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Rec [fic]: Life Lessons, by kathkin
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auroracloudTitle: Life Lessons
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kathkin (I know I rec a lot of hers, but her Jamie stuff is so good!)
Rating: General Audiences (I might rate chapter Four as Teen, though, because of violence mentions)
Word Count/Length/Size: 9670 words (5 chapters)
Creator's Summary: "You’ve just taken your first step into a wider universe.” / “I have?” Five lessons the Doctor taught Jamie about life.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: Descriptions of aftermath of violence/war and mention of child death in Chapter Four. The chapters are basically individual stories, though, so if that disturbs you, you can just skip the fourth chapter and read the others.
Reasons for reccing: I love stories of Jamie learning things (not that you could guess), and this one has all sorts of wonderful stories on that theme. There's Jamie encountering a scary-looking but non-evil alien (I wish canon gave us more of those, especially in the 60s!), there's Jamie learning about bacteria and trying to wrap his head around having millions of them in his body, and there's even Jamie learning about evolution! And because it's kathkin, it's well-written with excellent characterization and voice for Jamie, Doctor and everyone else.
One of the reasons I find well-written Jamie-learns-things and Doctor-explains-things-to-Jamie fics so fascinating that they illustrate how much the world has changed in a few centuries and how much science has discovered in the modern era that would be completely outside the common person's knowledge through most of human history. And how much of what we take for granted would be completely foreign to most of our ancestors. I suppose it's also one of the reasons why I so much enjoy Jamie and other historical companions and wish the show had more of them (or any in the modern era).
ETA: Ooh, and I just realized this qualifies for the monthly theme as well, because the last chapter is about natural history and very pre-historic Earth - that is history as well!
Link: Life Lessons on AO3
Creator:
Rating: General Audiences (I might rate chapter Four as Teen, though, because of violence mentions)
Word Count/Length/Size: 9670 words (5 chapters)
Creator's Summary: "You’ve just taken your first step into a wider universe.” / “I have?” Five lessons the Doctor taught Jamie about life.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: Descriptions of aftermath of violence/war and mention of child death in Chapter Four. The chapters are basically individual stories, though, so if that disturbs you, you can just skip the fourth chapter and read the others.
Reasons for reccing: I love stories of Jamie learning things (not that you could guess), and this one has all sorts of wonderful stories on that theme. There's Jamie encountering a scary-looking but non-evil alien (I wish canon gave us more of those, especially in the 60s!), there's Jamie learning about bacteria and trying to wrap his head around having millions of them in his body, and there's even Jamie learning about evolution! And because it's kathkin, it's well-written with excellent characterization and voice for Jamie, Doctor and everyone else.
One of the reasons I find well-written Jamie-learns-things and Doctor-explains-things-to-Jamie fics so fascinating that they illustrate how much the world has changed in a few centuries and how much science has discovered in the modern era that would be completely outside the common person's knowledge through most of human history. And how much of what we take for granted would be completely foreign to most of our ancestors. I suppose it's also one of the reasons why I so much enjoy Jamie and other historical companions and wish the show had more of them (or any in the modern era).
ETA: Ooh, and I just realized this qualifies for the monthly theme as well, because the last chapter is about natural history and very pre-historic Earth - that is history as well!
Link: Life Lessons on AO3