Yuletide recs, part 1
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kindkitI've been very very slowly reading through Yuletide, cherry-picking the fandoms that interest me most, and I have a few recs to share from the first half of the alphabet.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Left Turn on Red (1499 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Control (Fry & Laurie)/Tony Murchison
Characters: Control (Fry & Laurie), Tony Murchison
Summary: It wouldn't do at all for enemy agents to get wind of Control's weakness. They're going to have to do something about that.
Very funny, with perfect character voices.
Arthurian mythology
Knight's Move (1056 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lancelot du Lac/Arthur Pendragon, Galahad/Mordred
Characters: Arthur Pendragon, Lancelot du Lac, Mordred (Arthurian), Galahad (Arthurian), Guinevere (Arthurian)
Summary: Au/Future Fic; Arthur Pendragon, Once and Future King, is replenished and renewed following his 'sojourn' on Avalon. Thousands of years have passed and his knights are re-gathering, reincarnated and re-learning their roles. As the last member of the British Royal Family lies dying and Arthur prepares for his takeover, it is all observed by another whose fate was entangled with these men.
Dystopian Arthuriana!
like holly berries (1703 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gawain/Lady Bertilak, Gawain/Bertilak de Hautdesert
Characters: Gawain, Lady Bertilak, The Green Knight, Arthur Pendragon, Lancelot, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred, Guinevere (Arthurian), Morgan le Fay
Summary: Gawain, who thinks himself the least of all of Arthur's knights, finds his own adventure. A retelling of the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Beautiful, understated writing and an intriguing take on Gawain.
Black Books
Swine (3499 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Black Books
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fran Katzenjammer, Bernard Black, Manny Bianco
Summary: A pig of a day.
A rare Black Books fic that's as funny as the show itself.
Deadpool (comics)
Getting Paid (2364 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), X-Force (Comics), Marvel 616
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Deadpool, Weasel, Logan (X-Men), Warren Worthington III, Deathlok, Fantomex, Taskmaster
Summary: What happens in campus Illuminati assassin squad stays in campus Illuminati assassin squad.
Deadpool POV is not easy, but this story does it brilliantly and hilariously. You don't need to be up on every detail of Marvel canon to enjoy it, either.
Emma - Jane Austen
Love and Longing (4235 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Emma Woodhouse / OFC
Characters: Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley
Summary: Emma learns that she has much yet to know -- about herself, and about love.
Charmingly written, with a good grasp of Austen's language. Plausibility is a bit strained here and there (although not in terms of Emma's sexuality--she's probably the slashiest of all the Austen heroines) but the story still works.
Gay Pirates (song)
Bottom of this Blue Ocean (1283 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Gay Pirates (song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Major Character Death
Relationships: Narrator/Sebastian (Gay Pirates)
Characters: Narrator (Gay Pirates), Sebastian (Gay Pirates)
Summary: He'd always wanted to be a chef.
I have mixed feelings about the song, but this fic is subtle, moving, and beautifully written.
Hamlet
A Document in Madness (4941 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Laertes (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Polonius, Gertrude (Hamlet), Claudius (Hamlet)
Summary: Laertes knows what is rotten in the state of Denmark. He'd really rather not return, but finds himself summoned home on the the death of the king.
A brilliant merger of Hamlet with the Lovecraftian mythos; it also takes one of my least favorite characters, Laertes, and makes him fascinating.
Houses of the Holy (1131 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hamlet/Laertes, Hamlet/Ophelia
Characters: Hamlet (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Laertes (Hamlet), Polonius
Summary: Haunted mansion AU. The Denmark family lives in the kind of house that swallows you whole.
This is so AU that it's only tangentially connected to the play, but it's atmospheric and well-written.
Storyteller (1097 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Horatio, Fortinbras, Hamlet (Hamlet)
Horatio tells Hamlet's story. Again and again, in infinite versions.
Lord Peter Wimsey
Go and Catch a Falling Star (7085 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey, Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Characters: Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Mervyn Bunter, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, The Doctor
Summary: "No," Harriet Vane said, having given it some thought. "I don't suppose I do believe in spontaneous human combustion."
A clever crossover with good Harriet POV and an interesting plot. There's a bit much het for my taste, but Bunter's particular place in Peter's life is acknowledged, which is more than a lot of het fics do in this fandom.
I also want to reiterate my recommendation of the two fics written for me: With the Wild Geese (Colditz) and The Wind Dark Sea (Tintin). More detailed reviews of both are here; I'll just add that these two are my favorites of all the Yuletide stories I've read so far. I'd be praising them to the skies even if they hadn't been written for me.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Left Turn on Red (1499 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Control (Fry & Laurie)/Tony Murchison
Characters: Control (Fry & Laurie), Tony Murchison
Summary: It wouldn't do at all for enemy agents to get wind of Control's weakness. They're going to have to do something about that.
Very funny, with perfect character voices.
Arthurian mythology
Knight's Move (1056 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lancelot du Lac/Arthur Pendragon, Galahad/Mordred
Characters: Arthur Pendragon, Lancelot du Lac, Mordred (Arthurian), Galahad (Arthurian), Guinevere (Arthurian)
Summary: Au/Future Fic; Arthur Pendragon, Once and Future King, is replenished and renewed following his 'sojourn' on Avalon. Thousands of years have passed and his knights are re-gathering, reincarnated and re-learning their roles. As the last member of the British Royal Family lies dying and Arthur prepares for his takeover, it is all observed by another whose fate was entangled with these men.
Dystopian Arthuriana!
like holly berries (1703 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gawain/Lady Bertilak, Gawain/Bertilak de Hautdesert
Characters: Gawain, Lady Bertilak, The Green Knight, Arthur Pendragon, Lancelot, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred, Guinevere (Arthurian), Morgan le Fay
Summary: Gawain, who thinks himself the least of all of Arthur's knights, finds his own adventure. A retelling of the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Beautiful, understated writing and an intriguing take on Gawain.
Black Books
Swine (3499 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Black Books
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fran Katzenjammer, Bernard Black, Manny Bianco
Summary: A pig of a day.
A rare Black Books fic that's as funny as the show itself.
Deadpool (comics)
Getting Paid (2364 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Deadpool (Comics), X-Force (Comics), Marvel 616
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Deadpool, Weasel, Logan (X-Men), Warren Worthington III, Deathlok, Fantomex, Taskmaster
Summary: What happens in campus Illuminati assassin squad stays in campus Illuminati assassin squad.
Deadpool POV is not easy, but this story does it brilliantly and hilariously. You don't need to be up on every detail of Marvel canon to enjoy it, either.
Emma - Jane Austen
Love and Longing (4235 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Emma Woodhouse / OFC
Characters: Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley
Summary: Emma learns that she has much yet to know -- about herself, and about love.
Charmingly written, with a good grasp of Austen's language. Plausibility is a bit strained here and there (although not in terms of Emma's sexuality--she's probably the slashiest of all the Austen heroines) but the story still works.
Gay Pirates (song)
Bottom of this Blue Ocean (1283 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Gay Pirates (song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Major Character Death
Relationships: Narrator/Sebastian (Gay Pirates)
Characters: Narrator (Gay Pirates), Sebastian (Gay Pirates)
Summary: He'd always wanted to be a chef.
I have mixed feelings about the song, but this fic is subtle, moving, and beautifully written.
Hamlet
A Document in Madness (4941 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Laertes (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Polonius, Gertrude (Hamlet), Claudius (Hamlet)
Summary: Laertes knows what is rotten in the state of Denmark. He'd really rather not return, but finds himself summoned home on the the death of the king.
A brilliant merger of Hamlet with the Lovecraftian mythos; it also takes one of my least favorite characters, Laertes, and makes him fascinating.
Houses of the Holy (1131 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hamlet/Laertes, Hamlet/Ophelia
Characters: Hamlet (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Laertes (Hamlet), Polonius
Summary: Haunted mansion AU. The Denmark family lives in the kind of house that swallows you whole.
This is so AU that it's only tangentially connected to the play, but it's atmospheric and well-written.
Storyteller (1097 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Horatio, Fortinbras, Hamlet (Hamlet)
Horatio tells Hamlet's story. Again and again, in infinite versions.
Lord Peter Wimsey
Go and Catch a Falling Star (7085 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey, Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Characters: Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Mervyn Bunter, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, The Doctor
Summary: "No," Harriet Vane said, having given it some thought. "I don't suppose I do believe in spontaneous human combustion."
A clever crossover with good Harriet POV and an interesting plot. There's a bit much het for my taste, but Bunter's particular place in Peter's life is acknowledged, which is more than a lot of het fics do in this fandom.
I also want to reiterate my recommendation of the two fics written for me: With the Wild Geese (Colditz) and The Wind Dark Sea (Tintin). More detailed reviews of both are here; I'll just add that these two are my favorites of all the Yuletide stories I've read so far. I'd be praising them to the skies even if they hadn't been written for me.
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Date: 2012-01-01 11:13 pm (UTC)