john_amend_all

So I mentioned yesterday in comments that the Ersatz Genremixer had given me a Jamie/Sam prompt that ate my brain.

Actually, strictly speaking, it was two adjacent prompts:

Sam / Jamie - highschool au & mirrors and doubles
Jamie / Sam - experiments by evil scientists & highschool au & electricity

And since it was so insistent on a highschool AU, what could I do but submit?

Exchange Students (899 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/5
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samantha Briggs/Jamie McCrimmon
Characters: Jamie McCrimmon, Samantha Briggs, Zoe Heriot, Victoria Waterfield, Isobel Watkins, Gwendoline Mary Lacey
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Mirror Universe, This Time Round Metaverse (Doctor Who)
Summary: As ever, sometimes the hardest part of school is just getting through the day.

My primary fic for the unconventionalcourtship fest:

Title: Girl of Her Dreams Author: john_amend_all Fandom: Doctor Who Pairing/Characters: Zoë Heriot / Victoria Waterfield Rating: Teen Length: 13534 words Summary: Haunted by recurring nightmares of a young woman called Victoria Waterfield, Zoë decides to build a time machine and track her down. As you do. Notes: Based on prompt 14: 'The Ninefold Key' by Rebecca Brandewyn. It started out so close to canon I couldn't resist. ( The Ninefold Key ) Links: AO3 | Teaspoon

Title: TTR: Retirement Bonus
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Victoria, Lucie, Dodo, Zoë
Rating: All ages
Word count: ~1550
Disclaimer: 'Doctor Who' characters belong to the BBC, Lucie to Big Finish.
Author's note: This comes of reading spoilers for Big Finish's final Companion Chronicle, Second Chances. If you want at some point to listen unspoiled to SC, don't give BF the satisfaction you'd probably do better not to read this.
Summary: Defrauding pensioners. How hard can it be?

Well, that's one novella-length fic out of the way: Genius and Geniality is complete.

Title: Genius and Geniality (12/12)
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1952 this part, 30228 in total
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: Kidnapped from their everyday lives, Victoria and Zoë have been sent to the Regency to seek out the Doctor. How will they cope with a world of genteel manners, balls, elopements, and the threat of imminent fiery destruction?
Chapter Summary: In which Zoë and Victoria take their leave.

{ At AO3 | At Teaspoon }

Title: Genius and Geniality (3/12)
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot
Rating: All ages
Word count: 2725 this part, ~30000 total
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: Kidnapped from their everyday lives, Victoria and Zoë have been sent to the Regency to seek out the Doctor. How will they cope with a world of genteel manners, balls, elopements, and the threat of imminent fiery destruction?
Chapter Summary: In which Victoria writes a letter, and discovers a trinket.

{ At AO3 | At Teaspoon }

A question for readers, if any: I'm currently announcing each chapter here and on dwfiction. Is this helpful, or should I just stick to dwfiction and only post here when the work's complete?

Here's part 2 of G&G, in which we learn the planned dates for a ball and an apocalypse.

Title: Genius and Geniality (2/12)
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1796 this part, ~30000 total
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: Kidnapped from their everyday lives, Victoria and Zoë have been sent to the Regency to seek out the Doctor. How will they cope with a world of genteel manners, balls, elopements, and the threat of imminent fiery destruction?

{ At AO3 | At Teaspoon }

Something I should probably have posted with part 1: Visual reference for Regency☛Zoe. It's from the TV Times article about this series, which seems to have sunk without trace and may not even exist any more. There doesn't seem to be a matching picture of Regency☛Jamie, though Frazer Hines was also in it.

Title: Genius and Geniality (1/12)
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Victoria Waterfield, Zoë Heriot
Rating: All ages
Word count: 2365 this part, ~30000 total
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC.
Summary: Kidnapped from their everyday lives, Victoria and Zoë have been sent to Regency England to seek out the Doctor. How will they cope with a world of genteel manners, balls, elopements, and the threat of imminent fiery destruction?
Author's notes: This has rather a long and tangled history. Not long after writing the first 'Genius and Geniality' ficlet, I found myself wondering what the larger adventure was that it formed a part of, and started writing it. It's taken until now, after several stops and starts, to get it hammered into some sort of shape.

{ At AO3 | At Teaspoon }

The first: a drabble inspired by Clara's line from the second trailer for the finale, and a certain scene in Survival.

The second was inspired by this news article:

Title: Sudden Flame
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Maxil, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Vicki, Liz Shaw, Leela, Jamie, Victoria, Zoe, Samantha, Mickey, Martha, Gwendoline Lacey and others.
Rating: All ages.
Prompt: dw_straybunnies Spring Challenge, prompts 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10,11,12.
Word count: ~6200
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC, Gwendoline to the Enid Blyton estate.
Summary: A fire-breathing reptile stalks the corridors of H G Wells High School. But is that all that's going on?
Author's notes: Written for the dw_straybunnies Spring Challenge, using elements drawn to a greater or lesser extent from ten of the twelve prompts: ( Prompts )

{ Sudden Flame at AO3 }

To those new friends who've joined through the recent friending meme: Hi! <waves>

If you're wondering what's going on here, I took a list of Doctors and companions, had the computer shuffle it, and now I'm posting one drabble a day for each pairing that resulted. So far they've run the gamut from 'made for each other' to 'Nooooo', so let's see how today's came out: