tardis_library | Entries tagged with ch: eighth doctor

Title: We Had a Place in That Garden
Creator:

ChevalierPelerin
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 9,262 words.
Creator's Summary: The Doctor finds out Charley has made a name for herself since she left. Post-Canon/AU Reunion
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair.
Warnings/Notes: None. The fic is archive-locked.

Reasons for reccing: I'm still longing for Big Finish to give us an Eight and Charley reunion, so this fic, which does just that beautifully, made my day and I had to share it! The characterisation and dialogue is note perfect, and it's sharply observed, fun, and everything I'd hope for from these two getting a chance to meet up again and finally discover the truth about how they parted.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63885079/chapters/163842631

romanajo123

Title: The Worst Doctor Who Story Ever
Creator: Astrid
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 608
Creator's Summary: For April Fools Day, I present something I wrote last year as a parody of all the bad Doctor Who fics (well, bad fics in general). I'm very sorry about this, I really am.

Characters/Pairings:  Ace McShane, Adric, Leela, Mel Bush, Peri Brown, Romana II, The Doctor (8th), The Doctor (Other), The Master (Other), The Rani, The Silurians, The Valeyard, The Yeti
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Yes, that's the actual title. It's a parody of bad fic: the funniest and most accurate parody I think I've ever read. I honestly don't know how much I can say here without spoiling it. But we all have come across fic like this at some point.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

romanajo123

Title: AU Meme: Liv Chenka
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 888
Creator's Summary:10 AU scenarios for Liv Chenka, written for Persiflage in a Dreamwidth meme.
Characters/Pairings: Liv Chenka, Molly O'Sullivan, Seventh Doctor, Kiy Uvanov (from Kaldor City), Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the Seasonal challenge; character is Liv. Alternate Universes can be really fun and fascinating. And these are brilliant. (Especially love the Coffee Shop and Fairy Tales ones) . They sound in character.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/12306720

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romanajo123

Title: Sam's New Year
Creator:

Shivver
Rating: General Audience
Word Count/Length/Size: 10013
Creator's Summary: Sam sits on a doorstep, watching the celebrants heading for the ball drop in Times Square. He isn't joining them. He has more important things to do, like figure out where his next meal is coming from.
Characters/Pairings:
First Doctor
Second Doctor
Fourth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
Seventh Doctor
Eighth Doctor
Ninth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
Susan Foreman
Jamie McCrimmon
Victoria Waterfield
Leela (Doctor Who)
Nyssa of Traken
Ace McShane
Charley Pollard
Rose Tyler

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
Happy New Year! This is a wonderful read. Sometimes it's nice to see the Doctors helping in small ways: like here just making sure someone in need can make it through the night. Everyone is IC and it has just that right bit of heartwarming (and bittersweetness)

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13169499/chapters/30121200

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lurking_latinist

Title: Remembrance
Creator:

BiJane
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3415 words
Creator's Summary:

The TARDIS on the Doctor.

Stitch it together. Weave a narrative from all the moments. That happened before that, which would have prevented that… It’s not simultaneous, not to them.

Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (multiple regenerations)/The Doctor's TARDIS, mentioned Romana and River Song
Warnings/Notes: (none)

Reasons for reccing: For the Claim a Ship challenge. This is a narrative of the Doctor's relationship with his TARDIS told from the TARDIS's perspective, and it's splendidly nonlinear, using the idea that the TARDIS experiences all her adventures with the Doctor simultaneously. It tells her perspective on various stories from Classic and New Who, synthesizing them into a big arc of their journey together, and it does some really fun things with tenses and nonlinear storytelling.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13623612

thisbluespirit

Title: Memory
Creator:

Persiflage
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3477 words
Creator's Summary: A decade after she left UNIT Liz encounters the Doctor again. (Set after 'The Girl That Never Was' for Eight.)
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For 1991, the year that saw the release of Spearhead From Space on VHS and the deaths of both Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis, two of the people responsible for the Cybermen, a lovely piece that features Liz Shaw and Cybermen, or the after-effects of meeting them.

Eight runs into Liz and they both get a chance to discuss past trauma and lost friends - it's a thoughtful, excellently done vignette for the two of them - they make a great combination.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31069364 (Archive-locked)

At Teaspoon (public): https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=32598

romanajo123

Title: The Dying Days- The Morning After
Creator: Gary Merchant
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 773
Creator's Summary: The Doctor and Bernice have a heart-to heart.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Bernice Summerfield
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1997 (when the book was published). I haven't read The Dying Days but I *am* aware of this rather infamous bit at the end. And the fic based on it. This is a nice Missing Scene, in character for them both and definitely sweet. (I also won't deny I let out an audible giggle at the last line)

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

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quailfence

Title: Untitled
Creator:

johannesviii
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: two-panel comic
Creator's Summary: A (very underrated) scene from the (very underrated) audio Seasons of Fear.
Characters/Pairings: Roman guards, the Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for the audio

Reasons for reccing: For 2002, when the audio was released. A great, funny rendition of a great, funny scene

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valoise

Title: New Shoes
Creator: Nancy Blackett AKA

odessie
Rating: Gen
Length/Size: 1:07 minutes
Creator's Summary: These shoes! They fit *perfectly*.
Characters/Pairings Eighth Doctor, Grace Holloway
Warnings/Notes: None
Reasons for reccing: For 1996 this wonderful introduction to the Eighth Doctor

Links:
YouTube
Dreamwidth
AO3

romanajo123

Title: Communication Breakdown
Creator: Gary Merchant
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 2641
Creator's Summary: A young couple visit a Marriage Guidance Councillor
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (8th), Grace Holloway
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1999: due to that's when the TV movie takes place and this fic references bits of it. This is a good Character Study, not just for the Doctor and Grace but for the narrator . Well- written and in character.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

thisbluespirit

Title: Extraordinary
Creator: scarlettgirl
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1067 words
Creator's Summary: Lucie Miller, for just a moment, wishes she had been that girl.
Characters/Pairings: Lucie Miller, Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: set immediately post-Human Resources.

Reasons for reccing: For 2006, the year that Lucie Miller first appeared, a wonderful little tag to the end of her first season of adventures with the Doctor. Lucie, in the aftermath of Human Resources, wishes, for just one moment, that she had been 'special'. It's such a perfectly done and moving little character moment between the two - definitely one of those fics that I've packed away in my mind into being absolutely canon.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=21508

paranoidangel

Title: and it takes all my strength not to dig you up from the ground in which you lay (you were the greatest thing and now you're just a memory)
Creator:

fortunefavourstheyogurt
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2619
Creator's Summary: Charley Pollard bumps into the Sixth Doctor again sometime after they part ways.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 2001, when Charley's first audio is released. It's a beautifully angsty fic where Charley has all the feelings and the Doctor has none because he doesn't remember her.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43068216

lurking_latinist

Title: untitled
Creator:

Heimeldat /

Heimeldat
Rating: unrated (I'd give it a strong T for blood)
Word Count/Length/Size: 1 painting
Creator's Summary: a realistic digital painting from the climax of Vampire Science.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Joanna Harris
Warnings/Notes: blood and injury

Reasons for reccing: For the Reccer's Bingo square "injury/illness." This is an excellent rendition of Eight doing what he apparently does best--defeating villains by allowing horrific injury to be inflicted upon himself. Heimeldat's really good at capturing what's compelling about these angsty moments, and I particularly love this painting because it gives a face to Joanna Harris, an otherwise text-only character.

It also completes a line in my Reccer's Bingo!

Link: https://heimeldat.tumblr.com/post/723234722401107968/i-finished-this-painting-im-sooooo-happy-with

lurking_latinist

Title: The Knots that Bind
Creator:

glompcat
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 2134 words
Creator's Summary: Getting tied up was an occupational hazard, but this was knot how Romana expected her day to go...
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Romana II, followed by Eighth Doctor/Romana II
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: For the "Accidental Marriage" square in my Reccers' Bingo. It's a cute and pretty fluffy story where some guards tie up the Doctor and Romana (as usual) but accidentally use a ceremonial knot used in Gallifreyan weddings. They decide it doesn't have to count... but then, on the other hand, it could... Lots of very in-character banter and fun Gallifreyan worldbuilding.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34919116/chapters/86954761

Title: Renewal
Creator:

CeruleanTactician
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 3657 words
Creator's Summary:

The Doctor and Charley accidentally get married after a misunderstanding on an alien planet.

It doesn’t have to mean anything. Not unless they want it to.

Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Also for the "Accidental Marriage" square. Eight and Charley were made for this trope, with their spectacularly ambiguous will-they-won't-they-are-they-aren't-they relationship, and this fic hits all the right notes, with the Doctor hilariously blasé about their accidental marriage and Charley unsure what to make of any of it. The alien planet is beautifully described, too. And the epilogue is adorable!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40875777

Title: Hitch in the Proceedings
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 530 words
Creator's Summary: Seven, Ace, a mysterious alien rite, and sadly no explosions.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: If Seven and Ace meet a trope, the trope is likely to end up in flaming bits all over the place... A cute and hilarious platonic subversion of the accidental marriage trope. I especially appreciated the punchline.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5669533

romanajo123

Title: Ephemera
Creator:

lurking_latinist
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 200
Creator's Summary: He found traces of them sometimes.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor , mentions of past Four/Romana
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the monthly theme. This is a lovely portrait of the Eighth Doctor in a very hard place in his life . And anything with Eight and amnesia just seems to fit.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/36016030

paranoidangel

Title: Today's Not Over Yet
Creator:

misscam
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 994 words
Creator's Summary: Tomorrow, the world is ending, and today, he is happy. [Eighth Doctor with special guest stars.]
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Rose Tyler
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's slightly unusually written, but it really helps to capture the Doctor's mood. There's a lot of moments that recall other points of Doctor Who canon.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/177185

felis

Manifesto Title: Mini-Manifesto: Identity, Continuity, and Change
Creator:

felis
Notes/warnings/spoilers: Stays pretty vague, but contains a few details regarding the Tenth and Twelfth Doctors in the recs section.

( Identity, Continuity, and Change )

merryghoul

Title: Christmas Cutaway
Creator:

calapine, Calapine on Teaspoon, Calapine on YouTube
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count 1195
Creator's Summary: The Doctor and Grace at Christmas.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Grace Holloway
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Short, fluffy fic where the Eighth Doctor and Grace spend a Christmas together.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23734261

ceruleantactician

Title: A Very Divisive Colour
Creator:

Charamei
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 2396
Creator's Summary: AU: Time Lords rule the universe and Daleks are freedom fighters. Dalek Freda gets stuck babysitting Davros' pet renegade Time Lord, the Doctor, and before she knows it he's saved her life and uncovered her greatest secret.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Original Dalek Character
Warnings/Notes: None.
Reasons for reccing: This is such a fun and unexpectedly sweet fic about an alternate universe where Time Lords are the universal conquerors and the Daleks are the good guys, but the Doctor's still the Doctor and wants to help in whatever way he can. I love how Eight manages to keep his compassion and optimism even in this darker AU. And Freda the Dalek is such a fun character and I would read a million different fics about her and the Doctor's adventures right now.

Note: This is my first rec for the seasonal challenge "Character Surprise" for the Eighth Doctor.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/935761

lurking_latinist

A rec! And on theme and all!

Title: Emergency Powers
Creator: Pete Galey
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 74,123 words
Creator's Summary: Following his seventh regeneration, the Doctor's previous persona finds himself in the mental realm where his six predecessors live. Soon, the discovery of a body sows the seeds of suspicion and mistrust - with grave consequences for the world outside.
Characters/Pairings: The versions of One through Seven that live inside Eight's mind (Seven is the main character); Eight and Sam
Warnings/Notes: I was jarred by one moment in which a dark appearance is associated with evil in the context of a folkloric devil figure. Unrelatedly, if you're a Third Doctor fan, you may feel he's not really in character in this.

Reasons for reccing: It's a twisty, adventurous, novel-length plot that really makes use of several classic versions of the Doctor, each as a character in his own right--especially Seven and Four and one other whose form of intervention in the plot is a spoiler. The worldbuilding of the mindscape in which the ex-Doctors dwell is fascinating--it feels Gallifreyan and appropriately weird without vanishing up itself--especially in the context of The Power of the Doctor (despite this being written in 2009). It's fun to spot all the references, but the story is far more than just a vehicle for references--it explores what makes the Doctor the Doctor. Angsty, funny, uplifting? I found it uplifting.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=32683

thisbluespirit

Title: Regeneration
Creator: Andriy Griffin
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: 4.48 mins
Creator's Summary: This October sees the next great change in Doctor Who, so this is to remember all the times we've said a tearful farewell to our beloved Doctors. In tribute to all the amazing people who've worked on this show on & off for the last 60 years, and in memory to Bill, Pat and Jon, the three who started it all. Hope you enjoy.
Characters/Pairings: Doctors 1-13, plus various other companions and villains.
Warnings/Notes: Regeneration stories, so (temporary) death etc, some guns & gunfire.

Reasons for reccing: It's Doctor Who's anniversary - 59 years old today! So I had to rec a multi-Doctor vid, and this one fitted the bill perfectly. It focuses on the goodbyes (and hellos) of regeneration stories over the decades, featuring all the Doctors and a good many companions and adversaries (especially those in the Regeneration episodes), and at the end brings us right up to date with Thirteen. And isn't one of the greatest strengths of this old show of ours, the notion of regeneration - the ability to continually change and grow that's let it carry on for decades, and even regenerate itself after what looked like the end? This is a beautiful exploration of that, in loss and grief - and the joy of renewal.

Happy birthday, Doctor Who! ♥

Link: https://youtu.be/9Kh1hlYajZ4

paranoidangel

For the Daleks square on my bingo card

Title: Scene from Time War: Just a Minute
Creator: (

RobertSaysThis
Rating: Not Rated (but I would say it was General)
Word Count/Length/Size: 158 words
Creator's Summary: Somewhere in the multiverse, Big Finish’s crossover between Doctor Who and Just a Minute did indeed come to fruition. Here, for the first time in our universe, is a scene from a boxset that never was.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Daleks
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's short and funny. If the Doctor and the Daleks were ever on Just a Minute, this is exactly would happen.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17227844

romanajo123

Title: Off the Road
Creator:

JohnAmendAll
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1197
Creator's Summary: There had to be a better way of getting across America than cadging a lift in a jalopy that made the TARDIS look reliable
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Lucie Miller, echo Clara
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
For the box "Road trip" on my Bingo card. This is a fun read, very much hilarious and chaotic and IC for everyone. A brilliant use of echo! Clara.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/4891870

romanajo123

Title: Something New and Better
Creator:

paynesgrey
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 500
Creator's Summary: The poor Doctor's sonic is broken, and Lucie tries not to laugh.
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor (8th), Lucie Miller
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: For the "something new" part of the Monthly Theme. This is cute and IC with a great ending. This feels like a Missing scene during the audios.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/20760038

romanajo123

Title: Snowflakes
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 572
Creator's Summary: Eight, Charley, and an alien snowy wonderland with no peril for once...
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing:
Sweet and fluffy and in-character, this is a lovely scene for the two of them.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/5670406

paranoidangel

Title: Carried Too Far
Creator:

Andraste
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 6400 words
Creator's Summary: Forced intimacy clichés are no match for the Doctor. (Most of the time.)
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Third Doctor/The Master, Jo Grant, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Fifth Doctor, Vislor Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair, Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's all the intimacy tropes, but involving the Doctor, who can be guaranteed to make them not at all intimate. It's fun all the situations the Doctor and his companions find themselves in.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17714207

paranoidangel

Title: Fallacy Somewhere (Or: If You Can't Steal a Coat from Gilbert and Sullivan, Then From Which 19th Century Librettists and Composers Can You Steal a Coat?)
Creator:

dbskyler
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 3144 words
Creator's Summary: You know, I acquired that ulster from Gilbert and Sullivan. -- The First Doctor, "Edge of Destruction."
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Susan Foreman, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, Romana II, K9, Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Ace McShane, Grace Holloway, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Donna Noble
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Because it's funny. It has a trending theme, which leads to the reveal of how the First Doctor ended up with that ulster. Despite it all being from Gilbert or Sullivan's point of view, you can still tell which Doctors and companions are which from what they do and how their clothing is described.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/583372

felis

Title: n/a
Creator:

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 10 drawings
Creator's Summary: Some of my drawings featuring Eight, Charley and C’rizz in the TARDIS.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, C'rizz, Tardis
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Colourful, cosy, inventive, atmospheric, transparent... These gorgeous drawings of Eight, Charley, and C'rizz in the Tardis have it all. You always wanted to see the library on board? Here you can! Did you know there's also a huge greenhouse, with a swing and a beautiful view of the stars? Yep. You also get Eight in star-covered pyjamas, Charley in her private room, C'rizz connecting with a couple of plants - and much more! You can spend a long time looking at these and it's well worth it. Definitely one of my favourite sets of DW art ever.

Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/144093624479/some-of-my-drawings-featuring-eight-charley-and

paranoidangel

Title: Ten Times Trouble
Creator:

TigerKat
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 7856 words
Creator's Summary: Ian and Barbara are getting married. All ten Doctors go to their wedding. Chaos ensues.
Characters/Pairings: Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Ace McShane, Fitz Kreiner, Evelyn Smythe, Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Romana II, Jack Harkness
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's clever how all the Doctors are in here, causing chaos as only they can. And amusing, with everyone's reactions to the Doctors. And the OCs - Ian and Barbara's family - are believable and interesting with their opinions on their two year disappearance and marriage.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4426001

felis

More DW/ST for the monthly theme. Also fits the "humour" square on my Bingo card.

Title: Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine)
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 5260 words
Creator's Summary: Captain Janeway doesn't think much of time travellers and higher beings who turn up on board her ship. The Doctor doesn't take much notice of prime directives. It's a tea vs. coffee thing.
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, First Doctor, Vicki Pallister, Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Ninth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown, Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, Tom Paris
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: A brilliant and well written crossover that makes both canons feel like they fit together seamlessly. The voices and interactions are spot-on, not just for Janeway and several versions of the Doctor, whose scenes go from serious to funny and back, but also for all the small appearances by companions and Voyager crew members. There's a lot of humour and great timing, and I really like its little meta aspect when it lets Janeway and the Doctor talk about interfering in other peoples' business and travel options.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/192325