Rec: The Valiant Tales

[librarylover82.livejournal.com]

Hello!  I am LibraryLover82, and I’ll be reccing this week.  I read a bit of everything, so I’ll be bringing you a mix of good stories from the Teaspoon archive.  I’m trying to vary the story length, as well as the characters.  I can’t completely avoid authors who have been recced before, so I’m not even going to try.  As far as I know, none of these stories have been recced here before.

Story: The Valiant Tales
Author: RobinC
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3,200
Author's Summary: A series of drabbles about the people who lived, worked, and suffered on the Valiant during the Year That Never Was.

Characters/Pairings: Primarily Other characters, with appearances by the Tenth Doctor, The Master(Simm), Lucy Saxon, Tish Jones, Francine Jones, Jack Harkness
Warnings: Some explicit violence

Recced because: I’m going to start the week on an unusual note by recommending a series.  Never fear; it is a series of drabbles, which makes the length about the same as a regular story.  This author can do more with 100 words than some people can do with 1,000.  These are portraits of people who were either forced to work on the Valiant, or who volunteered to work there, during the Year That Never Was.  In 100 words RobinC paints a picture of the best and worst of humanity, and illustrates just what a terrible year it was.  Some are surprising, some are shocking, some make me cry, and some make me proud to be a human.  They all make me think; is this what I would have done if I had been there?

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I don't wish to be a pain, and maybe as the series has grown a lot in the meantime, it won't matter, but this has been recced here before.

(If you click on the tag down the side for the author you're reccing, - plus the most recent untagged entries - you're usually pretty safe. I was a bit obsessive about this when it was my turn, because some stories seem impossible not to have been done!)

It could give you an excuse to squeeze in an extra rec? ;-D Getting them down to 7 is painful and difficult.

[librarylover82.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for letting me know about the links on the right. I'm fairly new to Calufrax, and I had a much less scientific method for checking. There have been additional drabbles added since the last time it was recced, so I don't feel too bad. :)

I have checked the remainder of the week, and I'm good to go. I'm also reccing a number of authors who haven't been recced here before, so that's exciting!

[thisbluespirit]

Glad you didn't mind - I just looked at the entry and had a sense of deja vu, but it was a good story to rec twice, given its ongoing-ness.

You just have to watch the previous few weeks, as it depends when the mods get round to tagging and it doesn't seem to have been in a while lately, I think. I was slightly obsessively scared of reccing things twice when I had my first go in March and checked everything about ten times. Sometimes because it seemed impossible no one had recced the story before. :lol:

I like the look of the rest of your recs!

[lindenharp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec and the kind words.