Rec [Vid]: Handlebars

[valoise]

Title: Handlebars
Creator: the vidding duo of Margie and Seah known as flummery
Rating: Gen
Length/Size: 3:27 minutes
Creator's Summary: I'm the Doctor. Look me up.
Characters/Pairings Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None
Reasons for reccing: For 2008, the year this vid premiered at Vividcon. One of my absolute favorite Tenth Doctor vids, exploring the darkness that crept in during his time in the Tardis.

Links:
an interesting post of the making of Handlebars
Dreamwidth
AO3

Rec [Art]: Fifteenth Doctor Outfits by billiemilou

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Title: None
Creator: billiemilou
Rating: N/A - would give it a G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1 digital painting
Creator's Summary: This took me forever
Characters/Pairings: Fifteenth Doctor
Warnings None
Notes: For 2023 for the anniversary challenge. This art shows several of the outfits that the Fifteenth Doctor/Ncuti Gatwa has worn in promotional material this year

Link to art

Rec [art]: Untitled Yaz and Master art by roguerigatoni

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Title: None
Creator: roguerigatoni on Tumblr (has since deactivated)
Rating: N/A, would give it a G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1 piece of art, 4 panel comic with each panel being an image
Creator's Summary: i hope he’s giving her horrible gay advice
Characters: Yaz and Dhawan!Master
Pairings: Implied/mentioned Yaz/Doctor and Doctor/Master 
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For year 2022 for the anniversary challenge. This is a slightly jokey hypothetical comic made before Power of the Doctor aired, depicting the Master giving advice to Yaz about how to get the Doctor’s attention

Art Link

Rec [Fic and art] and they did live by watchfires by picnokinesis

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Title: and they did live by watchfires
Creator: picnokinesis picnokinesis
Rating: Teen and up Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 20,345 words
Creator's Summary: In some timelines, Captain Jark Harkness rescues her from prison. In others, she escapes on her own. In many of them, she makes it back to New Year's Day in Sheffield, 2021.
This is not one of those timelines.
Pairings/Characters: Thirteenth Doctor/The Master (Dhawan)
Warnings/Notes: (partially taken from the fic tags): Prison, unreality, disorientation, Gaslighting, Medical Torture (of sorts), Hallucinations (or not), Blood, some injury but nothing too excessive, Hurt/Comfort, mostly hurt but there IS comfort I promise, Non-Consensual Drug Use
Reasons for reccing: Re-recommending this for 2021 in the anniversary challenge, as this fic is based on the 2021 New Year’s special. This is my favorite 13/Dhawan fic, and probably my fave Doctor/Master fic overall. It’s suspenseful and exciting and has gorgeous imagery. The Doctor and Master are very realistic and in-character. Quotes from “Darkness” by Lord Byron are in the story, and they’re woven in very well and help enhance it. The author also made two drawings that go along with the fic, and they’re both very nice. All in all, this is a FANTASTIC story.

Fic link

First art piece

Second art (mild fic spoilers)

rec [Art] Summary of the Third Doctor's Era 100% by johannes viii

[thisbluespirit]

Title: Summary of the Third Doctor's Era 100%
Creator: johannvesviii
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A (short 3 panel comic style art)
Creator's Summary: Summary of the Third Doctor’s Era, 100% based on this post made by timewalkxr. (Reccer's note: original text post no longer at the link.)
Characters/Pairings: Third Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Warnings/Notes: None, other than the Brig wanting shoot things as usual.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1972, when this era was in full swing. This is a delightfully funny comic strip summary of the Third Doctor's era, excellently drawn here - the Doctor tells the Brig not to shoot the thing, and what does the Brig do? I love the suitably army-coloured background wash and the energy Johannes VIII has given to Three's frantic attempts, in contrast to the Brigadier's stance, and it makes me laugh every time I see it (100%).


Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/123739220614/summary-of-the-third-doctors-era-100-based-on

Rec [fic]: Barcelona by KelinciHutan

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Title: Barcelona
Creator: KelinciHutan
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 2312 words
Creator's Summary: After Necros, Peri and the Doctor spend some time wandering together on an alien planet.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: For 1985, this is a lovely episode tag for that year's Revelation of the Daleks. Peri and the Doctor enjoy a quieter adventure and talk over some of the loose ends from their brush with the Daleks. Lots of fun banter and the Doctor worrying and caring about Peri.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=21283

Rec [fic]: An Irksome Word and Task by Cryptile

[lurking_latinist]

Title: An Irksome Word and Task
Creator: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 9529 words
Creator's Summary: The stars are going out all over Creation, and he's at a Christmas party. In Lannet.
Characters/Pairings: The Scream of the Shalka Doctor, Alison Cheney
Warnings/Notes: Swearing (author's warning); also discussion of alcoholism, and general bleakness.

Reasons for reccing: For 2003, the brief glorious heyday of Richard E. Grant's Doctor (well, one of them), here's an existentially devastating Christmas story! The increasingly dark adventures the Doctor and Alison have been having in some version of the Time War make a gorgeous contrast with the stifling mundanity (if you're the Doctor)/reassuring normality (if you're Alison) of Alison's aunt's Christmas party, and then it goes just a little bit meta. This version of the Doctor is troubled, mercurial, witty, desperate; he cares too much to cope; it makes me wish they'd made more of the webcasts, except they wouldn't have been this story. This fic is hard for me to rec because everything I say about it just makes it sound depressing and strange. And it is depressing and strange. But in a good way. And the Doctor is really awkward at this Christmas party.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=9332