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Name: Sara
Age: 31
Country: Spain

(Current) main fandoms: Classic Who, Blake's 7, various audio dramas, Star Trek, Farscape
Currently watching: Blake's 7 (rewatch), Classic Who

What I do: I write fic, make fanvids, icons and fanart. I do a bit of everything when it comes to fanfiction: I'll write anything from gen to smut, and I tend to multiship in most of my fandoms.
What I like: I mostly read slash, but also femslash, het and gen. The more time passes the more I prefer reading messy stories, whump and angst in general. I watch a lot of fanvids, too! I even have a list of my favourites that I'm constantly updating, if you're interested in that.

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I usually don't do personal posts and focus on fandom instead, but when I do post personal stuff it might be locked. If we've talked somewhere else before, I have no problem granting you access! Otherwise I think it's better if we chat for a bit before that :)

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Last updated: October 2026

So, AO3 will be down for 2-4 weeks, as per the last update. To clarify, they say it might be back sooner but in a degraded state!

Meanwhile, I thought we could share some alternative sites for those who are used to only AO3 now, even if things were very different years ago. If someone wants to share in the comments, feel free to do so!

Fandom-specific sites

A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: Doctor Who

Ad Astra: Star Trek

CFFA: comics

Elusive Lover: Star Wars, Han/Luke slash

Xena fan, Academy of Bards, Xena fiction, Bat Morda's Xena fic: Xena

Multi-fandom sites

Speranza's site

Boys in Chains

Day 2:

Rating: T
Fandom: Doctor Who
Ship: Two, Jamie & Zoe
Word count: 100
Prompt: Orgy
AO3 link: here

( Unfortunate Encounter )

Day 3:

Rating: E
Fandom: Blake's 7
Ship: Avon/Servalan
Word count: 100
Prompt: Hate Sex
AO3 link: here

( Slick )

Day 4:

Rating: T
Fandom: Blake's 7
Ship: Dorian/Dorian's creature
Word count: 100
Prompt: Master/Slave
AO3 link: here

( His Lover, His Slave )

[Previous entries: One, Two, Three]

I haven't had much time to write this entry and as it happens as I'm almost done with Five, but I want my thoughts on Four to be posted before that happens.

As it is the longest run in the entire show, with seven seasons of Tom Baker, I think it's understandable that my opinion on the era varies depending on the season. Overall, my favourite eras are the Four-Sarah Jane combo, with or without Harry, and the Romana II one. I really enjoyed the gothic aesthetic of Hinchcliffe's era, and some stories after his time that had the same vibe, and the secondary console remains my favourite to this day. What a gorgeous set, and such a shame that it didn't have a longer run.
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Rating: M
Fandom: Blake's 7
Ship: Avon/Tarrant
Word count: 100
Prompt: Bratting
AO3 link: here

( The Taming of Tarrant )

Sorry I haven't been posting much again! I got a job and started last week, but since I still can't drive and it's not in my city I have to take a private bus to come and go, which means even if it's a part-time job I still have to be there 4 days a week full time. Plus, I'm still taking driving lessons because I'm really, really bad at it. Genuinely.

It's good to have a job, but I'm very stressed out and anxious about everything. I guess I'll have to put up with it like this because my doctor doesn't think I should be taking anxiety meds. The job will apparently last until late June.

Oh, and in other news: I've started posting my kinktober fic to ao3! I'll make a separate entry for that. I'm glad I started writing these in August because I wouldn't have had time to finish the event otherwise.

Since I keep listening to AD lately I thought I'd share which ones I've been enjoying these days:

I finished my relisten of Greater Boston's first season. Beautiful, beautiful podcast. I've already talked about it in previous posts so I won't repeat myself.
I've relistened to some of the early Forgive Me! episodes but I haven't reached the last one I'd listened to last time.This one's about a priest who's just been reassigned to a new parish, and each episode follows the confessionals of different members of the community. I honestly don't vibe with this one that much, but we'll see if I keep listening.
Today I finished season 2 of Fawx & Stallion! It's a bit of a different Holmes adaptation, focused on the residents of 224b, who are also detectives but obviously not as successful as H&W. If you like Sherlock Holmes, and especially if you ship Holmes and Watson, you need to listen to this one. Also if you like Wooden Overcoats, because Tom Crowley and Beth Eyre are in it. Season 3 is coming out soon!
I've just started listening to The Harbingers and the first episode is already a banger. It's about a man and a woman who were rivals in uni and later acquired magic powers through ancient artefacts, becoming the only people on Earth capable of using magic. If Gabriel Urbina's in it, you know it'll be good. I'm excited to keep listening.

Taken from

shipperslist:

Prompt
I think we should start sharing our most unpopular stuff. let’s see those fics that no one else cares about (but I do. I care about them). Share your top 3 fics with:

Fewest hits: these are my 3 recent backdated reposts of my old Johnlock (BBC Sherlock) fic, so it's logical that they'd have close to no hits. Two of them are in Spanish:

Día de lluvia: 3 hits.
Más que una amistad: 5 hits.
10 Things I Never Said: 19 hits. This was my first fic in English! But my English wasn't very good, so it is rather simple.

Fewest kudos: so the first two from the previous section are also the ones with fewest kudos (both have 1 kudos), but the third is a different one:

LVDF one shots (Le Visiteur du Futur): 3 kudos. It's a Spanish-language one shot (I never added more, so I should mark it as complete) about a French webseries... Me and my niche stuff!

Fewest comment (thread)s: I have... six fics without any comments. These are the top 3 in AO3's order:

Bad Luck (Blake's 7, gen)
Only in the Next World (Blake's 7, gen)
Doctor Who drabbles (Classic Who drabble collection, various ratings)

Fewest bookmarks: I have a 22 fics that haven't been bookmarked at all. I'll list 3 that haven't been listed in the previous categories:

El bastón (Hannibal, Will Graham/Frederick Chilton, crack): this was a total crack fic that is STILL a joke between me and my friends. It's in Spanish.
Eclesiastés 12:14 (In the Flesh, Simon/Kieren): another Spanish fic.
Kieren Walker y Simon Monroe se enamoran locamente (In the Flesh, Simon/Kieren, crack): another Spanish fic which will ONLY make sense to those familiar with Perla Shumajer, because it's a parody of her fic writing style.

So, after finishing Wooden Overcoats I decided to start relistening to another favourite AD of mine: Greater Boston. I've always found it a hard one to describe, but I'll try: it's a story set in a version of Greater Boston with fantastical and unrealistic elements, it follows an ensemble cast and the main events are kick-started by the death of Leon Stamatis. So far I've relistened to 6 episodes, and I have some thoughts I want to share (mainly because I've always found it a bit hard to follow, so I'd rather collect my thoughts this time as I listen). There will be spoilers below, of course.

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So, I've been getting back into audio drama lately, after a friend asked for recs and I took a trip down memory lane, and I've been both listening to new-to-me ones and re-listening to classic ones I never actually managed to finish back in the day. I've just finished my Wooden Overcoats re-listen, which was important to me because it's always been one of my faves and I only stopped listening in the middle of season 4 back in 2022 (had been a fan since 2018) and I have THINGS TO SAY! About many things, but for now I want to focus on Antigone/Chapman for Reasons.

There'll be spoilers under the cut, you've been warned! But if you're curious, I truly recommend this audio drama with all my being. It's earnest, fun, emotional, beautifully directed and acted, with great sound design and a lovely set of characters.

And now for my SPOILERY Antigone/Chapman thoughts:

( Antigone/Chapman thoughts (SPOILERS) )

I'll take inspiration from

dray's post and do my own Community Thursday with the comms I've participated in this week in some way!

seasonsofdrabbles: I got my assignment, wrote and submitted my story! Now I'm thinking about maybe writing a treat. We'll see...

fandomgiftbasket: I made something else for someone's basket! I've been making and posting fanworks when I can. I also have a basket myself :D

thankfulthursday: this week was my first time participating in this comm! It feels nice to reflect on the past week.

addme: I wrote a post on this comm and added a couple of new friends!

Every year I think about signing up and then I chicken out. It sounds exciting, but I'm not sure I can think of eligible fandoms. Have you guys participated before?

Summer's flying by! I can't believe August is almost over. Oh, well. Let me share some updates:

I've posted one more fic since the last update: All the Time in the World (Steven Taylor/Marlowe, rated E, 3297 words). It only really makes sense if you've read The Empire of Glass, I think.
I signed up to seasonsofdrabbles and I already got my assignment! I won't give any details, of course, but since writing drabbles is relatively easy and fun I might write some treats as well. We'll see!
On that note, I've decided to write drabbles for kinktober26. I usually get overwhelmed with this type of events because I want to write for each day and it's usually impossible for me. But 31 drabbles, starting in August, seems pretty feasible! I've already written 7 single drabbles, but I'm open to writing double or tripple drabbles if they suit any of my ideas. So far, all of them are either for Classic Who or Blake's 7.

I hope everyone who's participating in events is having fun with them!

I'm really struggling with things lately. I'm still not doing very well at my driving lessons, and even worse than the way I'm doing at them (and probably something that affects my performance) is how awful my anxiety gets. I have two lessons a week, and that usually means I have maybe four days (the day before the lesson and the day of the lesson) where I can barely eat or sleep because of anxiety. It depends on the day, and lately I've been having more issues with eating than with sleeping, but it's always very, very annoying. I keep thinking I should ask for help regarding my anxiety but then I end up telling myself I'm exaggerating... I don't think I am, but I guess asking for help is scary, and when I feel better I don't want to think about it, if that makes sense. It's just awful because I don't know for how much longer I'll have to be like this every single week without a break, and it takes a toll on you eventually. I've lost weight because of extended periods of intense anxiety, and I don't want it to happen again.

I don't really have much else to tell. I'll probably get called for work again sometime in late September or maybe October, not really sure because of how this career works here and how little experience I have in it. It's not something I'm looking forward to, I can't lie, but hopefully it'll be fine when I get there. I have a preference for teaching adults so I hope that'll be what I get, but I'll most likely end up teaching teenagers instead.

I'm continuing with my Classic Who watch. I've just started with Leela's run as a companion, and she's off to a good start, although I've heard the writing lets her down pretty often. I miss Sarah Jane, not only because she was brilliant but also because since she left I've really been struggling a bit with Four as a Doctor, because he seems so full of himself at times. It might be because I've read about Tom Baker's behaviour in this period, I don't know. It also keeps annoying me that sometimes I see no women at ALL in an entire serial except for the companion, and on The Deadly Assassin there were NONE. I'm not looking forward to Talons either, for obvious reasons. But I'll say that the acting and writing is generally very good, and I love the design choices for the console room, the costumes, the settings... I just have very mixed feelings and I worry I might just be a bit tired after watching so much Doctor Who this year. But I'll keep going :-)

I've got three more fic to share, and a fourth that I posted on anon so I guess I won't be sharing that one.

Beach Day (rated G, 100 words), a Second Doctor, Zoe and Jamie drabble. Written for dw100
Slipping Through My Fingers (rated M, 1030 words), a post-The War Games angsty Two/Jamie story.
Stop and Smell the Roses (rated E, 4110 words), a UNIT-era sex pollen story focused on Three/Brigadier but with some Jo/Benton/Yates on the side.

Feel free to judge me for how fast I'm going through these seasons now. I predict I'll slow down again after I get finished with Tom Baker, because I'll be very busy again, like I was when it took me MONTHS to finish with the First Doctor. But as it is at the moment, I've finished with Pertwee's era, so here go my collected thoughts on it.

(I'll link to my First and Second Doctor posts before I get started, though)

I wasn't sure what I'd think of the era when I was starting it. It almost feels like a different show, as it's a soft reboot of sorts. And yet I found it a very successful era and I was sad to see it end. At the same time, I think as its own thing it's pretty "closed" in a way, so the ending is satisfactory and does feel like the end, even if the show continues.

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There's another Doctor Who post I want to make soon, but first I need to vent about this because it's driving me crazy lately. Is anyone else seeing bots EVERYWHERE on the internet lately? It's exhausting and anxiety-inducing, honestly. I'm going to list all the bot situations I've seen or had to deal with recently so you can see I'm not exaggerating at all:

AO3: as you know, there's been plenty of bot action in the comments recently. I've only really received one of these, and reported it for spam to get rid of it. In my case it was one of those positive ones, but it feels awful when you think someone's liked your fic and then realise it's not a real person. However, I keep seeing MANY bot comments all over the fic in the fandoms I'm in, and yesterday I actually replied to someone to warn them that the very negative comment they received was a bot. It's really frustrating! I now make comments available only for registered users, and I worry about people who want to comment as guests, but I don't want more bot comments.
Tumblr: the site has an insane bot problem AGAIN. I recently had a problem with some bots via chat, although the situation was very confusing so I'd rather not give many details. Suffice to say, they were targeting a bunch of people. Then there's the bots that keep posting weird stuff to the tags. On the one hand, some annoying bots keep spamming tags asking for a website to watch TV shows for free only to then edit the post and link to the same site, which sounds fishy as hell. On the other, and this is the WORST of them all, there are some bots I've seen in the Doctor Who main tag that keep posting really disturbing bestiality fantasies. I've had to manually block about FIVE of these. What the hell is the point of that???
Elsewhere: my friends also tell me they've seen bots on Reddit and Bluesky, but I haven't seen much of that myself so I can't give many details.

It's just making the experience of being online much worse, honestly. I feel like at least on Dreamwidth this doesn't happen, at least not on the same scale.

In case you missed my First Doctor era post, here it is.

I finished the Second Doctor's era a few days ago and I've been meaning to gather my thoughts here, but hadn't found the right time.

As of now I can say Two has become my favourite Doctor, which feels a bit crazy to say. Back in the day, when I was into New Who, I kept switching from Nine (my first) to Ten (the reason I started watching the show, since I'd seen clips and gifs out there) when talking about my favourites. It's funny that I love Two so much, then, considering it was Eleven who was the most based on him when it comes to the New Who Doctors. But I digress! Let me tell you why I loved Troughton's Doctor so much. Or at least try, because there are probably more reasons I can't think of right now.

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Other than the Blake's 7 fic I've already shared, I wrote a few Classic Who stories in the past month:

Yield (rated T, 907 words), a Steven Taylor/Kit Marlowe story based on the novel The Empire of Glass.
Nightmares (rated G, 100 words), a Vicki & Steven drabble for the dw100 prompt "support".
Blanket (rated G, 100 words), a Two/Jamie drabble.

I have a few more Classic Who WIP but we'll see where those go.

Have some scattered thoughts:

I didn't mention this in my last post, but the last scene of Ben and Polly with the First Doctor before he regenerated made me cry several times because it reminded me of the last time I saw my grandad before he died.
I love Two already. He's just so much fun, and his stories so far have been very enjoyable despite being mostly missing. I've watched The Power of the Daleks (amazing, bold start for this Doctor, and just a very good Dalek story, which is impressive since it's the first one not written by Terry Nation), The Highlanders (I love a historical! And I'm already fond of Frazer Hines so I couldn't wait to meet Jamie! Polly was awesome here too) and The Underwater Menace (I don't care what anyone says, I love getting to see scenes like the fish people just swimming around. And I soooo enjoyed FINALLY seeing actual footage of this era).
I still think of Steven Taylor constantly. I've posted 2 fics featuring Steven and I'm writing another one right now. Vicki also features heavily in this one because I adore that girl. It's becoming more of an Ian/Barbara thing than I'd originally planned to, but hey.

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Greater Boston: Relisten Recap 1

On Antigone Funn and Eric Chapman (Or: I Re-Listened to Wooden Overcoats)

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How is August almost over?

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