Rec [fic]: Where I Found You by CeruleanTactician

[paranoidangel]

Title: Where I Found You
Creator: CeruleanTactician
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1689 words
Creator's Summary: Peri meets a strange woman in one of the TARDIS gardens.
Characters/Pairings: Peri Brown, Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's an interesting pair to have meet and a logical way of having them meeting. It's sweet that they both have the Fifth Doctor in common. And fun to see how well they get along.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43029969

Special Community 60th Anniversary Challenge

[thisbluespirit]

In honour of Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, tardis_library is having our first ever community challenge!

This one is for the whole comm, so level of participation can be from 1 rec in total to as many as 2 per day - it's up to you. At the end, there will be no banners, only community pride in our achievement - and, very importantly, our show, the best fanworks of its fandom, and tardis_library.


60 Years of Recs

The challenge is for members of tardis_library to rec appropriate fanworks for each year from 1963 to 2023 until all those years have at least one or more recs to represent them.

How does it work?
Rec a fanwork for a chosen year between 1963 and 2023. Make sure you state clearly which year that is in your rec!

If you are posting multiple recs for a given year at one time, you may put them in one post. Otherwise, please make individual posts. (The only limit is the general comm posting limit - 2 posts per day max.)


I'll keep a list of years + recced works in this post and update it as regularly as I can. It will be linked on the Monthly Challenge sticky. There is also a special tag for it - "other: community challenge" to help you keep tabs on progress and to check out the works. However, it's fine if there are years with multiple recs.

At the end, we share a big virtual pat on the back and have lots of great fanworks to read in celebration of the big 60 milestone on this neverending journey across time and space.

That's it!

What counts for a year?

Good question! It will largely be up to the reccer, but please make sure the connection is easily apparent, that is in relation to Doctor Who itself in some way, and that your rec post clearly states the year you have selected. Some examples are:

* It features that year's Doctor or TARDIS team, or is focused around stories broadcast/written etc. in your chosen year; monsters or characters who first appeared then (or had significant developments etc). Thanks to the EU (comics, books, audios, novelisations, fan made films etc, minisodes, etc etc), there are no years where there was not some form of new Who appearing. Fanworks featuring any other significant characters, worlds, objects, lore introduced in a certain year are also great.

* Your rec is in some way set in or features that year - whether via canon (e.g. works featuring Martha and Ten stuck in 1969, for example), or an episode set during that period (e.g. Hide set in 1974 or Remembrance of the Daleks in 1963) or a fanwork that features in any way a visit back to any year between 1963-2023. (Things unrelated to DW, like the year a show used in a DW crossover started won't count, or in most cases the year the fanwork was made, or soundtrack/song used for a vid or similar - but there will probably be exceptions, so please ask if in doubt!)

* Birth/death years of characters or actors - e.g. Clara Oswald's birth date is 1986, as (probably) is Rose Tyler's while Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) and Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier) both died in 2011.


* Anything else you can think of that makes sense on the above lines (I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.).


Just rec fanworks you enjoy and that have a genuine connection to something from the show for the year you've selected, and hopefully we will all have fun along the way.

There's no need to rec years in linear order. You can bring a rec for any year at any time.


This challenge closes officially on Thurs 30th November 2023 but it'd be great to reach the total by the anniversary weekend on the 25th & 26th.


What if someone's recced something for a year I wanted to use?

Rec the fanwork anyway! It's fine.

( Years in Progress )

Check out TARDIS Wiki for all kinds of helpful info if you need some ideas for where to start.


Credit to dbskyler - I modelled this challenge on the ficathon they ran for the 50th anniversary with the same basic premise.

Rec [Fic]: Reason is a Liar by JulisCaesar

[quailfence]

Title: Reason is a Liar
Creator: JulisCaesar 
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 18,964 words
Creator's Summary:

"And if I am right?"

"Then I am wrong, and I will face the consequences. Are you coming?"

One Gallifreyan, too intelligent for her position. One human, too wild for civilization. A story that spans centuries, a billion miles, and two very different cultures.

Characters/Pairings: Leela/Rodan
Warnings/Notes: Major Character Death, Violence

Reasons for reccing: For the anniversary challenge, year 1978 as this is based on "Invasion of Time", which was broadcast that year. Many people have said that the end of that story would've made more sense if Leela had gotten together with Rodan instead of Andred. This is a great exploration of that premise

Needs tags ch: rodan, p: leela/rodan, creator: juliscaesar

Link: Reason is a Liar on AO3