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[doyle]

So I'm reading another of the Eighth Doctor books, Camera Obscura, which is set in Victorian London. I'd skimmed it, and happened upon a bit where Fitz is fussing at the Doctor, who sarcastically says "yes, Da." Ha, I said to myself, remembering many Spike/Angel fics, I bet this writer's a Spike fan.

Then I get to this bit:

[Anji] was smiling politely at an earnest, puffy-haired young man in a brown suit, William somebody or other, who had been introduced to Chiltern as a poet. He was chattering on at her - probably reciting some of his no doubt ghastly poetry.

*dies of fandom collision*

(Well, vampires do exist in the Who universe, and Dingoes Ate My Baby have already been name-checked in one of the novels, so I suppose anything's possible...)

Comments

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

... that's awesome.

Dingoes? Seriously?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yep, there's a Fifth Doctor book where a rockstar character reels off his musical influences and the Dingoes are in there. Which promptly sent me round the bend trying to work out when the book's set...

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Dr. Who, have never seen an episode but you're making me want to start...

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hee. It is the Fandom That Swallowed Me Alive, seriously. You have to love any show that suddenly decides it's going to do a vampire episode so has its main character basically announce "by the way, vampires are real, before my people were time travellers we were a race of vampire slayers involved in an intergalactic war with them... Got that? Good. On with the staking." And then it's never mentioned in canon again. Likewise werewolves.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

^_______________^
That makes me super, super happy.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I giggled a lot. And tried to remember which Spuffy BNF wrote a Doctor Who book, because I'm sure I remember one.

[gwynnega]

Yay! ::imagines State of Decay/Buffyverse crossover::

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Romana the Vampire Slayer. It's so obvious.

Though if Giles had got Buffy dressed up in a schoolgirl's outfit I assume the Council would have had some stern questions to ask.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Okay. So Buffy-type-happenings exist in the Whoniverse, but so does online Buffy fandom? My brain, she hurts.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*racks brains for Buffy online fandom* The cut line from Dalek about a Buffy spinoff?

[beccaelizabeth]

Online Angel fandom exists in the Angelverse
http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/angel_tran_71.shtml
Angel: They talk about me in the chatty rooms?

[(Anonymous)]

Who books x with Buffyverse, and also with Hitchhikers Guide
therefore Buffyverse x Hitchhikers Guide



I'm sure I saw a sort of crossover family tree of TV shows once

I think it actually proved that they were all dreamed by one guy in one show

[melata-fic.livejournal.com]

Yes. Of course.

Though I started thinking of the other Spike. Heh.

Am not writing this one. Because it will be brainkilling for me, and others know the Buffyverse quite a lot better. *grin* No matter how tempting it is.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I remember going "omgwtf" at that bit.

Miriam suggests that the Buffyverse is an AU where all of Doctor Who exists. Because. Also, based purely on the telly, Hitchhiker's Guide is in the same universe as DW (Oolon Caluphid writes books in both, the Doctor quotes it in Ghost Light) and so is Quatermass (the British Rocket Group is name-checked twice).

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Of course Hitchhiker's is in the same universe as DW - The Doctor's met Arthur Dent, remember!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Miriam suggests that the Buffyverse is an AU where all of Doctor Who exists. Because.

Yes, and it's all out on DVD! Curse them.

I need to rewatch Ghost Light. I loved that episode.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Wibble. Though I'm not sure I can take the 'Da' as that always makes me cringe and close the fic when it has Sppike use such a wrong term.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. I chose to take it as 'see, the Doctor *is* Northern really and the poshness is put on' *g*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I laughed quite a bit watching The Green Death tonight where Three goes undercover as a milkman; when asked what happened to the usual milkman he bluffs "oh, I'm his da." There are mitigating circumstances due to him pretending to be Welsh, though.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Hee. **It's all connected, Giles**
I'd love to see Buffy meet the Doctor.

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I got another DW book by the same author where the Doctor, during a conversation about vampires, mentions Sunnydale *g*

[blue-larkspur.livejournal.com]

I've never read nor seen Dr. Who, but I love reading your posts about it. How funny to have them all of a sudden decide to include vampires in the series, and so matter of factly. I love that.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Heee. I'm so relieved because I worry about non-DW fandom people. Mostly I worry about "why am I still on their flists, why?!"

[gloss]

Werewolves are canon in DW, too, aren't they?

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yep - they're in the old series and are turning up in the new one this coming season.