Beta Reader Request

[calliopes_pen]

I'm currently in the middle of working on my fanfic for the smith_n_jones 1969 ficathon. Do I have any offers for beta reading when I'm done? The Doctor and Martha will be there, and there will be a mention of the Third Doctor and Bessie (his car). It's due the 15th, so I should be able to get it done by the 14th, I would imagine.

By the way, does anyone know if it was ever mentioned what month they ended up in when they first got to 1969? I remember they said they were there for 6 months, but I don't think it was ever mentioned the month they got there.

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I'll Beta for you...

They arrived in March, according to Martha's MySpace Blog because she mentions watching Eurovision with Lulu winning it - and I checked the dates on that ('cos I'm a Nerd !)

And they weren't there for six months - at least according to Martha' MySpace Blog - but about 6 weeks...

[calliopes_pen]

Thank you!

Huh. I always thought it was 6 months for some reason. Ah, well. It just means they can't go to Woodstock.

Did that Myspace entry happen to have the date they got there? Because I couldn't find anything after checking Wikipedia.

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No there's no exact date. Here's what she says:

Well, have you missed me?
Of course, you've probably not noticed I've been away. Time travel's funny like that. But, yeah, we've just spent a few weeks trapped in 1969!

[snip]

Oh, and one night, we watched the Eurovision concert! Lulu was one of the winners with Boom Bang-a-Bang which was weird. Not her winning but the whole fact that only a few weeks ago we were at the 2007 Eurovision. It really brought home how all this time travel thing is just all a bit mental. In 1913, seeing Tim as a young kid then seeing him again in 2008 as an old man. Working with girls my age who are really my mum's age. Going from the 2007 Eurovision to watching the 1969 Eurovision.

Eurovision was at the end of March but she doesn't say how long they'd been there when they watched Lulu winning - I'm guessing a week or two at most...

I can give you the entire entry for 1969 if you're interested?

[calliopes_pen]

That would be nice, thank you.

Until that entry, I don't think I had even heard of Eurovision...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* It's pretty much considered a joke these days, but it was very big in the 60s - 80s !!

Here's Martha's entry on 1969 in full:

Well, have you missed me?
Of course, you've probably not noticed I've been away. Time travel's funny like that. But, yeah, we've just spent a few weeks trapped in 1969! Which, to be fair, was more cheery than 1913.

It all started when we, yet again, arrived in 2007. I'm not sure why we keep going back there but I'm seriously hoping it's not because that's when Rose was from. Anyway, we landed in the grounds of this old house called Wester Drumlins. It was pretty cool actually. The kind of place Mum used to drag us to when we were kids. And in the garden, there were these statues. Only, they weren't statues. They were aliens of some sort. The Doctor said they're called Weeping Angels. Of course, he only realised that AFTER they'd zapped us back to 1969 – leaving the TARDIS behind. So, yeah, that's where we've been. The Swinging Sixties. Rock on!

Bless him, he had a bit of a panic about being separated from the TARDIS but I calmed him down. Told him we'd be fine. And, for once, I honestly knew that we would because we had this folder telling us what we needed to do. It was all this information compiled by this woman called Sally who lived in 2007. And she compiled it based on what we'd told her – in our future but her past. Time travel... it can seriously mess with your mind!! I asked the Doctor to explain it all to me but he started babbling on about timey-wimey devices so I stuck a banana in his mouth.

So, really, it was a case of the Doctor setting up all this stuff for Sally while I... lived, I guess. We got ourselves a little flat. Tiny little place that makes mine back home look like a palace. Oh and before you ask, he stayed on the sofa! Of course, to pay for it all, I had to get a job. In a shop. Now, there's nothing wrong with working in a shop. It beats being a maid anyway but it's a bit of a step down from being a nearly-Doctor. It was a bit of a laugh really. Got on great with the other girls although it was a shock to suddenly realise that they were the same age as my mum! So, yeah, days were spent in the shop and evenings either out with the girls or staying in and watching telly with the Doctor. Oh, now that's funny. You should have seen him, sitting watching the telly eating his dinner off a tray. He looked so uncomfortable. And I know it's cruel and wrong to laugh at that but him all hunched up on this tiny sofa, his gangly legs sticking out while he ate his beans and watched Coronation Street... it was like the most alien thing I think I've seen yet. Oh, and one night, we watched the Eurovision concert! Lulu was one of the winners with Boom Bang-a-Bang which was weird. Not her winning but the whole fact that only a few weeks ago we were at the 2007 Eurovision. It really brought home how all this time travel thing is just all a bit mental. In 1913, seeing Tim as a young kid then seeing him again in 2008 as an old man. Working with girls my age who are really my mum's age. Going from the 2007 Eurovision to watching the 1969 Eurovision. Being in the year where Harold Saxon was born but coming from the year where he's standing for Prime Minister. It's a bit like... everything's linked. Time isn't this linear thing that we think it is. Like there's, I dunno, some kind of pattern. Or something. I guess I'm just seeing the bigger picture. Hark at me getting all profound!

But yeah, ignoring all the head-messing madness of time travel, it's been fun. It's just been nice to spend some time with the Doctor where we're not running around fighting off alien invaders or whatever. We've just had time to sit and watch a bit of telly, eat normal food that kind of thing. You know, like normal friends do.

But it's also good to be off again. Not sure where we're heading. He's mentioned something about topping-up but I'm guessing he doesn't mean his mobile.

So I'll speak to you soon from whatever year we next end up in! Rock on!

[calliopes_pen]

Thank you!

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Welcome !