TARDIS Festivities!

I have not seen the new episode yet, don't tell me anything at all!

But what I have seen is the wonderful box of fics from tardis_festivities! Since the 23rd was Thanksgiving here in the US, I was a bit busy, but have now had time to enjoy all the fics. I wrote a number of treats--I had challenged myself to treat as many Classic Who/DWEU requests as I could, and I didn't quite make it to all of them, but on the other hand I did pick up a pinch hit and I had a great time.

Here is the amazing gift I received:

Sympathetic Vibrations (500 words) by Karios
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Earl Sigma
Additional Tags: Post-Serial: s149 The Happiness Patrol (Doctor Who), Character Study, Introspection, Quintuple Drabble
Summary:

Earl realised he had a responsibility to hang around and help.

I am no longer the author of the only Earl Sigma fic on the archive! He's such a fascinating side character, and Karios has done an incredible job exploring his response to the events of The Happiness Patrol.

And here is what I wrote:

New Group Created (1087 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane & Thomas "Hex" Schofield
Characters: Thomas "Hex" Schofield, Ace McShane, Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Unconventional Format, Chatting & Messaging, TARDIS Team Group Chat
Summary:

Hex might get more than he bargained for when he convinces Ace and the Doctor they need a group chat.

Warmth (1223 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adric & Fifth Doctor & Tegan Jovanka & Nyssa of Traken
Characters: Tegan Jovanka, Nyssa of Traken, Fifth Doctor (Doctor Who), Adric (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Fluff, First Meetings
Summary:

Unexpectedly stranded in London and looking for work, Tegan finds a place where she just might fit in.

the rewards of being loved (1011 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seventh Doctor/Romana II (Doctor Who)
Characters: Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who), Romana II (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Telepathy, Time Lord Telepathy (Doctor Who), Non-Sexual Intimacy, Romance, (in weird Time Lord ways), tense changes are for artistic reasons I promise, Telepathy as a Metaphor for Love
Summary:

What they see in each other.

Childhood Sweethearts (688 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/Missy
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Missy (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Fobwatch (Doctor Who), Fobwatch AU, Unresolved Emotional Tension, False Memories, feelings. they have them and so will you, Hopeful Ending
Summary:

John wasn’t sure how long he spent, alone in his office, staring at the watch.

No, not John. That wasn’t his name; never really had been. He was the Doctor—just the Doctor.

There was someone he had to call.

Fit for a King (838 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe
Characters: Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who), Evelyn Smythe
Additional Tags: Historical, Fluff, Baking, Dessert & Sweets
Summary:

At the end of an adventure, Evelyn faces one more challenge that will call on all her skills...

Dimensions (707 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith
Characters: Third Doctor (Doctor Who), Sarah Jane Smith
Additional Tags: UNIT Era (Doctor Who), Friendship, Eldritch Doctor (Doctor Who), Very very slightly, just a little outside the realms of human possibility
Summary:

Sarah Jane wants to know more about the Doctor. Asking questions helps, but so does watching him.

Wow, looking that over, even though each of these was written for a different person's prompts and preferences, collectively the results are extremely Aurelia. Except for the coffeeshop AU, which is normally something I get extremely stuck on--I love AUs, I love working out how to translate character dynamics into a new setting, but I never know what to make happen in them, plotwise. But everything just came together for this one. It helped having Tegan as a POV character, she's very dynamic.

It was also my first time using work skins, in New Group Created. I used a messaging app skin made by etc e tal. I can recommend it if you are looking to include realistic-looking Whatsapp or similar messages in your fic.

Also B and I visited his sister for Thanksgiving and she gave me a TARDIS blanket for Christmas. I was opening it, and could tell it was a blanket, and I was all ready to enthuse politely about another random blanket, and then I realized the shade of blue and went OOOOHHHH. And then I opened it the rest of the way and indeed it was the TARDIS. (She is cool.)

Taskmaster

I've been watching Taskmaster, and I'm not really in fandom circles about it, I just like it, but I know some of you like it too. So has anyone considered the possibility that Lucy Beaumont is *actually* a bird, who has been transmuted into human form? I feel like it would explain a lot.