More Yuletide recs
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lotesse...so that I can remember.
Brenin
Will Stanton, after the Dark comes rising. Quiet and strange, and Bran.
Eirias
DiR fic, with lovely Bran/Jane and Will on the side. Remembering in dreams. Picks up on some of my favorite images in the books--the singing mountains, and all of Jane's linking names.
Dawn Watch
Tamora Pierce fic that makes me embarrassingly happy. Daine/Numair, George. Romantic and angsty and funny and all sorts of wiggly things.
Unusual
TH White fic, the four brothers of Orkney. Perfectly catches the tone of my book, and includes a beautifully nuanced and oddly vulnerable Gawaine. Agravaine is creepily prescient. Mordred is as yet a shadow.
No End of Adventures
If Swallows and Amazons doesn't count as a rare fandom, I don't know what does. This is set later, just before the break of the War. Nancy, trying to be both a woman and a corsair. Achy and wistful and althogether lovely.
By Merlin's Hand
Arthur/Nimue, creepy and fay. Interlinked drabbles.
Lives By Breaking
The perfect Narnia fic, wherein the children step out of the story where everything feels right and slam into reality. A beautiful emphasis on remembering and forgetting.
The Word
Hits the exact tone of the Colbert Report, but with more gayness. Stephen and his temptations.
No Girls
Calvin and Hobbes fic, with Susie and possible gayness and practicing for when they're grown up. Sweet and funny.
The End of the Honeymoon
Lizzie/Darcy, one of the most delightfully romantic stories I have ever read. Goes further in to passion than Austen, although by a neat bit of metatexual wrangling it manages to seem not out of place. Gives you what you want, in just the right way.
Nature Boy
Wonderful Knight's Tale fic--Chaucer/Wat. Squeefull, with fonging. Very fun if you've just been watching Firefly, and thus slip bits of Wash in to Wat at inappropriate moments, though that's maybe just me.
5 Firsts
More Knight's Tale! This is one o those things that I didn't know I wanted, but now I don't wuite know how I did without it. Kate/Christiana. Kate is the coolest thing ever. I knew it at thirteen, and stories like this only reinforce that knowledge.
Open
Prydain fic. Eilonwy/Taran and Eilonwy/Angharad. Beautiful.
Angharad's Tale
Prydain. Taran tells Eilonwy what he knows of her mother. Sharp, perfect characterizations and an unresolved ending that slides you right back in to canon.
The Knowledge, The Truth, and the Love
Prydain. Achren and Gwydion as I never could have imagined them, talking about Eilonwy and Taran just as I always knew they were. Long and twisty and unexpected and lovely.
A More Honorable Lineage
L'Engle fic. Calvin and mothers and new babies, and worries and the stars. God I love those books, and those people. This story catches that.
Angels Unawares
Starts with a perfect image of the Murray-O'Keefe family at home, with their own peculiar sort of domesticity and belonging. Which is lovely. And then it goes off into angels, and is awesome.
White As Snow
Poly O'Keefe this time, and Canon Tallis. I'm not even going to try to say anything about this fic, save that it's quiet and lovely and also uses language is some beautiful little ways.
Almost Nothing Beats a Segway
Princess Diaries fic. In diary format. C'mon, you know you wanna.
Fractures
The Dark Crystal. Aughra. Why couldn't I see before I read this that Aughra had been in other parts of fairy tales, that she had been the young servant girl and the ugly sister and the girl-witch? Mmmm. I love being blind, sometimes. It feels so good when you first see.
The Worthy Seaman
Ahahahaha, omigod. Pirates of Penzance fic, written in libretto format, with lyrics and everything. Frederic must learn every part of being a pirate's crewman. Dirty, hot, and ryhming.
Envious Angels
This almost isn't fic at all, though the notes say it comes from Poe's "Annabel Lee." But this is more than that--a bittersweet story about first love blooming from little girls' pairbonds. Heartbreaking and textural and musical.
Gerda and the Snow Queen
When I think of fairy tale fic, I usuall think of it as en exercise in voice-change. You know, like Margaret Atwood or Donna Jo Napoli. But this is fairy tale fic written in the oice of Hans Christian Andersen, only about different things. And it's strange and fair to hear that voice again, anew, as a grown-up, saying things for older ears.
Dream and Memory
I loved "Ballet Shoes" as a little girl, though I've no idea why. Sure, I was stage-struck, but I never once wanted to be a dancer. Still, I'm glad I did, because now people take that book and do wonderful things like this with it. Winifred and Pauline, little girls' backstage fascinations sliding in to adult life. Oh, this fic makes me happy.
I do so love Yuletide. Really, it's the sort of fic that I like best--fragments of old things and forgotten things and loved things, turned about or smoothed down nice.
Brenin
Will Stanton, after the Dark comes rising. Quiet and strange, and Bran.
Eirias
DiR fic, with lovely Bran/Jane and Will on the side. Remembering in dreams. Picks up on some of my favorite images in the books--the singing mountains, and all of Jane's linking names.
Dawn Watch
Tamora Pierce fic that makes me embarrassingly happy. Daine/Numair, George. Romantic and angsty and funny and all sorts of wiggly things.
Unusual
TH White fic, the four brothers of Orkney. Perfectly catches the tone of my book, and includes a beautifully nuanced and oddly vulnerable Gawaine. Agravaine is creepily prescient. Mordred is as yet a shadow.
No End of Adventures
If Swallows and Amazons doesn't count as a rare fandom, I don't know what does. This is set later, just before the break of the War. Nancy, trying to be both a woman and a corsair. Achy and wistful and althogether lovely.
By Merlin's Hand
Arthur/Nimue, creepy and fay. Interlinked drabbles.
Lives By Breaking
The perfect Narnia fic, wherein the children step out of the story where everything feels right and slam into reality. A beautiful emphasis on remembering and forgetting.
The Word
Hits the exact tone of the Colbert Report, but with more gayness. Stephen and his temptations.
No Girls
Calvin and Hobbes fic, with Susie and possible gayness and practicing for when they're grown up. Sweet and funny.
The End of the Honeymoon
Lizzie/Darcy, one of the most delightfully romantic stories I have ever read. Goes further in to passion than Austen, although by a neat bit of metatexual wrangling it manages to seem not out of place. Gives you what you want, in just the right way.
Nature Boy
Wonderful Knight's Tale fic--Chaucer/Wat. Squeefull, with fonging. Very fun if you've just been watching Firefly, and thus slip bits of Wash in to Wat at inappropriate moments, though that's maybe just me.
5 Firsts
More Knight's Tale! This is one o those things that I didn't know I wanted, but now I don't wuite know how I did without it. Kate/Christiana. Kate is the coolest thing ever. I knew it at thirteen, and stories like this only reinforce that knowledge.
Open
Prydain fic. Eilonwy/Taran and Eilonwy/Angharad. Beautiful.
Angharad's Tale
Prydain. Taran tells Eilonwy what he knows of her mother. Sharp, perfect characterizations and an unresolved ending that slides you right back in to canon.
The Knowledge, The Truth, and the Love
Prydain. Achren and Gwydion as I never could have imagined them, talking about Eilonwy and Taran just as I always knew they were. Long and twisty and unexpected and lovely.
A More Honorable Lineage
L'Engle fic. Calvin and mothers and new babies, and worries and the stars. God I love those books, and those people. This story catches that.
Angels Unawares
Starts with a perfect image of the Murray-O'Keefe family at home, with their own peculiar sort of domesticity and belonging. Which is lovely. And then it goes off into angels, and is awesome.
White As Snow
Poly O'Keefe this time, and Canon Tallis. I'm not even going to try to say anything about this fic, save that it's quiet and lovely and also uses language is some beautiful little ways.
Almost Nothing Beats a Segway
Princess Diaries fic. In diary format. C'mon, you know you wanna.
Fractures
The Dark Crystal. Aughra. Why couldn't I see before I read this that Aughra had been in other parts of fairy tales, that she had been the young servant girl and the ugly sister and the girl-witch? Mmmm. I love being blind, sometimes. It feels so good when you first see.
The Worthy Seaman
Ahahahaha, omigod. Pirates of Penzance fic, written in libretto format, with lyrics and everything. Frederic must learn every part of being a pirate's crewman. Dirty, hot, and ryhming.
Envious Angels
This almost isn't fic at all, though the notes say it comes from Poe's "Annabel Lee." But this is more than that--a bittersweet story about first love blooming from little girls' pairbonds. Heartbreaking and textural and musical.
Gerda and the Snow Queen
When I think of fairy tale fic, I usuall think of it as en exercise in voice-change. You know, like Margaret Atwood or Donna Jo Napoli. But this is fairy tale fic written in the oice of Hans Christian Andersen, only about different things. And it's strange and fair to hear that voice again, anew, as a grown-up, saying things for older ears.
Dream and Memory
I loved "Ballet Shoes" as a little girl, though I've no idea why. Sure, I was stage-struck, but I never once wanted to be a dancer. Still, I'm glad I did, because now people take that book and do wonderful things like this with it. Winifred and Pauline, little girls' backstage fascinations sliding in to adult life. Oh, this fic makes me happy.
I do so love Yuletide. Really, it's the sort of fic that I like best--fragments of old things and forgotten things and loved things, turned about or smoothed down nice.
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Date: 2006-12-28 09:11 pm (UTC)Much love and many kisses, too, btw!
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Date: 2006-12-29 06:50 pm (UTC)