Yuletide!

Dec. 26th, 2023 11:04 am
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
[personal profile] luzula
OMG, what riches! : D I have received no less than SIX gifts, all of which are utterly lovely, and I am all overwhelmed. : D I actually have no idea which of these was from my match, and which are treats? At any rate, I very much recommend all of them.

Our Set is an Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva fic, for K J Charles Think of England. One of my prompts was Archie meeting Daniel's friends, which I got, but then there was a perfect twist at the end that I don't want to spoil for you! Awww, lovely. <3

Joy Enough for the Both of Us is something I'd asked for a couple of times, but thought I might never get: a Darklis Ruthven/Lady Jean story, for Rosemary Sutcliff's Bonnie Dundee. I love this story and feel I could never have written it myself, which is really the ideal of what Yuletide is for. And it is worthy of Sutcliff's writing, which is no mean feat.

I received no less than three Keith/Ewen/Alison stories! : D

A Precarious Position is a missing scene set in my Three Strands verse, full of delicious unresolved sexual tension. Yum.

A Dark and Draughty Scottish Castle is a lovely outside POV on the pairing, where Francis comes to visit and none of his preconceived notions (see title) are fulfilled.

Talebearers is another outside POV, a really funny one where we see the various theories the servants at Ardroy come up with. And the ending is perfect! : D

My Madness treat, A Happy Disguise, is kind of an extended joke and a dig at my dislike of Alan's moustache in the NTS Kidnapped play, but it's also a lovely Alan/Davie story, where Alan is all self-satisfied at having kept Davie up all night.

Even with the small pool of writers, I am not very good at guessing, but I'll take a stab at it: I think [personal profile] regshoe wrote the Alan/Davie story, and that [personal profile] sanguinity was inspired by her own soreness after sword drills to write A Precarious Position. As for the Sutcliff one...perhaps [personal profile] verecunda? I have no idea about the K J Charles one as I don't know people in that fandom. But I know [personal profile] garonne likes outside POV, so I'm going to guess that she wrote one of those, perhaps the one with Francis? As for the other one, hmm. I am almost tempted to guess [personal profile] sanguinity again, it seems like her sense of humour (but surely I would not be lucky enough to get two stories from her?) Then again, [personal profile] garonne does like writing about servants...

I myself wrote two stories: one for my assignment, and one a treat! Feel free to guess if you want. : )

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Date: 2023-12-26 12:32 pm (UTC)
ysilme: Open-faced book with caption "Challenges Exchanges & Fests oh my" (Challenges & Exchanges)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
How awesome! ♥

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Date: 2023-12-26 01:28 pm (UTC)
philomytha: airplane flying over romantic castle (Default)
From: [personal profile] philomytha
What an amazing collection of gifts! And Bonnie Dundee fic! I won’t miss that...

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Date: 2023-12-26 01:50 pm (UTC)
dolorosa_12: (yuletide stars)
From: [personal profile] dolorosa_12
Six gifts! That's amazing generosity on the part of those authors — and how wonderful for you!

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Date: 2023-12-26 03:08 pm (UTC)
garonne: (Default)
From: [personal profile] garonne

I guess it means you write inspiring "Dear Yuletide Writer" letters! :D

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Date: 2023-12-26 04:23 pm (UTC)
chestnut_pod: A close-up photograph of my auburn hair in a French braid (Default)
From: [personal profile] chestnut_pod
What a cornucopia!

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Date: 2023-12-26 04:59 pm (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
How lucky you are! You must be well-loved. :-)

I think you must be right about the Alan/Davie story -- it reads like her, even before we get to the little flock of birds in it.

I shall not comment on your other guesses, but as for what you wrote, I believe you wrote my Lachlan & Keith story.

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Date: 2023-12-28 03:31 pm (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
What I really wanted to do was to hoard up the stories and read one of them a day for a week! But that would never do; one has to comment as soon as possible.

You are very good to take care of your authors so well!

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Date: 2023-12-27 05:00 am (UTC)
karanguni: (Default)
From: [personal profile] karanguni

A very nice haul!

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