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[renrenren3]

FIRST OF ALL WELCOME EVERYONE FROM THE CRAZY merlin_land_ot FRIENDING MEME! I'm totally friending everyone I wasn't already friends with because it was the greatest thing ever.

And speaking of memes, since I was talking about this with Jen earlier:

1. Make a list of 15 characters.
2. SHOW THAT LIST TO SOMEONE AND YOU DIE.
3. Let the people of your FList comment one (1) number and one song they've chosen.
4. WITHOUT SHOWING YOUR LIST, write something about the character, using the song to inspire yourself.
5. You done? Good. Now you can go and show which character or couple it was.
6. It's a meme with a twist!!

Yeees, it's the one I've already posted before but since I only got one reply (#13) and I've friended like 12 new people since then I figured it might be worth a shot to try and get your interest again. The fandoms are Merlin, Doctor Who, Torchwood, SPN, The Big Bang Theory, Inception, ASOIAF, Temeraire, Locke Lamora. And also Castle which I totally forgot about.
HIZA I SWEAR YOUR FICLET IS COMING! Kinda sorta.

#14 is still open! Not that you probably know that character anyway. :|

#1 - The Doctor - If I Could Turn Back Time by Cher for ladybracknell
#2 - Vivian - Falling by Florence + The Machine for teaboytoaliens
#3 - Ianto Jones - I'm Yours by The Script for denija
#4 - Ariadne - Servant of Evil by Kagamine Len for mizunosakura
#5 - Arthur - Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me from Rocky Horror Picture Show for darkmagic_luvr
#6 - Jean Tannen - Give Us a Little Love by Fallulah for amaranthine3
#7 - Kate Beckett - All the Right Moves by OneRepublic for gallifreycalls
#8 - Bohemian Rhapsody for paenteom
#9 - Penny - 10,000 Nights by Alphabeat for imyourheroine
#10 - Gwaine - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by The Police from redjumper
#11 - Richard Castle - Hurricane Drunk by Florence and the Machine for bizarre_esque
#12 - I'm Still Here for hiza_chan WHO TOTALLY DIDN'T CHEAT!
#13 - Locke Lamora - Stripped by Shiny Toy Guns for hiza_chan
#14 -
#15 - Castiel - I Won't Say I'm in Love from Hercules for batgurl88



ALSO EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN sherlockmas BECAUSE I SAY SO AND BECAUSE I'M ENTERING TOO MANY EXCHANGES AND I NEED SOME COMPANY IN MY DESCENT INTO MADNESS.

And no, I still haven't watched Merlin, though I did watch SPN but I keep forgetting to post about it because I find the vampire plot kinda boring. Also watched Children of Earth today. Russel T. Davies owes me three hours of my life back. And I'm just 4 episodes away from finishing Doctor Who S5, what am I going to do after? D:

Oh, I see it's midnight right now. Here, have a totally useless manip:

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#1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[renrenren3]

Reposted an improved version, now with spelling! Whee!

So you totally picked the Time Lord with the time travelling machine for this one! I don't know if you're a Doctor Who fan, but this is what you got. :)
I more or less took this as a free pass to look into the Doctor's brain. Whee!

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Out of all the people in the universe, the Doctor should know about time travel. Time Lord, last of them, it comes with the job description. Well, not a job per se, more like a hobby. A very absorbing, full-time hobby that threatens to kill him constantly (and sometimes has). Nevertheless.

The Doctor knows all about time, thank you very much. Wibbly wobbly and everything. He might not be good at explaining it, especially to humans, especially when there's something about to blow up and not much time to get into the tricky details of non-linear time and space, but it's all very clear in his mind.

Fixed points and points in flux. It's as simple as that for him, and if someone were to ask him what was the difference he wouldn't be able to explain. People have asked, actually. They keep asking all the time. As far as the Doctor is concerned, they might as well be asking why the sky is blue instead of purple. It just is.

(Okay, the Doctor would be perfectly able to explain that it's because of the sunlight scattering in the air. And it's not even true of all planets, not even most planets, but 21st century humans are so self-absorbed. Maybe the metaphor was not completely correct, but it doesn't matter since most people wouldn't understand anyway.)

So, the Doctor knows only too well that he can't just hop on the TARDIS and go back every time he makes a mistake. All kinds of terrible things could happen, such as dying or a couple of planets blowing up. And that's just the best possible outcome.

Of course this is the simplified version that he gives to his friends to keep them from getting any strange ideas. One of them meeting their past or future self, now that could really make the universe implode. They couldn't handle it. Not like the Doctor does.

For all his talk about not intersecting his own timeline, the Doctor has been able to meet himself on several different occasions without suffering anything worse than mild embarrassment at his own past fashion choices.

(Well, apart from that occasion, that had been a close one. And that other time, but he's not going to bring it up now. Or ever again. In fact, let's just forget it happened. Except that it'll happen again in his future...)

The point is, in many cases the Doctor could go back in time to fix his own mistakes. Sometimes he's so close to do it, he just wants to ignore all consequences and go. He never does, but he always ends up regretting it, imagining all the possible scenarios in which things things went a different way.

And he knows that in some other parallel universe things did go differently, and maybe there's another Doctor who went back and now is happier. Or possibly dead. He'll never know. He's decided to play by the rules.

At least for most of the time. Then there's times when he just doesn't care and goes back to watch the moon landing four times in a week, standing side by side with himself and grinning like a loon while humanity takes its first steps into space. He doesn't regret a single one of those trips.

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[paenteom.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much I giggled when I read which character was picked for the song.

I thought you would make a sobfest out of it, but this was actually quite hopeful.
And I loved how you always interrupted the whole thing with minor details, because that's how I imagine his thought process.

The Doctor knows all about time, thank you very much. Wibbly wobbly and everything. He might not be good at explaining it, especially to humans, especially when there's something about to blow up and not much time to get into the tricky details of non-linear time and space, but it's all very clear in his mind.

I have so much love for this part. ♥

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[renrenren3]

You have no idea how much I giggled when I read which character was picked for the song.

IKR. It was so ridiculously appropriate.

And, you know, I'm not much into sadfic. I thought, screw this, the Doctor totally goes back in time when he wants to!

His thought process = awesome. I love how he keeps getting distracted by other things when he's talking. Especially in Blink, that's the episode I had in mind when writing this. So much love for Moffat. ♥

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is SO perfect! You have a real lightness of touch and I think you really captured the Doctor's way of thinking and his humour. I love the line about being embarrassed about his clothing choices.

Thank you ♥

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[renrenren3]

Thanks to you for, er, being slightly psychic with your choice of songs. :)
I'm happy you liked it.

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

This made me smile so much. The ending, god, watching the moon landing next to himself and humans being so self absorbed. God, this whole things SCREAMED The Doctor. You wrote him so wonderfully. ♥

Re: #1 - The Doctor (Doctor Who) - If I Could Turn Back Time

[renrenren3]

Thanks. ♥ I kind of love the Doctor. Any Doctor.