Yuletide 2014 recs post 3
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psocopteraJust to further complicate things, I read a bunch of stories on my phone today. So now I'm trying to go back and remember what I wanted to rec. These are brought to you by the letters W and L, plus some Blue Castle stories, plus the first half of Vorkosigans.
The Witch of Barbados. A Witch of Blackbird Pond story that grapples with the slave trade.
Meet Yourself Coming From the Other Direction. A Wreck-It Ralph story about parallel universes and being aware that there are multiple copies of you out there. I love meta fic like this and Wreck-It Ralph is perfect for it.
If It’s Sewing, She Sews. About Maria after the end of West Side Story.
Vignettes of Black and White. I have a hard time with Watchmen fanfic but this really sounds and feels like the comic.
not ours to command. I love Barney-POV Blue Castle stories, and this is so perfect to the character.
Give and Take. More Blue Castle, about Valancy’s wedding night.
Something Frivolous and Fine, another Barney-POV story. I hadn’t thought much before about whether he might have considered telling her everything earlier.
I Build It Up, a TJ & Amal post-canon story. Spot-on voices and a great glimpse of the future.
Discontent. Someone wrote a story about 1980-something space guy from the LEGO movie! There’s not a lot to it but I like that it was definitely written by someone very familiar with LEGO. (“Good evening, Wizard. Would you like to share our chicken leg and croissant?”)
Cambridge 1902, a Leviathan story about a younger Nora Barlow.
Words is a Little Women story about something that might have happened between Jo and Laurie. Lovely as canon-divergence, exquisitely painful if you imagine they still end up in the same place.
Gentle Antidote. This is FANTASTIC, a major standout story in my Yuletide reading this year. 11000 words of Lord Peter Wimsey name-on-wrist AU - that is, a world where people have a soul mate and their name magically appears on their arm. I feel like this is mostly a new-ish trope showing up in big-ish fandoms (I’ve mostly read it in hockeyslash, tsor suggests people have written it in a bunch of the usual suspects, MCU and Sherlock etc) and I have such admiration for the audacity and success of this writer importing it into a classic timeless fandom like this. And it’s SO GOOD. The little asides about social customs and other characters, and the war and half-widows, there’s such good worldbuilding here. And then the voices are just splendid, spot-on and compelling. It feels complete but there’s maybe going to be another part of it, I could read so much of this.
Vorkosigans! I had thought Vorkosigans had finally gotten quantity-disqualified and we were going to have a sad Yuletide with no Vorkosigans but to my joy here they are. I haven't read them all yet but so far there's a very enjoyable Ekaterin-centricity to things, we totally need much more story about Ekaterin.
It Takes a Village. I feel like Ekaterin gets rather shafted by canon so it’s always nice to see more stories about her. This one is about wedding planning.
Night, Vorkosigan House. And this one is Ekaterin talking to Aral about things they have in common.
The marriage plot, Cordelia talking to Helen Vorthys about Ekaterin.
The Witch of Barbados. A Witch of Blackbird Pond story that grapples with the slave trade.
Meet Yourself Coming From the Other Direction. A Wreck-It Ralph story about parallel universes and being aware that there are multiple copies of you out there. I love meta fic like this and Wreck-It Ralph is perfect for it.
If It’s Sewing, She Sews. About Maria after the end of West Side Story.
Vignettes of Black and White. I have a hard time with Watchmen fanfic but this really sounds and feels like the comic.
not ours to command. I love Barney-POV Blue Castle stories, and this is so perfect to the character.
Give and Take. More Blue Castle, about Valancy’s wedding night.
Something Frivolous and Fine, another Barney-POV story. I hadn’t thought much before about whether he might have considered telling her everything earlier.
I Build It Up, a TJ & Amal post-canon story. Spot-on voices and a great glimpse of the future.
Discontent. Someone wrote a story about 1980-something space guy from the LEGO movie! There’s not a lot to it but I like that it was definitely written by someone very familiar with LEGO. (“Good evening, Wizard. Would you like to share our chicken leg and croissant?”)
Cambridge 1902, a Leviathan story about a younger Nora Barlow.
Words is a Little Women story about something that might have happened between Jo and Laurie. Lovely as canon-divergence, exquisitely painful if you imagine they still end up in the same place.
Gentle Antidote. This is FANTASTIC, a major standout story in my Yuletide reading this year. 11000 words of Lord Peter Wimsey name-on-wrist AU - that is, a world where people have a soul mate and their name magically appears on their arm. I feel like this is mostly a new-ish trope showing up in big-ish fandoms (I’ve mostly read it in hockeyslash, tsor suggests people have written it in a bunch of the usual suspects, MCU and Sherlock etc) and I have such admiration for the audacity and success of this writer importing it into a classic timeless fandom like this. And it’s SO GOOD. The little asides about social customs and other characters, and the war and half-widows, there’s such good worldbuilding here. And then the voices are just splendid, spot-on and compelling. It feels complete but there’s maybe going to be another part of it, I could read so much of this.
Vorkosigans! I had thought Vorkosigans had finally gotten quantity-disqualified and we were going to have a sad Yuletide with no Vorkosigans but to my joy here they are. I haven't read them all yet but so far there's a very enjoyable Ekaterin-centricity to things, we totally need much more story about Ekaterin.
It Takes a Village. I feel like Ekaterin gets rather shafted by canon so it’s always nice to see more stories about her. This one is about wedding planning.
Night, Vorkosigan House. And this one is Ekaterin talking to Aral about things they have in common.
The marriage plot, Cordelia talking to Helen Vorthys about Ekaterin.
