Oh, yes! It's a regular at Yuletide and DWJ Yuletiders are amazing! Seriously, I don't think you'd be weirded out by the fic - its tone is pitched exactly right. I get very picky about DWJ fic myself, especially Fire & Hemlock but the people who usually write her for Yuletide are just amazing. This one follows Erskine, Hathaway, Torquil and Howard post-canon. (I don't know if anyone's yet done the What Happened on That Spaceship fic, which is a serious oversight, though!)

It's a brilliant book, though; one of my faves of hers, definitely. She was such a wonderful and unique writer. :-)

Heh, Yuletide pretty much exists to make fic happen for all the things you think would never have fic! :-)

Although it could not possibly have a happy ending. /o\

Well, it could - just not for everyone!

My absolute favourite of hers is Fire & Hemlock, which I have read so many times - and then every time I find someone writing meta about it online, they just reveal new layers I hadn't ever thought of. It's amazing, and she always seems so very straight-forward in her prose. AC I used to re-read a lot to cheer myself up - especially the bit in the middle where an Englishman's home is his castle.

Your eldest has excellent taste! ;-)

Btw, being in the middle of sorting out various Christmas things to post reminded me that you had said you'd quite like borrowing some Seventh Doc DVDs over Christmas. I don't go away till the 22nd, but still, if you still do it seems better to post them off sooner rather than later & make sure they arrive before then.

PM would be best, yes. The easiest way to post is to pack them well & securely (in card and things) and just send the DVDs (together with the cover slips with all the info); the DW DVDs are all well marked, and I should be able to get a few together for the price of a large stamp!

However, I can't get out to the post office myself (at least not again now until well after the new year), so if I have any doubts about whether they're okay like that, I'll revert to 2 DVDs (which I've done multiple times to various people). So, my other question is this:

I seem to recall you hadn't seen any of S26? (Battlefield, Ghostlight, Curse of Fenric, Survival). So to send 4 DVDs covering that seems reasonable! Is that correct, and if I do cut it down to 2 for now, do you have a preference?

Also if once I've packed it up, it seems fine to add in 1 or even 2 more; I'd rather it wasn't another Seven, so either leave a couple of ideas or say (here or in your pm) what you have seen so far and I can just throw in an extra serial I think you might enjoy if it works out that way.

Sorry, that's sounding more complicated than it is now! (And you can reply here or include it in the PM.)

Okay! (Although S26 is the best, heh; it's your funeral! ;-p) That's only 3 DVDs if you've already seen Time & the Rani. (Paradise Towers, Delta, and Dragonfire). Do you want me to stick in an extra one for you? (It seems kind of a waste not to if I'm going large envelope-format... I won't need them back in a hurry, I promise.) if so, let me know what you might like, or give me a list of what you've seen (or is there any Doctor you've not seen any of, and I could send you a good one [imo, obv.!]? It seems a sadness to remain unacquainted with any of them when I could easily slip one of them in! ;-D)

Cool! Will do. :-)

It was! I'm always grumbling about never being able to find the good stuff in amongst the million and one fluffy AUs, but that one was cute and fun without being too sappy & it just popped up on one of the comms I follow this morning!

My pleasure! And I do think there can always be more recs, so steal away! :-)