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tardis_libraryRecs bingo! Here is my card and this is my top row second column fill for the prompt: Drunkenness. Two stories this time round (because the first I've recc-ed before but must do so again):
Title: With What You Will (AO3 link)
Creator: Culumacilinte (![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2423
Creator's Summary: One must be for ever drunken. With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please, but be drunken.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings: None
Reasons for reccing: I can't not re-rec this story for this prompt. We don't often see Six just having fun and finding joy & silliness in the universe. Nor any much hint of vulnerability. But this is definitely what it would look like, and Charley Pollard is the companion who would draw it out in all its romantic character. This starts out just as a silly scene, but in the end it takes some vino (okay, absinthe) for Charley to find her veritas--that he's still the man she fell in love with. It's on point in character, dialogue, situation and tone. Funny and poignant and shows a side of Six we always know is there deep down. Just a beautiful story.
‘I am hardly drunk. Tipsy, I’ll grant you. A trifle intoxicated. A shade submerged, as my good friend Plum would have it. Unlike yourself, Charlotte. I did warn you about the sagacity of drinking absinthe.’
‘Yes, well, one can hardly visit the Moulin Rouge with Tolouse-Lautrec, and Bernard, and Gaugin, and not drink absinthe when it’s offered.’ She pauses for a beat, face creasing up. ‘Even if it did taste rather dreadful. Anyway,’ she sticks out her tongue at him, feeling childish, ‘hark at you, Monsieur Hypocrite; you drank enough yourself.’
‘I,’ he puffs himself up, ‘am a Time Lord. It takes more than a few glasses of La Fée Verte to knock me for six.’
Link: With What You Will (Teaspoon) | With What You Will (AO3)
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And another one, not new per se but still amazing and also a perfectly good headcanon:
Title: Six Impossible Things
Creator:netgirl_y2k
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 1248
Creator's Summary: "My favourite impossible thing."
Characters/Pairings: Donna Noble/Romana.
Warnings: None.
Reasons for reccing: This one is sharp and witty and fun and has fantastic women fixing things the Doctor has mucked up. Like, oh, Donna's memory wipe. And also robot HR directors. Amazing what some free champagne spiked with reverse ret-con can do, but only if there's a suitable biological receptacle for siphoning the excess vortex energy--well, you'll see what I mean.
Link: Six Impossible Things
Title: With What You Will (AO3 link)
Creator: Culumacilinte (
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2423
Creator's Summary: One must be for ever drunken. With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please, but be drunken.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings: None
Reasons for reccing: I can't not re-rec this story for this prompt. We don't often see Six just having fun and finding joy & silliness in the universe. Nor any much hint of vulnerability. But this is definitely what it would look like, and Charley Pollard is the companion who would draw it out in all its romantic character. This starts out just as a silly scene, but in the end it takes some vino (okay, absinthe) for Charley to find her veritas--that he's still the man she fell in love with. It's on point in character, dialogue, situation and tone. Funny and poignant and shows a side of Six we always know is there deep down. Just a beautiful story.
‘I am hardly drunk. Tipsy, I’ll grant you. A trifle intoxicated. A shade submerged, as my good friend Plum would have it. Unlike yourself, Charlotte. I did warn you about the sagacity of drinking absinthe.’
‘Yes, well, one can hardly visit the Moulin Rouge with Tolouse-Lautrec, and Bernard, and Gaugin, and not drink absinthe when it’s offered.’ She pauses for a beat, face creasing up. ‘Even if it did taste rather dreadful. Anyway,’ she sticks out her tongue at him, feeling childish, ‘hark at you, Monsieur Hypocrite; you drank enough yourself.’
‘I,’ he puffs himself up, ‘am a Time Lord. It takes more than a few glasses of La Fée Verte to knock me for six.’
Link: With What You Will (Teaspoon) | With What You Will (AO3)
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And another one, not new per se but still amazing and also a perfectly good headcanon:
Title: Six Impossible Things
Creator:
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 1248
Creator's Summary: "My favourite impossible thing."
Characters/Pairings: Donna Noble/Romana.
Warnings: None.
Reasons for reccing: This one is sharp and witty and fun and has fantastic women fixing things the Doctor has mucked up. Like, oh, Donna's memory wipe. And also robot HR directors. Amazing what some free champagne spiked with reverse ret-con can do, but only if there's a suitable biological receptacle for siphoning the excess vortex energy--well, you'll see what I mean.
Link: Six Impossible Things