Beyond the Roundels

I'm a bit too tired to do what I wanted to do this evening (although I have done what I needed to do, so there's that). Anyway, I remembered I made a DW companion-swap generator that one time!

Obv I have to share some results, which either amused me or I would absolutely read, or both:


The Twelfth Doctor and Bernice in an adventure with a stolen vehicle, armed only with their wits and art.


The Sixth Doctor and Clara in an adventure with a double bluff that backfires, armed only with their wits and cue cards.


The Thirteenth Doctor and Wilf in an adventure with the Sea Devils, armed only with their wits and one telephone call.


The Seventh Doctor and Tegan and Turlough in an adventure inside a lighthouse, armed only with their wits and a secret escape route.


The Eleventh Doctor and Jackie in an adventure overthrowing the government, armed only with their wits and some cheating.


The Ninth Doctor and Yaz and Dan in an adventure with a stuck button, armed only with their wits and a candle.


The Sixth Doctor and Anji in an adventure with vampires, armed only with their wits and Bessie.

And, of course, since it is the funniest, also some Unconventional Courtship Generator summaries ( under here )

The second part of the meme!

1. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
2. Katrina Lyons (WtoVPIC)
3. Servalan (B7)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. Ezekiel Jones (The Librarians)
7. Hercule Poirot
8. Robin (BBC Ghosts)
9. The Cat (Red Dwarf)
10. G'kar (B5)
11. Death (Discworld)
12. Lucy Greenwood (Craddock & Co)
13. Orac (B7)
14. John Seward (Drac 1968)
15. Zari (Legends of Tomorrow)

( Cut for more memeish nonsense )

Icons I've made since I last posted a batch here. I don't think I've posted any of these here before, but some of them were made or posted elsewhere two years or more ago - this was a post I made to catch up on my delayed icon posting in April 2021 and then just... left. I'm pretty sure I have a few other odd ones in addition to the 100fandomicons ones I've made since (few, but some), but I think I ought to get on and post this one!

Mostly made for challenges for iconcolors, icontalking and iconthat but some just for fun, like the Malory Towers ones.
Fandoms - Malory Towers, Good Omens, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, OUaT, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 & Red Dwarf. (the Red Dwarf ones were made for another TV Tropes round, so I think this post got delayed because I wanted to find the trope template for that ETA: here.)

(Whyyyy am I so bad lately at making icons, posting the ones I do make, and reposting the lost ones??? idk. Will try to do better.)

Teaser:


( Stick 'em with the pointy end )

Thanks everyone for all the questions! Here's the first round of answers:

1. Regina Mills (OUaT)
2. Jenkins (The Librarians)
3. Rumplestiltskin (OUaT)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. John Seward (1968 Dracula)
7. Death (Discworld)
8. Holly (Red Dwarf)
9. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
10. Padme Amidala (SW)
11. Charley Pollard (DW)
12. Jenna Stannis (B7)
13. Lynda Day (PG)
14. Michael (Good Place)
15. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (Cabin Pressure)

( The results under here )

I've been feeling rotten post-Covid Jab #2 for the past few days, so generated myself some very random summaries to share in order to cheer myself (and other people):

( Click here if you dare )

I am still not really coping, so am not keeping up. I will just continue to pop up with gifs, or in this case, fic, since I have also been managing some little bits of writing recently. Anyway, I have finished the birthday Unconventional Courtship fic(lets) for john_amend_all, plus the summaries I couldn't write but needed to share:

( Leela/Ten )

( Charley Pollard/Lucy Weston )

( Holly/Fifth Doctor )

( Bonus summaries )

For snowflake_challenge - Challenge #6: In your own space, make a list — anything between one and ten things is a sweet spot, but don't feel constrained by that! - of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you.

I mainly want more anything for or anyone into my ridiculous obscure old telly fandoms, especially the ones with James Maxwell in, but that is too unreasonable to ask.

So:

1. I have a Dear Author tag which contains all my previous exchange letters and therefore details of Things I Like, why, and in what ways I would like All the Fic. Especially if it has James Maxwell in, obviously or by stealth. :-D (Other things are good! I want All The Things when I'm not at my most tired.)

2. Comments on my fic. If I have Thoughts on things, that tends to become fic and because I am actually a lot more shy than I may appear while babbling on the internet, I have always used that as my prime way into talking to people and making friends, and given my shaky concentration, I'm bad at doing it from the other way round (although I hope to improve again soon).


But, funnily, I was about to post this, so I shall include it! I was going back through all my editions of the 15 Characters Meme (and the 12 Characters thing) and noting down things that really should exist, whether as a begging list or a reminder to self, I cannot say, but I think, given this topic, it should go right here! So:

3. All these things should totally exist somewhere, right?


a. The Master goes to Granny Weatherwax's used vehicle lot to purchase a vehicle. Long John Silver offers unsolicited advice about it.

b. Ace, Sapphire, and Cally spend the night in a haunted house.

c. Violet Crawley is made supreme ruler of the globe.

d. Rupert Giles & Violet Crawley get thrown back in time to 1066 in a freak accident. The fate of England rests on the shoulders of one or both of them.

e. Zen & Holly are stuck in a museum after closing hours (presumably ancient exhibits in a technology museum, long forgotten...)

f. Harry Pearce, Esme Weatherwax, and Jane Marple are alone in a house/other building of your choice. It is a dark and stormy night. There is a thunderous knock on the door followed by the sound of feet running away. When they open the door, there is a baby in a basket, and voila, one tiny child has three of the best and scariest godparents ever. Do not mess with them.

g. Charley Pollard and Clara Oswald go into business together

h. Ros Myers is catapulted into another dimension where they meet the good/evil mirror version of their friends. (With bonus debate as to whether this would therefore be the mirror dimension where everyone was fluffy and into kittens and then Ros would have to kill them all, or if Ruth would be a megalomaniac she needed to defeat.)

i. A Bill Potts/Kara Danvers College AU where Bill is teaching physics and passing on the wonders of the universe, Sam Vimes is teaching a criminology course that is turning out to be way more hands on and practical than the university was up for, Kara is teaching a journalism course and is really nervous about it and her first few lectures do not go well, since they involve public speaking. She keeps winding up in Bill's study for biscuits and sympathy. Bill is very helpful and is developing a serious crush. (It'd be adorable only with bonus Vimes. What's not to like?)

j. The Sixth Doctor and Zelena Mills have to fake a relationship.

k. Kara Danvers/Obi Wan-Kenobi, and/or this impressively pretty, explosive and effective sedoretu comprised of Dayna Mellanby & Kara Danvers, Kara Danvers/Bill Potts, Kara Danvers/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dayna Mellanby/Bill Potts and Dayna Mellanby/Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Bill Potts & Obi-Wan Kenobi. It would involve a lot of handwaving, but is that not what fic is for?

l. Kara Danvers and the Sixth Doctor are entered in the Great British Bake-Off. (Optional: Orac is a guest judge and Servalan is trying to sabotage the whole thing.)

m. The Twelfth Doctor and Cora Mills are now buddy cops.

n. Twelve and Henry VII are running a coffee shop that lives off the attraction of Twelve's terrible customer service and Henry's excellent book-keeping. (I don't know what kind of AU it is, but I'd read it.)


(I'd like to point out that I did write the one where Donna Moss got locked in the wine cellar with Eight and One and the one where Henry VII and Ace went on a (kind of date; stuff blew up anyway), and more or less the Jenkins and Twelve find a stray kitten, if you substute 'baby winged horse' for kitten, so I have done my part, or some of it, anyway...)

The final set of answers! This was fun, as ever...

1. Servalan (B7)
2. Steel (S&S)
3. Barry Allen (The Flash)
4. Kara Danvers (Supergirl)
5. Dayna Mellanby (B7)
6. Emma Peel (Avengers)
7. Lucy Weston (Dracula 1968)
8. Bill Potts (DW)
9. Sixth Doctor (DW)
10. Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
11. Zelena (OUaT)
12. Sam Vimes (Discworld)
13. Obi-Wan Kenobi (SW)
14. Orac (B7)
15. Hercule Poirot

( Mayhem continued )

I've been feeling very down this evening, and then I remembered what I do on these occasions when I can't do anything useful. Yes, I played with the Unconventionalcourtship generator, obviously.

( Usual unexpected combinations under here )

First, the Characters:

1. Silver (S&S)
2. G'kar (Babylon 5)
3. Beatrice Eliott (House of Eliott)
4. Missy (DW)
5. Adam Adamant (Adam Adamant Lives!)
6. Seventh Doctor
7. The Brigadier (DW)
8. The Cat (Red Dwarf)
9. Snow White (OUaT)
10. Bill Potts (DW)
11. Henry VII (The Shadow of the Tower)
12. Cassandra Cillian (The Librarians)
13. Orac (B7)
14. Dayna Mellanby (B7)
15. Servalan (B7)

( Answers under the cut... )

I didn't have as much chance to read the Collection while away this year, but it is just as full of lovely things as ever, and you can find it all here. Dive in!

However, I did manage to read some short things, so here they are, just nipping in before reveals - my two wonderful gifts, plus a rather random selection of my first pick at the chocolate box, as it were, chosen in exactly that sort of manner! I hope to have a more leisurely go-through in the coming week or two, though.

( 16 recs in Archer's Goon, Blandings, Discworld, Dracula (TV 1968), Dungeons & Dragons (Cartoon), Fire & Hemlock, Flood (2007), Georgette Heyer, Malory Towers, New Tricks, Red Dwarf, While You Were Sleeping & Yes Minister )

The second half of the recs post!

( 17 recs in Historical RPF, The Hour, Howl, Miss Marple, The Mummy, North and South, Oxford Comma Sentence Examples, Pushing Daisies, Red Dwarf, Ripper Street, Sapphire and Steel, Sarah Jane Adventures, Ten Stupidest Things I've Heard/Shadow of the Tower, Stay, and Thursday Next )