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Title: Selkie Song (series)
Creator: eggling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 51,191 for the whole series, 3 works
Creator's Summary: (Don't have a summary for a whole series, so here's the summary for the first part:) "I remember there was always music. Everywhere we went, the selkie songs echoed through the water and on the beaches, sometimes for days afterwards, like they'd been caught on the kelp and the stones."

The people of the sea can seldom stay with those they love, but their songs always remain.

Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon. Also Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot, Isobel Watkins. Ben/Polly and Zoe/Isobel as background pairings.

Notes: A selkie AU

Reasons for reccing: I don't read a lot of different-universe AUs, but I make an exception for fairy tale / folklore AUs a bit more often than other types, and this one kept coming up in my searches, so I gave it a try and loved it. It's a selkie/Fae AU and a Two/Jamie romance, and this AU works a lot better than I would have expected, and everyone's Fae versions make sense and the character interactions are lovely. It probably helps that Jamie's canon background makes the Celtic folklore connection feel natural, and the Doctor as a Selkie works as an analogue for the Doctor's canon existence. Also, Two makes quite an adorable seal!

It is very romantic, so make sure you're in a mood for that when you read it - and make sure you need more than just the first part of the series! Things do get sad and angsty in parts, so be prepared for that as well.

The first two parts are longer stories that follow one another, and the third part is a collection of short scenes from before, during, and after the first two stories. They're not necessary to get the main story, but some of them are pretty delightful.


Link: The link to the whole series here
and here is the first story: There is Music of the Birds in it (and Music of the Sídhe)

Title: Restaurants
Creator: chaya
Rating: General audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 573 words
Creator's Summary: When in Rome.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot

Reasons for reccing: For this month's "shorts" theme and just because it's delightful, this little fic that consists of four brief scenes that nevertheless manage to paint vivid scenes of the events! Basically, various scenes of where Second Doctor era TARDIS teams go to restaurants, and Jamie has some problems adjusting to the fussy expectations of how to be in restaurants. But to make it even better, there's also one in which Jamie's on his turf and knows exactly how to behave while the others are confused.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/485601

Title: Together, On This Same Earth
Creator: biichan/ biichan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences (the rating given on AO3; on Teaspoon it's marked as Adult. I'd rate it Teen or possibly Mature - it's a bit descriptive but not for very long)
Word Count/Length/Size: 3,891 words
Creator's Summary: Once you've started traveling in time and space, things are never quite the same when you stop. Luckily, Victoria's new friend Martha understands this.
Characters/Pairings: Martha Jones/Victoria Waterfield. Also the Tenth Doctor, Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon
Warnings/Notes: Well, there's some sexual content involving two women, if you need to be warned of that sort of thing, but it's not super explicit.

Reasons for reccing: This was probably the very first Classic Who fanfic I read, right on the week when the Twitch marathon introduced me to the Second Doctor era and I fell in love with all the characters. I ended up going to the Teaspoon and seeing if anyone's written Victoria femslash, and when I saw that someone's written her and Martha Jones meeting, I read this, and was officially sucked into the world of fic about the characters of the Second Doctor era. Essentially, Victoria lives her life in the late 1960s England, and meets Martha when she and the Tenth Doctor are stuck in 1969 during 'Blink'. They also run into some other characters who are around in that time period.

Victoria and Martha are both characters whom I adore far beyond how much the fandom on the average loves them, so seeing them paired up, either as friends or lovers, was wonderful for me, and this fic is exquisitely written, gets so much out of both characters. The progression of their relationship from getting to know each other to friendship to something else is lovely. It also touches on how time with the Doctor touches everyone who travels with him, how Victoria and Martha and others have come to view the world, and the timey-wimeyness of having Doctors and Companions from all over the storyline of the show.

It's a beautiful, wistful, but essentially hopeful story.

Link: On AO3
On Teaspoon