Rec [art]: DW Flowers series, by Miss-Alex-Aphey

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Title: DW Flowers (series of images)
Creator: Miss-Alex-Aphey)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: -
Characters/Pairings: most female companions from both the Classic and New series of Doctor Who


Reasons for reccing: This is a whole fan art series too lovely to choose just one or two in it, so I'm going to post links to several of my favourites under the cut (since you could do that when you're fulfilling a challenge!) and from them, you can click on your favourites and, if you want, you can easily access the gallery to see even more of them. These are quite exquisite drawings of most of the female companions in Doctor Who, pictured with larger-than-life flowers chosen to match their personality, appearance, colours etc. While combining female characters with flowers may sound very traditional, the characters possess all the vividness, strength and energy they have in the series - the flowers seem to represent vitality and growth rather than any excessive fragility or some such. Many of the pictures are my favourite fan arts ever of those characters.

For my "female-centric" challenge claim before the seasonal challenge ends!

( Lots of lovely pictures of lovely female characters )

Rec [fic]: A History in Kisses, by Selenay

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Title: A History in Kisses
Creator: Selenay
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 1025 words
Creator's Summary: Bill concluded, based on empirical evidence, that kissing boys was not going to be her thing.
Characters/Pairings: Bill Potts; Bill/various OFCs, Bill/Heather


Reasons for reccing: This fic starts a series of Bill Potts stories written by Selenay as S10 was airing; although the individual stories in the series stand very well on their own. Anyway, I love all the stories in the series, but the first one is a good one to start with, and it's such a lovely, slightly wistful story of the coming of age of Bill Potts and her romantic entanglements, and also explains how Bill ended up working in the university canteen. And contains lots of Bill kissing girls, which is always a plus. The narrative voice of Bill is perfect, although the series had only started airing when this was written.

For my "female-centric" challenge claim in the seasonal challenge. Also, the monthly theme of romance.


Link: A History in Kisses