Fandom Snowflake Days 3 &4

(You will get 1 later today...)

Day Three asks you to interact with or friend someone new. I've asked someone to friend me, so that's done. Hopefully they won't run away. Day 4 is to post a fannish wishlist in your journal.

Well, even aside from that seeming greedy so soon after such a wonderful Yuletide, I have a fandom_stocking hanging up here already, which is pretty much that. So there you go. My fannish wishlist.

(Besides, they say "no matter how unreasonable". I don't think they even begin to suspect how unreasonable my unreasonable would be after all my old TV watching of late, or how much David Collings it might involve, depending on my mood. Or that I'd want someone to write the ending or some Post-War fic for Enemy at the Door. So. Let's not go there. :lol:)

Fandom Snowflake Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm not sure what my favourites are, I don't know if three random fics would ever exactly define me, and given that I write in such obscure corners of fandom, I should be grateful for any attention at all. So, I decided on three shorter (non-chaptered) works including two which I would love more people to read (but I can see why they wouldn't) and one that seems to be my most popular story. They're all Doctor Who fics.

1. Transience (4368 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peri Brown, Governor of Varos
Summary:

Peri wonders where have all the good guys gone, and the Governor of Varos tries to find a new way forward for his people.

I originally wrote this for the first who_like_giants ficathon (in early 2010?). It did actually get read at the time, but I was rapidly becoming v unwell and not realising what was happening... and blamed this fic. (Yes, completely logical, obviously *cough*). It's the Story of Doom and no stories worked again afterwards. Also, whoever it was left the prompt on the comm never commented; always a worrying thing, even if it wasn't a gift exchange. (It must be awful!) So I ended up deleting it from Teaspoon. A year or so later, I actually looked at it, realised it was much better than most of my stories and reposted it to understandable but resounding silence.

Anyway, that's not the point: it probably does require knowledge of Vengeance on Varos, and it's post-Trial for Peri. Varos is a story I watched a lot of times, as I did an A-Level media studies project on it, so some of the ideas had probably been lurking my head for over a decade, and a slight exploration of Weird Isolated Colonies (I love that theme in SF. If ever I wrote actual SF of my own, it would be what happened in a small colony on a weird planet left alone for centuries) and I don't know... This is why I write fic. I can express what I mean ten times better in stories than writing like this, and that's why I hope people might at least read it occasionally. Even if it's odd fic about a minor character. (And I do know some people did read it at the time and left lovely comments! I was just v weird back then.)

2. Prospero's Daughter (2932 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ruth Mills, The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Summary:

For twenty-seven years after her father’s death, Ruth Mills has a guardian angel to watch over her. He’s called the Doctor, but this story isn’t even a little bit like a fairy tale.

I wrote this in 2011 - the only thing I actually wrote for months while I was that ill (and it killed my brain for around five weeks, a genuinely scary experience) so hello, fic-I-have-morbid-associations-with #2! Anyway, I listened to the Unbound audio Full Fathom Five, one of Big Finish's 2003 anniversary run of alternate Doctors, each taking a "what if...?" and in most cases casting an actor who'd been a near miss at being the Doctor - in this one "What if the Doctor really believed the means justified the ends?" and David Collings. I have problems with the plot, but the way in which the idea was done &, moreover the way in which it accidentally fits perfectly as an AU to New Who was fascinating. (I couldn't help thinking that what brought about this dark version of the Doctor isn't that he failed to destroy Gallifrey in the Time War and then had to make that right by even more terrible means and vowed never to be so slow to make that kind of sacrifice again.) Anyway, that would be another fic, but it was lurking in the background of this one.

The thing is, the action of the audio is set twenty-seven years apart and in that twenty-seven year gap, this very dark, ruthless Doctor plays fairy godfather to orphaned Ruth Mills (who's probably about six when he meets her), which immediately struck me as being a really twisted version of The Eleventh Hour and I had to write it. So that's at least partly what this is. I tried to make it as accessible and spoiler-free as possible and the main difference knowing the audio should make is that, when you've listened to it, this story is even darker. So, basically, this is my most evil story. (Not saying much, :lol:, but I felt accomplished.)

Anyway, I still like this fic, I'd love more people to read it, and also I want feedback on whether or not the jelly baby bit worked, or whether it was a stupid idea and I should change it to something else.

3. Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched (5358 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Cameca (Doctor Who), Polly Wright, Ben Jackson (Doctor Who), Liz Shaw, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Evelyn Smythe, Bernice Summerfield, Charley Pollard, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
Summary:

You wouldn't believe how difficult it is for a passing Time Lord not to get married to famous historical women completely by accident. Seriously. Happens all the time.

Because that was more than enough of morbidity, obscurity and hard-to-sell fics! This seems to be my most popular fic; it was probably the most fun to write (except maybe for the Three-era crossover with Carry On Cowboy), and it's been recced places. And it's also one of the reasons that I'm very amused at Eleven's tendency to get engaged/married by accident without me even having to write anything about it...

Fandom Snowflake Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm not sure what my favourites are, I don't know if three random fics would ever exactly define me, and given that I write in such obscure corners of fandom, I should be grateful for any attention at all. So, I decided on three shorter (non-chaptered) works including two which I would love more people to read (but I can see why they wouldn't) and one that seems to be my most popular story. They're all Doctor Who fics.

1. Transience (4368 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peri Brown, Governor of Varos
Summary:

Peri wonders where have all the good guys gone, and the Governor of Varos tries to find a new way forward for his people.

I originally wrote this for the first who_like_giants ficathon (in early 2010?). It did actually get read at the time, but I was rapidly becoming v unwell and not realising what was happening... and blamed this fic. (Yes, completely logical, obviously *cough*). It's the Story of Doom and no stories worked again afterwards. Also, whoever it was left the prompt on the comm never commented; always a worrying thing, even if it wasn't a gift exchange. (It must be awful!) So I ended up deleting it from Teaspoon. A year or so later, I actually looked at it, realised it was much better than most of my stories and reposted it to understandable but resounding silence.

Anyway, that's not the point: it probably does require knowledge of Vengeance on Varos, and it's post-Trial for Peri. Varos is a story I watched a lot of times, as I did an A-Level media studies project on it, so some of the ideas had probably been lurking my head for over a decade, and a slight exploration of Weird Isolated Colonies (I love that theme in SF. If ever I wrote actual SF of my own, it would be what happened in a small colony on a weird planet left alone for centuries) and I don't know... This is why I write fic. I can express what I mean ten times better in stories than writing like this, and that's why I hope people might at least read it occasionally. Even if it's odd fic about a minor character. (And I do know some people did read it at the time and left lovely comments! I was just v weird back then.)

2. Prospero's Daughter (2932 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ruth Mills, The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Summary:

For twenty-seven years after her father’s death, Ruth Mills has a guardian angel to watch over her. He’s called the Doctor, but this story isn’t even a little bit like a fairy tale.

I wrote this in 2011 - the only thing I actually wrote for months while I was that ill (and it killed my brain for around five weeks, a genuinely scary experience) so hello, fic-I-have-morbid-associations-with #2! Anyway, I listened to the Unbound audio Full Fathom Five, one of Big Finish's 2003 anniversary run of alternate Doctors, each taking a "what if...?" and in most cases casting an actor who'd been a near miss at being the Doctor - in this one "What if the Doctor really believed the means justified the ends?" and David Collings. I have problems with the plot, but the way in which the idea was done &, moreover the way in which it accidentally fits perfectly as an AU to New Who was fascinating. (I couldn't help thinking that what brought about this dark version of the Doctor isn't that he failed to destroy Gallifrey in the Time War and then had to make that right by even more terrible means and vowed never to be so slow to make that kind of sacrifice again.) Anyway, that would be another fic, but it was lurking in the background of this one.

The thing is, the action of the audio is set twenty-seven years apart and in that twenty-seven year gap, this very dark, ruthless Doctor plays fairy godfather to orphaned Ruth Mills (who's probably about six when he meets her), which immediately struck me as being a really twisted version of The Eleventh Hour and I had to write it. So that's at least partly what this is. I tried to make it as accessible and spoiler-free as possible and the main difference knowing the audio should make is that, when you've listened to it, this story is even darker. So, basically, this is my most evil story. (Not saying much, :lol:, but I felt accomplished.)

Anyway, I still like this fic, I'd love more people to read it, and also I want feedback on whether or not the jelly baby bit worked, or whether it was a stupid idea and I should change it to something else.

3. Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched (5358 words) by lost_spook (or here on Teaspoon)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Cameca (Doctor Who), Polly Wright, Ben Jackson (Doctor Who), Liz Shaw, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Evelyn Smythe, Bernice Summerfield, Charley Pollard, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
Summary:

You wouldn't believe how difficult it is for a passing Time Lord not to get married to famous historical women completely by accident. Seriously. Happens all the time.

Because that was more than enough of morbidity, obscurity and hard-to-sell fics! This seems to be my most popular fic; it was probably the most fun to write (except maybe for the Three-era crossover with Carry On Cowboy), and it's been recced places. And it's also one of the reasons that I'm very amused at Eleven's tendency to get engaged/married by accident without me even having to write anything about it...

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