Yuletide recs
Dec. 31st, 2015 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI am determined to post Yuletide recs before reveals this year. So here goes, even if I haven't gone through the whole of it yet (I have all of D-R left to look through, and have saved up anything longer than 5000 words for later).
First, let me just mention again my wonderful gift First Train into Brotherhood, which you should read if you are at all into The Dispossessed (or conlangs, or anarchism, or terraforming). If in doubt, request Le Guin fic for Yuletide: the results are pretty much always great.
Burned Letters (Diana Villiers, Aubrey/Maturin series)
This is one of my favorites so far, and it's a story that could as well have been written for me--I requested Diana fic, too! It is Diana, alone and pregnant and writing letters she doesn't send. I got tears in my eyes reading this. There are lots of ways in which I am not like Diana (probably more than the ways in which I am like her), but I feel so much for her here! Wonderful canon-like writing, too. (feroxargentea, did you write this?)
We can all be on our way (Orpheus and Hermes, Hadestown)
A really good Madness drabble. It captures the atmosphere of canon in one perfect snapshot. And I never really thought about what happened to Orpheus afterwards, but of course it must've been like this.
Going Dark (Maria and Anna, Richard/Darren, Slings & Arrows)
This is very possibly the most hilarious S&A fic ever. Which is saying a lot, because there's some great humor written for that show. Richard and Darren's patriotic musical, Maria's increasingly horrified stage notes, etc. It is glorious.
The Game in the Choosing (Halla, Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison)
I know this is a super-rare fandom, and you pretty much have to have read the canon to appreciate it. But this lone fic is worthy--it feels like a plausible continuation for Halla, continuing to make her own way through the world. (oneiriad, I suppose I am now revealing that I did not write it for you. : P)
Three Jeweled Branches, and a Golden Cup Too (The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
A choose-your-own-adventure set after the end of the fairy tale, with some nicely twisty alternatives.
Far Far Away (Silverweed and General Woundwort, Watership Down)
Ack, no, Silverweed! That is not a good life choice (not that your previous circumstances were all that great, either, but...). I would never have thought of these two meeting, but now I can't help wondering how Woundwort could use Silverweed's gift. And he just yields himself up.
First, let me just mention again my wonderful gift First Train into Brotherhood, which you should read if you are at all into The Dispossessed (or conlangs, or anarchism, or terraforming). If in doubt, request Le Guin fic for Yuletide: the results are pretty much always great.
Burned Letters (Diana Villiers, Aubrey/Maturin series)
This is one of my favorites so far, and it's a story that could as well have been written for me--I requested Diana fic, too! It is Diana, alone and pregnant and writing letters she doesn't send. I got tears in my eyes reading this. There are lots of ways in which I am not like Diana (probably more than the ways in which I am like her), but I feel so much for her here! Wonderful canon-like writing, too. (
feroxargentea, did you write this?)We can all be on our way (Orpheus and Hermes, Hadestown)
A really good Madness drabble. It captures the atmosphere of canon in one perfect snapshot. And I never really thought about what happened to Orpheus afterwards, but of course it must've been like this.
Going Dark (Maria and Anna, Richard/Darren, Slings & Arrows)
This is very possibly the most hilarious S&A fic ever. Which is saying a lot, because there's some great humor written for that show. Richard and Darren's patriotic musical, Maria's increasingly horrified stage notes, etc. It is glorious.
The Game in the Choosing (Halla, Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison)
I know this is a super-rare fandom, and you pretty much have to have read the canon to appreciate it. But this lone fic is worthy--it feels like a plausible continuation for Halla, continuing to make her own way through the world. (
oneiriad, I suppose I am now revealing that I did not write it for you. : P)Three Jeweled Branches, and a Golden Cup Too (The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
A choose-your-own-adventure set after the end of the fairy tale, with some nicely twisty alternatives.
Far Far Away (Silverweed and General Woundwort, Watership Down)
Ack, no, Silverweed! That is not a good life choice (not that your previous circumstances were all that great, either, but...). I would never have thought of these two meeting, but now I can't help wondering how Woundwort could use Silverweed's gift. And he just yields himself up.
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Date: 2015-12-31 06:10 pm (UTC)(incidentally it has US spelling so I'd guess a US writer?)
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Date: 2016-01-01 12:36 am (UTC)I must admit, I did suspect you, considering how you've talked about writing for Travel Light, but instead it's someone I've not encountered before. We might be an obscure fandom, but it's lovely anyway.
Happy new year!
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Date: 2016-01-02 09:25 pm (UTC)The writer was nobody I knew beforehand, and I'm going to check out their other M&C works.
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Date: 2016-01-02 09:26 pm (UTC)