Beyond the Roundels

And now for today's (not that I'm caught up yet, but nearly):

Day 8
In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This took some thought, since I wanted to rec at least two of the three I recced last time. And last year I did two memes that involved self-recs, and I recced those same works then, plus a handful of others. So, I thought hard and came up with something that wasn't Salt of the Earth (but if you don't know me, hi, I think Salt of the Earth is pretty accessible without canon knowledge, being about a minor character, and I still like it, and it's about as me as you get, really).


So, first off, talking of Sapphire & Steel...

Assigned (100 Element Prompts) (37901 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 38/38
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel, Sapphire/Silver, Silver/Steel, Sapphire/Silver/Steel, Copper & Silver
Characters: Copper (Sapphire and Steel), Cerium (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel), Silver (Sapphire and Steel), Diamond, Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Gold (Sapphire and Steel), Jet (Sapphire and Steel), Ruby (Sapphire and Steel), Lead (Sapphire and Steel)
Additional Tags: Ficlet Collection, being fannish about the periodic table, Tropes, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Telepathy, Elemental Weirdness
Summary: A collection of various Sapphire & Steel ficlets/short fics written for a table of 100 fanfic cliche prompts.

I love S&S, and I love Elements (or whatever they are) and their relationships (or whatever they are), and I also love the generator that provided these prompts (its near doppelganger is here), I loved writing them all. So... read any one of them you please - there is an index here. (I'm not reccing a 37,000 word fic, don't worry. The individual pieces vary from perfect drabbles to ~1500.)

They vary, but, yes, very me, and if you can go with 'it's just weirdness and time and inhuman beings who put stuff right and we don't really know anything and then there's flirting' it's probably as accessible with or without canon. Possibly?


Also, I love Doctor Who, Once Upon a Time, libraries, Clara, Belle, crossovers and [x] times type fic.

Shelved (or The Whistle Stop Library Tour of the Universe) (1712 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Belle (Once Upon a Time)/Clara Oswin Oswald, Belle (Once Upon a Time)/Eleventh Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Belle (Once Upon a Time), Clara Oswin Oswald, Eleventh Doctor
Additional Tags: Crossover, Humor, Libraries, Books, Alternate Universe, Fluff, Crossover Pairings
Summary: The Doctor and Clara show Belle the universe, one library at a time.

(I don't know how accessible it is, but there are no spoilers for anything at least.)


I wrote an origfic canon for the LJ Runaway Tales comm for quite a while, and loved doing it. I have a few AUs involving my favourite pairing on AO3, written for other challenges, so they are basically standalone romance fic. This one I wrote in response to oonaseckar who said I couldn't write the two of them having a fake relationship in the 21st Century and so obviously I had to prove that there is no century Edward and Julia couldn't have an awkward fake relationship in. But I still like it, I think it's fairly light and fun, and has fairy tale undertones that please me.

Substitute (13695 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Julia Graves (OC), Edward Iveson (OC)
Additional Tags: Community: hc_bingo, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Romance, Grief/Mourning, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Brief mention of car accident, Community: runaway_tales, Fluff, Humor, Angst, Community: genprompt_bingo
Summary: Julia Graves has perfectly reasonable motives for fake-dating a customer – it’s all about interior decorating, honestly…


(It's really weird seeing familiar old fic like this with the wrong name on!)