rumpelsnorcack

 Third time lucky, maybe? LJ has been hating me for days now :(

Anyway.  I wrote this thing.  it's not my usual sort of thing.  It's a slight AU for an episode of Doctor Who which is already an AU.  I did that because I needed it AU to even begin to write something with the relationship my recipient wanted.  Not that I really even wrote it, just hinted at it, but still.  I just couldn't imagine Rory in the actual Doctor Who universe being anything other than (as I saw someone put it somewhere) 'Amy sexual' so to add Eleven to that mix he had to be not-Rory.  Hence choosing the Wedding of River Song episode to set this in.  Anyway, that's enough of that.

Here it is: Time Shivers at the Public Call fic exchange.

Title: A Long Life (But One Worth Living)
Author/Artist: rumpelsnorcack
Rating: PG-13
Characters & Pairings: Rory, Amy, Mels
Word Count: 1119 this chapter
Summary: The story of Rory's life, from meeting Amy to death.
Notes: .Many thanks to the wonderful a_phoenixdragon and mollywheezy who have been extremely supportive through this whole process.  I've been writing this on and off for a while.  It's still not finished, but is getting there.  Not sure how many chapters there will be, but each one is intended as a short one-shot in its own right so all can be read independently.  However, they do all build together to give a picture of Rory's life, complicated timelines and all.  It's all roughly chronological, but each piece doesn't necessarily exist in the same timeline as each other piece.  So some are pre-reboot, some post, some exist in a universe which includes Mels, others don't.
Disclaimer: Sadly none of the characters are mine, I just enjoy hanging around in their sandbox.

( 'I am a bossy, bitchy, shitty friend,' she said. I've been waiting for you to call me on it for ages.' )

Prologue (start here)
Chapter Five

So, stuff's been happening.  Lots of stuff. Enough lots of stuff that I should probably bullet point it for ease of access.

1.  I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but I've picked up another kid at the school where I've been teacher-aiding.  She's lovely & funny and friendly, but the poor thing was a selective mute for a lot of her life so she doesn't have many of the sounds she needs for speech.  She also has comprehension issues with her reading so we're working on both of those things.  One of the important parts of my job is just to talk with her so she has to use her sounds to communicate.  It's pretty fun.  The other boy is still delightful, but he tries so hard to work the system 'oh, I'm so tired today I think we should just play games' etc.  Hmmm, not likely buddy - work first, then to consolidation with the games :)

2.  I'm doing the second year of my Maori course.  It's fun, but quite intense - much more work than first year.  We've had our first assessment, which was incredibly stressful (we had to write 34 sentences using different structures and vocab from memory, then draw a chart describing the parts of the day, then present it all in front of the class where we were assessed as much on pronunciation, stance and fluency as we were on what we wrote).  Thankfully it's over and I passed and we've been told that was our hardest assessment as all the others we will be able to prepare in advance before presenting them.  Currently we are learning 'passive commands' by playing cards.  It's amazing how many commands there are in card games from 'shuffle the cards' to 'take your turn' etc :)

3.  I went to Council yesterday as part of a deputation to ask them to send a letter to the minister of education asking some very necessary questions about the whole process and requesting a return to the old timelines.  This all came from Di and I pushing our local councillor to act.  To his credit, he took that call and ran with it.  The letter was shown to Di and I before it was sent before council and we made several of the changes.  To support the motion, he asked us to come along and speak to it.  Di did a fantastic job on her speech and several people came and congratulated her afterwards, including councillors.  Interestingly, the motion was passed unanimously.  It's interesting because apparently some of them were all for taking it to committee and/or delaying it.  After hearing from Di and two other people they obviously changed their minds and all of them supported it.  We can chalk that up to a win, especially given it elicited a response from our dear minister.  Here is Di's speech, under a cut because it's long

( Di's speech )

4.  Somewhat related, I have stood for the school's Board of Trustees.  If the minister doesn't delay the merger this board will only be in place for 7 months, but I still felt the need to participate.  Also, the 'merger board' which will implement and run the merged school is drawn equally from the boards of both schools.  If I get on (and it looks like there may not even be an election because they got the exact number they needed to fill the positions)  I have a better chance of being on that board.  I don't think I will though, because the merger board is chosen by the minister and I've been a bit ... well, a bit outspoken against the idea :D

5.  I am also considering running for the Community Board for my ward.  The councillor who did the letter etc suggested I should run with him for Council (the group he runs with, and whose politics align with mine, wants a woman on the ticket to give some balance), but I think it's a bit early for that.  I'd rather do my time on the Community Board then maybe look at council next term, if I even still like politics after that.  I'm undecided, but I think starting small is the best way to go.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of it and it's now time to pick up my kids from school so I'll leave it there.

I've been meaning to update for ages, but I haven't been able to bring myself to do it.  Because, well, Ponds :-(  I'm going to miss them so much, and apparently the way I deal with that is to write fic - and then to not-finish the fics (yes, multiple), because presumably my brain thinks that finishing the fics will mean finishing saying goodbye and I still kind of don't want to.  I should do it though.  Two in particular I'm quite attached to - one exploring the ridiculous reasons behind their 'divorce' in ep 1 and one exploring Brian's reactions to the end of ep 5.  So yeah I should finish them. I should particularly finish them because ...

I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. Because I'm daft, I guess.  My NaNo this year is going to be fanfiction. I normally do original fiction for NaNo but this year I need something less intense, so the longish history of Rory Williams-Pond will be the result, I hope. If I manage to get to the 50,000 words.  With earthquakes and elections I haven't managed the 50,000 for the last two years so this year I want to get my mojo back.  Here's hoping I can do it!

I have other Who-related things to write about but ... Ponds.  They kind of took over my head and I can't remember the other things I was going to say.  I can't even really write about them so much right now because, like I said, apparently my brain to use fic for that. Which is nice if it would only let me finish the darn things :)