Christmas Morn
Oh my God, I'm so in love with my yuletide story, guys. It's Duet, The Secret Garden musicalverse, and it has Mary and Neville--and it's them, Mary and Neville from the musical picked up and placed into my fic, every thought and behavior perfect--learning not to hate each other with every single step of the process spelled out in the most luscious prose. It nicely captures the plunge into despair so the ascent out of it will be that much more powerful, and the tears were definitely freely flowing as I read the story, because in the end it demonstrates the sort of powerful, unresistable (but not saccharine or over-the-top) optimism and hope that behooves a fic written for this fandom, based on this musical and the book it is based upon.
(If you haven't seen the musical but are familiar with the book and would like to read the fic, all you need to know is that Neville is Archie's brother who is Colin's doctor and was also in love with Archie's wife Lily. He plays a much larger role in the musical than Dr. Craven does in the book, taking on the role of Mary's chief antagonist. If you haven't read the book, then somebody stole your childhood.)
And I also have a Yuletide Treat, The Life of a Flower, which attacks the problem almost from the other side. More explicitly Mary/Neville rather than Mary&Neville, the proses is sparse and a lot of the work is left to the imagine, but it details the progression of Mary and Neville's relationship as Mary progressively gets one year older, then skipping several years to a widowed Mary at Misselthwaite but still ending with hope.
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I've uploaded a total of four fics to the Yuletide Archive this year. Guess which ones they are in the comments to this post and I'll write you a ficlet for each one you guess correctly.
*goes off to read Yuletide stories and wait until the absolute last minute to write Pretty Lights and 3_Ships fics*
ETA: Screening is now on. Comments which aren't guesses will be made visible (unless you tell me not to for some reason).
(If you haven't seen the musical but are familiar with the book and would like to read the fic, all you need to know is that Neville is Archie's brother who is Colin's doctor and was also in love with Archie's wife Lily. He plays a much larger role in the musical than Dr. Craven does in the book, taking on the role of Mary's chief antagonist. If you haven't read the book, then somebody stole your childhood.)
And I also have a Yuletide Treat, The Life of a Flower, which attacks the problem almost from the other side. More explicitly Mary/Neville rather than Mary&Neville, the proses is sparse and a lot of the work is left to the imagine, but it details the progression of Mary and Neville's relationship as Mary progressively gets one year older, then skipping several years to a widowed Mary at Misselthwaite but still ending with hope.
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I've uploaded a total of four fics to the Yuletide Archive this year. Guess which ones they are in the comments to this post and I'll write you a ficlet for each one you guess correctly.
*goes off to read Yuletide stories and wait until the absolute last minute to write Pretty Lights and 3_Ships fics*
ETA: Screening is now on. Comments which aren't guesses will be made visible (unless you tell me not to for some reason).