Presented for your reading enjoyment: The Doctor Dances I and II, a collection of love stories with sex in them or sex stories with love in them. (There might be one that has no sex in it at all, but if it doesn’t that’s only because the sex was implied, had already happened or was about to happen.)
Choosing stories for this collection was challenging because love and/or sex stories are pretty much fanfiction’s raison d’etre. How best to demonstrate the possibilities of an art form primarily dedicated to trying to get two (or more) people together and make them shag? What stories would best seduce the unitiated to the dark side? We’d need a little romance, a little slash, a little comedy, a little perversion, a little bit dark, a little bit French fairytale, some big big love, old friends, and everyone you ever loved and then some.
There’s a fair few stories rated 18 (who’d have thought, eh?) so you’ll need to register or sign in to read them.
So what have we got this month?
03 Editorial
Editorial for issue 03.
Belle de Jour, by Chase
Sometimes it’s necessary to take assumptions about a character and toss them aside. The Doctor in this story is the scary fairy man, the Peter Pan, the Raven God. The Rose in this story is on a painful journey of self-discovery. And there is sex. It’s a literary fairytale, in fact the story reminds me a lot of watching Cocteau’s Belle et le Bete, all that rich erotic play of light and dark.
And Hate the Idle Pleasures of These Days, by Calapine
When Harry Met Lucy. This author has written scads of great stories, most of them multi-parters, and this story, I believe is the first in a series about the strange courtship of Harry and Lucy. It’s a love story, or at least, the initial glimmerings of attraction that lead to love stories. The fact that the male lead is a megalomaniacal madman in the process of duping a nation, and the ingenue, a woman who isn’t duped but doesn’t care if everyone else is — that’s what makes it so sweet.
Observation Interference, by Van Donovan
Because there isn’t enough Leela love out there. Sometimes ficathons, with all their strange, exacting requests, yield wondrous fruit. The author took a simple (impossible) challenge of getting two characters together who would never have met, and managed to deliver a study on love, loss, and friendship - with bonus girl on girl action.
Context, by amberite
The Doctor’s voice and thought processes in this story are lovingly rendered, paced and pitched to exact quirky perfection so that you can’t help but accept the sex when it happens. (And I never thought I’d ever say that about the 4th Doctor.) The depiction of Sarah Jane’s 70’s feminism made me all nostalgic. The writer’s style is innovative, and the sex is actually very sexy. This story is an erotic triumph that’s also a really sweet discourse on how we communicate with each other.
Precious Little Space Dumplings of Love, by Call me Puffendorf
Have to agree with the Master here - it’s a shame to waste how cute they both are this time around. Fun and silly and then sizzling hot, but please note the rating.
Best of Enemies, by Anne Ellis
A classic from the Ancient of Days by the enigmatic Anne Ellis. You say don’t know nuthin’ ’bout no Fifth Doctor? Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough, who dey? No problem.
I had no idea who Turlough was when I read this story the first time. The promise of sexual content lured me in. By the end of the opening paragraph I knew everything I needed to know about the point of view character, as certain Vislor Turlough, and everything that followed was perfectly motivated by the insight into his character I got in those first few lines. That’s just good storytelling, isn’t it? Add to that one of the most deliciously naughty scenes in the history of all fanfiction anywhere EVAH (see below) and well, gravy, yeah?
(Mags would like to add that this story is one of her favorite stories EVAH.)
Everyman, by Basingstoke
This is the story of a man who falls in love too easily — which, it turns out, is just the right amount. The ending of this story didn’t so much sneak up on me as enfold me in its big big love.
Odd Man Out, by Tara O’Shea
This here is just plain lighthearted fun. A well-used trope, put to good use. Jack proves wonderfully detail-oriented in his surreptitious observations of Rose and the Doctor. The last couple of lines alone are worth the journey.
Look and Remember, by cadhla
The art of savoring memories, from the ludicrous, and sublime, to the sweet mundane. Not cloying or overly sentimental, it is, however, a story about recognizing what’s precious. There are a lot of stories out there exploring this particular trope and many of them are great, but this one makes my heart swell, makes me laugh, and gives me a kind of melancholy joy - a feeling that doubtless has a corresponding word or phrase that’s much cooler sounding in German.
Tiny Human Heads, by kalima
(Mags here). This story makes me laugh and sniff in equal measure. Kelly writes Sarah Jane as older, wiser but just as big an intrepid girl reporter as ever. She also writes funny, true-to-life sex.
A Matched Pair, by aces
For people unfamiliar with Fitz from the Eighth Doctor Adventures this story probably isn’t the best introduction. But if you’ve followed the books and have deep abiding fondness for guitar strumming, cig smoking, only somewhat bright, but very loyal Fitz Kreiner, then this story is a little slice of heaven. Plus, Eighth Doctor is dreamy.
Need (Illegitimate), by Letterblade
Written from a prompt of the Nordic rune Nauthiz, we’ve got something from the Torchwood side of the tracks. Gwen Cooper copes the best she can. This story features themes and content suitably dark, and definitely not for children. Gorgeous language. Raw, messy, realistic yet sexy sex. Red hot. Made me blue.
…and then he kissed me, by Mags L Halliday
Sex, Sexuality and Romance in Doctor Who
At Last, by Doyle
This is just the sweetest, most charming little tale of seduction ever told. Absolutely pitch perfect. If you don’t laugh in delight at least four times while reading this story there is something seriously wrong with you.
The Game of Making, by Lurky McLurklurk
“Your history is the manuscript of a poem that I draft and redraft endlessly. I scribble out a word and replace it, or change a single comma, and your whole meaning changes.” This story features a kind of sexual perversion only possible for a Lord of Time.
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