Yuletide Treasure 2012
Happy holidays to you all. I hope everyone had a good one, whatever you celebrate?
As always at this time of year, I participate in the Yuletide Treasure challenge, commonly known as just 'Yuletide', which is a fanfiction exchange for very rare and/or very small fandoms - the usual qualification being that they have less than 200 works of fanfiction posted across most of the fanfiction archives and communities - for those of you unfamiliar with it!
This post is public, so for the people who will see this who don't have access:
This year, I requested Charlotte Sometimes (Penelope Farmer), Chalet School (Elinor M. Brent-Dyer), Lost Odyssey and Toby Daye (Seanan McGuire). I offered a LOT of fandoms for writing this time.
I ended up writing one gift (my assignment) and receiving one - on my part, mainly due to a combination of ill health and offline life being hectic. (I'm never going to a convention in mid-December again!)
The gift I received was for Charlotte Sometimes; it's an absolutely beautiful story, and brilliantly in character. Here it is - but if you've not finished the book, I suggest you do that first, or you'll be irrevocably spoiled for a major plot point. Summary is redacted for that reason.
And a Time for Every Purpose (2585 words)
Fandom: Charlotte Sometimes - Penelope Farmer
Rating: G/K
Character(s) & Relationship(s): Clare Moby/Elizabeth; Charlotte Mary Makepeace, Clare Moby, Emily Moby, Marjorie "Bunty", Elizabeth
Further Yuletide questions, ganked from htbthomas on Tumblr:
1) How are your fics doing? I just wrote one, as previously mentioned. It's not doing very well, but it is the only story in a fandom that is quite small, and especially unlikely to be read as it's a post-canon piece and most people in the fandom haven't experienced (note my evasiveness about the medium ;)) the final part of that canon, so won't read it. Right now, 4 comments plus my 4 replies (anonymous) to those, 5 kudos and 59 hits (mostly obtained yesterday, I think). No recs that I've yet seen.
2) How do you attack the archive? Generally, I go alphabetically by fandom, as I read a LOT of fandoms in Yuletide regularly (over 100). I'll read the occasional rec first though, if I see something rec'd in a fandom I like.
3) Got recs? Not yet, but I *will*... I'm keeping a text file with stories I want to rec, and depending on how quickly I go through what I want to read - I'm putting them all on my Kobo to read there - I may make several smaller rec posts or one big one. We'll see. :) But there'll definitely be a rec post.
Also tangentially related, since we're talking about fic, I also have a gorgeous holiday presentfic from leiascully :D It's part of the Doctor Who RPF, Alex Kingston/Matt Smith series she's been writing (all of which she has written for me, and the first was written for Xmas & Yule last year. I love that she's continuing with it :D). So if you've not read the previous 5, you should read those first as their conversation will make more sense; here's the link to the series: A Thousand and One Nights.
through the years, we'll be together (3187 words) by
lovelythings/leiascully
Rating: M/R
Relationship(s) & Character(s): Alex Kingston/Matt Smith; Alex Kingston, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Jenna-Louise Coleman
Summary: Alex gets a not-quite-Christmas surprise.
Now, can any of you guess what fandom I wrote this year? ;) I'll give you one little hint - it's a fandom I've not written in before, as often seems to happen to me for Yuletide. :)
As always at this time of year, I participate in the Yuletide Treasure challenge, commonly known as just 'Yuletide', which is a fanfiction exchange for very rare and/or very small fandoms - the usual qualification being that they have less than 200 works of fanfiction posted across most of the fanfiction archives and communities - for those of you unfamiliar with it!
This post is public, so for the people who will see this who don't have access:
This year, I requested Charlotte Sometimes (Penelope Farmer), Chalet School (Elinor M. Brent-Dyer), Lost Odyssey and Toby Daye (Seanan McGuire). I offered a LOT of fandoms for writing this time.
I ended up writing one gift (my assignment) and receiving one - on my part, mainly due to a combination of ill health and offline life being hectic. (I'm never going to a convention in mid-December again!)
The gift I received was for Charlotte Sometimes; it's an absolutely beautiful story, and brilliantly in character. Here it is - but if you've not finished the book, I suggest you do that first, or you'll be irrevocably spoiled for a major plot point. Summary is redacted for that reason.
And a Time for Every Purpose (2585 words)
Fandom: Charlotte Sometimes - Penelope Farmer
Rating: G/K
Character(s) & Relationship(s): Clare Moby/Elizabeth; Charlotte Mary Makepeace, Clare Moby, Emily Moby, Marjorie "Bunty", Elizabeth
Further Yuletide questions, ganked from htbthomas on Tumblr:
1) How are your fics doing? I just wrote one, as previously mentioned. It's not doing very well, but it is the only story in a fandom that is quite small, and especially unlikely to be read as it's a post-canon piece and most people in the fandom haven't experienced (note my evasiveness about the medium ;)) the final part of that canon, so won't read it. Right now, 4 comments plus my 4 replies (anonymous) to those, 5 kudos and 59 hits (mostly obtained yesterday, I think). No recs that I've yet seen.
2) How do you attack the archive? Generally, I go alphabetically by fandom, as I read a LOT of fandoms in Yuletide regularly (over 100). I'll read the occasional rec first though, if I see something rec'd in a fandom I like.
3) Got recs? Not yet, but I *will*... I'm keeping a text file with stories I want to rec, and depending on how quickly I go through what I want to read - I'm putting them all on my Kobo to read there - I may make several smaller rec posts or one big one. We'll see. :) But there'll definitely be a rec post.
Also tangentially related, since we're talking about fic, I also have a gorgeous holiday presentfic from leiascully :D It's part of the Doctor Who RPF, Alex Kingston/Matt Smith series she's been writing (all of which she has written for me, and the first was written for Xmas & Yule last year. I love that she's continuing with it :D). So if you've not read the previous 5, you should read those first as their conversation will make more sense; here's the link to the series: A Thousand and One Nights.
through the years, we'll be together (3187 words) by
lovelythings/leiascully
Rating: M/R
Relationship(s) & Character(s): Alex Kingston/Matt Smith; Alex Kingston, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Jenna-Louise Coleman
Summary: Alex gets a not-quite-Christmas surprise.
Now, can any of you guess what fandom I wrote this year? ;) I'll give you one little hint - it's a fandom I've not written in before, as often seems to happen to me for Yuletide. :)