Aurora's Sundry Notes

It's been such a busy week I haven't even had time to make a Fandom Stocking post! But oh, my stocking was lovely - Doctor Who and Torchwood ficlets, Torchwood icons and astronomy/space icons (I need to make room for them, ie. just buy the user pic add-on already), book recs, general greetings with lovely graphics, and even new friends! It was so much fun! Even with my terribly few fandoms, I got many lovely gifts.

Here are the fics and ficlets I got:

navaan wrote me a lovely little Martha & Rose fic: Good Old Rose. I was so happy someone picked up that prompt I'd had in Public Call, and this was exactly the kind of thing I'd been hoping to read! Girls being awesome and liking each other - there's not enough fic of that kind, and I so much wanted to see a positive connection between Martha and Rose!

cornerofmadness wrote a nice Torchwood ficlet with a Jack/Ianto moment during an adventure Bryn Celli Ddu

cookielaura also wrote me a Jack/Ianto fic: Other Benefits If you read it, and have been paying any attention to my journal, I'm sure you'll know why it meant I had to instantly friend her. *g*

And hm, I don't know how to link to Dreamwidth accounts in the same way as to LJ accounts in the paragraphs above, so here are just links to the stories:

A sweet little Torchwood team Drabble by fififolle

and a hilarious Jack/Ianto ficlet by xmassocks where Jack gets innuendo even out of shoe polishing, and Ianto has plenty of sass.

As for other things, I got two lovely Torchwood icons, one Jack and one Jack/Ianto from tarlanx

And leesa_perrie made several lovely astronomy/space icons!

Several comments in the stocking also give me interesting book recs, especially scifi and historical fiction!

I'm glad I did this fest, it was great!

As for what I wrote; I had plenty of ideas and a few things I started, but I didn't end up able to write or finish nearly everything I wanted to. However, I did finish and post these two:

The Return of the Nightingale, for navaan
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness, Martha Jones
Relationships: Jack Harkness/Martha Jones
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: none
Rating: Teen
Words: 2591
Summary: Martha returns to the Hub sooner than Jack would expect. They find solace in each other's company, talk about Doctor, and explore what else they might share.


Reward, for trobadora
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Characters: Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness
Relationships: Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Warnings: none
Rating: Teen
Words: 984
Summary: Jack has done well. Will the Doctor acknowledge it?


Maybe one of these days I'll start posting my fics in my journal, too, but there are the links to the stories on AO3.

Hi, Public Call Writer!

Being rather new to the fandom, I thought I'd like to include a letter. I don't know how often people do them or how they usually do them, but here you go. I found Doctor Who about a year and a half ago - of course I'd heard of it before, but I don't watch a lot of TV series, and I'd just kind of missed out on the fact that this one could interest me. Once I did watch it, however, I was promptly hooked on the characters, the weird and wonderful world, the emotions, the starry-eyed wonder and the mixture of darkness and fun. I watched all of Ninth and Tenth Doctor, but after that I felt I'd like a re-watch before I go on, and I'm now in the middle of that, having re-watched S1 and S2, and being about to go onto S3 once I've finished Torchwood S1. Therefore the request in my details about avoiding spoilers beyond the Tenth Doctor era or beyond early S2 of Torchwood - I expect I'll have made some progress both with my DW re-watch and with Torchwood by December, but best to keep it within the limits I specified.

All of the relationships I requested are something I would be equally happy to receive fic for. And you can do anything you like, as long as you're mindful of my dislikes (some of them are things that are likely to make me feel emotionally and even physically bad, so while there are moods when I'll read stuff that's beyond my usual boundaries, or stories which deal with them in ways that work for me, it's better not to take chances in a fic exchange). The stuff in my likes, and ideas I'm throwing around in the rest of this letter, are just to give you an idea of what might interest me, in the case you're not sure where to go, have too many options or need something to spark you. But don't by any means let yourself be constricted by them or think you have to include something I mentioned - it's equally likely I'll be excited by something I didn't think to mention here, so if you have other ideas, just go along with them!

Repeating my dislikes from the sign-up: Graphic violence, torture, rape/non-con/sexual abuse, mpreg, character bashing. Also I'd prefer not reading much about any real-world wars or other strongly violent real-world events. Referencing them happening is fine, if the story needs it, but I'd prefer the story doesn't spend a lot of time in them. Though I don't mind the WWII stuff in The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, but I prefer not to see the war in more detail than that.

And please no radical AU of the college/high school/coffee shop/vampire/etc. kind, I prefer the Doctor Who universe. Also, I'm very behind in my watching: so far I've watched all of Ninth and Tenth Doctor eras and S1 of Torchwood, and I'll probably be a little further along with Torchwood by December, but please avoid spoilers for Doctor Who beyond the Tenth Doctor era (ie. after End of Time Part Two; and I also haven't seen Classic Who yet), or Torchwood beyond early S2.


You can browse the Doctor Who tag in my journal if you feel like it - I occasionally post thoughts about characters and episodes. But while I originally intended this journal to be mainly just for such fannish thoughts, in practice I haven't yet had the energy to get that many detailed thoughts into written form, so it's a bit random and mostly it probably isn't all that helpful. And in any case there's no need to look at it, just mentioning that there is such a tag and there are a bunch of posts in it if that helps you.


These are the relationships I requested:
Tenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness/Rose Tyler
Martha Jones/Rose Tyler

It says so also in the rules of exchange, but still, I'm happy either with slash/femslash/threesome or gen for these. And if you do write pairing/threesome, with any of them I'm happy with anything ranging from longing looks and sweet words to steaming, detailed sex. With sex I do prefer if the story isn't pure PWP, but I am very fond of seeing character and emotions shown through sex, so that will already count as "more than PWP" in my book, without them necessarily having to do anything else if that's how the story comes out.

Here are a few thoughts and possibilities about the relationships I requested, but you don't need to use anything I mentioned, or even read them if you don't want to. Feel free to discard them or use them as a starting point and bounce off to an unexpected direction. I'm just as likely to enjoy that.

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That's all I can think of now. Like I said, if anything I said constricts you, apart from my specific dislikes, please forget about it and do whatever works for you! The important part is that you're having fun and enjoying the writing, and above all I love to read stories where the writer has been doing their own thing that feels right for them.