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Love the pointy hat.

You've just earned my undying snickers and the Reader's undying disgust. I'd write something up with her as, say, John Oliver or Steven Colbert, probably talking about how terrible Rassilon is and defending the Doctor, but I'm not currently sure I could do that justice.

However, now I have the wonderful mental image of her going "of course he's been 'replaced' by different people! It's called regeneration, you nimwit!" so I'm happy.

~DF

Guess who.

hS

"Standing up" in this case is slang for "not going to an arranged meeting with." It's usually used in the context of someone not showing up for a date.

I am terribly sorry. That is... Yeah, quite a task. :P
--Key

People tell me...they're saying he's said good things about me. I have 'uge respect for Rassilon. Terrific leader. Fought the Daleks. I'll tell you, we've got some bad Daleks out here. They're killers, they're exterminators, and some, I assume, are good people. The Crooked Doctor wants to help the Daleks. He won't say the words Radical Dalek Terrorism. He created the Daleks, they call him the Oncoming Storm, they love this guy. But the media won't tell you that. It's all rigged against me. They won't tell you that the Crooked Doctor has been replaced multiple times with different guys. You can tell, if you look close and are as smart as I am. Totally different guys. The media won't tell you, but I will. SAD.

-Phobos, #MakeGallifreyGreatAgain

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

And don't worry, everything's going to be fine. He can change her, you see. She's good at heart, really, she just doesn't know any better. *g*

~Neshomeh, flipping the script.

I’m looking forward to see more of these agents.

But I must still do what I always do, in case you want to make these stories canonical interludes:

A grin more suited to the Demons he’d spent his childhood hunting than to any sane mortal spreading across Jack’s face as he followed.
Shouldn’t this be either "spread across Jack’s face as he followed" or "spreading across Jack’s face, he followed"?

Something that had been submerged at the back of Jack’s mind for some time suddenly bobbed sickeningly to the surface, as he recalled the discussion he’d heard involving one of the new agents standing up the Floating Hyacinth after having been assigned to Floaters for a trial period.
Missing word "to"?

... gesturing at questionable heritage of the Sue detailed on the screen before them.
Missing word "the"?

HG

I’m actually quite happy with what I achieved in less than three months, but I didn’t consider how the self-ironic author notes might be perceived; I’ll be more careful about that in the future.

Doing the Voldemort-wins-because-Cedric-survived alternate timeline justice would require to rewrite Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathley Hallows. (The play implies that the final battle in this timeline happens between start of term and Halloween.) Even cutting out all side-plots this would still be novel-sized, and considering my average HP fanfic writing speed of 2376 words per year, I literally can’t do that.

HG

Well, phobias exist, they are not always explained as easily as "Ron’s teddy bear was turned into a dirty great spider when he was three", and we have never seen Harry petting a pigeon in the books. I actually don’t remember to have seen any pigeons in the books. But I’m more concerned about Harry being afraid of the dark. Did we ever see a hint at that in the books? Maybe we didn’t notice, because whenever Harry was in the dark, there was something more specific to fear?

That’s what I meant when I wrote "sometimes it’s a bit unclear what actually is canon".

"While talking about fear with his son Albus Severus, Harry Potter mentioned that he doesn’t like pigeons and that they give him the creeps" is undeniably canon; we can’t pretend that it didn’t happen. But since JKR didn’t show us more,

• "Harry is afraid of pigeons" and
  
• "Harry made this up to make his son feel better"

are both valid interpretations of the canon sources.

I don’t like that ffnet forced me to choose "Delphi Riddle" from the characters list, and how the Harry Potter Wiki and even the Harry Potter Lexicon present speculation like it were canon. Actually, we don’t know whether "Delphi" is her true first name or whether it was just chosen for the alliteration when she pretended to be "Delphini Diggory", and concerning her parents, we only have her word for having Rodolphus Lestrange’s word for it. Since JKR deliberately didn’t show us which – if any – evidence Rodolphus may or may not have presented,

• "It’s true, she is Nofirstname Riddle",
  
• "Rodolphus lied about her father, she is actually Nofirstname Lestrange" and
  
• "Rodolphus lied about her parents, she is actually Nofirstname Somebodyelsesdaughter"

are all valid interpretations of the canon source, with varying degrees of plausibility (increasing from top to bottom, IMO). I don’t see how her name can be anything other than "Delphi Diggory", with the common understanding that it’s a chosen alias and her true name is unknown.

Thanks for the kind review.

HG

For it's cheer up my lads
Let your hearts never fail
For the bonnie ship Faraen
Goes a-hunting for the veil!

Discussion's back on, fellows! Lost ourselves an answer.

Pack down, ship in, move off, thread's alive, let's all pretend this happened!

Welcome to the writing club! Or to the knighthood, if we're bringing Plort into this...

~DF

Make Rassilon pay for it, and you've probably got the Reader's support.

~DF

Take a coal, now throw it into the fire that powers this locomotive!

What to say, what to say. Well, 'tis absolutely brilliant. Lovely character interactions and whatnot. So, a lovely job to both of you!

ILRAEN IS TOO GOOD FOR HER!!11!!one!11!1!

Hush, inner me. We're keeping ships out of this. So, amazing! Fun! Fantastic! Wonderful! More adjectives! Nothing really stood out as a problem, so good job.

But if you need pictures for the Wiki pages, I cannot recommend enough Rinmaru.

Good luck again.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You fools! Victory is mine!

*clears throat* Ah, er, right. Yes. Well, thanks very much then.

Thanks especially for your note about Jack. While he does have a steely edge to him, he's also incredibly concerned about other people. His description is an effort to present him as the heart to the Detective's head. But he wouldn't stand a chance if he didn't have some grit. Perhaps "concerned" is a better word here. I'll edit it when I get the chance- thanks again!

-Aegis, who is about to leave campus for home

"Second Glance" - In which Ilraen gets a hoof in the door.

We know some of you are already flying the colors of the good ship Faraen, so we hope you enjoy, despite the turbulent seas. ^_~

~Neshomeh