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timepiececlockIn the last fanfic you wrote, what was your favorite sentence? Why?
All time travellers are wolves.
-from Beyond, my tPOTW Rose/TARDIS fic.
This wasn't the last fic I started, but it was the latest complete fic. I liked this sentence because... it was nice an short, for one thing. I usually am too wordy. I liked that I felt I could make this really strong comparison that not only played into the fairy tale themes of the ficlet, but also into the various portrayal of "wolf" or "wolves" as a symbol in both the new Doctor Who and the Dark Tower books. Also, I liked the sinister sound of the sentence, and that it's going back to the idea of Dark!Doctor that the Ninth Doctor's series was so focused on.
Plus it ties to Jack as well, since we don't really know how dark he is, and he was living as a con-man for a time, a wolf-like proffession for sure. And it applies to Rose for obvious reasons. So "all time travelers" is the good and the bad and the in between. Plus I like the idea of identifying Rose and Jack and the Doctor as part of a lumped together group of ALL the people that have ever travelled through time, human or Gallifreyan or otherwise, instead of the Doctor & companions being so unique and individual. There's the suggestion that all time travellers, good or bad, all desire the same thing in messing with time, all affect the timeline in basically the same way: like wolves. Is that good or bad? Are wolves noble beautiful creatures that have a complex social bonds and mate monogomously? Or are they vile and evil hunters of myth and nursery rhyme that kidnap children and leech off society? Well, maybe both.
I know that's a lot of explanation for one sentence, but the meme did ask for my favorite sentence.
All time travellers are wolves.
-from Beyond, my tPOTW Rose/TARDIS fic.
This wasn't the last fic I started, but it was the latest complete fic. I liked this sentence because... it was nice an short, for one thing. I usually am too wordy. I liked that I felt I could make this really strong comparison that not only played into the fairy tale themes of the ficlet, but also into the various portrayal of "wolf" or "wolves" as a symbol in both the new Doctor Who and the Dark Tower books. Also, I liked the sinister sound of the sentence, and that it's going back to the idea of Dark!Doctor that the Ninth Doctor's series was so focused on.
Plus it ties to Jack as well, since we don't really know how dark he is, and he was living as a con-man for a time, a wolf-like proffession for sure. And it applies to Rose for obvious reasons. So "all time travelers" is the good and the bad and the in between. Plus I like the idea of identifying Rose and Jack and the Doctor as part of a lumped together group of ALL the people that have ever travelled through time, human or Gallifreyan or otherwise, instead of the Doctor & companions being so unique and individual. There's the suggestion that all time travellers, good or bad, all desire the same thing in messing with time, all affect the timeline in basically the same way: like wolves. Is that good or bad? Are wolves noble beautiful creatures that have a complex social bonds and mate monogomously? Or are they vile and evil hunters of myth and nursery rhyme that kidnap children and leech off society? Well, maybe both.
I know that's a lot of explanation for one sentence, but the meme did ask for my favorite sentence.
