fic recs

Aug. 16th, 2018 11:49 pm
arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (doctor who (eleven akhaten))
Uncharted Territories by [archiveofourown.org profile] NancyBrown
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Eleven/River
Rating: Teen
Words: 1556

Author's summary: Archaeologists love maps.
Author's notes: Includes references to TATM and SitL/FotD.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: bottle episode, Eleventyfest, Maps, Bigger On The Inside

My comment: "Aw, this was very sweet!"

Quote:
When time allowed, she went through the corridors of the ship. Even when the Doctor didn't know her, the TARDIS did, keeping River's bedroom as she preferred, with the growing map in the same hiding place. She'd added more sheets of paper, attempting the impossible: capture multiple dimensions of layered space. The project kept her spirits up when Amy and Rory were nowhere to be found, or on visits when her bed was cold and lonely.

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River Song and the Lost Tomb of Ardûn by [archiveofourown.org profile] NancyBrown
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: River Song, Jack Harkness
Rating: Teen
Words: 4921

Author's summary: River's professor for her first archaeology class was a self-declared expert on late twentieth and early twenty-first century Earth history. Naturally, she hated his guts.
Author's notes: Warnings: some violence and torture (think Indiana Jones films level of gore). Spoilers: up through "DW: The Angels Take Manhattan"
Author's warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Additional tags: Community: trope_bingo, Action/Adventure, Pastiche, Paradox

My comment: "HEE! <- that's me at the end. I can totally picture Jack as an Indiana Jones type. I like how he wouldn't talk to River even kinda straight until he knew she'd met and married the Doctor.
[spoilery and gross bit redacted] And, yiii, having to die over and over like that? O.O"

Quote:
In class, she never once had the chance to relax, or to give the easy answer. No, every time her attention wavered, Professor Jones called her name, making her answer the hardest question he could think of on today's lecture. Lia and Kris were allowed to answer queries like, "Name all four Beatles." When River's turn came, it was, "Miss Song, describe for the class the sociological impact the British Invasion had on popular culture in context of the social unrest of the time period."

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Diagnostic by [archiveofourown.org profile] NancyBrown
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing/Characters: Twelve, Martha Jones
Rating: Teen
Words: 392

Author's summary: Martha meets the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Vampires, Ghosts

My incredibly helpful comment: "Wow, that was really cool."

Quote:
"What happened to you?"
The Doctor turns back to Pvt. Stewart. "The parasites are vulnerable to x-rays. A simple scan should cure him. You'll want to do the same to the rest of your patients."
"Doctor?" He's not answering her question. But he is helping her.
arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (doctor who (eleven madman))
I know most people who read me are not here for Doctor Who content, but I read a fic a couple of days ago that is just so fabulous I'm going to rec it anyway, in case this happens to be among the interests of anyone in the studio audience (I know some of you are multifandom and not just HP):

The Moon Rises Over and Over Again by [archiveofourown.org profile] ohhtheperiphery
Pairing/Characters: Eleven/River, Amy/Rory (plus some input from the TARDIS)
Rating: Mature
Words: 11,549

Author's summary: We are all of us memories, just stories, in the end.
Author's warnings: None

My comment: ...was flaily and inarticulate: "Oh. MY. ASKLJKSLAKJFDS. I just. I don't know what to say. This fic. There was joy and tears and laughter and oh goodness that seems to be one of my hearts on the floor well oh well I've a spare. *more flailing*" This fic has erotic content, hence the mature rating, but it's way more character study than anything else. There's a ton of lovely prose in it. I'm super sad this is the only DW fic this author has on AO3 and I'm not having luck finding more elsewhere. (I assume [tumblr.com profile] ohhtheperiphery is the same person because of the unusual name, but no more DW fic there that I could find.)

Quote:
But if that is so, and she believes it is, in the dark and warm places of herself that could be called her “heart” if such a word were used to describe them, then her Thief is an anomaly. That doesn’t surprise her; she has always known he is special. Because unlike those normal passengers and travelers of time, his hearts don’t become smaller by the process. Worn down, wearied, burdened—perhaps these words and others could be applied. But smaller is so drastically wrong, she feels it, reverberates it in her insides; she echoes it in her wheezing chaotic descent back and forth along the cataclysms of the universe.

No, her Thief’s hearts get bigger and bigger, she can feel it. Can feel them rising up and swelling inside his chest, growing and grown as each day (or something like it) goes by.

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