Ooo, unexpected fic. It's like finding money in your jeans pocket <3
I'm glad you enjoy this so much, even with the season six revelations, and thank you very much for the kind words : ) It's funny, but I think I actually adjusted relatively quickly to the idea of River as Rory and Amy's daughter (just that part of it, not the rest) because of my work on this fic: they've all been "family" quite strongly in my head for a long time (to an extent that I found it really hard to read Eleven/Amy or Amy/River), so that when I found out they really were all family . . . apparently who was parent to who didn't matter nearly as much as the simple fact of being related. The great family Pond has been a reality for me for a long while.
That's an interesting point about River as the straight man. I suppose she is the "practical" one, though I'll admit I usually write her as the one doing the verbal poking, to which the Doctor is the straight man ; ) But, then, that's what makes the dynamic in their relationship so rich: there are so many ways in which you can see it both this way and that way, and they all dance back and forth. But absolutely, River is an odd one in her own way just as much as the Doctor, and I do wish fic would play with that more often. So happy you enjoyed all the banter and whimsey--definitely where I lot of my enjoyment in writing this came from!
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Date: 7 Dec 2011 09:42 pm (UTC)I'm glad you enjoy this so much, even with the season six revelations, and thank you very much for the kind words : ) It's funny, but I think I actually adjusted relatively quickly to the idea of River as Rory and Amy's daughter (just that part of it, not the rest) because of my work on this fic: they've all been "family" quite strongly in my head for a long time (to an extent that I found it really hard to read Eleven/Amy or Amy/River), so that when I found out they really were all family . . . apparently who was parent to who didn't matter nearly as much as the simple fact of being related. The great family Pond has been a reality for me for a long while.
That's an interesting point about River as the straight man. I suppose she is the "practical" one, though I'll admit I usually write her as the one doing the verbal poking, to which the Doctor is the straight man ; ) But, then, that's what makes the dynamic in their relationship so rich: there are so many ways in which you can see it both this way and that way, and they all dance back and forth. But absolutely, River is an odd one in her own way just as much as the Doctor, and I do wish fic would play with that more often. So happy you enjoyed all the banter and whimsey--definitely where I lot of my enjoyment in writing this came from!