tardis_library | Entries tagged with reccer: thisbluespirit

Title: We Had a Place in That Garden
Creator:

ChevalierPelerin
Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 9,262 words.
Creator's Summary: The Doctor finds out Charley has made a name for herself since she left. Post-Canon/AU Reunion
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair.
Warnings/Notes: None. The fic is archive-locked.

Reasons for reccing: I'm still longing for Big Finish to give us an Eight and Charley reunion, so this fic, which does just that beautifully, made my day and I had to share it! The characterisation and dialogue is note perfect, and it's sharply observed, fun, and everything I'd hope for from these two getting a chance to meet up again and finally discover the truth about how they parted.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63885079/chapters/163842631

thisbluespirit

Title: Doctor & Clara: Lovely
Creator:

SunnyVids
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.33 mins
Creator's Summary: "It's the oldest story in the universe, this one or any other. Boy and girl fall in love, get separated by events. War, politics, accidents in time. She's thrown out of the hex, or he's thrown into it. Since then they've been yearning for each other across time and space, across dimensions. This isn't a ghost story, it's a love story!"
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor/Clara Oswald, Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswald
Warnings/Notes: None, other than spoilers for Clara's entire run.

Reasons for reccing: Beautifully edited together, this is a amazing meta-piece in only 3 and a half minutes. My usual preference for vids is music vids, but this is so sharply observed and well put together it made me go oh in exactly the way that good meta should, and then gave me all the feels.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF0MXGmw0wU

thisbluespirit

Title: an evening coming in across the fields
Creator:

phantomlistener
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1788 words
Creator's Summary: “Hi,” Tegan says, mock-formal. “My name’s Tegan Jovanka and I was possessed by a god from beyond the dawn of time. Twice.” Mel laughs, the tension suddenly gone. “Melanie Bush,” she returns, “and I was possessed by the god of death. Just once, mind you.” ~ Mel, after Empire of Death
Characters/Pairings: Melanie Bush, Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for s1/14/whatever; emotional trauma from possession.

Reasons for reccing: I came across this tonight and it filled a need I hadn't realised I had for some sort of fic dealing with Mel, post "The Empire of Death". It's well-drawn, beautifully written, and a lovely look at these two opposites bonding over unwanted shared experiences.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57031660

thisbluespirit

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

thisbluespirit

Title: First Doctor Era | Gone, Gone, Gone
Creator:

relative-dimension-in-space
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.29
Creator's Summary: Happy to present my first ever video! I've wanted to make them for years now and finally have the means to. The First Doctor era of Doctor Who is an easy place for me to start because I know it like the back of my hand and it's uncomplicated to edit - I'll definitely be attempting more intensive edits in the future, but I'm very happy to start here with something I love so much. I've wished a video to this song existed for a long time and it's exciting to actually get to see it now that I've done it! Hope you enjoy :)
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Susan Foreman, Vicki, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Dodo Chaplet, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson.
Warnings/Notes: One brief broken/flashing cut towards the end.

Reasons for reccing: YT dropped this into my feed and I was instantly charmed - it's a really sweet and heart-warming whole era vid for the First Doctor. It's very well done, the song choice works beautifully and the found family celebratory vibe is threaded with the minor note of One's losses. I've not come across anything like this ensemble tribute for this era before, or certainly not so well done, and I've already watched it about six times.

Link: https://youtu.be/h3K5HgbcOlE?si=rmqZniwsjW-VEBz6

thisbluespirit

Title: Easy as Breathing
Creator:

lurking_latinist
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 225 words
Creator's Summary: Shirley and the metacrisis energy.
Characters/Pairings: Shirley Anne Bingham
Warnings/Notes: None/spoilers for "The Star Beast."

Reasons for reccing: This is such a beautifully done little look at Shirley Anne in the moment of the meta-crisis release. It packs so much into a short space, is poetically written, and it's great just to see something for this character, who I really liked in the episode.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51987025

thisbluespirit

Title: Memory
Creator:

Persiflage
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3477 words
Creator's Summary: A decade after she left UNIT Liz encounters the Doctor again. (Set after 'The Girl That Never Was' for Eight.)
Characters/Pairings: Liz Shaw, Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For 1991, the year that saw the release of Spearhead From Space on VHS and the deaths of both Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis, two of the people responsible for the Cybermen, a lovely piece that features Liz Shaw and Cybermen, or the after-effects of meeting them.

Eight runs into Liz and they both get a chance to discuss past trauma and lost friends - it's a thoughtful, excellently done vignette for the two of them - they make a great combination.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31069364 (Archive-locked)

At Teaspoon (public): https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=32598

thisbluespirit

Title: Doctor Who Endgame (1963-2019)
Creator: Acb Tyson
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.55 mins
Creator's Summary: I made this at the end of 2019. Looking back on 56 years of Doctor Who history.
Characters/Pairings: All Doctors and companions to 2019.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Happy 60th, Doctor Who! A multi-era vid and a bonus rec for 1963, this is a very simple idea and seems to be a bit of a vidding meme (other shows' credits to the score from Endgame) but it's really lovely and this one, which goes all the way from 1963 to 2019 (and back again) must have taken some doing. Time to salute all the actors whose work over 60 years has made DW into the legend that it is!

Link: https://youtu.be/LkcGmnkCovw?si=-KKmMN7dsESUPkhM

thisbluespirit

Three ficlets for 1990, because I was looking for something connected to Remembrance of the Daleks and/or An Unearthly Child and ran into these three, which are all short and sweet, so here's a little bundle of 1990-related goodness:

Title: To Whatever Extent
Creator: Joan Milligan
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 303 words
Creator's Summary: The smallest thing, post Remembrance of the Daleks.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For 1990, the year that the novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks was published, paving the way for the New Adventures. This is a beautiful little tag for the serial, with Seven making some reflections on his behaviour that maybe illuminates his reasons for his tendency to plan and manipulate - something that would get stretched even further in the upcoming VNAs.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=13939

( coda (with tea) by phantomlistener & Ordinary World by whispersecho )

thisbluespirit

Title: Summary of the Third Doctor's Era 100%
Creator:

johannvesviii
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A (short 3 panel comic style art)
Creator's Summary: Summary of the Third Doctor’s Era, 100% based on this post made by timewalkxr. (Reccer's note: original text post no longer at the link.)
Characters/Pairings: Third Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Warnings/Notes: None, other than the Brig wanting shoot things as usual.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1972, when this era was in full swing. This is a delightfully funny comic strip summary of the Third Doctor's era, excellently drawn here - the Doctor tells the Brig not to shoot the thing, and what does the Brig do? I love the suitably army-coloured background wash and the energy Johannes VIII has given to Three's frantic attempts, in contrast to the Brigadier's stance, and it makes me laugh every time I see it (100%).

Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/123739220614/summary-of-the-third-doctors-era-100-based-on

thisbluespirit

Title: Still Alive
Creator:

valoise
Rating: Not rated (but all clips are from the show; so nothing above typical PG/Teen)
Word Count/Length/Size: 2.06 minutes
Creator's Summary: Just a happy celebration of Sacha Dhawan's Master. Music by the 8-Bit Big Band
Characters/Pairings: Dhawan Master, Thirteenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 2020, when Sacha Dhawan arrived as the latest incarnation of the Master. This vid, as the summary says, is a delightfully laid-back and cheery celebration of a character who does little but cause murder and mayhem. It's short, fun, with a lovely flow to it throughout, and some really nifty/amusing match-ups of lyrics/music and clips. It's a great little summary of why so many of us were immediately so taken with Sacha's performance. (I especially like the Doctor's little sag at the end. Quite, indeed.)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22188403

thisbluespirit

Title: Photostudy of Leela of the Sevateem
Creator:

gallifreyevermore
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1 b&w image of Leela
Creator's Summary: Photostudy of Leela of the Sevateem - my queen :D
Characters/Pairings: Leela
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1977, when Leela first appeared. This is a beautiful and unusual black and white painted study of Leela. It really captures her well, and is striking work.

Link: https://gallifreyevermore.tumblr.com/post/170716564701/photostudy-of-leela-of-the-sevateem-my-queen-d

thisbluespirit

Title: Two Hearts
Creator:

emeraldarrows
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4325 words
Creator's Summary: Reflections on the past and the two hearts of a Time Lord.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa, Turlough, Adric, Kamelion, Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble.
Warnings/Notes: Angst.

Reasons for reccing: For 1981, the year that we first met Tegan Jovanka and the Fifth Doctor, as well as for the multi-era theme. This is a gorgeous set of haunting vignettes looking at their relationship, their bond, and its impossibility. It's a beautifully melancholic piece.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9523115/chapters/21534560

thisbluespirit

Title: Extraordinary
Creator: scarlettgirl
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1067 words
Creator's Summary: Lucie Miller, for just a moment, wishes she had been that girl.
Characters/Pairings: Lucie Miller, Eighth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: set immediately post-Human Resources.

Reasons for reccing: For 2006, the year that Lucie Miller first appeared, a wonderful little tag to the end of her first season of adventures with the Doctor. Lucie, in the aftermath of Human Resources, wishes, for just one moment, that she had been 'special'. It's such a perfectly done and moving little character moment between the two - definitely one of those fics that I've packed away in my mind into being absolutely canon.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=21508

thisbluespirit

Title: Me, Myself, and I
Creator:

AstroGirl
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 7402 words
Creator's Summary: It was only a matter of time before Clara stumbled across one of her echoes.
Characters/Pairings: Clara Oswald, Clara splinter & Me/Ashildr
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For 2012, the year we first met two Clara splinters. This is a wonderful missing adventure in which Clara, inevitably, finally runs into one of her splintered selves. It's excellently done with a beautiful intro, a fun plot and pitch perfect voices.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SpaceSwap2020/works/23472001

thisbluespirit

Title: There, In That Place
Creator: Mandragora
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1098
Creator's Summary: Just a place to call their own.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor, Roz Forrester
Warnings/Notes: References to canonical character death.

Reasons for reccing: For 1995, the year when Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej arrived in the New Adventures. This is a beautifully written, evocative sequence of vignettes exploring the Doctor's time with Roz, and his grief at her loss.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=12587

thisbluespirit

Title: Elementary Particles: reprinted from the reminiscences of Professor Bernice S. Summerfield
Creator:

pedanther (Paul A)
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 1245 words
Creator's Summary: "A lot of the facts have been changed, mind you. I don't remember half of these things happening. And it's odd reading about Holmes and Watson, rather than—"
— Bernice Summerfield, All-Consuming Fire

"The veiled detective and her fatuous accomplice... You realise Doctor Doyle is almost certainly basing his fantastical tales on your own exploits? With a few choice alterations, of course."
— Doctor Simeon, The Snowmen
Characters/Pairings: Bernice Summerfield, Seventh Doctor, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1992, when Bernice Summerfield first made her appearance into the NAs. This is a delightful fic with perfect Benny diary voice, complete with yellow Post-It notes, which reveals the real story between on of the NAs.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1048354/chapters/2096752

thisbluespirit

Title: Sailing On
Creator:

newmoonstar | Meadowlark (at Teaspoon)
Rating: All Ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1242 words
Creator's Summary: Though they come from different worlds, Vicki and Troilus find common ground to build their life on.
Characters/Pairings: Vicki Pallister/Troilus
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: For the year 1965, in which Vicki started and ended her TARDIS travels. This is such a beautiful, bittersweet look at Vicki and Vicki/Troilus, after The Myth Makers, exploring both her past in the future and her future in the past in a way that's very true to her character and voice and a lovely extra glimpse of her.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=57751

thisbluespirit

Title: Regeneration
Creator: Andriy Griffin
Rating: PG
Word Count/Length/Size: 4.48 mins
Creator's Summary: This October sees the next great change in Doctor Who, so this is to remember all the times we've said a tearful farewell to our beloved Doctors. In tribute to all the amazing people who've worked on this show on & off for the last 60 years, and in memory to Bill, Pat and Jon, the three who started it all. Hope you enjoy.
Characters/Pairings: Doctors 1-13, plus various other companions and villains.
Warnings/Notes: Regeneration stories, so (temporary) death etc, some guns & gunfire.

Reasons for reccing: It's Doctor Who's anniversary - 59 years old today! So I had to rec a multi-Doctor vid, and this one fitted the bill perfectly. It focuses on the goodbyes (and hellos) of regeneration stories over the decades, featuring all the Doctors and a good many companions and adversaries (especially those in the Regeneration episodes), and at the end brings us right up to date with Thirteen. And isn't one of the greatest strengths of this old show of ours, the notion of regeneration - the ability to continually change and grow that's let it carry on for decades, and even regenerate itself after what looked like the end? This is a beautiful exploration of that, in loss and grief - and the joy of renewal.

Happy birthday, Doctor Who! ♥

Link: https://youtu.be/9Kh1hlYajZ4

thisbluespirit

Title: The Scarf of Life
Creator: Spring
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 462 words
Creator's Summary: An origin story for the 4th Doctor's scarf.
Characters/Pairings: Nostradamus's Mother, the Scarf
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: We had a request for stories featuring the Doctor's scarf and I immediately remembered this one from ages ago and fished it out. It's a such an unusual and clever ficlet - with surprising depths - and it's all about the scarf and how it came to be.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=45402

thisbluespirit

Title: Doctor Who | We Will Rock You
Creator: TARDISELLIOT TRAILERS
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 2.53 mins
Creator's Summary: Came across this variation on We Will Rock You by Queen from the film Pixels. Couldn't resist making a new tribute. Hope you enjoy.
Characters/Pairings: Various/All.
Warnings/Notes: Some v short clips/fast editing.

Reasons for reccing: It's the show's 58th anniversary! And here's a brilliant all-eras vid to celebrate it (up to time of making, but it gets Thirteen in there, too). It's very well edited, with a slow start that then hits you right in the face with the action of the main body of the vid, and a perfect ending. If you want to jump up and down and celebrate, this vid has your back - and so does the Doctor!

Link: https://youtu.be/GlmKrTcZB2g

thisbluespirit

One for my seasonal challenge ship claim!

Title: An illustration/experiment (untitled)
Creator:

mentalrhapsody
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: Tegan and Fivey and…Feels.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's rare to find many fanworks for Five & Tegan these days, but this is a lovely one. It's a very sweet piece of art (of Tegan kissing the Doctor's forehead), but unsentimental, and the style works well for the subject, with the contrast of the moon & stars glow illuminating their outlines with the muted evening palette. Surely guaranteed to make you go 'aww' a least a bit, whatever your take on their relationship.

Link: https://mentalrhapsody.tumblr.com/post/96551982906/an-illustrationexperiment-tegan-and-fivey

thisbluespirit

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

thisbluespirit

Two art recs, both featuring Six & Evelyn and both (at least a little) seasonal:

Title: Untitled
Creator:

alda-rana
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: I have started to listen to the Sixth Doctor Big Finish audios and of course I love Evelyn, who doesn’t love Evelyn? So here’s a drawing of her I just made while waiting for my watercolour to dry. Cool stuff, watercolour, but you spend two thirds of your time waiting for it to dry.
Characters/Pairings: Evelyn Smythe, Sixth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's a wonderfully expressive black & white sketch or illustration of the two of them - Evelyn, busy inside with a book, but the Doctor's waiting outside in the rain. It's excellent (and, with the weather starting to pour, and things about to change, seasonal, too, I think).

Link: https://alda-rana.tumblr.com/post/84624266955/i-have-started-to-listen-to-the-sixth-doctor-big

Title: Sixie, Evelyn and Cocoa
Creator: Nocturius
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: N/A
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe
Warnings/Notes: Drawn in relation to Arrangements for War & Thicker Than Water (but no spoilers).

Reasons for reccing: This is just lovely - quiet and warm and melancholy with the ache of things ending (& thus seasonal maybe) all at the same time. It's a really satisfying little captured moment between them.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/nocturius/art/Sixie-Evelyn-and-Cocoa-441530438

thisbluespirit

Another one for the characters challenge, this time for Idris.

Title: Human Behaviour
Creator:

st_aurafina
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 1688 words
Creator's Summary: The TARDIS learned a lot from her time in a human body; that doesn't mean she knows how to put a human together again.
Characters/Pairings: The TARDIS, Idris, Eleventh Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor, Leela.
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Beautiful follow up and fixit for "The Doctor's Wife", as the TARDIS picks up the pieces of herself and Idris and tries to find out how to mend a mortal. Just lovely, with perectly in-character glimpses of former inhabitants of the TARDIS.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/399648

thisbluespirit

I realised I'd been shamefully slow in doing any recs for my characters for the current challenge, so here's one:

Title: Closet Romance
Creator: Primsong
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 214 words
Creator's Summary: It wasn't a lift, it was a broom closet. Thankfully, he was not alone.
Characters/Pairings: Kamelion/Other
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's short, sweet, well-written - and very funny, as Kamelion stumbles upon true love in the unlikeliest place.

Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=40496

thisbluespirit

Title: The 5678
Creator:

Babelcolour
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.27 mins
Creator's Summary: A foot tapping re-make of an early video - one that first appeared on YouTube around 8 years ago.

it's a rip-roarin', foot-stompin', Cyber-rompin', heel-clickin', Dalek-flippin', Babel-spnning Doctor Who rodeo video extravaganza. Yee-Hah!
Characters/Pairings: Pretty much everyone up to 2014
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I wanted to rec something for the Doctor's 57th birthday, and this is a delightful feel-good all-eras fanvid of dancing across time and space. The dancing Daleks and every single Five Six Seven Eight make me giggle especially. It's surely guaranteed to put a smile on your face!

Link: https://youtu.be/bdENjiUW66w

romanajo123

For the Rare Pairings challenge. Have a rare ship!

Title: Robophobia and How to Cure It

Creator:

thisbluespirit

Rating: G

Word Count/Length/Size: 2,575

Creator's Summary: The Robots of Death - Leela: This savage makes her own decisions (as ever) and Poul wonders how mad is a man with Robophobia.

Characters/Pairings: Leela/Ander Poul Kiy Uvanov Lish Toos D84

Warnings/Notes: spoilers for Robots of Death

Reasons for reccing: (Part of a series but understandable on its own) Thinking about minor characters lately reminded me of this. Beautiful and sad, with well-done dialogue and a nice AU for Robots of Death.

Link:https://archiveofourown.org/works/211749

thisbluespirit

Title: Book of Stairs
Creator:

lyricwritesprose
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 6164 words
Creator's Summary: Charley Pollard is looking for a dangerous book when she enters a bookshop in Soho. But all is not well, and she soon finds herself trapped inside the book. Luckily, she's not alone.
Characters/Pairings: Charley Pollard, Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: I stumbled over this recently and was delighted by the unexpected character combination (so this fits our seasonal challenge), and this fantastic, surreal adventure that brings them together. It feels exactly like a wonderfully weird Eight & Charley audio, and Aziraphale and his bookshop fit in perfectly, and I love it.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20235163

thisbluespirit

Title: Long Leggity Beasty
Creator:

Singe_Addams (Singe)
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4804 words
Creator's Summary: A Halloween story! This is set the October after the Doctor abruptly and mysteriously leaves Sarah Jane. His return leaves her feeling somewhat drained. (Yes, vampire AU.)
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith, the Brigadier, Harry Sullivan, Drax, Romana II
Warnings/Notes: As it says, a vampire AU - mind the tags.

Reasons for reccing: This is a wonderfully dark, creepy and funny fic that meets both of this month's themes in one excellent work. I love the energy and humour of it (particularly Singe's capturing of Sarah's voice), as well as the sinister weirdness of the concept. It's a really unusual and entertaining read, and I highly recommend it even if maybe you're not always into AUs. It also fits the seasonal challenge as well.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/200408