Title: A little bit magpie
Creator: ladyyaxetel)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary:
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor
Warnings/Notes:

Reasons for reccing: Second Doctor with lots of items, which presumably all came out of his pockets. Look, I just love implying that the Second Doctor has ridiculous amounts of stuff in his pockets. Because he clearly does.


Link: https://www.deviantart.com/ladyyatexel/art/a-little-bit-magpie-168399524

Also the artist has another picture with a similar theme here: https://www.deviantart.com/ladyyatexel/art/this-time-for-sure-162239248 (this one also includes Jamie)

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

Title: Nyssa of Traken
Creator: Circular-Time)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: Tone painting (mostly) using Procreate iPad app, Nov 28, 2015.
This is mostly to chart my progress since I started art lessons.
Characters/Pairings: Nyssa of Traken
Warnings/Notes: -

Reasons for reccing: A really, really beautiful Nyssa portrait in charcoal. I'm just amazed by how stunning it is and can't say anything useful. (Also, for the Fifth Doctor era monthly theme!)


Link: Here on DeviantArt

Title: It'll Do You Good
Creator: whatthefoucault
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 552 words
Creator's Summary: Six, Mel, and Frobisher get a workout. Mayhem ensues
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor, Mel Bush, Frobisher


Reasons for reccing: Mel makes Six and Frobisher do yoga. Short, sweet and funny, what more do I need to say? I've been saving this one up for whenever the Sixth Doctor era would be the monthly theme, because it delighted me so much when I read it... And almost forgot to post anything at all whole month! Other things have been eating my brain, but I didn't want to leave the Six era without a rec! (Never mind that my timestamps says it's July 1st already... It's not yet midnight in the UK!)


Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=50906"

Title: AU Meme: Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe
Creator: thisbluespirit thisbluespirit
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 552 words
Creator's Summary: 10 AU scenarios for Six and Evelyn from an LJ meme.
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe

Reasons for reccing: I nearly let the month go by (let's pretend it's not past midnight where I'm posting) without reccing one of these delightful collections of bite-sized AUs. Read to discover what happens to the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn in the Wild West, in the Regency Era, or at school - and many more besides. (Also, contains mentions of chocolate cake.)

I also recommend checking out her other mini-AUs - there are some for e.g. Five & Tegan & Nyssa, River & Romana II, and Jamie and Zoë.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6478474

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: Vicki Pallister
Creator: Arkytior
Rating: General audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 137 words (and 24 lines if I counted right)
Creator's Summary: This one goes out to good ol' Vicki, the teacher.
Characters/Pairings: Vicki, the First Doctor, Barbara
Notes: Part of a series of poems about companions, fittingly called Companions

Reasons for reccing: I thought poetry would make a lovely rec for the "short" theme, and I came across this lovely one about Vicki, one of my favourite Classic Who companions. It has the playful, imaginative, energetic tone I associate with Vicki, even though it's not in first person, and I love the ending in particular.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/869720

Title: Ace
Creator: nightwing1975)
Rating: -
Word Count/Length/Size: -
Creator's Summary: this is one of my older toons i drew back in 2008 as part of a collection of doctor who companions.
Characters/Pairings: Ace
Warnings/Notes:

Reasons for reccing: It's a fabulous portrait of Ace. That's all the reason one needs, right?


Link: https://www.deviantart.com/nightwing1975/art/ace-414684286
Also, the artist has another fabulous Ace portrait, with baseball bat etc., here

Title: Domestic Bliss
Creator: JohnAmendAll
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 169 words
Creator's Summary: Compared to fighting Morgaine's army, cooking breakfast should be a simple matter... shouldn't it?
Characters/Pairings: Ancelyn ap Gwalchmai/Winifred Bambera

Reasons for reccing: The monthly theme of Seventh Doctor reminded me I haven't yet gone out to look for much fic from that era, so I naturally had to go and look up some fic about the fabulous Brigadier Winifred Bambera from Battlefield, as she is The Awesomest. I found this delightful, funny little fic about Ancelyn and Winifred daring the dastardly threat of kitchen appliances. In the show I loved Ancelyn's awesomely ridiculous epicness and Bambera's fabulous efficiency, and much enjoy reading about them encountering domestic trials. I could read an entire series of fics about Ancelyn and Bambera and various household activities. (Hmm, better go drop a prompt at who_guestfest!)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/814838

Title: Starburn
Creator: <Eggling
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1,265 words I've no idea why, but AO3 doesn't show a word count for it. Probably somewhere in the range of 1,000 words, though.
Creator's Summary: “Tonight was meant to be special."

“I’m on another planet, watchin’ two stars crash into each other, with the time-travelling alien I’m a wee bit in love with. I dinnae see how that’s not special.”

The Doctor and Jamie watch a cosmic event - from inside a prison cell.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon
Warnings/Notes:

Reasons for reccing: Another for the romance theme and my beloved Two/Jamie pairing. This is a recent, quite adorable little fic where they're actually trying to be on a date, but of course things haven't gone as planned, because this is the Doctor we're talking about. Also the Doctor's ideas of a date are a bit more grandiose than your average "restaurant and candlelight" scenario. As they would be. I have a special soft spot for stories that combine the inevitable chaos and frolic and humour of life around the Doctor with some sweet romantic fluff, and this definitely fits the bill.


Link: Starburn