Yuletide reveals
I wrote four yuletide stories this year! One Imperial Radch, one Pushing Daisies, and two Mathey & Lynes. Undoubtedly, the hard part was writing two stories, more or less at the same time, with two different magic-using detectives named Ned. (I did two yuletides with a time-travelling detective named Ned! Apparently it's a thing.) Here's my assignment:
A stillness full of lights (1722 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Awn Elming, Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Mercy of Kalr, Seivarden Vendaai, Daos Ceit
Summary:
A gift from Mercy of Kalr; or, a brief history of becoming.
This one was hard, you guys. I find Leckie's worldbuilding very complete in itself, which makes writing fanfic hard. I'm not sure how it came out - I wrote it all at once, pretty close to the deadline, with some cheerleading from
silly_cleo and
cosmic_llin - but people seemed to like it.
And the treats:
In Praise of Half-Eaten Things (2734 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte Charles/Ned
Characters: Ned (Pushing Daisies), Charlotte Charles, Emerson Cod, Olive Snook
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Some ways Ned and Chuck could have touched, and one way they definitely didn't.
1919 (2046 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Characters: Cordelia Frost, Ned Mathey, Julian Lynes
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
Metaphysicians from the Commons had thought only of the defence of the realm, and not of the young girls hiding from the Zeppelins and teaching one another the grammar.
Feel The Earth Move When You Speak (9630 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Characters: Julian Lynes, Ned Mathey
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Victoriana, Magic, Ghosts, Oxford
Summary:
"Lynes. Do you believe in ghosts?"
(He doesn't. But Ned might be losing any choice in the matter.)
I wrote this one as a treat for
st_aurafina, then trashed it from the collection in a panic because I suddenly thought, what if her original author defaults and she gets nearly 10,000 words of Iona-patented gloom as her only gift? On Christmas Day?
...yeah. And then I re-read the Pushing Daisies story, looked at my life and choices, and pressed "delete".
But that aside, I'm mostly pleased with them (I restored them both a couple of hours before the deadline when it was safe). In the case of Mathey and Lynes, I completely adore them and the universe they live in, and have been making everyone I know read the books, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't very ambiguous who wrote my two stories. (Also, Oxford! The pretty attic in the eaves I gave Ned as a first-year room was my first-year room, too.) Writing is hard, as I believe I've mentioned, but it got easier when I realised it really was two stories I was trying to write, not one. They're in the same universe, though, and both owe a lot to the authors' explanation of how metaphysics works.
Anyway! That was my yuletide. And I'm very grateful to
soupytwist for her eagle-eyed beta skills.
raven is also at Dreamwidth: there is or are
comment(s). Comment there or here.
A stillness full of lights (1722 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Awn Elming, Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Mercy of Kalr, Seivarden Vendaai, Daos Ceit
Summary:
A gift from Mercy of Kalr; or, a brief history of becoming.
This one was hard, you guys. I find Leckie's worldbuilding very complete in itself, which makes writing fanfic hard. I'm not sure how it came out - I wrote it all at once, pretty close to the deadline, with some cheerleading from
silly_cleo and
cosmic_llin - but people seemed to like it.
And the treats:
In Praise of Half-Eaten Things (2734 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charlotte Charles/Ned
Characters: Ned (Pushing Daisies), Charlotte Charles, Emerson Cod, Olive Snook
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Some ways Ned and Chuck could have touched, and one way they definitely didn't.
1919 (2046 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Characters: Cordelia Frost, Ned Mathey, Julian Lynes
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
Metaphysicians from the Commons had thought only of the defence of the realm, and not of the young girls hiding from the Zeppelins and teaching one another the grammar.
Feel The Earth Move When You Speak (9630 words) by Raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Characters: Julian Lynes, Ned Mathey
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Victoriana, Magic, Ghosts, Oxford
Summary:
"Lynes. Do you believe in ghosts?"
(He doesn't. But Ned might be losing any choice in the matter.)
I wrote this one as a treat for
st_aurafina, then trashed it from the collection in a panic because I suddenly thought, what if her original author defaults and she gets nearly 10,000 words of Iona-patented gloom as her only gift? On Christmas Day?
...yeah. And then I re-read the Pushing Daisies story, looked at my life and choices, and pressed "delete".
But that aside, I'm mostly pleased with them (I restored them both a couple of hours before the deadline when it was safe). In the case of Mathey and Lynes, I completely adore them and the universe they live in, and have been making everyone I know read the books, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't very ambiguous who wrote my two stories. (Also, Oxford! The pretty attic in the eaves I gave Ned as a first-year room was my first-year room, too.) Writing is hard, as I believe I've mentioned, but it got easier when I realised it really was two stories I was trying to write, not one. They're in the same universe, though, and both owe a lot to the authors' explanation of how metaphysics works.
Anyway! That was my yuletide. And I'm very grateful to
soupytwist for her eagle-eyed beta skills.
raven is also at Dreamwidth: there is or are
comment(s). Comment there or here.