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Calapine
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Woman I Learned from Humans
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Type: Gen
Pairing: n/a
Themes: Humor
Reviewed by: paranoidangel
Reviewer's home URL: Angelic Paranoia
Dated added: 17-09-2006
Length: 10-40KB
Plot: The Doctor is a woman. This is a bit of a change for her. As it would be.
Review: This is the fic that introduced me to the whole Girl!Doctor idea. In it, the Doctor panics, understandably, and ends up at Sarah Jane's, who is entirely practical, as you'd expect really as someone who's spent time with the Fourth Doctor. I really the Doctor in this, as she worries about all sorts of things she's never previously considered. And their shopping trip is quite funny.
Warning: No warnings
Archive: Unlicensed Time Traveller
Calavarna
Touching the Void
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: NC-17
Type: Slash
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Themes: Drama
Reviewed by: paranoidangel
Reviewer's home URL: Angelic Paranoia
Dated added: 04-05-2009
Length: Over 100KB
Plot: When Ianto finds himself in wartime London and in the clutches of a strange but familiar conman, he struggles to find a balance between revealing the future and creating a paradox. Meanwhile, Jack tries to get Ianto back while dealing with a head full of memories that aren't his own.
Review: I find it hard to be convinced by most Jack/Ianto stories, so the fact that I'm reviewing this tells you how good it was. Because it's set in two different times, one with the Jack we see in Doctor Who and the other with the Jack we see in Torchwood, it's good to see the differences between them. And there are a lot of differences, which Ianto spots too.
It's those differences, along with the explanation of them that make this story so interesting.
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Archive: TARDIS Big Bang
Camilla Sandman
Today's Not Over Yet
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Type: Gen
Pairing: n/a
Themes: Angst, drama, vignette
Reviewed by: paranoidangel
Reviewer's home URL: Angelic Paranoia
Dated added: 17-09-2006
Length: 10-40KB
Plot: Tomorrow, the world is ending, and today, he is happy.
Review: This is the Eighth Doctor and the Time War and is so sad. There are humourous moments in it when the Doctor mucks about with famous people in history but somehow they just make it sadder with the knowledge of what he is about to do and how much it's going to hurt.
Warning: No warnings
Archive: A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: Index
Casira
Forgetting the Nightmare
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: R
Type: Slash
Pairing: Ninth Doctor/Jack
Themes: Drama, first time, vignette
Reviewed by: Selenay
Reviewer's home URL:
Dated added: 03-07-2005
Length: 10-40KB
Plot: Wherein neither Jack nor the Doctor can get any sleep, but for very different reasons.
Review: The plot outline sounds like this should be a pure, unplotty PWP. Except there's plot and it's the ideas and characterisation that make this fic stand out.
Casira has a good handle on the Doctor and Jack - quite rare - and manages to write an R-rated fic without losing sight of that. It's short but doesn't feel rushed, well-written and has an atmosphere that is just right.
Warning: No warnings
Archive: tales from the fringe: Forgetting the Nightmare
Cryptile
Downtime
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13
Type: Gen
Pairing: n/a
Themes: Drama, episode tag or fix (The Christmas Invasion/New Earth (S2))
Reviewed by: Selenay
Reviewer's home URL:
Dated added: 24-12-2006
Length: 40-100KB
Plot: So much for leaving at Christmas . . .
Review: This fic fills in that gap between The Christmas Invasion and New Earth, stretching that period out a bit and thereby fixing a some minor continuity...errors.
It's an interesting fic because it captures the newly regenerated Ten perfectly. Cryptile has thought about the character and his transition and put it into words that fit. There are some great images in here, particularly the graffiti (needs to be read to understand), and some interesting insights into the other characters. At heart, though, it's about the Doctor and finishing the transition that began in The Christmas Invasion.
Warning: No warnings
Archive: A Teaspoon And An Open Mind: Downtime
Catbert
Origin
Fandom: The Bill, Doctor Who (cross-over)
Rating: G
Type: Gen
Pairing: n/a
Themes: Humor
Reviewed by: paranoidangel
Reviewer's home URL: Angelic Paranoia
Dated added: 14-04-2006
Length: Under 10 KB
Plot: Trev is really a time lord.
Review: There's a long-running joke in The Bill fandom that when a character vanishes suddenly from the programme never to be seen again they're in the stationery cupboard. TREV is an acronym for Totally Reliable Extra Veteran - or a fancy way of saying extra who is in quite a few episodes in the background.
Catbert takes this idea and makes it ridiculous, although plausible. The only trouble is it's so short I really can't say any more about it without spoiling it any more than I have already.
Warning: No warnings
Archive: Origins