Fanfic Meme answers (Part 2)

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Part 2, and I'm not doing well at keeping this short, but fannish talk is a cheering thing at least.


From tozka: 13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year.

Me and music has been a funny thing for years, because of the ME/CFS and my sound intolerance, but I have got to the stage now where I can listen to music that doesn't hurt my head while I write again. So, often, it's just whatever works, but actually I have more and more - within those constraints - been choosing things again of late, like music from the era I'm writing for historical things, or a Blake's 7 vid when I'm writing that.

I have had one album I've used more than another this year, though! Primarily still for being easy and not hurting me, but I liked nearly all the songs on it - Cartwheels by Ward Thomas. I got accidentally caught in a country loop on YouTube and ended up there & there were some nice touches in the lyrics as well as not-hurting me, I thought. So, yeah: Almost Easy, and Good on You, Proof, and Lose Me, which I used on some of the more lively things (but not too much, because it's more tiring), and a few others. (I think it was Dirt and Gold I first landed on, though. I wanted to vid to it, but let's not go there...)

In more writing-specific answers, Secrets & Lies by Ruelle has become my Divide & Rule vignettes song, Clare Wyndham's My Love Will Never Die and Kingdom Fall for S&S and other more serious things.


22. events you participated in this year

I did Chocolate Box for the first time, which was great all round, Remix, and signed up for Yuletide, even though I had to default. I also took part in a few bingos - hc_bingo, genprompt_bingo and crossoverbingo particularly.


From astrogirl: 15. something you learned this year

I suppose that the ability to write multi-era DW accidental marriage crackfic has not entirely deserted me yet. Which is something, it's true.


25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

Nothing's for everyone! This also presupposes that I remember anything. /o\ (Me: Wow, this fic is great! I can't believe I missed it before. *goes to comment* *finds earlier unknown self has already commented saying exactly the same thing I was about to this time round* *worries*)

I do counteract this by bookmarking a lot, so here are three things I've read this year that I thought were excellent, and which weren't for recs lists, although the gift-for-me I have obviously mentioned before.

Signs on the slow path (5638 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Missy, Twelfth Doctor & Nardole, The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who), Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe, Twelfth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe, Ashildr | Lady Me & Twelfth Doctor, Twelfth Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith, Twelfth Doctor & Jack Harkness, Twelfth Doctor & Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane, Twelfth Doctor & Donna Noble, Tenth Doctor & Donna Noble, Twelfth Doctor & Susan Foreman, First Doctor & Susan Foreman
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Missy (Doctor Who), Nardole (Doctor Who), Evelyn Smythe, Ashildr | Lady Me, Sarah Jane Smith, Jack Harkness, Ace McShane, Audrey McShane, Donna Noble, Susan Foreman
Additional Tags: Character Study, The Vault (Doctor Who), Friendship/Love, Past Relationship(s)
Summary: The Doctor has a lot of reasons for choosing the twentieth and twenty-first century on Earth when guarding the vault. Some he even admits to. Though not necessarily to the people in question.

As everyone will probably have noticed, I love a good multi-era DW fic, and this is indeed a good multi-era DW fic.

Spidersong (4855 words) by TheBigCat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane
Characters: Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane
Additional Tags: Friendship, Christmas Eve, Storytelling, Music, Spiders, Alternate Universe - Fusion
Summary: There are cobwebs in the library.

A fusion, not usually my thing, but KittyEden is really great at Seven and Ace, and this in particular goes from cosy to downright creepy before you know where you are, and I loved it.

Stalk On (6074 words) by Cyphomandra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sid Halley - Dick Francis, FRANCIS Dick - Works, Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sid Halley & Charles Roland | Charles Rowland, Sapphire/Silver/Steel (S&S), Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Sid Halley, Charles Roland | Charles Rowland (Dick Francis), Sapphire (S&S), Silver (S&S), Steel (S&S), Jenny Roland
Additional Tags: Crossover, Case Fic, Timeline Shenanigans, The Royal Navy
Summary: Far up in the stretches of night; night splits and the dawn breaks loose;/I, through the terrible novelty of light, stalk on, stalk on;/Those great sea-horses bare their teeth and laugh at the dawn. (W.B. Yeats, High Talk). Sid spends another pleasant evening at Aynsford.

I signed up for Chocolate Box, as I said, and in an exchange with 300 word mins, received case fic crossing two rare fandoms and wound up with a new flister; what more can anyone ever ask for? (I think it should be readable from either end, because it's just weird and inexplicable as usual for S&S, and a very strange day with very strange people for Sid and Charles, but obv. YMMV.)

And since it was astrogirl asking, I think you might like Look to the Skies by a_pheonixdragon (a short Eleven, Amy, Rory & TARDIS reflective piece).

And probably more that I forgot and didn't bookmark, lol.