monkeys and ponies

Title: 299
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing(s): Donna Noble
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1,408
Spoilers: None
Summary: The intersection of coding and design satisfied Donna's restless brain in ways it hadn’t been satisfied since before ... well, before whatever she’d lost had left her adrift again and her mother and Gramps tight-lipped but supportive.

Author's notes: My last story for Keep Fandom Weird bingo, using the Bring Your Fandom to Work bingo square. I gave up the front-end development portion of my business about a decade ago to focus primarily on user experience strategy, but it's still something I know how to do, and it got me where I am today.

Anyway, wonder how Donna got so good at computers by the time "The Giggle" rolled around? This is my explanation.

Thanks to platypus for the beta.

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Title: The Satchel
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Characters/Pairing(s): Jett Reno, Pelia
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1,998
Spoilers: None
Summary: "Truth is, I used to move hard-to-find folios for a shady antiquarian archivist."

Author's notes: Written for the Accidental Baby Acquisition square on my Keep Fandom Weird bingo card. Hey, it didn't say that had to be a human baby!

Thanks to lizbee for both the beta and the idea that Jett Reno and Pelia needed to have shenanigans together. I would honestly watch six seasons and a movie of these two.

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Title: Once More, This Time to the Left
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Characters/Pairing(s): Katrina Cornwell, Carl the Guardian of Forever, Michael Burnham
Rating: All ages
Word count: 500
Spoilers: None
Summary: You made your choice, Kat thought, and her body burst into starlight. Five connected drabbles about what happens to Kat after the torpedo explodes.

Author's notes: Covers prompts for “You made your choice,” “Seated together at a bar,” and “Where is Katrina Cornwell right now?” Many thanks to lizbee, who both beta’d this story and inspired it with a question I wondered about when I beta’d her Katoberfest2024 story even though it turns out I already knew the answer because I'd beta'd previous stories of hers. All I can say in my defense is that it's been a long goddamned year.

::xposted to AO3 and Ad Astra

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Title: BETTINA
Characters/Pairing(s): Fourth Doctor
Rating: All ages
Word count: 6,397
Spoilers: None
Summary: The Fourth Doctor must protect a scientist and her invention from the people who want to exploit it. Entry for Big Finish's 2023 Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity.

Author's Notes: Obviously, I didn't win this year's Big Finish story competition – but I still love this story a lot. Many thanks to Platypus for beta work.

The engine technology described in this story is real, but not ready for commercialization yet.

::xposted to dwfiction, and archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3

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Title: A Scattering of Stars
Characters/Pairing(s): Thirteenth Doctor/Dhawan!Master
Rating: Adult
Word count: 3,553
Spoilers: through Flux
Summary: After the Flux had chewed its way through the universe, after the Doctor had let her friends off for a brief stop to comfort their families, after she’d found herself flat on her back in the console room pointedly trying not to listen for her previous voices whispering to her from somewhere deep and unknown within her ship, she’d heard an entirely different voice calling to her and had known she had to follow it.

Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta platypus, who found all the rookie mistakes a writer makes when cranking up the fic skills after a year off.

::xposted to dwfiction and dwfiction, and archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3

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Title: Fragment of a Fragment
Characters/Pairing(s): Eleventh Doctor, the TARDIS
Rating: All ages
Word count: 436
Spoilers: none
Summary: A quiet moment between a Time Lord and his most faithful companion.

Author's Notes: For nostalgia, who wanted Doctor/TARDIS for her birthday. Happy birthday, Nos!

::xposted to dwfiction and dwfiction, and archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3

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Title: The Cold Curve of the Moon
Characters/Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Reinette
Rating: Teen
Word count: 200
Summary: Reinette never tells the Doctor that when she stepped into his mind, she saw more than just his past.

Author's Notes: I rewatched Girl in the Fireplace the other day as part of #LockdownWho, and I just had to write a little bit more about Reinette. Double drabble.

:: archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3
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Title: The Cliffs of Pandarium
Characters/Pairing(s): Tenth Doctor/Dhawan!Master
Rating: Adult
Word count: 200
Spoilers: none
Summary: A year after the Year That Never Was, the new new Master finds the pinstriped Doctor on a wind-whipped cliff.

Author's Notes: Double drabble because Nos wanted to know who cried more while having sex, Ten or Dhawan!Master. (I voted for Ten, but honestly, "both cry" is a valid answer.)

::archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3

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Title: Korea, 1950-Something
Characters/Pairing(s): Rory Williams/Hawkeye Pierce
Rating: Teen
Word count: 3639
Spoilers: none
Contains: infidelity (sort of)
Summary: Something's making the Korean War last eight years longer than it should for a MASH unit – the unit where Rory Williams waits, trapped in time, for Amy and the Doctor to return. Crossover with M*A*S*H.

Author's Notes: This fic is entirely Nostalgia's fault. Many thanks to platypus and my long-suffering spouse for their beta work.

::xposted to dwfiction and dwfiction, and archived at A Teaspoon And An Open Mind and AO3

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Title: A Quiet Empire
Word Count: 13,466
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Michael Burnham/Mirror Gabriel Lorca
Characters: Mirror Philippa Georgiou, Mirror Ellen Landry, Mirror Gabriel Lorca, Michael Burnham
Additional Tags: no happy-ever-after, No Romance, Non-Violent Non-Con, mind games and general effed-upness, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: Canon divergence AU from "What's Past is Prologue." Lorca wins the battle in the throne room, and Michael must make good on her promise to stay with him.

Notes: Re-emphasizing a couple of points from the tags: while this is noncon, it is nonviolent ... just still, y'know, messed up. Also, this is not a fic where Burnham and Lorca are going to get a happy ending.

Immense thanks to lizbee for her beta services, especially for her attention to canon detail. You'd think an American who grew up with Star Trek would be more familiar with it than an Australian, but you'd be very wrong.

Read it on AO3