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Liz Shaw left UNIT to go travelling with River Song and no one can convince me otherwise ✨
Honestly the new Diary of River Song boxset was everything I’ve ever wanted and if Big Finish have any sense whatsoever they’ll do a Gallifrey and give Liz and River the spin-off they deserve
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Listened to the newest The Diary of River Song boxset today. BIG MISTAKE because now I’m shipping Liz Shaw/River Song! Goddammit!
It’s an excellent boxset, and Caroline John’s daughter, Daisy Ashford, sounds so exactly like her mum it’s uncanny! Mind, we also had Tim Treloar as the Third Doctor and Jon Culshaw as the Brig and they also sound exactly like Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney (respectively).
The Diary of River Song Series 09: New Recruit was released yesterday and if you love Alex Kingston, I can highly recommend it!
The crimson flare of the sun crept over the horizon, bringing more light with it, tracing weather systems against the deep azure of the oceans, clouds casting shadows over the land beneath them. They stood there, hand in hand, friends and equals, the world transformed, more peaceful than Liz had ever known it, while behind them music played and their newfound family danced into the Christmas dawn. Somewhere, thousands of miles below, snow was falling.
The Doctor looking after Liz, The Silurians
#good #but should be made better by addition of that publicity shot #where they are pleading with the brig to join them in the hay (tags via @thisbluespirit)
This one, you mean?
Liz gives zero fucks
His face says “welp, she told me.” Better get used to it, between her and the Doctor xD
Same vibe.
What are some good Sapphire & Steel fics? Do you have any "directory" posts at all that list where you can find them all?
I’m afraid I can’t think of any good rec lists - actually, any rec lists at all, come to think of it. So I guess that means I have to make my own! See you under the cut.
Nice list! Also thank you so very much for reccing mine! (Like most writers, I worry - that I flooded the fandom with the Fic Nobody Wanted, or got boring etc. etc.) And light your way, by the way, is fantastic! One of my very favourites out of all the S&S fic, and I’ve enjoyed most of your others (haven’t read some of the crossovers-I-don’t-know yet - all of the ones that I have read have been lovely).
(I’m glad you included Allerleirauh, as we came into the fandom at the same moment, two strangers, but with apparently one shared approach and a love for Silver that had seemed to be seriously lacking in what was available at the time. I love her Silver/Steel(ish) long Daemons crossover/AU Of Angels & Elementals. I still miss her very much & stopped writing much S&S for ages, after she left fandom.)
I made a recs list way back in 2012 (the pickings were so much slimmer! but still much shininess) but I believe all the links still work, amazingly, and I have clearly marked out A6 spoilers here. Some of it still isn’t on AO3, too.
I also have a Original/Other Elements Masterlist - although please note that it is a masterlist, and not a recs list! (Which is not to say I wouldn’t happily rec an awful lot of it anyway; there is a lot of lovely stuff out there in this fandom and also some straight up amazing things, talking of which, I don’t think you included the fabulous longfic Daisy Bell by nemo_the_everbeing. (Dark and weird, but then, so is canon.)
I’m sure there are a lot of others missing, but of authors who have written a lot of stuff, I’d add in pretty much anything by kaffyr - pretty sure none of it is spoilery or especially dark, unlike some of the others, and Annariel has written some great fic too, including a few missing Assignments, crossovers and stuff with Silver. (Both are pretty much gen, even when theoretically shipping.)
(Also, lol, re. Silver/Liz Shaw… Time to confess, I suppose!! This was a crack pairing that came about via an icon meme of mine ages ago on LJ, which a few of us then wrote as it seemed like one that could sail, & kind people have written it for me in Fandom Stocking ever since, while Persiflage has a tendency to prompt me for it in memes and things. I’m not sure whether it’s actually popular, it’s more of a running joke between about four or five of us that has produced some great gift fic along the way. I have no regrets. :-D)
Last, but very important, since you recced The Cat, The Mouse and the Wardrobe - my friend Liadt drew Silver with Sapphire the cat from it here! (It’s adorable.)
(Also, lol, re. Silver/Liz Shaw… Time to confess, I suppose!! This was a crack pairing that came about via an icon meme of mine ages ago on LJ, which a few of us then wrote as it seemed like one that could sail, & kind people have written it for me in Fandom Stocking ever since, while Persiflage has a tendency to prompt me for it in memes and things. I’m not sure whether it’s actually popular, it’s more of a running joke between about four or five of us that has produced some great gift fic along the way. I have no regrets. :-D)
Ha! You can always count on me to enable fannish fun and games... And Liz/Silver is a pairing that actually works remarkably well...
Shipping
when you simultaneously ship the same person with two different people equally as hard
This reminds me of my odd urge to see the Third Doctor (Doctor Who) in a relationship with Liz Shaw and the Brigadier…
Are you KIDDING ME?! There is absolutely NOTHING odd about shipping the three of them - look at how much SEXY there is in this photo of them... Jesus Christ! They're just dynamite together!