Yuletide reveals
Jan. 1st, 2022 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaAs I had correctly guessed, regshoe wrote both my Flight of the Heron story Thy Kingdom's Pearl, about Margaret Cameron, and my Archie Flemington/James Logie fic Feathers Anew! My other Keith/Ewen Flight of the Heron story That Restless Sleep was written by sanguinity, which I had not guessed, but then sanguinity is a new author in the fandom! Thank you so much, both of you; I loved my gifts. ♥
This is the main story I wrote:
No Longer Sole Representative (3945 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Genly Ai, Faxe the Weaver, Sorve Harth rem ir Estraven, Ke'sta, Tulier
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Worldbuilding, References to Canonical Character Death
Summary: I had colleagues again, and after three years, what a change it was: all the everyday details of Gethen, which had become familiar to me over the years, I saw as new again through their eyes. But they, too, were unfamiliar to me in several ways: I had not had time to get to know them well during our journey to Gethen, since we had been in deep sleep all that time. And how strange to speak Hainish again! It was not a difficult language, having for thousands of years had its complexities worn down by use as a lingua franca—but it was neither Karhidish nor my native Earth language which I used in my own mind. It brought me back to my years training with the Ekumen on Hain.
Thanks tochestnut_pod and karanguni for beta reading! I am happy with some things about this story: I haven't seen anyone explore Genly's relationship with the other Ekumen representatives before, and also, I like Genly's eventual decision and Faxe's role in it. OTOH I'm not really happy with the discussion of gender among the Ekumen people: it's just not alien enough, and sounds like a group of contemporary Earth people talking. Then again, Genly does not actually feel very alien in canon, and could well be a 1970's Earth human.
I also wrote a short treat, or rather, I excavated it from my WIP folder, polished it up, and found someone whose request it matched. Thanks to![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
skymandr, who is more of a RL than a fannish friend, for the beta. I'm rather fond of it, actually.
A Woman of Anarres (738 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Backstory
Summary: I am Manat, a woman of Anarres (I used to have another name). Before, I only kept a journal now and then, because there was simply too much to do. There's still a lot to do, but all the same, I am writing this down because it helps me order the thoughts, because it helps me know Pravic better, and as a record to the ammari of the future.
regshoe wrote both my Flight of the Heron story Thy Kingdom's Pearl, about Margaret Cameron, and my Archie Flemington/James Logie fic Feathers Anew! My other Keith/Ewen Flight of the Heron story That Restless Sleep was written by sanguinity, which I had not guessed, but then sanguinity is a new author in the fandom! Thank you so much, both of you; I loved my gifts. ♥ This is the main story I wrote:
No Longer Sole Representative (3945 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Genly Ai, Faxe the Weaver, Sorve Harth rem ir Estraven, Ke'sta, Tulier
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Worldbuilding, References to Canonical Character Death
Summary: I had colleagues again, and after three years, what a change it was: all the everyday details of Gethen, which had become familiar to me over the years, I saw as new again through their eyes. But they, too, were unfamiliar to me in several ways: I had not had time to get to know them well during our journey to Gethen, since we had been in deep sleep all that time. And how strange to speak Hainish again! It was not a difficult language, having for thousands of years had its complexities worn down by use as a lingua franca—but it was neither Karhidish nor my native Earth language which I used in my own mind. It brought me back to my years training with the Ekumen on Hain.
Thanks to
chestnut_pod and karanguni for beta reading! I am happy with some things about this story: I haven't seen anyone explore Genly's relationship with the other Ekumen representatives before, and also, I like Genly's eventual decision and Faxe's role in it. OTOH I'm not really happy with the discussion of gender among the Ekumen people: it's just not alien enough, and sounds like a group of contemporary Earth people talking. Then again, Genly does not actually feel very alien in canon, and could well be a 1970's Earth human. I also wrote a short treat, or rather, I excavated it from my WIP folder, polished it up, and found someone whose request it matched. Thanks to
A Woman of Anarres (738 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Backstory
Summary: I am Manat, a woman of Anarres (I used to have another name). Before, I only kept a journal now and then, because there was simply too much to do. There's still a lot to do, but all the same, I am writing this down because it helps me order the thoughts, because it helps me know Pravic better, and as a record to the ammari of the future.
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Date: 2022-01-03 09:36 pm (UTC)Before reveals I dl'ed the Le Guin fics, because my hunches said I'd be reading you!
(Not done yet.)
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