Fixed Point In Time • Here's Another Illustration Of Mine For Magic The Gathering's Doctor Who Set!!

compilation of every single time I drew that one cathedral scene (that I could find)

if you marry me

would you bury me?

cant stop thinking about 'i misjudged you, chancellor' not only bc of the theopin parasite in my head but bc he truly did not in any shape or form need to say that. like theo's character has always always been about honor and pride and loyalty and the ONLY thing he ever allowed himself to be blindsighted on has always been lapin. soo honorable sooo professional but when it came to lapin he allowed himself to be different. and i dont believe it ever came from a real place of dislike. no rather it came from a recognition that he COULD do this w lapin and not ever be actually slighted for it by lapin or anyone really (since no one liked my bbg lapin all that much lets admit). all those years of obedience and devotion and lapin was the only one he could be honest w by bitching at him. and then there comes the battle on the whatever road and he's suddenly really seeing lapin in action for the first time and he well knows what ppl do in a battle tells a lot about them and what lapin does is. basically the exact same thing theo's been doing for years. he protects. his only objective is to keep the royal family safe and suddenly theo just. respects him. fucking DEFENDS him to callroy who he has known for a long time and has decidedly been on better terms with. says with ABSOLUTE conviction that lapin didn't do this. doesn't engage in lapin riling him up simply laughs softly. asks for HELP and fucking agrees with lapin do you UNDERSTAND????? do you understand how much that one battle changed theo's demeanor and view of lapin and how significant it was for him ohhhbhhh ive gotten so off topic but my point is he has known since then that he misjudged lapin and the fact that he fucking SAID it admitting to making YEARS OF MISTAKES and damaging his pride in turn but not caring bc he NEEDED LAPIN TO KNOW THAT HE MISJUDGED HIM AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG ABOUT HIM !!!!! i need to lie down

twelve spending 4.5 billion years punching through a 20ft thick wall of azbantium, a material apparently 400x harder than diamond, dying repeatedly in the process, all so he could get clara back... like whether you see them as platonic or romantic you cannot deny that he quite literally loved her to death

Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

mutually assured destruction

Brennan is to Sam what Emily is to Brennan. Vic is to Sam what Beardsley is to Brennan.