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Yuletide 2014 recs post 9
Jan. 12th, 2015 04:02 pmThe Honorable Thing. Okay, this is a Jeeves & Wooster A/B/O fic. Definitely not to everybody's taste but it's *hilarious* if you're familiar with both of those things.
Jeeves and the Yuletide Gifts. More Jeeves and Wooster, this time the slash is implied but not explicit. 5500 words about a poetry exchange, perfectly done.
Kushiel's Keys is a really interesting AU to Kushiel's Justice that won't make a bit of sense unless you remember the plot of that pretty well (but basically, Dorelei lives and Imriel has two kids running around in Alba). 8K words.
The Chicken and Egg Question. I don't really remember the details of Ladyhawke well enough for most stories to work for me, but this was funny.
A Second, Better. Fanny Price is by far the most insufferable Austen heroine, a sanctimonious prig with a pretty tedious romance (the only good line of which in the Mansfield Park movie turns out to not even be in the book), but the writing is very impressive in this long-ish (7.5K) AU where she doesn't marry Edmund.
Broad Upon the Wintry Ocean. Moby Dick AU in which Ishmael does not escape alone to tell thee. Ishmael/Queequeg.
An International Incident. In which Azaz and the Mathemagician disagree about e and i.
From the Mountains of Un. More Phantom Tollbooth fic in which a scientist defeats a Pay-Wall.
Songs of Innocence and Experience. Twisty mind-fucky little piece about Hook and Pan.
An Awfully Long Time. More Peter Pan, about Wendy and growing up.
And All Things Nice. Peter Pan canon really really believes in gender. What if everybody's a girl?
Bisou, bisou. Why have I never really thought about Fezzik/Inigo before this year? Princess Bride.
Reason And. Especially if we're now calling them Rhyming Pirate Husbands.
Piece of Work. Short about Susan Calvin of Robots.
the play's the thing. I never thought much about Tom before Fire and Hemlock, but I think this is exactly right.
Old Kingdom. There are seven of these and I'm recommending all but the Clariel one (because I still haven't finished that).
Enter World, Light Unshown. How Sabriel discovers she's pregnant.
Glass Sky. Lirael has a library adventure. Stay for the part with Sam.
Shaping the Path. Lirael finding her way after the books.
Carol of the Bells. Scenes from Sabriel's life, mostly before the books.
The Eighth Bell. Post-Abhorsen. If you only read one, read this one, this is such a neat idea - making a new bell for Mogget.
I Sing Anyway. Also post-Abhorsen. This is Sam/Nick in a kind of painful way that doesn't just magically tidy away Lirael. And there is magical misadventure.
Jeeves and the Yuletide Gifts. More Jeeves and Wooster, this time the slash is implied but not explicit. 5500 words about a poetry exchange, perfectly done.
Kushiel's Keys is a really interesting AU to Kushiel's Justice that won't make a bit of sense unless you remember the plot of that pretty well (but basically, Dorelei lives and Imriel has two kids running around in Alba). 8K words.
The Chicken and Egg Question. I don't really remember the details of Ladyhawke well enough for most stories to work for me, but this was funny.
A Second, Better. Fanny Price is by far the most insufferable Austen heroine, a sanctimonious prig with a pretty tedious romance (the only good line of which in the Mansfield Park movie turns out to not even be in the book), but the writing is very impressive in this long-ish (7.5K) AU where she doesn't marry Edmund.
Broad Upon the Wintry Ocean. Moby Dick AU in which Ishmael does not escape alone to tell thee. Ishmael/Queequeg.
An International Incident. In which Azaz and the Mathemagician disagree about e and i.
From the Mountains of Un. More Phantom Tollbooth fic in which a scientist defeats a Pay-Wall.
Songs of Innocence and Experience. Twisty mind-fucky little piece about Hook and Pan.
An Awfully Long Time. More Peter Pan, about Wendy and growing up.
And All Things Nice. Peter Pan canon really really believes in gender. What if everybody's a girl?
Bisou, bisou. Why have I never really thought about Fezzik/Inigo before this year? Princess Bride.
Reason And. Especially if we're now calling them Rhyming Pirate Husbands.
Piece of Work. Short about Susan Calvin of Robots.
the play's the thing. I never thought much about Tom before Fire and Hemlock, but I think this is exactly right.
Old Kingdom. There are seven of these and I'm recommending all but the Clariel one (because I still haven't finished that).
Enter World, Light Unshown. How Sabriel discovers she's pregnant.
Glass Sky. Lirael has a library adventure. Stay for the part with Sam.
Shaping the Path. Lirael finding her way after the books.
Carol of the Bells. Scenes from Sabriel's life, mostly before the books.
The Eighth Bell. Post-Abhorsen. If you only read one, read this one, this is such a neat idea - making a new bell for Mogget.
I Sing Anyway. Also post-Abhorsen. This is Sam/Nick in a kind of painful way that doesn't just magically tidy away Lirael. And there is magical misadventure.
