Angelic Paranoia

In 2023 I got into doing some ficathons and thought I hadn't done Chocolate Box for a while, so it would be good to do candyheartsex. And then everything went to shit and I spent January looking for jobs and doing tests that were the same as my job at the time, only made harder by incompetence and inability to understand that there are other operating systems beside Mac and Windows.

But this year was fine, so I did it.

I wrote
Bored Games (838 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Characters: Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton, Vicki Pallister, First Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Board Games
Summary: Barbara, Ian, Vicki and the Doctor play a game of Monopoly.

And I got
Meddling in the Affairs of Humans (3986 words) by AstroGirl
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright
Characters: Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton
Additional Tags: Matchmaking, Susan POV, Also includes the Doctor
Summary: Barbara and Ian would be perfect for each other, Susan is certain of it. If only she could get them to realize it...

Which considering that I when I did my sign up I was missing the first two TARDIS teams worked out quite well.

I thought about doing unsent-letters-exchange, but then couldn't think of enough things that I wanted and wasn't inspired by the tagset. But that doesn't stop me from writing treats/picking up a pinch hit should the opportunity arise.

And after thinking about it for a while, I set up tardis_remix. Since it's not a gift exchange, most of the work is in setting it up and the rest is in box ticking. And most of the set up work was about LibreOffice and AO3 fighting over formatting.

(I know none of my DW links are actually linking - the plugin that creates the links suddenly stopped working and I need to look into why - now fixed!)

Mirrored from my blog.

I did some ficathons towards the end of last year and didn't talk about them (although one of them has only just had author reveals).

Doctor Who
There was tardis-festivities where I received a Six and Evelyn fic where Evelyn is right and saves the world, which is what I love about those two:

Fit for a King (838 words) by lurking_latinist
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe
Characters: Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who), Evelyn Smythe
Additional Tags: Historical, Fluff, Baking, Dessert & Sweets
Summary:At the end of an adventure, Evelyn faces one more challenge that will call on all her skills...

I wrote an Amy/Rory fic. I had a blank sign up for this, so I went through various ideas for plots before realising that I had no idea how to solve them/they didn't make sense. I remembered that they had bunk beds on the TARDIS and decided to write something about that.

Wedding Nights are Cool (972 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Characters: Rory Williams, Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Wedding Night, Beds
Summary: It's Rory and Amy's wedding night, but their bedroom isn't quite what they expected.

Star Trek
And then startrekholidays carries on with the cookery theme for my gift, which had Pike finding bugs in his flour and then it all goes interesting from there:

When There are Bugs in the Flour (2076 words) by Ljparis
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Christopher Pike
Additional Tags: Food, Starship Enterprise (Star Trek), Cooking, Bugs & Insects
Summary: Captain Pike finds something unwelcome in his pantry.

I kept looking at the sign ups for this, getting excited about various characters/pairings and adding them to my offers. And then ended up getting the most recent pairing I got excited about, which worked out quite well in that respect. And then I once again came up with a plot that just didn't work before I remembered an idea I'd mostly forgotten about.

Baby Dream (2077 words) paranoidangel
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Characters: Charles "Trip" Tucker III, T'Pol (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pregnancy
Summary: Now is the time for Trip and T'Pol to have a baby, but nothing is ever easy for them, especially where children are concerned.

Yuletide
I didn't sign up for Yuletide. I didn't want to overdo the ficathons like I did at the end of last year. But I did manage to write some treats in that last week before Christmas when everything's quiet.

When all the requests were visible I was off work ill. It was sad that SJA wasn't requested, but Rani Takes on the World was, so it was a good excuse to re-listen while I was ill.

Time Bubble (1434 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Rani Takes on the World (Big Finish Audio Drama)
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Rani Chandra, Clyde Langer, Samira Rustami
Additional Tags: Timey-Wimey
Summary: Rani's trapped and Clyde is going to save her. Just like old times.

And hhertzof's Chalet School request was just begging for some present day silliness. I think I wrote the fic in less time than I spent looking at the Maynard/Bettany/Russell kids names to come up with all the prefect's names.

The New Prefects of the Chalet School (1041 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Chalet School - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Post-Canon, Tongue-in-cheek
Summary: It's September 2023 and the first prefect's meeting of the new school year is about to take place.

Auction
I also bid in an auction for the first time and got a long time loop fic:

Breakfast of Champions (12729 words) by sunlitroses
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV)
Characters: Erica Ortegas, Christopher Pike, Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek), Christine Chapel, Joseph M'Benga, Spock (Star Trek), Nyota Uhura, La'an Noonien-Singh, Pelia (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Shenanigans
Summary: The Captain was hosting a breakfast gathering in his quarters. Number One was passing drinks. Spock was burning the pancakes. It was a morning like any other.

Until it wasn't.

Mirrored from my blog.