Field Reports

doyle_sb4's A Phantom of Clouds is just -- oh, utterly gorgeous. The characterizations are delicate and just right, and the setting is rather original. It's a sort of quiet, thinky, lovely little story, with tantalizing glimpses into plausible personal histories for the three characters.

Note: the pairing implies threesome, but there's the story is not sexually explicit at all.

I love Who fics which play with the fact that the TARDIS is a time machine. More of that, please! gwynnega's City of Loss makes my little geeky romantic heart go pitter-pat.

So I have a new fannish obsession. (Those who've followed my recs over the years are like, "Yeah, what's new.") That obsession is Doctor Who, the new series.

I still have...issues with NC-17 Whofic, or even outright romantic fic, although I've read and enjoyed fair amount. I think the best stories in the fandom are those like loneraven's Lovers, 'Tis Almost Fairy-Time, which is much more about the wonders of the Doctor's intellect and experience of the universe than his sexual prowess. It's also really well-written, and captures a sort of quiet and awed mood while at the same time feeling very much like the inside of Rose's head.

(Now, I went hunting and hunting for this story, to the exclusion of a ton of other Whofics I could have spent the time recommending, because I cleverly neglected to memory it when I first found it. So you know it has to be good, if I went to all that trouble.)