Beyond the Roundels

I decided on getting my bingo card last year that I would make a rec set for the square "Genderswap". And finally, after discovering some great fanworks I'd never have otherwise seen, here it is.

The works on this list are mainly Rule 63/Always Another Gender AUs with some male-to-female regeneration works for Doctor Who and bodyswap fic where the bodyswapped characters are male and female.

( 17 recs in 15th & 16th C Hist RPF, Angel, Arthurian Myths, Babylon 5, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, The Flash, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Rings, Pride & Prejudice, Red Dwarf, Shakespeare, The West Wing, The White Queen )

Recs list for hc_bingo's March Amnesty Challenge 2018.

Fandoms: Doctor Who, The Goblin Emperor, Heroes, The Librarians, Life (TV), Lord of the Rings, Press Gang, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Wars, Timeless
Prompts: Forced for face fear, Hostile Climate, Invisibility

( 15 recs in 11 fandoms under the cut )

Skipping ahead a day or so again, because I'm tired and I wanted to do this today:

In your own space, ask for recs. Something as simple as "I like XYZ (where XYZ is a kink, a pairing, a trope, etc) - please rec me some." Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well, here are a couple of specific things that I'll never find on my own, so let's see if someone can help!

1. I'm relistening to the BBC's Radio LOTR and I'm sure at the end I'll be wanting what I did last time - which is I'd love to read some Legolas and Gimli friendship fic.

Which there must be somewhere, mustn't there? But there's so much LOTR stuff and much of it in unfamiliar archives that I just run away. (Well, after pausing to giggle at summaries involving Legolas, because the writers were picturing Orlando, but I'm thinking of David Collings and such things amuse me.)

Shorter is best for me, if possible, but if it's long (and I somehow suspect length is a thing in Tolkien fandom), I can bookmark it for later (or print it off even) and I don't mind when it's set, although bonus points if anyone knows fic that is post-Return and also involves Merry and/or Pippin as well. (I love it when those four are together, and the Radio version, same as the film, cuts out some of their sections when needing to lose something.)

Anyway, any Legolas and Gimli fic you know would be lovely.


2. Once Upon a Time! I finished S1 and I very much enjoyed it and it's definitely the sort of thing I can see myself being fannish about as well as liking. But S2 is well under way and I want to avoid spoilers, so I can't go look for things myself!

a) good series 1 vids. ♥

b) any good shorter (non-explicit) fic. Really! I am here, liking it all, and not even having a clue about ships and things I would like - I'd just like a reasonable taster of what's out there, if that's possible. If I like a thing, I tend to like it all, and good fic is good fic, anyway, so...


Er. That does seem a bit specific and fussy, doesn't it? Anyway, I'd love recs for either of those things. Self-recs are fine. I know well by now how talented my flist are. ;-)

A bundle of odd recs (mostly not fics, because we all need a lie down first after Yuletide. Probably. I do actually have some Yuletide recs, but now the reveal has happened, there's not exactly any rush). Hopefully, some things with which to temporarily beat the January blues!

1. So there is a use for the animated LOTR after all. Or a link where you can find some hilarious LOTR icons from the animated film. Just a warning, as some of the text is fairly crude in places, but overall worth a look for the LOLs, even if you don't want to snag them all. (Strangely, they satisfied my Tolkien icon deficiency suitably. And the one I've used here I feel obscurely sums up my somewhat surprising new approach to fanfic, even though I prefer to think of it as Let's all have mind!sex with Silver, but anyway... :-p)

2. ( Two marvellous DW vids under the cut! )

3. A couple more sober ones now: For Those In Peril On the Sea by lilypeters
I've been lurking about an original fic-writing comm called runaway_tales for ages now (mostly because their prompt tables are amazing), but picked up on this series. I have no idea what's going on mostly, but these ficlets are snippets of fic (from someone's novel in progress, I think) set before, during and after WWI, and each one I've read so far is utterly gorgeous and comprehensible as a thing in itself. (So, it's fic. But only tiny fic. You can read one at a time.)

4. justice_turtle has been having a Shakespeare discussion lately. That reminded me of this fanvid I stumbled over during the hols - a multi-Shakespeare vid that's pretty cool. (Warning: they're all tragedies, so blood, spoilers, tears, death etc.)

( In Our Stars )

Also, random is random: whilst away, I found this scholarly article on fanfic that, um, includes mention of my story (and yes, wait for it, which of my stories does it use to make its serious point - in amongst words like ludoistic and things?) Five Times Sarah Lied to the Doctor About Harry. *collapses into giggles* This was a quite hastily written fic done from a prompt-I-would-never-write from akashasheiress.

I quote:
Vvj5's "Five Times Sarah Lied to the Doctor about Harry" (2010), for example, illustrates how companions can be centralized and provided a romantic tension that was entirely lacking in their presentation within the original textual world. Perhaps for fan writers such as Vvj5 the best way to embrace the classic Doctor Who with a romantic plotline is to bypass the nonsexualized main character altogether and focus on less defined characters whose sexuality has not been categorically wiped clean from the textual world in advance. The very notion intimated in this title, that romantic interest would have to be clandestinely kept from the Doctor, is a powerful hint that such themes were subversive within this version of the textual universe.

Whereas in fact, it was entirely written as joke, and I will quite happily ship the Doctor. When I feel like it &, admittedly, people might not notice as my shippy fic is always getting classified as gen by people. Ah, well, can't spoil an academic's fun, can you?

It does, though, have some praise for Teaspoon as an archive, which is nice. (Oh, and john_elliott, it also mentions 'Samantha's Turn'. None of the rest of you seem to be as privileged. You probably shipped the Doctor or disproved a point. ;-D)