Scribblings

All my fanfiction in one PDF file

Arthuriana

Most of these articles (unless specified otherwise) originally appearing in Ceridwen's Cauldron, the magazine of the Oxford Arthurian Society.

• How Culhwch won Olwen - A brief look at this tale from the Mabinogian.
• King Arthur on the Fringe - Descriptions/reviews of two arthurian shows on the 1994 Edinburgh Fringe.
• Parsley, Sage, Kippers and Pervert's Trousers - Arthurian only because it is about songs the Oxford Arthurian Society like to sing.
• Arthurian Literature - A survey article I wrote for the GEAS online roleplaying encyclopedia.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Rivalries (PDF) - Fanfic set early in season 2 before Buffy and Angel start dating. This is sort of a Buffy/Mr. Vampire cross-over except without all the truly silly bits in Mr. Vampire (i.e. most of it) or any Kung-Fu. Contains a Mary Sue.

Dr Who

All my Dr Who and Torchwood fanfiction in one PDF file

• Strange Meeting (PDF) - Doctor Who fiction featuring the 5th Doctor and Nyssa. This was supposed to be part of a sequence of stories, Storm God Rising, by several authors featuring the same villain (the storm demon Achmael). This segment should have appeared about 1/2 way through. Warning - features Mary Sue.
• Review of the Time Lord RPG written for the GEAS encyclopedia.
• Why I Hate Jason Kane written for Oh Yes It Is! a short-lived Benny Summerfield fanzine which died before this article appeared.
• Facts and Fiction - an article losely connected to Dr Who (it uses several examples from it and was prompted by a discusion on Allen Road, a Dr Who mailing list). This was originally written for The Troglodyte a general tele-fantasy based fanzine with leanings towards Dr Who which died before this article appeared.
• Fiction and Facts - which has nothing at all to do with Dr Who but was written as a companion piece to the above. This is me venting my spleen against Kevin Warwick.
• The Web of Time (PDF) - This was more a vignette than as story. I never went anywhere with the idea and had no particular idea who "the swimmers" mentioned in it were. It possibly benefits from the absense of Mary Sue and appeared in the Eye of Orion which, for a change, didn't actually fold before the story was published!
• The Nightmare of Bethlehem (PDF) - This was supposed to be the first installement in a sequence of stories about a Doctor played by Geoffrey Rush. The idea was that of "Brax" from the JadePagoda news group and he ran the project for a while. Only a few stories were ever actually produced however and the project fizzled. This story was intended as the first in the sequence and was based on an idea for aliens suggested by Simon Bucher-Jones.
• The Feast of St. Crispin Crispianus (PDF) - The cunning thing about this story is that I've disguised Mary Sue as the Doctor.
• Tears, Sarah Jane (PDF) - I think this may have been the first piece of fanfic I wrote. Dug out from an old notebook.
• The Daughters of Theogenes (PDF) - Another early piece of fanfic. I remember being terribly proud of it at the time but 20 years later it reads as desperately earnest and rather dull. The ending was so horribly, horribly trite that I had to rewrite it. It's still pretty trite but at least it doesn't make my toes curl with embarrassment.
• Snowstorm (PDF) - Flashfic written for a fandom stocking. The recipient liked 10/Rose and 10/Rose/Jack but didn't like angst.
• The Skull and the Soldier (PDF) Primeval Crossover.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

• Be Yourself (PDF).

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

Drabbles

All of these drabbles were written for prompts from the dw100 community on livejournal.

• Remember the Children - Challenge 214: Crossover (and because rodlox demanded Leela/Ryan)
• TARDIS Catalogue - Challenge 215: Red/Blue
• The Randomness of Free Will - Challenge 216: Free
• The Kraken Wakes - Challenge 217: Wake
• Tales Retold in a Hundred Years - Challenge 218: Legend

(PDF of all drabbles)

Firefly

Drabbles

• Proposal (PDF) written for exiled_mind's fandom_stocking who said she liked Zoe/Wash and happy endings.

NCIS

• Three Things Ziya David does when told she has a Day to Live (PDF) - ficlet from a prompt by rodlox

Primeval

All my Primeval fanfiction in one PDF file

• Dragonfly over Kazakhstan (PDF) - This is largely rodlox's fault for using the words "run with it" in connection with my nanites drabble. That one was played for laughs, this one is not. However its the first time in years I've felt really driven to write fic so thanks are due. In style it owes a big debt to Dan Simmons' Ilium/Olympos cycle - especially the cable car. In retrospect some of the imagery would also appear to come from Ken MacLoed's Newton's Wake.

  Thanks are also due to my beta readers, fredbassett and rodlox.

  Warning: One use of strong language.

• Making Teams, Breaking Teams (PDF) - A Torchwood crossover.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, the ever helpful fredbassett in particular for pointing out, ever so nicely, that the first draft I sent her was virtually impossible to follow. And to hallowstranger for the prompt: "A crossover with Doctor Who/Torchwood that doesn't have to do with dinosaurs or anamolies." and a request that the story be Connor-centric.

  Warning: Mild language.

• Head, Hand and Heart (PDF)

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett.

  Warning: Language, Presumes Stephen and Ryan are in a relationship.

  Note: I wrote two follow up drabbles to this called Creepy Crawlies and Food of the Fairies.

• Accidents and Meetings (PDF)

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett.

  Note: A follow up to the drabble Family. It was followed up in turn by reggietate

• A Romantic Night Out (PDF) (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett and to steamshovelmamma for medical picks.

• The Night Before Christmas (PDF) (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle and Tanya Lacey))

  Written for the primeval_denial siegefic challenge.

  Thanks: To my beta-readers, munchkinofdoom and reggietate who also did Lacey picks.

• Blessing (PDF) - A fixit for Rain because people came after me with pitchforks.

• Connor Writes (PDF) - Combining two prompts: "I'd enjoy a story where Connor saves the day - and maybe Abby as well - without reducing her to the role of a damsel in distress. He's often the sidekick so let's have him step up in this one" and "At one point during the series, we saw a female special forces soldier. It would be nice to have a story where the special forces are involved but they're not all male. They don't, however, have to be the focus of the story."

• Primeval by Gaslight (PDF) - From the prompt: "Shift the time frame back a bit, say a hundred and fifty years or so, but with the same team members."

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, rodlox

  and

  Examination by Lamp Light (same PDF as above) - A missing scene from the above written as a remix of fififolle's Examination.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, rodlox who is not responsible for my decisions to use wandering tense and strange punctuation of speech (the latter is Bram Stoker's fault).

• A Day in the Life (Rated Mature, 15+) (PDF) - From the prompt: "Lester just wishes they'd all stop being a pain in the neck and leave him in peace"

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, lil_shepherd

• Christmas in the Pleistocene (PDF) - Written for rodlox's fandom stocking.
• Man Trap (PDF) - From the prompt: "Jenny Rescues Nick from an awkward situation" given by reggietate

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

• Fire and Ice (PDF) - From the prompt: "Fire, Iced Coffee, Embarrassment" given by dominique012

  Prequel Drabble: Fire.(fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))

  Crackfic explaining absense of Lyle: Undercover Lyle.(fanon (see under Lester/Lyle and Sanctuary))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

• The Skull and the Soldier (PDF) Doctor Who Books Crossover.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

• Celebrations: A Drabble Cycle (PDF)
• A Wander in Winterland (PDF) - A Companion piece to One of our Santas is Missing.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, Ayla

• Primeval 100 Pirates (PDF) - 10 drabbles, based on the first 10 prompts in primeval100, based around the idea of Jenny and Sarah as pirates. To be honest it didn't even make much sense at the time.
• Merry Go Round (PDF) - From the prompts: "Betrayal of Trust", "If You Believe in Love at First Sight, You Never Stop Looking", "The Difference Between Love and Lust is that Love is Always Deadly" given by sunset_dinos

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, Alyse

• Nazis and Dinosaurs and Airships! Oh My! (PDF) (fanon (see under McAllister, Wells and Crane, Tanya Lacey and Mary Tremayne)) - From the prompt: "They came through an Anomaly back to their Present Day - and they find a world whose changes are not cosmetic." given by rodlox. He also requested that the story focus on three OCs which it does.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett

Season 2b

A linked series of Helen-centric short stories set between seasons 2 and 3

(PDF)

• The Whirligig of Time (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, rodlox.

• Masters of their Fates (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle and Tanya Lacey))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett.

• The Seeds of Time (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, lukadreaming.

• Cry Havoc (fanon (see under Lester/Lyle))

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, fredbassett.

• Present Fears

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, lukadreaming.

(PDF of all Season 2b stories)

Drabbles

• Challenge Drabbles
• Drabbles from Prompts
• Misc Other Drabbles

(PDF of all drabbles)

Note: Some of these stories draw on fanon background as follows:

Stephen/Ryan and Lester/Lyle.

fredbassett's Stephen/Ryan series introduces Jon Lyle, Ditzy, Blade, Kermit and Finn. Quick details of all of them can be found in the primeval_denial original characters post.

Sanctuary

The Sanctuary was created by mysteriousaliwz in this charming little crackfic. More Sanctuary Stories by various authors and recommendations.

McAllister, Wells and Taylor Crane

See thefakebooks's The Past is Prologue. Quick details of all of them can be found in the primeval_denial original characters post.

Tanya Lacey

Tanya Lacey is the name given to the female soldier glimpsed in the background in some of season one. She was named by reggietate. Quick details can be found in the primeval_denial original characters post.

Mary Tremayne

Lieutenant Mary Tremayne is a female soldier and friend of Tanya Lacey created by rodlox. Quick details can be found in the primeval_denial original characters post.

Robin of Sherwood

All my Robin of Sherwood fanfiction in one PDF file

• The Saracen's Daughter (PDF)

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, herne24

Drabbles

• Winter in Sherwood
• Do not go Gentle into that Dark Night

(PDF of all drabbles)

Roleplaying

• Fools and Heros - A brief description of the Fools and Heroes LRP Society written for the GEAS online encyclopedia. Now rather out of date.
• Character descriptions written for the GEAS character graveyard. Anne of Schleswig Holstien, Kate Croy, Miette, Gail Price.
• A Series of short articles explaining LARP terms, written for the GEAS encyclopedia. Physrep, Man Down, Time Freeze, Time in, Time Out, Down Time.

Sapphire and Steel

• Primeval Drabble Challenge 75 (Crossover): All Irregularities will be Handled (with a longer version I preferred)

Tolkien

• J. R. R. Tolkien - Brief Biography of Tolkien written for the GEAS online roleplaying encyclopedia.
• Why is it so hard to Role-play in Middle Earth - Originally appeared in the GEAS Magazine. Re-reading this several years after it was written suggests to me that my RP experiences up to that point had not been high quality.

Torchwood

All my Dr Who and Torchwood fanfiction in one PDF file

• Making Teams, Breaking Teams (PDF) - A Primeval crossover.

  Thanks: To my beta-reader, the ever helpful fredbassett in particular for pointing out, ever so nicely, that the first draft I sent her was virtually impossible to follow. And to hallowstranger for the prompt: "A crossover with Doctor Who/Torchwood that doesn't have to do with dinosaurs or anamolies." and a request that the story be Connor-centric.

  Warning: Mild language.

• Snowstorm (PDF) - Flashfic written for a fandom stocking. The recipient liked 10/Rose and 10/Rose/Jack but didn't like angst.

Urban Dead

All my Urban Dead fanfiction in one PDF file

• I Looted Caiger Mall and All I got was this Lousy T-Shirt. (PDF)

  With thanks to Luka for beta-reading.

• Well of Souls (PDF)

  With thanks to Luka and BD for beta-reading.

• Ghost in the Library (PDF)
• Drabbles Written for the DHPD Weekly Drabble Challenge (PDF)

Vampire: The Masquerade

These originally appeared at the Salon de la Rose and, indeed, one was explicity written for that web site.

• On art and Reality - originally entitled "Why Toreador aren't boring".
• An Essay on Love - character stuff.
• Toreador Prestige Rules - Shame they don't work really.