Enmity of the Ages

May I just point out to everybody that at one point, you buy David Tennant, take him to your bath and have him squirt white foamy stuff all over you?

Thank you.

Extras for Ghazal: Originally, we had planned for the Doctor to forge a telepathic connection with Mirza so he could send Mirza off to spy on his behalf. In the end, it made more sense to let the Doctor go off investigating himself, but here’s a gif for the original version: The Master, incapacitated and Mirza going off stalking while the Doctor is inside her mind.

‘tis done.

The last chapter of Ghazal is now up. Go forth and read, and remember that after three years and nine months of work, any and all comments are much appreciated. I don’t think either Versaphile or I have ever worked on anything this massive before, and hope it shows. Thanks to everybody who’s been reading and commenting and reblogging the artwork and everything. You’ve been awesome.

Even if you leave in anger
and stay away for a thousand years
You will return to me,
for I am your goal.

“His mouth hangs open, his breathing rapid, as he suddenly sees double. Not double vision, but double perspective, both his own and Mirza’s. The current of her senses, her thoughts, flows like electricity through him and into the Master, as if he has connected a circuit.”

Illustration for chapter 13 of Ghazal.

Hakim is in his room, poring over a heavy, old book and tipping something green into a small pot. He looks up in surprise, and just as Makeda, takes a moment to recognise the Doctor. And when he does, he straightens up, and looks at the Doctor warily.

“What is this?” Hakim asks, looking the Doctor up and down.

“I need you to listen,” the Doctor says, with what he hopes comes across as firm but reassuring. “You can’t give the Emir the theriac.”

Illustration for chapter 12 of Ghazal. Click here for the larger version.

Illustration for Ghazal: The Doctor, the Master and Mirza.

Illustration for Ghazal (and my personal favourite). The Doctor dreams of vines. Click here for the full NSFW image.

The way he snarled that line.

And then there’s the “about to drunkenly fuck Agatha Christie” face.