Rec [Fic]: House Guest by Gary Merchant

[thisbluespirit]

Title: House Guest
Creator: Gary Merchant
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 4141 words
Creator's Summary: Liz Shaw persuades the Doctor to go house hunting, with unexpected consequences.
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Third Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Another for my Liz Shaw claim - this is an unusual and thoughtful piece that has Liz helping the Doctor go househunting while unconvering an unexpected side to her own nature. It provides both a sideways-type missing story as well as being a lovely look at the friendship between Liz and Three.


Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=17157

Rec [fic]: Together, On This Same Earth, by biichan

[auroracloud]

Title: Together, On This Same Earth
Creator: biichan/ biichan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences (the rating given on AO3; on Teaspoon it's marked as Adult. I'd rate it Teen or possibly Mature - it's a bit descriptive but not for very long)
Word Count/Length/Size: 3,891 words
Creator's Summary: Once you've started traveling in time and space, things are never quite the same when you stop. Luckily, Victoria's new friend Martha understands this.
Characters/Pairings: Martha Jones/Victoria Waterfield. Also the Tenth Doctor, Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon
Warnings/Notes: Well, there's some sexual content involving two women, if you need to be warned of that sort of thing, but it's not super explicit.

Reasons for reccing: This was probably the very first Classic Who fanfic I read, right on the week when the Twitch marathon introduced me to the Second Doctor era and I fell in love with all the characters. I ended up going to the Teaspoon and seeing if anyone's written Victoria femslash, and when I saw that someone's written her and Martha Jones meeting, I read this, and was officially sucked into the world of fic about the characters of the Second Doctor era. Essentially, Victoria lives her life in the late 1960s England, and meets Martha when she and the Tenth Doctor are stuck in 1969 during 'Blink'. They also run into some other characters who are around in that time period.

Victoria and Martha are both characters whom I adore far beyond how much the fandom on the average loves them, so seeing them paired up, either as friends or lovers, was wonderful for me, and this fic is exquisitely written, gets so much out of both characters. The progression of their relationship from getting to know each other to friendship to something else is lovely. It also touches on how time with the Doctor touches everyone who travels with him, how Victoria and Martha and others have come to view the world, and the timey-wimeyness of having Doctors and Companions from all over the storyline of the show.

It's a beautiful, wistful, but essentially hopeful story.

Link: On AO3
On Teaspoon

Rec [fic]: Fab Gear, by whatthefoucault

[auroracloud]

Title: Fab Gear
Creator: whatthefoucault
Rating: All Ages / General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 619 words
Creator's Summary: Polly and Ben help Jamie adjust to modern life, starting with a new turtleneck.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Second Doctor; mostly gen but with a smidgen of Two/Jamie
Notes:This is set fairly early on in Jamie's TARDIS adventure times, set after The Underwater Menace and before The Moonbase. (Author's Note)

Reasons for reccing: I'm a sucker for "Jamie meets modernity" fics, and it's fun to imagine and read how Polly and Ben may have tried to introduce him to new times and new fashions. And obviously how he got that haircut! This is an adorable little ficlet about just that, capturing everyone's voices perfectly, not to mention Jamie's confusion over modern vocabulary. Fun, sweet and perfect. A tiny bit of Two/Jamie pre-slash, but I'm sure non-shippers will enjoy it as well.

Quote:
“Oh aye, it’s very nice,” replied Jamie with a nod, still bewildered by all that had happened to him. “What do you think?”

“I think you look smashing,” she said with a satisfied grin. “Doesn’t he, Ben?”

“Oh yeah,” Ben agreed, “brilliant, mate! Them turtlenecks, you know, they’re really with it.”

“With what?” asked Jamie.


Link: Fab Gear (link goes to Teaspoon)