I should be working or going to bed, but I don't feel like doing either, so this is what you get instead. A list of fics I want to write but probably never will because I am insufficiently motivated.

Icon relevant, by the way. You have been warned.


Sherlock
Despite my determination to never touch Sherlock again, sophiap mentioned how brilliant a Sherlock/The Hunger Games fusion would be and I'm just entranced. John and Sherlock, survivors of two different Hunger Games. Irene Adler would have to be involved, of course, and treated like the BAMF she is. Maybe make the games more like The Amazing Race rather than Survivor. No less deadly, of course, but bring it to the streets as opposed to having these fancy enclosed spaces. London is Holmes' lifeblood; it feels sacrilegious to take him out of it for an extended period of time.

That would take a whole lot of plotting, and a ton of canon reviewing I don't want to do.

Doctor Who
I started rewatching series 4 of Doctor Who, and I was reminded of two things: 1) How much I worship and adore Donna Noble and 2) How fucking kickass amazing Martha Jones after she dumps the Doctor. I've slowed down in the rewatching in part because I'm getting close to "Journey's End" and I don't think I can sit through that horrific ending again.

But one thing that's struck me in the rewatch is how confident Donna is. Yes, there's a core of insecurity that the Doctor points out in "Journey's End," which is part of the reason she can be loud and pushy, but that insecurity was much bigger in my memory than in the canon. She is an amazing can-do women and fucking clever, and I will never ever ever forgive RTD for bringing her back in 10's final episode just to have her spend the entire episode unconscious and then married.

I want to write Donna's story post-memory wipe. I want her to be adventurous and ambitious and and a world savior because some small, subconscious part of her remembers how awesome she is, how big her life was. I want her to meet Martha and Sarah Jane. I want them to have amazing adventures together, and Martha & Sarah Jane would be discrete so Donna's head doesn't go boom, but they would be a team. I want somebody to tell the Doctor why what he did to Donna was - despite the best of intentions and all the love in every universe - so horrifically wrong. Both Martha and Sarah Jane are companions who built lives for themselves after the Doctor, inspired by the Doctor but still independent of the Doctor; I want Donna to have that too. And I want to get to know Donna's husband, because I'm willing to like him, I'm willing to be happy that she got married, if I could just know him. (I want Lee too, but you can't have everything. Then again, it's fiction. MAYBE YOU CAN.)


Relatedly, I want a series of fic where Martha does join 10 and Donna, as a second companion, and she and Donna troll the Doctor every hour of the day. Because that would be glorious.


Scarecrow and Mrs. King
I've been rewatching this on a whim. The series goes pretty rapidly downhill - it doesn't become terrible after the first episode, but I do resent how they turn Amanda into a ditz for laughs in later episodes, while in the pilot she's clearly over her head but she never does anything dumb. She does the smartest things possible based on the information she possesses, and the problem is always she doesn't have sufficient information.

I'm also disappointed that Dean basically vanishes, and we see her start to date other men without any mention of her breaking up with him. I mean, he was hardly a character and I rather liked that about him. I thought it was interesting that the romantic tension surrounding her and Lee and Dean wasn't between her and Dean but her and her mother. (Awkward phrasing is awkward.)

But I am also kind of interested - and this is possibly because I've never met anyone in this situation - in that dilemma of "guy who loves me and the kids but I find kind of boring" versus "Guy I love but has no relationship with my kids at all." And I'm hesitant about it too because I don't think motherhood should be the defining aspect of every part of Amanda's life, but her kids are also at the perfect age where it really does matter if who Amanda's seeing gets along with them or not. They're old enough to understand what's going on, interact, and be affected by things, but young enough that it's not like "Well, they're off to college in a year; it's fine." And I mean it's only interesting if Amanda does love Dean in some way, if it's not "Guy who loves my kids" versus "Guy I love."

I don't know. It interests me but I have mixed feelings and don't think I could pull it off in a way that wouldn't make me twitch. Especially since what I really want more than anything else is just more of Amanda being competent. Unconventional, maybe, and occasionally over her head, but competent and clever. I enjoy her and Lee but don't really like the overtly shippy fics.



I read a drabble where Amanda was one of the Doctor's companions, and this was the most amazing thing ever. I want more of it.