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tardis_libraryHi all! Time for another recs bingo! Here is my card and this is my bottom row, fifth column fill for the prompt: Monsters
Title: Be Afraid
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RobertSaysThis
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 7888
Creator's Summary: The world is getting darker, and it needs a different kind of Doctor. Here, she becomes a psychiatrist, fights creatures from beyond human understanding, and explains to a child why there is still hope in the world.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, original companion
Warnings: None.
Reasons for reccing: This is actually Part 1 of a series I've been working my way through, and the whole thing is really fantastic. It's dark and creepy and truly scary, but at the same time it's funny and hopeful and adventurous. In short, it is everything Doctor Who should be. I love the author's characterization of the Thirteenth Doctor; in a world where time is just a bit wrong somehow, blazing through adventures and defeating monsters wherever she goes. If you like this story (and you will, I promise), keep reading because it just keeps getting better. The author does a wonderful job of making the Doctor new and female and dealing with it, but still absolutely, recognizably herself. Imaginative, creative, scary, creepy, funny, with an underlying philosophy behind everything--dealing with adults and children, what it means to hope and how important it is to be afraid and honest in the face of fear and danger. And all building (I think) to a bigger mystery. It's like if Thirteen's new series took the best from new school and old school Who and mixed them together brilliantly.
Seriously, don't miss it!
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After what seemed like a thousand days the Doctor said she wanted to talk to Chris alone, and with reluctance her mother left the room.
“Sorry about that,” said the Doctor. “It's what grown ups want, to talk about children as if they weren't there. Your mother’s gone now, so we can be honest with each other.”
Chris braced herself. The worst sort of adult tried to get you on side, as if they understood you when in fact they didn't at all. You're not like me, Chris thought, you don’t remember what it’s like to be a child. The Doctor would pretend, though; Chris knew the drill. She knew the sort of thing this woman was going to say.
“So,” said the Doctor. “I'm an alien.”
Chris had been wrong.
**
Link again: Be Afraid
Title: Be Afraid
Creator:
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 7888
Creator's Summary: The world is getting darker, and it needs a different kind of Doctor. Here, she becomes a psychiatrist, fights creatures from beyond human understanding, and explains to a child why there is still hope in the world.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, original companion
Warnings: None.
Reasons for reccing: This is actually Part 1 of a series I've been working my way through, and the whole thing is really fantastic. It's dark and creepy and truly scary, but at the same time it's funny and hopeful and adventurous. In short, it is everything Doctor Who should be. I love the author's characterization of the Thirteenth Doctor; in a world where time is just a bit wrong somehow, blazing through adventures and defeating monsters wherever she goes. If you like this story (and you will, I promise), keep reading because it just keeps getting better. The author does a wonderful job of making the Doctor new and female and dealing with it, but still absolutely, recognizably herself. Imaginative, creative, scary, creepy, funny, with an underlying philosophy behind everything--dealing with adults and children, what it means to hope and how important it is to be afraid and honest in the face of fear and danger. And all building (I think) to a bigger mystery. It's like if Thirteen's new series took the best from new school and old school Who and mixed them together brilliantly.
Seriously, don't miss it!
**
After what seemed like a thousand days the Doctor said she wanted to talk to Chris alone, and with reluctance her mother left the room.
“Sorry about that,” said the Doctor. “It's what grown ups want, to talk about children as if they weren't there. Your mother’s gone now, so we can be honest with each other.”
Chris braced herself. The worst sort of adult tried to get you on side, as if they understood you when in fact they didn't at all. You're not like me, Chris thought, you don’t remember what it’s like to be a child. The Doctor would pretend, though; Chris knew the drill. She knew the sort of thing this woman was going to say.
“So,” said the Doctor. “I'm an alien.”
Chris had been wrong.
**
Link again: Be Afraid
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Date: 2018-08-05 06:04 pm (UTC)