I always think that what gets me going must be more or less universal, or at least very common, until I search ao3 and realize somehow not everyone who watched Doctor Who seasons 2-5 saw the most self-loathing god complex-riddled man ever and thought "I want to see him fuck himself in super hateful sadomasochistic ways." And that's just disappointing
Platonic / Gen / Open to Interpretation (Doctor x Donna) in Green
Ratings in Yellow
Some of the stories in the series are more or less crucial to the ‘plot,’ so the optional ones are handily marked (Optional) in Orange
Newest Fics tagged [New] in Red
Note: The Doctor is always the Tenth Doctor unless otherwise specified (in this list, but also in life)
Standalone Fics
The Best of Times (Amnesiac Remix)
A mind-wiped Donna runs into Martha and gets some good old fashioned human help realizing her potential all over again. Word has gotten out through the twenty-seven planets she saved though, so there are a few more aliens following her around… including one very specific alien who really shouldn’t be there.
Doctor x Donna
Also Featuring: Martha and Jack
Rated M for the (Optional) last chapter
The Noble Neverwere
A timey-wimey fantasy fic in which the TARDIS finds a way to keep Donna Noble, but has a little trouble with the details like anchoring her in time and space.
Canon-compliant in the sense that it's never been explicitly stated that there isn't a time-fluid echo of a certain ginger companion haunting the TARDIS.
Ten x Donna with light background Twelve x Missy
Also Featuring: Cameos by Ryan, Mickey, and Rory
Rated M for (vaguely) implied sexual content and descriptions of conceptual horror (Rating rounded up for safety)
The Volatile Nature of Binary Stars
A dark(er) AU in which the Master happens upon a mind-wiped Donna and gives her a little boost the rest of the way to full Time Lord status. Then they both return to the TARDIS and an unsuspecting Doctor.
Spoiler: Unlike most fix-its, in this one Donna is Not pleased that she was abandoned and does Not magically just get over that.
Ten x Simm!Master AND Ten x Donna
Rated M for generally dark themes. No sex, just dark. (Rating rounded up for safety)
Universal Lost and Found
A fix-it in which Martha runs across a mind-wiped Donna and helps her (re)claim what the Universe owes her.
Donna x Martha
Note: Doctor x Donna and Doctor x Martha are implied, but this one is a Donna x Martha fic
Rated M for vague sexual content (Rating rounded up for safety)
Polymorphism
The TARDIS pulls her Bad Wolf through to a parallel world where she’s still traveling with the Doctor. And Martha. And Donna. And things are a bit friendlier this time around. (The companion polycule fic you’ve all been waiting for.)
Rose x Martha x Donna x Doctor
Note: This is really Rose x Martha x Donna with the arguably canonically Ace Doctor not left out in the cold. It’s not even a little bit a harem fic.
Rated T with implied sexual content
(Fluff and Humor) One Shots
Interspecies Communication
The Doctor fails to read the room and Donna has to deal with it.
Originally written as part of Interspecies Compatibility, but it actually makes more sense as a cracky standalone.
Open to Interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T with implied sexual content
Just Act Natural
Donna gets the Doctor to Martha’s wedding. Shenanigans ensue.
There’s an optional sequel, “Compatible Lunacy” that is just straight up shippy.
Open to interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T
Compatible Lunacy
Optional sequel to “Just Act Natural.”
Split into two parts because “Just Act Natural” could be read as platonic but “Compatible Lunacy” makes the whole thing more shippy
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content (Rating rounded up for safety)
Tension in D Minor
Donna tries to get some alone time with someone with matching human urges. The Doctor takes it a bit personally.
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content (Rating rounded up for safety)
Bathtime in B Sharp
Donna and the Doctor have to take a medicinal bath. Pointless fluff.
Open to Interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T
Cuddles in C Major
A shag-or-die setup in which the aliens severely overestimate the Doctor’s mating drive and an indignant Donna gets a thorough cuddle.
Open to Interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T
Arguments That Did Not Go As Planned
Donna tries to train the Doctor, one argument at a time.
Sort of Accidental Doctor x Donna
Rated T
A Bit Close [New 11/11]
In an (only slightly) alternate universe, the Fam has to get used to having Jack on board.
Thirteenth Doctor x Jack
Rated T
(Moody) One Shots
The Beat Between Measures
A missing scene from Revolution of the Daleks, in which the Doctor and Jack get a proper reunion
Thirteenth Doctor x Jack
Rated E because it's basically PWP with Feelings
(It Breaks You Down) A Little Bit More Each Time
Five times Donna Noble died, in escalating degrees of severity. (Not actual death, but y’know.)
Open to Interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T
Series
Interspecies Compatibility
A series of semi-standalone, loosely-strung-together stories about the Doctor and Donna working through some of the many differences between humans and Time Lords.
This series tries not to actively contradict major canonical events. But a lot of liberties are taken around that.
Biological Specificity
A detailed lesson in Time Lord biology
Can be read as platonic, but only if one doesn’t keep reading this series
Not really shippy (on its own)
Rated T with vague discussions of mating practices (Could be G, but I'm not tagging my fics G FFS)
Acclimatization
Hard to call this one entirely platonic, but could be if one ignored alien cultural implications
Not really shippy (on its own)
Rated T with the alien equivalent of vaguely implied sexual content (that doesn't line up with the human version at all)
Ecological Fitting
Probably not platonic unless you’re using an interesting definition of platonic
Doctor x Donna
Rated T with vaguely implied sexual content
Symbiosis
Pretty solidly outside the boundaries of platonic here
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content
Contact High (Optional)
A fun day out
Not really shippy (on its own)
Rated T
Spandrel (Optional)
A casual day in
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content
Synesthesia
This is where this goofy series starts to take a real turn toward shippy
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content
Atavism
This is where the ratings should probably tick up
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for vague sexual content
Exaptation (Optional)
An optional morning after
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for vague sexual content
Coevolution
The obligatory Midnight fic
Doctor x Donna
Rated M for implied sexual content and dark themes
Survival Without Recovery
The fix and official end
Not really shippy (on its own)
Rated T
Lazarus Taxon (Optional)
An optional epilogue with a slightly less happy-go-lucky tone
Also Featuring: Cameos by Eleven, Twelve and finally Thirteen
Not really shippy (on its own)
Rated T
Nice Things; Good Things
A blatant canon divergence from Journey’s End where Donna just lets the metacrisis Doctor and Rose right back onto the TARDIS and then they all just go back to traveling together. Pretty soon after that, Jack gets added in and then it’s just the whole team enjoying themselves for once instead of having just endless tragedy for the sake of character building.
As the series goes on, it gets more and more polyamorous, but it’s set up so that each fic can be an acceptable stopping point so that anyone who isn’t on board can just hop off whenever they like and not have to deal with a bunch of unresolved cliffhangers.
Individual fics are carefully tagged (which makes for a hilariously long list of tags for the series, in case anyone is wondering.)
It Has Been 0 Days Since the Last Incident
The most standalone of all the fics in this series. Just Ten, Tentoo, Donna and Rose traveling in the TARDIS.
Doctor x Donna and background Tentoo x Rose
Rated T with implied sexual content
Morning Cuddles (Optional Ficlet)
Originally part of “Nice Things; Good Things” but it can also be read as a little standalone cuddle ficlet.
Doctor x Donna
Rated T with implied sexual situations
A New Path (Optional backstory for Jack getting added)
Jack officially joins the dream team
Doctor x Donna
Background Tentoo x Rose (leading to Tentoo x Rose x Jack)
Rated T with vaguely referenced sexual content
A Series of Perfectly Reasonable Misunderstandings
Confusing times with two Doctors in the mix now. (Starting down the poly path.)
Doctor x Donna
Tentoo x Rose x Jack
Rated M for frisky times, with chapters marked appropriately
Indisputably Well-Laid Plans
The Doctor and Donna court the other three. It goes great.
Doctor x Donna x Jack
Background Tentoo x Rose x Jack
A little light Tencest (as a treat)
Hints at pretty much every combination of these 5
Rated E for the second half of the fic, with chapters marked appropriately
Proper Communication
Rose and Donna get to know each other better without any distractions.
Donna x Rose
Rated E with chapters marked appropriately
All Together Now
With all the individual connections on board, all that's left is for the Doctor to ask Rose. Then it's a full-blown polycule.
Ten x Tentoo x Donna x Rose x Jack
Too many subsets of that to bother writing out— just call it shamelessly poly
Rated E with chapters marked appropriately
Modern Arts (and Crafts) (Optional PWP)
Just a full stop poly PWP
Ten x Tentoo x Donna x Rose x Jack
Rated E and it deserves it
Standard Courtship Rituals
10 ficlet-style dates
All 10 pairing subsets of Ten x Tentoo x Donna x Rose x Jack
Rated M for implied sexual content
Tied Game (Optional PWP)
Donna and Rose have a plan. Jack is involved.
Donna x Rose x Jack (with Ten x Tentoo x Donna x Rose x Jack in the background)
The Doctor tries asking Donna for a little encouragement, like she gives the other humans. The metacrisis Doctor makes the request more convincingly (for both of them).
Ten x Donna x Tentoo
Rated E
Things That Catch
A Doctor/Donna series exploring the consequences (good, bad, and bizarre) of getting too close.
That Which Lingers Just Beneath
The Doctor gets a fever.
Doctor x Donna (not shippy on its own but heading that way)
Rated T
The Distance Between Could and Should
Having grown suspicious of relying on the TARDIS for translating, Donna asks for Gallifreyan lessons. The Doctor is not hard to convince.
Doctor x Donna (not aggressively shippy but getting there)
Rated T
A Clarity Found Only in Madness
The Doctor has nightmares. Donna tries to help.
Doctor x Donna
Rated T
For Which There Are No Words (Optional Kinktober Fun)
The Doctor and Donna have a proper relationship. Well. A relationship.
Doctor x Donna
Rated E (for safety)
To Fracture Like None Other
Donna gets a bit too casual with the Gallifreyan and is mistaken for the Doctor. Perhaps unsurprisingly, being mistaken for the last Time Lord in existence does not make for a fun day out.
Doctor x Donna
Rated T
A Dream Unfinished
Donna is unmade and left to her own devices. But her experiences may have already changed her more than anyone could have anticipated.
A/N: This is the point where this series turns into a lowkey rewrite.
Doctor x Donna (implied)
Rated T
An Uneven Stitch for An Uneven Scar
Donna returns to the TARDIS, but everything is different. After the metacrisis, she’s something new. Something strange. And all she knows for sure is that the Doctor can’t be trusted.
Doctor x Donna (but not in a cute way)
Rated M (for implied sexual content)
The Rift Immeasurable [New 10/16]
The Doctor makes an open offer for whatever might help. Donna takes him up on it in a way that he never expected.
Alternatively: Donna takes a gamble. The Doctor is not consulted on this gamble.
Doctor x Donna
Also Featuring: Guest Appearance by The Master
Rated M (with implied sexual content)
Collaborations
Aurous and Auriferous (For the DW HopeZine prompt “Plastered in Gold”)
A collaboration with the insanely talented @denzikken and @fritzmetzger
Aurous is a Journey’s End fix-it in which the metacrisis Doctor has to save the Time Lord from himself (Not explicitly shippy, Rated T)
Auriferous is an optional (significantly less “Gen”) sequel for people who think Gen Fixits are all well and good, but want a little Tencest to round it out. (Rated M for implied sexual content)
Ten x Tentoo (mildly implied in Aurous, actively happening in Auriferous) Also some light background Donna x Rose (for flavor)
The Wizard (For the DW HopeZine Big Bang)
A Very Official Collaboration with the mad geniuses @denzikken and @fritzmetzger (Featuring So Much Amazing Art!)
Donna gets an alien pet. The Doctor does not approve. (The Doctor also does not get a vote.)
Open to Interpretation (platonic, shippy, whatever)
Rated T
Promise You Won't Do It Again
A super unofficial collaboration with @theoreticalabsurdity, @echo84, @krebkrebkreb and @picnokinesis because the Jack x Thirteen crew is just Good at peer pressure
A series of (mostly fake) proposals
Thirteen x Jack
Rated T
Special thanks to anyone who’s read, given kudos, and/or commented on anything I’ve put together! Lots of love to the whole fandom!
The doctor approaches Theta and straddles his lap where he sits in the chair in front of the console and then wraps his arms tightly around him as he puts his head down on his shoulder. He then buries his head in the side of Theta’s neck and sighs “You look like you needed a hug Theta. Are you actually bored?” The doctor frowns at the fact that yes, he could be and not be telling him.
Sensing the Doctor so close to him was what broke Theta out of his silent reverie. Leaning back as the other Time Lord seated himself on his lap, Theta snaked his arms around that familiar waist and pulled him in close, burying his own face into the Doctor's shoulder. Inhaling his scent deeply in contentment, he gave the Doctor a little squeeze.
"My mind is never bored, Doctor. Not with you running through it all the time." he chuckled, playfully nipping the air close to the Doctor's cheek, but then brushed it with the tip of his nose instead. He was rarely this affectionate with anyone, but the Doctor wasn't just anyone.
went to search for old tencest posts on my blog but tapped the Tumblr global search and didn't even notice because all the top tencest posts were me. it's dire out here
