Aurora's Sundry Notes

Dear Chocolatier,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm super into all these fandoms and characters — I even had to drop out some I really love because I didn't have the energy to write requests for more than these, so trust me that whatever you've matched on / whatever you pick, I'll be happy to receive it.

I like a whole load of genres and tropes and stuff, so feel free to do the kind of story that you like, minding my DNWs. I don't usually like totally unhappy endings, though I've tried to indicate if this isn't the case with a particular relationship. It doesn't need to be a totally happy ending either, though, bittersweet/mixed/oh-my-goodness-this-is-crazy/etc. works just as well.

I'm providing some prompts and things-I-like in this letter and the sign-up, but these are just to help spark your imagination if you are a writer who works better with prompts and details. You absolutely don't need to use any of my prompts. Go wild! Have fun!

I like gen, f/f, m/m, m/f and other things. When I like a ship, I usually am just as fond of gen relationships between the characters, and often have requested both versions of the relationship and I really am interested in both just as much.

If you want to write crossovers/fusions with two (or more!) of these fandoms, or with one of these fandoms and another fandom you know I like, feel free to do so.

Note: if you feel stuck on the fandom we matched on but don't know any of the others or don't want to write for them for any reason, I can propose the following rescues: Moonbase Theta Out and We Fix Space Junk are both podcast dramas that are fairly easy to consume in a short time - they've both only got two seasons out and the episodes aren't long. This is How You Lose the Time War is a novella and doesn't take long to read.

I'm AuroraCloud on AO3.


( General likes and DNWs )

( Doctor Who — 1963 )

( Machineries of Empire — Yoon Ha Lee )

( Imperial Radch — Ann Leckie )

( The Bright Sessions (Podcast) )

( Moonbase Theta, Out (Podcast) )

( We Fix Space Junk (Podcast) )



( This is How You Lose the Time War )

I've been horrid at posting things and reacting to things lately, and I realized I haven't even posted about Chocolate Box fics, though it's been a month and a half. I've been very low on energy these past few months, and haven't even been much good at commenting on fics or replying to comments. I hope this gets better soon.

I only wrote one fic for Chocolate Box, but I was pretty happy with it.

Study Trips For Miss Potts (1333 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor & Nardole & Bill Potts
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: BAMF Women, Time Travel, Season/Series 10
Summary: Bill appreciates the Doctor taking her to visit awesome women for her education and emancipation. Nardole provides tea and ineffective disapproval of secret escapades.


This was my first time writing (or at least publishing) the Twelfth Doctor; I think I finally started feeling comfortable enough with him to try my hand at him, as I've been watching S8 and S9 of Doctor Who. It was my second time writing Bill, and I completely, unabashedly adore writing her. I need to write more of her. Since her time on the show was cut woefully short, and she's so magnificent, we need more of her in form of fanfic. (Why are my absolute favourite Companions far too little on the show? Donna, Bill, Jack... Not to say I don't love the longer-term ones - especially I enjoy Amy, and absolutely adore Rory - but my favouritest-of-the-favourites never seem to stay for long enough.)

My gift fic was written by the wonderful and talented trobadora (which I had figured out by the first sentence or so), and it is exceedingly amazing. Seriously, this is one of the best Doctor/Jack fics I've ever read, and I've read a lot of them. Even if you don't particularly ship them, it's worth a read for an amazing exploration of the characters of the Tenth Doctor and Jack, and their peculiar relationships to each other, life, death, and time. I still need to write the multi-paragraph detailed comment this fic deserves; I only had the brain for generic gushing when the stories were revealed, and well, I still haven't had the brain for much more. Maybe now that I'm posting about it, I'll get around to it soon?

Time's Very End (8166 words) by Trobadora
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness
Additional Tags: Episode: s04e18 The End of Time (2), Immortality, Time Lord senses
Summary: Damn Jack for playing hard to get now, of all times.