Five things meme response the fifth
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selenakFor jesuswasbatman:
The Doctor's five favourite things that the TARDIS looked like, back when the chameleon circuit actually worked.
1.) A bridge on an ice world. Not only did it look pretty spectacular, but it also was extremely useful.
2.) Harry Houdini’s box of tricks. Mind you, this made Houdini less than happy, but aber the zombies arrived he and the Doctor teamed up, and Houdini even taught him some tricks, hence Two’s thing with cards, Three picking up flowers of thin air, and Seven doing ye olde coin-behind-ears-thing for Ace.
3.) A wardrobe in the room of two boys named Jack and Warnie in Ulster. Actually, the TARDIS was a wardrobe quite often, but only one of those wardrobes inspired Narnia, so there you go. The Doctor does feel a bit guilty for the fact that Jack crushed on Susan and didn’t respond well at all to her not returning his feelings, though. It had… consequences.
4.) A coral reef on a water planet. There was the problem of getting out of the TARDIS, granted, but she blended in beautifully, and the look was absolutely graceful. The TARDIS thought so, too, and reused the coral idea at least for the interior on later occasions.
5.) A carousel in Vienna. To be precise, in the Wurstelprater amusement park, or, as the natives say, Prater. Nobody noticed that instead of coming up solely with horses, the TARDIS displayed animals from all over the galaxy. The children loved it. It made dematerializing a bit difficult, but it was worth it.
For Silverweave:
Five temp jobs Donna Noble never had
1.) Some old bore named Quentin Travers needed a temp to take down his memos, which were all about chastising someone named Rupert Giles in Sunnydale. Frankly, if Donna had to work for Travers longer than a week, she’d have run off to California too.
2.) Babysitting for some ambassador’s son named Damien. Donna is anti-corporal punishment for kids usually, but that boy really deserved the smacking she gave him. Unfortunately, the ambassador didn’t see that way and dismissed her. If he ends up with the antichrist for a son as a result, it won’t be Donna’s fault.
3.) Roadie for a one-hit-wonder band named Driveshaft. Donna felt adventurous and figured organizing transport for a rock band sounded like traveling and adventure, but those boys Charlie and Liam Pace really were insufferable.
4.) Secretary for a Greyhound Adoption Group, finding owners for greyhounds which can no longer race. Donna was pretty good at that, and usually landed good homes for the dogs, too, but then she spend one hour yelling on the phone to some old grouch named Harry Pearce who was at the races quite often but couldn’t be bothered taking in the dog which had won him many bets. Turns out Pearce was some government VIP or the other. Donna’s boss sent her back to the temp agency.
5.) ..and then there was the time, just after HB Clemens and her trip to Egypt, when some American named Mulder kept stalking her, insisting that she should join him in some the-truth-is-out-there club, but he was just weird. Donna was pretty sure what he was really running was some internet porn ring, and she was having none of that.
Five times Jack Harkness met Immortals.
1)“Hello there,” Jack said in his usual manner, meaning that he was devastatingly charming.
The mousy-haired woman whom his contacts had described as some kind of powerful magician looked deeply unimpressed. “Look,” she said, “I’ve really had my fill of tall, dark and brooding, so kindly bugger off.”
That was all he ever got from Thessaly.
2) “This is why I’m waiting,” Jack said while doing his best to outdrink everyone in the tavern.
The man he was currently unburdening his woes towards said he was waiting for a friend, too, who only showed up once a century, though usually not in Wales. “You should find something to do in between, though,” Hob Gadling advised.
Jack shrugged. “I’ve got a job offer. On the dodgy side, but still. Job offer.”
“Better be picky. Take it from someone who has been a slave trader in his time,” Hob returned. “You don’t want to feel like shit for what you were ready to do an era later.”
3) What Jack didn’t tell Gwen or the rest of the team when they encountered the cannibals was that this reminded him of the worst holiday abroad ever, Romania, and a man named Evan Caspari who insisted he used to be one of the four horseman of the apocalypse. The part where he had eaten Jack’s liver in front of him hadn’t exactly been a grand tour highlight. At least Caspari was locked up in an asylum of the criminally insane now, and only complete idiots would ever release him.
4) There was something odd about the little boy named Kenny whom the Rift delivered to Cardiff, but Jack wouldn’t quite figure out what. Lucia, who was pregnant, insisted they couldn’t just hand him over to the next social worker, so Jack decided to take him in for a night or two. When this resulted in Kenny beheading him and running away, he knew he’d made a mistake. When Lucia, after putting Jack’s head back on, never looked at him with the same eyes again, he knew he had.
5) Black hair, great cheekbones, intense blue eyes: all in all, M. Emrys was definitely Jack’s type. Except for the part where he somehow had managed to break into the Hub without triggering any of their alarm systems and was now busy working on their rift manipulator.
“Mind telling me what you’re doing there, Handsome?” Jack said.
“If I said I’ve got a Once and Future King to retrieve, would you believe me?” M. Emrys asked back.
jesuswasbatman: The Doctor's five favourite things that the TARDIS looked like, back when the chameleon circuit actually worked.
1.) A bridge on an ice world. Not only did it look pretty spectacular, but it also was extremely useful.
2.) Harry Houdini’s box of tricks. Mind you, this made Houdini less than happy, but aber the zombies arrived he and the Doctor teamed up, and Houdini even taught him some tricks, hence Two’s thing with cards, Three picking up flowers of thin air, and Seven doing ye olde coin-behind-ears-thing for Ace.
3.) A wardrobe in the room of two boys named Jack and Warnie in Ulster. Actually, the TARDIS was a wardrobe quite often, but only one of those wardrobes inspired Narnia, so there you go. The Doctor does feel a bit guilty for the fact that Jack crushed on Susan and didn’t respond well at all to her not returning his feelings, though. It had… consequences.
4.) A coral reef on a water planet. There was the problem of getting out of the TARDIS, granted, but she blended in beautifully, and the look was absolutely graceful. The TARDIS thought so, too, and reused the coral idea at least for the interior on later occasions.
5.) A carousel in Vienna. To be precise, in the Wurstelprater amusement park, or, as the natives say, Prater. Nobody noticed that instead of coming up solely with horses, the TARDIS displayed animals from all over the galaxy. The children loved it. It made dematerializing a bit difficult, but it was worth it.
For Silverweave:
Five temp jobs Donna Noble never had
1.) Some old bore named Quentin Travers needed a temp to take down his memos, which were all about chastising someone named Rupert Giles in Sunnydale. Frankly, if Donna had to work for Travers longer than a week, she’d have run off to California too.
2.) Babysitting for some ambassador’s son named Damien. Donna is anti-corporal punishment for kids usually, but that boy really deserved the smacking she gave him. Unfortunately, the ambassador didn’t see that way and dismissed her. If he ends up with the antichrist for a son as a result, it won’t be Donna’s fault.
3.) Roadie for a one-hit-wonder band named Driveshaft. Donna felt adventurous and figured organizing transport for a rock band sounded like traveling and adventure, but those boys Charlie and Liam Pace really were insufferable.
4.) Secretary for a Greyhound Adoption Group, finding owners for greyhounds which can no longer race. Donna was pretty good at that, and usually landed good homes for the dogs, too, but then she spend one hour yelling on the phone to some old grouch named Harry Pearce who was at the races quite often but couldn’t be bothered taking in the dog which had won him many bets. Turns out Pearce was some government VIP or the other. Donna’s boss sent her back to the temp agency.
5.) ..and then there was the time, just after HB Clemens and her trip to Egypt, when some American named Mulder kept stalking her, insisting that she should join him in some the-truth-is-out-there club, but he was just weird. Donna was pretty sure what he was really running was some internet porn ring, and she was having none of that.
Five times Jack Harkness met Immortals.
1)“Hello there,” Jack said in his usual manner, meaning that he was devastatingly charming.
The mousy-haired woman whom his contacts had described as some kind of powerful magician looked deeply unimpressed. “Look,” she said, “I’ve really had my fill of tall, dark and brooding, so kindly bugger off.”
That was all he ever got from Thessaly.
2) “This is why I’m waiting,” Jack said while doing his best to outdrink everyone in the tavern.
The man he was currently unburdening his woes towards said he was waiting for a friend, too, who only showed up once a century, though usually not in Wales. “You should find something to do in between, though,” Hob Gadling advised.
Jack shrugged. “I’ve got a job offer. On the dodgy side, but still. Job offer.”
“Better be picky. Take it from someone who has been a slave trader in his time,” Hob returned. “You don’t want to feel like shit for what you were ready to do an era later.”
3) What Jack didn’t tell Gwen or the rest of the team when they encountered the cannibals was that this reminded him of the worst holiday abroad ever, Romania, and a man named Evan Caspari who insisted he used to be one of the four horseman of the apocalypse. The part where he had eaten Jack’s liver in front of him hadn’t exactly been a grand tour highlight. At least Caspari was locked up in an asylum of the criminally insane now, and only complete idiots would ever release him.
4) There was something odd about the little boy named Kenny whom the Rift delivered to Cardiff, but Jack wouldn’t quite figure out what. Lucia, who was pregnant, insisted they couldn’t just hand him over to the next social worker, so Jack decided to take him in for a night or two. When this resulted in Kenny beheading him and running away, he knew he’d made a mistake. When Lucia, after putting Jack’s head back on, never looked at him with the same eyes again, he knew he had.
5) Black hair, great cheekbones, intense blue eyes: all in all, M. Emrys was definitely Jack’s type. Except for the part where he somehow had managed to break into the Hub without triggering any of their alarm systems and was now busy working on their rift manipulator.
“Mind telling me what you’re doing there, Handsome?” Jack said.
“If I said I’ve got a Once and Future King to retrieve, would you believe me?” M. Emrys asked back.
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Date: 2010-03-04 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 04:00 pm (UTC)Doctor-Houdini: yes, I imagine someone must have written it in the past 40 years!
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Date: 2010-03-05 12:48 am (UTC)The Doctor does feel a bit guilty for the fact that Jack crushed on Susan and didn’t respond well at all to her not returning his feelings, though. It had… consequences.
Oh, dear. The Doctor definitely should feel bad about that!
Secretary for a Greyhound Adoption Group, finding owners for greyhounds which can no longer race. Donna was pretty good at that, and usually landed good homes for the dogs, too, but then she spend one hour yelling on the phone to some old grouch named Harry Pearce who was at the races quite often but couldn’t be bothered taking in the dog which had won him many bets.
Ahahaha. I bet Harry's protests that getting another dog would upset his Jack Russell wouldn't wash with Donna at all *g*.
And Thessaly would so not be impressed with Jack.
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Date: 2010-03-05 06:27 am (UTC)It's not quite on the scale of giving Nero the idea to burn Rome, but... :)
I bet Harry's protests that getting another dog would upset his Jack Russell wouldn't wash with Donna at all *g*.
No, they wouldn't. Nor any excuses about a less than suitable work place as an environment.
Thessaly: I haven't seen anyone disagreeing yet. Clearly, she's the reply to the "who can resist Jack Harkness?" question!