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Title: Things That Go Bump
Creator: Liadt
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 758 words
Creator's Summary: Deep within the bowels of Kiy Uvanov’s mansion came an unearthly cry, which rattled the bones of all who heard it.
Characters/Pairings: Kiy Uvanov, Kaston Iago
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: I am very fond of the rather random audio spin-off Kaldor City (a mix of characters and elements from DW's Robots of Death, Image of the Fendahl, the PDA Corpse Marker and a few escapees from Blake's 7 + a healthy dose of snark, paranoia, politics, assassinations, apocalyptic and surreal endings and killer robots) and this ficlet embraces the crack and runs with it to give us the joy of Kaldor encountering homicidal Henry Hoovers. It's just another day in the life of Firstmaster Kiy Uvanov and his assassin-for-hire Iago. With killer domestic appliances, naturally.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2489690

Title: Unfinished Business
Creator: tree_and_leaf
Rating: Mature
Word Count/Length/Size: 1838 words
Creator's Summary: Liz has unfinished business with the Brigadier. She thought she’d accepted it would have to stay that way…
Characters/Pairings: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Another one for my favourite pairings challenge. I love Brig/Liz; it's full of repression, snark and dedication to duty despite any UST. This one, though, is set after Liz's time at UNIT and gives them a chance to maybe do some resolving at last, and it's excellent.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/167548

Title: Love Me (Love Me Not)
Creator: laughinggas13
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 962 words
Creator's Summary: N/A
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings/Notes: None. Set between Seasons of Fear and Neverland, but not spoilery.

Reasons for reccing: This one fits both my seasonal challenge (Favourite Pairings) and the current monthly theme of Eighth Doctor era works. I've loved this ficlet for a long while and could never rec it before, as it wasn't archived to Teaspoon. It's short and simple, but captures a lot of the 'walking-on-broken-eggshells' underside to the lightness of the Eight-Charley relationship, as Charley begins to navigate the possibilities (and impossibities) of what they can be to each other.


Link: https://laughinggas13.livejournal.com/103540.html

The first of two recs for tonight, involving Liz Shaw and a Lethbridge-Stewart, for my character claim for the seasonal challenge.

Title: Adventures in Scientific Babysitting
Creator: lyricwritesprose
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 200 words
Creator's Summary: When Liz Shaw babysits, the science is going to get done right.
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Kate Stewart
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Perfect double drabble of a missing scene that surely must be true - it wasn't necessarily her father who taught little Kate that science leads.


Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=48121

Title: House Guest
Creator: Gary Merchant
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 4141 words
Creator's Summary: Liz Shaw persuades the Doctor to go house hunting, with unexpected consequences.
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Third Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Another for my Liz Shaw claim - this is an unusual and thoughtful piece that has Liz helping the Doctor go househunting while unconvering an unexpected side to her own nature. It provides both a sideways-type missing story as well as being a lovely look at the friendship between Liz and Three.


Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=17157

Title: What We Live For
Creator: valoise
Rating: Not rated
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:56 mins
Creator's Summary: All of space and time - traveling with the Doctor is an adventure.
Characters/Pairings: Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor + companions.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Another multi-era vid, before the anniversary weekend and month is over! This one was made for the recent equinox_exchange (so just a little too early for more than the briefest bit of Thirteen) and is a gorgeous, happy-making celebration of New Who. It's beautiful and surely guaranteed to put a smile on your face.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16225760

Title: Farewell Elizabeth Shaw
Creator: BabelColour
Rating: N/A
Word Count/Length/Size: 2.28
Creator's Summary: this is a personal tribute to the beautiful Caroline John who portrayed Miss Elizabeth Shaw in 'Doctor Who', who sadly passed away on 5th June 2012.
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Third Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Another one for the current Seasonal Challenge! This a beautiful tribute that effectively showcases the strengths of Liz's character as a scientist in her own right. I was planning to try and find something a little less sad (this was made in the wake of Caroline John's death, so I should probably attach a tissue warning for those who need it) but it turns out the best is still the best.


Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6H_sakDHeQ

I claimed Liz Shaw for the Character Challenge, so here is my first rec for it (& about time):

Title: Going Home
Creator: phantomlistener
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 8143 words
Creator's Summary: A life can't be summed in a few tiny moments, but it can, possibly, be understood. Elizabeth Shaw through the years. Crossover with the Dr Who spin-off P.R.O.B.E. but no prior knowledge of it is required.
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Third Doctor, Patricia Haggard, Sarah Jane Smith, Brigadier Lethbrige-Stewart.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: This is a beautifully written look at Liz across her life, filling in backstory, post-canon and side-adventures with insight and depth. It was one of the first pieces I thought of when I claimed the character. It includes some mention of the fanmade PROBE videos, but it works just fine if you don't know them, as the author says. (I haven't seen any of them myself, so I can vouch for that). If you love Liz, you'll love this.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/421010

I seem to have been distracted this month - I'm going to make two recs in a row for the monthly theme (and then tomorrow I ought to work on my Character claim...)

Title: Phone Tag
Creator: kesomon
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1253 words
Creator's Summary:"Milliways Steak House and part-time mortuary, how may we serve you today?" In which the Doctor deals with an unwanted caller and the TARDIS fam learn a few things about their fun-loving alien friend.
Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan, The Castellan.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I've not really been reading round for much of our new TARDIS team yet, but this is a delightful, fun extra scene for them that fell across my path and I had to bring over here for everyone else to enjoy, too.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16302206 (Also at the Teaspoon.)

For the square "work" on my bingo card.

Title: Special Request
Creator: Palgrave
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1545 words
Creator's Summary: Lucy gets a lot of weird requests at these kind of gigs, but it's the first time anyone's ever asked this one before. (Missing scene for "Vampires of Venice")
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, Original Character
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I was sorting through some bookmarks and spotted that this never got recced on calufrax and rushed over here to make good that omission. It answers the (obviously very important) question of how Eleven got into the cake in Vampires of Venice, and it's charming and funny, with perfect Eleven-voice, and is now absolutely what happened in my mind. Plus, it has cake. Even if it's not a real one.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/458395

For the square "atonement" from my bingo card.

Title: Advanced TARDIS Maintenance for the Determined Highlander
Creator: kaesa
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 6810 words
Creator's Summary: Jamie has offended the TARDIS, and now he's just a little bit turned around.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, the TARDIS, Second Doctor.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I love fic that explores the TARDIS, which is just what this one does and it's particularly delightful. Jamie gets lost in the TARDIS and, with some help from Zoe, they both begin to understand the nature of this very unusual time and space machine - and how to deal with her.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/862026

For the square "Daleks" on my bingo card, because how could I not?

Title: The Dalek Invasion of Discworld
Creator: TigerKat
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 699 words
Creator's Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin.
Characters/Pairings: Daleks, Various Discworld characters
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: The Daleks try to invade Discworld and it goes about as well as you would expect. A true gem that's sure to leave you with a grin on your face, because there are some places that even Daleks should never try to go - but I'm so glad that, thanks to TigerKat, they did.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4426025 (Also at Teaspoon here.)

Title: Theatre Festival
Creator: moon_custafer
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count:
Creator's Summary: 360
Characters/Pairings: Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I came across it this morning and had to rec it here immediately. The idea of using a time machine to see past theatre performances is one that I've thought about (and I know I'm not alone) - and Bill and Twelve would, and it would end exactly like this. It's delightful.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15129866

Title: Little Girls Are Made Of
Creator: (e.g. one or more of: nostalgia
Rating: All ages/General Audiences
Word Count: 100
Creator's Summary: It’s not because she never met anyone.
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Jane Smith, The Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I've been sorting through a lot of my old bookmarks lately and as soon as I re-read this one, I had to run and rec it here: it's one of those drabbles that justify the format (if it needed justifying, of course). It's a look at Sarah Jane, with refs to School Reunion, and it's so sharp and true it probably cut itself in the making. Ouch.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1519601 (Also here at the Teaspoon.)

Title: I Know
Creator: touchdownpossum
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1.32 mins
Creator's Summary: A tribute to the First Doctor
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor + Various
Warnings/Notes: None. (Although you may never look at One in quite the same way again...)

Reasons for reccing: This one fits both elements of the new monthly theme - it's a very funny (and well made) tribute to the inimitable First Doctor. Possibly as you've never seen him before...


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/909400

(Direct Link to Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/80719473 )