Yuletide! Oh My Gosh! Yay!
Happy New Year folks. I spent the turning hours of the year , writing feverishly to try and meet my GYWO target - I didn't succeed, missed by about 2,000 words - but I'm not too frustrated as that means I managed 198,000 words last year which can only be a good thing.
Which brings me onto Yuledtide - yay, so so much fun - I was absolutely itching to talk about it all the time I was writing - and now that the author reveal has happened I finally can. First of all though I have to talk about my awesome awesome gifts. I still can't get over my luck that I got three of them.
My main story was Equilibrium by ineptshieldmaid - it's an incredible, gender-bendy Twelth Night fic - inventive and loving and thoughtful and I really couldn't love it more. It perfectly captures how loose all the ends of the play remain and the language is beautiful.
Then just to show how lucky I am, I got two Yuletide Madness fics for Othello and my favourite Shakespeare parining Desdemona/Emilia - Softening Stones by Assimbya and A Nearing Thunder by AndThen - both of which are haunting with lovely echoes of the play. Just gorgeous.
Everyone should go and read all three of them. They're all breath taking.
Which leads me on to my fic which is none of these things - I get beauty, I send crack:
Medical Research
Green Wing - Alan Statham/Boyce
Boyce is ready to move his relationship with Dr. Statham onto a new, exciting level - but where should a grown man turn for advice? Luckily there are always magazines happy to help, if you know where to look for them.
Mockery, teen magazines, silliness, most of the cast, recorders, some genuine caring and a snog at the end - all at Christmas time - the crack is strong with this one. Hee, I had so much fun with this one. Even if it did involve me flicking through piles of teen mags with names like Bliss and Mizz in shops (fic is forever, embarrassment is temporary or something). I felt incredibly lucky to get both this fandom and this pairing (as this also happens to be my favourite ship in the show) as it was such a fun place to live, even if only for a while.
One of the things that most of my yuletide offers had in common, above characters and anything else, was that they were set in universes or settings that grabbed my attention and made me want to explore them, to capture them - or at least to try to. Green Wing was definitely not an exception and the toughest part of writing this was trying to capture the madcap, very visual style of the show. I'm not sure it worked but the challenge was fun and it's given me ideas for my own writing.
And I've been totally blown away and so happy with the response and comments - yuletide is definitely a community built on love - at least my experience of it.
One thing I realised though, once the stories went up was that I couldn't really challenge people to guess what I'd written because I've never actually talked about Green Wing on here or the dozen other British comedies that I truly and utterly adore. So expect a squee/rec post of sorts over the next couple of weeks once I've gathered my thoughts together. This is obviously just an excuse for a rewatch. :D Plus one of my not-resolutions for this year is to keep this more updated, though I'm going to be posting from dreamwidth mostly if I can get the cross posting t work.
Lastly, this seems a good opportunity to mention that I'm now pretty settled in at Archive Of Our Own - most of my old stories are up now and I'll be posting anyhting new there too - though I'll definitely link it from here as well. People are welcome to comment me there or here - all comments are greeted with joy and love and squeeing. Still not sure what to do about character/general tags yet - currently everything's very haphazard on my stuff - and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
For example, character wise - in Medical Research the story from start to finish is about Statham and Boyce so I've only tagged it with them but it does feature nearly all the other characters (I missed a couple, dammit) and some of them quite extensively, so should I tage it for them. o_O - I is confused.
At any rate - you should be able to find me here:- http://archiveofourown.org/users/lorannah/works
:D
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