Yuletide Recs
I love visiting family over the holidays, but being internetless makes it far too hard to catch up with Yuletide. I've barely started reading and the reveal is in two days.
I followed svmadelyn's excellent advice to sort by longest work first, but I had to go and check out the Merlin fics first. Yay for serendipity that this fandom was eligible this year. 23 fics. Wow.
Merlin
And one absolutely terrific one that has been recced everywhere:
That Shall Achieve The Sword - A variation of "Arthur finds out" (which I can never have enough of anyway) but with wonderful Arthur POV (which is much rarer).
Discworld
Queen of the Cats - Young Sam! And Vetinari! And a long plotty story that's a great follow-up to Lords and Ladies.
The Uninvited Guest - More Susan in any form is a treat, but this is a fabulous look at Baby Susan. Great stuff.
Galaxy Quest
The Show Must Go On - So much fun. A terrific take on Mirror, Mirror with good scenes for everyone in the ensemble.
Life
Zen and the art of Maserati maintenance, or Five Times Charlie Crews' thoughts turned to love - Nice look at the inside of Charlie's head during interactions with the other characters. I particularly like how this author handles the characters I don't like all that much (Tidwell and Connie) and just a great scene with Reese.
Pushing Daisies
hoping's very fears - Great case story with lovely Ned characterization. I like Ned more here than I do on the show sometimes.
I followed svmadelyn's excellent advice to sort by longest work first, but I had to go and check out the Merlin fics first. Yay for serendipity that this fandom was eligible this year. 23 fics. Wow.
Merlin
And one absolutely terrific one that has been recced everywhere:
That Shall Achieve The Sword - A variation of "Arthur finds out" (which I can never have enough of anyway) but with wonderful Arthur POV (which is much rarer).
Discworld
Queen of the Cats - Young Sam! And Vetinari! And a long plotty story that's a great follow-up to Lords and Ladies.
The Uninvited Guest - More Susan in any form is a treat, but this is a fabulous look at Baby Susan. Great stuff.
Galaxy Quest
The Show Must Go On - So much fun. A terrific take on Mirror, Mirror with good scenes for everyone in the ensemble.
Life
Zen and the art of Maserati maintenance, or Five Times Charlie Crews' thoughts turned to love - Nice look at the inside of Charlie's head during interactions with the other characters. I particularly like how this author handles the characters I don't like all that much (Tidwell and Connie) and just a great scene with Reese.
Pushing Daisies
hoping's very fears - Great case story with lovely Ned characterization. I like Ned more here than I do on the show sometimes.