so like back in May when it was announced that Russell was coming back and they announced Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, it really charged me to go back to working on SLDverse-- which I have been, very slowly. the pandemic really exacerbated my adhd, and Im 37 now and I work a full-time job and guise I'm tired. but 10 and Donna have been living rent-free in my head all these years and I will publish this fic series if it kills me.

so the bombastic reveal that the Thirteenth Doctor regenerated last night back into Sir David Tennant is like... I was off my head last night. I was obnoxious. I was 23 again. I am sofucking EXCITED.

also it gives me a deadline bc I'm gonna finish AUS5 before the 60th. I'm gonna.

Title: Queen of the Winter Night 5/5
Author: Tess/teashadephoenix
Rating: Rated E for everyone
Word Count: 4066/31694
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Spoilers: Through 4.13 Journey's End
Summary: The Doctor is thrust back into an amnesiac Donna's path when an alien seeks sanctuary with her.
Disclaimer: The canon stuff belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. Everything else I made up for my entertainment.
Author's Note: Okay, this has taken like ten thousand years, but here is the first story of my Sounds Like Destiny series, affectionately referred to as AU Series 5. This story replaces The Next Doctor as the Christmas story after Journey's End.

Author's Note 2: Thanks to my beta and good friend biodamped for her patience, support and frequent butt-kicking. More thanks than I have words for really. ily darling <3

Author's Note 3: Thank you everyone for reading and commenting! <3 I promise to get to all of them when I can, but for a quick blanket statement, thank you, thank you, thank you. AU S5 will return in Nth Time's The Charm... sometime in the near future. ;p

( there is an ornament... lost inside the night )

Title: Queen of the Winter Night 4/5
Author: Tess/teashadephoenix
Rating: Rated E for everyone
Word Count: 7678/31694
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Spoilers: Through 4.13 Journey's End
Summary: The Doctor is thrust back into an amnesiac Donna's path when an alien seeks sanctuary with her.
Disclaimer: The canon stuff belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. Everything else I made up for my entertainment.
Author's Note: Okay, this has taken like ten thousand years, but here is the first story of my Sounds Like Destiny series, affectionately referred to as AU Series 5. This story replaces The Next Doctor as the Christmas story after Journey's End.

Author's Note 2: Thanks to my beta and good friend biodamped for her patience, support and frequent butt-kicking. More thanks than I have words for really. ily darling <3

Author's Note 3: HAPPY CHRIMBLE flist. <3 I hope Santa has brought everyone something awesome and that your days are filled with joy and love.


( come, christmas, stay, christmas, watch over her this day; keep her, protect her, from harm now in every way; shelter her gently, there in your arms she'll be; until the day when you bring her back home to me )

Title: Queen of the Winter Night 3/5
Author: Tess/teashadephoenix
Rating: Rated E for everyone
Word Count: this part 8153
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Spoilers: Through 4.13 Journey's End
Summary: The Doctor is thrust back into an amnesiac Donna's path when an alien seeks sanctuary with her.
Disclaimer: The canon stuff belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. Everything else I made up for my entertainment.
Author's Note: Okay, this has taken like ten thousand years, but here is the first story of my Sounds Like Destiny series, affectionately referred to as AU Series 5. This story replaces The Next Doctor as the Christmas story after Journey's End.

Author's Note 2: Thanks to my beta and good friend biodamped for her patience, support and frequent butt-kicking. More thanks than I have words for really. ily darling <3


( i don't believe i can say what had happened; all of those words that we put into play no longer matter; I should have known that then; i just know you're far away )

Title: Queen of the Winter Night 2/5
Author: Tess/teashadephoenix
Rating: Rated E for everyone
Word Count: this part 6887
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Spoilers: Through 4.13 Journey's End
Summary: The Doctor is thrust back into an amnesiac Donna's path when an alien seeks sanctuary with her.
Disclaimer: The canon stuff belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. Everything else I made up for my entertainment.
Author's Note: Okay, this has taken like ten thousand years, but here is the first story of my Sounds Like Destiny series, affectionately referred to as AU Series 5. This story replaces The Next Doctor as the Christmas story after Journey's End.

Author's Note 2: Thanks to my beta and good friend biodamped for her patience, support and frequent butt-kicking. More thanks than I have words for really. ily darling <3


( somewhere the wind carves moments in the snow; and if he sees her, he never lets it show, he just drifts behind her erasing every step )

Title: Queen of the Winter Night 1/5
Author: Tess/teashadephoenix
Rating: Rated E for everyone
Word Count: this part 4910
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Spoilers: Through 4.13 Journey's End
Summary: The Doctor is thrust back into an amnesiac Donna's path when an alien seeks sanctuary with her.
Disclaimer: The canon stuff belongs to the Beeb and I'm borrowing it to play with. Everything else I made up for my entertainment.
Author's Note: Okay, this has taken like ten thousand years, but here is the first story of my Sounds Like Destiny series, affectionately referred to as AU Series 5. This story replaces The Next Doctor as the Christmas story after Journey's End.

Author's Note 2: Thanks to my beta and good friend biodamped for her patience, support and frequent butt-kicking. More thanks than I have words for really. ily darling <3


( there is an ornament lost inside the night, there on a Christmas tree with a thousand lights; no one can see her, she's standing all alone; somewhere she glistens where no one can see )

Okay, so in my procrastination boredom I created my art masterlist; in doing so I realised there's a couple of doodles that have fallen by the wayside.

Nothing amazing, just cuteness.

( DOODLES )

Ganked hardcore from goodbye2pisces cause awesomepants.

Your job is now your Time Lord name. The last digit of your phone number is the current regeneration you are in. The nearest clothing item to your right is now the most notable item in your current wardrobe. The last person you texted is your current companion. Your favourite word is now your catchphrase.

Name The Sandwich Artist is garbage. my real name is in the title.
Current regeneration Second! Im a baby.
Wardrobe My jeans. That's it? Plain old boring jeans? Am I naked on top or what?
Companion Cora! <3 Blonde, cute and geeky. I'll have it. She'll be mags.
Catchphrase "No probs." Or awesomepants. Or mags, actually. I say them a lot.

And the added bit: TARDIS stuck as...? A grandfather clock. <3

ETA: My brother was amused and played along despite his lack of enthusiasm for all things Who. These are his answers:

Name The Barista. (He makes the best coffee in all of time and space.)
Current regeneration Sixth.
Wardrobe There wasn't anything to his right, so in his words, "Im either naked or wearing a suit made of Bounty." xD
Companion Boo-boo. He assures me that isn't the girl's name, but its also all he would tell me.
Catchphrase "Shiny!" (Actually his catchphrase irl.)
TARDIS stuck as...? The DeLorean. (Yes. He also says he won't shift into the time vortex until he reaches 88 mph. Geek.) <3

Only me, of course. I'm fairly sure no one else cares.

Anyway, on the commentary for The Poison Sky David mentions that Cate texted him to say that John Barrowman was presenting This Morning with Fern Britton. ("Does the man never sit down?!" I always rewind that bit at least twice. I love it.)

That episode aired 1 May 2008 (I looked it up on Barrow's imdb.) So Susie (Liggat, producer) Russell and Dave were doing the commentary two days before broadcast (which I think they actually mention but I couldn't remember the airdate for The Poison Sky.)

Here's the amusing thing: also on 1 May 2008, Russell wrote an email to Ben Cook (as found in The Writer's Tale) that John Simm was confirmed to return as the Master in Dave's last episodes.

Imagine if they'd spilled that on the commentary. xD

/amused (Srsly, that was it. Confluence, not even a coincidence. I told you no one else would care.)

All right, yes, fine, I will get back to writing. (I cannot think of anything funny for Donna to say! And I still can't think of something for Wilf to yell at the Big Bad! GAAAH.)

Huggy fanart is complete after fours hours of struggling with skintone shading I swear to christ I'm never coloring anything ever again Tea is pleased. <3



( under the cut is an alternate background )

Now that both my arts are outta the way I can get back to ficcing. ;B

ETA: I totes forgot to cred!

Donna's dress is the work of the brilliant Meago, from her second collection. It's the cinnamon one on the second row.

I am in LOVE with those boots, can't you just see Donna striding about in them? <3

This is a fairly well-known meme on deviantart and obviously I have no original thoughts so I committed Eleven!art and drew this:

( also helps if you saw The Doctor's Wife )

In coloring it I totes forgot how small the meme blank was; the middle image of them is a full head to toe! I might post it by itself just cause its so flippin cute and Im really proud of it.

Also, there is not enough love for Sexy/Doctor. FFS its the only canon pairing worth bothering with that spans the entire series, you'd think they'd get more attention. But then it is difficult to enjoy since, for most of her time, she's uppy-and-downy stuff in a glass tube. ;p

Besides, too busy with Ten/Donna. <3

ISN'T IT MAGS? <3<3<3 Sweet massive aneurysm I can't stop looking at it.

Of course it's especially funny if you grew up on anime, specifically Sailormoon or other magical girl series. <3

Found this on ihasatardis who got it from Paul Cornell's blog. It amuses me. <3

Cause it never gets old.

Not porn battley, so safe for everything you'd worry about seeing naughty bits. ;B

( i came home from work, saw the word tender written in my notebook and punched out these two )

WARNING. THIS ENTRY CONTAINS THIS THING CALLED AN OPINION. You don't have to agree with it. Likewise, I don't have to agree with yours. But I will respect it, so all I ask is the same of you. KEEP THE DRAMA UNDER YOUR BED WHERE IT BELONGS, KPLSTHNKS.

...Not that I think anyone's going to cause any havoc, but all the same... ;B



Anyway. It's only recently come to my attention that some viewers, upon initial viewing of The Runaway Bride, hated Donna.

Whaaat? D8

Was I the only one who adored her in TRB and was devastated when she told the Doctor she wasn't going to travel with him?

Admittedly I was watching the series rather backward; I started with Series 3 reruns on Sci-Fi (back when it was Sci-Fi and not Syfy, which is pronounced "siffy," short for syphilis, which is what you get from watching their horrid programming, but that's for another time.)

I got through Last of the Time Lords, The Shakespeare Code, Gridlock and Daleks in Manhattan before before realising this was a show I had to see all of, and so I bought Series 2 and 3 from Amazon and caught up properly.

So I had seen both Martha and Rose before I actually got, in episodic order, to The Runaway Bride. And I still loved Donna best, even as shallow, petty and flippant as she was. Because even in that episode she's still wonderful and sweet and compassionate.

When I heard that she was going to be the regular companion for S4 I cheered. And then, as that regular companion, she came back with a Lady McBadass Upgrade of Awesome and took over as Most Brilliant Companion in All of Doctor Who. (And when you consider how old the program is and how many companions ol' Theta has travelled with, that's an achievement of universal proportion.)

So Im just curious, how many people who love Donna now and loved her in Series 4, loved her in TRB? Was it love at first sight or did you have to be won over?

OHMGOD. My world is complete!

Duff and the crew at Charm City Cakes are making A FCKING DALEK! A cake! That's a Dalek! An actual electronic Dalek, that moves and says "EXTERMINATE" and everything. Oh lordy, I might flip right the hell out. I LOVE Ace of Cakes. And theyre making a Dalek.

My night has been MADE. Squee! <333

ETA @ 1:24: And the finished thing is officially the coolest cake I've ever seen in my life. The things I would do to get Charm City Cakes to make me a Dalek for my birthday. *squeal*

Ganked from loves_glamour during my break from writing.

( Long-winded, as always... )

So I have a collection of art memes that I have saved from deviantart; gives me something to do when Im bored or my head starts hurting from staring at my computer screen, focusing my Jedi mind powers on the writer's block that refuses to relinquish my creativity spring to me.

This one was SOOOO much fun because Donna has such style and fantastic taste, so it was fun to imagine her spending hours in the TARDIS wardrobe, playing dress-up. ;B

( Medium-heavy image post, proceed with caution! )