halfamoon | [Fanfic Recs] Doctor Who (Reply)

Love the idea of this comm! Am paring down and group-posting a few recs from my recs website that I think would be appropriate, pointing out specifically the aspects of the story that make them suitable. Hope to run a second set later in the two weeks.

Comes the Rain by

eponymous_rose (Susan, David Campbell, First Doctor, G, 800 words)

She wants to be anyone.

Gives Susan a voice, hopes, dreams, love.

The Polar Bears' Golf Club by

doyle_sb4 (Rose, Ace, slight femslash, PG-13, ~4200 words)

One of them had a few longish strands of blond hair sticking out from under his hood. “If we were women we wouldn’t be at the university, would we?” he asked reasonably. “They don’t let women in.”

Ace and Rose team up to save their Doctors, using cleverness, wit, explosives, and enormous false moustaches. Hilarious and plotty and feminist and political all at the same time.

Five Lives Winifred Bambera Might Have Lived by Selenay (Brigadier Winifred Bambera, Sarah Jane Smith, Seventh Doctor, Ace, Shou-Yuing, OCs, PG, ~2400 words)

Trying not to wince, Bambera levered herself into a sitting position and looked around. They were in a nice, leafy clearing in a wood somewhere in darkest Devon. There were metal pots with powerful weaponry menacing a small village a few miles away. She had a few broken ribs, Zbrigniev's leg didn't look good and Salmon was vomiting in the bushes. The officers were all dead; she was the only one with more than a sidearm and their odds looked slightly worse than a snowball's in hell.

"We go and find our people," Bambera said. "Before they have all the fun and leave none for us!"

Five ways Brigadier Winifred Bambera might have lived her life, from frightful 1950s style domesticity to investigative journalist to space captain to TARDIS traveller. Somehow, she's just as amazing in each one.

Tread But Lightly (In These Cruel Shoes) by LilacFree (Tegan, Nyssa, PG, ~1800 words)

“And Cinderella?”

“Lived happily ever after, of course. Not that the Prince sounded like much of a bargain to me. She’d have to worry about every woman with the same shoe size.”

Nyssa and Tegan tell stories and bond over shared horrors perpetuated by the Master. Fairytales aren't always happy.

Once Upon A Time by

tangledwood (Jabe, G, ~1550 words)

When she was sixteen, a slender sapling of a girl, she heard a story.

Jabe from The End of the World gets to write her own story, and comes to grips with her own history and her myths and beliefs.

Human Activities by sheldrake (Rose, alt!Sarah Jane, Jackie, Pete, Mickey, Jake, G, ~4000 words)

"Rose Tyler," said Rose. "Nice to meet you. Listen..." She stopped. This was probably a terrible idea. Sod it. She plunged on. "Do you want to hear a really mad story you probably won't believe?"

Sarah blinked. "Of course I do," she said. "I'm a journalist."

Rose post-Doomsday, living her life, the way the Doctor would want her to. Funny, thoughtful, touching, melancholy, real.

Amuse Yourselves by

samfeasor (Ace/Rose, PG-13, ~1000 words)

The snogging was good, so it led to other things. Just after Rose realized that Ace was actually older than she was, and stopped thinking about her as “that girl I snogged on the funny planet with flying jellyfish” and started thinking about her as “this woman who's seen amazing things and knows what it's like and it's been so long and – oh, that's brilliant, that tongue thing.”

Fresh, funny, sexy, and clever, all while wrong-footing the Doctor and having a sweet and hopeful ending.

not under the vault of another sky by

lilith_morgana (AU, Sarah Jane/Harriet Jones, PG, ~2300 words)

And like the slow change that happened in the heart of Great Britain, Sarah found small signs of something else in every day of her own life, in the colour of the moon, the sound of words, the way she could feel everything in her body as Harriet laughed. Every touch between them a certain sort of confession: a struggle for unity, a rhythm.

Harriet, dutiful and colourless, mousy hair and grey eyes - rather dull, I’m afraid – is Sarah’s dream of flight.

Love, loss, and making these two women real, even if they're AU versions in the Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel universe. Both are strong and broken and done a great justice.