Reveals for Yuletide
I had one assignment and eight pinch-hits this year, which means one fewer than last year and the year before. Three of them were very last minute, including one on Christmas Eve. The total word count is 16,548. My gifts, and they were lovely, are in bold below.
My assignment was in Foyle's War. It's Gen, rated teen, and titled Vignettes. [Gen, rated Teen]
The first pinch-hit I picked up, but it took me longest to post, was in The Sound of Music fandom. The request was for Captain/Maria porn with hints of BDSM based around the Captain's carrying a riding crop in an early discussion with Elsa. I'm bad at titles, if you hadn't noticed, so this is just called Wedding Night. For the record, Georg von Trapp was a junior officer who fought in the Boxer Rebellion. [het relationship, rated Explicit]
It's hard, sometimes, to tell how good or bad a story is until a long time later. Circus Housekeeping is one that I think will hold up later. I hope it will. The fandom is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and there are various reasons why I had to jump at this one, including Dad being an exchange officer in London from 1967-69.[slash (technically), rated Mature]
I picked this one up for another of the prompts, but became intrigued by the idea of Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde seducing each other. When I found out that they'd actually met... Elegy was the result.[slash, rated Teen]
Bletchley Circle features four intelligent, kickass women. The request was for the back story of one of the women. The World and all its Wonders was my idea of how she got from war time Bletchley to 1950s London. [Gen, rated Teen]
I adored the movie Now You See Me. My gift was The Year of Living Dangerously by jenbug. It's a lovely series of moments from Henley's point of view as the disparate group becomes a team. [Gen and het, not rated]
My own contribution to the fandom was a pinch-hit called Team Building Exercises. It's focused mostly on Danny and Merritt, but covers the whole team dynamic, too. [Gen, rated Mature]
I also got a gorgeous Beauty and the Beast (1987) drabble called What Does the Mouse See by uniquepov. It's amazing what can be done in 100 words. [Gen, rated G]
I've been rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and I really wish it had gotten a third season. I was thrilled to pick up the prompt and wrote Journal Entries. [Gen, rated Teen]
This Yuletide ended up being predominantly British for me, and the last of my British stories is in The Hour. It's a fix-it for the end of their second and final season (dammit!) called All through the Night. [Het focused, rated Teen]
And the one I got on Christmas Eve was Storytelling in the Sleepy Hollow 'verse. [Gen, rated G]
My assignment was in Foyle's War. It's Gen, rated teen, and titled Vignettes. [Gen, rated Teen]
The first pinch-hit I picked up, but it took me longest to post, was in The Sound of Music fandom. The request was for Captain/Maria porn with hints of BDSM based around the Captain's carrying a riding crop in an early discussion with Elsa. I'm bad at titles, if you hadn't noticed, so this is just called Wedding Night. For the record, Georg von Trapp was a junior officer who fought in the Boxer Rebellion. [het relationship, rated Explicit]
It's hard, sometimes, to tell how good or bad a story is until a long time later. Circus Housekeeping is one that I think will hold up later. I hope it will. The fandom is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and there are various reasons why I had to jump at this one, including Dad being an exchange officer in London from 1967-69.[slash (technically), rated Mature]
I picked this one up for another of the prompts, but became intrigued by the idea of Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde seducing each other. When I found out that they'd actually met... Elegy was the result.[slash, rated Teen]
Bletchley Circle features four intelligent, kickass women. The request was for the back story of one of the women. The World and all its Wonders was my idea of how she got from war time Bletchley to 1950s London. [Gen, rated Teen]
I adored the movie Now You See Me. My gift was The Year of Living Dangerously by jenbug. It's a lovely series of moments from Henley's point of view as the disparate group becomes a team. [Gen and het, not rated]
My own contribution to the fandom was a pinch-hit called Team Building Exercises. It's focused mostly on Danny and Merritt, but covers the whole team dynamic, too. [Gen, rated Mature]
I also got a gorgeous Beauty and the Beast (1987) drabble called What Does the Mouse See by uniquepov. It's amazing what can be done in 100 words. [Gen, rated G]
I've been rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and I really wish it had gotten a third season. I was thrilled to pick up the prompt and wrote Journal Entries. [Gen, rated Teen]
This Yuletide ended up being predominantly British for me, and the last of my British stories is in The Hour. It's a fix-it for the end of their second and final season (dammit!) called All through the Night. [Het focused, rated Teen]
And the one I got on Christmas Eve was Storytelling in the Sleepy Hollow 'verse. [Gen, rated G]