Beyond the Roundels

I got sidetracked out of anything I was supposed to be doing today, and instead made a TARDIS Team Mash Up Generator! (ETA: Via Perchance, I should say, which potentiality_26 linked to and though I've looked at it before, this time I had an idea and I made a bit more sense of it.)

I think it's pretty good fun already, although I suppose I would. (It matches up a Doctor (or another Time Lord) with a companion (or companion team) plus a plot and object (generally based on something from canon). I might tweak it a bit as well, but we'll see.

End result = things like:

The Twelfth Doctor and Charley, in an adventure in Cromer, armed only with their wits and a rope ladder.

The Rani and Rose, in an adventure where the authorities won't listen, armed only with their wits and a banana.

The Rani and the Master and Frobisher, in an adventure with Vikings, armed only with their wits and a double bluff.

The Twelfth Doctor and Rose and Jack, in an adventure at the beginning of the universe, armed only with their wits and a cricket ball.

The Sixth Doctor and River, in an adventure without the TARDIS, armed only with their wits and a motorbike.

The Fourth Doctor and a Clara splinter, in an adventure with the Mara, armed only with their wits and flirting ability.

The Rani and Shirley Bingham, in an adventure with a virus, armed only with their wits and ruthlessness.

The Eleventh Doctor and Amy, in an adventure with demons, armed only with their wits and a mobile phone.

remixrevival has had its author reveal and now I can own up that I wrote this for ruuger, which I'm sure will surprise no one who knows me.

I got ruuger as my assignment and was keen to remix some of their Twelfth Doctor fic and then re-read Old, New, Borrowed, Blue (in which Thirteen, while dressed as Marilyn Monroe at a party, accidentally marries Eleven) and approximately an hour later, a rough draft of this was in my notebook, because how could I possibly resist cracky accidental marriage fic involving the Doctor? And then summer defeated me and I had to default, being unable to type up so much as a word of it. Luckily, autumn has already been kinder and I got this done post-deadline. I also made reference to Hope is All We Have, which was at least a Twelfth Doctor story.

I Do, I Do, I Do (The Month of Sundays Remix) (4029 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eleventh Doctor/Thirteenth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor/Twelfth Doctor, Tenth Doctor/Thirteenth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor/All her former selves
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Eleventh Doctor, Background & Cameo Characters, The Doctor's TARDIS, Third Doctor, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Fourth Doctor, Romana II (Doctor Who), Tenth Doctor, Ace McShane, Peri Brown, Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor
Additional Tags: Remix, Multi-Era, Humor, Drunkenness, Accidental Marriage, Time Travel, Self-cest, Noodle Incidents, Crack
Summary: The TARDIS is malfunctioning and now the Doctor can’t seem to avoid getting drunk and marrying her former selves while dressed as Marilyn Monroe. And that one Hollywood party had seemed like such a good idea at the time...

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!

For the Talking Meme, from eowyn: what about what Doctor Who episode is your favourite, and why?

This is a very, very hard question. This is the hardest question on this list. There are a lot of DW serials and episodes I like! How do I choose? Do I cheat and make a list? Do I do one per Doctor? One for New Who and one for Old Who? Can I do a list per Doctor?

It is also, obviously, as you can see, a good question! I decided to answer it as this: if I'm forced to go downstairs and select an episode to watch for each Doctor right now, which one would I pick? (Presumably, that one will be as reasonably close to current favourite as I can get. Tomorrow, of course, it could be different. It did give a little edge of random to it, anyway & I tried not to be spoilery about anything.)

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... so all right, that was a bit long and self-indulgent, but sometimes it's nice to remind yourself of all the things you love about your favourite fandom. Have a multi-Doctor fanvid. It is after all, a thing of monsters and imagination and friendship and JOY. <3

My now-regular Thursday feature! (We'll see how long this lasts. ;-p)

1. For some reason I'd been feeling a bit down the last couple of days, but you know what is always at least a little bit cheering at such moments? Multi-era Doctor Who fanvids. I was cheering myself with Marching On by xxdrosexx and then wondering why I didn't have any yet that went up to Twelve, so I went looking, and found this, which is also great:

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Because Doctor Who is, after all, that great big improbable and ridiculous thing of joy and monsters. :-)


And I'm continuing to enjoy watching (or reading) from the sidelines as the Public Call fics get revealed, so here's two more good ones:

2. A Taste of Home by dbskyler (G, 1784 words. Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan.) Sarah, the Doctor, and home. Lovely glimpse of some 'missing scenes' from Terror of the Zygons.


3. Side Quest by annariel (G, 6388 words. Harry Sullivan, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith.) Harry is collecting equipment for the Doctor when he runs into an adventure of his own. Can he foil the evil Dr. Richards, while at the same time helping the Doctor and Sarah fend off an alien invasion they somehow never quite have the time to explain properly to him? Excellent missing adventure, with Harry getting to prove his worth.


4. The Terrible Doom That Came To Honeysuckle Cottage by Psychomachia (Teen, 2592 words.) There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still we're often told, seek and ye shall find
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind. One of the best and funniest fics to come out of last year's Yuletide: the Cthulhu Mythos meets P.G. Wodehouse's Honeysuckle cottage. (Definitely a don't-need-to-know-canon fic.)


5. By Wise Council You Shall Make Your War by beer_good_foamy (Teen, 722 words. Edmund Blackadder, George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Baldrick, Bob. Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) In each generation, a Slayer is born. She alone will stand against the etc etc. In 1917, that was a young woman named... um... Bob? Good thing the Watcher's Council have an auxiliary member already in place in the trenches. What it says, oh yes, oh yes. :-D

First, an absolutely lovely multi-era DW vid, following companions after they've left the Doctor. It brightened my day yesterday, so here's passing it on to you all if you haven't already caught it:

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The vid post for it is here. It's a joyous thing, but the best bit is the Brigadier, obviously.


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And two more runaway_tales:

The Past Is Neither Dead Nor Distant (PG, 5182 words. Edward Iveson/Julia Graves.) Julia doesn’t like strangers in the house (or mushroom soup), and Edward doesn’t want to talk about his mother. It all comes down to much the same thing, in the end.

And this, which I had far too much fun making (it's technically an art piece, but actually fic in the shape of letters):

Wolves at the Door (and Other Unlikely Tales) (All ages, art. Edward Iveson.) That time the summer term was one unlikely calamity after another (at least, according to Edward).


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If I'm a little erratic about commenting for a while, bear with me. At this point in August I seem to suffer from stress (summer is a month too long, apparently, and the strain turns into stress just about... now; so it's been for the past three years & at least this year I went "aha!" and stopped before things got worse), so until I feel a little better (which will be very soon! maybe even today!), I shall focus on the creative things.

Take care. ♥

I came across this multi-era companion farewell vid and rather liked it. (Think it has everyone up to the date of its creation as far as I can see. Aw.)

Especially for Valentine's Day (well, really, I lie. That was just coincidence, but allow me to pretend to be an evil mastermind) - A series of multi-Doctor drabbles about that intelligent, preferably scientific and older female (well, not older than him, obviously) as the Type he tends to have as his romantic ideal. Even if he continually falls for people who don't match the profile. Oh, the hypocrite...

Title: Love & Science
Author: lost_spook
Characters: Doctors 1-8, 10 (but all of them eventually) and various others.
Rating: All Ages
Summary (see above!)
Link: http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=29206
Other: Collection of Drabbles.

Plus, although this is still very new, a related series of AUs for the companions, based on their habit of leaving to marry people they've only just met:

Title: Happy Endings, Hasty Exits
Author: lost_spook
Characters: Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Captain Yates, Sergeant Benton, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan. (So far).
Rating: All Ages
Summary: "I want to stay on this planet and marry X!" Some roads not taken. Some of them will be very silly, some very short, some long and some a whole lot more plausible than what really happened...
Link: http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=29238