Rec: Come Back to Tell All (I Shall Tell You All)

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Story: Come Back to Tell All (I Shall Tell You All)
Author: Amberite
Rating: All Ages
Author's Summary: An overview of the Third Doctor's life, around the themes of his traumatic exile and his fashion sense.
Characters/Pairings: Third Doctor/Brig, Fourth Doctor
Warnings: None

Recced because: I was fascinated by the idea of the Third Doctor's dandyism as an outgrowth of his Earth exile, clothes making the man because the man was remade without his consent and has no idea who he really is beneath the surface. This story drives home just how stranded, frightened and lost the Doctor was without his TARDIS, old companions or previous identity, which makes his slow acceptance of this forced regeneration and joyous embrace of the next one all the more satisfying to read. The slash content is brief and largely offstage (as well as being a symptom of the Doctor's identity crisis itself, in its own way), but if you're in it for the velvet capes, you're in the right place.

Comments

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for reccing this! (Especially because I was feeling guilty because it was another of those I really wanted to rec, but I didn't have room to and now you have, yay!)

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I couldn't not rec this one, it's one of my favorite DW stories in the world. :-)

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reccing this fic - it's one of my all-time favourites and I love having another excuse to read it. :D

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Dude, as we're not warning for het!fic, could you take out the warning for slash?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Will do. I put it in because it's in the "warnings" column on Teaspoon. The warnings column you fill out when you're archiving a story, I mean (I think "het" is in there as well).

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Ark, will take it out there, yes.