Entries tagged with ch: zoe heriot

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rec [Vid]: Second Doctor Era | 500 Miles by relative-dimension-in-space

Title: 500 Miles
Creator: relative-dimension-in-space
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.38 mins
Creator's Summary: Another era tribute, this time for the Troughton years. This was so much fun to work on and it's making me want to binge some of these stories again. I love this era and these characters so much and I really, desperately hope that more of it gets found with time. There's a wealth of character work and physical comedy that's just gone and it's so upsetting to not get to see more of these performances. I'd do anything (including walk 500 miles and 500 more) to one day get to watch even more of this beloved, incredible era of the show.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield & Zoe Heriot.
Warnings/Notes: None, save for obligatory brief War Games heartache in passing.

Reasons for reccing: I loved this vidder's First Doctor era tribute and they just posted one for the Second Doctor's era and it's also great! It's a perfect match up of song and clips, with exactly the right feel for this Doctor and his companions, and showcases all over again why the loss of every single minute of on-screen Troughton is a crime. In short, it's downright adorable and I hope watching it brightens your day the way it did mine.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw50sbIJejg

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Rec (Fic)- Exchange Students by JohnAmendAll

Title: Exchange Students
Creator:

JohnAmendAll
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count/Length/Size: 8028
Creator's Summary: As ever, sometimes the hardest part of school is just getting through the day.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon/Samantha Briggs, Isobel Watkins, Zoe Heriot, Victoria Waterfield, Gwendoline Mary Lacey (crossover character)
Warnings/Notes: None... though this is slightly meta. :) And technically part of This Time Round universe but works on its own.

Reasons for reccing: Monthly theme. Ever wanted to see Jamie and Sam and friends in a High School AU *and* a Mirrorverse? This fic delivers!! This is a fun read and very engaging.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/13883193/chapters/31943046

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Rec (Fic) - Cosy by kathkin

Title: Cosy
Creator:

kathkin
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 769
Creator's Summary: The Doctor puts up with Jamie parading around Siberia and the Himalayas in his kilt, but he draws the line at the ice-moon of Argak 3. Jamie refuses to put on a pair of trousers. They'll just have to find a compromise.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor & Jamie McCrimmon & Zoe Heriot
Warnings/Notes: None (but silliness and Crack)

Reasons for reccing: So yesterday's rec reminded me of this fic. This author gets this team's voice and dynamics down, and just... imagine Jamie in legwarmers .

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/4604886

Current Mood: calm

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Rec (Fic) The Piper Played by ninewood

Title: The Piper Played
Creator: ninewood
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 679
Creator's Summary:Taking place after the Invasion, The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie go to the funeral of a close friend.

Characters/Pairings: The Brigadier, Jamie, Zoe, the TARDIS, The Doctor (2nd)
Warnings/Notes: None, except... this deals with a certain character's death that's canon.

Reasons for reccing: For the box "Death" on my Bingo card. Which I do believe gives me a Bingo :P

This is lovely and heartbreaking, but a fitting tribute to a wonderful character.

Link: www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

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Rec [fic]: Return to the Tower by kathkin

Title: Return to the Tower
Creator:

kathkin
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 10,712 words
Creator's Summary: I. This is a story about the time the Doctor landed aboard the Tower and saved the people from a deadly threat. II. This is a story about the time the Doctor landed aboard the Tower and couldn't save the people from a threat from within. III. This is a story about the time the Doctor landed aboard the Tower.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, Victoria Waterfield, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a really interesting timey-wimey fic where the Doctor visits the same place three times. Each time influences the other times. It's also an interesting plot that gets solved in three different times

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11925339

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Rec [fic]: Doctor Who and the Sporran of Doom by nostalgia

Title: Doctor Who and the Sporran of Doom
Creator:

nostalgia
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1434 words
Creator's Summary: When Jamie is attacked by his own sporran, our heroes must somehow save the day.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Warnings/Notes: None, although probably best not to eat & drink while reading.

Reasons for reccing: It's a glorious bit of crack (that's also perfectly plausible and in character) and is 100% guaranteed to make your day better, if not Jamie's. If I quoted the funniest or most delightful bits, I'd be pasting half the fic in here. And, with regards to the monthly theme, what greater horror could there truly be than Jamie getting attacked by his own sporran?

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/281374

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Rec (Fic): A Forgotten Face by Shivver

Title: A Forgotten Face
Creator:

Shivver
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3304
Creator's Summary: Sent back to 1969 by the Weeping Angels, the Doctor and Martha must find Billy Shipton so that he can take their message to Sally Sparrow in the future. But while they wait, the Doctor encounters someone he hasn't seen in a very long time.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, Zoe Heriot, Second Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None, but it helps if you've seen Blink

Reasons for reccing: Multi-Era and Rare team up! An excellent blending of old and new friends. Everyone is in-character and (I won't spoil it but there's a brilliant final moment)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1167338

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Rec (Fic): Jamie's Angels in: Uninvited by JohnAmendAll

(seasonal - J)

Title: Jamie's Angels in: Uninvited

Creator: JohnAmendAll

Rating: Gen

Word Count/Length/Size: 4809

Creator's Summary: Everyone else is at the Christmas lunch. Donna's in the office on her own — at least, until a rather dubious plumber shows up.

Characters/Pairings:

Donna Noble Second Doctor Jamie McCrimmon Zoe Heriot Victoria Waterfield Samantha Briggs (The Faceless Ones) Isobel Watkins Gia Kelly (Seeds of Death)

Warnings/Notes: Part of a series ; but this story is pretty standalone. (Also sort of part of the This Time Round meta-verse. More info here!

Reasons for reccing: Always fun to see classic and New characters interact. This is part of a series with a very fun premise and these ladies are a great team that I definitely want to see more adventures.

Link http://archiveofourown.org/works/155050/chapters/222942

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Rec [fic]: Lost Buttons, by kathkin

Title: Lost Buttons
Creator:

kathkin (aka Penny on Teaspoon)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count/Length/Size: 1398 words
Creator's Summary: Jamie was struggling to keep up with events. One moment he’d been fleeing through the halls of the space station, then he’d run slap bang into a man clad in green velvet who’d greeted him by name in the most delighted tone and then expected Jamie to know who he was. Or, Jamie runs into Eight and shags him in a cupboard.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon, Charley Pollard, Zoe Heriot
Warnings/Notes: Contains some explicit sex between Eight and Jamie.

Reasons for reccing: Both for the monthly theme of multi-era, and for the seasonal challenge (due to being of type slash, and Jamie/Eight is a rare pairing, and also Charley Pollard as a character, though she's only got a fairly short part in this). I did kind of promise to bring more explicit slash on board, among other things. ;-) Anyway, I have a fondness not only for Two/Jamie but also for Jamie getting... involved with other, later Doctors. This my favourite story of that specific type, being fun, feel-good and feeling true to the characters. I loved reading it even before I was at all familiar with Eight, but now that I know him (and Charley) from the audios, it's even more fun.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4611837

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Rec [Fic] and the lightning by Doctor Tam

Title: and the lightning
Creator: Doctor Tam
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 547 words
Creator's Summary: During a visit to a far future, the Doctor reflects on how human his perspective has become.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: And just to finish, one short, introspective piece as the Doctor considers how much he's been changing of late. One of the many ficlets and drabbles out there that prove sometimes you can say everything that needs saying in hardly any words at all.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=39374

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Rec [art]: Zoe Heriot, by squidlarkin

Title: Zoe Heriot
Creator:

squidlarkin
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: Fanart of Zoe Heriot from BBC's Doctor Who.
Characters/Pairings: Zoe Heriot
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Just an incredibly cute piece of art of Zoe in her Krotons costume and with a cool mountain background. (Also, this is me reccing Second Doctor era things for the monthly theme, looking for ones that I think I haven't recced here already!)

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/squidlarkin/art/Zoe-Heriot-188845042

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Rec [vid]: White Rabbit, by Calapine

Title: White Rabbit (a Doctor Who fanvid)
Creator:

Calapine)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:31 min
Creator's Summary: A second Doctor fanvid to the sixth season story, The Mind Robber.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Zoe Heriot, Jamie McCrimmon, plus assorted Mind Robber guest characters
Notes: The song is White Rabbit by Emiliana Torrini

Reasons for reccing: Mind Robber is one of my favourite Doctor Who stories, and definitely one of my favourite Second Doctor era stories, so when I came by this lovely fanvid, of course I had to rec it as soon as I could. A great selection of clips, showcasing the weirdness and many iconic moments of Mind Robber, and the song (which I didn't know before this because I'm out of the loop with most post-1990s music) fits the story perfectly, both with its mood and with the Alice in Wonderland theme. Mind Robber is a very Alice in Wonderland story, though I didn't consciously realize it until now!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4UDe6RfiM

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Rec [art]: Team Two Totem, by Ammosart

Title: Team Two Totem
Creator:

Ammosart
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: Team Two (Jamie, the Doctor, and Zoe), being adorable.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Zoe Heriot, Jamie Mccrimmon
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Well, it's what the creator says it is: Two, Jamie and Zoe being adorable. It's a very cute, feel-good little drawing and I was delighted to find it. They look so chummy and like they're having so much fun, and Jamie is his usual tactile self and Zoe's wearing a jumpsuit, so all is as it should be.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/ammosart/art/1-2-11-DW-Team-Two-Totem-191972844

Manifesto: Second Doctor Era

I'm a bit late for this one - but well, the TARDIS in this era is never when and where she's supposed to be, either!

Era/Spin-off: Second Doctor Era
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot, Isobel Watkins. Two/Jamie, Zoë/Isobel, Jamie/Victoria
Notes/warnings/spoilers Spoilers for the ending of the War Games, and some generic spoilers for other things like how someone joins or leaves the TARDIS.

( Second Doctor Era Manifesto )

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Rec [fic]: Selkie-Song series, by Eggling

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)

Rec [Fic]: Storytime: Macbeth by JohnAmendAll

Title: Storytime: Macbeth
Creator:

john_amend_all |

JohnAmendAll
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 23,373 words
Creator's Summary: Jamie wants to read the story of Macbeth to the wee bairns in the playgroup. What could possibly go wrong?
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Samantha Briggs, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Izzy Sinclair, Isobel Watkins, Gia Kelly, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot + many more, particularly Adric, Ninth Doctor, Mickey Smith & the Brigadier.
Warnings/Notes: None. I would warn for some innuendo, but it's Shakespeare.

Reasons for reccing: This is part of the ongoing metafic concept of This Time Round (where all the Doctor Who characters meet in a pub outside reality, complain about the writing, fanfic etc., and Nyssa tries to kill Adric a lot, for reasons) but don't worry too much about that (or follow the link for more detailed explanations) - what happens here is that a bunch of Doctor Who characters are forced to act out Macbeth by Jamie and Sam Briggs (and there's a running subplot where various other (mostly Two-era) characters are trying to stop them. Hilarity ensues.

It does not go exactly as Shakespeare intended, although it's okay - he sent a note. TTR is pretty cracky, but that is what allows for gems like this. I'm not quite sure what the highlights are (and you can bet I've missed at least half of the in-jokes) - maybe it's Tegan's annoyance at being cast as Lady Macbeth, the Witches, or Jo's drunken porter, or the various Large Hams making the most of it, but I don't think it's possible to get through it and maintain a straight face, and that's the important thing.

TTR's a bit outside of the usual run of DW fic, so it's easy to miss this, which would also be a tragedy. Have fun!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/128803/chapters/182880

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Rec [fic]: Restaurants, by chaya

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

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Rec [art]: Zoe Heriot, by nightwing1975

Title: Zoe Heriot (the artist spells her surname with two r's, actually, but I'm taking the liberty to correct it here)
Creator:

nightwing1975)
Creator's Summary:
Characters/Pairings: Zoe Heriot

Reasons for reccing: A lovely drawing of Zoe in her famous sparkly catsuit. Which is very sparkly, as it should be. I love this particularly because not nearly enough artists get Zoe's face and expressions right, but this one's spot on - and thank goodness she's not drawn in that horrible 'Dominators' costume which some otherwise good artists seem to like putting her in. (Heh, sorry if you like that costume, but Zoe didn't like it herself, and she didn't choose it.) Also, her confident posture is very Zoe. I was just rewatching Invasion and thought I should rec something with Zoe for my "female-centric" challenge claim!

Link: Image on DeviantArt

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Rec: [fic] Jumpsuits and Crinolines, by Penny/kathkin

For my second Penny/kathkin rec of the day, here's a fill for the "Fashion" square in my bingo card. It's not a part of the bingo line I've been working toward, but I'm not sure what to post for the remaining square yet. I might stand a chance at getting a cross before the month ends, so I'm doing this one for that.

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Creator: Penny/

kathkin
Rating: General Audiences / All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 850 words according to Teaspoon, 817 according to AO3
Creator's Summary: “I don’t dare,” said Zoe. “If I move I’ll fall over. I’ll get stuck on my back like a tortoise.” Victoria and Zoe trade outfits. The Doctor can't tell them apart.
Characters/Pairings: Zoe Heriot, Victoria Waterfield, the Second Doctor, slight implications of Zoe/Victoria
Warnings/Notes: AU in which Victoria stays aboard the TARDIS following Fury from the Deep.

Reasons for reccing: I adore the girls exchanging opinions on the clothes of each other's time (especially Zoe's reaction to 1860s fashion!), it's funny and cute, and there isn't enough fics with both Zoe and Victoria (possibly because they weren't in the show at the same time, but why should that stop anyone?). And I'm definitely on board for any Zoe/Victoria femslash, though I should note it's very lightly implied and I would have loved more. I do wish I could read a longer fic where both Zoe and Victoria are travelling with the Doctor and Jamie, and the shenanigans they get up to!

Link: on Archive of Our Own // on Teaspoon

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Rec: [Fic]: How Very 1920s by Paranoid Seat

Bingo square: Dancing

Title: How Very 1920s
Creator:

purple_bug/Paranoid Seat
Rating: PG-13
Word Count/Length/Size: ~3000 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor dances with an old friend, while Charley dances with a new one.
Characters/Pairings: Charley Pollard/Zoe Heriot, Eighth Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon/Zoe Heriot, Charley Pollard/Zoe Heriot/Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: There is a epilogue (linked to at the end of the story) that has more adult content, but this fic can stand alone.

Reasons for reccing: You asked for a dancing rec? This is literally a dance on a planet where the environment simulates 1920s Earth, and some companions try to make matches. Meanwhile, these companions end up making some matches of their own.

Link: How Very 1920s: LiveJournal, Teaspoon