Clocks back an hour as BST ends

"Most people in UK enjoy an extra hour in bed"
correction, most people who are not insomniacs. People who are insomniacs just realise they didn't make it to 0500 even.

I can't remember much of what I was dreaming (it involved trying to find a bathroom and my hotel suite turning out to be shared by strangers, and possibly cheating on David Tennant but that's just implausible), but I woke up with a sudden urge to do Maths A Level. Or redo, technically. I got an ungraded. We do not speak of it. But it has been bugging me ever since, what I'd get if I didn't have a temperature of 104 and did manage to turn up to lessons on a regular basis. Is it in fact that I'm bad at maths, or is it like everything else from that time, screwed by outside forces? I suspect the latter. In a really rusty at it way.

What this has to do with hotels I don't know. ... what this has to do with my recent reading habits I can figure out: there's only so many times you can read someone being wildly turned on by mathematical ability before it starts looking worth a try.

Plot bunny dream time

I either have a whole plot bunny for a Doctor Who story or I have a bundle of derivative rubbish that xovers elements from Farscape with The Doctor. Also there's a major plot twist that hangs on the quest for a working toilet. And there's some hitchiking. And political unrest involving secret police. ... possibly I would need to thin out this plot. ( Read more... )

I'd need some distance to untangle it, and make it have plot logic not dream logic, but I think it has a lot of interesting parts. Yet also the part involving the mary sue to end all, because there's nothing quite like absorbing everyone's best character traits to make one outshine where one shouldn't. Should be best and worst then. The Doctor's anger, Rory's jealousy, that kind of thing.

Best for de-sue-ing would be to have a whole set of companions, like with 5 with a big Team TARDIS, and by the end realise this new person only has their traits combined. Then they're the team in one body, so when they do the best shiny thing it's still about our usual characters. If they start with any unique trait of their own and then out Doctor the Doctor what you end up saying is this unique trait would make him better, and really, if the trait is religion, no. The Doctor has his faith. His faith is in people.

... so that should be simples to work into the story then...

Or make it about the absorbing the Doctor-and-companions traits that compensates for the unique trait, make it start as a disadvantage and only really work when combined with what the Team brings.

There's definitely ways to keep the focus on the regulars. Even when the dream was about me...