An Eleven Rec (no really)

[such_heights]

I am looking at the final episodes of SGA. They are looking at me. I am not sure who will win. I am contemplating just watching Vegas now. I am contemplating just watching the finale now. I am contemplating speeding through all four of them this evening. Oh, show, what am I to do with you? Well, hopefully sit down and really write some fic about it at some point. ... which would sort of require me being caught up on all the canon first. Right then.

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They are spreading like a disease around the internet at the moment, and I must ask, what is with the horrible, horrible Eleventh Doctor manips? (Well, that's a question for the ages: what is with horribly-done manipulated photography, at all, ever.) I say this with no bias against particular ships or anything, because sweet lord they are not limited to one ship, more is the pity. Personally I am not the greatest fan of manips in general, but hey, I'm often impressed with how well they're done and in those instances they do me the kindness of not burning my eyes. (Petty complaint is petty.)

Anyway, you know the times really are changing when there's an Eleventh Doctor section on Teaspoon, gosh. 'But wait!' I hear you say. 'How can there be Eleven fic? There can't be good Eleven fic, surely? How would you even write it?' And mostly I would be inclined to agree. But the last question is answered if you are paperclipbitch, and you write No Straight And Narrow, and then you win the internet. Thus, rec!

No Straight And Narrow by paperclipbitch
Eleven; Donna, Lucy, Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack ; PG ; 5000 words
The Doctor isn’t entirely sure who he is, but he does know who he was.

This wins both for the author's take on what Eleven might be like (to which my response is YES PLZ Moffat are you listening?) and also for his interactions with old acquaintances, which are thoughtful, apt, funny, and often a little heartbreaking.

Comments

[nekare.livejournal.com]

Yesss, Eleven fic. I've been wanting to read some, but was too afraid to venture after it, knowing that I'd probably just find crappy sappy fic with horrible Eleven/Rose manips on top. Which brings us to your point, re:manips. I hate them. There are a couple good ones, sure. Whatever, though, most of them are awful and deserve to die in fires and I hate it when people call it 'fanart' learn the definition of art, whiny fangirls! Icons, too, aren't art. Those I adore if done well, but they're still not art, they're design. Tsk, tsk.

(my mind still wants to weep at the memory of those horrible manips of the Master whipping the Doctor in leather bikinis and the like. EW. Those, and the ever popular 'ZOMG LETZ GOTH SAM & DEAN OMG ZO KUUTE' theme. Errr.)

[such_heights]

YES. WHAT YOU SAID. Okay, even worse, even worse than the atrocities you list are those bloody mpreg manips. DO NOT WANT, especially when it's all 'ooh look, now my slash pairing of choice can truly be happy on account of how I made one of them GROW A WOMB and EXPERIENCE THE MIRACLE OF LIFE' and argh argh argh. DO NOT WANT.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

God you and your recs! 1) its impossible for me to not take your advice and go read them and 2) you always find the heart tuggers! *dies*

[such_heights]

paperclipbitch OWNS MY SOUL, true fact.

[saint-claws.livejournal.com]

Ughhhhhh yes. I hate manips, even if I like the ship! I find them really creepy.

[such_heights]

So so creepy. What's wrong with just making it so they're standing next to each other or something? And pasting people's heads onto other people's bodies, however seamlessly, is disturbing.