The Drums of War
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16th-Apr-2010 11:06 am - a la carte icons
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (always always returning)
I caved and bought more icons. Anyone that's being crazy like me, it helps to actually read through some of the news post's comments to make sense of how it works. If you have a paid account and had the userpic add-on before a la carte icons, you have 1 package. Therefore, you cannot buy the 1st package listed (listed as 1 package - 70 userpics). Well. You can, but you won't get the icons, you'll just get additional time for the package.

Formerly package 1 was called something like... oooh... 100 extra userpics or something. They renamed that, which is good, because it was a little deceiving. You didn't get 100 more userpics, your total was brought up to 100 (not counting loyalty pics).

Get it? Probably not. It's pretty confusing. But, so, if you have a paid account and the 1st package and you want more icons, you have to buy 2 packages, which will add another 70 icons to your total.

So, I had 105 icons (1 package + loyalty userpics) before I gave LJ another $20 (sigh I hate being an icon whore ;;), and now have a total of 175.

All icon add-ons are built to expire on the same date. Something about distribution time amongst the packages. The staff have some pretty decent explanations in the comments.

-I believe plus/basic accounts can get a total of 15 more icons for $6 ($2 for 5 icons each package).
-I do not know how these add-ons effect permanent accounts.


I need to really write fic. I haven't done much at all...
24th-Mar-2010 12:51 am - FIC: Descent
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (A botched resurrection)
Character(s): The Master and The Doctor
Summary: Hell is descending.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1,316
Warnings: I'm sorry Wilf D: I really do love you, but D: Spoilers for End of Time.

So I really just wanted to play a bit with the horrors the Doctor was talking about from the Time War. Although I've really only got the Nightmare Child figured out, since I had done that for Shades of Three. And then I got lazy so I'll probably touch on other things at some point.

Takes place during part 2 of EoT, before the Doctor gets back to his feet in the mansion.

It’s a similar kind of moment to his failed resurrection. His breathing is irregular and there’s energy coursing around them, suffocating and latching to the drumming in his head and amplifying with each beat. The fear is similar to before, so open and impossible to push under walls and wrap himself up tight. Everything has gone wrong these past few days. This instant is the first time since his return to the universe that he doesn’t notice his insatiable hunger. )
23rd-Mar-2010 02:03 pm - Fic Recs
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (Ever the charming Saxon.)
I never use to really care for Doctor/Master. And then one day, this LJ for a Doctor Who fic gets featured and I happen to notice it (generally I barely bat an eyelid at the spotlights), and, well, I read the entire thing in one go, and I suppose you can say my eyes were opened.

Anyway! The point is, the same author has written a retelling of End of Time. I’ve been waiting for this awhile now and was not disappointed \o/ I read Aria’s fic and always end up inspired. I just… can barely explain it. It’s like a dizzying sort of joy!

So, here are links to the EoT story, as well as the story that turned me onto the pairing, and even more love when she wrote another snuggly long fic.

after me comes the flood (End of Time retelling) [Warning: character death.]
Season Four (s4-AU)
Season Five (s5-AU, unrelated to the above fic)

They are all fantastic and I highly recommend each if you have not already read them \o/
21st-Mar-2010 04:31 am - Oh, why not.
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (Default)
Hum, I'll drop down both, just in case anyway.

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The How's My Driving? Meme
6th-Mar-2010 12:38 am - FIC: Letter to my Self
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (A botched resurrection)
Community: [livejournal.com profile] justprompts
Prompt: Write a letter to your younger or older self.
Character(s): EoT!Master writing to SoD!Master
Words: 307

Okay bed now lol.

To my younger Self )
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (You morons!)
Unrelated to fic, but does anyone want a Dreamwidth invite? I have 10 sitting around. I don't really use my own, but that's besides the point. Get'em while they're hot?

Fandom(s): Doctor Who (post s4)/Life on Mars (post s2)
Character(s): The Master/Sam Tyler, the Doctor, Gene Hunt, Lucy Saxon *haha*
Summary: The Master and Sam Tyler: where do the lines end, where do they blur?
Pairing(s): Somewhere in the distant future the Master/Gene Hunt & the Doctor/the Master
Rating: PG-13
Words: 4,503
Warning(s): WTFery nature and probably some inconsistencies with Gene's voice, language, the Master going apeshit

I'm starting to think one of my favorite pastimes is screwing with the Master's mind. Seriously, wtf Self find new material.

Chapters (1 & 2).
Chapter 3.

Chapter x04 )
4th-Mar-2010 06:17 am - Superhero Team
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (You crack me up! Really!)
Okay so it's 6am and I'm still debating if forcing myself to sleep a few hours is possible.

Since I'm currently still awake, here's a meme.

Superhero team meme! Which is kind of 'lol' for the Master, but I've figured the kinks out. )

I think I will try and force-sleep. /sigh
3rd-Mar-2010 07:11 pm - Sci-fi/Fantasy Big Bang
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (Default)


Decided I was going to do this! Friend pointed my curiosity its way, so I figured I'd share the pimpage. Figured several people on this flist might find it interesting, too :D Although, I myself will be writing for the Men in Black fandom rather than Doctor Who, but!

Basically it's writing at least 25k over the course of four months. Sign-ups are all this month. I always completely bomb NaNoWriMo, so this shouldn't kill me :3
22nd-Feb-2010 05:55 pm - FIC: Burn at the Stake!
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (Today we go to war!)
Character(s): The Master and The Doctor
Summary: Arriving in the middle of some poor bloke’s bedroom, during the time of this planet’s version of the Salem Witch Trials? The Master tsks in thought.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1,614

Not exactly Shades of Three. It's pre-story and only actually mentioned once in the fic. Was also written awhile ago.

And anything So3-related is post-s3 AU. So they're 'traveling' and... having issues. Ta-da.

It’s almost hysterical enough that he wants to rush around and give the TARDIS a hug, but that would only serve to reveal his position and put him up to the same fate that the Doctor was miserably facing alone. He claps his hands, rubs them together and a look of glee crosses his face; he walks around the console, still laughing, and the dead silence of the solemn TARDIS just makes it all even better. )
16th-Feb-2010 11:21 pm - FIC: I Am the Dream-Master
beholdthedrums: [Saxon] (Say that again?)
Rating: G
Words: 415
Warnings: Kinda cracky, and childhood being punched.


*rocks back and forth in a corner* Oh god I just punched my childhood in the face... So I was in Paixao chat and someone started off with "Imaaaaaaaaginaaaaation" that was to start... Reading Rainbow I guess, but of all things my mind stumbled into "Journey Into Imagination", a ride from Disney World that was revamped (for the worse, if you ask me) in like... the 1990s.




The Master decided to invade that moment of nostalgia. I think he's still sore about the whole Yana thing.


A dream can be a dream come true~ With just that SPARK! in me and you~ )
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