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Title: The Kid, the Cave, and the Cache
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Guybrush, Elaine, Boybrush
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 3386
Summary: A young Mighty Pirate™ has a little adventure.
Additional Tags: Adventure

Title: The Ozzie Mandrill Pirate Transmogrification Academy Class of '93 (on AO3)
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush, Elaine, Yangja (EfMI), Mungle (EfMI), Hugo (EfMI), Miss Rivers (EfMI), Original Female Character, Original Male Characters, a few cameos
Rating: General (PG for a little danger/violence, one mildly suggestive scene, and hints at a few swear words)
Words: ~28,800
Summary: Guybrush receives an invitation to a class reunion of the Ozzie Mandrill Pirate Transmogrification Academy. Thinking it might be fun, he decides to go. This might not have been the best move.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Minor suggestive content, Humor, Locked room scenario, Video game logic, Mild peril, Canon-typical anachronisms, Canon-typical fake voodoo, Bad jokes
Notes: This story was inspired by Stan kicks previously-owned butt, a very old fic posted in 2002 on the no-longer-extant World of Monkey Island site. It's... a rough read, ngl... but I thought the author really missed an opportunity by putting this in a throwaway line and not writing the fic all about it instead: "Oh no! Elaine, next week is the Knuttin Atoll school reunion!" Sooo yeah. Apparently I had to row this particular boat myself; that's the only excuse I have for these shenanigans. Although this went way off my original idea of "school reunion situation comedy", so maybe someone else was rowing the boat. *looks around suspiciously*

Set between Escape and Tales. Involves handwavy attempt at dates because dates within Monkey Island are difficult to reconcile, and handwavy relative geography because that too is often difficult to reconcile (have you looked at the map in MI4? *smh*). Not generally shippy, but has a little onscreen Guybrush/Elaine fluff because he is the squishiest when it comes to her. The "minor suggestive content" is very minor and is solely at the end of the first chapter.

Thanks to threewalls for early beta services and cuwalli for being my unflagging cheerleader.

I found this via a rec from justmcshane in tardis_library (a reccing community).

Among Mad People by schrodinger (Teaspoon)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Bernice Summerfield, OC version of the Doctor past Seven (if I understood correctly), various other OCs
Rating: All Ages
Words: 59609

Author's summary: On a desert world, Benny Summerfield and her team of students are uneasy neighbors with the Interplanetary Mining Corp. But now one of her students has turned up dead, and Benny needs the Doctor's professional opinion. As usual, she's going to get more than she bargained for.
Author's warnings: Swearing [There's little in English, but there were some words I at first thought were made up that might be Hindi (?) swear words, and some like "cruk" that I think are actually made up but whose meaning is obvious in context]

My comment: (on chapter 12 of 16) "I'm not familiar with this companion or really at all with this general era of DW and the Big Finish material (have I understood correctly that you've basically invented an OC version of Nine, since Bernice seems to have met the canon Seven and I think you mentioned two regenerations past that?), but I'm enjoying this anyway as a nice adventure fic. You've really got me guessing who "Boss" is - part of me wants it to be this universe's Master, part of me thinks that's way too pat of an answer. Guess I'll have to keep reading!"

(I hope it's not spoiling anything to say the identity of the "Boss" was never revealed. I suppose it was meant to be just a bit of background for another character, as they are never on screen.)

Quote:
They worked together in silence for some time, mounting samples, staining them and setting them aside to dry. Eventually, Ish said, “By the way, the answer to your question is yes.”

“Good,” his associate said absently, slipping the first of the slides under the microscope and hunching down over the eyepiece. Then he looked up quizzically at the Draconian. “Er, remind me what my question was again?”

“Se-Quirretl-sa-Wiriq is my mother’s clan, and Murasakimaar my grandfather. And that answers my own question. Now I am sure I know who you are.”

“Good old Murray,” the Doctor said fondly, apparently choosing to ignore the last sentence. “How is he?”

“Resting. In his tomb. He was my grandfather of ten generations ago.”

“Oh.” He was abashed. “I'm so sorry. Though I don’t suppose you could have been very close.”

“He kept records of his days. He said that the Karshtakavaar appears only when there is terrible danger.”

The Time Lord bent back over the microscope. “You know,” he said, sounding annoyed, “I once spent a week on Draconia observing the annual visuk migration and not one single terrible dangerous thing happened the whole time. How come no one ever puts something like that in their diary?”

Harmony by thebunnyinthetardis
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Tenth Doctor (duplicate), Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, Rose, Tyler family, historical persons, OCs; a little Amy/Rory and Tentoo/Rose content, but this is an adventure fic, not a 'ship fic.
Rating: Teen
Words: ~54,500

Author's summary: Life on the Slow Path has never been more agonizing than now. Years have passed since that fateful day when the Doctor left him with Rose Tyler on a desolate beach in Norway. Years for both of them--and while life goes on, he is reasonably sure his has not been the fairy tale the Time Lord might have intended it to be. Now, as fate would have it, their paths are once more to cross, leading them on a journey through Time, a journey in Space, and a journey toward Wholeness. A voice he cannot identify calls. A 17th century cannon ball lands in the garden. A blue box he never thought he would see again lands in the forest. And a Time Lord is running out of Time.
Author's notes: See here if you're interested.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: [edited] Drama, Psychological Drama, Historical Accuracy, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure, Humor, Character Study, English Civil War

My comment: "I'll have you know I cried at the end!"

Quote:
He looked back over his shoulder once more at Brentford, burning in the night. They had made their escape, but how many others had not? How many more would die during this bitter, bitter civil war? Brother pitted against brother.
“This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be,” the Doctor said, bitterly. “It isn’t the way I work--we work--it’s all wrong. All of it. We didn‘t make a difference here at all. We didn‘t do anything and just like that it‘s all over? We just go home?”
He raised an eyebrow at that. “It’s far from being all over.”
“Oh, shut up, me,” the Doctor told him. “Remind me again why I followed you here?”
“You couldn’t resist a big shiny, swirly-whirly space portal anymore than I could?”

I've been building these up for a while (there are... 17?), so I'm omitting the quotes from the fics I would usually give.

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Couple of genfic recs:

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Sev and Sirius' Excellent Adventure by (as yet anonymous, in springtime_gen)
(Sirius, Severus, Hagrid, PG-13, 8000 words)
Author's summary: Severus and Sirius are assigned a joint detention in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid. Only it turns out they're not in Kansas any more.

My comment: *giggles at the title* Somehow, I don't think Severus and Sirius are that into "being excellent to each other" and "partying on, dudes". (Now having visions of "Sirius O. Black, Esq." and "Sev 'Snivellus' Snape"... oh my. Keanu Reeves as Snape. I think my brain just melted. ...Whhhoa.)

(from here, kinda spoilery with quotes; highlight to read)

"So what about this chap then?" Sirius asked, pointing at the soldier. "Is he one of the good guys or the bad guys?"

Severus regarded Sirius with a half-pitying look. "Not everything is so black-and-white. But if you must have your world compartmentalized into neat little boxes, then if he's with Guillaume -- William -- he's on the side that wins."

I like what this says about the difference between Severus and Sirius's mindsets, and how you had Severus put it. Being on the side that wins - it sounds rightly Slytherin.

"Mary Shelley. A pleasure." She held out one hand, fingers curved down. "I was just taking some air. The men will go on so late." [...] "Are you with Lord Byron's party?"

... Oh dear.

I like that Severus figured out what was really going on :) I do wonder, though, where he learned his Franklin..."

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Spinner's End by chudleycannonsnumber1
(Trio, K+/PG, 2280 words)
Author's summary: This is a short oneshot where the Trio is assigned to clean out Snape's house. A little Snape tribute set after the Battle because I had to do something other than TOG.

My comment: "Nice missing scene. It would have helped if something like this were in before the Epilogue. I love the book title 'Somewhat Forgivable Curses' (I LOLed) and the idea about a possible something Arithmancy could actually be used for (calculations on charms that change space)."

It was small and cramped, chiefly due to the bookcases that covered every inch of the walls. Ron whistled impressively, rotating on the spot, his eyes roving over the brown and black leather-bound books.

"How'd you two never get along?" said Ron, smirking at Hermione, who was scanning the room in similar fashion.