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eve11Hi all! Time for another recs bingo! Here is my card and this is my top row fourth column fill for the prompt: Timey-Wimey.
Title: Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun (AO3 link)
Creator: TygerTyger (![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Rating: Teen
Word Count: 16500
Creator's Summary: River hasn’t seen her Doctor in a very long time and decides to request opportunities to work towards a pardon. The only offer comes from the last organisation she would want, the Church.
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor/River Song
Warnings: Swearing
Reasons for reccing: (cribbing from my calufrax rec:) This is a look at the events leading up to early series 5, in a new light entirely, from River's perspective in Stormcage. It's a difficult story to read: we all knew her lines from series 6 about losing the Doctor by degrees, but in this story you actually see it. You have a River who by virtue of their twisted timelines, has spent years alone in Stormcage and who is not sure she will ever see the man she loves again, or if she does, if he will recognize her. It presents a very realistic motivation in her working with the Church and Father Octavian. It's sad but hopeful, and tells a story on the edges of another unfolding story; the story of a life well-lived that ends where we know it will but makes it all the more moving for knowing the road that led there. It reads like a novel, effortless and forthright but painting a picture in scene and dialogue, with recognizable characters throughout and fully realized original characters in the wings as well.
I will also say, that now that it's 2018 and we know River's whole story, it's more of an AU, but it holds up extremely well and is still an amazingly well-crafted tale that gives you enough context for the Library to be a true punch in the gut (although you know it is inevitable). It satisfies the prompt the same way it tells the true story; it's timey-wimey on the edges of this new linear perspective. Anyhow go read it; it is well worth your time!
Title: Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun (AO3 link)
Creator: TygerTyger (
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 16500
Creator's Summary: River hasn’t seen her Doctor in a very long time and decides to request opportunities to work towards a pardon. The only offer comes from the last organisation she would want, the Church.
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor/River Song
Warnings: Swearing
Reasons for reccing: (cribbing from my calufrax rec:) This is a look at the events leading up to early series 5, in a new light entirely, from River's perspective in Stormcage. It's a difficult story to read: we all knew her lines from series 6 about losing the Doctor by degrees, but in this story you actually see it. You have a River who by virtue of their twisted timelines, has spent years alone in Stormcage and who is not sure she will ever see the man she loves again, or if she does, if he will recognize her. It presents a very realistic motivation in her working with the Church and Father Octavian. It's sad but hopeful, and tells a story on the edges of another unfolding story; the story of a life well-lived that ends where we know it will but makes it all the more moving for knowing the road that led there. It reads like a novel, effortless and forthright but painting a picture in scene and dialogue, with recognizable characters throughout and fully realized original characters in the wings as well.
I will also say, that now that it's 2018 and we know River's whole story, it's more of an AU, but it holds up extremely well and is still an amazingly well-crafted tale that gives you enough context for the Library to be a true punch in the gut (although you know it is inevitable). It satisfies the prompt the same way it tells the true story; it's timey-wimey on the edges of this new linear perspective. Anyhow go read it; it is well worth your time!
