more yuletide recs

[lotesse]

Be Free, And Fare Thou Well King of Shadows. Nat goes to play Prospero, and Will Shakespeare to write at last his aerial sprite. Beautiful language, bittersweetness and theatricality.

for all time Shakespeare in Love reincarnation fic. Particularly awesome: the one with the pre-Raphaelites.

Midwinter Ronia the Robber's Daughter. More realistic than my Yuletide fic; deals with gender, and the way Ronia has to negotiate the loss of her wild freedom as she grows up.

Resevoir The Dark is Rising, a more politicized post-canon Bran than you usually see, with some great history of the tensions and oppressions of Wales.

Auld Lang Syne The Dark is Rising. The equally-impossible happy ending, told at Christmastime in the Stanton house.

Fault-Lines Othello, creepy and lyrical.

A Garden in Punjab The Secret Garden. The stories of Mary's ayah and her daughter, in India - and the story of how Mary's got wound around theirs. An absolutely genius re-imagining.

We Only Blink Dead Poet's Society.

Three Eyes based on the fairy tale. Poetical and strange.

DIY for Beginners Hot Fuzz, funny and explicit and just - Danny is as cute as a basket full of puppies, for serious. Includes excellent gender deconstruction.

Home for the Holidays Hot Fuzz. Christmas with Nicholas' mother, and commitment issues, and Nicholas' issues in general.

The Orphans Arthur/Morgan. Long.

La Adelita Like Water for Chocolate. Gertrudis cooks for a revolutionary camp. Powerful, in a deep-down sort of way.

Living Vicariously Little Women. Oh, Beth! This ficlet is tiny and sweet and sad.