Yuletide recs
Jan. 17th, 2010 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI've been making my way through Yuletide in a slow and meandering fashion, and I'm not nearly done yet with the fandoms I'm familiar with. Anyway, here are the stories I've fallen for so far:
Will You Bloom Bright And Fierce by Edo no Hana (Disappearing Man, R, 1300 words)
I just read this story today, and it blew me away. Disappearing Man is a song by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. I don't have an mp3 handy, but you can easily find it on Youtube, and the lyrics are here. It's a folk song with a kind of mythic feel.
Anyway, the story is set in modern small-town California, which works very well to anchor the mythical lyrics in a specific place and time. The story is about the changing of the seasons, and, well, I don't want to reveal too much here, but the ending is so awesome. This story made me tear up. Go read it! It's only 1000 words, and you don't really need any canon knowledge.
Merry-Go-Round by Nope (Battlestar Galactica/WALL-E, PG-13, 2100 words)
BSG and WALL-E might strike you as kind of a random cross-over (I certainly thought so before I read it). The story is basically about a Three walking around on WALL-E's Earth, but there's so much more to it. It's one of those stories where you slow down to catch every word, and it's thinky and beautiful and...hmm, maybe the word I'm looking for is "elegiac".
just a trick of the light, by barrowjane (Norse mythology, G, 1000 words)
This story is in a modern setting and has a delightfully distinctive narrative voice. Probably needs some canon knowledge to be appreciated.
Bell and Burial by Gileonnen (Child ballads, R, 1100 words)
A merging of two old folk ballads. It's got femslash, and people dying of the plague, and is generally really creepy in the way of old ballads.
A Hundred Visions and Revisions by athousandwinds (The Emily books by L M Montgomery, Dean/Emily and Teddy/Emily, PG-13, 6100 words)
This story takes a look at what happens after the happily-ever-after ending of the books, and it's wonderfully in the style of the original. Dean lays his plans, Teddy sulks, Emily is torn, and Ilse cuts through the melodrama with a few well-chosen words.
I can also recommend both of the stories in the Gentlemen of the Road category. They're delightfully slashy and mimic Michael Chabon's style very well.
Will You Bloom Bright And Fierce by Edo no Hana (Disappearing Man, R, 1300 words)
I just read this story today, and it blew me away. Disappearing Man is a song by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. I don't have an mp3 handy, but you can easily find it on Youtube, and the lyrics are here. It's a folk song with a kind of mythic feel.
Anyway, the story is set in modern small-town California, which works very well to anchor the mythical lyrics in a specific place and time. The story is about the changing of the seasons, and, well, I don't want to reveal too much here, but the ending is so awesome. This story made me tear up. Go read it! It's only 1000 words, and you don't really need any canon knowledge.
Merry-Go-Round by Nope (Battlestar Galactica/WALL-E, PG-13, 2100 words)
BSG and WALL-E might strike you as kind of a random cross-over (I certainly thought so before I read it). The story is basically about a Three walking around on WALL-E's Earth, but there's so much more to it. It's one of those stories where you slow down to catch every word, and it's thinky and beautiful and...hmm, maybe the word I'm looking for is "elegiac".
just a trick of the light, by barrowjane (Norse mythology, G, 1000 words)
This story is in a modern setting and has a delightfully distinctive narrative voice. Probably needs some canon knowledge to be appreciated.
Bell and Burial by Gileonnen (Child ballads, R, 1100 words)
A merging of two old folk ballads. It's got femslash, and people dying of the plague, and is generally really creepy in the way of old ballads.
A Hundred Visions and Revisions by athousandwinds (The Emily books by L M Montgomery, Dean/Emily and Teddy/Emily, PG-13, 6100 words)
This story takes a look at what happens after the happily-ever-after ending of the books, and it's wonderfully in the style of the original. Dean lays his plans, Teddy sulks, Emily is torn, and Ilse cuts through the melodrama with a few well-chosen words.
I can also recommend both of the stories in the Gentlemen of the Road category. They're delightfully slashy and mimic Michael Chabon's style very well.
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