Rec [Fic]: Common Issues in Child Care, by neveralarch

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Recs bingo! Let's do this! Here is my card and this is the first top-left-corner fill for the prompt: Gallifrey. Because that's a good place to start.

Title: Common Issues in Child Care
Creator: neveralarch
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 4827
Creator's Summary: From aralias' prompt: "Some sort of Gallifrey babyfic - yes, that's what's happening here." Set in a idyllic future of the canon, where both the K-9s are there and also Elbon is not a zombie.
Characters/Pairings: Various characters from the Big Finish Gallifrey chronicles
Warnings: none

Reasons for reccing: This is a really delightful story even if you have not listened to the Gallifrey audios. The Publisher's summary describes the Gallifrey chronicles as "Tales of intrigue and political manoeuvring from the seat of Time Lord power. Join Romana, Leela and K9 as they find enemies on all sides in a delicate game with the fate of Gallifrey hanging in the balance." Well in this story they trade that intrigue and manouevring for . . . a wee bit of drive-by babysitting. I think they definitely would prefer the politics!

This one is told in a breezy and fun round robin as the baby--dropped off by the Doctor as he could either mind her or save her planet but not both--changes hands among all the usual suspects.

( Excerpt )

Link: Common Issues in Child Care

Rec [Fic]: Fimbulvinter by thebunnyinthetardis

[eve11]

Another recs bingo entry: Here is my card and this is the second top-left-corner fill for the prompt: Gallifrey. NB: it also satisfies the monthly theme of Monsters.

Title: Fimbulvinter
Creator: thebunnyinthetardis
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 2246
Creator's Summary: The Cold Sleep hunts us all, be we the stuff of nightmares, or a child of Gallifrey who smells... of starlight.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, other characters
Warnings: none

Reasons for reccing: As light and breezy as the first story was for this square, this story is as dark, cold and haunting. This is a story of the Doctor's childhood; an adventure gone wrong with an alien POV that is both terrible and beautiful. It gives us a glimpse of Gallifrey's many monsters, making no equivocation on which ones are the true harbingers of the end times.


Link: Fimbulvinter