Bar TARDIS; G.

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Thank you for your patience!

Comments

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Nicely bizarre. Slightly meloncholy, but in a good way.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

I love the quiet love of this space.

And I adore Rose stopping to consider whether she has met Michelangelo

[aura218.livejournal.com]

I can see that you're younger in this.

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

<3

it's so quiet and pensive and lovely. It makes me want to write whofic but my fear of not getting a good Doctor down is overriding it.

also I like hearing about growing TARDISes.

[emmelinep.livejournal.com]

you would write wonderful who-fic. you're a nice cross between melancholy and gleeful, like the doctor.

[greenapricot.livejournal.com]

This feels so wonderfully calm.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, they actually do make sonic refrigerators. Acoustic cooling, I think they call it. Saw it on Discovery or TLC or National Geographic; some show about green technologies. Truth--it really is stranger than fiction. :)

--Jessica

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

AWESOME MADE MANIFEST. :D

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Best. First. Line. Ever.

I didn't get to read this when it was first posted, and I'm so glad I got to now. I stopped after a few paragraphs and insisted on reading it aloud to my husband who said, "He has a lovely way with words." And, being a fellow editor, he doesn't say that easily. :) Thanks, Sam. Wonderful story.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Aww, tell him thank you :) And thank you to you, too! I'm glad you both enjoyed it.

[invisible-lift.livejournal.com]

"Nah. M'writin' a novel."

Heh. Nice.

[thecolourclear.livejournal.com]

Have you ever met Michaelangelo?"

She actually has to stop and think about this.

Best part EVER.

By the way, do you have certain coding on this journal? Even when I view it in my style, the text is always HUGE and not teenytiny, like I like it. It makes me feel that everyone can read what I'm reading with the large text. :( I've tried everything to make it go away. Does this make sense? Should I take screencaps?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Try ?style=light, perhaps?

If you have it in ?style=mine, it should display just as yours would; there's no special coding on the font. Sorry about that!

[contrarywise]

Lovely. Although I confess I started hearing the Talking Heads singing "Heaven" as I was reading.

*pets cyborg banana tree fondly*

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I even know that song. Lyrics?

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

See, I think sometimes people forget just how odd a life with the Doctor has the potential to be.

Love it!

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Maybe its been retconned out, but it was my understanding that the Doctor stole his TARDIS when he and Susan fled Gallifrey. He just had the bad luck to pick the one that was in for repairs.

On the other hand, this fic does explain the symbiosis between a Time Lord and their TARDIS

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

It's never been retconned out, but not really been confirmed either, if that makes sense, it's just the Doctor's word we have. And one could always say that he'd carved one of his own, lost it, and then stolen another.

It is quasi-canon that you grow a TARDIS -- Jack's got one growing on his desk at Torchwood :D

[poppymayhem.livejournal.com]

I want to meet Charlie the Mammoth now!

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

He won't make very good conversation -- he is stuffed, after all :D

[kcracken.livejournal.com]

I swear, Sam, it's like you channel the Doctor or something. You write him so well. I can just hear David's voice, too. Nice.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I love your former-TARDIS stories. Both this one, and your Glenn Miller story where the Hub is a TARDIS whose Time Lord is dead both have this gentle, quiet quality about them that I love.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I find the TARDIS oddly fascinating. I blame that TNG episode with the living spaceship. :D

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

This was a bit sad and a bit funny and entirely beautiful. I love stories that talk about the nature of TARDISes, and this one felt so very true. Thanks!

[jadelennox]

that was really lovely, a gorgeous mood piece without being too angsty.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I don't think I saw this! I'm so glad you put it up. Rose petting the banana plant at the end filled me with awwwww!

[sadera992.livejournal.com]

remids me of hitchiker's guide to the galaxy and the restaurant at the end of the universe. very good - has to be if i'm comparing it to douglas adams!

[dustuck.livejournal.com]

aw, this surpasses cuteness. And it's very thoughtful too, a lovely piece.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Very sweet. Reminds me of Milliways. ;)

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

Fascinating story, lovely storytelling.

[ravanasnape.livejournal.com]

This was beautiful and slightly haunting. When you write in this style your tone becomes almost detached, which really adds to the overall feeling of the piece - is it intentional? Also, are the other people in the bar 'normal' space travellers or people like the Doctor, possibly from different universes?

Sorry for all the questions - this is distracting me from the fact that the sky outside my window has turned a funny purple-pink colour, which I'm sure can't be normal...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I don't usually detach consciously, but I have noticed that when I write for a series for the first few times, I'm often a bit detached -- I think it comes of analysing for ICness.

As for the rest of the bar -- well, a mixture of space travelers, time travelers, and waitbeings, I would think....

[jessie-menken.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is lovely. Such a great mix of wistful and whimsical. :)

[cadencecascade.livejournal.com]

"Once in a while, Rose feels a bit like a chaperone for a particularly bright ten-year-old."

This accurately describes the Doctor and most of his relationships with his companions.