The Romans is my new favorite First Doctor serial. It's awesome in almost too many ways to count, but I'll mention a few of them.

( The Romans! )

This is one of the funniest DW badfics around. It's called The Coward and centers around Turlough.

Need convincing? Here's the opening sentence.
The Doctor was a mysterious man who went around the universe to set things right on other planets (A/N Like Sam on Quantum Leap only not just on Earth).

Need more convincing? This is the story where Turlough has a tail! Yes, a tail.

( Click here for more quotes, plus links to the audio version of legolas )

I recently found an article in a major magazine where the author writes in favor of that fellow who wants to publish his HP Lexicon. I typed it up below. Any typos are mine; my typing is fairly mediocre, problem currently compounded by a minor finger injury.

Harry Potter's mom picks a legal fight, by Vanessa Juarez, additional reporting by Lindsay Soll
(Entertainment Weekly, Summer Movie '08 issue)

( but the ordeal made her look like Draco Malfoy picking on Harry )

(Just to be clear, my first three notes are not aimed at anyone on my flist. The last three--the nice ones--could apply to some of you.)

Dear person who bitched in your LJ about your fic not being approved at Teaspoon yet,
Your complaint was made in a public entry anyone could read. I looked at one of your stories and saw problems with your punctuation of dialogue. Quit complaining about the mods and get help to fix your mistakes.

Dear Blackpool author who wrote that Ten/Carlisle PWP,
I was looking for good fic about the show. I'm still looking.

Dear reviewer who flamed an anti-Martha author,
You are anti-Rose and you personally attacked Billie Piper in your profile, so you're not exactly a prize package yourself. Grow up.




Dear good Jack/Ianto authors,
Post your fic at Teaspoon, please. I like the pairing but have had a hell of a time finding quality stories and would appreciate seeing them in a nice central location.

Dear K9 fans,
Write some fic about this neglected character, yes? I promise to read and review it.

Dear everyone who writes Barbara/Ian fic,
I love you.

All previous rare-pairing lists have been merged into one big list. Okay, actually six big lists, each with its own theme. All stories from the individual scattered lists I periodically post are now in one of the following locations:
Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master lists
Doctors One-Five pairings
Doctors Six-Ten (or later) pairings
Non-Doctor pairings A-G
Non-Doctor pairings H-L
Non-Doctor pairings M-Z, crossover stories
To see links to all lists on one page, go here.

Why six lists? Because after I checked all 1000 or so links and added lengths and ratings for most of the stories, the file was huge. Splitting it into six chunks seemed to work best. If anyone has a better idea, LMK.

I did not repeat the work done on the
who_otp master list so some "missing" stories may already be listed there. If not, or you spot any mistakes, LMK.

Only completed stories are included. Ten/Master, Master/Doctor (university era), Ten/Rose, Ten/Jack, Ten/Jack/Rose, Ten/Martha, Ten/Jack/Martha, Lucy/Simm!Master, Nine/Rose, Nine/Jack, and Nine/Jack/Rose stories are not listed because they're very common and keeping up on them would be way too much work.

One viewer (a Ten/Rose fan; big surprise) was positing that folks who don't like Rose are jealous Doctor/Martha shippers. Seeing that I don't especially like Martha and do not ship Doctor/Martha (though I have nothing against those who do, unless they are batshit), I fail to fit into this horribly generalized category.

Yeah, I'm kind of neutral. Overall I don't much like Rose but OTOH, I think Martha is only just okay. So I don't have any strong pro-Martha bias when pointing out badfic. I haven't seen any Rose-bashing fic lately or I'd bitch about that too. Bad writing is bad writing, regardless of how I feel about a particular character.

I'd hope that any sensible Rose (or Ten/Rose) fan would despise the following story about as much as I do. It's yet another reunionfic, creatively titled Reunited.

The author gives "first fic" as an excuse for possible suckiness. That said, she thinks the horrific anti-Martha ending of the story is actually good so I'm not inclined to be very sympathetic.

( In which Martha becomes a floating blob. )

Today, instead of complaining about yet another horrible character-bashing story or a fic with terrible grammar, I come bearing a fanfic recommendation. I'd happily rec this one over at calufrax, only it isn't posted on Teaspoon.

The fic is reina_isabella's Stories, it was posted more than a year ago, and I almost skipped right past it because I thought it was yet another Tenth Doctor story and some days, I just am Tenned out. Well, Stories is a Jamie-centric tale. Naturally, then, I had to read it. The bonus: It turned out to be brilliant.

So, what happened to Jamie after The War Games? Here, he went home, had a family, and grew old. Possibly also insane, many relatives and acquaintances think. Of course, readers know differently.

Either of two particular endings to this fic would have felt right to me. I won't ruin things by saying which one was used, though. Just go read Stories and find out for yourself.

Now that I have my taxes done, I'm moving right along with my viewing. Got through a few serials, all the way to the beginning of The Romans tonight. Here, my thoughts on Planet of Giants and The Rescue.

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Non-Doctor pairings for characters with names H-L. Lucy/Simm!Master stories are not included because they're fairly common and keeping up on them would require too much work.

Any broken links, corrections, additions? Comment and let me know so I can fix them.

These are completed stories not yet on the
who_otp master list.

All my lists:
Doctor/Doctor, Doctor/Master, Master/Master lists
Doctors One-Five pairings
Doctors Six-Ten (or later) pairings
Non-Doctor pairings A-G
Non-Doctor pairings H-L
Non-Doctor pairings M-Z, crossover stories
To see links to all lists on one page, go here.

( Read more... )

I signed up to cover Torchwood at rec50. I previously had claimed Doctor Who, general fandom, for two rounds quite some time apart. I got up to the full 50 recs the first time, then just 14 on my second try. I think I can make it to 50 for TW on this first try.

( Prompts table under here. )

My quest to see all the First Doctor serials in order continues! I made little progress for a few days because, in an extremely OOC fit of saintliness, I took time off of viewing to help my grandmother figure out her income taxes. Don't remind me of the fact that I haven't even STARTED to work on my own yet, plus will owe money.

Anyway, when I got back to DW viewing, I finished The Keys of Marinus and then zapped through The Aztecs and The Sensorites.

( Reviews inside. )

In the interest of fairness, I thought I'd mention a Torchwood badfic for once.

This is a torchwooddoctor who story I came up with Roxy is my charecter she has come with me to here from teaspoon. she is Captain Jack's friend and The Doctor partner this is set in torchwood and at the end we see the TARDIS

I'm betting Teaspoon wasn't sorry to see Roxy leave. I don't recall exactly when that site went moderated, but if this little gem of a summary happened to pop up there after that point, I can't imagine any mod NOT rejecting the thing. So much is wrong with it, it's hard to know where to start.

( Meet Roxy. You'll wish you hadn't. )

List has been moved. See:
Doctor pairings
non-Doctor pairings
Doctor/Doctor and Doctor/Master lists.

Martha is so jealous of Rose, she wants pretty much everything Rose had. At least, that's how one author at ff.net would have it in Stealing Rose's Life.

Not only does Martha want the Doctor, she wants to look like the "lovely" and "glorious" Rose instead of her own "ugly" and "disgusting" self. And wait till you see how she describes her own skin color!

( It gets worse. )

I've seen only 36 of the below movies. Which supposedly means I have a life, which is news to me. The reason I haven't seen more from this list is probably because I strongly favor Classic Hollywood. Give me a Classic Hollywood meme to fill out and my lack of a life would become quite apparent.

Meme from amaresu

Put "I've seen ____ of these 168 movies" in the subject line and repost. If you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 168 movies on this list.

( Haven't seen most of these, and really don't want to! )

I realized I haven't watched nearly enough First Doctor serials and that is just not right. So I started from the beginning. I've seen other reviewers completely trash the First Doctor era, but I found his serials to be very watchable.

( First Doctor reviews! )

I haven't been on LJ too much in the last week or so. I have to catch up on lots of posts on my flist. Oh, and I get to complain.

( Bitching under the cut. )

More badfic from ff.net. I actually felt sorry for Rose after reading this story.

My name is NOT Rose Tyler

The Time War is raging. Amazonalia--bwahaha! I'm sorry, but that name just cracks me up. Anyway, Amazonalia's mother sends her away so she'll be safe. Gallifrey has already been destroyed, and the planet where they're now living is also in danger. Amazonalia, who looks about 15 in human years, ends up on Earth, where she encounters Jackie and makes up a story about having amnesia, and no family that she remembers. About five minutes after meeting her, Jackie volunteers to adopt Mary Sue--er, I mean, Amazonalia. And so things go on for a few years.

Then Amazonalia meets the Doctor. She doesn't tell HIM she's from Gallifrey, though. Oh, no. She pretends to be human! Why? Well, during her telepathic communication with the TARDIS, we find out:

( If he knew I was a Time Lord then he wouldn’t be so impressed. )

Plain and simple, snow sucks. Anyone who likes it, do feel free to come over here and take some of mine. You are MORE than welcome to as much of the crap as you care to haul away. We have had record snowfall in my neck of the woods. I believe the previous snowfall record was set in 1929, and it is not a record that ever should have been broken.

So, I went out and shoveled the sidewalk today. We have a very long sidewalk. It felt like the shovel and snow combined weighed more than I do, but I slowly, slowly cleared the whole damn thing. I came inside after I finally finished, and then I looked out the window. And it was snowing AGAIN! WHY? WHY? WHY?

( Depressing snow pictures under the cut. )

I had just recovered from my last visit to fanfiction.net when I felt this overwhelming urge to go there again. And I found one of the worst DW reunion fics ever. I won't say it is THE worst, because I've seen some truly awful ones and this story is only on the first chapter, but it's already on my short list.

Last one not

Actually, the summary was too compelling to pass up.
the doctor never left jack but everthing else happand including doomsday. full summary inside. 10/rose jack/martha hate for martha likers do not read this.

Yeah, there sure is Martha hate, and it's totally irrational. This is the story where the Doctor throws Martha out of the TARDIS, but later takes her back on board only because he needs a third person along when he and Jack go to a planet called Threesome. Yes, Threesome. I don't think the author is entirely aware of a certain meaning of that word.

Oh, yeah, about this beautiful sentence: Martha ran to the room and gave jack evils
I believe the author meant that Martha gave Jack the evil eye.

( “But the TARDIS is a machine”, Martha said but everyone ignored her. )