Aurora's Sundry Notes

Now that Chocolate Box authors have been revealed, I can share the fic I wrote. My recipient happened to be elstaplador, with whom I share more than one fandom and ship, so I had options. I ended up writing a Zoe Heriot/Isobel Watkins story, from Classic Who. I've started several Zoe/Isobel fics before, but now I finally had to finish one, so I'm pleased.

I didn't manage to write any treats in this exchange, though I thought about many intriguing prompts. Perhaps later!

(Ratings are so hard, though, I'm not sure if this warrants Teen or Mature rating! Decided to go for the higher rating to be safe, but I've seen more descriptive Mature rated fics around than this one is.)

(Tags are hard, too, it seems that these days I go for more rather than fewer, just in case.)

Present Perfect (2642 words) by AuroraCloud
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zoe Heriot/Isobel Watkins
Characters: Zoe Heriot, Isobel Watkins
Additional Tags: Femslash, Female Relationships, Serial: s046 The Invasion, Missing Scene, Photography, Kissing, Girls Kissing, Sexual Content, not very graphic
Summary: This might be the past, as far as Zoe's own time was concerned, but Isobel Watkins made her feel present like nothing else.

Oh, a recent little tiny thing I posted on AO3, written for the who_contest Drabble challenge. I didn't share it here earlier, because my laptop was running low on charge and my charger was Elsewhere. Posting it now that I remember! I am rather proud of actually managing to write something that only ran 100 words. I find it so much harder to write one hundred words than one thousand! Especially for anything complete. I actually wrote another drabble for the same prompt as well, but I chose this one because it managed to be more of a complete story (I'll post the other one on AO3 when I get around to it). Even if it means a continuation of only posting light-hearted stuff into that contest. Oh well, light-hearted is good, and I enjoy writing fun things.

Besides, I love this inordinately, because Victoria is a lot more awesome than people typically give her credit for.


Victoria's Strategy (100 words) by AuroraCloud
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Victoria Waterfield, Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor
Additional Tags:Drabble, Women Being Awesome, Classic Who Companions Are Awesome, Alien Planet
Summary: The Doctor and Jamie need to rescue Victoria again... or not.

Oh my goodness, my First Doctor & Vicki & Steven ficlet won the "Reach" challenge! I'd never have thought! Thank you to everyone who read, voted etc.

If you missed the fic and want to read it, it's here: Like Siblings

Last night, I posted my Second Doctor Era manifesto over at tardis_library! Witness me trying to put into words why I love this era and its characters, and rec a whole bunch of different kind of fics in it. I took care not to repeat any of the recs I've already made at the community, so it doesn't include all my favourite stories, but I tried to create a wide selection of excellent fics that deserve attention and show different aspects of the era and the fandom.

Since it's a manifesto for a rec community, it includes a lot of fanfic recs, and there are some spoilers since I assume most people know the era at least partly if they're looking at this. I'm thinking of creating a for-new-viewers version of this in my journal, though, where instead of reccing fics I recommend episodes/stories to watch if you haven't seen any of the era or have only seen one or two stories. So stay tuned for that if you're interested!

I guess that took care of reccing Thursday for me, heh. Even if it was technically Friday when I posted it.


In other, entirely unrelated news, while the Finnish WWF's seal webcam closed at the end of May with just that one evening of serious seal action (or inaction, rather), the osprey webcam now includes three osprey chicks! They've all hatched within the last week or so, and now they're already moving about in the nest a bit, at least some of the time. Go see baby dinosaurs squabble! Though at the moment it's really hot in Finland, so they're mostly lying down in a vague heap while Mama Osprey shields them from the sun with her body. Poor thing, she must be hot, she's panting a lot.

But baby ospreys are really totally mini-dinosaurs.

Also, there's now a flying squirrel webcam. They're mostly nocturnal animals, so you're more likely to see them/it climbing out and running up the tree etc. in the evening / night (the webcam has night vision), but sometimes it apparently peeks out or steps out during the day, too. I haven't yet seen the squirrel, but there is activity every day, if you manage to catch it.

There's also a wolverine webcam, and I mean the animal, not the superhero. It also has a night vision version. Sometimes bears have been sighted on it, too! I'd say this is somewhere pretty far up north, based on the vegetation. And finally, there's a forest deer webcam, which sometimes has deer on it, and when it doesn't, it still has a peaceful Finnish woodland pond.

Okay, I need to start doing actually useful stuff.

I managed to, on the last day, write a ficlet for the latest drabble/short fic challenge over at who_contest, with the theme "reach". So here is my first foray into writing the First Doctor era, with Vicki and Steven. I'm afraid it's frightfully silly. Some day, I might finish a more serious entry for that contest! Or not. I rather enjoyed writing this.

Title: Like Siblings
Rating: General Audiences
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 546 words
Characters: First Doctor, Vicki, Steven Taylor
Spoilers: None
Summary: The Doctor finds out that perhaps Steven and Vicki have taken to each other too much like siblings.

Read it here (at AO3)