Fake News/Doctor Who: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space [Table of Contents]

[ptahrrific]

Title: Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space
Rating: PG-13
Series: The Colbert Report, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Overall, everything is fair game. See individual chapters for specifics.
Beta: The very awesome stellar_dust
Disclaimer: This is a work of parody. Although reference is made to real persons, places, and events, the dialog, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only. Fictional characters and settings are the property of the BBC, RTD, STC, TCR, and various other initials which are not mine.

Summary: Obnoxious right-wing pundit Stephen Colbert catches a lift with Four'n'Sarah Jane...and, in his younger days, Ten'n'Jack. Can Four cope with the older Stephen acting like he knows what he's doing? Can Ten avoid saying anything to the younger Stephen that will cause a paradox? And can the rest of space and time handle the truthiness?

(Don't be daunted by the pile of links, just start at the top and work your way down, until you're either bored or hooked.)

Read on Other Sites

Mirror on A Teaspoon And An Open Mind
Mirror on the AO3

Table of Contents

0. Don't Step On The Butterflies (original)
1. First Meetings
  (One, Two)
2. A Thousand Wørds
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five)
3. How Many Time Lords Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight) +. Deleted Scenes
4. I'm Your Moon
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine) +. Deleted Scenes
5. I Want My MTV
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six) +. Deleted Scenes
+. Children in Need Special: The Colbert That Never Was
6. The Eagle Has Landed
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five) +. Deleted Scenes
+. Children in Need Special: Underappreciated Tea-Boys Unite!
+. Christmas Special: A Truthy TARDIS Crew's Christmas
  (One, Two, Three, Four, Five)

Extras

—Soundtrack
—Poster
—Opening: DailyMotion, YouTube
—Closing: DailyMotion
—Wallpapers: Team TARDIS Four, Team TARDIS Ten, I'm Your Moon
—Illustrations: Serials 1-3, Serial 4, Serials 5-6, Extras

AU Spinoffs

—Jack Off Limits (one-shot; not happy, non-con, non-canon)
—George's World (chaptered; harmless entertaining indulgence)
—With The Rest All Gone by queenfanfiction (one-shot; Year That Never Was deathfic)

Geeknotes

—1. First Meetings
—2. A Thousand Words
—3. How Many Time Lords...?
—4. I'm Your Moon
—5. I Want My MTV
—6. The Eagle Has Landed
—+. A Truthy TARDIS Crew's Christmas

The arc word, as gammaguilt correctly guessed, is "[South Carolina] peaches."


Winner in the "Classic Who: Crossover" category during the second round of the Children of Time Awards. And, perhaps more importantly, dubbed "neato keen" by cot_tossed.

Comments

[canadian-plant.livejournal.com]

Yessss .... multi-part! Love it; can't wait :-D

[ptahrrific]

Not only that . . . each individual story is a multi-part serial. So the whole thing have at least twice as many chapters as it appears to :3

Glad it'll have an audience!

[canadian-plant.livejournal.com]

Yay :-)

[ptahrrific]

^Has. It has at least twice as many chapters. (Or "will have", as the case may be.)

[rissaofthesaiya.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. The temporal grammar is getting to you already, I see.

This is so freaky. I was watching the Aldrin episode and I was just thinking "That proves Stephen's a Timelord, he has enough room under his desk for two Starbucks!" I was all ready to go start collecting evidence for a WMG post on TV Tropes. The Report doesn't have a WMG page yet and it clearly needs one.

[ptahrrific]

The Pundit as Time Lord. Now there's an idea and a half.

...WMG? (None of the phrases that jump to mind for this situation, like "bigger on the inside", have the right initials...)

[rissaofthesaiya.livejournal.com]

Sorry, jargon. Wild Mass Guessing.

[ptahrrific]

Oh, wow, that page looks like a great way to kill a couple of weeks.

Go for it!

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

OH YES!

I SO CANNOT WAIT. :D

[ptahrrific]

♥♥♥

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Footnote about Jo: OH, TEN! XD

(♥)

[ptahrrific]

I figure this probably happens to the Doctor more often than we see. He's been leaving lovestruck companions behind for a long time, after all =3

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

I was thinking it's another in the Ten-goes-back-and-marries-his-old-companions theme. There's already Susan and Leela marrying Tennant look-alikes, now Jo too??? XD (Not to mention Rose! Oy, Ten. Oy.)

(BTW, check your google docs!)

[ptahrrific]

"Oy" is right. (I imagine it as going down basically the way "School Reunion" did, only with Jo and saving the rainforest instead of Sarah Jane and investigative journalism.)

(Checked, made a couple of replies, and edits have been made. Thank you!)

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Watched Spearhead from Space tonight! (Liz is very smart, and under the right lighting she'd look a bit Ten-ish .. HMMMM.)

.. but point being, Delphon is a one-off reference and there's no Master at all, so you're safe there. ;D

[ptahrrific]

. . . now there's a girl!Ten? Oh dear.

Thank you for checking that out!

I'm almost finished with serial #4, so I should have that up for editing soon!

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, it was no trouble at all. ;D

Awesome! I probably won't have time to look at it till next week, if that's okay.

[ptahrrific]

It's up! Footnotes are at the end, in orange, so you can get to 'em without accidentally reading the last scene.

And, yeah, you've got a week and a half to get to the first one, so you're in good shape. (This one's nine parts long. I need to start making them shorter, or I won't get to the Christmas special until next year...)

[biichan.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most awesome fics I have ever read and I am infinitely grateful to have found it through cot_tossed. (I am now friending this fic journal because it looks like the rest of your fic is similarly cracked yet awesome :D)

[ptahrrific]

Cracked-yet-awesome is certainly one of my specialties =3 Glad you liked!

[biichan.livejournal.com]

I've read a lot of the others here now. Truthiness Etc is still my favorite, but I really liked Expecting, The Thing With Feathers, and your Sailor Pluto story as well :)

In other words, you may be responsible for getting me into Fake News fandom. (I'm even seriously contemplating writing some fic, though I should probably watch a bunch more episodes before starting. I have this weird desire to do a Watchmen crossover, mostly because Rorschach and Steven remind me of each other.)

[ptahrrific]

Aaaaawesome.

Yes, join us! We are all kinds of fun =D

[clarequilty.livejournal.com]

I know this is super late, by holy crap! I thought I was the only person in the universe who thought a Fake News/Doctor Who Crossover would be AWESOME.

You're my new hero. Seriously.

[ptahrrific]

The Internet: proof that, no matter what, you are not the only one :D

Thank you!

[bookofcalm]

It's entirely possible that I bookmarked this at least six months ago. Possibly last year? And then I read it yesterday! Until two in the morning! I spent the whole time going ♥___♥.

Trying to catch the fiddlier references was incredibly fun.

[ptahrrific]

Haha, awesome. Glad you liked!

[narceus.livejournal.com]

Hey! Stumbled across this on Teaspoon And An Open Mind, and then followed it back here to rec it to a friend who's spent more time in fake news than I have. I love it a lot. I'm more familiar with TCR as a show than a fandom, so I admit I went in just expecting some two-dimensional hilarity, the Doctor confronted with Stephen's somewhat abrasive personality--but instead you drew him out into a complex character with internal growth and development and such, and I loved it. (Jack as the protective big brother just about melted me. Totally my favorite part, for all I loved it all.)

I keep getting the mental image of the kind of pieces TCR/TDS would do in the Whoniverse on various alien goings-on as they became more and more publicly known. I can just see TDS hiring a Senior Extraterrestrial Correspondent to round out the team.

Quick question, one of the spin-off stories in the 'Extras' looks like it's flocked--is it available somewhere for me to read it? I'd love to see what else you have written in this universe.

Thanks for the story!

[ptahrrific]

Thanks for the feedback! The fandom output runs the whole gamut from "two-dimensional hilarity" to "fleshed-out complexity", so I'm glad this take worked for you!

I confess, I am one of those tetchy old-school-Who fans who dislikes the idea of all of modern-day Earth knowing about aliens. But I would not say no to some fic about TDS' take on the whole thing. And an alien correspondent would be fabulous. (Assuming, of course, that John Oliver isn't a Time Lord already...)

One of my favorite features of Dreamwidth: OpenID accounts can be given access to locked posts. You, uh, may not like this one (let's just say there's a reason it's locked), but you should be able to read it now =)

My pleasure!

Best. Thing. Ever.

[myklavelle]

I have seriously spent the past two days overloading on this and I am so happy. This was honestly the best fic experience I've ever had in fandom. Seriously, I wish the Lambda awards had a category for fanfic because seriously, this was amazing. I need more! I'm definitely going to have to better acquaint myself with Fake News, because nothing can keep me from reading your entire masterpost!

Re: Best. Thing. Ever.

[ptahrrific]

Thank you so much! Glad to see another convert to the fake news fandom :D