The Purple Dragon Blog

I have discovered a great new Doctor Who fanfiction author, LizBee ( also at her website, also on ffnet, and here’s a funny Doctor cartoon by her on her deviantart account) although for some reason she spreads her work across a wide range of virtual places so that you have to visit everywhere to read all her stuff. She, like me, also lives in Brisbane, which is why ages ago she gave the following Doctor Who quote:

Tegan: What’s a Zero Room anyway? The Doctor said something about ‘null interfaces’.
Nyssa: I suppose it’s some sort of neutral environment. An isolated space, cut off from the rest of the universe.
Tegan: He should’ve told me that’s what he wanted. I could’ve shown him Brisbane.

 - which is of course, totally untrue in a sort of half-true way. I mean, we’re not some backwards little country town, we’re a million-and-something city, but it’s true we’re not that in connection with the rest of the world. We live up the top right corner when most everyone’s in the bottom right (you don’t want to go there, it’s cold and sometimes it snows, even.)

Also, I found out how to get Freema Agyeman’s autograph from her website, which of course I will lose no time in doing because I am a complete nerd.

Meme time! Was I tagged for it? No. Will that stop me? No.

Meme: Post a list of your top five favorite fics you’ve written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn’t about the BEST things you’ve written, but what you LOVE most.

Fave Fics List (in random order):

1.  A Forcible Nuisance. Vader has a daughter. Sometimes he wonders why he wanted one. I wrote this in, oh, grade twelve, which is when I really got started in fanfiction but was still pretty amateurish. I like it because I think I capture the father/kid daughter dynamic really well. It was inspired by the ‘Luke brought up by Vader’ series by Kitt, which is still awesome, touching and hilarious. (link)

2. Morerta and the Plague of Harry Potter fanfics. After a long absence, the goddess of Literature finds lit has been invaded. I liked this. It was sort of semi-parody, semi-original. One of my first really good stories, I think. Not brilliant, but good writing, good characters, amusing, all in a little one-shot format. It was really the one where I realised I’m better at writing humour than anything else. Anything else comes across as silly. (link)

3. The Necromancer. When Voldemort tries to resurrect Slytherin, someone else is along for the ride - Slytherin’s wife, aka the infamous Necromancer. Naturally Dumbledore hires them as teachers. Is that man insane? This is unfinished, but it’s one of my most-reviewed fics ever. It was a great idea, that I could have made work really well, but my inspiration didn’t extend to the details, so it lingers in the limbo of ‘things to one day be updated … if I can.’ (link)

4. Odd Companions. When Harry begins at Hogwarts, he brings a disconcerting friend, the Grim Reaper himself.  The first story I’ve successfully planned out and kept going even after the initial inspiration burned out. Also my most popular fic to date. Proud of this one. It’s a working fic. (link)

5.  Old Magic.  This has a whole lot of ideas not often seen in the HP fandom, based on old mythologies and ways of regarding nature. Came about after a discussion with my mum of how the old ‘mother goddess’ religions could apply to Lily Potter in the HP ‘verse, after things written in the earlier books. This story has a lot of depth to it, in the sense it draws on a lot of sources, it’s got a lot of potential, and it’s original. (link)

Less fandom next time.