(Depending on exams, this may or may not be my last rec for the week. If so, it's been lovely reccing for you, and I hope you've enjoyed these fics as much as I have!)

Story: Come to Dust
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 3760
Author's Summary: "Everything has its time, everything burns, and everything dies. Rose Tyler reflects on her ( Read more... )

Story: Make the Man
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 1768
Author's Summary: Ode to a black leather jacket.
Characters/Pairings: Ten, Rose (but Rose isn't really in it much)
Warnings: None

Recced because: The "new Doctor picks his outfit" scene is a hallowed Doctor Who ritual. Here Cryptile explores Ten's change of clothes and how it ( Read more... )

Title: Man in the Blue Box
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 616
Author's Summary: A fairy tale. Possibly.
Characters/Pairings: Unspecified Doctor, unspecified companions
Warnings: None

Recced because: I decided to wrap up this week with a fic that's about the threads that tie together all the Doctors, about his fundamental nature. I love ( Read more... )

Hey folks,
Many apologies for the late start to my reccing week; my brain has been occupied for the last few days with trying to wheedle a historic Scottish property into exhibiting a cake the size of a tennis table in its Great Hall....This may or may not tell you something about my taste in fic. At any rate, let the reccage commence :-)

Story: ( Read more... )

"And for all things then lost, and the cold hearth, and her riven heart, she drowns the world in her tears."

Because it contains this line?

All right, perhaps you want something more. One of the surprising things about Doctor Who is that, for a show that is so brash and loud and big and camp (in a good way) most of the time on the television, it ( Read more... )

Story: Downtime
Author: cryptile
Rating: None given
Word Count: 4418
Author's Summary: So much for leaving at Christmas . . .
Characters/Pairings: Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (10th), The TARDIS
Warnings: None given

Recced because: No second chances? A masterful story, at turns touching, chilling, and humorous. Set between "The ( Read more... )

Story: An Irksome Word and Task
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 9529
Author's Summary: The stars are going out all over Creation, and he's at a Christmas party. In Lannet.
Characters/Pairings: Shalka!Nine, Alyson Cheney
Warnings: Swearing. Also creep.

Recced because: Very much a fic for the advanced class: it's freaky, it's scary, it ( Read more... )

Story: Here There Be
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 32,036
Author's Summary: "Rose Tyler battles Prehistoric Beasts, Torquay housewives and her new therapist."
Characters/Pairings: Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Pete Tyler, Other Character(s)
Warnings: None

Recced because: There are dinosaurs. Well, there's that, and there's also a post ( Read more... )

Story: The Lonely God(zilla)
Author: Cryptile
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 1732
Author's Summary: Because nothing else is canon . . .
Characters/Pairings: The Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
Warnings: None

Recced because: This is hands down one of the funniest fics I've ever read. Missing Heathrow, again, the Doctor lands the TARDIS inside a ( Read more... )

Story: Jackie Tyler in the Fourth Dimension  
Author: Cryptile

Rating: None given; I’d say all ages

Author's summary: Jackie Tyler hates time travel.

Characters/Pairings: Jackie Tyler, with guest appearances from Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Rose Tyler, Ace McShane

Warnings: Author warns for swearing; it’s pretty mild

Recced because: If ( Read more... )