It's all true...

[fictional]

via rm

Found, one Dalek. No, really.

I am totally fascinated by this. I wish like anything that I'd been the one to stumble across it.

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

That's really touching, actually.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I want to do a "Dalek in the Pond" challenge. Fics about how the Dalek got there.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree. Kind of hits the whole This-Has-Been-Going-For-A-Very-Long-Time button.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

YES.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Should be make a community and announce it on Who Daily? or whatever it is?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

YES.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Want me to make it? I'm kinda bored.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I guess we should think about how it would work. Dates, signups, prompts etc.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Go for it!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

sent you an invite.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

There's a fic for you: they open an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and...

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

The 42-year-old said: "I'd just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I noticed something dark and round slowly coming up to the surface.

"I got the shock of my life when a Dalek head bobbed up right in front of me."

I'm totally glad it wasn't me who found it, because I would have screamed...

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I would've screamed like ten little girls. But in the back of my mind that wasn't going "Omg, ADVANCE SCOUT," I would be thinking --- YES!!! IT'S ALL REAL.

Because I am crazy and wear a tin hat.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

*Ten eyebrow*

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Do we know what happens when Daleks are immersed in water? Is there anything in canon? I know their 'only weakness' was stairs, till the latest model with its hovering ability. Is Dalekanium rustproof? Are their electrical circuits hermetically sealed? Enquiring minds want to know.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

If they can survive bare vacuum (as per Bad Wolf, etc) then I think they can survive underwater without much grief...

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

I get all creepy when I think about the eye-stalk slowly surfacing out of a murky pond.

ack! shivery!!!

YES YES on the pond prompt... totally supercedes any longings I might have been having about wanting hockey stick stories.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

hah, this is the 3rd time i've seen this in the last 3 minutes
someone please write a fic about this
from the dalek's pov
and make it heartbreaking
please?

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

Yeah... my first thought was "OMG THEY'RE INVADING FOR REAL"...

[rm.livejournal.com]

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. Go ahead and upload if you want, and pick one to be the default?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Actually, I should make a Dalek in the Pond one. Since I wasn't thinking at the time. Dalek Ec, of course, refers to the ask_aboutcoffee version.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I kinda like GERMINATE! or EXCAVATE! lol.

I figured that's what Dalek Ec was referring to ;-)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

dalekinthepond.

Dare ya!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

dalekinthepond.

Come play!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Maybe there is a race of underwater Daleks... *g*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Now you're just making me swoon.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

dalekinthepond

I know you can write 750 words as fast as blinking.

*bats eyelashes in an enticing manner*

[rm.livejournal.com]

I could make an EXCAVATE! one. In fact give me a list of Dalek-y words you want and I'll do cute little ones tomorrow with borders and stuff.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have eight or nine ideas for this, believe me :D I just need to pick the ones I like best / are least likely to be done by someone else.

Mine will probably lean heavily towards RPF. Right now I fancy either the one where a props guy is sure that Dalek is WATCHING HIM so he disposes of it in the dark of night, or the one where a couple of Dalek Wranglers hilariously lose control of their Dalek and watch it go careeeeeeeeening into the pond and decide not to tell anyone. :D

I totally think the latter is really how it ended up there btw. I've pulled worse shit than that in my time as a set dresser.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I just thought of one: RESUSCITATE. :D

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Ask Rach to tell you about her experiences with roach wranglers sometime. ;-)

When I thought of the RPF thing, I was kind of imagining a Shadow of the Vampire/Nosferatu type thing. But yeah, I've met a number of set dressers. A shady lot!

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

I would call that a prospect too hideous to contemplate, except it appears that they are actually, and I quote, 'common'.
(http://www.thetradingcardshop.co.uk/dalek-underwater-mode--common-dr-who-trading-card--367-2299-p.asp)

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

you are awesome!
can i leave it as a prompt for someone else? i really don't think i could write heartbreaking dalek getting lost fic

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

rm is already there.
http://community.livejournal.com/dalekinthepond/685.html?thread=1965#t1965

Join anyway! You could do something else!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i had some arting ideas from this, i will admit