Yuletide Reveals! + some additional recs
Jan. 1st, 2023 07:58 amOnce again, I got the most fabulous prompt. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thearrogantemu asked for scenes of daily life in Marie's abbey. What are some of the strange dreams or vocations that flourish there? Extra bonus for focus on the details of some particular craft or work as part of the abbey's life - pottery, blacksmithing, manuscript creation, accounting, botany... So I got to have fun doing a little research into the kinds of glazes that would have been used on 12th-century English pottery (although you can't really tell since it's just half a line LOL) and 12-century English names for women. It's just a vignette, a very short slice of life--almost a tour of the abbey as Marie mentally walks through the grounds; however, it's also a rumination on power and the way that monastic life has allowed Marie to wield it in a way she never would have otherwise.
And the Works and the Hours Go On
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Gen
And now, some recs for fics I read pre-reveals but didn't have time to post (not least of which because AO3 was acting up).
my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more by whetherwoman
Hench/Ask A Manager
Gen
It's hench week at Ask a Manager!
When I'm Like This by eleanor_lavish
Die Hard
McClane/Farrell
John can feel the weight of something Matt can’t, or won’t, say. He thinks about Nakatomi, and how even sleeping in his own bed had been impossible most nights, and how a strange bed in a strange place would probably have made his heart pound. The pieces slot into place - Matt didn’t come to John’s because he lacked a fucking bed. He came to John’s because John was there.
The Lethean Halls by thereinafter
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
F/F
A woman from a post-apocalyptic future, grieving her wife, finds and loses herself in a dark part of the House.
The Cunning of the Goose is Immeasurable; Its Mischief Infinite by hangingfire
Piranesi/Untitled Goose Game
Gen
Entries for the Fourth Month in the Year the Albatross Came to the South-Western Halls.
The Beloved Child of the House by Griselda_Gimpel
Gen
Piranesi chronicles his early days in the House, as his memories begin to leave him and he comes to see the House in a new light.
thearrogantemu asked for scenes of daily life in Marie's abbey. What are some of the strange dreams or vocations that flourish there? Extra bonus for focus on the details of some particular craft or work as part of the abbey's life - pottery, blacksmithing, manuscript creation, accounting, botany... So I got to have fun doing a little research into the kinds of glazes that would have been used on 12th-century English pottery (although you can't really tell since it's just half a line LOL) and 12-century English names for women. It's just a vignette, a very short slice of life--almost a tour of the abbey as Marie mentally walks through the grounds; however, it's also a rumination on power and the way that monastic life has allowed Marie to wield it in a way she never would have otherwise.And the Works and the Hours Go On
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Gen
And now, some recs for fics I read pre-reveals but didn't have time to post (not least of which because AO3 was acting up).
my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more by whetherwoman
Hench/Ask A Manager
Gen
It's hench week at Ask a Manager!
When I'm Like This by eleanor_lavish
Die Hard
McClane/Farrell
John can feel the weight of something Matt can’t, or won’t, say. He thinks about Nakatomi, and how even sleeping in his own bed had been impossible most nights, and how a strange bed in a strange place would probably have made his heart pound. The pieces slot into place - Matt didn’t come to John’s because he lacked a fucking bed. He came to John’s because John was there.
The Lethean Halls by thereinafter
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
F/F
A woman from a post-apocalyptic future, grieving her wife, finds and loses herself in a dark part of the House.
The Cunning of the Goose is Immeasurable; Its Mischief Infinite by hangingfire
Piranesi/Untitled Goose Game
Gen
Entries for the Fourth Month in the Year the Albatross Came to the South-Western Halls.
The Beloved Child of the House by Griselda_Gimpel
Gen
Piranesi chronicles his early days in the House, as his memories begin to leave him and he comes to see the House in a new light.
