Home again, home again

[lunabee34]

We are home from visiting my parents for the holidays! It was a good visit, but I am so glad to be home.

I got a most fantastic gift for Yuletide:

Hereafter
Haunting of Hill House

A very in-character look at what Theo does in the immediate aftermath of Eleanor's suicide. I absolutely adore that the hand Theo is holding at the end of this story is real and of someone who loves her, not the ghostly hand that Nell was holding (or Nell holding her own hand as I have seen some literary critics argue). I realized I had gone out to pinch hit a few days before the collection went live, and I am doubly impressed that my author wrote something so fine and beautiful for me in such a short amount of time. Everyone, go give this story some love.

I haven't been able to read much yet, but have some recs in other fandoms.



19th Century RPF

Adonais, Besieged
Keats/Shelley, Byron/Shelley, Byron/Keats/Shelley
Explicit
The dialogue in this is so fantastic--very sensuous and lush and how I imagine Romantic poets to talk to each other.

Annihilation (film)

Cocoon
Josie Radek/Anya Thorensen
Mature
This is lovely and brutal (like the Shimmer).

Crimson Peak

'til Death
Gen
Edith gets some closure after her trauma at Crimson Peak.

What Dreams May Come
Edith/Alan, Edith/Thomas (relationships are not the focus)
Edith helps all the spirits in the house find rest, those who want to rest anyway.

Die Hard

From the Wreckage
McClane/Farrell
Classic getting together story with Matt moving into John's place. Love it.

Christmas Harder
McClane Farrell
And another iteration of the same (and I love it, too, LOL).

Enchanted Forest Chronicles

In Which Cimorene Settles In as King's Chief Cook and Librarian, and Deals with Politics
In which Cimorene comes to realize that policy and protocol are actually useful and has the further epiphany that her mother was trying to offer her a kind of power and meaning in her life, even if the life Cimorene wanted was very different. *my heart*

Sesame Street

A Necessary Lesson
This is Sesame Street as it changes to reflect the new reality of zombies.

Comments

[zulu]

Welcome home!

And ooh, fic! Just when I finished reading the book recently. Hooray!

[lunabee34]

The Shirley Jackson?

I'm so so glad to be home. There's nothing like sleeping in your own bed.

[timespirt]

Welcome home hon. "HUGS"

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I'm so glad to be home. It was a good visit, but it was time to come home.

[china_shop]

Welcome home! *hugs*

[lunabee34]

Thank you! *hugs* It's so good to be home.

[independence1776]

Welcome home!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!!

[chelseagirl]

That Hill House story is beyond perfect.

I have bookmarked slashy romantic poets (because OF COURSE they were all bi, anyway, even if only Byron admitted to it) and Crimson Peak fic for later as it all looks deliriously good.

[lunabee34]

It really is. I am very impressed by it.

The Crimson Peak fic is really good. There's a threesome fic, too, where Edith figures it all out and they all have a relationship; I didn't rec it because I'm not into porn at the moment, but it's pretty hot.

[nyctanthes]

I'm saving my Yuletide reading for later, but you've reminded me how much I enjoyed your (second person!) Annihilation fic from several years. And that I should leave a comment on it....

[lunabee34]

That was not me! I'm pretty sure it was Tamoline, and if that's the story you are thinking of it, it is indeed really freaking awesome.

[nyctanthes]

Haha. Bad shorthand. I meant I found it by first reading a Harry Potter story you wrote, and then looking at your gifts and reading that. (I find the best fic this way.)

[lunabee34]

Ah. Okay. :)

I had never thought of doing that, but it's a great idea!

[spikedluv]

Yay for being home and for Yuletide gifts!

[lunabee34]

So glad for both!

:)