it was the best (a call for happy things)

[such_heights]

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.

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Okay, no, enough. I refuse to continue feeling so sad that the Ponds' time on Doctor Who has come to an end without also looking back and remembering what made their era so great.

I just went through the fanart tag on my DW tumblr, which is full of adorable things by talented people. This evening, I think I shall indulge in a few of my favourite vids, like Read My Mind, What I Like About You, You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate, Stray Italian Greyhound and Stuck To You. Maybe I'll reread some favourite stories.

Fandom means that no story ever has to end, that's the beauty of it. And this one's not over yet, not for me.

So, if you're missing Amy and Rory's era too, come on in. Tell me about something you love, in the fandom or the canon. Something that makes you smile.

And if you like, tell me about what they're doing now.

For my part, I like to think about Rory quietly changing the nursing world, and Amy writing amazing science fiction novels about girls who do impossible things, and the two of them fostering a bunch of kids and raising money for orphanages.

I like to think about River coming round for tea, because of course she'll find a way. And maybe sometimes she brings a set of very confused grandparents with her. And maybe, once or twice, a older, wiser Doctor, who may know that you can't always rewrite time, but you can work around it a little.

I like to think about all the friends they'll have, old and new - the Doctor's friends are scattered all through time, after all. Maybe Amy will mentor a young Sarah Jane. Maybe they'll run into Canton Delaware again. And for those of an Avengers crossover persuasion, I really like to imagine them hanging out with Peggy and Steve. I think they'd have a lot to talk about.

If you just need a hug, I have plenty of those to give out as well. ♥ ♥ ♥

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I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay, we're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best.

Comments

[mockerybird]

For my part, I like to think about Rory quietly changing the nursing world, and Amy writing amazing science fiction novels about girls who do impossible things, and the two of them fostering a bunch of kids and raising money for orphanages.

this, so much. ♥

(i'm still so sad though. :/ i think i'll rewatch the whole thing from season one...)

[such_heights]

<33333 Rewatching is definitely a good call.

[ladymercury_10]

Oh wow, if you are sharing recs, that is very exciting. Because you always make such lovely things, that I imagine the things you like are lovely as well. I think I might have to take a look, if my midterms this week don't eat me alive. :P

Amy writing science fiction, OMG YES.

I have read so many lovely things lately, and ever. I keep most of them in either my LJ memories or my Teaspoon favorites or my AO3 bookmarks if you'd like to peek. (I have the same name on the AO3, and on the Teaspoon I am Lady Mercury.) And last night I ran across this post-finale fic which was absolutely everything I had wanted for Amy and Rory, and you should go read it right now, if you have time. :D

*hugs*

And Amy and Rory really do feel like a story to me now, all the best kinds of stories that I loved as a kid and as a teenager, the kinds I fell inside. That are sort of far away now, but also timeless, and always waiting for me if I ever want to go back.

[such_heights]

a;lskdja that fic is SO WONDERFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH. *memorises it*

[frayadjacent]

Oh, I love that fic! The ending brought little tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow okay this isn't even slightly creepy of me but hello, I am a stalker, I really, um, read and stalk all of your fanfics, all the fanfics of apparently everyone here which is how I found this in the first place, to stalk people in fandom who I admire the fanfics of! So, y'know, four for you, you go Glen Coco.

THE POINT: I am also the person who wrote that story you recced, and, um, wow. Thank you. Seriously. I love your fanfics and the fanfics of everyone probably reading this and I really don't deserve to have my I WANT TO BARF THIS OUT BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES fanfic recced to infinity and beyond and hello and thanks for the attention and ahhhh and yes I'm a creeper! hi.

[ladymercury_10]

Hello! Haha, thank you very much! And your fic was quite lovely and deserved the attention. :P

[coffeesuperhero]

It is my headcanon now and forevermore that they know Steve and Bucky and are BFF with Peggy Carter and Howard Stark and help found SHIELD and River comes around when she can and every so often an older and wiser Doctor who maybe once looks like Benedict Cumberbatch (because the Doctor gets to have red hair one of these years) and maybe once looks like Chiwetel Ejiofor (because CAST HIM AS TWELVE ALREADY) and turns up at a baseball game where Amy and Rory have taken the passel of children they have adopted or at a play or a restaurant where he sneakily pays for their dinner and then slips away and doesn't say anything, and maybe sometimes when he can manage it he actually talks to them, and maybe he tells them who he is or maybe they all just know and nobody says anything but they all have big hugs before he disappears for a few years.

And I am writing that story if I can stop weeping.

[such_heights]

omgggg I will read and reread that story forever and ever. *sits at your feet*

[coffeesuperhero]

I'm thinking of writing it like a novel, chapter titles and all? Might even do a mock cover, have it start with the Doctor finding another book in his coat, or whatever he's wearing in a few regenerations. And this time the Doctor knows he has to read the last page. If I wrote it like Melody Malone it would be in first person and I don't know how I feel about that? WORDS, WHY ARE THEY SO DIFFICULT.

But regardless of words being hard and feelings getting in my way, I AM WRITING IT. Because Pooooooooooonds + Steeeeeeeeeeeeeve + Peggyyyyyyy and omg later they can meet Nick Fury, omg. And clearly Canton makes an appearance because we know how I love him and OMG MAYBE HE CAN BE PHIL'S DAD AND AMY AND RORY CAN BABYSIT TINY PHIIIIIL.

Uh. Feelings. I have some.

[such_heights]

Erin. Erin. I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS STORY. LIKE REALLY BADLY. OMG I LOVE YOUR BRAIN.

BABY PHIL. YES. a;lsdja

[coffeesuperhero]

I WANT TO WRITE IT REALLY BADLY UGH WHY DO I HAVE WORK TO DO

Also why must I only write novel-length fic any more what is my life

BUT BABY PHIL AND PONDS a;lakjsd;lfkjasdf;

[coffeesuperhero]

I JUST STARTED WRITING
AND THIS IS CRAZY
BUT I HOPE YOU LOVE THIS STORY
SO PREVIEW IT MAYBE?


For Melody, Peggy, Bucky, and Steve, our knights in shining armor, and to Phil, who still believes in heroes.


Foreword

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Time Lord wandering the universe is in need of a good companion: otherwise he goes all Mister Grumpyface, and that's no fun for anyone.

Oh, come on. You didn't think you'd heard the last of the Ponds, did you?

You may have turned the page on us, but our story is far from over. And this is one book, Raggedy Man, where you absolutely have to read the last page.


Sword & Shield
A Modern Fairytale
By Amelia & R.A. Williams
Illustrations by Amelia Williams


Chapter 1 …. A Hero Grows (Up) In Brooklyn
Chapter 2 …. A River Runs Through It
Chapter 3 …. War Stories
Chapter 4 …. Come Along, Ponds
Chapter 5 …. Yankee, Come Home
Chapter 6 …. The Fast and the Furious
Chapter 7 …. Liberty and Independence
Chapter 8 …. Happily Ever After
Chapter 9 …. Life of Brian

[elisi]

This fic.

That's all. (Warning: Might break your heart in the way only Ponds can. But you'll love them even more.)

[such_heights]

Yes, that's lovely. Thank you!

[pocketmouse]

I don't have a headcanon for when they ended up, since we didn't see it and I think my actual headcanon is that we'll find out for sure later (because the Doctor lies, River lies, and we already know that facts of the universe don't actually mean they really happened).

But if they are back that far in time, I think they help found UNIT. And one day, maybe they're retired, maybe they're just busy, they hear some rumors about the newest scientific advisor. And they look at each other, and they're old and grey like the Doctor never wanted to see, and so they go, knowing he won't ever recognize him. And he's older too, but younger, and Amy wants to hug him but knows how psychic aliens work, so instead she settles for hugging Rory and keeping a weather eye on the advisor's assistant, and supplying them all with plenty of explosives.

Rory warns her about the daffodils, though.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

I approve all of this

[such_heights]

I really am very curious as to whether we'll see this revisited - I'd like it if we did!

And I want all the stories in the world about their UNIT adventures and crossovers with various Classic Who companions, yes.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

WRITE EVERYTHING!!!

[such_heights]

WORKING ON IT.

[bradcpu]

Fandom means that no story ever has to end, that's the beauty of it.
That hit me where I live. Seriously.

As for recs, Lullaby for a Stormy Night will always define the Amy era to me.

[such_heights]

Oh gosh, thank you. That's a lovely thing to say.

[ashpags]

Notcryingnotcryingnotcrying.

Yes please to Amy mentoring a wee Sarah Jane. And the Ponds double-dating with Steve and Peggy is positively delightful! Of course River visits them. And looks after the Doctor in between...I worry about him!

[such_heights]

<333333

He really will be okay. His hearts will mend, he'll take a lot of comfort in the fact they're living happily ever after, and he's going to meet someone new and wonderful soon.

[joking]

I like to think about all the girls Amy Pond must inspire in the past. She grew up in a time with a much broader gendered imagination, and all the girls who grew up in a narrower time must be so awed by her, how she imagines that she can do anything. She must become such a role model.

[such_heights]

YES THIS. *___* Completely fearless and loud about what she believes and being an inspiration, eeee.

[kaydeefalls]

I like to think about all the friends they'll have, old and new - the Doctor's friends are scattered all through time, after all. Maybe Amy will mentor a young Sarah Jane. Maybe they'll run into Canton Delaware again.

Hilariously, I started writing this fic about an hour after watching the episode on Saturday night.

[such_heights]

YAY I'M SO GLAD. :D

[influencings]

I just picture the Doctor in a guilty sulk about how he puts people in danger, and he starts angsting about it to Martha or Sarah Jane and they just cut him off at the end, like, "So, you're saying Amy and Rory lived a long and happy life together and died at a ripe old age having seen the universe? You're right, they totally would have been better off without you. Or not. Stop being such a jackass."

And/or, Jack is back in the TARDIS one day years later. He starts reminiscing about an affair with a lovely Scottish redhead and her husband back in 1930s New York. The Doctor goes "WHAT" and snaps a lever on the console clean off and refuses to ever tell him why. (But the TARDIS gives Jack the Ponds' old room that night because she always was fond of the pretty boys. He gets a few ideas about bunk beds.)

[such_heights]

YES. ALL OF THIS IS TRUE. :D