulmate, and for you being mine. It kills me that you’ve doubted my feelings and affections for you. I thought you knew, and I didn’t think it needed saying, because you’re my soulmate, and we’re each other’s other half. But listen to me now: you are everything I could’ve asked for and more, and there isn’t any other person I would rather be soulmated to. I love you. So please don’t ever think otherwise.By the time he stopped writing, her tears had started up again, but this time, they were dripping down over a smile. Her heart felt full to bursting with love and happiness for James, and relief that he did feel the same way about her that she felt about him.She picked up her pen and rotated her arms to find a strip of clean skin to write on, and finally found a spot on her right bicep.“I love you, too, James,” she wrote, and she suddenly felt self-conscious that he’d written her half a novel professing his love for her, and she gave him five words. “I’ve loved you for years. But it’s felt different for awhile now. Deeper, somehow. Like how a book shows love. Does that make any sense? It’s like you’ve been my best friend since I was five, and you’re still my best friend, but you’re so much more than that too.”That’s how I feel too, Rose. And that’s love, I think. A best friend but also more. I quite like that.

H: How would you describe your style?

Uhmmm… erratic? Rambly? I feel like I throw words together and hope they sound good? And I feel like this is a question other people could answer better. I just write for fun and don’t particularly pay attention to style or anything.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

I’ve got at least 3 WIPs moseying around in my head. Or, wait… maybe four…

Only one is concretely plotted out. Well, as plotted as I can plot. That’s the prequel to Making it Official that I think I told you about? Anyhoo, it’s the story of James meeting Rose and Mattie, and falling hopelessly in love with them and making a little family of themselves.

WIP2 is a Tentoo x Rose story where Rose goes missing after traveling to some other country to implement a Torchwood facility there. This one is kind of sort of plotted. At least, I have a general idea of the direction it would take.

WIP3 is another Tentoo x Rose fic where the Doctor is poisoned by some sort of “fear gas” and gets trapped in his nightmares for a few hours (days?). This one is not at all plotted out.

And WIP4 is an idea I think I mentioned to you a few months ago, where the Doctor has just lost Rose to Pete’s World, but when he goes to bed that night, he wakes up on the floor of the TARDIS during The Christmas Invasion (right before battling the Sycorax), because the TARDIS is giving him another chance to get it all right. Buuuut this one would be a complete S2 rewrite, and I don’t have the patience or discipline for that quite yet.

O: How do you begin a story–with the plot, or the characters?

Definitely plot. If I don’t know what’s going on, I can’t put any characters into the situation.

Ask me ficcy questions?

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