Masterlist of all the Doctor Who meta-analyses and all the Doctor Who fanfiction I've written. Meta is listed in order of episode. Fiction is listed first of all by character or pairing, then within that, chronologically with my most recent work at the top.
Meta
Doctor Who Meta
Returning to the Library - Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead; life, death, hidden worlds inside, mirroring and storytelling.
The Crash of the Byzantium - The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone; River as Goddess, greek mythology, journeys through the Underworld.
The Pandorica and the Underworld - The Pandorica Opens; journeying in the Underworld, the World Tree
Death, Life and Time - The Big Bang; Polarity and Unification
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe analysis - The Doctor as Trickster God, World Tree symbolism, Madge's fate as a metaphor for Ascension, parallels with the River Song story.
Pond Life - Short meta (650 words) on the Series 7 prequels.
The Eye Within - Asylum of the Daleks; eye symbolism and the theme of perception, mirroring, the Underworld, the monstering of Oswin.
One of These Things is Not Like the Other - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship; mirroring, juxtaposition and opposition, more eye symbolism, a conflicted Doctor, looking glasses and fourth wall breaches, the theme of fertility, 11's relationship with the Ponds.
Dark Mirror - A Town Called Mercy; recurring themes and motifs in the start of series7; birth/sacrifice/resurrection and the saviour God; the Monster within and the Doctor's dark mirror; why the 11th is lost.
Two Worlds - The Power of Three; Amy and Rory's choice as a manifestation of the Monomyth/Hero's Journey; Eggs, Christmas and Bulbs (again); what lies on the other side of the Looking Glass; the power of numbers; other recurring motifs and symbolism.
The Freedom to Live - The Angels Take Manhattan; the episode as the final stage of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey; Doctor Who as myth; River Song's role; the use of the X symbol, lightbulbs and eggs; mirroring, looking glasses and metaphors; juxtaposition of opposites; parallels with other stories.
The Memory of Snow - The Snowmen; Clara the living fairytale; reversal and unexpectedness; mirroring and memory; the Trickster; Moff's pet theme of Above/Below; the question.
Run, You Clever Boy - The Bells of Saint John; Nursery rhymes and celtic myth, the Question and the Quest; the mirror and the web; the forest and leaves. And some chairs.
The Soul is Made of Stories - The Rings of Akhaten; Who as a self-aware modern myth; World Tree symbolism; fruits of the Otherworld; the contradiction of Clara; the Doctor as a Sun God.
The Songs of the Red Snow - Cold War; Clara's journey as Joseph Campbell's Monomyth; Fire and Water/Death and Rebirth; the Doctor's monster in the mirror; the power of (River?) Song; some speculation about where things might be going.
Not Everything Ends. Not Love. Not Always. - Hide; the World Tree; the Forest as the Afterlife; love and death; the Hero on the Road of Trials; mortality; character mirrors; why River Song is everywhere.
The Meeting With the Goddess - Journey to the Centre of the Tardis; the Hero meets the Goddess in the monomyth reading of the show; The World Tree is blatant and the Tardis is a Goddess; Clara's lessons about Death continue; the Doctor is in denial and his role as mentor is compromised; Clara is most certainly not an android. And lots of other stuff.
The Bell Jar - The Crimson Horror; the scientific and literary bell jar; silence and sound; Welsh Saints, mistletoe and Sir Gawain; subversion of symbolism; why Clara and the Doctor are frozen on their journey; monster mirrors; eye symbolism;
The Empire Never Ended - Nightmare in Silver; In which there is dualism, Zoroastrianism and the Goddess Isis; the Doctor is a Magician, Emperor and the Monster in the mirror; the theme park is the cauldron of rebirth; Philip K Dick's Empire never ended; and there is form out of nothingness.
The Fate of All is Always Dust - The Name of the Doctor - In which the use of words, and names are very important; there is a big difference between knowledge/information/wisdom/myth; the Akashic Records, the Astral Plane and the Golden Ratio make a mystical appearance; there is a lot to say about form/emptiness, what the soul is made of and how things are more than the sum of their parts; the Doctor can never escape his shadow; the Tardis is the castle at the heart of the enchanted forest; and the Doctor himself becomes the World Tree.
Doctor Who fanfic
Eleventh Doctor
All Follow This and Come to Dust - 11th Doctor, Amy and Rory - G - 2266 words
Set sometime between the start of Pond Life and the end of The Power of Three. The Doctor watches the Ponds slip away, knowing that one day they will want to stop running with him. Introspection with a side order of angst.
The Heart Conceals Secrets, While the Mirror Does Not - 11th Doctor- pg - 1943 wordsAn introspective piece about how the Doctor sees the laws of the Universe, and the places where they break down.
The Night Has Eyes to Recognise Its Own- 11th Doctor (mentions of River) - pg - 2891 words
Set after the Doctor sees River for the very last time at the Singing Towers of Darillium. About his grief and what he does afterwards. Angst.
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Amy/Rory
Into This New Love Die (Your Way Begins On the Other Side) - Amy/Rory, mentions of 11 and River - PG - 639 words
Set during The Angels Take Manhattan. You're waiting for a train. A train that'll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. How can it not matter? Because you'll be together. - Look now. Here is one of these small things that lies unseen but by the two who watch it and the two who will stitch themselves so deeply into the fabric of the city that they are inseparable from its safekeeping.
Hold On to What You Believed In the Light - Amy/Rory - PG - 1034 words
Set during Pond Life. For Rory Williams, hope is important, because normality vanished so long ago he can barely remember it any more. Standalone fic, but also a part of the Spiral of Stars Verses.
No More Dreaming Like a Girl So In Love With the Wrong World - Amy/Rory - PG - 2142 words
Set between The God Complex and the 2011 Xmas special, in the 2 years Amy is without the Doctor. Written from Rory's perspective as he watches Amy long for the stars again. Standalone fic, but also a part of the Spiral of Stars Verses.
Not Knowing When the Dawn Will Come, I Open Every Door - Amy/Rory -PG - 2496 words
Amy Pond misses her Raggedy Doctor and yearns for the stars. Set between The God Complex and the 2011 Xmas special, in the 2 years Amy is without the Doctor. Standalone fic but also a part of the Spiral of Stars Verses.
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River/11
The Haunted Man - River/11 - G - 1269 words
Her life hasn't been exactly easy...but there are more things that make it all worthwhile than River can count.
To Keep Me From the Cold - River/11 - M- 6791 words
The Doctor takes River on a date. It goes a bit wrong. But not that wrong, because it ends up with sexytimes in the Tardis.
Set Your Life On Fire - River/11 -T -8723 words
River causes trouble with some aliens. The Doctor is unamused. He takes her somewhere quiet and serene where she can't cause mischief.
Apparently Two, But One In Soul, You and I - River/11, Tardis - G - 2220 words
The Doctor misses speaking to Sexy, so he uses his psychic abilities to connect to the Tardis through River's internal awareness of her.
Many Wonders I Have Seen. I Have Not Seen a Wonder Like You. River/11- G - 1042 Words
The Doctor takes River to see a supernova on her birthday.
Solely in My Chest is My Heart a Drum of Water - River Song - pg - 1865 words
Inspired by the song iamundernodisguise by School of Seven Bells. The first thing that River does after the events of Berlin is run and run.
That's How You Came Here, Like a Star Without Name - River,Charlotte Abigail Lux- pg - 2292 words
An account of River's life inside the Library computer, after she's uploaded by the 10th Doctor.
What Difference is There Between Us, Save a Restless Dream? - River/11 - pg - 3904 words
The Doctor visits River for the first time at Luna University
The Night Has Eyes to Recognise Its Own- 11th Doctor (mentions of River) - pg - 2891 words
Set after the Doctor sees River for the very last time at the Singing Towers of Darillium. About his grief and what he does afterwards. Angst.
To Cause a Hundred Veils to Fall - River/11 - Mature - 5905 words
A long piece of erotica set aboard the Tardis, containing rope bondage. - Warning: Potential trigger: Contains bondage using ropes
There is Nothing in the Universe That You Are Not - River/11 - PG - 1916 words
There's both dark and light inside the Doctor and within the Universe - he shows River.
The Stars Will Be Watching Us, and We Will Show Them. - River/11 - PG - 2539 Words -Moments with River the Doctor cannot forget. Small things, big things, they've all woven their way into his bones, and her story is always with him. A little angsty.
To Fly Toward a Secret Sky - River/11 T - 1559 words
This fic (or, rather, series of mini-fics) is a result of
this discussion on
owlsie's journal about Dom/sub dynamics in the Doctor and River's relationship, and of some discussions i had with
a_phoenixdragon. It was originally conceived as smut, but it didn't work out that way at all and is actually much softer than that, with no explicit sexytimes. Warnings: Potential trigger. Looks at Doctor/River as a relationship between a Dominant/submissive.
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart - River Song - PG- 2173 words
River's time at Luna University from when she enrols until the scene at the end of Closing Time. This fic was inspired partly by the utterly brilliant
The Elegy of Melody Pond by
artemis_ephesusand leads directly up to the events of it. It can be read as a bit of a companion piece.
Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home - River/11, peripheral Amy/Rory, brief Kovarian- PG - 2241 words
AU piece. Set in the bubble Universe that's created when River breaks the fixed point in The Wedding of River Song. The Doctor has no plan to save himself, and River refuses to kill him. They live out their days in a disintegrating universe, loving but never touching.
There's a Language in the Sky - River/11 - PG - 4127 Words
The Tardis is streaming through River's head at night in visions and words she can't understand, so the Doctor teaches her Gallifreyan, mind to mind.
Time, it Took Us to Where the Water Was - River/11 - PG - 2730 words
River's life from stormcage to her death, from the Doctor's Perspective. Companion piece to One Small Breath in the Whole of Time.
One Small Breath In the Whole of Time - River/11 - PG - 3617 words
River life from Stormcage until her death, from her perspective. Companion piece to Time, it took us to where the Water Was
The Sun Roars at the Prayer's End - River/11 - M - 4351 words
River is most insistent that it is, in fact, the Doctor's birthday. Cue a birthday cake with lots of whipped cream and honey, plus some handcuffs. Obviously, smut ensues.
When Two Suns Are Shining - River/11 - PG - 2693 words
Snippets of River's life with the Doctor after being sent to Stormcage
Rory/11
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep - Rory/11 (pre-slash) - PG - 3551 words
Set early on in series 6. Sometimes Rory Williams cannot sleep. The doorway in his head opens and the memories of 2000 years pour through it.
Series
A Spiral of Stars Verses
A collection of standalone fics which follow the pathways of those who wait for the Doctor, conceived by
arwen_elen. All can be read independently of each other, but are listed here in chronological order of when they happen in the Whoniverse. This is a collaboration between myself and the wonderful
arwen_elen And We'll Just Be Dreaming Until You Wake Me Up - 11 and Amy - U - 318 words
Amelia Pond finds both her world and her imagination becoming entangled with Wendy Darlings as they both wait for the impossible. Written by
arwen_elen Carry Me home to the Sea... - Amy/Rory, mentions of the 11th Doctor and River/Melody. - PG - 1147 words
Amy is lost and all she loves is lost to her. So she haunts the sea which is as lost and wild as she is. Set after the events of A good Man Goes to War, but before the events of Let's Kill Hitler. Written by
arwen_elen Not Knowing When the Dawn Will Come, I Open Every Door - Amy/Rory -PG - 2496 words
Amy Pond misses her Raggedy Doctor and yearns for the stars. Set between The God Complex and the 2011 Xmas special, in the 2 years Amy is without the Doctor. Written by
lonewytch No More Dreaming Like a Girl So In Love With the Wrong World - Amy/Rory - PG - 2142 words
Written from Rory's perspective as he watches Amy long for the stars again, and waits for her to awake from the dream of what she cannot have. Set between The God Complex and the 2011 Xmas special, in the 2 years Amy is without the Doctor. Written by
lonewytch Hold On to What You Believed In the Light - Amy/Rory - PG - 1034 words
For Rory Williams, hope is important, because normality vanished so long ago he can barely remember it any more. Set during Pond Life. Written by
lonewytch The Days That Never Came - Amy (mentions of 11, Rory, the Tardis and OCs) - U - 1334 words
Amy can never look back...or can she? Set far into Amy's future when she is 77 years old, and assuming the Doctor never returned to her again after the events of The God Complex. Written by
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Drabbles
Every Book - 11th Doctor - Wordcount: 146
Burning Only Makes Me Brighter - Characters: Eleven/Jack - Wordcount: 500
Written for the "Kiss" prompt at
who_contest
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Original Fiction
The Girl From the Forest, the Boy From the Sea G - 2844 Words
A fairy story of love and loss. Once, in this older world of not very long ago, lived a girl. She was a girl who was made both of fire and of the earth, and she lived in a little house of rock, wood and moss at the centre of a forest by the sea.