yuletide redux
and now, some recs and the reveal:
to hell with anything unrefined was my primary yuletide story, for nyssa23. it is vers libre poetry in the style of don marquis' archy & mehitabel. i put mehitabel amongst the suffragettes and brought in a couple of prohibitionists. i illustrated it! (did you know that the new york times online archives go back to 1851? it's really quite awesome, especially for setting a story about a new york city newspaper columnist in 1917.) glossing and kassrachel read it through for me and i managed to get it in nearly a week early, which is unheard-of in my yuletide career, opening the way for:
eyes wide open, a yuletide treat for baranduin, which is a postscript for robin mckinley's spindle's end, a retelling of "sleeping beauty" which i've always particularly loved. i highly recommend the book, and you shouldn't really read the story without having read the book -- for one, it won't make much sense, and for two, it does rather spoil one of the twists of the ending. i wrote this one in a terrific rush on christmas eve, but i'm glad i posted it; it turned out small but rather pretty, i think (and there are only two glaring typos which will need fixing at some point).
and while i was thusly engaged, lilyayl was writing my cyberiad story! still many ♥&hearts♥ and i shall have to see what else zie's done. there's so much more to read!
to hell with anything unrefined was my primary yuletide story, for nyssa23. it is vers libre poetry in the style of don marquis' archy & mehitabel. i put mehitabel amongst the suffragettes and brought in a couple of prohibitionists. i illustrated it! (did you know that the new york times online archives go back to 1851? it's really quite awesome, especially for setting a story about a new york city newspaper columnist in 1917.) glossing and kassrachel read it through for me and i managed to get it in nearly a week early, which is unheard-of in my yuletide career, opening the way for:
eyes wide open, a yuletide treat for baranduin, which is a postscript for robin mckinley's spindle's end, a retelling of "sleeping beauty" which i've always particularly loved. i highly recommend the book, and you shouldn't really read the story without having read the book -- for one, it won't make much sense, and for two, it does rather spoil one of the twists of the ending. i wrote this one in a terrific rush on christmas eve, but i'm glad i posted it; it turned out small but rather pretty, i think (and there are only two glaring typos which will need fixing at some point).
and while i was thusly engaged, lilyayl was writing my cyberiad story! still many ♥&hearts♥ and i shall have to see what else zie's done. there's so much more to read!