- Cuteness!
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- Fanfic: Extra Ordinary. Tenth Doctor & Rose
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- howlcastle
- September 9th, 2012
melancholy
Title: Extra Ordinary
Author:
howlcastle
Paring: Rose + Tenth Doctor Mark II
Rating: contains sex and swearing.
The Doctor struggles with his new identity on a new world; who he was vs who he will become. Some laughs at the silly side of ordinary life and the tragedy of what can lie beneath.
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- Q&A with your friendly neighbourhood James.
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- howlcastle
- April 10th, 2012
A little Q& A with my friendeibheall whose questions I was very, very impressed with! Thanks - it was a cool exercise!"Sorry for the delay, but here's the Q (you provide the A!):
If you were part of a B-rated sci-fi movie, who would you be?
Would you rather visit the bottom of the deepest ocean trench or the
top of the highest mountain? (Would your answer change if you were living there instead of just visiting?)
If you were a journalist, would it be for print, radio, or tv? What kind of stories would you cover, or what would be your dream assignment?
When life is stressful and you dream of running away, where do you go?
What personal/family tradition have you taken with you wherever you've gone?"
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- Fanfic: Eight/Charley: Witnessing Mystery
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- howlcastle
- March 18th, 2012
contemplative
Title: Witnessing Mystery
Author:![[info]](http://howlcastle.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=3)
howlcastle
Rating: G
Pairing: The Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard
Tone: Historical
Spoilers: None, really
The Doctor takes Charley to visit the Eighth Wonder of the natural world, but he isn't just going to see the view. A ghostly tale of past and futures colliding.
Author's Notes: With the progress of the Pink and White Terraces research team becoming more newsworthy this month, I thought I would finally publish this wee story here. I originally wrote it as part of a Big Finish competition, but couldn't pare the words down to the prescribed limit. This is also my first historical story!Strange though it may seem, the only contrived part of my story is that of the Doctor and Charley. Most quotes and witness accounts are on record. Life can certainly be stranger than fiction. More infor the pink and white terraces research here:
http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2012/03/07/hunt-for-remains-of-pink-white-terr aces-continues/
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- Doctor Who Genius - Robert Shearman is just so, so generous.
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- howlcastle
- March 12th, 2012
excited
Being the author of The Chimes of Midnight, Scherzo, Jubilee, The Holy Terror, My Own Private Wolfgang and tv's Dalek is some credentials. It is difficult to find better, more disturbing and yet ultimately charming stories than these.
Rob Shearman's short story collections, Everyone's Just So, So Special and Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical also tap into those same beautiful, unsettling and melancholy feelings; no wonder they've won swags of awards.
And the man himself, I am pleased to say is Generous. That's right. With a capital 'G'. It's not often that someone at a book signing will spend time talking about what you've brought along (if at all). The man is a delight.
He hosted what was basically a live screening of Dalek as part of the NZ writers and readers festival, (last year was Neil Gaiman). Rob - yes we're on first name basis these days - was able to discard some of the BBC Alligence that he had to preserve for the actual TV commentary, such as naming the extra who spilled photographs to the papers and adding that the chap who played Adam was so young that he really didn't understand how three people could fit in a phone booth comfortably, (and amusingly, no one bothered to tell him).
Rob was more than happy to ask many a question after. Wonderfully funny, and again, so, so generous.
Oh, and he added that Patrick Troughton was his all time favourite Doctor, (with Davison a close second). 'Nuff said.
If you don't know who I'm talking about, then you are missing a trick and possibly some of the best Doctor Who stories ever written.
- Excited!
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- howlcastle
- March 12th, 2012
Will get to be in an audience for a Robert Shearman lecture today! Can't wait! The man is some sort of mad genius!
- Truth or Porky Pie. Please set me straight, American friends.
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- howlcastle
- February 15th, 2012
sick
I was told the other night (whilst watching Stephen Fry's 100 best gadgets) that Americans don't have kettles. This from a usually well-informed friend of mine.
"How do they make tea?" I ask.
Blank look.
"Well, coffee, then?"
"They have coffee machines, I guess," was my friend's reply complete with shrug.
I just can't understand how one can live life without a kettle...I use mine, without exageration, 15 times a day. Mainly for tea, but other reasons also.
So, dear American friends. Have I been sold a load of cobblers? Do you have kettles??
- Eighth Doctor and Charley Sketch Dump
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- howlcastle
- December 20th, 2011
Thought I'd share some rough sketches of Eight, Charley and even a C'rizz attempt!! Let me know what you think. :)
Loads more under the cut.
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- Fanfic: Eight/Charley: Lost
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- howlcastle
- December 16th, 2011
Title: Lost
Author:howlcastle
Rating: G
Pairing: The Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard with a dash of Lucie Miller
Tone: Melancholy with a little LM humour.
Spoilers: The Girl Who Never Was
The Doctor goes back to the person he has lost, but for Charley, it is just the beginning.
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- Fanfic: Scrabble. Ten and Rose
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- howlcastle
- December 14th, 2011
Title: Scrabble
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Author:howlcastle
Rating: G
Paring: Tenth Doctor & Rose Tyler
Tone: Humour/slight darkness
Following the events in the Satan's Pit a brief respite and some Scrabble-playing is in order - but what sort of Scrabble, and does the Board know something they don't?
The many meanings of Scrabble inspired this little piece - to cling on for dear life, the game of acronyms and luck, and, well, the other sort too...
Also includes a brief nod to the genius series, Spaced.
