Home again, home again, jiggety jog
Dec. 27th, 2017 07:20 pm1. While we were away for the holidays, I got more Christmas cards. Thank you, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lyr, leesa_perrie, and chelseagirl!
2. I got the best story for Yuletide! It's Kalr Five/Dishes, just like I always wanted! Everybody go read Fleet Captains and Dishes (Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie).
3. Have some more Yuletide recs:
Cthulhu Mythos
The Glade
A family thinks they're offering up their daughter to appease the gods and gets a wee bit more than they bargained for.
The Life and Afterlife of Richard Upton Pickman
This is written as if it's the museum guide to an exhibit of Upton's work, and it is so brilliantly written. I'm deeply jealous. LOL
Deadwood
Four Weddings, No Funeral
Alma/Al, Sol/Trixie, Joanie/Jane, Seth/Martha
Featuring Alma and Al as the King and Queen of Deadwood. I love it! I also have a suspicion about who wrote this. *wink*
Paw Patrol
Man's Best Friend
I absolutely adore the Yuletide trend of taking the beloveds of childhood and rendering them creepy and wrong.
Alien Prequels
Two fix-it fics in which Walter survives and Daniels survives (and Tennessee, too!). Each is just the right amount of hopeful and angsty.
One Day
The Lone and Level Sand
Alien Resurrection
Of All She Surveys
Ripley/Call
The crew ofSerenity the Betty out there on the raggedy edge.
Maleficent
Building a Home of Hair and Straw
Maleficent/Diaval
Character study of Diaval, really. Love all the stuff about embodiment (human vs. raven).
Die Hard
Saving the World, One Bad Guy at a Time
McClane/Farrell
I thought when I was watching the latest movie that falling into a radioactive pool of water at Chernobyl is a great way to make a crossover with Marvel happen; I was not wrong.
Lilo and Stitch
Endless is the Good
Nani watches Lilo grow up (and away and apart from her and back together again). Needs at least two hankies.
And now for my favorite fic I've read so far in the archive:
Fairy Tales: 12 Dancing Princesses
So Come Home
This is the fairy tale re-imagined as a mystery about 12 female astronauts. It's on the long side for Yuletide, and so is full of all this exceptional world-building; it feels like a fully realized universe packed with space stations and alien worlds and kick ass women. I would read a whole novel of this fic; I can't wait to find out who read this so I can go read everything they've written. I think if you like Ann Leckie or Jeff Vandermeer, you'll like this fic.
lyr, leesa_perrie, and chelseagirl!2. I got the best story for Yuletide! It's Kalr Five/Dishes, just like I always wanted! Everybody go read Fleet Captains and Dishes (Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie).
3. Have some more Yuletide recs:
Cthulhu Mythos
The Glade
A family thinks they're offering up their daughter to appease the gods and gets a wee bit more than they bargained for.
The Life and Afterlife of Richard Upton Pickman
This is written as if it's the museum guide to an exhibit of Upton's work, and it is so brilliantly written. I'm deeply jealous. LOL
Deadwood
Four Weddings, No Funeral
Alma/Al, Sol/Trixie, Joanie/Jane, Seth/Martha
Featuring Alma and Al as the King and Queen of Deadwood. I love it! I also have a suspicion about who wrote this. *wink*
Paw Patrol
Man's Best Friend
I absolutely adore the Yuletide trend of taking the beloveds of childhood and rendering them creepy and wrong.
Alien Prequels
Two fix-it fics in which Walter survives and Daniels survives (and Tennessee, too!). Each is just the right amount of hopeful and angsty.
One Day
The Lone and Level Sand
Alien Resurrection
Of All She Surveys
Ripley/Call
The crew of
Maleficent
Building a Home of Hair and Straw
Maleficent/Diaval
Character study of Diaval, really. Love all the stuff about embodiment (human vs. raven).
Die Hard
Saving the World, One Bad Guy at a Time
McClane/Farrell
I thought when I was watching the latest movie that falling into a radioactive pool of water at Chernobyl is a great way to make a crossover with Marvel happen; I was not wrong.
Lilo and Stitch
Endless is the Good
Nani watches Lilo grow up (and away and apart from her and back together again). Needs at least two hankies.
And now for my favorite fic I've read so far in the archive:
Fairy Tales: 12 Dancing Princesses
So Come Home
This is the fairy tale re-imagined as a mystery about 12 female astronauts. It's on the long side for Yuletide, and so is full of all this exceptional world-building; it feels like a fully realized universe packed with space stations and alien worlds and kick ass women. I would read a whole novel of this fic; I can't wait to find out who read this so I can go read everything they've written. I think if you like Ann Leckie or Jeff Vandermeer, you'll like this fic.
