Aurora's Sundry Notes

I didn't get around to doing any Chocolate Box exchange squee or recs when the collection went live, but here, shortly before reveals, let me at least get in a quick post to share my two lovely gift fics!

Exploding Kittens and Other Shuos Shenanigans (496 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Vauhan Mikodez & Zehun
Characters: Zehun (Machineries of Empire), Vauhan Mikodez
Additional Tags: Cats
Summary: A working relationship in five snapshots, with kittens.


Mikodez and Zehun! Cats! Zehun managing Mikodez and managing cats! It's utterly delightful. (Also, don't worry, no kittens were harmed. That we know of.)


The Temporary Delay (1447 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: We Fix Space Junk
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samantha Trapp/Kilner
Characters: Samantha Trapp, Kilner (WFSJ)
Additional Tags: Huddling For Warmth, Pining
Summary: When an unexpected snowfall traps Samantha and Kilner planet-side after a job, Samantha deals poorly with the lack of proper heating. Kilner tries to help.


OMG, look, there is We Fix Space Junk fic! I don't remember if I've squeed about this podcast properly, but basically it's a sci-fi humour podcast of two female repairers under evil space capitalism and very delightful. Anyway, not only is this a lovely fic with a canon-appropriate weird deadly planet, but it also gives us some Kilner/Samantha feels (Samantha's POV) and huddling for warmth. Am very happy. This makes me all the more determined to write some fics for the podcast myself, because it deserves to be ficced.


And here are a couple of other recs from the collection:

squishable (0 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rosemary Harper/Sissix Seshkethet
Additional Tags: Fanart, Interspecies Romance
Summary: For all the potential pitfalls, mammals make for marvelously cuddly girlfriends!


An utterly adorable piece of Rosemary/Sissix fan art with cuddles! I love the way the artist draws both characters, and also the way the piece gets in the feel of both space and The Wayfarer while focusing on the characters.

Winding Down (453 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Moonbase Theta Out (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nessa Cheong & Wilder (Moonbase Theta Out)
Characters: Wilder (Moonbase Theta Out), Nessa Cheong
Summary: Wilder visits Nessa in the garden in the waning days of base shutdown.


There's more fic in this fandom! Yaaay! It's a lovely little vignette with Wilder and Nessa being very much themselves, there's gardening and tardigrades, and a bittersweet note to end with.

There are still fanworks I haven't viewed in fandoms that I like, but thought I'd get in the recs I wanted to make at this point, since the author reveals will probably happen today and it's always nice to get some sharing in during the anon period.

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.