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It's time for

tardis_library's annual Reccer's Bingo!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Sunday 21st September 2025.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card in the comments below. You can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded from the prompt list. (Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works you rec for each square still relate to the prompts in some way. )

2. Post your rec(s) for each square to this community. Please post recs for the same square together in the same post. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut. (1-5 recs per each prompt min/max.)

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo pattern comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card).

(

hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are still fairly comprehensive if you want to check out all possible variations.)

Once you're done, you can claim a brand new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see

hc_bingo link above for examples - e.g. reccing works that meet multiple prompts simultaneously etc.)

Treat recs for extras in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each individual fill/rec/rec set posted to the comm as one post.

( Example Card & Prompt List )

If you have any other questions about the challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

It's time for a new seasonal challenge here at

tardis_library, and I've picked out one we haven't done in a good while:

Alphabet Soup

To complete this challenge, post 5-26 fanwork recs for consecutive letters of the alphabet. The alphabetical aspect may be the title, creator, or the character(s) featured in the fanwork. Five letters (recs) is the minimum to achieve the challenge and gain a banner - you can aim for more than that or attempt the whole alphabet!

The letters can be any sequence of letters, as long as it's consecutive (ABCDE, XYZAB, LMNOP etc.). You can choose to challenge yourself further by using only one of the categories (so work alphabetically through titles/authors/characters only). With titles, alphabetise by the first proper word - so A/An/The don't count.

You can also post recs in batches (with a cut for more than two recs per post).

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Sunday 15th June 2025.

No sign-ups needed.

Don't forget to tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions. There will be banners for those who complete the challenge (unless you would prefer not to have one.)

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask in the comments, or PM the mod. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

Claim A Character

We've not run this one for a while, so we're overdue for giving everybody a great excuse to share their favourite works for their favourite characters again!

Choose any canon character from any corner of the Doctor Who universe and then rec 5-15 works here featuring that character to complete the challenge and receive a banner.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Sat 21st December 2024.

How It Works
1. Claim your character in the comments to this post. You may claim any canonical Whoniverse character you choose, however major or minor. (As long as you can find at least 5 works you're happy to rec for them!)

Claims will be accepted on a first come, first served basis - if someone else has chosen your preferred character, please select another.

2. You can post each rec in one post, or in smaller grouped rec lists (e.g. 3 posts of five recs) per post. (Please use a cut for anything over 3 recs.)

Any works featuring your chosen character are eligible, regardless of type, other characters involved, or ships etc. - just make sure that your character features reasonably prominently.

Once you have posted at least 5 recs, if you'd like to sign up again for a new character, you're welcome to do so.

( List of Claimed characters here )

Don't forget to tag posts with "other: seasonal challenge" so that it doesn't get missed.

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and instructions. There will be banners for those who complete the challenge. If you have any other questions, please ask in the comments, or PM the mod.

thisbluespirit

Time for a new seasonal challenge - and it's

tardis_library's annual big Reccer's Bingo!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 19th September 2024.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card in the comments below. You can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded from the prompt list. (Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works you rec for each square still relate to the prompts in some way. )

2. Post your rec(s) for each square to this community. Please post recs for the same square together in the same post. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut. (1-5 recs per each prompt min/max.)

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo pattern comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card).

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thisbluespirit

Time for a new seasonal challenge! This is one we've done before, but it's fun, and I feel like we're overdue for a spot of random in our challenges:

Character Surprise!

The challenge this time is to rec 5+ fanworks for a list of five randomly generated characters I will give you. You may rec one (or more) works for each random character or simply focus on the character(s) you like best out of the selection.

How to play:

1. Comment to this post. Choose either New Who or Classic Who lists to use, or both. You can also request additional lists for Big Finish, VNAs, EDAs, SJA, Class, Torchwood or Comics & Other as you please. (Lists contain only Doctors, companions and major/recurring characters.)

2. Receive a list of five random characters. If you can't work with some of them, use the one(s) you can. If you receive a list where you really can't use any of them, just ask me to generate you another - no worries! The challenges are supposed to be fun.

3. Post 5+ recs for works featuring your character(s). They don't have to be the central focus, but they do have to some significant presence in it. If you collect multiple recs for a character in one post, don't forget to use the cut for any posts containing 3+ recs.

If you work your way through your list before the challenge ends and would like another random five, feel free to sign up again.

The challenge ends at midnight in your time zone on Sunday 16th June 2024. Good luck!

thisbluespirit

You can rec any Doctor Who related fanworks here at any time, but in addition we have monthly and seasonal challenges. Congratulations to everyone on completion of the 60th Anniversary Community Challenge - that was amazing! You're all awesome!

And now for our new seasonal challenge:

Claim A Ship

This is one we've done before, but not for a while - claim a ship in the comments here (of any kind, platonic or romantic or whatever), post at least 5 recs for your chosen ship, and receive a banner plus a smug sense of achievement and the satisfaction of sharing a bunch of excellent fanworks about one of your favourite ships with the world.

The challenge is open until Sunday 10th March 2024.

1. Claim a ship in the comments here.

2. Post recs to the comm in the usual manner. If you want to post all five (or more) in one bunch, you can! Just don't forget to use a cut. (Posting templates & guidelines can be found in the Sticky Post.) Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

3. Challenge completed! If you have recced 5 (or more) fanworks for one ship and want to claim another, feel free. <3

Claims List
1. Doctor/TARDIS -

lurking_latinist
2. Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright -

paranoidangel

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.

thisbluespirit

Time for another seasonal challenge, and once again,

tardis_library is hosting our annual Reccer's Bingo!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 10th September 2023. (This is a shorter time than usual, because our following challenge is a special one for the anniversary!)

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card in the comments below. You can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded from the prompt list. (Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works you rec for each square still relate to the prompts in some way. )

2. Post your rec(s) for each square to this community. Please post recs for the same square together in the same post. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut. (1-5 recs per each prompt min/max.)

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo pattern comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card).

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thisbluespirit

Time for

tardis_library's next seasonal challenge, which will be the first of our special anniversary challenges!

60th Anniversary Manifesto Challenge

"So... all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will - where do you want to start?"

Now that the 60th is approaching, it's the perfect time to run a manifesto challenge! For this one, we'll all be show-casing Doctor Who as a whole. Over the coming few months, we'll probably want to celebrate, explain or sell Doctor Who to others in fandom and manifestos can be a brilliant way to do that.

So, we're going to have fun, celebrate our show and some of its amazing fanworks and hopefully also create manifestos that will be helpful resources for ourselves and others in the fandom when we're trying to explain our love for this most random and wonderful of TV shows!

Don't be put off by the broad take on this - it's fine to keep your manifesto as simple and short as you want. Essays are welcome but not at all essential.

You could pick favourite fanworks that you think work as great intros and write up your blurb around them, or pick some that can be read without canon knowledge, or similar themed rec-sets, or maybe talk about your favourite part(s) of the show, using recs that showcase those, or ways to get into the fandom, or how you got into it yourself. What is it you love the most about the show - its go-anywhere nature, the Doctor and their companions, time-travel, the humour, the monsters, the edge of magic? Focus on that! Or do a brief overview, plus one rec per era. Be as serious or as light as you wish. It really is up to you what you want to do and I'm not going to be prescriptive about it.

To count for the challenge, your manifesto must include at least one short paragraph of write-up or 'blurb' or meta about Doctor Who itself plus 3-15 recs (min-max), each with at least a brief line as to why you're reccing them. The manifesto can also include images, gifs, vid embeds (fanvids/clips/trailers/reactions), episode/audio/book (etc) recs, links, related resources, communities, fandom sites etc. as you please. There are no minimums or maximums as to word length but you will need to fit it all in one post, so if you manage to hit the Dreamwidth post limit, it's time to cut back at least some of the squee!

"Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?"

( general info about Manifestos if wanted )

How It Works
1. You don't need to sign-up for this challenge, but if you want to unofficially in the comments for accountability or to talk about your ideas for tackling it, please do!

Don't worry about duplicating recs or anything like that for this challenge.

2. When ready, post your manifesto. You can post it any time you choose between now and the 16th of July. Please do try not to all post them on the last day! Unlike our usual challenges, you can put it all into one single post (although if you feel inspired you're very welcome to make more than one manifesto!)

Please use the coding below or equivalent, so that your manifesto has a brief header of its own and each individual fanwork rec still has an appropriate header for info. (The coding allows for five recs, but cut/c+p as desired.)

Manifesto Title: 
Creator: [your <user name=[joe_bloggs]>]
Notes/warnings/spoilers

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Title: 
Creator: (e.g. one or more of: <user name= [username]> / <a href=[link]>[username]</a>/ <user name=[username] site=ao3.org>/ <user name=[username] site=livejournal.com> / <user name=[username] site=fanfiction.net>/ <user name=[username] site=tumblr.com>)
Rating: 
Word Count/Length/Size: 
Creator's Summary: 
Characters/Pairings: 
Warnings/Notes:

Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

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Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

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Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

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Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

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Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

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Reasons for reccing:

Link: [insert link here]

The challenge ends on Sunday July 16th 2023.

If you have any other questions about this challenge, just ask in the comments, or PM the mod.

thisbluespirit

2023 is going to be the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and

tardis_library will be having some special challenges to tie in with that as the year progresses!

Our first challenge of the year is a simple but fun one we last did 2 years ago - but it has the possibility to enable celebrating the wideness of the show and its universe, so I think it's a good place to start. Yes, it's back, it's ...

Character Surprise!

The challenge this time is to rec 5+ fanworks for a list of five randomly generated characters I will give you. You may rec one (or more) for each random character or simply use your favourite out of the five, or any combination in between.

How to play:

1. Comment to this post. Choose either New Who or Classic Who lists to use, or both. You can also request for me to add Big Finish, novels, SJA, Class, Torchwood or Comics & Other as you please. (Lists contain only Doctors, companions and other significant/recurring characters.)

2. Receive a list of five random characters. If you can't work with one or more of them, simply use those you can. In the (hopefully unlikely) event that you receive a list where you really can't use any of the characters, let me know and I'll randomise a new list for you - no need to worry!

3. Post recs for works that feature your character(s) in some way - they don't even have to be the central focus of the work to meet the challenge. There must be some recognisable connection, though! etc. etc. - Fun and profit for all.

If you work your way through your list before the challenge ends and would like another go, feel free.

The challenge ends at midnight in your time zone on Mon 10th April 2023. Good luck!

thisbluespirit

Time for

tardis_library's new Seasonal Challenge! This time, your mission, should you accept it, is:

Your Favourites

This one's simple and allows for a bit of flexibility, depending on how you choose to tackle it.

Simply rec us 5+ works by your favourite creator(s), your favourite works/media, or favourite character(s)/ship(s)/team TARDSI/era(s) and so on.

You can choose one particular favourite [whatever] and rec 5 works for that character/creator/medium/ship/era/trope etc etc, or a work for each of a Top 5+ list (e.g. recs for 5+ Fave Companions or Tropes or Ships etc., you get the drill). Or you could work through your favourite of different categories in the same way. (e.g. One rec each for your favourite Character/Doctor/Companion/Ship/Rare ship/Episode/Minor Character/Spin-off etc.). It's up to you!

No sign-up is needed to take part in the Your Favourites challenge, but if you want to comment below to say what you're planning for the challenge, you're very welcome!

You can start posting any time now this post is up, and the deadline for completing five or more recs (and earning a banner if you want one) is Saturday 7th January 2023.

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your recs! ♥

thisbluespirit

It's the best time of the year! Yes, that's right,

tardis_library is hosting our annual Reccer's Bingo again!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 25th September 2022.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card in the comments below. You can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded from the prompt list. (Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works you rec for each square still relate to the prompts in some way. )

2. Post your rec(s) for each square to this community. Please post recs for the same square together in the same post. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut. (1-5 recs per each prompt min/max.)

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo pattern comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card).

(

hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are pretty comprehensive if you want to check out all the possible variations.)

Once you're done, you can claim a brand new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see user name=hc_bingo> link above for examples - e.g. reccing works that meet multiple prompts simultaneously etc.)

Treat recs for extras in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each individual fill/rec/rec set posted to the comm as one post.

( Example Card & Prompt List )

If you have any other questions about the challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

Slightly late - my apologies - but the TV Tropes Challenge is now closed and it's time for a new one! Thanks to

felis and

lurking_latinist for taking part (I don't make anyone having reached 5 recs for it, but let me know if this is just a tag failure & I'll provide banners!)

Claim A Character

We've not run this one for a while, so it's about time to let everybody share their favourite works for their favourite characters again!

The rules are pretty simple - claim any canon character from any corner of the Doctor Who universe and rec 5-15 works featuring that character. Anyone who completes the challenge will receive a banner.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Weds 22nd June 2022.

How It Works
1. Claim your character here. You may claim any canonical Whoniverse character you choose, however major or minor. (As long as you can find at least 5 works you're happy to rec for them!)

Claims will be accepted on a first come, first served basis - if someone else has chosen your preferred character, please select another. (There's nothing to stop you posting additional regular recs for your fave, after all!)

2. You can post each rec in one post, or in smaller grouped rec lists (e.g. 3 posts of five recs) per post. (Please use a cut for anything over 3 recs.)

Any works featuring your chosen character are eligible, regardless of type, other characters involved, or ships etc. - just make sure that your character features reasonably prominently.

Once you have posted at least 5 recs, if you'd like to sign up again for a new character, you're welcome to do so. More recs are wonderful!

( List of Claimed characters here )

As ever, don't forget to tag posts with "other: seasonal challenge" so that it doesn't get missed when I tot up the results at the end of the challenge.

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions. There will be banners for those who complete the challenge.

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask in the comments, or PM the mod. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

Time for our new seasonal challenge here at

tardis_library!

This time we'll be going a bit more random again, for the

TV Tropes Challenge

How do you take part? Simple - go to TV Tropes. To select your random tropes to work with click on the Random Trope button at the top of the screen. (It's a blue button left-of-centre that says "Random Trope" on it.) Randomize yourself 1-5 tropes. Post at least 5 fanworks that match (in some way) the 1-5 tropes you were given - and congratulations! Fame, glory, of bunch of excellent recs, and a shiny banner are all yours!

TV Tropes can throw up some very random things indeed, though, so don't worry! You have some leeway with this one. The ideal is to randomize 5 tropes and hopefully you will have at least 1 you can work with from that selection, but if TV Tropes isn't playing ball:

Don't forget you can interpret your tropes all as widely as you like with no need to be strict or literal about it. Plus, TV Tropes may well have some examples of Whoniverse uses that might help get you started.

Equally, allowing yourself a few free passes in the mix is fair enough! Try to keep to as few clicks of the random button as you can, but it's the time of year for being a bit laid back and flexible, and it's not like your mod can tell how many times you clicked it anyway. As long as you get 1-5 random tropes to play with, it's fine.

Post a comment here with links to the resulting 1-5 tropes you intend to use by way of signing up & also for your own reference.

Have fun - and good luck!

The challenge is open until Tues 22nd March 2021.

How to complete the challenge:

1. Select your randomized tropes from TV Tropes as above.

2. Post recs to the comm in the usual way. If you want to post all five (or more) in one post, you can! Just don't forget to use a cut. If you want to make multiple recs per trope (if doing more than one), that's fine.

(Posting templates & guidelines can be found in the Sticky Post.) Tag each post with other: seasonal challenge.

3. Challenge completed! If you want to carry on and rec for 1-5 more Tropes, simply repeat the process.

tardis_library apologises in advances for any particularly weird tropes or time lost during this challenge, but will not be held liable for either. ;-p

thisbluespirit

Reccer's bingo is now over for this year! Thanks to everyone who took part & I'll be totting up the numbers presently & returning with banners.

Our new seasonal challenge is:

Claim A Ship

Simply claim a ship (of any kind, platonic or romantic or whatever), rec at least 5 works for your chosen ship, and receive a banner along with sense of accomplishment and the satisfaction of sharing a bunch of excellent fanworks with the world.

The challenge is open until Sunday 19th December 2021.

1. Claim a ship in the comments here.

2. Post recs to the comm in the usual manner. If you want to post all five (or more) in one bunch, you can! Just don't forget to use a cut. (Posting templates & guidelines can be found in the Sticky Post.) Tag each post with other: seasonal challenge.

3. Challenge completed! If you have recced 5 (or more) fanworks for one ship and want to move onto a second, you are welcome to claim another and repeat the process.

Claims List
1. Martha Jones/Harry Sullivan -

paranoidangel
2. Five/Tegan -

thisbluespirit
3. Doctor/Romana -

lurking_latinist

thisbluespirit

Time for

tardis_library's latest Seasonal Challenge to kick off - and it's another round of our annual summer bingo challenge.

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 22 September 2021.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card here. The prompt list is below, and you can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded. Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works still relate to them in some way.

2. Post your rec(s) for each square in the same post to this community. (1-5 recs per individual prompt max.; and post all recs for one square in the same post.) Don't wait to complete your bingo, or post recs/rec lists to your own journal. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut to save people's reading lists.

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - usually five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card). (

hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are pretty comprehensive if you want to check out all the possible variations.)

4. Sit back & bask in your achievement, or claim a brand new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see

hc_bingo for examples - e.g. reccing works that meet multiple squares simultaneously etc.)

Extras should be treated in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each fill/rec/rec set being posted to the comm as one post.

( Example Card & Prompt List )

If you have any other questions about the challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

Our current seasonal challenge, Choose Your Era, has now ended! The next challenge will be the regular

tardis_library summer reccer's bingo, so standby for that.

In the meantime, congratulations to

paranoidangel who completed the Choose Your Era challenge. Here's your banner:

thisbluespirit

Our Character Surprise challenge is now over and it's time for a new one.

Choose Your Era

This one is pretty straightforward - simply choose an era of the show (or spin-off or branch of the EU) that you want to rec for and then make 5+ recs here to earn yourself a banner.

How to play:

1. Comment here to choose your era/spin-off/subdivision/type of EU range of your choice - e.g. Fifth Doctor Era, Eleventh Doctor Era, Torchwood, EDAs, Gallifrey. You can narrow it down further if you like (e.g. Eight Doctor BFAs, Eleven + Ponds Era, S1-2 Torchwood, SJA Jacksons era etc.) You do need to make a claim here, but there are no limits on claims per era.

2. Rec fanworks featuring characters and any other elements of that era here.

3. Profit!

Claims
1. Eighth Doctor Era -

thisbluespirit
2. Fifth Doctor Era -

romanajo123
3. Seventh Doctor + Ace -

paranoidangel

The challenge ends at midnight in your time zone on Tues 22nd June 2021.

thisbluespirit

The Character Surprise Challenge is now official ended!

Congratulations to

paranoidangel who completed the challenge! Here is your banner:

Thanks to everyone else who took part -

felis,

eve11,

romanajo123 all posted several wonderful recs for the challenge. *\o/*

Our next challenge will be posted very shortly. (And if I have missed anybody's entries or miscounted anything, please let me know and if a banner is owing, I will make amends asap!)

thisbluespirit

Our Rare Pairings challenge is now over (banners to follow presently), so it's time for a new one. Hopefully this will be a fun and simple one to round off the year!

~~Fondant~~ Character Surprise!

The challenge this time is to rec 5+ fanworks for a list of five randomly generated characters I will give you. You may rec one (or more) for each random character or simply use your favourite out of the five, or any combination in between.

How to play:

1. Comment to this post. Choose either New Who or Classic Who lists to use, or both. You can also request for me to add Big Finish, novels, SJA, Class, Torchwood or Comics & Other as you please. (Lists contain only Doctors, companions and other significant/recurring characters.)

2. Receive a list of five random characters. If you can't work with one or more of them, simply use those you can and ignore the other(s). In the (hopefully unlikely) event that you receive a list where you really can't use any of the characters, let me know and I'll randomise a new list for you - no need to worry!

3. Post recs for works that feature your character(s) in some way - they don't even have to be the central focus of the work to meet the challenge. There must be some recognisable connection, though! etc. etc. - Fun and profit for all.

If you work your way through your list before the challenge ends and would like another, feel free to request one.

The challenge ends at midnight in your time zone on Mon 22nd March 2021. Good luck! I look forward to seeing what we all come up with.

thisbluespirit

Time for a new challenge here at

tardis_library! Our regular monthly theme continues and, of course, you may share any great work you find here at any time, no themes or challenges needed.

Rare Pairings Challenge

To complete the challenge you need to rec works for at least 5 "rare pairings." The challenge closes at midnight your time zone on Sunday 20 December 2020.

Rare pairings for these purposes can include:

* rare romantic or platonic ships of any kind
* rare TARDIS teams
* rare/unusual character team-ups/ships (whether multi-era, via crossover, or focus on 2+ characters of a team/line-up who don't usually get highlighted together)
* rare/unusual technical mash-ups - vid subject + song/type of music/art subject + style (etc.) combinations (or equivalent for other media).

Recs can be random or you can work your way through one era/character/spin-off if you prefer.

You may make multiple individual recs or small rec sets per pairing or even post one giant rare pairing rec list for all your pairings, but to complete this challenge you do need to rec works for 5+ pairings (so 5 works, 5 pairings earns you your banner and a general sense of accomplishment, ditto 6 recs across 5 pairings or more, but 5 recs covering 4 pairings will not, although it will still make the world a happier place by reccing great works to the comm. XD)

If the "pairing" is not obvious from header info, please spell it out to help the mod keep count. (♥)

"Rare" can differ wildly from New Who and Torchwood compared to Classic Who, other spin-offs and Big Finish ranges, so please use your best judgement according to fandom, but if an established pairing has reached 1000+ it doesn't count as rare here. Specific incarnations of ships may still count, even if the generic form is too large - e.g. Doctor/Rose is too large; One/Rose is not.) However, the comm exists to share excellent fanworks - if you regard it as rare (and it's not got 1000+ works on AO3), then it's rare.

( Current top ten relationship tags for Doctor Who & related on AO3 )

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments or PM me.

There is no need to sign up for this challenge, but if you want to state your intent (or chooose a theme) here for accountability, go right ahead.

As ever, I hope you have fun - and help shine a light on some of the rarer corners of our fandom!

thisbluespirit

Our Reccer's Bingo challenge is now over. Thank you to everyone who signed up and took part. Banners for those who made 5+ recs and completed their bingo are below the cut.

The next seasonal challenge will be up shortly.

( Banners for Paranoidangel, felis, and romanajo123 )

Congratulations and thank you once again for all your marvellous recs!

thisbluespirit

Reccer's bingo returns for 2020!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 24 September 2020.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card here. The prompt list is below, and you can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded. Feel free to interpret prompts as widely as you please, as long as the works still relate to them in some way.

2. Post your rec(s) for each square in the same post to this community. (1-5 recs per individual prompt max.; and post all recs for one square in the same post.) Don't wait to complete your bingo, or post recs/rec lists to your own journal. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut to save people's reading lists.

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - usually five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card). (

hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are pretty comprehensive about bingo types if you want to check out the variations you could use.)

4. Sit back, bask in your achievement, or claim a new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see the

hc_bingo links for typical examples - e.g. reccing works that meet multiple squares simultaneously etc.) Extras should be treated in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each fill/rec/rec set being posted to the comm as one post.

( Example Card & Prompt List )

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will also continue.

thisbluespirit

The current Seasonal Challenge is now closed!

Congratulations to

romanajo123 (who recced from E-M),

felis (who recced O-X) and

paranoidangel (who covered A-Q)! Thank you so much for taking part - your banners are under the cut.

( Achievement banners under here )

The next Seasonal Challenge will be our annual Reccer's Bingo and the post should be up either today or tomorrow - apologies for the delay.

thisbluespirit

Congratulations to

gettinggreyer,

paranoidangel and

felis, who all posted more than five recs for their chosen characters! And thanks to

oldestcharm for also taking part.

Achievement banners for the accomplished trio are under the cut:

( Banners )

thisbluespirit

Our Claim a Character Challenge is now over (banners to follow shortly), and here's

tardis_library's latest Seasonal Challenge:

Alphabet Soup

This one's pretty simple - post 5-26 fanwork recs for consecutive letters of the alphabet to complete the challenge and receive a banner. The alphabetical aspect may refer to title, creator, or character(s) featured in the fanwork. Five letters (recs) is the minimum to achieve the challenge - you can aim for more than that or attempt the whole alphabet!

The letters can be any sequence of letters, as long as it's consecutive (ABCDE, XYZAB, LMNOP etc.). You can choose to challenge yourself further by using only one of the categories (so work alphabetically through titles/authors/characters only). With titles, alphabetise by the first proper word - so A/An/The don't count.

You can also post recs in batches (with a cut for more than two recs per post).

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Monday 22nd June 2020.

No sign-ups needed.

Don't forget to tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions. There will be banners for those who complete the challenge.

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask in the comments, or PM the mod. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

thisbluespirit

My apologies for slipping up at the beginning of the week, but thanks to everyone who took part in the Mind the Gap challenge. I'll do any reward banners at the same time as the end of year monthly theme banners in the New Year. In the meantime, here is

tardis_library's new seasonal challenge:

Claim A Character

We're giving you another chance to claim a favourite character and show them off via shiny recs. The rules are pretty simple - claim any canon character from any corner of the Doctor Who universe and rec 5-15 works featuring that character.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on Friday 13th March 2020, although please wait until your claim has been approved to start posting.

How It Works
1. Claim your character here. You may claim any canonical Whoniverse character you choose, however major or minor.

The only caveats are:

* you can't claim a character that someone else has already claimed (it will be first come, first served in the interests of variety)

* purely on a practical level, make sure you feel confident you can find at least 5 existing works (of any type) you would be happy to rec for the character you've chosen!

2. You may post each rec individually, or in smaller grouped rec lists (e.g. 3 posts of five recs) in one post. If you make 3+ recs per post, please remember to use a cut.

Any works featuring your chosen character are eligible - just make sure that they feature fairly prominently in the works you rec for the challenge. It's fine if other characters are included.

You may include ships featuring the character or not as you please. Crossovers, fusions, or AUs featuring your character are also fine - whatever you feel showcases or explores this character in a way you think people here will enjoy!

Don't forget to tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions. There will be banners for those who complete the challenge.

As an alternative option to vary things up a little for those who would prefer it - you may, once you've posted five recs for your first claim, make a second claim (and a third once you've reached ten) and post 15 recs for 3 different characters (or 10 for 2).

(Do not try to claim three characters in your initial sign up, though - only the first will be allocated to you, to keep things fair.)

( List of Claimed characters here )

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask in the comments, or PM the mod. General reccing and our monthly themes will continue as usual.

I'll be away 21st-28th Dec, but I'll try to okay claims (even if I don't edit the post) asap - but if there is any delay, bear with me, I'll catch up as soon as I'm back at my own PC.

thisbluespirit

Time for our new seasonal challenge:

Mind the Gap!
The aim for this one is to try and highlight areas of the Whoniverse that might have been a little neglected on

tardis_library so far and fill in or narrow some of the 'gaps' between things.

The criteria isn't rarity as such, merely characters, creators, fandoms, media and pairings etc. that haven't made so much of a showing here. (See below for details.) New reccers are also encouraged to make a post, as this will also count towards meeting the challenge.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 15 December 2019.

How it works:
1. Unlike most of our seasonal challenges, no sign-ups are needed! (If you would like to sign-up for accountability or to claim one particular 'neglected' category, you're welcome to do so in the comments.)

2. Post at least 5 recs that fit at least ONE of the following criteria. (You can check any of your chosen rec subjects against the Tag List. Obviously, these may increase as other people post, so keep an eye on them, though don't worry too much - and nobody will be penalised for any tag failures on my part!)

* Characters: Post recs for characters who have less than 10 (tag) uses.

* Creators: 2 or less uses.

* Fandom: Anything other than New & Classic Who.

* Medium: Anything not Fic, Art or Vid - i.e. meta, podfic, fanmixes, graphics (edited & themed in some way - icon sets, (non-basic) gif-sets, old school picspams, book covers & banners, layouts) & anything else (so far in the other category we've had Tea, interactive games and fan audios) - craft, baking etc.) Probably the major categories we're lacking any recs for currently are podfic & graphics.

* Pairings: 5 or less uses.

* Reccers: 3 or less recs. So if you haven't yet made any recs, simply making two posts for any fanworks you love will earn you 3 out of your 5 recs to complete the challenge!

* Type: The lowest categories here are multi/other (so poly, xeno, nonbinary, AI or anything else not included in the main categories), slash and femslash.

As noted above, recs only need to fit ONE of these at a time. Nobody is has to try and find something that matches on every category! It also doesn't matter which other characters or pairings might also feature in the work, as long as the chosen subject is fairly prominent. (i.e. Nardole has only 3 uses, so a fanwork featuring him would be eligible, but there's no problem if it also features Bill and Twelve who are over the challenge minimum. etc. etc.!)

We're still fundamentally about sharing stuff we like, whatever that may be.

3. Don't forget to tag your rec post with "other: seasonal challenge so that it doesn't get missed.

If you have any other questions about the challenge, please ask in the comments here, at the general comm sticky, or PM the mod. As ever, participation in challenges is entirely optional and general reccing and our monthly themes continue as normal.

thisbluespirit

Our current seasonal challenge Reccer's Bingo is now over! Thanks to everyone who signed up and took part, and our new challenge will be up shortly.

In the meantime, congratulations to

felis,

paranoidangel, &

paynesgrey, who all achieved a bingo (or more!). Here are your achievement banners:

( Banners under the cut )

With honourable mentions to

gettinggreyer and

auroracloud for recs posted. (If I have miscounted anyone's numbers, please let me know! I did my best using the tags and reccer's notes.)

I shall post the next challenge soon & in the meantime, our current monthly theme of the Fifth Doctor's Era or angst is ongoing - and of course,

tardis_library is always open for sharing any and all of the good stuff you've found! Please keep up the good work.

thisbluespirit

Reccer's bingo returns!

Reccer's bingo!
Sign up for a bingo card, rec 1-5 works per square till you achieve a bingo.

The challenge is open from now until midnight in your timezone on 14 September 2019.

How it works:
1. Sign up for your card here. The prompt list is below, and you can ask for up to 10 prompts to be excluded. You can interpret all prompts as freely as you wish.

2. Post your rec(s) for each square in the same post to this community. (1-5 recs per individual prompt max.; and post all recs for one square in the same post.) Don't wait to complete your bingo, or post recs/rec lists to your own journal. If you have 3+ recs in one post, please use a cut to save people's reading lists.

Tag each post with "other: seasonal challenge."

See the Intro & Guidelines post for posting template and general instructions.

3. Continue to post fills until you have achieved a bingo - usually five squares in a row in any direction, but any recognised bingo comprising 5+ squares is fine, up to and including a Blackout (filling all the squares on your card). (

hc_bingo's guidelines on how to achieve a bingo are pretty comprehensive about bingo types if you want to check out all the variations you could use.)

4. Once you have completed your bingo reply to your original claim on this post, linking to your 5+ bingo posts. You will receive a banner.

You may then bask in your achievement, claim a new card, or use your original card for extras (again, see the

hc_bingo links for typical examples - e.g. combining squares etc.) Extras should be treated in the same way as the original bingo squares, with each fill/rec/rec set being posted to the comm as one post.

( Prompt List )

If you have any other questions about this challenge, please ask here or at the general comm sticky post. General reccing and our monthly themes will also continue.