Bad fic and more Stolen Earth thoughts

Sometimes, I despair of my fellow fic writers. I get an RSS feed of new fics
at Teaspoon, just the titles and summaries so that I can take a look at
what's being posted. I don't have access to Teaspoon at work so I just
browse the titles and mark anything for follow-up that I might want to read
at home.

It is often painful in the extreme, but this morning's gem? "My Night with
the Doctor". Erp. Smutty fanfiction is one thing, but I really do not need
to read other people's porny fantasies starring themselves. Part of me hopes
that it was a humourous, ironic fic that is the polar opposite of title and
summary. The other 95% of my mind knows fic writers far too well.

When DW fic is done well, it really is some of the best fic out there. Sadly
it's just like every other fandom in having a 90:10 dross to gem rate and
the dross in DW can be truly terrible. It's at times like this that I
half-wish people had to get a licence to publish fanfic, except I'm not sure
that would actually weed out the bad fic because I experience bad drivers
every day and someone somewhere gave all of them licences.

Also, obviously, it would end up being totalitarian state thing and that
would be Bad. It's nice to dream, though :-)


In other thoughts, I've been thinking some more about Stolen Earth.

( More spoilers ahoy )

Oh crap

Today was going so well. My figures for yesterday looked wonderful.

Should have known they were too good to be true! They couldn't have waited
until I was gone before stuffing things up?

Everything is FUBAR. Send chocolate, coffee and beautiful dancing virgins
pronto.

*flails and dies*