Yuletide: so many exclamation points
Allow me to brag about the amazing Yuletide gifts I received this year:
First! Longtime friends have been forced to read repeatedly about my great love for the 1855 Elizabeth Gaskell novel North and South and my desperate desire for related fic. Well, for the first time, I finally got a North and South Yuletide story this year! Hooray! A Mother's Wisdom is a Misses Clause Challenge story where Mrs. Thornton schools Margaret about the finances of Marlborough Mills, and Margaret takes the opportunity to needle her mother-in-law a bit in return. Excellent! I have serious love for the Thornton family (who doesn't?) and am thrilled to have received this story about them.
The excitement could have ended there...but then! The very next day! What should appear in my inbox but a super awesome ficlet for the Stoppard play Arcadia? A clever nugget of high-concept goodness about Thomasina--a really intriguing what-if idea that had never occurred to me...until now. It made me extremely happy. The Universe Is Winding Down: read it! Love it! I do.
And then! Later that very same day! Did I get the most amazing Hark! A Vagrant Brontë story that could possibly exist? I believe I did. Pitch perfect, with that sharp, Beaton-y humor that I love so much, only better and funnier and more Brontë-ish and written especially for me! So hysterically funny and with so many delightful details that my brain became overloaded and I started freaking out and dashing all around my apartment (sorry, downstairs neighbors!). Blood Will Have Blood is a deeply awesome and enjoyable fic, and I strongly urge you to read it right now, unless you hate fun. Actually, give it a try even if you hate fun--you might surprise yourself.
So, I got three great stories and am feeling pretty pleased. Little known fact: if you comment on my gift stories I will love you even more than I already do! (Offer also valid if you manage to magically intuit which stories I wrote and comment on those!)
PS - I keep forgetting to mention this, but does anyone need an invite code for a Dreamwidth account or Archive of our Own account? I have some of each, so just ask. I really like AO3, and you don't need to be a writer to find it handy--if you're a reader you can bookmark, comment, mark things to-be-read, and probably do more stuff that I don't even know about.
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First! Longtime friends have been forced to read repeatedly about my great love for the 1855 Elizabeth Gaskell novel North and South and my desperate desire for related fic. Well, for the first time, I finally got a North and South Yuletide story this year! Hooray! A Mother's Wisdom is a Misses Clause Challenge story where Mrs. Thornton schools Margaret about the finances of Marlborough Mills, and Margaret takes the opportunity to needle her mother-in-law a bit in return. Excellent! I have serious love for the Thornton family (who doesn't?) and am thrilled to have received this story about them.
The excitement could have ended there...but then! The very next day! What should appear in my inbox but a super awesome ficlet for the Stoppard play Arcadia? A clever nugget of high-concept goodness about Thomasina--a really intriguing what-if idea that had never occurred to me...until now. It made me extremely happy. The Universe Is Winding Down: read it! Love it! I do.
And then! Later that very same day! Did I get the most amazing Hark! A Vagrant Brontë story that could possibly exist? I believe I did. Pitch perfect, with that sharp, Beaton-y humor that I love so much, only better and funnier and more Brontë-ish and written especially for me! So hysterically funny and with so many delightful details that my brain became overloaded and I started freaking out and dashing all around my apartment (sorry, downstairs neighbors!). Blood Will Have Blood is a deeply awesome and enjoyable fic, and I strongly urge you to read it right now, unless you hate fun. Actually, give it a try even if you hate fun--you might surprise yourself.
So, I got three great stories and am feeling pretty pleased. Little known fact: if you comment on my gift stories I will love you even more than I already do! (Offer also valid if you manage to magically intuit which stories I wrote and comment on those!)
PS - I keep forgetting to mention this, but does anyone need an invite code for a Dreamwidth account or Archive of our Own account? I have some of each, so just ask. I really like AO3, and you don't need to be a writer to find it handy--if you're a reader you can bookmark, comment, mark things to-be-read, and probably do more stuff that I don't even know about.
This entry was originally posted at http://bowdlerized.dreamwidth.org/50333.html, where there are
comments.