Yuletide 2014 recs post 4
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psocopteraVorkosigans 2: Electric Surleau?
The previous batch focused on Ekaterin, here’s Aral and Simon: All Public Duties.
And this one has a hilarious scene between Aral and Cordelia: the star to every wandering bark.
I have a really hard time keeping track of the Vorkosiverse backstory and the whole Vorkosigan/Vorbarra family tree, so a lot of the time pre-canon stories don’t work for me, but this one really did: At the going down of the sun, about Olivia and Piotr.
Some miscellany:
Chapter 4 of Four Things that Never Happened to Vanyel Ashkevron. I found this AU scenario curiously charming (the rest of them are skippable).
An Abundance Of Captains is a hilarious and non-spoilery Temeraire story.
More Temeraire: I love a good fixit but also a good *non*-fixit. This is angsty but... rather plausible. a full measure of loyalty.
Or maybe you would rather just have some hot Laurence/Tharkay. keep a deliberate pace.
for always is always now is a Macdonald Hall story, beautifully written.
And as long as I’m on Korman, Wish You Were Here! is an enjoyably long I Want To Go Home! story.
Adjustments. Belle fell in love with a Beast, not this human guy.
Already Mine. Some nice turns of phrase in this Billy Elliot story.
The Christmas Box. Eeee, a Brothers Sinister story about the canonical lesbians! I’m not entirely sure I agree with all of the characterization here - Minnie had those lesbian aunts, surely Amanda and Genevieve would be able to be out to her - but the actual point of this story is Victorian vibrators, so.
The previous batch focused on Ekaterin, here’s Aral and Simon: All Public Duties.
And this one has a hilarious scene between Aral and Cordelia: the star to every wandering bark.
I have a really hard time keeping track of the Vorkosiverse backstory and the whole Vorkosigan/Vorbarra family tree, so a lot of the time pre-canon stories don’t work for me, but this one really did: At the going down of the sun, about Olivia and Piotr.
Some miscellany:
Chapter 4 of Four Things that Never Happened to Vanyel Ashkevron. I found this AU scenario curiously charming (the rest of them are skippable).
An Abundance Of Captains is a hilarious and non-spoilery Temeraire story.
More Temeraire: I love a good fixit but also a good *non*-fixit. This is angsty but... rather plausible. a full measure of loyalty.
Or maybe you would rather just have some hot Laurence/Tharkay. keep a deliberate pace.
for always is always now is a Macdonald Hall story, beautifully written.
And as long as I’m on Korman, Wish You Were Here! is an enjoyably long I Want To Go Home! story.
Adjustments. Belle fell in love with a Beast, not this human guy.
Already Mine. Some nice turns of phrase in this Billy Elliot story.
The Christmas Box. Eeee, a Brothers Sinister story about the canonical lesbians! I’m not entirely sure I agree with all of the characterization here - Minnie had those lesbian aunts, surely Amanda and Genevieve would be able to be out to her - but the actual point of this story is Victorian vibrators, so.
