Yuletide recs
I've been happily hoovering up Yuletide stories, and here are some I've particularly enjoyed so far!
Ea-nasir, Sumerian merchant who gives no shits (or paid-for merchandise):
Say to Them (2604 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF, Mesopotamian RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ea-Nasir, Nanni, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Correspondence, Legal Documents, 5 Things
Summary:
Five undiscovered texts pertaining to the life of Ea-Nasir.
May Samas give you health... (522 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nanni (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF)
Additional Tags: Ancient complaint letters, Humor, Epistolary, Ea-Nasir Tablet RPF - Freeform
Summary:
People never change.
Ea-nasir: Mesopotamia's worst customer service since the reign of Rim-Sin.
Pay me Baby, Treat me Right. (1803 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ea-nasir/Nanni
Characters: Ea-nasir (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF), Nanni (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Ancient Sumerian Customer Complaints
Summary:
After continued correspondence fails to resolve his customer service complaint, Nanni decides to take a more direct approach.
Give copper, that your heart may not be troubled (2243 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Ea-Nasir's business has kept the scribes of Ur in meat and drink these ten years.
Time for some Heian literature - the Heike Monogatari - in Spaaaace!
As Above, So Below (6583 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 平家物語 | Heike monogatari | The Tale of the Heike
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: 平重盛 | Taira no Shigemori, 後白河法皇 | Go-Shirakawa hōō
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!, sort of illustrated
Summary:
'My feet belong on the ground,' said Shigemori. 'The heavens can tend themselves without my human hands.'
A Georgian musician makes a bet with one particular representative of the infernal realms:
The Devil and Johnny Webster (2719 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
Additional Tags: Humor, Yuletide Treat, Crossover, Whoever thought a fiddle made of gold was a good idea?, Deal with a Devil
Summary:
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is a work of pure egotism by a nitwit who only thinks he beat Crowley. Here’s what really happened.
The Devil Sauntered Vaguely Down to Georgia (1757 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossroads Deals & Demons, Tricksters
Summary:
Crowley has a reputation to maintain . . . and he's found the perfect mark.
Crowley and the Golden Fiddle (1308 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Deal with a Devil, Yuletide, Background Crowley/Aziraphale, Crossroads Deals & Demons, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions
Summary:
Crowley hadn’t bothered with this kind of petty soul-trading in decades, and he was meant to meet Aziraphale for breakfast in 45 minutes.
Christmas needs ghost stories . . .
The Book of the Duplicitous Dead (4373 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Kyle Murchison Booth
Summary:
In which Booth finds out what's haunting the stacks of the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum after dark, and is tempted by what it has to offer.
The Ghosts in the Abbey (5399 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Peter Grant & Thomas Nightingale
Characters: Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale, Molly (Rivers of London), Lesley May
Additional Tags: Friendship, casefic, Ghosts, Post-Broken Homes
Summary:
Peter and Nightingale hunt ghosts in the country.
. . . and silliness
Twitterati (559 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Father Ted
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ted Crilly, Dougal McGuire
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:
Ted and Dougal and Twitter.
Ea-nasir, Sumerian merchant who gives no shits (or paid-for merchandise):
Say to Them (2604 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF, Mesopotamian RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ea-Nasir, Nanni, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Correspondence, Legal Documents, 5 Things
Summary:
Five undiscovered texts pertaining to the life of Ea-Nasir.
May Samas give you health... (522 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nanni (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF)
Additional Tags: Ancient complaint letters, Humor, Epistolary, Ea-Nasir Tablet RPF - Freeform
Summary:
People never change.
Ea-nasir: Mesopotamia's worst customer service since the reign of Rim-Sin.
Pay me Baby, Treat me Right. (1803 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ea-nasir/Nanni
Characters: Ea-nasir (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF), Nanni (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Ancient Sumerian Customer Complaints
Summary:
After continued correspondence fails to resolve his customer service complaint, Nanni decides to take a more direct approach.
Give copper, that your heart may not be troubled (2243 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Ea-Nasir's business has kept the scribes of Ur in meat and drink these ten years.
Time for some Heian literature - the Heike Monogatari - in Spaaaace!
As Above, So Below (6583 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 平家物語 | Heike monogatari | The Tale of the Heike
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: 平重盛 | Taira no Shigemori, 後白河法皇 | Go-Shirakawa hōō
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!, sort of illustrated
Summary:
'My feet belong on the ground,' said Shigemori. 'The heavens can tend themselves without my human hands.'
A Georgian musician makes a bet with one particular representative of the infernal realms:
The Devil and Johnny Webster (2719 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
Additional Tags: Humor, Yuletide Treat, Crossover, Whoever thought a fiddle made of gold was a good idea?, Deal with a Devil
Summary:
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is a work of pure egotism by a nitwit who only thinks he beat Crowley. Here’s what really happened.
The Devil Sauntered Vaguely Down to Georgia (1757 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossroads Deals & Demons, Tricksters
Summary:
Crowley has a reputation to maintain . . . and he's found the perfect mark.
Crowley and the Golden Fiddle (1308 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia), Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Deal with a Devil, Yuletide, Background Crowley/Aziraphale, Crossroads Deals & Demons, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions
Summary:
Crowley hadn’t bothered with this kind of petty soul-trading in decades, and he was meant to meet Aziraphale for breakfast in 45 minutes.
Christmas needs ghost stories . . .
The Book of the Duplicitous Dead (4373 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Bone Key - Sarah Monette
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Kyle Murchison Booth
Summary:
In which Booth finds out what's haunting the stacks of the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum after dark, and is tempted by what it has to offer.
The Ghosts in the Abbey (5399 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Peter Grant & Thomas Nightingale
Characters: Peter Grant, Thomas Nightingale, Molly (Rivers of London), Lesley May
Additional Tags: Friendship, casefic, Ghosts, Post-Broken Homes
Summary:
Peter and Nightingale hunt ghosts in the country.
. . . and silliness
Twitterati (559 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Father Ted
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ted Crilly, Dougal McGuire
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:
Ted and Dougal and Twitter.