rec: The Road Untraveled by Daystar Searcher

[thisbluespirit]

Hi, I'm lost_spook, your reccer for the week, and otherwise known as vvj5 on Teaspoon. I'm a big fan of all eras of our amazing show, so hopefully there'll be something for everyone as we go through the week.

Story: The Road Untraveled
Author: Daystar Searcher
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1424
Author's Summary: Just because you part ways with someone doesn't mean they stop influencing your life, as Ace, Mags, and the Doctor find out.
Characters/Pairings: Ace/Mags, Seventh Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Third Doctor, Frobisher, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Second Doctor, Martha Jones, Rani Chandra.
Warnings: None.

Recced because: Well. Two recs in two days that feature a suspiciously similar long and strange list of ingredients? What are the chances? There is an explanation, which lies in a recent challenge I made, using 12 prompts that could be played with individually, or together. (And I had no idea what yesterday's rec would be, but I was delighted - I can now rec the other, utterly amazing resulting fic containing all 12 here today.)

What I never envisaged was that someone could take all twelve and write a beautiful, short and serious fic that ties them all together. It should be impossible, but, as it turns out, if the writer is as talented as Daystar Searcher, it suddenly becomes perfectly natural and coherent. The main strand of the story follows Ace and Mags and their separate fortunes and whether either or both regret not staying with each other, but it doesn’t forget to include Welsh myths, vampires, evil giraffes, Rani Chandra, Frobisher etc. etc.. It’s amazing. Really. I could stand here and flail a little more about how impressed I am, but you’d be much better off running away to read it now. So, go; read!

Comments

[eve11]

Ooh, interesting. Can you give me some background on who Mags is?

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I forgot that might have been handy! Mags is from the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and she was travelling around with an explorer in a sort of dark mirror of the Doctor and Ace, and she's also a werewolf. Which is kind of a spoiler. She winds up staying with the new version of the Psychic Circus.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

That was great - I really enjoyed it, even the evil giraffe. Especially the evil giraffe, come to think of it. :)

[thisbluespirit]

There should totally be more evil giraffes, yes. :-)

[daystarsearcher.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! Thanks for the rec!

[thisbluespirit]

What else could I do? ;-)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Marvelous use of the prompts, a well chosen rec indeed.

[thisbluespirit]

It was indeed - not that yours wasn't also highly marvellous, but happily for me paranoidangel42 recced that and saved me the dilemma of which? both? neither? :-D