Free beer and cookies for reccers

[nonelvis]

(Not really, but I'm almost at that point.)

See, we're out of reccers. And when I say "out of reccers," I really do mean it, because starting April 23, the schedule is 100% empty. No volunteers. Not a soul.

Please, if you've ever considered reccing, have friends who have been on the fence about it, or just want to make sure the comm doesn't go dark, I beg of you, volunteer or encourage others to sign up. All you need is a mere four stories on Teaspoon you love -- more's great too, but not required -- that are well-written, don't all include exactly the same pairing (though they don't all have to be different), and don't involve character bashing. Then join the comm, if you're not already a member, and sign up here.

I am also open to suggestions about how to increase participation. Feel free to leave a comment here or PM me about this.

Thanks, everyone.

Rec: Redeeming the Tree

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Story: Redeeming the Tree
Author: rutsky
Rating: teen
Word Count: 8943
Author's Summary: Dry and dying gardens, pain and precision; She was screaming, but would they hear?
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, The Doctor (9th), The TARDIS
Warnings: none

Recced because: Sometimes it seems like everyone has a "Parting of the Ways" AU, in which Rose and Jack go on to journey with the ninth Doctor after confronting the Daleks on the Gamestation, and many of these series are absolutely excellent.  "Redeeming the Tree" is from rutsky's Beiji Sonho series, but it stands alone quite well; all you need to know is that it does take place in a "Parting of the Ways" AU, in which Jack took the time energy from the Doctor before it killed him, cancelling out his immortality.  In other words, business as before—almost.

This is a story about communication.  It's about things that start going right in all the wrong ways—or, alternately, it's about what happens when friends of the Doctor can't scream for his help.  It has darkness and vivid, color-saturated description.  It has a potentially devastating mystery to be solved.  It has lovely, poetic descriptions of psychic experiences, and I tend to find psychic stuff fascinating.  But above all, it's about the TARDIS.  And the TARDIS—the most alien being on the show, and also the Doctor's oldest friend—is, in my opinion, always a marvelous subject for a story.


( An exerpt, in which the wrong thing is going right )