Happy New Year!
I don't know how people do it.
I feel like I've been reading for two days straight, and I've barely made a dent in the Yuletide Archive. The variety and quality of the stories is just astounding across the board, and there's so much. I'm especially happy to see so many fics for books I loved as a kid - "The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues," by Ellen Raskin, "Dragon's Bait," by Vivian Vande Velde, "Momo," by Michael Ende, "The Girl Who Owned a City," by OT Nelson, and EVERYTHING by Diana Wynne Jones.
I've been bookmarking my favorites here: http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ravenbell/bookmarks
However, there are three fics that I want to highlight:
"Killing Elvis" - E-mails, texts, and some choice news feed headlines detailing an unfortunate incident involving a couple of scientists, corporate weasels, and their prize specimen in the "Alien" universe. It is absolutely *hysterical* and all you really need to know about the canon universe is that the aliens are big nasty critters with chompy teeth.
"What Isn't Taught" - Headstrong Princess Eilonwy of the "Prydain Chronicles" by Lloyd Alexander was always one of my favorite heroines, and I always wished there were more of her in the later books. This story gives me exactly that - a look at Eilonwy's growing pains and coming to terms with being a Princess, while still testing the social constraints that come with it.
"Blasphemy in D Minor" - A short, beautifully written coda to "Shawshank Redemption." Just a few paragraphs, and you're in Mexico. It's fantastic.
I'll be back with the fics I wrote later.
I feel like I've been reading for two days straight, and I've barely made a dent in the Yuletide Archive. The variety and quality of the stories is just astounding across the board, and there's so much. I'm especially happy to see so many fics for books I loved as a kid - "The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues," by Ellen Raskin, "Dragon's Bait," by Vivian Vande Velde, "Momo," by Michael Ende, "The Girl Who Owned a City," by OT Nelson, and EVERYTHING by Diana Wynne Jones.
I've been bookmarking my favorites here: http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ravenbell/bookmarks
However, there are three fics that I want to highlight:
"Killing Elvis" - E-mails, texts, and some choice news feed headlines detailing an unfortunate incident involving a couple of scientists, corporate weasels, and their prize specimen in the "Alien" universe. It is absolutely *hysterical* and all you really need to know about the canon universe is that the aliens are big nasty critters with chompy teeth.
"What Isn't Taught" - Headstrong Princess Eilonwy of the "Prydain Chronicles" by Lloyd Alexander was always one of my favorite heroines, and I always wished there were more of her in the later books. This story gives me exactly that - a look at Eilonwy's growing pains and coming to terms with being a Princess, while still testing the social constraints that come with it.
"Blasphemy in D Minor" - A short, beautifully written coda to "Shawshank Redemption." Just a few paragraphs, and you're in Mexico. It's fantastic.
I'll be back with the fics I wrote later.