Lyricwritesprose (real name Isabel Pelech) is a Doctor Who and Good Omens (2019) fanfiction author whose works can be found here
and here. Some of her original works can be found here.
Tropes found in works by Lyricwritesprose include:
- Accusation Fic: "Boxing Day", in which the Tenth Doctor's rather fatalistic description of regeneration in The End of Time results in Wilfred Mott thinking the Eleventh Doctor is some sort of Body Snatcher.
- Drabble: She wrote a collection of Doctor Who drabbles here and Good Omens ones here.
- Backstory: "Lies Told To Children" is one for the Doctornote , "Falling in Flames" is one for the Master, and "A Still More Terrible Night Awaits Us" fictionalizes one for H. P. Lovecraft.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Shows up often, particularly with regards to the Doctor.
- In "Little Details", the Doctor gives Amy a chocolate-covered Scotch bonnet, thinking the milk will cancel out the hotness of the pepper. He can apparently eat them just fine because of Time Lord biology, despite Scotch bonnets have a heat rating of 100,000–350,000 Scoville units.
"You," Rory began, "can't actually . . .""Taste the capsaicin?" The Doctor grimaced. "That's the problem. I can taste it. I can taste most chemicals, in fact; plenty of things that poison a Time Lord, not as many that can sneak up on me. But the thing is, I taste it as a taste, not a—" He groped physically for the right word. "A fwoomph."- In "Edge of Human", the Doctor tests River by flipping a double-headed coin. She immediately realizes it will be heads. He takes it as proof she can alter her time perception like a Time Lord.
- Comically Missing the Point: From "Someone Else's Promised Land":"I think it's—I don't even know what I think. It's a planet. You moved a planet. A whole one.""They look funny cut down the middle," the Doctor said.
- Dark Fic: While all her fics follow the general optimism of the show, some deal with much darker themes. In "A Problem of Background," the Doctor rescues a little girl from slavery at an indigo plantation in the Southern United States. It addresses the topics of child abuse, rape, slavery, and racism.
- Fantastic Racism: Time Lords, against all other sentient beings, according to "Lies Told To Children". Specifically, they cast their own society as one of wizards, having built walls to keep out ogres and trolls and such.
- Perspective Flip: Roughly half of "Lies Told To Children" is An Unearthly Child from the Doctor's perspective.
- Repressed Memories: In "See Ye Not That Bonny Road", Jamie McCrimmon has them after getting his memory erased by the Time Lords in The War Games—dreaming about his travels with the Doctor, retaining the moral lessons he learned from said travels, and trusting the Eighth Doctor without question despite the differences in appearance. The Doctor explains this as being a result of said Time Lords overlooking the bits of his brains that function on neither words nor logic.
- Layman's Terms: From "See Ye Not That Bonny Road":"It's all right," Jamie confided to Kirstie. "You just have to say 'what?' until the answer comes out in plain English. You'll catch on.""That was plain English!" the Doctor said plaintively, and Jamie smiled.
- Explosive Instrumentation: In "Night Terrors, Rory wonders why the TARDIS console spews out showers of sparks whenever things go wrong:"How did the Time Lords learn to manipulate the laws of reality without ever inventing the surge protector?"
- Terraform: Or xenoform, rather. The Twelfth Doctor does this in "Someone Else's Promised Land" to make a halogen world. It makes his companion at the time rather terrified of him."And, yes, there is something I can do. I plan to give them this planet. If they agree to my terms.""You can't just give away someone's planet!""Yes, I can, because it isn’t someone else's planet. Yet. I just put it here."Journey was still for a very long moment. Then she said, ”What?!""There are trillions of stray worlds floating between the stars. Orphans of the nebulas, never touched by sunlight. I found one. I used a supernova tap for energy—not Betelgeuse, a different supernova—and tossed it at a likely-looking K-type star. Set off every volcano on its surface when I jerked it to a stop. Fireworks for a hundred years." This time, he actually grinned, a quick expression, wild and mad as it was euphoric. "A few robots to seed the chlorine-producing algae, a few more to disseminate a basic ecosystem—jump ahead a couple of millenia, and here we are. Move-in ready."Journey counted to five inside her head, to make sure her voice wouldn't waver. Then she said, "Who the hell are you?”
