Beyond the Roundels

Title UNIT: Stardust
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: WIP
Characters: Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, the Master, Colonel Crichton, various OC 80s UNIT members.
Summary: October 1986: The Doctor and Evelyn arrive at UNIT just as the Colonel and his team are investigating the arrival of some mysterious aliens. Worse, the Doctor suspects a very familiar foe may be to blame.

Well, here we go again... I hope this works, what with juggling all these characters, but look! I wroted something with the Doctor actually in it. ;-)

Six and Evelyn, too, who are rather fun by themselves anyway. No Evil Torchwood this time, but the Master is nasty enough all by himself.

As usual, you'll need to patient until it appears on Teaspoon. (Well, you know, assuming everyone's not rolling their eyes and going "Not another of those UNIT fics...")

...looking for a present for my Dad. (And since his birthday list is miles too short, he still hasn't got one, but I have an idea.)

And then I saw Blake's 7 S3 sitting on the shelf, all on its lonesome. ("It's a sign!" cried my optimistic self. The other half of me raised an eyebrow and said, "It's £10 dearer than on Amazon, you were supposed to be having a break, you've still got the commentaries, you want to write your story and don't be silly.")

And then while I was staring at it battling temptation (get this straight, Tanith Lee wrote an episode?) a 10 year old boy and his mum arrived beside me and started looking at the Doctor Who stuff. I earwigged, as you do. And what was he after? He only likes Colin Baker, apparently. This made my day and I forgot I wasn't allowed to do the Librarian thing and stepped in to help Mystified Mum ("I like David Tennant") who was baffled by the absence of a Season boxset, barring this Trial of a Time Lord thing by explaining how classic DW releases worked. "He really loves Colin Baker," she informed me with a shrug, obviously thinking I was sane (which she wouldn't if she'd known I was staring at B7 S3).

Isn't that great?

Which reminds me, I haven't actually signed up for sixathon properly yet. I at least know which companions I want prompts for. I'm looking forward to it - the time scheme is pretty decent and I do like writing for Six.

I'm just rubbish at coming up with prompts. I mean, if I had a story idea, I'd probably be writing it, more fool me.

I just thought of an overly cute ending for Strange Weapons. *Glares at self* Said story is not cute. Well, it had better not be. Grr.

Oh, I didn't buy S3!

In the meantime, a fun piece I wrote when I read G K Chesterton's A Ballade of Suicide while looking for something else.

Ballad of Suicide (I Think I Will Not Hang Myself Today)
(Sixth Doctor, All ages)
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=26319
Six should not be left alone with his mood swings...

The poem sounded so like Six I couldn't help it.  Aside from everything else, it even mentions H G Wells and has the line: "And decadents decay and pedants pall."  Plus, I have a feeling that the Doctor (or some of him) might get on well with Chesterton.  His celebration of the small things in life particularly.  Four and Six would enjoy his attitude to wine, I suspect.  ("I don't get where the water goes as long as it doesn't get into the wine.")

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."  (G K Chesterton 'On running after one's hat'). 

And the fact that he was going to write an ode to the things in his pocket, but "It would be too long and the age of epics is past."