Imaginal Casements

Title: priorities
Requester: masonk
Series: Doctor Who / Sherlock Holmes
Requested Topic: Martha Jones and Doctor Watson
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/685692.html

. . . While I will admit to some surprise in discovering that the young lady was of the medical profession herself, we soon found a common ground in the discussion of certain medical problems -- indeed, far more so than the "Doctor". We were discussing the catheterisation of the heart, when our attention was distracted by some ruffians who had challenged Holmes and the "Doctor" and were firing pistols at them. As soon as this minor problem was dealt with, Dr Jones and I returned to more interesting matters, and I confess I paid little interest to the "Doctor's" babble about alien invasions . . .

Useful day at work, but rather tiring.

I know I've quoted this before. I like it.

---

"He strikes a stone in the forest," she chanted, "stone bleeds blood. He dances savagely in the courtyard of the impertinent. He sets the liar's roof on fire."
[...]
"He's not a god," said Kadiatu.
"His temples are the preserves of priestesses," said the major. "It's women who dance for the Lightning God. His spirit possesses them through the dance."
"Why me?"
"Don't ask me that," said the major. "Ask the dead."
[...]
"Back there," said Kadiatu, "the major seemed to think you were Shango."
"Who's Shango?"
"Yoruba thunder god."
"Oh, Shango," said the Doctor. "Did you know the Yoruba have over two hundred deities?"
"Are you?"
"Mind you, Shintoism has thousands." The Doctor turned to look at her. "Do I look like a thunder god?"
"How would I know?" said Kadiatu. "I've never met one."
"Faced with the unexplained," said the Doctor, "people have a tendency to let their imaginations run wild. There are no gods. I should know, I've met a few."
"The Shango cult is almost exclusively female."
"People get the wrong end of the stick."
"I'll bet."
"It's true," said the Doctor. "I was in Ife during the tenth century and there may have been some static electricity involved. I was also in Mesopotamia in the time of Gilgamesh and I've visited all three Atlantises. It's not my fault. It's the planet, things happen there."

-- Transit, Ben Aaronovitch

Title: probably not the first time this has happened
Requester: sophiap
Series: Doctor Who / Yami no Matsuei
Requested Topic: Who and Yami no Matsuei. Ten, Seven, or Five would be lovely, but if another Doctor works better, feel free to choose another.
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/622248.html

"Doctor," Rose said patiently, "there is a giant flying chicken outside the door."

"Giant?" the Doctor asked. "How giant is giant? Because I've seen some pretty giant chickens in my time. Is it giant enough to crush Big Ben under a single claw? Or more house-sized?"

"Okay, it's not very giant giant, it's more medium giant. Big for a chicken. And it says it wants to talk to you."

"Oh?" the Doctor said warily.

"About a library book from the Shokan Division Library that's five centuries overdue --"

"Oh dear," the Doctor said. "Just sat on the dematerialisation lever. Whoops."

Title: gentlemen prefer blondes
Requester: acern
Series: Doctor Who
Requested Topic: Jack/Doctor or Jack+Doctor?
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/622248.html

"So," Jack said casually. "About those missing two years. I don't suppose you could do -- something?" He wiggled his fingers meaningfully.

"Sorry," the Doctor said. He almost sounded as if he meant it. "I don't go round doing that sort of thing just like that."

"Except if they're blonde and pretty," Jack remarked.

"Oi! Pretty has nothing to do with it."

"Blonde, then?"

"Nor does being blonde."

"Because, you know, I could always get a wig . . ."

"Jack," the Doctor said.

"A blonde wig. With fringe."

"Jack --"

"And I can hold your hand real cutely."

"No," the Doctor said firmly.

Title: always read full instructions before beginning
Requester: libekory
Series: Doctor Who
Requested Topic: Ten/+Martha -- "distractions"
Exactly how did the Doctor lose his TARDIS to the Lonely Assassins~?
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/589115.html

"Don't worry," the Doctor said cheerfully as they marched down the street. "What we have here is a perfectly normal case of non-linear recursive temporality. The first page of the notes that we've been given by Sally Sparrow say that we go to 1969 to investigate the Weeping Angels. So all we have to do is go to her shop and history will just happen as it should. And when we get to page two . . ."

"Well?" Martha said.

The Doctor turned the page. ". . . at which point they steal your TARDIS," he read, and came to a stop. "What? WHAT? WHAT?"

Title: simple common sense
Requester: joasakura
Series: Yami no Matsuei / Doctor Who
Requested Topic: Crossover. YnM/Doctor Who. Your choice beyond that. *_*
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/589115.html

Muraki scanned his latest set of reports on strange occurrences, looking for anything which he could use as a tool against the shinigami, or for his revenge. Anything at all. However strange. However twisted. However impossible. However outre, exotic, unthinkable, inconceivable, unnatural, or unlikely. Demons, ghosts, sorcery, ancient relics, murders, sacrifices, monsters, dark powers . . .

He paused at a newspaper article about conical robots with death rays and a mysterious foreigner in a long scarf and a blue crate.

Then again, one had to be rational about these things. He screwed up the clipping, and neatly tossed it into the bin.

Title: that's how it is
Requester: not_croaker
Series: Doctor Who / Exalted
Requested Topic: I'd like to see more of the Ace/Roseblack DW/Exalted bits...
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/556274.html

"It's a pity that you weren't Chosen by the Dragons," the Roseblack commented over breakfast. "Are you sure that you don't have one of the bloodlines somewhere in your family tree? My advisors say that there are ways to encourage an Exaltation, and you're still young enough that it might be possible . . ."

"I think it's very unlikely," Ace said diplomatically.

"A shame," the Roseblack sighed. "Ah well. We can make you the showpiece of how ordinary humans and the Chosen of the Dragons work together."

Ace put down her coffee. "That's very political."

"That's how it is," the Roseblack shrugged.

Work's being busy and now I have a new writing assignment too. Buses always come in threes.

---

"He strikes a stone in the forest," she chanted, "stone bleeds blood. He dances savagely in the courtyard of the impertinent. He sets the liar's roof on fire."

[...]

"He's not a god," said Kadiatu.

"His temples are the preserves of priestesses," said the major. "It's women who dance for the Lightning God. His spirit possesses them through the dance."

"Why me?"

"Don't ask me that," said the major. "Ask the dead."

[...]

"Back there," said Kadiatu, "the major seemed to think you were Shango."

"Who's Shango?"

"Yoruba thunder god."

"Oh, Shango," said the Doctor. "Did you know the Yoruba have over two hundred deities?"

"Are you?"

"Mind you, Shintoism has thousands." The Doctor turned to look at her. "Do I look like a thunder god?"

"How would I know?" said Kadiatu. "I've never met one."

"Faced with the unexplained," said the Doctor, "people have a tendency to let their imaginations run wild. There are no gods. I should know, I've met a few."

"The Shango cult is almost exclusively female."

"People get the wrong end of the stick."

"I'll bet."

"It's true," said the Doctor. "I was in Ife during the tenth century and there may have been some static electricity involved. I was also in Mesopotamia in the time of Gilgamesh and I've visited all three Atlantises. It's not my fault. It's the planet, things happen there."

-- Transit, Ben Aaronovitch

Title: the problem with cliffhangers
Requester: bluelang
Requested Topic: An Exalted-Doctor Who crossover would amuse me immensely. Your choice of Doctor, though my first was Tom Baker.
Series: Doctor Who / Exalted
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/452681.html

( the problem with cliffhangers )

Title: definitely not sonic
Requester: marici
Requested Topic: The eternal battle: man versus mysterious mechanical breakdown.
Series: Doctor Who
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/398869.html

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