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spotify with a load of doctor who character playlists, a couple of mcu and sherlock ones, and plenty more on the way. not to brag but my taste in music is the best in the world so i recommend checking them out
@torchwoodfanweek my beloved fan week <3 everyone had such great stuff to share and every torch fan should go and have a look! the masterlist for it is pinned to that blog for easy browsing, and there's a high possibility of more in the future
fics
ao3 for torchwood and life on mars/ashes to ashes (and future doccy who/gomens wips) and ao3 for mcu/irondad fic, you can browse either there or below
torchwood fics
Feast | 15k | Torchwood Team, Janto There's nothing the Torchcrew can do for the dead body the Rift leads them to. The life already, quite literally, sucked out of it. But after getting interrupted during the clean-up, Gwen and Ianto never make it back to the Hub. Worried about their friends stuck out on the same streets as whatever monster put the body there, Jack, Tosh, and Owen end up in a race against time to find them. Unless it's already too late…
Trust | 22k | Torchwood Team, Janto The abandoned Wonderland Theme Park is long known by Cardiff locals to be haunted. A place where kids break in after school for a cheap thrill and get drunk. After one of those kids ends up in a state at the police station, going on about seeing her dead father, the Torchcrew decide it's time to take a look. Some very familiar faces greet them. It's up to the group to figure out which of their foes is the real deal and which is an imposter before the paranoia gets the better of them. -> #fic: trust
Control | 30k | Torchwood Team, Janto The Weevils go beserk and launch a brutal attack in broad daylight. With all footage mysteriously scrubbed from the internet, Ianto is arrested for the crime. Normally that wouldn't be an issue for the Torchcrew to solve, but when UNIT cart him off in the dead of the night, they're left playing catch up. Not to mention the obvious trap they're walking into.
Dead | 21k | Janto, Gwen & Jack & Ianto Ianto forces a small smile, sure it doesn’t reach his eyes judging by Jack’s reaction. “I didn’t realise being dead would be so difficult.” Jack had always made it look peaceful–not the act of dying, but death itself. He said there was nothing on the other side, and part of Ianto sort of looked forward to that. In the far, far off future. Then there was Suzie and Owen. Suzie came back jealous and murderous. Owen came back… Owen. And Ianto came back, full stop. # # Or; Ianto dies at Thames House, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone.
Rhys and Ianto's Excellent Trip to Angelsey | 11k | Ianto/Rhys When two Harwoods drivers went missing, Rhys asked Torchwood to investigate. They all told him to leave it alone and just let the police deal with it, apart from Ianto who thinks there's something more to the story.
The (Not So) Daring Rescue | 5K | Torchwood Team How Torchwood got the rest of their team back - sequel to the above
Second Week | 14K | Owen & Tosh It's been two weeks since Owen joined Torchwood. Three since Katie's funeral. Five since she died. And it's fine, he's fine, everything is just fine. Except that he can't look that Harkness in the eye, and he can't move on from her, and Toshiko is being too nice. It's shaping up to be just another day as shit as the ones before it when him and Tosh are sent to check on a Rift alert down some ratty alleyway. Next they know, a spaceship is crashing into central London
Torchwood WIPS
(at least the ones i'm actively working on, the list goes on...)
Band AU -> #fic: band au | planning On the cusp of the nineties-Britpop, boybands, and nightlong raves-Ianto Jones meets four strangers all running from their pasts. As they grow closer they realise a shared love for music, both listening to and making it. Together, they muddle their way through the turn of the decade, and the creation of something great
Dust to Dust -> #fic: dust to dust | writing The Doctor is dead. Donna is dead. Her family is dead. As far as he can tell, Fourteen is the only person left alive in the entire universe. It's a disaster even he can't fix... not without help. The only problem? Every member of Torchwood is either missing or dead. He'll have to delve into some dark powers not seen since the days of the Time War (apart from that one time) in order to assemble a team that can take on this threat. But will Torchwood trust this mad man in a box? And what will Jack think to the familiar face...
Out in the Dark -> #fic: out in the dark | planning | snippet 1, snippet 2 When soliders take the children of Holly Tree House out into the middle of nowhere, Ianto is the only one of them to escape the light. A dark mark hangs over the rest of his childhood, shuffled from home to home after being labeled a troubler-maker and kicked out of the care system as soon as they could be rid of him. It isn't his fault that no one will believe his story. The years march on, and Ianto begins to wonder just how much of that night was a dream and how much really happened. Until he hears whispers of Torchwood, that is. But it isn't until the day all of Earth's children turn their head skywards that he meets any of them.
Out of time | Torchwood/Life on Mars crossover | writing | 16K+
“Jack!” the woman warned. Sam looked each of them in the eye as they turned, saw him, and leveled their weapons at him. “You should make sure you close your door.” It got the reaction he wanted–pissing Jack off enough to get him stomping forwards and shoving Sam into the wall behind. Jack pinned him there with an arm across his chest, leaning his weight into it, and kept his gun raised at his head. “Who are you?” he demanded. “As if I’d tell you,” Sam spat back. He grabbed Sam and spun him around, fisting his hand in his jacket and marching down the corridor. “Picked a hell of a day for it,” was all Jack said. or; Sam Tyler is running a routine suspect pick up in Cardiff with the Guv when it all goes tits up. Next thing he knows, he's caught up in the sordid affairs of some sort of underground alien hunters in the future
life on mars/ashes to ashes fics
one-shots
ai-less whumptober | 40k+ Just an excuse to beat up Sam Tyler a bit more than I usually do. Includes hits such as:
And Don't Think I'm Walking Out of This | 23k | Sam & Gene Sam put himself between them, hands slightly raised. He couldn’t just wait by while she beat him to a pulp. The way the body from last night went out had been neither quick nor painless. Ronnie didn’t deserve that. Nobody did. “Just let him go. I think he’s learnt his lesson already.” Tipping her head, Bernie shrugged and let the crowbar drop. “I was only gonna tell him to stay put. This…” She felt the weight of the bar, trying it out for size. “This is for you.” Or; a horribly beaten body turns up, Sam Tyler disappears, and Gene Hunt can't sleep
Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes WIPS
(for now mostly thoughts that won't leave me alone)
raver sam au | writing | 7+k | Sam/Gene | first chapter here He wasn't sure what the plan was. Worse than that; didn't have a plan in the first place. Drifting. Tuesday, then Wednesday. And would you look at that, a Thursday. Meaningless words that kept coming around and around and he couldn't bring himself to be surprised to see them back again so soon. Over and over. Again and again. One no different than next, just how it wasn't different from the one before. The funniest thing was that Sam didn't mind if they were all the same. He could do that without too much complaint. All he wished was that he was living someone else's days. Ones that weren't empty and grey, dull. Better days. Or a better person. * * Or; It's the 90s and Sam's a down and out twenty-two year old with too many thoughts in his head. It's only when he goes to a rave almost by accident that he realises his life can be happy after all. So he goes again. And again. And all the joys that come along with raving start to seem more and more appealing, if only he could get his one copper to leave him alone long enough to enjoy himself -> #fic: raver sam
pub au | planning based off that one episode of lom. a young gene inherits his parent's pub after an accident. one day a runaway sam tyler comes in asking for a spare room
MCU Fics
one-shots
is this it? | 1.3k | Irondad "And I... am... Iron Man." Tony snapped his fingers, expecting a surge of pain to shoot across his body and welcome him into the soft embrace of death. Instead, he finds himself in some kind of other world, greeted by the face of the kid he only just got back.
five times tony called peter his son, and the one time he couldn't | 4.2k | Irondad Tony has a habit of letting his mouth run off before his brain has time to vet the words coming out, sometimes it gets him in sticky situations, and sometimes Peter wishes for those situations once again.
whumptober 2020 series | 51k total over 31 one-shots | Irondad Tony and/or Peter getting hurt in various situations, very hurt/comforty, some more serious than others
the best day of harley's life (and the worst of peter's) | 3.7k | Irondad, Harley & Peter When Peter finds out the school field trip will be taking them to Stark Industries, he has some fairly reasonable concerns given all of his extra curriculars. When he finds out Harley planned the whole thing, he's determined not to give in to his taunts.
five times peter told tony he didn't want to go | 3.7k | Irondad 'I don't want to go.' It’s just a phrase. Just five simple words. So why do they seem to haunt Tony? or: five times Peter didn't want to go (yes, including that time) and the one time Tony didn't
the rest of 'i do webpril 2021' | 10k ish over 4 one-shots | Irondad there's some fun things in here including: soul world exploration, peter and tony trapped under a building, peter meets morgan, and peter snaps instead of tony! very fun i think you should read them all
mr stark's trying to eat me | 10k | Irondad, Peter & Ned & MJ “Dude,” Peter moaned, turning back and taking a bite of his toast. “You gotta try harder than that to prank me again.” “No, I swear. Some dark shadow thing just ran past. It looked kinda human.” Ned’s cereal was long forgotten, his spoon clutched tightly in his hand. “Yeah, sure-” Peter was cut off by a horrible growling sound that made his hairs stand on end. The tingle grew to a throb. The three of them looked between each other. “We all heard that right?” --- Peter thought spending Halloween surrounded by Avengers at Stark Tower would be all fun and games, he certainly didn't expect to be fighting off the zombie apocalypse by noon
five minutes | 25k | Irondad “This is the plan, then?” Tony asks. He doesn’t need to have hope in his eyes because the kid has enough for the whole of humanity. “This is the one that works?” Strange's face is already littered with miniscule cracks. He lifts his arms and moves one in a slow circle. As he does, sparks splutter into life, fizzing and spitting until a wobbly portal hangs in the air between them. Tony can’t see Strange behind it, but can hear loud and clear as he chokes on his last word. “Parker…” Peter hesitates. He looks at Tony for advice. What advice does he even have to give? The picture through the sparks is unclear, sort of like TV static. He has no idea where it might be. The portal flickers out for a split second, Strange grunts from the effort of pulling it back. “Go.” The one thing Tony does know is that Strange wouldn’t send Peter anywhere worse than this. That there is no place worse than this. “But what about—” “Go, Peter. Just go. Now!” or; on titan, dr strange sends peter five minutes into the future to avoid him turning to dust. this is their long journey home
multichaps
what is lost can be found | 17k | Irondad One day, one mission, one second taking his eye off the ball was all it took. Now Peter was gone, and Tony was left in the dust. Again. After receiving a lead, a chance to bring Peter home, Tony will do anything to get back the boy he lost.
futures are made to be broken | 28k | Irondad “Don’t worry, you haven’t missed much.” “Only Tony gushing over everything you’ve ever done,” May teased. It felt easy, normal almost. “You’ve got a real fanboy there.” Peter laughed, smirking at Mister Stark. “Who knew you cared?” His brow creased. “Wait, May, you know what a fanboy is?” She pressed a hand to her chest. “I’m your aunt, not old.” Or: After Peter snaps instead of Tony, losing an arm in the process, the road to recovery isn't as easy as he'd hoped. But you've got to start somewhere.
past, present, yet to come | 55k | Irondad, Peter & Ned & MJ “This file, it’s… It can’t be right…” “Who is it?” MJ asked. She leaned over the arm to get a look at the name. “No, it’s not right. It’s…” Peter stood, looking frantically between the others. “He wouldn’t- He can’t-” “Peter,” MJ said sharply. “Who is it?” But he couldn’t–he refused to believe it was true. Ned took the file from Peter’s limp hand, eyes immediately shooting to the name tab. Shocked, he looked at Peter again and swallowed hard. “Tony Stark.” # # After he died, Peter found himself in the afterlife. Even more surprising than that, he found out the story of A Christmas Carol is anything less than fictional. Nearly ten years later, the current Ghosts of Past, Present, and Yet to Come retire and replacements are needed. Good thing Peter, Ned, and MJ are up for the task, right? And Peter knows just who they are going to haunt. or peter is the ghost of christmas present and tony is scrooge, but make the film spirited (with less singing)
just a coffee shop | 80k | Irondad, Peter & Ned Peter just wants to go on his school trip, nothing else. The new cafe that opened next to Mr Delmar’s was hiring, and who was Peter to turn up a sign like that? Turns out he should have because Mr Stark’s cafe has this creepy back room that Peter isn’t allowed to enter, and an even creepier repeat customer who is allowed to enter called Obadiah Stane. An overheard conversation, a news article, and MJ’s lateral thinking later, and Peter is sure his new boss is caught up in a rivalry between the two biggest crime families in New York. Well, with his newly gained spider powers, Peter should be able to put a stop to that. He just has to try not to get too lost in it himself. or, a mix between a coffee shop and a mafia au
MCU WIPs
Hunger Games AU -> fic: #as yet unnamed hunger games au | planning
Peter's name is called during the annual reaping. He knows he's going to die, because the second tribute from District 11 is non other than Harley Keener. Even if Peter were to somehow make it all the way to the end of the Games, he could never kill Harley Keener.
