Garden of Thought

Well, my folks who have been living with us for the past month as 'homeless' people while they looked for a house are off in their RV for the week, checking out an area down south of here for potential real estate, one kid is sleeping in and another is off on a youth retreat... the house is blessedly quiet.  I'll miss them, but at the same time it's nice to have a break.

A couple fic recs: I finally had a chance to just sit and read a couple fanfics last night, a luxury I've rarely had of late. We're in a mild 'Rise of the Guardians' phase here, mixed in with the usual fandoms and ff.net has some quality reads by psychicsaphie for those so inclined. They run a touch intense, well-written and interesting.  Start off with Snowbird then carry on to The Frost Spirit and the Honey Tree.  If you're brave, go to the still-in-progress The King of Cold Mountain, but be warned it has a nasty foe and serious cliffies.

For my fellow Three fans, PandaInTheStars (starpanda of DbyA) has taken Jon Pertwee's love of playing vampires and crossed it over into his Doctor role - take UNIT and Three and consider how it would happen if he were still an unusual entity holing up and working for them, but for different reasons.  .Blood and Tea is also at ff.net.  Everyone stays in character and the action/solve-a-mystery plottiness is good fun. She's working on a sequel as well.

I come bearing a fic rec, because this one deserves more readers!

I first met the pleasant and talented spicy_rejoinder via this tale, a work that I’ve happily watched for updates on and which is now completed. She goes by “MyMadness” on fanfic.net, and I have great hopes that she will have more stories to share with us in the future, because I love the way she captures emotions, movements, small mannerisms and all the internal reasoning (and unreasoning) that goes into why the characters behave the way they do.

Burnt Toast, Bus Stations and Unrequited Love's springboard was a dying Three’s telling Sarah-Jane that “The TARDIS brought me home.” spicy_rejoinder’s take on this was that he was not referring to the familiarity of UNIT, the lab or even Earth, he was referring to her, and that Sarah-Jane was his ‘home.’

This is effectively a Sarah-Jane/Seven romance and rated Teen, but as a non-squicky fluff-preference person, I surprisingly still enjoyed it very much. She gently and wonderfully takes us through many years of Sarah-Jane’s growing, maturing and changing in her approach to life and at the same time miraculously does the same with the Doctor, who we get to meet in more than just his Seventh form. She even provides the reader with alternate endings, one following the events of the Movie, one not, and it even manages to dovetail nicely in with SJA.

A must-read for any Doctor/Sarah shipper – which I honestly was not… well, at least before I read this! Now it seems surprisingly feasible. I certainly would have never pictured Seven with Sarah-Jane, but now I can't imagine them apart. ;-)

As far as I know it can only be found at this point on fanfiction.net, right over here:
Burnt Toast, Bus Stations and Unrequited Love

Enjoy!