Beyond the Roundels

I keep forgetting to crosspost these! I wrote some more ficlets for both memes before Christmas, the one I did ages ago that was a writing meme and the not!fic one from more recently, which I wrote some things for anyway!

In Dispute (976 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shadow of the Tower
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England
Characters: Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Henry VII of England
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Memes, Sharing a Bed, Only One Bed, Alternate Universe - 1960s, references to nudity, Flash Fic
Summary: “Is there a reason you’re naked in my bed?”

Bedside Robbery (223 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)/Silver (S&S)
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Flash Fic, Meme
Summary: Liz gets an unexpected awakening.

Transported (219 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswin Oswald
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Flash Fic, Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - Teachers
Summary: Accidentally taking the head of science's coffee was a big mistake, apparently...

Crime Au Naturel (473 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Characters: Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who), Charley Pollard
Additional Tags: Flash Fic, Ficlet, Alternate Universe - Criminals, Partial Nudity, Humor, Edwardian Period
Summary: Charley's first day as a famous, mysterious jewel thief was going so well up until now...

Cross-Cultural Exchange (416 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: First Doctor & Barbara Wright
Characters: First Doctor (Doctor Who), Barbara Wright
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Flash Fic, Accidental Marriage, Aliens Made Them Do It, Humor, Trope Subversion
Summary: These little cultural misunderstandings will happen when you're visiting an alien planet...

Long time, no proper posts & comments, sorry, but I continued to be ill, and it has continued to be summer, and here we are, although I am feeling a little better at least and cautiously optimistic now as it is nearly not summer, but it's pretty warm today and not the time for making any rash promises.

In the meantime, I managed to type this up a couple of weeks ago, and finally edited it this morning. For crossoverbingo (Cyan), genprompt_bingo (Magical Horses), and 100fandoms (#38 welcome):

Sufficiently Advanced Technology (1524 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), The Librarians (TV 2014)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Jenkins | Galahad (The Librarians)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Community: crossoverbingo, community: 100fandoms, Community: genprompt_bingo, Episode: s10e01 The Pilot, Pre-Canon, Serial: s152 Battlefield
Summary: The Doctor turns to an old friend for help with a problem that is completely and totally scientific, no matter how much it looks like magic.

(I was going to warn for spoilers for Jenkins's backstory, but it's not exactly more spoilery than his canonical tag anyway. /o\ I want to do a big multi-Doctor crossover for Jenkins sometime, and I'm thinking I may have missed up the backwards continuity with my choice of Doctor here, but I should think non-linear is sufficient rather than strictly backwards. It is the Doctor, after all.)

I managed to get my intoabar fic done before the warm weather hit, and got it tidied up to post today. My prompt was Twelve meeting Snow | Mary Margaret, which was a lovely prompt and very easy to do something for:

Myths & Legends (1716 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard, Twelfth Doctor
Additional Tags: Crossover, Community: intoabar, Episode: s10e01 The Pilot, Post-Canon
Summary: We're all stories in the end, it's true - and, sooner or later, all stories find themselves in Storybrooke.

Title: Fatal Error
Author: thisbluespirit
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 693
Characters/Pairings: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: Letting the strangers go had clearly been a mistake…

For persiflage_1 in the 500 Prompts Meme: 12. Why didn't we detain them? - Twelve & Clara Oswald (DW)

Here @ AO3 | Also @ the Teaspoon

I don't seem to have been writing much lately, so I did what I usually do in these circumstances: the poetry meme!

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)

3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.

4: Bravo! Have a cookie.

*noms virtual cookie*

(These are all only 50 words, so I don't think they're really spoilery unless you know stuff already, they're just probably incomprehensible, but possibly for DW S10, Ripper Street S5 and Spooks S10. Ish. I did cheat, because I didn't want a comma, but at least I managed alphabetical order, and my brain also did not explode.)

( Results under here: B7, Department S, Doctor Who, Ripper Street, Spooks )

Vanquished (252 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!, Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant/Louise
Characters: Louise (Adam Adamant Lives), Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant
Additional Tags: Crossover, Meme, Prompt Fic, Ficlet, Humor, Vampires
Summary: There are moments when the women in Adam's life are quite baffling...


Tall Tales (Bring You Short Replies) (640 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Georgina Jones, Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme, Prompt Fic
Summary: Georgie's been busy while Adam's been away...


In Memoriam (791 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Martha Jones
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Martha Jones
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme
Summary: The Doctor pays a surprise visit to Martha Jones.

First handful of results from the prompts meme:

Space Married (940 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswin Oswald
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme, Prompt Fic, Accidental Marriage
Summary: “Don’t panic, but I think we might have accidentally got married…”

Unwelcome Bedfellows (120 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Sheridan, Alfred Bester
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme, Prompt Fic, Humor
Summary: Bester + Sheridan, “It’s only one night, we’ll just share the bed.”

Bedside Manner (546 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peri Brown & Sixth Doctor
Characters: Peri Brown, Sixth Doctor
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme, Prompt Fic, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: “I’m dying.” (Six + Peri)

Experimental Flavours (587 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Press Gang
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kenny Phillips, Colin Mathews
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Meme, Humor
Summary: “Who crawls through someone’s window at 4am to go for ice cream?!”

So ravenskyewalker suggested I do some Twelve next, and as it turned out the next icons200 batch of themes suddenly made sense if I considered them in the light of the S8 two-part finale. It was really weird doing new tv, though; I need to get back to the old tv! (What is this shiny stuff, how does it work?)

There are more extras/alternates than usual, because it took me a while to settle on the second Artist's Choice set.

Teaser:



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Last night's DW made me write a drabble. Amazing! (It was v good. I loved it. And, oh, I love Clara. ♥ If you don't, I don't need to know about it here. Thank you.)


Friendly Warning
Drabble. Ian Chesterton, Twelfth Doctor. Spoilers for Face the Raven. It is possibly a mean drabble, but it was a thing I thought of this morning.

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I managed to get my fic done! (Just!)

*collapses in a heap and hopes it isn't too full of horrible errors*


Salt of the Earth (4143 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Martha Tyler, Jack Harkness, Original Characters, Twelfth Doctor
Additional Tags: Community: dw_allsorts, Community: dw_guestfest, Minor Canonical Character(s), 20th Century, Witchcraft, Serial: s094 Image of the Fendahl, Women Being Awesome, Folklore
Summary: Martha Tyler lives on a time rift, sees things no one else does, and fights evil with rock salt. It’s been that way all her life.


Also at the Teaspoon (once it's been validated).


Anyway, the fic where Mrs Tyler lives by a time rift her whole life and is much better than Torchwood now exists, except I had to write it, which is just rubbish. Why don't other people write these things for me? (I didn't get much TW in; don't be misled.)

Request: Favourite plot twists - jaxomsride (It turns out I'm not doing these in order. Also I see no reason to wait for December, either.)


It's hard to think about favourite plot twists, maybe because it's not the first thing I think of in what I like about something (though don't get me wrong, I love a really great plot twist), but also because I have a tendency to rewatch and re-read things I like a lot, so then it becomes hard to remember the time when the plot twist was surprising instead of inevitable and admired plot work.

Or, in short, I can't guarantee these are my actual favourite plot twists, but they were the ones I came up with this week. I shall try to talk about them without spoilers. If this involves sign language at any point, bear with me.


1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Her books are so well known, that I think I was spoiled for quite a few of them by the time I read them, or, being the sort of lazy reader who hardly ever tries to work out the murder, maybe I wasn't struck by the others. At any rate, once it became clear what the plot twist was in this one, I was delighted by it, and remain so. I've read at least one other book that used the same twist as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd but I don't think I've ever come across anything with the same solution as Orient Express. (It is something that should be hard to pull off without being ridiculous, which is perhaps why. Or because I haven't read the other books in question, of course.) It's not my favourite Christie, but it is by far my favourite solution to a murder mystery.


2. Listen (Doctor Who). I hesitate to mention this, because I don't want to get into DW discussions, but I thought this was shaped around such a wonderful twist, not just for an episode but because it subverted the expectations of the whole show, especially in terms of New Who and did so beautifully. I know some people are watching this other awful show at the moment, but for me, this was one of the most perfect episodes in a long, long while & largely because of the twist, so I have to include it here.


3. My Life's My Own (Public Eye). It's probably not so much a proper plot twist, in the same way as the two above (but then Public Eye doesn't really work like that), but over halfway through there's a reveal that I completely didn't see coming which not only impressed me in terms of the episode but revised my entire opinion of the series I was watching and what it was capable of. And it was already being a particularly good episode. In addition, there's a twist of viewer expectation in which it looks as though the story is winding down to its close in a particular way - and then it suddenly does so much more with its last five minutes.