gettinggreyer: (Doctor Who)
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Title: The Thirteen Doctors of Christmas
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] Unknown_Kadath
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 17,270 words
Creator's Summary: Susan's Grandfather doesn't want to celebrate Christmas with her. That's okay. She has twelve-and a half-other Grandfathers who do. Featuring Doctors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.5, 11, 12, and 13, with appearances by Rose Tyler and River Song.
Characters/Pairing: Susan Foreman, All Doctors
Warnings/Notes: This fic was written before Peter Capaldi was chosen for the role of the Twelfth Doctor, so the Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors who make an appearance in this fic are entirely original.

Reasons for reccing: This fic is just utterly beautiful and genius. The characterization is absolutely phenomenal and the writer does a brilliant job of creating their personalities and voices. The dialogue sound exactly like what these characters would say (for the characters I’m familiar with anyway). And the Doctors who I am unfamiliar with (2-8) are written so strongly that with minimal background knowledge they are just so clearly and beautifully crafted. This is the type of fic that I could easily see being a published Doctor Who work and its written so well and has such a beautiful concept that I could see it as a TV Christmas special (if getting all the actors wasn’t so difficult lol). Every line in this fic is just incredible. It’s one of my all time favorite Doctor Who fics and certainly my favorite Christmas-themed Doctor Who fic. This fic is a masterpiece to put it simply and I have no hesitation when I say that.

Link: AO3
felis: (Doctor Donna Hug)
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Title: Stargazer
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] unknown-kadath
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4881 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor erased her memories, but in her heart, Donna never quite forgot.
Characters/Pairings: Donna Noble, Shawn Temple, Wilfred Mott, Sylvia Noble, Eleventh Doctor, Original Characters
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: A bittersweet story about Donna's life after she is back on earth, told in ten spotlights, each with their own subtitle. I especially appreciate that it fleshes out Shawn, Donna's relationship with him, and what they do with their life together: from setting up the Starlight Foundation with their lottery money to starting a family that keeps the longing for the stars going forth. They also get visited by the Doctor Incognito (more or less) - Eleven as we know him, and then Twelve and Thirteen as envisioned by the author.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/905823 (also on Teaspoon)


Title: Navigable Waters
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] AstroGirl
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4056 words
Creator's Summary: A "Journey's End" fixit, courtesy of the Seventh Doctor.
Characters/Pairings: Donna Noble, Seventh Doctor, Wilfred Mott
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: As it says in the summary, this one is a fix-it in which Donna gets her memories back, courtesy of the Seventh Doctor. I really like the changing POVs, the Seventh Doctor (who is notably different from the Tenth here), Donna, and even Wilf getting to tell their experience with the situation. The explanation for why the Doctor is able to fix it here when he couldn't later/earlier is fine by me and I really like the images used for the two-minds-in-one scenario, especially because Donna has her own:

excerpt that made me laugh )

It even solves the problem of Ten not remembering what his previous self did.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24838 (also on Teaspoon)

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