I want to post Yuletide recs and participate in the Snowflake challenge, but alas, my hands and back impose limits on my typing. Ah well. Nobody guessed either of my holiday exchange stories! I, on the other hand, was right in 11 of my 17 guesses for the due South Seekrit Santa exchange. *g* Anyway, for that exchange I wrote:
Turns of Tempest (7127 words) by Luzula
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf
Summary: In the end, she couldn't do it. All that planning, all the nights Victoria had spent in prison daydreaming about how she'd bring him down--when she was faced with the reality of betraying Benton Fraser, she couldn't do it. Even though he'd betrayed her, all those years ago.
I had the idea for this story a while ago, and I'm glad I could use it for dSSS. I'm reasonably happy with how it came out, and I'm grateful to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
keerawa and especially to exeterlinden for beta and brainstorming. While writing it, I discovered that basically all of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry is relevant for Fraser/Victoria, so I kind of went overboard with the poetry quoting, heh. This story makes me want all the fork-in-the-road AU:s for this pairing--like, did anyone ever write a story where Fraser lets her go up in the mountains instead of turning her in?
Building the Castle of Roses (6240 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Sleeping Beauty
Additional tags: Fairy Tales, Science Fiction, Bechdel Test Pass, Coming of Age, Closed Ecological Systems, Space Flight, Mentor Relationship, Misses Clause Challenge, Science
Summary: Sleeping Beauty in space.
This is story is an old WIP of mine that I could use since my recipient basically only said that they wanted a fairy tale retelling. I'm grateful tomergatrude, isis, and innocentsmith for beta-reading! Several people said in comments that they wanted this to be a novel, and I think I kind of did, too--it felt like I was only showing glimpses of the story, and it wandered pretty far from the original fairy tale. Anyway, I had fun with the world-building, and I grew fond of both Rose and Dr. Malfleur.
Turns of Tempest (7127 words) by Luzula
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf
Summary: In the end, she couldn't do it. All that planning, all the nights Victoria had spent in prison daydreaming about how she'd bring him down--when she was faced with the reality of betraying Benton Fraser, she couldn't do it. Even though he'd betrayed her, all those years ago.
I had the idea for this story a while ago, and I'm glad I could use it for dSSS. I'm reasonably happy with how it came out, and I'm grateful to
keerawa and especially to exeterlinden for beta and brainstorming. While writing it, I discovered that basically all of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry is relevant for Fraser/Victoria, so I kind of went overboard with the poetry quoting, heh. This story makes me want all the fork-in-the-road AU:s for this pairing--like, did anyone ever write a story where Fraser lets her go up in the mountains instead of turning her in? Building the Castle of Roses (6240 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Sleeping Beauty
Additional tags: Fairy Tales, Science Fiction, Bechdel Test Pass, Coming of Age, Closed Ecological Systems, Space Flight, Mentor Relationship, Misses Clause Challenge, Science
Summary: Sleeping Beauty in space.
This is story is an old WIP of mine that I could use since my recipient basically only said that they wanted a fairy tale retelling. I'm grateful to
mergatrude, isis, and innocentsmith for beta-reading! Several people said in comments that they wanted this to be a novel, and I think I kind of did, too--it felt like I was only showing glimpses of the story, and it wandered pretty far from the original fairy tale. Anyway, I had fun with the world-building, and I grew fond of both Rose and Dr. Malfleur.
