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A star empire is menaced by deadly creatures from the time of Rassilon. Will one lone Time Lord and a human companion be enough to defeat them?
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22 Mar 2018
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Sometimes what I really need is a good canon-style adventure. Donna is one of my favorite companions and I was always a bit sad that we only got the one season with her and especially about how things ended up for her.
This is not a fix-it for that, but it’s a wonderful gen adventure that slots in right in between the episodes we have for her and the Doctor. The interactions and dialogue are very in character (in the beginning Donna seems a bit smart in the wrong way, but that soon levels back to canon Donna brilliance).
It’s a brilliantly crafted adventure story too, that could very well be an episode. Lindenharp does an amazing job of fleshing out the details of the Time War and Time Lord history. I found the world-building she did for the ancient alien civilization they encounter and all the traditions and costums of theirs very engaging and I love the underlying story of culture clash, especially because it’s also a story of how people from different cultures can work together and come to understand each other better.
It’s a wonderful read all around.
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The Woman in the Red Dress by Starfire (kalypsobean) for zarkanen
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 Sep 2015
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The first time he wakes up knowing that he's in the twenty-first century, he thinks of Peggy, and wonders what she would have thought of all this.
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29 Sep 2015
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Light angst ahead. This is a short but very sweet look at how Steve goes from the confused Super soldier who just woke up in present day New York who missed his chance at romance, to the man who meets an older Peggy Carter again. It's sad, but it's also sweet and Natasha's involvement in this makes absolute sense and adds a nice additional touch.
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It was meant to be a simple site-seeing trip to a space station. Instead, the Doctor and Clara find themselves drawn into the search for the kidnapped ward of a criminal faction.
Set between Flatline and In the Forest of the Night, canon-compliant.Bookmarked by ria_reads
22 Mar 2018
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The plot is simply compelling and amazing and the whole of the story is extremely well written and plotted. The Doctor and Clara start this like any of their not-on-earth-adventures and immediately end up stumbling into a conspiracy and the Doctor's own issues bleed through and they even stumble onto an old acquaintance from his years with Ace.
It's wonderful how the plot is compellingly driven forward and all the references to Who canon are worked in as clever world-building and without sidetracking from the main adventure.
The Twelfth Doctor and Clara are very in character and the voices are spot on - and that's not an easy feat to pull off. Even better all the other characters really come to life.
A real s/f gen adventure with the occasional strong hint of the Doctor having suppressed feeling for Clara, but not enough to say that this is a ship fic exactly.
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My take on what's going on in Sara's head during the Heir to the Demon episode. If you want a way too detailed analysis of a character's thoughts then this is the fic for you. It also has flashbacks to Sara's time in the League.
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22 Mar 2018
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Review: This replays some of these early scenes with Nyssa the show gave us and puts them neatly into perspective with some Flashbacks that explore how Nyssa and Sara met and got together. I enjoy the way this explains perfectly how Sara fell in love, how she came to slot into the League and also how she left and what she still felt for Nyssa at the time.
The first episodes give us a very complicated relationship and I'm not sure the show ever acknowledge that beyond what was necessary for the on screen drama, but this build perfectly around the things that go on in canon and makes for a very interesting character study with a side dish of complicated and not straight up happy romance with the possibility for more.
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Cloud is forced to spend the night in the long-abandoned ShinRa mansion, but he's not as alone as he would like to think.
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22 Mar 2018
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Review: This is an AU one-shot and it uses the spooky setting of the original Shinra mansion to great effect to tell a classic vampire story, that - with all the things that happen to poor Cloud in the original game - play on some of the game's themes to great effect. There are nice callbacks to Sephiroth's history as we know it and to the influence that JENOVA allowed him over Cloud in the game, bleeding into the classic power of enthralling a vampire can hold over his victim.
It is a dark, sexy story and with the mind control is definitely not for readers who like clearly negotiated consent. But that goes well with the eerie setting and the overtones of classic horror.