Beyond the Roundels

So, as I said, fandom_stocking went live and I had a lot of lovely things in mine!

I had some gifs, recs, puzzles, and best wishes, but also fab Brig/Liz fanart from paynesgray, and a glorious Bayeux Tapestry style illustration for We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It by liadt. (If you enjoyed the fic, you really want to see the art!!)

Plus, lovely Jonathan Creek icons from tarlanx.


And in terms of fic, I was underservedly lucky - just look at all these, and they were all great in very different ways! *flails about*

more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, PG by rain_sleet_snow (The Quiet Gentleman/The Grand Sophy, five times fic, with Drusilla, Sophy and supernatural goings on.)

The rest were all on AO3 so I will share the links for your convenience. I recommend them all very much indeed! I am still all overcome.

A Falcon at Stoke Field (926 words) by kaffyrutsky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shadow of the Tower
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henry VII of England, Lambert Simnel
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary: One name had been left behind, the next was never his to begin with. In the aftermath of Stoke Field, Lambert Simnel chooses a new identity.


Twelve and a half Times Silver didn't meet the Doctor and One and half Times he did (2253 words) by Annariel
Chapters: 15/15
Fandom: Doctor Who, Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Silver (S&S), Steel (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Celestial Toymaker (Doctor Who), Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Ander Poul, D84 (Doctor Who), Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown, Eighth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor (Fatal Death), The Moment (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Rory Williams, Ashildr | Lady Me, Thirteenth Doctor
Summary: From the Celestial Toymaker, through the Time War, to the Pandorica. Silver is often on the fringes of the Doctor's adventures.


Dress the Part (718 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Second Doctor & Zoe Heriot & Jamie McCrimmon
Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Additional Tags: Historical Dress, Silly, Humor, Historical References, Clothing, 18th Century
Summary: When you time-travel to other eras, you have to dress the part.

Right now, however, the Doctor is having some trouble convincing his companions of that.


Booming and Blazing (636 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bill Potts/Ace McShane
Characters: Bill Potts, Ace McShane
Additional Tags: First Dates, Kissing, Rocket launch, Ficlet
Summary: Ace and Bill, on a date, at a rocket launch.


One Cold Knight (5888 words) by swordznsorcery
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Department S, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Annabelle Hurst, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Stewart Sullivan (Department S), Jason King, Curtis Seretse, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary: For Fandom Stocking. The Department S gang team up with UNIT.


Voyager and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ship Inspection (3291 words) by phantomlistener
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway, Tom Paris/B'Elanna Torres
Characters: Chakotay (Star Trek), Kathryn Janeway, Seven of Nine, Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres, Naomi Wildman, Tuvok (Star Trek), Icheb (Star Trek), Neelix (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, PADD Messages, Crack
Summary:From: Lieutenant Torres
To: Engineering
Subject: Those bloody inspections
Time: 21:02
Engineering is a TIP. If the Captain wants inspections, she has to be able to get through the door. Someone get the doors working properly, everyone else, CLEAR UP. Understood?

In which it's time for the annual inspection of the ship, tensions are running high, and Tom Paris is in exceptionally good spirits. Things go rapidly downhill from there.


Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It (1175 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Karen Coltraine/Lucie Miller
Characters: Karen Coltraine, Lucie Miller, Missy (Doctor Who), Seb (Doctor Who)
Summary: You'd think that being dead, you could lie back and enjoy it. Where the Mistress is concerned, you'd be wrong.


I haven't even had a chance to look at other fic in the collection!

I'm feeling a little better (ish, more maybe feeling better about not feeling better?) but I haven't been posting so much, as I've still been tired. Also some of the things I would talk about are Yuletide research and things. (Isn't it always the way?)

But my assignment now has words in my notebook! Several pages of them, even. They need to get out of there and onto the computer, but, all being well(ish), that should be okay at this point. I have mostly defeated the complicated overlong treat, I think.


Anyway, some things:

* fandom_stocking has opened for sign-ups! Just fill out a form, get a 'stocking' hung up, and people will put nice fannish bits & bobs in it. You can put nice things in other people's too. It's almost guaranteed not to open on time, but it's usually a lot of fun.

* genprompt_bingo is opening for Round 15! I still have a Round 14 card I'm working on, but it's one of my favourites. (The prompts are gen, but the fills can be shippy or gen or whatever as you please.)


In the meantime, I have mostly been amusing myself when tired by making pretty S&S element-things for tumblr, which I think helped on the being more cheerful front. Either that or despairing a lot on Weds, or both, most probably.

34 icons made for the most recent round of iconthat, for ladies10in30, and fandom_stocking.

Teaser:


( Heroes, villains, and fallen princesses )

I did manage to do some small things for fandom_stocking at least (literally small - all icons and drabbles, saving one recs list!), but as ever, I have pulled out far more than I put in, which seems unfair. Here are my very lovely gifts:

* A great little multi-Element S&S fic: Narwhals by kaffy_r.

* Coffee Break by paynesgrey, ficlet featuring Kathryn Janeway and her actual true love - coffee.

* A lovely Snow and Regina piece Sisters of the Heart by ariestess

* Assignment 3 1/2 by swordznsorcery - excellent Christmassy S&S fic that also happens to be a crossover with The Talisman Ring.

* liadt drew me Shadow of the Tower art which made me go awwww a lot (and you can totally see the curtain texture of the BBC costumes in it, too).

* john_amend_all wrote me a fab little Adam Adamant Lives! crossover with DW (Bill/Ace) here

* my absurdly practical robin by rain_sleet_snow, which is five times fic for Drusilla from The Quiet Gentleman, one of my favourite Heyer characters, and it's also lovely.

Plus, some greetings and pics and a very tantalising IOU from purplecat!


Anyway, I loved going through it all so much. People are very kind. <3

Some things going on at the moment:

Sign-ups are open (till Dec 15th) at fandom_stocking. (You fill in the form with fannish likes etc., the mod posts a 'stocking' post for you, and everyone fills everybody else's in the comments, and then reveal will be delayed by at least a week while the mod has their annual migraine.) It's very low-key and fun.


genprompt_bingo is open for Round 13! There are no deadlines & interesting prompts with a lot of options, which is cool. (I'm still plugging away at my Round 11 card from last year...) No festive connections of any sort, and all fanworks are welcome. (The prompts are gen; the fills can be any rating/ship/whatever you choose.)


The full list of Yuletide Requests have been up for a while, if anyone's interested in treating! (No sign-ups are needed for treating, no letters, nothing but being seized by a shiny prompt and gifting someone a fic in a tiny fandom of their heart. Well, you'll need an AO3 account, of course.)

(I defaulted, btw. Looking again at my fic only proved that I still cry at the thought of attempting to do anything with it, and so there was only one thing to do. Here's hoping my author is doing okay, and I shall try and be far more careful about what fandoms I sign up for next time.)


iconthat (which is a really fun icon challenge comm) is having an Icon Secret Santa (which I think is going to be run like a Fandom Stocking thing, not an exchange & probably even more unofficial and low-key.

... and of course, this is why I can never resist fandom_stocking after all, because, lo, I have a stocking and it is full of shiny things!

( AAL!, Doctor Who, S&S, Georgette Heyer, Dracula (TV 1968) fic under the cut )

And in my stocking, in addition to some kind greetings, friendly good wishes, and IOUs, I have:

* a great little Ruth/Harry ficlet (Spooks) by cordeliadelayne

* one of Liadt's amazingly funny and adorable pics (which is still making me giggle far too much whenever I look at it.)

* Superior Sense, a Georgette Heyer crossover with Sophy and Drusilla, which is lovely, by rain_sleet_snow

* actual fab Press Gang Spike/Lynda + alien invasion fic from swordznsorcery, amazing!! (Watch out for the alarming gif, too. ;-D)

* and, lastly, a couple of very nice S&S icons by tarlanx.

(And I did make things; they were just very nearly all graphics and odd bits and pieces, but me saying that I wasn't doing things for it was actually untrue. I just wasn't writing, but words aren't the only form of creativity!)

1. fandom_stocking is open for sign ups till the 14th! (I suppose at some point, I should do a sign-up for it.)


2. And I realised that genprompt_bingo have no deadlines and was tempted into getting a card. Bingos, always so hard to resist, look:

( Card under cut )

fandom_stocking went live some time last night, so I have a whole stocking full of goodies!


I had three marvellous fics that were also posted to AO3, (so I'm using the handy links feature) - first up, two Sapphire and Steel fics, which both featured Silver and Liz, first from annariel:

Tracking the Weather (589 words) by Annariel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Silver (S&S)
Summary: Aircraft and ships are vanishing in the wake of the Hurricane. More than seem natural.

And a wonderful, long fic from kaffy_r, too:

A Vein of Silver (4083 words) by kaffyrutsky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963), Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Liz Shaw & Silver
Characters: Silver (S&S), Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor, The Doctor's TARDIS
Additional Tags: Strangers, Uneasy Allies, Fighting Time
Summary: Let the wall be built, the stranger said; Dr. Liz Shaw considers her options in a laboratory where something's gone wrong with Time.

Plus, amazingly, more Dracula (1968) fic from john_amend_all! I was just thinking that my lovely Yuletide gift had not in any way stopped me wanting MOAR FIC (well, you know, more than NONE or now, one) for this Dracula, and hey presto, now there's a lovely Lucy/Mina AU:

Out for the Count (972 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Mina Harker, Lucy Weston, John Seward
Additional Tags: Stealth Crossover, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, Fix-It
Summary: Lucy has been saved from the Count, and wishes to make her own desires known.


But that wasn't all... First Liadtbunny found me some Barbara Murray stuff and then, surreally, apparently James Maxwell turned up on her Avengers extras pretending to be Steed for a bit and she has the screencaps to prove it. (That James Maxwell gets everywhere...!) Anyway, I was highly amused, because, you know, Steed if he was awkwardly tall, slightly shifty and didn't know what to say to people at parties.

I had some pretty icons from Scripsi, some sweet best wishes/New Year's greetings, a rec, an IOU for Chalet School fic of some kind (v exciting!), and a lovely little A Quiet Gentleman/The Grand Sophy crossover by rain_sleet_snow.

I also had some fab Adam Adamant Lives! gifs from Swordznsorcery, so have a few of them under the cut:( Gifs )

I did manage to do a bit more on the stocking-stuffing myself than last year, which was good! I'll post those in another post sometime. I didn't get to very many people, though - a rather random eight or so, including (ironically) an IOU for Chalet School fic and a joint S&S WIP (that I am at least pretty sure is going to get completed now as it has a much better scribbled out plan than it did when I posted the beginning).

(Nearly done with the snowflake_challenge!)

Day 10:
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

Even though I've waited for well over a month, this time of the year is the worst for doing this. I just took part in Yuletide! And fandom_stocking!! I had so many marvellous gifts, even in some of my completely obscure things and it was wonderful (♥) But, well, the meme dictates, and happy-making fannish things are nice, and I'm tired again, so here we are...

But really, my fandom stocking entry is pretty much my wishlist. Especially all the impossibly obscure bits at the end. Which I know nobody knows and all that, but still. And that's more than three things. Whoops.

My heart yearns for impossible things. (Isn't that just the truth? ;-D)

How about everyone else? What impossible fannish things do you want to see? Let's all be unreasonable together...


ETA: That was cheating, really wasn't it? I'll put some effort into it:

1. I could really use some Lynda Day in my life right now. Well, when don't you?

2. Some sort of mild Mary/Louisa or Mary & Louisa from Duchess of Duke Street. (I cannot write it, but I would love to read it.)

3. Someone to talk to about Public Eye S4 and "The Man Who Said Sorry". (Though said person is not allowed to dislike Mrs Mortimer. That would be sad. Maybe best not, then.)

4. I feel like Heroes of the Revolution is a real thing now. There should be fanfic for it/a fanmix/something... (Anyone feel like researching energy crises or something? ;-D I know, I know, that's the bit I'm supposed to go off and do. *sheepish*)

Oh, that was more than three. *cough* At least one of them was sort of possibly even achievable! *is proud of self*

There. I still want to know everybody else's impossible wishes, though...

I'm sorry, I ended up being tired all the time and not posting. Anyhow, fandom_stocking went live yesterday and I had some lovely things in my stocking, left me by some very, very kind people.

You can find all the goodies here and, my, they are marvellous! I had three Sapphire and Steel fics and a Blake's 7/Sapphire and Steel crossover from annariel, amaresu, kaffy_r and swordznsorcery. They are all great and they all have Silver in them. *is very happy*

There were also good wishes and some beautiful graphics from people, including a Sapphire and Steel wallpaper, some gorgeous icons of Nicola Walker as Ruth Evershed in Spooks from dreamer_98. (I may not mention Spooks so often, but my love for Ruth will never die.) I am using one now (on Dreamwidth). Over on LJ, I shall attempt to edit the entry and use the Public Eye one made for me by eve11, who even went Googling Alfred Burke images to make icons for me. (♥)

liadt also took pity on me in my obscurity and wrote me a Public Eye/Avengers (TV) crossover, in which Frank Marker meets two eccentrics in search of champagne in a dark alleyway. And also Dark Towers fic! (I can't explain again. Click on the Look and Read tag on this entry if you're feeling brave and possibly ready to pause and read things slowly at need.)

Doctor Who was not forgotten, either, as I had a great drabble from john_amend_all, and a lovely ficlet from cosmic_llin, both of which featured Tegan.

Not actually in my stocking, but tucked away on AO3, I had two excellent Heyer drabbles from desert_vixen (Excitement and Notes. The first is my favourite, I have to admit, because it's beautifully evil.)

I also wrote some things, and made some icons, but I shall have to find them all again and make another post, I think. I should say that I was very tired and ended up with this Desperate Drabbling plan, in which I wrote down all the characters/pairings from requests I might be able to do and randomly generated poetry prompts, matched them up and attempted a drabble until I ran out of steam. Also some icons. But it did end up a bit random as to who actually got things and who didn't. Still, it was better than nobody getting anything. (Well, unless it wasn't, but let's hope otherwise!)

Anyway, I loved everything, so thanks to everyone who was kind enough to stuff things in my stocking: ♥ ♥ ♥

fandom_stocking went live yesterday, and I had so many nice things in my stocking! Thanks so much to everyone who left anything there for me. ♥ Anyone liking the sound of any of the following should go check it out. (Yes, I am displaying the contents of my stocking for you all...)

* I got TWO sets of David Collings gifs. Yes, really! \o/ I did ask, but I didn't think anyone would actually make me any. (I'll see about putting one or maybe two on the LJ version of this post, but I'm feeling a bit too lazy for Photobucket just now). They were made v kindly for me by brooms and liadt. ♥ ♥ ♥

* A tiny-but-cute Lorne & Fred ficlet (Ats) from yhlee

* A Mary Dove/Inspector Neele drabble from john_amend_all (Miss Marple, A Pocketful of Rye, and, um, yes, it's my fault. It's all to do with me wanting professional thief/detective and ITV casting Matthew Macfadyen and then sticking meticulously to the book, when the BBC 1980s version got the shippy vibe. Damn TV makers are so contrary.)

* kaffy_r wrote me a wonderful Sapphire and Steel fic Green, Red and Gold, and Blue Follows

* ladymercury10 left me a very tempting-looking set of Doctor who recs

* cosmic_llin wrote me a lovely Sarah & Harry ficlet. (Sometimes Harry is much more practical than the Doctor, after all.)

* A beautiful little set of Blake's 7 icons from usuallyhats

* An IOU for West Wing fic from feathermoon_scarletsky

* dbskyler gave me some vid links, and you should check them out but especially the adorable penguin one.

* Summer Afternoon Blues by glinda, another AtS ficlet, this one about Lorne and the first time he heard music and it's just gorgeous and if anyone round here also knows Angel, do take a look.

* Seven-and-Ace fic by clocketpatch, which is every bit as wonderful as you would suppose and I'm delighted.

* And last (but absolutely not least, since it contained infinity) - Unccountable Infinities from eve11 and Eight and Charley ficlet, which answered my first first Straybunnies prompt for the two of them investigating something really surreal. And Eight and Charley! *joy*

*plus various good wishes and season greetings from kind folks. Oh! And intriguingly, a promise for some David Collings graphics at some point this week from weaselett.

So that was pretty amazing and thanks again to everyone. I did manage to write and make some bits and bobs for other people, too. I (rather belatedly yesterday evening, sorry about that) put them in the AO3 collection as well, so I'll put up another post with the fics in sometime soon. (There were also a few graphics/icons and recs, but they were all pretty specific for the recipients.)

I am a little better, but finding it oddly difficult (I get all tearful, it's v silly) to do some of the things that are usually the easier things. So forgive me if I don't reply/catch up just yet. I might post something later, see how that goes. (I am like a Blue Peter presenter these days, I seem to always have several Things I Made Earlier to hand).

Anyway, something more cheerful - I have a fandom_stocking for the first time!

Here it is: http://fandom-stocking.dreamwidth.org/312545.html#cutid1

(I wrote it when I was light-headed without realising on Monday, so it is only lucky it wasn't even more rambly. Or even more about David Collings. I think I managed to delete a bit. *hides*) As you lot know me well, feel free - if you wish to put anything in it - for it to be anything you know I like, even if I haven't listed it. (My main fannish interests are obscure enough without me scaring passers-by any more than I have already.)

If you have a stocking as well, please do link me to it in the comments to this post! If you don't, and want one, I understand there's a week or two left to put one up. If you don't know what this is, it's just literally a sort of virtual fannish stocking - a place for people to leave you icons or drabbles/ficlets or other nice things of that sort as treats and then it'll be unscreened on Jan 6th. (I think. I'm not sure I didn't just make that date up, though, but it'll be something like that.) You don't have to do anything for other people's stockings unless you wish; it isn't an exchange. There's usually an AO3 collection for it, too.

But yes, link me to yours, please, too.

(ETA: Just looked at it. Oh, dear. Light-headed me, yes. :-/)