thisbluespirit: (dw - two)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Title: 500 Miles
Creator: relative-dimension-in-space
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.38 mins
Creator's Summary: Another era tribute, this time for the Troughton years. This was so much fun to work on and it's making me want to binge some of these stories again. I love this era and these characters so much and I really, desperately hope that more of it gets found with time. There's a wealth of character work and physical comedy that's just gone and it's so upsetting to not get to see more of these performances. I'd do anything (including walk 500 miles and 500 more) to one day get to watch even more of this beloved, incredible era of the show.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield & Zoe Heriot.
Warnings/Notes: None, save for obligatory brief War Games heartache in passing.

Reasons for reccing: I loved this vidder's First Doctor era tribute and they just posted one for the Second Doctor's era and it's also great! It's a perfect match up of song and clips, with exactly the right feel for this Doctor and his companions, and showcases all over again why the loss of every single minute of on-screen Troughton is a crime. In short, it's downright adorable and I hope watching it brightens your day the way it did mine.


Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw50sbIJejg
thisbluespirit: (dw - one)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Title: First Doctor Era | Gone, Gone, Gone
Creator: [youtube.com profile] relative-dimension-in-space
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 3.29
Creator's Summary: Happy to present my first ever video! I've wanted to make them for years now and finally have the means to. The First Doctor era of Doctor Who is an easy place for me to start because I know it like the back of my hand and it's uncomplicated to edit - I'll definitely be attempting more intensive edits in the future, but I'm very happy to start here with something I love so much. I've wished a video to this song existed for a long time and it's exciting to actually get to see it now that I've done it! Hope you enjoy :)
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Susan Foreman, Vicki, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Dodo Chaplet, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson.
Warnings/Notes: One brief broken/flashing cut towards the end.

Reasons for reccing: YT dropped this into my feed and I was instantly charmed - it's a really sweet and heart-warming whole era vid for the First Doctor. It's very well done, the song choice works beautifully and the found family celebratory vibe is threaded with the minor note of One's losses. I've not come across anything like this ensemble tribute for this era before, or certainly not so well done, and I've already watched it about six times.


Link: https://youtu.be/h3K5HgbcOlE?si=rmqZniwsjW-VEBz6
paranoidangel: Pink Dalek (Pink Dalek)
[personal profile] paranoidangel
Title: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] touchdownpossum
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 2:42
Creator's Summary: 10 Doctors, 30+ companions, and the special-est special effects you'll see this holiday season.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Susan Foreman, Barbara WrightIan Chesterton, Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Ben Jackson Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, John Benton, Mike Yates, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Romana II, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Ace McShane, Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song, Sara Kingdom, Davros, Jack Harkness

Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For 1975, the year Davros, the Dalek creator was introduced. This is a fun vid to a fun song, with the images matching the words. And the addition of some fun hashtags.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/579189
paranoidangel: Pink Dalek (Pink Dalek)
[personal profile] paranoidangel
Title: Five Times Ben Jackson didn't ask Polly out and one Time she asked him
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] Annariel
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 2440 words
Creator's Summary: After they get back from their travels in the Tardis, Ben and Polly must pick up their lives. Somehow that seems to mean it's never quite the right moment to become a couple.
Characters/Pairings: Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's a story of Ben and Polly, going back to their lives and never quite getting together. It's the almost asking that keeps you reading until the end for that one time.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9250502
paranoidangel: Pink Dalek (Pink Dalek)
[personal profile] paranoidangel
Title: A Very Fine Rescue
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] celeste9
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 169 words
Creator's Summary: Ben gets a bit of help from Polly.
Characters/Pairings: Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: It's hard to say much when it's short, but it's a sweet moment between the two of them.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37016695
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[personal profile] romanajo123
 Title:  Into the Closet
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] unwillingadventurer 
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 1174
Creator's Summary: The Doctor decides its time that Ben and Polly are shown the TARDIS wardrobe.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Ben, Polly
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: For the "Fashion" part of the monthly theme.  Always fun seeing companions finding out how magnificently expansive the wardrobe is, and this is a delightful scene with everyon'es voices spot on.


Linkarchiveofourown.org/works/12681237
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[personal profile] romanajo123
 
 Title:  Felis Catus Temporus
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 10773
Creator's Summary:A series of unrelated one-shots in which your favourite characters become cats. Because cats. 
Characters/Pairings:  Ace McShane, Amy Pond, Ben Jackson, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara Oswin Oswald, Jamie McCrimmon, Jo Grant, K-9, Leela, Nyssa, Peri Brown, Polly Wright, Sarah Jane Smith, The Master (Delgado), Vicki, Victoria Waterfield
 
Warnings/Notes: None
 
Reasons for reccing:  For the Fluff box on my Bingo card.  What's fluffier than a fic where the Doctors and companions are cats! Adorable, funny, and very in-character dialogue. 
 
 
Link:  https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=54213
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[personal profile] romanajo123
For my Bingo card.  Box- first time/last time

 Title:  The End of an Era
Creator: Pendragon
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 1410
Creator's Summary: As the Doctor goes through his first regeneration, he reminisces about all he has been through.
Characters/Pairings:  Barbara Wright, Ben Jackson, Dodo Chaplet, Ian Chesterton, Katarina, Polly Wright, Sara Kingdom, Steven Taylor, Susan Foreman, The Doctor (1st), Vicki
Warnings/Notes: swearing
 
Reasons for reccing: This is a thoughtful and in-character look at the first time the Doctor regenerates.  Beautiful and heartbreaking
 
 
Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=42734
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[personal profile] romanajo123
 Seasonal !! G

Title:  Gravity
Creator: Penny
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: 4332
Creator's Summary: In which Jamie gets his first view of earth from space and learns what 'gravity' is. Or, the Doctor turns Jamie's world upside down.
Characters/Pairing:  Second Doctor,  Jamie McCrimmon, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: Nope
 
Reasons for reccing: It's a wonderful moment with this team.  In-character and well-done; this feels like something from a missing episode.  

 
Link: 
https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=57601
thisbluespirit: (dw - ian/barbara)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Title: Like Nobody's Watching
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] Andraste
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 5568 words
Creator's Summary: The Doctor has been dancing for a long time.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Barabara Wright/Ian Chesterton, Jamie McCrimmon, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Second Doctor, John Benton, Third Doctor, Romana I, Fourth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Fifth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush, Seventh Doctor, C'Rizz, Eighth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Beautiful, thoughtful, and heart-warming multi-era fic in which the Doctor dances with his companions across all his incarnations (up to the point when this was written). It's a light and fun read, but explores various relationships with depth, accuracy and heart, and everything comes together in deftly circular way at the end.


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50581
auroracloud: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot from Classic Doctor Who, smiling together (Two & Jamie & Zoe happy)
[personal profile] auroracloud
I'm a bit late for this one - but well, the TARDIS in this era is never when and where she's supposed to be, either!

Era/Spin-off: Second Doctor Era
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot, Isobel Watkins. Two/Jamie, Zoë/Isobel, Jamie/Victoria
Notes/warnings/spoilers Spoilers for the ending of the War Games, and some generic spoilers for other things like how someone joins or leaves the TARDIS.

Second Doctor Era Manifesto )
auroracloud: Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon clinging to each other (Two/Jamie cling)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Title: Selkie Song (series)
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] eggling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 51,191 for the whole series, 3 works
Creator's Summary: (Don't have a summary for a whole series, so here's the summary for the first part:) "I remember there was always music. Everywhere we went, the selkie songs echoed through the water and on the beaches, sometimes for days afterwards, like they'd been caught on the kelp and the stones."

The people of the sea can seldom stay with those they love, but their songs always remain.

Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon. Also Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot, Isobel Watkins. Ben/Polly and Zoe/Isobel as background pairings.

Notes: A selkie AU

Reasons for reccing: I don't read a lot of different-universe AUs, but I make an exception for fairy tale / folklore AUs a bit more often than other types, and this one kept coming up in my searches, so I gave it a try and loved it. It's a selkie/Fae AU and a Two/Jamie romance, and this AU works a lot better than I would have expected, and everyone's Fae versions make sense and the character interactions are lovely. It probably helps that Jamie's canon background makes the Celtic folklore connection feel natural, and the Doctor as a Selkie works as an analogue for the Doctor's canon existence. Also, Two makes quite an adorable seal!

It is very romantic, so make sure you're in a mood for that when you read it - and make sure you need more than just the first part of the series! Things do get sad and angsty in parts, so be prepared for that as well.

The first two parts are longer stories that follow one another, and the third part is a collection of short scenes from before, during, and after the first two stories. They're not necessary to get the main story, but some of them are pretty delightful.


Link: The link to the whole series here
and here is the first story: There is Music of the Birds in it (and Music of the Sídhe)
thisbluespirit: (dw - seven & ace)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
I've been meaning to post some recs for the Second Doctor gen request for a while, so here are two now to make up for my delay, both of them fabulous historical longfic for the same TARDIS team.

Title: The Spartans
Creator: [personal profile] jjpor | JJPOR
Rating: Teen
Word Count/Length/Size: 69,883 words
Creator's Summary: Greece, 480 BC: As the vast armies of the King of Kings prepare to battle the outnumbered defenders of the Hot Gates, the Doctor and his friends find themselves where they often find themselves at times like this – caught in the middle.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: Explicit violence.

Reasons for reccing: It's no secret that JJPOR is still one of my favourite Doctor Who writers and this may be my favourite of his stories. It's basically a full-on attempt at a 60s era historical, although going that little further (like a PDA or MA, save that JJPOR's stuff has far more heart and eventual happy endings) to allow for some of the historical reality. It's vividly written, excellently characterised, well-plotted out, and a real treat.


Link: https://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=32635


Title: Reciprocal Quandaries
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] primsong
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 30,765
Creator's Summary: Two, Ben, Polly and Jamie pause for a bit of restful holiday at the 1900 Paris Exposition - or so they wished. A 'historic' adventure for one of the Old School teams.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: Talking of treats, this is also a long historical 'missing adventure' featuring the very same TARDIS team, but with a much lighter edge. It is a delightful runaround set during the Paris Exposition in 1900, complete with improbable doppelgangers and actual candy floss, and is heaps of fun. I only wish there were more of it!


Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/129687/chapters/184323 (And here @ Teaspoon.)
thisbluespirit: (dw - seven & ace)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Title: A Place in Time
Creator: [youtube.com profile] VanielDonovan (Van Donovan)
Rating: None (All ages)
Word Count/Length/Size: 1.07 mins
Creator's Summary: A Ben/Polly music video for one of the most underappreciated couples in Doctor Who canon!
Characters/Pairings: Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Another for my favourite pairings seasonal challenge. Ben and Polly are indeed far too underappreciated, mainly due to so many of their episodes being junked, and this is a sweet and fun well done tribute vidlet that I was delighted to stumble over. And it's a great choice of final clip!


Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muxygREmNTU
auroracloud: Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon with open sky behind, looking at something (2 & Jamie)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Title: Life Lessons
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] kathkin (I know I rec a lot of hers, but her Jamie stuff is so good!)
Rating: General Audiences (I might rate chapter Four as Teen, though, because of violence mentions)
Word Count/Length/Size: 9670 words (5 chapters)
Creator's Summary: "You’ve just taken your first step into a wider universe.” / “I have?” Five lessons the Doctor taught Jamie about life.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
Warnings/Notes: Descriptions of aftermath of violence/war and mention of child death in Chapter Four. The chapters are basically individual stories, though, so if that disturbs you, you can just skip the fourth chapter and read the others.

Reasons for reccing: I love stories of Jamie learning things (not that you could guess), and this one has all sorts of wonderful stories on that theme. There's Jamie encountering a scary-looking but non-evil alien (I wish canon gave us more of those, especially in the 60s!), there's Jamie learning about bacteria and trying to wrap his head around having millions of them in his body, and there's even Jamie learning about evolution! And because it's kathkin, it's well-written with excellent characterization and voice for Jamie, Doctor and everyone else.

One of the reasons I find well-written Jamie-learns-things and Doctor-explains-things-to-Jamie fics so fascinating that they illustrate how much the world has changed in a few centuries and how much science has discovered in the modern era that would be completely outside the common person's knowledge through most of human history. And how much of what we take for granted would be completely foreign to most of our ancestors. I suppose it's also one of the reasons why I so much enjoy Jamie and other historical companions and wish the show had more of them (or any in the modern era).

ETA: Ooh, and I just realized this qualifies for the monthly theme as well, because the last chapter is about natural history and very pre-historic Earth - that is history as well!


Link: Life Lessons on AO3
auroracloud: Jamie McCrimmon (Doctor Who) (Jamie)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Title: Fab Gear
Creator: whatthefoucault
Rating: All Ages / General Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 619 words
Creator's Summary: Polly and Ben help Jamie adjust to modern life, starting with a new turtleneck.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Second Doctor; mostly gen but with a smidgen of Two/Jamie
Notes:This is set fairly early on in Jamie's TARDIS adventure times, set after The Underwater Menace and before The Moonbase. (Author's Note)

Reasons for reccing: I'm a sucker for "Jamie meets modernity" fics, and it's fun to imagine and read how Polly and Ben may have tried to introduce him to new times and new fashions. And obviously how he got that haircut! This is an adorable little ficlet about just that, capturing everyone's voices perfectly, not to mention Jamie's confusion over modern vocabulary. Fun, sweet and perfect. A tiny bit of Two/Jamie pre-slash, but I'm sure non-shippers will enjoy it as well.

Quote:
“Oh aye, it’s very nice,” replied Jamie with a nod, still bewildered by all that had happened to him. “What do you think?”

“I think you look smashing,” she said with a satisfied grin. “Doesn’t he, Ben?”

“Oh yeah,” Ben agreed, “brilliant, mate! Them turtlenecks, you know, they’re really with it.”

“With what?” asked Jamie.



Link: Fab Gear (link goes to Teaspoon)
auroracloud: Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon clinging to each other (Two/Jamie cling)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Title: Five Times the Doctor Kissed Jamie (and One Time Jamie Kissed Him)
Creator: [archiveofourown.org profile] kathkin / Penny (Katie) on Teaspoon
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 3952 words
Creator's Summary: Who was to say he wasn’t normal to kiss your friends? This was probably perfectly normal in the future. In which Jamie and the Doctor do a lot of kissing for two people who are just friends.
Characters/Pairings: Second Doctor/Jamie McCrimmon. Other characters: Ben Jackson, Polly Wright (in small roles)

Reasons for reccing: Finally getting started with my character claim on the seasonal challenge, with one of my go-to fics for funny, sweet Jamie McCrimmon fic and especially Two/Jamie fluff. As always in this author's fics, the Jamie characterization and voice are spot on, and his interactions with the Doctor are thoroughly adorable. It's also one of my favourite uses of the 5 + 1 times format, where the 5 + 1 times build up to a clear narrative with progress. Plus is an excuse for a lot of kissing. And the kissing is really nicely written. The story goes from the Ben and Polly era to the Zoe era, though only Ben and Polly among the other companions are present as characters.

I totally ship these two, so I have no idea how well the fic works for non-shippers, but if you can deal with lots of cuddling and snuggling and cluelessly-in-love Jamie, the characterizations and the Jamie voice certainly are lovely.


A tiny quote: There was no way he could pretend to himself that it was a friendly kiss, for he was sure kisses between friends weren’t meant to make your heart quicken or your stomach turn over, nor were they meant to go on quite this long, and they definitely weren’t – ah – meant to involve quite so much tongue.


Link: on AO3 / On Teaspoon
auroracloud: Jamie McCrimmon from Classic Doctor Who, looking determined (Jamie determined)
[personal profile] auroracloud
Title: Anger Issues, or, Loud and Fast
Creator: Penny/ [archiveofourown.org profile] kathkin
Rating: General audiences
Word Count/Length/Size: 4970 words
Creator's Summary: "I suppose I’m concerned you might have some, ah, well, some unresolved emotional issues.” / “What’s that supposed to mean?” Jamie picks fights and discovers guinea pigs.
Characters/Pairings: Jamie McCrimmon, the Second Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson
Warnings/Notes: some violence, some talk of trauma

Reasons for reccing: It's a touching exploration of how past trauma may lead to in anger control issues and violence, and the difficulty of admitting to emotions and issues you don't know how to deal with. In this story, Jamie's picking a lot of fights and refuses to admit he might have some unresolved issues from his past experiences, in the war. But help comes from unexpected sources - and the ending is in fact quite sweet. It's emotionally really powerful - as in, I cried buckets when I first read it. Might have been an emotional day for me, but anyway, it's great.

I'm choosing this for the "battle/struggle" square on my bingo card. I don't really read a lot of fics actually about battles, but I love reading fics about the after effects of traumatic events such as battles. Especially on characters I adore who might have issues admitting the said effects, such as Jamie. More figuratively, there is a lot of struggle with emotions going on here.


Link: on Archive of Our Own / on Teaspoon

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