I defaulted on the Night On Fic Mountain challenge. Not because the fic wasn’t coming along but because I completely messed up the dates and thought June 21 was the last day to put up the fic, instead of being the day it was revealed. I realised this only a day before the default-cut off, thankfully. I still have a half-finished fic, so I shall try to pull myself together and finish and gift it later. And I don’t think I shall sign up on Rarepair either because I know I always write less during summer.

But I was gifted by delightful little story, and I highly recommend you to read it!

Title: A Meeting of Curious Minds
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Rating: All ages
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 1370
Characters: John Childermas, Emma Pole, Arabella Strange
Warnings: None
Summary: 2 July, 1817

Mr Childermass,

I require your assistance in a matter of urgency and grave importance. Please come to no. 9 Harley-street at your earliest convenience. Mr Vinculus need not attend.

Your obedient servant,

Lady Pole

I have the flu and what better use of me laying in bed than write a bit about Doctor Who? I plunged heads on into fandom in the past few months, but I’m not a new fan. Nevertheless, after starting writing fanfic about it, I have thought a lot more about the show than before and I feel the need to write it down.

I never saw Doctor Who as I grew up, something I am quite annoyed with. I’m a child of the 70’s and just about every British series was aired in Sweden in the 70’s and 80’s and I watched Monthy Pyton, Black Adder, The Young Ones and Red Dwarf, but never DW. So when I started watching the show around 2003 I had not real idea of what to expect. Tom Baker was for me Puddleglum in Narnia, not the Doctor. I started the 1970 season, the year when DW became a show in colour, which means the Third Doctor was my very first one. I had seen most of old Who when it started again in 2005 and I began watching the new series. I’m currently re-watching new Who with my husband, who has never seen it before and we have just begun season 4. I’m also re-watching old Who, starting from the beginning and currently on season 21 with the Fifth Doctor.

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