Bagheera

I'm glad it's done now. I like some of what I produced for it, but overall, the quality suffered under the deadline pressure and prompt constrictions. (I always have that problem with challenges, it seems - my writing gets either rushed or cramped.) Otoh, it kept me writing all summer long. Normally, summers are long dryspells for me, writing-wise. Most of my writer's blocks happen in summer. So I guess flawed stuff is better than no stuff. (And I'm getting better with icons, I think.)

( The table: 17 D/M fics and 13 icons )

I wanted to have even more variation pairing-wise ;) Now there's: Three/Delgado!Master (4 fics, 3 icons), Five/Ainley!Master (2 fics), Ten/Simm!Master (2 fics), Two/WarChief!Master (2 fics), Valeyard!Handy/Ainley!Master (1 fic), Four/Delgado!Master (1 fic), Koschei/Theta (1 fic), Three/Ainley!Master (1 fic), Shalka (1 fic, 1 icon), Six/Ainley!Master (1 fic), Eight/Ainley!Master (1 fic), Gatiss!Master/Doctor (1 fic) and a bunch of rather non-shippy icons.

Things that I wanted to write but didn't: Eight/Jacobi!Master, Eight/Delgado!Master, Seven/Beevers!Master, more Shalka.

My favourite of the bunch: Solitaire (even though others might objectively be better.)

Fast and dirty PWP. And another foray into the strange and frightening lands of New Who fic. And, um, Christmas fic. But the explodey Doctor Who kind of Christmas.

Title: To The Bone
Rating: porn
Pairing: Ten/Simm!Master
Prompt: Re-entry
Warnings: violence
Summary: The Master returns from the dead. The Doctor is less than over-joyed.

( 2963 words )

Title: Bubble Bath Ethics
Rating: tame
Pairing: Two/War Chief
Prompt: # 18 Candlelight Bath
Note: Set in a sort of Season 6B setting with the Doctor and War Chief!Master sharing a TARDIS and working for the Time Lords.
Summary:

( The humming turned into a cough as the Doctor prepared to back out of the bathroom and leave whoever it was to their romantic candlelight bath. Who could it be? Not Jamie, certainly, and Zoe was far too pragmatic... )

Alright, so it is Sep 3...

Title: Rush Into Slow Pace
Rating: PG-13/R
Pairing: Three/Delgado!Master
Prompt: Singing in Showers
Summary: Set after "Frontier in Space" and "Green Death", contains spoilers for both. Even simple things like singing in the shower have secret meanings.

( Even the dingy hotel room seemed like a deliberate insult to the Doctor – surely the Master could have afforded something better. )

Title: Yes/No/Perhaps
Rating: all ages
Characters: Three, Jo, Delgado!Master/Three
Prompt: #6 Farming
Summary: A while ago there was a macro on ihasatardis that inspired this.

( Doctor? Have you ever heard of crop circles? )

Another two last-minute ficlets. The Shalka fic is the beginning of a longer story, the other one is a stand-alone.

Title: The Key
Rating: Teen
Prompt: Misplaced
Pairing: Shalka!Doctor/Master (same continuity as Living Things)
Summary: Set after the webcast. Another mission from the Time Lords has unexpected consquences.
( 2144 words )


Title: Balance
Rating: all ages
Pairing: Three/Ainley!Master
Prompt: Horses
Summary: set after Five Doctors and Planet of Fire

( 649 words )

I'm making a doomed last-ditch effort to complete the challenge...

Title: Crush
Rating: all ages
Characters: Ainley!Master, the Rani (set immediately after "Mark of the Rani", with spoilers for "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" and "Sea Devils")
Summary: The Master is a little bit obsessed.

( Prompt #24 - Dinosaurs )

Title: Passing the Time
Rating: teen
Pairing: Three/Delgado!Master
Summary: set before "The Three Doctors".

( Prompt #8 - Closet )

This is hugely indebted to this story, which gave me a better feeling for what the dynamic between SftD!Master and Colonel Wood could be like.

Title: Rotten Luck
Rating: adult (swearing, violence, explicit slash)
Pairing: Master/Doctor, Gatiss!Master/Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood
Words: 2576
Prompt: # 28 Painkillers
Summary: Set in the AU from the audio "Sympathy for the Devil." (The Master is voiced by Mark Gatiss and Colonel Wood by David Tennant. The Doctor in question is an AU Third Doctor.)

( There were worse masters to serve than UNIT, bigger bastards to yank his chain. In relative terms, this was heaven. )

I keep cheating. This is another anon kink meme fic I'm using to fill a prompt on the table, but since there are thirty, and I'm not having much luck with the new stories I started, this is better than nothing. Though I really don't expect to make the deadline.

Title: Crooked Line
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Three/Delgado!Master
Length: 615 words
Prompt: Regard
Warnings: Contains Third Doctor in a dress.

( 'You were born to bend rules,' the Master tells him. )

Another fruit of the anon meme...

Title: In The Blink Of An Eye
Rating: adult
Pairing: Koschei/Theta
Prompt: non-linear
Summary: Some things are forbidden for a reason. Of course they have to test it.

( 639 words )