10 Yuletide Recs
14th Century CE England RPF
Jesu dulcis memoria (1022 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE England RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Anne of Bohemia/Richard II
Characters: Richard II of England, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Medieval Painting, The Wilton Diptych, Lots of Historical Conjecture, Everyone Richard Loves Is Dead
Bookmarker's Notes:
Brief, sorrowful and stunningly beautiful. I had a lump in my throat when I finished reading it.
14th Century CE RPF
Hallowmas, Or Shortest Of Day (1705 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anne of Bohemia Queen of England, Isabella of Valois
Additional Tags: Canonical Child Marriage, Benevolent Ghosts Of Consorts Past, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Isabella, future girl-queen of England, receives a visit from a predecessor.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Melancholy and sweet, with wee Isabella as an adorable seven-year-old who's very much at sea and Anne of Bohemia as the gentlest and kindest of ghosts.
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Escargots (9429 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rose Vitrac January, Olympe Corbier, Gabriel Corbier, Abishag Shaw, Augustus Mayerling, Madeleine Mayerling, Zizi-Marie Corbier, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Mystery, Character(s) of Color, Historical, New Orleans, POV Female Character, Poison, French Food, Chromatic Yuletide, Yuletide
Summary:
Rose was not one to offer platitudes for a man she hadn't known, to a man who hadn't cared about him. "What killed him?" she asked instead, for she couldn't think of any reason why Shaw would be telling her about this if it had been a natural death.
"Poison's our best guess." He paused, as if considering how to most gently say what was coming next. "He took his final meal at the Hotel Iberville last night. So as you might imagine, I got a pressin' need to speak with your nephew, Gabriel Corbier."
Bookmarker's Notes:
This story belongs to the women, and deservedly so. Rose January/Janvier is brilliant and shrewd and a fantastic scientific detective in 1830s New Orleans, while her sister-in-law Olympe Corbier solves half the mystery by deducing what posion was used. It's sharp, smoothly written and as thoroughly researched as any of the books. Honestly, you could drop this into Barbara Hambly's Good Man Friday (the book in which Benjamin January goes off to Washington DC, a trip which Rose mentions in passing) and it would fit in seamlessly. I'm honestly not sure that my writer isn't Barbara Hambly.
If you love historical mysteries, stories featuring characters of color, or both, then read this story.
Five moments in the life of Augustus Mayerling (1176 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Augustus Mayerling
Additional Tags: Backstory, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Becoming Augustus Mayerling is a process.
Bookmarker's Notes:
The details of how Augustus Mayerling became Augustus Mayerling. Detailed, sharp and utterly right. Headcanon accepted.
Magnificat in New Orleans (5896 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Benjamin January, Rose Vitrac January, Hannibal Sefton
Additional Tags: Chromatic Yuletide
Summary:
On the eve of Benjamin and Rose Vitrac January's first Christmas in their new home, Ben and Hannibal at the end of a Reveilion have a run-in with a less peaceful holiday tradition, and they and Rose take a in young stranger in more need of help than even they realize.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Dazzlingly beautiful, brilliantly researched, and powerful enough to make your heart ache. A magnificent Magnificat.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre & Literature RPF
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (1318 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre & Literature RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Dead Gay King Plays, Brainstorming, Literary Oneupsmanship, Mention of Canonical Character Death, Anachronistic Dialogue Registers
Summary:
It's 1593, and Kit Marlowe is trying out a new genre.
Bookmarker's Notes:
If you're intimidated by the canon's title, don't be. Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare are playwrights and rivals, each criticizing each other's work while writing plays that are strongly influenced by the same. Marlowe is gloriously OTT, as he was in real life, and Shakespeare is the ultimate fanboy who can't quite tell if his idol is flirting or not. This made me smile. A lot.
Ms. Marvel (Comics)
The Adventures of Ms. Marvel and Spider-Girl (Featuring a Team-Up, Some Squishees, and One Really Inept Mage) (2083 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ms. Marvel (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kamala Khan & Anya Corazon
Characters: Kamala Khan, Anya Sofia Corazon, Lockjaw
Summary:
"Hi. I'm Spider-Girl."
She held out her hand. Kamala shook it and thought, I've totally read fanfic about you.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) meets Anya Corazon (Spider-Girl), and it is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I would love to see the continuation of this story, because it feels so much like canon.
Parks and Recreation
Misadventures in Babysitting (1906 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Parks and Recreation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy Dwyer/April Ludgate, Leslie Knope/Ben Wyatt
Characters: Andy Dwyer, April Ludgate, Leslie Knope, Ben Wyatt, The Triplets
Additional Tags: Babysitting, april hates everything, except andy, but she definitely hates babies
Summary:
"Great," April said as three infants in car seats were deposited on the couch. "Now we don't have to go to the grocery store."
Bookmarker's Notes:
You don't have to know the canon to love this story. April is a gloriously misanthropic Wednesday Addams type, Andy reminds me of an enthusiastic golden retriever, and the parents of the triplets are completely unflustered by April and Andy's wonderfully awful babysitting. This story will make you grin; it may even make you laugh out loud. I did.
Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Always keep your head (2013 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Red-Handed Jill/Green-Eyed Sue
Characters: Green-Eyed Sue, Wendy "Red-Handed Jill" Darling
Additional Tags: Angst, Pirates, Neverland, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
So Wendy'd got herself a crew of ruthless men and brave
and they'd terrorize the Lost Boys each and every Saturday.
One day Wendy says to Peter, "I'd like more girls on my crew."
So Peter goes a-hunting Lost Girls and brings back Green-eyed Sue.
Bookmarker's Notes:
You don't have to know S.J. Tucker's songs--specifically, the Wendy Trilogy--to understand this story about the time when Wendy Darling became a pirate called Red-Handed Jill. This story is about Green-Eyed Sue, Jill's first mate, but more than that, it's about finding the place where you belong. Most of all, it's about identity and love and being honest with yourself. Highly recommended.
Journey's End (3549 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wendy Darling, Red-Handed Jill, Green-Eyed Sue, Peter Pan
Summary:
The decision to go back home had not come easily to Wendy Darling, and the hardest part of it was saying goodbye.
Bookmarker's Notes:
This story deals with Wendy's departure from Neverland, but it treats her decision to leave as right and natural, as if Wendy were a potted plant that had outgrown its container. At the same time, it shows that those who didn't follow Wendy home were also right. Also, I love the female friendship in this story. Bittersweet.
Jesu dulcis memoria (1022 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE England RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Anne of Bohemia/Richard II
Characters: Richard II of England, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Medieval Painting, The Wilton Diptych, Lots of Historical Conjecture, Everyone Richard Loves Is Dead
Bookmarker's Notes:
Brief, sorrowful and stunningly beautiful. I had a lump in my throat when I finished reading it.
14th Century CE RPF
Hallowmas, Or Shortest Of Day (1705 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anne of Bohemia Queen of England, Isabella of Valois
Additional Tags: Canonical Child Marriage, Benevolent Ghosts Of Consorts Past, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Isabella, future girl-queen of England, receives a visit from a predecessor.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Melancholy and sweet, with wee Isabella as an adorable seven-year-old who's very much at sea and Anne of Bohemia as the gentlest and kindest of ghosts.
Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Escargots (9429 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rose Vitrac January, Olympe Corbier, Gabriel Corbier, Abishag Shaw, Augustus Mayerling, Madeleine Mayerling, Zizi-Marie Corbier, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Mystery, Character(s) of Color, Historical, New Orleans, POV Female Character, Poison, French Food, Chromatic Yuletide, Yuletide
Summary:
Rose was not one to offer platitudes for a man she hadn't known, to a man who hadn't cared about him. "What killed him?" she asked instead, for she couldn't think of any reason why Shaw would be telling her about this if it had been a natural death.
"Poison's our best guess." He paused, as if considering how to most gently say what was coming next. "He took his final meal at the Hotel Iberville last night. So as you might imagine, I got a pressin' need to speak with your nephew, Gabriel Corbier."
Bookmarker's Notes:
This story belongs to the women, and deservedly so. Rose January/Janvier is brilliant and shrewd and a fantastic scientific detective in 1830s New Orleans, while her sister-in-law Olympe Corbier solves half the mystery by deducing what posion was used. It's sharp, smoothly written and as thoroughly researched as any of the books. Honestly, you could drop this into Barbara Hambly's Good Man Friday (the book in which Benjamin January goes off to Washington DC, a trip which Rose mentions in passing) and it would fit in seamlessly. I'm honestly not sure that my writer isn't Barbara Hambly.
If you love historical mysteries, stories featuring characters of color, or both, then read this story.
Five moments in the life of Augustus Mayerling (1176 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Augustus Mayerling
Additional Tags: Backstory, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Becoming Augustus Mayerling is a process.
Bookmarker's Notes:
The details of how Augustus Mayerling became Augustus Mayerling. Detailed, sharp and utterly right. Headcanon accepted.
Magnificat in New Orleans (5896 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Benjamin January, Rose Vitrac January, Hannibal Sefton
Additional Tags: Chromatic Yuletide
Summary:
On the eve of Benjamin and Rose Vitrac January's first Christmas in their new home, Ben and Hannibal at the end of a Reveilion have a run-in with a less peaceful holiday tradition, and they and Rose take a in young stranger in more need of help than even they realize.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Dazzlingly beautiful, brilliantly researched, and powerful enough to make your heart ache. A magnificent Magnificat.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre & Literature RPF
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (1318 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre & Literature RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Dead Gay King Plays, Brainstorming, Literary Oneupsmanship, Mention of Canonical Character Death, Anachronistic Dialogue Registers
Summary:
It's 1593, and Kit Marlowe is trying out a new genre.
Bookmarker's Notes:
If you're intimidated by the canon's title, don't be. Kit Marlowe and Will Shakespeare are playwrights and rivals, each criticizing each other's work while writing plays that are strongly influenced by the same. Marlowe is gloriously OTT, as he was in real life, and Shakespeare is the ultimate fanboy who can't quite tell if his idol is flirting or not. This made me smile. A lot.
Ms. Marvel (Comics)
The Adventures of Ms. Marvel and Spider-Girl (Featuring a Team-Up, Some Squishees, and One Really Inept Mage) (2083 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ms. Marvel (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kamala Khan & Anya Corazon
Characters: Kamala Khan, Anya Sofia Corazon, Lockjaw
Summary:
"Hi. I'm Spider-Girl."
She held out her hand. Kamala shook it and thought, I've totally read fanfic about you.
Bookmarker's Notes:
Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) meets Anya Corazon (Spider-Girl), and it is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I would love to see the continuation of this story, because it feels so much like canon.
Parks and Recreation
Misadventures in Babysitting (1906 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Parks and Recreation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy Dwyer/April Ludgate, Leslie Knope/Ben Wyatt
Characters: Andy Dwyer, April Ludgate, Leslie Knope, Ben Wyatt, The Triplets
Additional Tags: Babysitting, april hates everything, except andy, but she definitely hates babies
Summary:
"Great," April said as three infants in car seats were deposited on the couch. "Now we don't have to go to the grocery store."
Bookmarker's Notes:
You don't have to know the canon to love this story. April is a gloriously misanthropic Wednesday Addams type, Andy reminds me of an enthusiastic golden retriever, and the parents of the triplets are completely unflustered by April and Andy's wonderfully awful babysitting. This story will make you grin; it may even make you laugh out loud. I did.
Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Always keep your head (2013 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Red-Handed Jill/Green-Eyed Sue
Characters: Green-Eyed Sue, Wendy "Red-Handed Jill" Darling
Additional Tags: Angst, Pirates, Neverland, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
So Wendy'd got herself a crew of ruthless men and brave
and they'd terrorize the Lost Boys each and every Saturday.
One day Wendy says to Peter, "I'd like more girls on my crew."
So Peter goes a-hunting Lost Girls and brings back Green-eyed Sue.
Bookmarker's Notes:
You don't have to know S.J. Tucker's songs--specifically, the Wendy Trilogy--to understand this story about the time when Wendy Darling became a pirate called Red-Handed Jill. This story is about Green-Eyed Sue, Jill's first mate, but more than that, it's about finding the place where you belong. Most of all, it's about identity and love and being honest with yourself. Highly recommended.
Journey's End (3549 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wendy Trilogy - S.J. Tucker (Song Cycle)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wendy Darling, Red-Handed Jill, Green-Eyed Sue, Peter Pan
Summary:
The decision to go back home had not come easily to Wendy Darling, and the hardest part of it was saying goodbye.
Bookmarker's Notes:
This story deals with Wendy's departure from Neverland, but it treats her decision to leave as right and natural, as if Wendy were a potted plant that had outgrown its container. At the same time, it shows that those who didn't follow Wendy home were also right. Also, I love the female friendship in this story. Bittersweet.