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No way! This is really sweet thank you so much!

I lied... I didn't right an essay on a transgender adaptation of Twelfth Night...

I WROTE TWO ESSAYS!

A Transgender Adaptation of Twelfth Night: Casting A Transgender Adaptation of Twelfth Night: Costuming

(Sorry these are Google links, I couldn't figure out how to make a PDF into a URL.)

I wrote these essays for a Shakespeare class I took in college in 2022, one was written at the beginning of the semester and the other was written at the end of the semester. Twelfth Night was the first play we read for that course and I absolutely loved it, the professor and I had multiple conversations about that play alone and our experiences of being transgender (my professor identified as nonbinary).

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I was tagged by @pers-books <3

Five + Nyssa + Tegan - Cofffeeshop

Six + Mel - University

Eight + Charley - Library

Thank you for these! And then I was immediately so rubbish at doing them, or having a brain generally. Anyway:

I actually wrote the first one, briefly, in one of the AU meme things here and @lurking-latinist also did a sweet one here.

Six + Mel + University

There are many Scrabble nights

Mel is probably some sort of admin person who tries to organise him. She makes charts for him! She leaves him advice about better research techniques! Also Healthy Body Healthy Mind pamphlets.

There's a cat in his office.

One time also a penguin.

He's been fired so many times he's impervious.

Eight & Charley + Library

The library is open at very odd hours.

This doesn't deter Charlotte Elspeth Pollard when she wants an adventure book.

Much tea is drunk.

There's something just a bit... off about the dimensions of the Library

Tagged by @pers-books Thanks! <3

Tag game: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better.

Last song: Ruelle - Find You

Currently watching: s1 of The Traitors Australia (when I said I went down a Traitors rabbit whole, I meant it. whoops.)

Three ships: errrrr Silver/Sapphire/Steel, Obidala, Five/Tegan.

Favorite colour: Blue

Currently consuming: Eating or media-wise other than watching? If the former, nothing right now unless you count my glass of water. If the latter I am listening to BBC Radio's Crown House in my ears and reading one of the Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor with my eyes and enjoying both.

First ship: Probably Hank/Sheila from Dungeons & Dragons, although Five/Tegan must also come close. In that I knew what a ship was when I shipped it and wrote fic for it, Five/Tegan.

Relationship status: Why are you asking??

Tagging @herawell @maryellencarter @jurijurijurious @thegingergal

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He finds her afterwards, sitting on what’s left of the wall, rubbing a grimy hand across her smoke-stained face.

“Don’t mind me,” she says, sniffing.  She musters a smile, a soldier’s brave smile, for him.  “I’m all right.  S’just.”  She gestures outward at the debris littering the courtyard.  Fires are still burning.  Bodies are still lying there.  “Smoke in my eyes, that’s all.”

“Lucie.” He sits beside her.  “It was a brave last stand.”

“Yeah.  It’s just – I asked them to do it.  And I know we won – mostly.  I know we’d have all died if someone hadn’t done something – but –”  Her face creases.  “Shut up like that for weeks on end.  You really get to know people, don’t you?  And then – this bleedin' mess.”

The Doctor slides his hand into hers, and then, deliberately, softly, kisses her smutty temple.  “And none so brave as their gallant captain.”

“Don’t be daft.”  

She closes her eyes, then, and leans her head against his velvet-coated shoulder.  The Doctor puts his arm around her, pulls her in more tightly.

“I know, Lucie,” he says under his breath.  “I know.”