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hurtcomfortex went live, and here's the fic I wrote:

How To Be Cared For (3149 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & The Doctor's TARDIS, Thirteenth Doctor & Yasmin Khan & Graham O'Brien & Ryan Sinclair
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, The Doctor's TARDIS, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Exhaustion, Caretaking, Friendship, Team TARDIS, Running, Food, Tea, aftermath of an adventure
Summary: The Doctor is used to saving the day and taking care of what needs to be taken care of. Unless it's herself.

Luckily her friends don't give up easily.

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/102432.html

I've now moved in my Classic Who watching to the Fourth Doctor era for a while, more specifically the Four & Leela era. (For those less versed in Classic Who: Four is Tom Baker, ie. the one with the scarf. The one many people think of when they think of Doctor Who [assuming they think of Classic Who era]. Leela is the one with the leotard and the skins and the knife.)

I loved loved loved Leela when I watched her stuff in the marathon, but because they were all on weekdays, I didn't manage to see much. So I've since then bought some stories on DVD, and I figure I'll watch them now. Although I'm already wishing I'd just bought all of them, because I want to see them all. I'm just kind of trying not to buy too much Fourth Doctor era on DVD, since I assume they'll all be out as blu-ray box sets eventually, and those would take up less space.

Anyway, I recently watched Leela's first story, The Face of Evil.

( Some comments )

I actually started watching The Horror of Fang Rock tonight, which is the next one that I own on DVD. I really enjoy it already after one episode, so I'll probably be posting about that one soon, too.

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/102128.html

I posted a new fic! This is the first ficlet I've managed to complete for my fluff bingo card, for the prompt "pillow talk". It's very fluffy indeed. I thank

unfeathered for beta-reading it!

Nice and Cuddly (522 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon
Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon
Additional Tags: Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Pillow Talk, Kissing, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Ficlet
Summary: In bed, after some pleasant activities, the Doctor appreciates Jamie, and both of them feel comfortably clingy.

Now, on to finish some more fics/ficlets for the bingo before May ends!

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/101803.html

Last night, I finished rewatching The War Games, the last Second Doctor era serial. Which means I've now seen everything that currently exists on DVD with at least some real-actors moving-pictures episodes. I'm going to do another round where I also watch all the reconstructions and the completely animated stories (The Macra Terror of course only came out recently, so I haven't seen it yet, and I didn't buy The Power of the Daleks at first because it was all animated and I was the most concerned at first with getting everything of Two & Jamie goodness; now I of course want to see all of Two in some form and all of Ben and Polly that I can, too).

But oh, gods, this story. I did watch it once already, during the Twitch marathon when I fell in love with this era, but it's even more powerful when I've seen all the fully existing episodes of the Two era before it. And does it put me through a wringer. Mostly it's so amazing, probably my favourite of all the Doctor Who stories that I've ever seen, but oh, it hurts, too.

( Reactions, comments on it all; also contains references to other stories and New Who; spoilers abound; gets very emotional )

I kind of just want to dive straight back into Two's beginning and watch all the stories and spend my life in a blissful never-ending Two era bubble. But maybe that's not so healthy. So I'll probably try to watch the Four & Leela DVDs that I own next, before I return to Round Two of Two: Now With the Missing Stuff. Four & Leela would probably be really good for me now, once I recover from this a bit, and I didn't see enough of Leela during the marathons. I'm also thinking of getting The War Machines and The Tenth Planet on DVD so I can actually also make it "watch all of Ben & Polly" and get Two's beginning in context. (I watched The War Machines during the January marathon and enjoyed it very much, but will gladly watch it again followed by all the other Ben & Polly stuff.)

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/97754.html

It's occurred to me that I haven't shared here the last few fics I wrote, for Fandom Stocking (which was in January!) and Chocolate Box (which also has been a while, namely two months!). Actually, this has occurred to me fairly often, but not when I've been sitting down at the computer with leisure to write. As I didn't gush about my Chocolate Box gift at all here, I'm doing so at the end of the post, so check that out if you want to be recced some lovely Jane Austen femslash!

For Fandom Stocking, I wrote two little ficlets (I need to get my browser to stop correcting that word to fillets!) for

thisbluespirit. The first was a little piece of silliness involving Two, Jamie and Zoe and historical clothing. Because 18th century aristocratic fashion will never stop being amusing.

Dress the Part (718 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Second Doctor & Zoe Heriot & Jamie McCrimmon
Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Additional Tags: Historical Dress, Silly, Humor, Historical References, Clothing, 18th Century
Summary: When you time-travel to other eras, you have to dress the part.
Right now, however, the Doctor is having some trouble convincing his companions of that.

The other fic also for

thisbluespirit was a little Bill/Ace story. My first time writing Ace. It was lots of fun!

Booming and Blazing (636 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bill Potts/Ace McShane
Characters: Bill Potts, Ace McShane
Additional Tags: First Dates, Kissing, Rocket launch, Ficlet
Summary: Ace and Bill, on a date, at a rocket launch.

Also, slightly late but not too much later than deadline, I managed to post a Thirteen/Missy fic for

trobadora. I'd written two Thirteen/Missy stories before we had more than a couple of minutes of Thirteen canon, so I wanted to give it a go now that we've actually had a season with her. Contains biscuits!

Sweetest Things (1192 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor/Missy
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Missy (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: TARDIS biscuit dispenser, Cookies, Kissing, Sexual Content
Summary: The Doctor brings Missy in to admire her new TARDIS, but biscuits aren't the only thing Missy wants a taste of.

As I briefly gushed after the reveals, my own stocking was delightfully stuffed with fics, icons, recs, recipes and art, both from friends and strangers, and it would take far too long to list all of them separately. But I'll direct you to the Fandom Stocking 2018 collection if you haven't got around to checking it out in the past months, as many lovely things were created for the fest.

In February, for Chocolate Box, the "good things to eat" theme inadvertently continued in gen form as I wrote a Bill & Twelve fic. It's not all about pancakes, but there are pancakes, too. It could be called my first attempt at a five things fic if it had five parts, but it has four.

Friends Make Friends Pancakes (1658 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts
Additional Tags: Season/Series 10, Friendship, Male-Female Friendship, Exploring the TARDIS, Slice of Life, Domestic, Clothing, Cooking, Pancakes, Hats, Books, Board Games, Life in the TARDIS
Summary: Moments from the life of Bill and the Doctor on the TARDIS, in four scenes.

And, because I haven't gushed about Chocolate Box at all, I should add that my own gift that was written for me was a delightful Fanny Price/Mary Crawford fic for Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Go enjoy some historical f/f / Jane Austen femslash!

performance (1243 words) by frausorge
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mary Crawford/Fanny Price
Characters: Fanny Price, Mary Crawford
Summary: Fanny began going more and more often to the Parsonage.

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/95323.html

I just watched the second and third episodes of Seeds of Death, a Doctor Who story from 1969, late in the Patrick Troughton era, and the last full story from this era that I hadn't seen yet. And I just want to make some comments because it's too much fun not to share. (Also a bit on episode 1, which I watched last week.)

( Fabulous females, kilts in space etc. )

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/93452.html

I'm too tired to post any sensible fannish content now (mind you, I feel there's something off with the expression of 'sensible fannish content' - like those words don't belong together, you know). But I just wanted to say that, after life things and such have conspired to slow down my much-loved Second Doctor era watching, I finally finished my rewatch of The Invasion, and that story just makes me so happy. It's even better than I remembered! And Zoe gets to be so awesome in it. Go, brilliant scientist girl saving (some of) the day! In a story made in 1968!

Definitely a Classic Who/Second Doctor story I much recommend! Though probably not as the first introduction to either, simply because it's 8 episodes long and two of the episodes are animated because the original episodes are missing and only their soundtracks survive. But when you've watched some other Second Doctor era, this one should definitely be on your list as well. It's got an interesting plot, an awesome bad guy played by an excellent actor, a great supporting cast (Isobel! and that Brigadier chap is rather important for the series as a whole, you know, and this organization named UNIT also makes its first appearance). The TARDIS trio of the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are in great form, and it's a story where all three get to be very much themselves and get enjoyable stuff to do and I just love these actors and I could go on and on and on about this but I probably need to start getting ready for bed.

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/90666.html

I just want to do some fly-by gratuitous fannish posting about 1960s TV episodes, because after recovering from the attempt to watch some of the rerun of the Classic Who marathon (which I will comment on eventually, I hope, but the way it was going on was far too fast for me to catch more than a few stories here and there) I started watching The Invasion again, being the Second Doctor serial I was on when the marathon news came my way. Since it'd been a month, I started from the beginning again - it was a good decision, as I didn't remember everything, and I feel like I could watch the episodes from this era countless times! I watched episodes 1 and 2 tonight.

( A few random comments )

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/89368.html

Continuing with my very-behind Fandom Snowflake challenge!

Day 2: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

All righty! I could be at this all night, but let's try not to. First, here are a few fics, old and new, across various fandoms.

First, my Yuletide gift from this year totally deserves to be mentioned again, though I did squee about it on the day of the reveals.
An Example of Benevolent Selfishness (5724 words, General Audiences) by Alona, Jane Austen: Emma, Emma Woodhouse & Jane Fairfax with a hint of femslash. A truly beautiful, excellent and in character canon divergence AU where Emma and Jane become friendly earlier, and this has important changes for Jane and her life - I would say better than things turn out for her in the book, all things considered. Their relationship is developed beautifully and gradually and awesomely, and it's amazing and makes me happy.

Another from the latest Yuletide:

The Pelerins Progress, or a Long Wei to a Smalle Angri Islet (1220 words, General Audiences) by UrsulaKohl, Becky Chambers - Wayfarers series, featuring the characters and pairings from The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Basically it's the story of the book told in Middle English as a Chaucerian miracle tale and it's awesome. Go enjoy the uplifting adventures of the fair Rosmarine and all the other pilgrims of the Pelerin.

Then some Doctor Who fics from my bookmarks on AO3:

Gravity (4179 words, General Audiences) by kathkin, Doctor Who (1963), Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon. Undoubtedly my favourite Two/Jamie writer, she gets both of their personalities and their dialogue and all so well, and I probably haven't recced this one anywhere yet. A lovely fic set early in Jamie's time with the Doctor, containing awesomeness of space and the universe, things Jamie learns, and very cute Two/Jamie moments.

Precipice (1761 words, Explicit), also by kathkin, also Doctor Who (1963) and Second Doctor/Jamie, but this one has very explicit sexual content. It's gorgeous and smutty and fluffy and adorable.

I should probably rec some gen as well because I actually totally like Jamie and the Doctor simply as two touchy-feely friends, too, but when I look on the tag I discover that all the ones I remember what they're like are also by kathkin... Ah, what the heck, have Too Much, a cute little gen ficlet from the Two & Jamie & Ben & Polly era, in which the Doctor sometimes finds his companions a bit too much - or maybe not.

This one I haven’t yet read all the parts of, but the parts I did read so far are great, and I trust the remaining ones are, too. Fabulous Investigations by

john_amend_all, with Zoe and Isobel (and Zoe/Isobel). Zoe and Isobel being awesome in several stories!

Finally, some New Who:

When She's Ten Feet Tall by Nancy Brown, a Doctor Who / Alice In Wonderland crossover in which Martha Jones is awesome. You know with all the things Martha has gotten through, she can deal with Wonderland as well!

Sub-Subliminal, by 51st Century Fox, in which Jack Harkness, working for Torchwood in 1969, meets The Silence.

Memory of Water by weakinteraction, a beautiful, stunningly lovely Bill/Heather story from the latest Femslash Exchange.

Second, here's some Doctor Who fan art, because I've recently realized that if I go to DeviantArt and type in characters I like, I have a good chance of finding images that I'm very happy to look at. And I should share! (Also, trying to not totally flood

tardis_library with my fan art recs.)

First (and I’m going to rec this at

tardis_library, too, but it’s too lovely not to be posted in more than one place)

Miss-Alex-Aphey’s Doctor Who Flowers series with various female companions from all eras of Doctor Who drawn with flowers that suit them. While the idea combining women and flowers may sound cliched and trite, it’s not so with these pictures - the characters look just as sharp and active as they are in canon, they’re all gorgeously drawn, and the flowers are vivid and awesome. Many of these are my favourite fan art ever for that character. Here are links to a few of them, and you can go on and find others:
Martha Jones
Amy Pond
wee!Amelia Pond
Nyssa of Traken
Victoria Waterfield
Ace
Vicki

A couple of funny Second Doctor era drawings by

julianwilbury
Velcro-Scot. Second Doctor & Jamie. To quote the description: "There is a term used among bird owners, particularly those who own very personable, loving birds such as cockatoos that would be content to spend their whole day in their owners arms cuddling or clinging to them in any other way, in which such clinging birds are called "velcro birds.” (…) It was seriously only a matter of time would apply this to Jamie."

And here is Zoe getting nose-booped by the Doctor!

A cute drawing of Jamie, Zoe, and an iPod by

ladyyaxetel.

Finally, here’s a lovely Two & Jamie drawing by

EttelwenAilinon Safety Cling No more shippy than canon, trust me. That’s them in approximately every other scene.

Crossposts: https://auroracloud.livejournal.com/87170.html

I wanted to join the

fandom_snowflake challenge this year, but I didn't have the energy for it right away after New Year, so I'm catching up now. I'm doing Days 1 & 2 today, though in separate posts as they got a bit long. I'll hopefully continue with other ones in the following days, though I may do things out of order and/or skip some.

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

1) Without a doubt, recently my happiest of fannish happy places has been Classic Doctor Who, in particular the 1960s and especially the Second Doctor era. It turns out I adore TV being black and white and kind of slow and sometimes clumsy with special effects because 1960s and budget, but so full of heart and fun and spirit, and lovely characters with great chemistry, and willing to try out just about anything they manage and then some. The stories have a certain old-fashioned charm, and while that unfortunately sometimes also means old-fashioned values and attitudes, generally they do aim to be progressive for their time despite some unfortunate blind spots, and e.g. many of the female characters are quite awesome.

There's also such a strong found family vibe in the whole First and Second Doctor era - and to some extent through all of Doctor Who, especially Classic Who, but I feel it's particularly strong in that early era. Also, Patrick Troughton's Doctor is totally someone I'd enjoy spending time with, which doesn't go for all Doctors, but that doesn't mean he's in any way too nice - he's got rough edges and temper and will certainly stand up whenever it counts. I feel so at home with these characters and they make me happy and I can't stop thinking about them and wanting more of their adventures and imagining them in other stories. Watching something from that era will always make me feel better, more grounded and more at home with myself.

2) Another happy place for me is reading. I love books. Fiction books: modern diverse science fiction and fantasy that give space to women, queer characters, people of colour, mental health etc.; historical fiction; 19th century and early 20th century classics, especially by female authors or by such male authors who were capable of imagining intelligent and active women (Alexandre Dumas); poetry; history books; easy-to-read but not too dumbed down popularized science books, especially physics, astronomy and natural history. I love losing myself into the pages of a book and widening the world around me, and it can cut me off from anything that's preying on me, stressing me out, depressing me, making me feel lacking. Books also frequently show me a way to do things differently, be different, make a change. I'll escape into a book and emerge with more hope.

3) Finally, in terms of physical places, forests are happy places for me, as are high enough hills that you can see the landscape around you, and the shores of natural waters like lakes and rivers. Even just a few minutes in such a place washes away some of the worry and grime and stress of ordinary life, and being able to spend a an hour or two is really cleansing and soothing, and makes me feel alive. It does usually need to be real, wild nature, not just a park or a garden, though something living and growing is better than nothing, being that it's hard to find much wild nature when you live in a city.

Be back soon with Day 2!