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Nothing like going off to ask for confirmation of authorial intent. I exchanged some PMs with Jonathan Morris himself on Twitter (nice guy!), and voilà; a three-part Twitter thread clarifying his authorial intent.
To whom it may concern. My Doctor Who story The Thief of Sherwood is set in a fictional version of our universe, not the Doctor Who universe.
But if people want to think it is set in a parallel Doctor Who universe where Doctor Who is fictional then I have no objection!
(I mean the framing narrative.)
Doctor Who could meet the author of The Thief of Sherwood, Godfrey Porter, and then discuss it with the members of the Time Team.
Key points:
- He agrees that there is a "framing narrative", the one featuring Godfrey Porter and all that; it's not just a fun presentation.
- He intended for the world of Godfrey Porter to be an alternate timeline to ours, but putting that in Wiki terms, is okay with acknowledging that alternate timeline as one of the many worlds to which the Doctor could theoretically travel.
Ergo, it seems like my proposal, as endorsed by User:SOTO and User:Epsilon the Eternal, was pretty much bang-on. It's nice when these things have a happy ending like that.