Yet More top 5 answers

I'm not done yet! I just had to get my space_swap story finished and edited and off to be beta-ed, and it was going epic again. /o\ But that's done and if I can just write a more reasonably-sized hurtcomfortex story over the next month, things should be better on that front. *bangs head on desk and weeps*

Where were we?

executrix asked for Top 5 B7 episodes and/or fics about Jenna and since hamsterwoman beat them to the former, here are 5 top pieces of fanfic about Jenna, with the rider that I really need to bookmark B7 stuff more thoroughly and have another go through of all the stuff that's been added onto AO3 since my last adventures in the tag, so I'm probably missing some great things I've read (like I'm sure there should be something by aralias here), let alone that I haven't. Also I'm pretty sure that whenever it was I last read B7 fic I was too ill to read longfic, because these are all very short.

Nevertheless, out of what I have bookmarked, these are all good:

1. The Light by babel (G, 1097 words. Jenna/Blake.) He always surprised her. (Spoilers for the entire series.) Nice explanation for certain things in "Blake."

2. Vocation by kindkit (G, 360 words. Jenna.) Jenna and the mystery of piloting. My favourite type of Jenna-fic is probably things about her piloting and relationship with Zen & Liberator (so much so that I nearly picked a fic by Clocket about Zen missing Jenna because Tarrant is Not The Same, but it is technically a Tarrant fic so that would be rubbish of me). But anyway, this is excellent pilot-Jenna.

3. Drink to Remember by icarus_chained (Teen, 704 words. Jenna Stannis & Vila Restal.) Gauda Prime. Two survivors, older and scarred, and things it's good to be wrong about. An unexpected but great PGP comination.

4. Unexpected by Tels (G, 281 words. Jenna/Avon.) Avon hates Jenna and vice versa. Or do they? Fun.

5. Jenna Stannis PI by vilakins (G, 1253 words. Jenna, Avon, Vila. AU.) Written for the Blake's 7 crackathon, the prompt being Jenna Stannis, Private Investigator. What it says! XD


auroracloud asked - Top 5 favourite Doctor Who companions

1. Ace
2. Clara
3. Charley
4. Tegan
5. Leela or Barbara or Evelyn

- Top 5 favourite Doctor-Companion teams (can be more than one companion)

1. Seven & Ace
2. Four-Sarah-Harry
3. Two-Jamie-Zoe
4. One-Ian-Barbara-Vicki
5. Twelve-Bill-Nardole or Twelve & Clara, or Eight & Charley or Six & Evelyn.


- Top 5 favourite historical eras/events

1. The Battle of Hastings (wee me was a bit obsessed; it's never entirely gone away)
2. Early Tudor period. Thanks to Shadow of the Tower I have somehow got sucked into being very into Henry VII's reign and also Lancastrians in the WotR, like Margaret Beaufort and Jasper Tudor.
3. 18th C generally
4. English Civil War period but also the Battle of Monmouth, which is not entirely unrelated despite the time difference (I'm from Sedgemoor. Well, Bridgwater, but it was in Sedgemoor Registration District when I was born.) When I was a small thing of eight my Devonshire teacher told us all about the wrongs done to us West Country people by that evil Hanging Judge Jeffries. Folk memories die hard. ;-p
5. WWI, I suppose. Or 19th C.

(To be honest, I'm mostly just interested in specific people or bits of fiction or whatever and then it spills on outward.)

- Top 5 favourite fanfic tropes!

It depends because Whatever Seems Like A Good Idea At The Time is my general writing rule and for reading I'll try a lot of different things if it seems promising in some way. But:

1. Hurt/comfort (done how I like it, of course. Fairly mild and in character, with tiny meaningful things! or whatever. There may be hand holding. I know it when I see it.)
2. Accidental marriage (I keep forgetting how much accidental marriage fic I've written but it is apparently a thing. Although most of it is either a) the Doctor accidentally marrying people or b) the Doctor accidentally marrying other people to other people, and if you took away the Doctor I might not have accidentally married anyone at all.
3. Time Travel
4. Supernatural/Magic AU - essentially make my mundane heroes have to deal with fantastical things and I will be very, very happy indeed. (I have a couple of times had people who did this for me in gift fic and it is awesome. ♥)
5. Trope subversion

Icon Meme

This one is going around again, and why not, given that icons are 100 x 100 pixel bundles of shiny and joy.

1. Comment to this entry with something silly and I will pick 3 of your icons/userpics.
2. Make an entry in your own journal (or just reply if you prefer) and talk about the icons I picked!

misbegotten chose these three, which are all ones I made:



This is Alfred Burke as Frank Marker in Public Eye from one of the five surviving episodes of S1-3. I loved the light and shadow in the original shot and thought it summed up his shabby outsider persona. The text (which, looking at it now, I think should be a handwriting font and rotated a little) is all made up of Frank-quotes:

"I'm a very small fish in this particular pond, but I've seen things, heard things about people - just people! - that would turn your stomach. But not mine, Mr Clemens, not mine. I do my work, I take my money and I move onto the next foul up, because there always is a next one. And don't think you're the first person who looked at me and wondered what sort of man does what I do. Do you want me to justify it? Go and ask the... undertaker - or the sewerman - or the professional soldier, or the dentist why he does it! Doesn't matter why, Mr Clemens. You need us."

"Have you heard about old heads on young shoulders? Well, you employ me, you get an old head. You get old shoulders, too, but then no-one's perfect."

"If I'm fool enough to take the money, I'll do the job."

"Or perhaps you've seen me sitting here on you way home, didn't like the look of my face and said to yourself, one of these days I'll go in and take a crack at it! Well, go on! Help yourself! I don't like it much more than you do!"

"As long as I don't get thumped and I do get paid!"

(I was very very intense about PE at the time, it still shows a bit. :lol:)



#2 is partly a fic_rush joke because of all the ninja penguins we had at one time. (THe hourly posts used to get more than a little silly!) It's actually from an old sitcom that my sister used to adore called On the Up, and it's something Sam Kelly's character says to scare off some children that are eyeing up the Rolls when he's being chauffeur.



#3 is Georgina Jones (Juliet Harmer) from Adam Adamant Lives! being bright and swinging-60s. "Zoinks!" is one of the things she says that Adam Adamant (an Edwardian adventurer) finds severely unladylike. But he likes her anyway, whatever he says. :D


calliopes_pen chose these three, which are, again, all made by me:



This is Margaret Lockwood from a publicity shot, and I use it for talking about Margaret Lockwood and then also for any old films. She icons well and it's simple but effective and pretty, I think.



A fairly straightforward icon of Suzanne Neve from UFO, I think, and I use it for her sometimes, but because she's also the fancast for Julia from my origfic, this is her looking particularly like Julia and I therefore use it a lot over at rainbowfic.




My Dracula icon! From the 1968 TV version, of course, with Denholm Elliott seducing Susan George. I am judging it, though. I love the crop, but I think I should maybe try to perk up the colouring or contrast a little.