Beyond the Roundels

I'm not done yet! I just had to get my space_swap story finished and edited and off to be beta-ed, and it was going epic again. /o\ But that's done and if I can just write a more reasonably-sized hurtcomfortex story over the next month, things should be better on that front. *bangs head on desk and weeps*

Where were we?

executrix asked for Top 5 B7 episodes and/or fics about Jenna and since hamsterwoman beat them to the former, here are 5 top pieces of fanfic about Jenna, with the rider that I really need to bookmark B7 stuff more thoroughly and have another go through of all the stuff that's been added onto AO3 since my last adventures in the tag, so I'm probably missing some great things I've read (like I'm sure there should be something by aralias here), let alone that I haven't. Also I'm pretty sure that whenever it was I last read B7 fic I was too ill to read longfic, because these are all very short.

Nevertheless, out of what I have bookmarked, these are all good:

1. The Light by babel (G, 1097 words. Jenna/Blake.) He always surprised her. (Spoilers for the entire series.) Nice explanation for certain things in "Blake."

2. Vocation by kindkit (G, 360 words. Jenna.) Jenna and the mystery of piloting. My favourite type of Jenna-fic is probably things about her piloting and relationship with Zen & Liberator (so much so that I nearly picked a fic by Clocket about Zen missing Jenna because Tarrant is Not The Same, but it is technically a Tarrant fic so that would be rubbish of me). But anyway, this is excellent pilot-Jenna.

3. Drink to Remember by icarus_chained (Teen, 704 words. Jenna Stannis & Vila Restal.) Gauda Prime. Two survivors, older and scarred, and things it's good to be wrong about. An unexpected but great PGP comination.

4. Unexpected by Tels (G, 281 words. Jenna/Avon.) Avon hates Jenna and vice versa. Or do they? Fun.

5. Jenna Stannis PI by vilakins (G, 1253 words. Jenna, Avon, Vila. AU.) Written for the Blake's 7 crackathon, the prompt being Jenna Stannis, Private Investigator. What it says! XD


auroracloud asked - Top 5 favourite Doctor Who companions

1. Ace
2. Clara
3. Charley
4. Tegan
5. Leela or Barbara or Evelyn

- Top 5 favourite Doctor-Companion teams (can be more than one companion)

1. Seven & Ace
2. Four-Sarah-Harry
3. Two-Jamie-Zoe
4. One-Ian-Barbara-Vicki
5. Twelve-Bill-Nardole or Twelve & Clara, or Eight & Charley or Six & Evelyn.


- Top 5 favourite historical eras/events

1. The Battle of Hastings (wee me was a bit obsessed; it's never entirely gone away)
2. Early Tudor period. Thanks to Shadow of the Tower I have somehow got sucked into being very into Henry VII's reign and also Lancastrians in the WotR, like Margaret Beaufort and Jasper Tudor.
3. 18th C generally
4. English Civil War period but also the Battle of Monmouth, which is not entirely unrelated despite the time difference (I'm from Sedgemoor. Well, Bridgwater, but it was in Sedgemoor Registration District when I was born.) When I was a small thing of eight my Devonshire teacher told us all about the wrongs done to us West Country people by that evil Hanging Judge Jeffries. Folk memories die hard. ;-p
5. WWI, I suppose. Or 19th C.

(To be honest, I'm mostly just interested in specific people or bits of fiction or whatever and then it spills on outward.)

- Top 5 favourite fanfic tropes!

It depends because Whatever Seems Like A Good Idea At The Time is my general writing rule and for reading I'll try a lot of different things if it seems promising in some way. But:

1. Hurt/comfort (done how I like it, of course. Fairly mild and in character, with tiny meaningful things! or whatever. There may be hand holding. I know it when I see it.)
2. Accidental marriage (I keep forgetting how much accidental marriage fic I've written but it is apparently a thing. Although most of it is either a) the Doctor accidentally marrying people or b) the Doctor accidentally marrying other people to other people, and if you took away the Doctor I might not have accidentally married anyone at all.
3. Time Travel
4. Supernatural/Magic AU - essentially make my mundane heroes have to deal with fantastical things and I will be very, very happy indeed. (I have a couple of times had people who did this for me in gift fic and it is awesome. ♥)
5. Trope subversion

Made for iconcolors, icontalking and iconthat, plus alternates. I was having a bit of an uninspired dip, icon-making-wise, so decided to inspire myself with Blake's 7 (with the help of its Image Library). (I always have B7 feels.) One set of these is also based on the Avon-Jenna-Blake fanvid One Last Breath by Zukalis (spoilery, as usual) & most of the text in that set is from the lyrics.

Teaser:



( And I'm thinking, maybe six feet ain't so far down )

Credits: Images from the B7 Image Library; textures by shiruji, whitebamboo, tigertyger & more. The usual rules apply - want, take, have, credit. Comments = ♥ and hotlinkers will be left to explain their misguided ways to Servalan.

1. I've just done a friending meme and even actually managed to friend new people (I asked some of them myself!) (hi, new flisters!) and now of course, I am off to my parents' for Christmas, where internet access will be variable and most likely reading rather than commenting. Sorry about that.

Also because the next few posts following this will very likely be the one where I'm not here but I have to mention my Yuletide gift, the one where I'm back but exhausted, and then a wave of Yule-recs. So, um, yes, welcome? I will try and do something properly introductory in the New Year, though.

But I hope everyone who is celebrating Christmas has a lovely one, and anyone not celebrating manages to have a nice week despite any unwanted festivities! ♥


2. I nearly managed to finish the last writing meme before I went (because if I don't now, I won't) but I embarrassingly ran out of spoons with one left to go. (Sorry last person; once I cross that line, I cross that line. It was accidental!) I will have another writing meme soon enough, I'm sure. I might even get through all the prompts next time.

And here are the last three:( Under the cut so as not to take up too much space )

(Hey, it's been a while since I've done this... I used to do it all the time!)

Zukalis put up another Blake's 7 vid, and it's rather gorgeous - Blake and Jenna (or Blake/Jenna, but probably not?) in shades of grey. Spoilery, of course. (There's a line.) The Ground Beneath Her Feet:



(And given that my icon meme threw Jenna/Steel at me, it's rather odd to find a song I only know from a Sapphire & Steel fanvid being used here for Jenna rather than Sapphire. See, I'm right. There's a sort of shared blonde coolness going on there. :lol:)

But spoilery, I said that, didn't I?

My effort for this week's b7friday challenge "Different strokes":

Little Grey Cells
492 words, All ages.
It's one of the those classic 1930s murder mystery moments. Just with Avon, not M. Poirot...

(I haven't forgotten I still owe drabbles, but there's a one week limit on the challenges for this comm).