Yuletide reveals! : D

[luzula]

My Wounded Name gift fic Seaweed and Apple Blossoms turns out to be written by sanguinity! OMG, you were so sneaky!! I had NO IDEA this was written by you, but I am delighted to find that it was! : D Hmm, I really don't know what I could have used as a tell...but in hindsight, it makes total sense. And I suppose you now see that you were correct in your guess as to what I wrote (wait, what were my suggestive WED comments?). *g*

I am equally delighted to find that my Flight of the Heron gift fic Hereafter was also written by someone I know: feroxargentea! : D This is another one where I suspected nothing during the anon time, but it makes perfect sense after reveals! In my defense, you haven't written in this fandom before, but the hiking and the lovely landscape and nature description definitely make sense now. Have you in fact ascended Ben Nevis?

And, in my THIRD failure to guess a gift fic written by a friend, garonne wrote me the lovely little Flemington ficlet Sentimental for Madness! This one I really should have been able to guess, given that I know she likes the epilogue of the book...and it's a TINY fandom. *facepalm*

I guess we can conclude both that I am slightly dense, and have excellent friends. : ) Hmm, which of you did I actually match with?

As for what I wrote: I matched with edwardianspinsteraunt on Jill by E A Dillwyn, a fun and femslashy book from 1884. I had actually been hoping to match on that fandom! I wrote the post-canon fic To Meet Again as Equals (8,500 words) for her, and then got a second idea and wrote the treat To Stay in Service (4,200 words) for regshoe.

Canon does a great set-up for f/f and the main character has a concealed identity, but then it doesn't really realize the potential of it! So there's a lot of scope for canon divergence AU:s and identity reveals. I do think you could read these fics without having read canon, if you are in the mood for historical f/f! There are notes in the beginning with what you need to know. I did not do a ton of research about the 1880's, so there isn't much specific setting detail (except for the underwear, ha ha), but hopefully I made up for it by working hard to capture the fun first-person narrative voice and style of canon. To be honest, canon also doesn't have much specific setting while it's in England. Thanks to garonne for beta reading both of these, and regshoe for beta reading the first!

And after I'd finished those, I pondered whether to go back to my longfic, or whether to start on another Yuletide treat. I decided to write a Wounded Name fic, which I'd been itching to do. The only problem was that I was the only one who had requested that fandom. But I didn't let that stop me! So I wrote Whose Hand Was Thine in Earnest (9,000 words) and gave it to garonne as a Madness treat, because I was pretty sure that she would like it. This was also a lot of fun to write, trying to capture the over-the-top nature of canon. regshoe did some great beta work on it--I'd decided to do a lot of retelling from Aymar’s POV, and she really pinpointed how to fix the parts of the retelling which didn't feel new enough.

Altogether, a pretty great Yuletide. : D I've never written so many words for Yuletide before--I think it's a side effect of now mostly writing novel length fic. Also, I've had time to read a fair amount, but my gifts are really my favorites. *clutches them to chest*

Comments

[regshoe]

:D

Aah, it's so much fun when you didn't guess who wrote something but then you find out and it all makes sense! And I already knew about all your fics, of course, but I am impressed by how much you wrote—and of course it's great seeing more of that f/f potential in Jill being realised so excellently :D Hmm, I am thinking maybe I should write some Jill/Sister Helena sometime, to balance out the Jill/Kitty...

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Ahh, I thought you might be the one behind my Jill fic :D :D Thank you again-- it was an absolute delight to read and totally captured the feel of canon, while giving it a much happier resolution!

[isis]

I've downloaded Jill from Project Gutenberg since it (and your fics) sound up my alley.

I'm really impressed with how much writing you've been doing lately. All this plus writing a longfic project!

[garonne]

This one I really should have been able to guess, given that I know she likes the epilogue of the book...and it's a TINY fandom. *facepalm*

Haha, I kept that one well under my hat! :D

I did of course guess that you wrote Whose Hand Was Thine in Earnest (and I'm so glad you did!) mostly because it was fairly obvious from the author's note :p but also because of your previous "hmm, I wonder if it's allowed to write for a fandom that someone didn't actually request" musings.

I didn't actually catch the "the de Courtomers" giveaway until I had already read the fic twice and was off doing something else!

[sanguinity]

(wait, what were my suggestive WED comments?)

Asking whether you can write a Yuletide gift for a non-participant!

Further, your comment on my story was suggestive: there was something in your phrasing about the ramrod kiss that subtly suggested you were trying to reassure me that you were on-board with that kiss despite having previously and publicly committed yourself otherwise elsewhere. And of course in the other Yuletide story, there was a line about how kissing any earlier than the sea-cave wouldn't have been right... ;-)

[feroxargentea]

You officially matched with me, on The Wounded Name. And I had every intention of taking TWN seriously enough for long enough to write a fic for it, but then your suggestion of heron POV for FotH got stuck in my head instead! All credit has to go to regshoe for her valiant beta-efforts to haul the fic into line with Actual History and Actual Canon, though :D