Yuletide recs!
Here are my first 10 Yuletide recs - hopefully I'll get it together enough to do more once I've finished reading.
These recs start serious and end silly. You have been warned!
That Shall Achieve The Sword - Merlin - gen (as gen as the show, anyway)
This is the best piece of Merlin fanfic I've read yet, bar none. You'll see it again in my forthcoming Merlin recs. It somehow manages to simultaneously be the Merlin and Arthur I love, with all their humor and irreverence, and also to capture the mythic quality of the myth. This is what pretty much all Merlin futurefic is striving for - to make our show, our Merlin and Arthur, into legends. Most fics that try this get one piece or the other right - either the fun, slightly-silly feel of the show, or the epic, mythic quality of Arthurian legend. This does both, beautifully.
Cold Dawn - The Dark Is Rising - gen
What happens after the end of the Story? Why does someone need to stand guard if you've already won? This story is another example of excellant myth-building, and feels like it's the first chapter of something as sweeping and epic as the original.
The Leaves of Memory Parch and Fade - The Dark Is Rising - Will/Bran NC-17
Sweet and domestic, sexy, and just a little bit sad.
Ribbons and Laces - Stardust (book)
Louisa Thorn, while not born of Faerie, is still a Thorn. I'd never honestly thought much about her before, but this story makes that seem like a truly stupid oversight. It's beautiful and perfectly in keeping with the book, a wonderful example of a fairy tale ending (or beginning, as it may happen). In which Louisa Thorn is advised to find her heart's desire.
Kitchen Magic - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
A day in the life of one Morwen, witch. What domestic life with Telemain would be like at it's best.
Mrs. Blomfield At the Theater - Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - mention of canon pairings
This story was wonderful. It successfully caught the feel and voice of the original story, and was also firmly set in WWII and gave that feeling very clearly. The characters are wonderful and their voices are spot-on, but the author has also allowed them to develop in entirely believable ways. It left me with a big old smile on my face.
Release - The Giver
One version of what happens in the Community after the events of The Giver.
Irrational Acts - RPS - David Tennant/John Barrowman
David and John... well, they're kind of messed up. Method acting at it's most problematic? Sweet and interesting, but not terrifically functional. Deals with John's partner in a postive way.
I Doubt Your Committment to Sparkle Motion - RPS - Robert Pattinson/Kyle Schmid
Okay, I really don't care what you think of RPS, or RPattz, or Twilight (though if you hate it, you'll probably appreciate this more). This is HILARIOUS and worth reading.
Paradise Lost - LOLcats - uh, catslash?
Words cannot adequately describe this. It's so very, very wrong, in a purely amazing way. What else would you expect from Basement Cat?
Note: mercifully the narrative is NOT written in lolspeech.
These recs start serious and end silly. You have been warned!
That Shall Achieve The Sword - Merlin - gen (as gen as the show, anyway)
This is the best piece of Merlin fanfic I've read yet, bar none. You'll see it again in my forthcoming Merlin recs. It somehow manages to simultaneously be the Merlin and Arthur I love, with all their humor and irreverence, and also to capture the mythic quality of the myth. This is what pretty much all Merlin futurefic is striving for - to make our show, our Merlin and Arthur, into legends. Most fics that try this get one piece or the other right - either the fun, slightly-silly feel of the show, or the epic, mythic quality of Arthurian legend. This does both, beautifully.
Cold Dawn - The Dark Is Rising - gen
What happens after the end of the Story? Why does someone need to stand guard if you've already won? This story is another example of excellant myth-building, and feels like it's the first chapter of something as sweeping and epic as the original.
The Leaves of Memory Parch and Fade - The Dark Is Rising - Will/Bran NC-17
Sweet and domestic, sexy, and just a little bit sad.
Ribbons and Laces - Stardust (book)
Louisa Thorn, while not born of Faerie, is still a Thorn. I'd never honestly thought much about her before, but this story makes that seem like a truly stupid oversight. It's beautiful and perfectly in keeping with the book, a wonderful example of a fairy tale ending (or beginning, as it may happen). In which Louisa Thorn is advised to find her heart's desire.
Kitchen Magic - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
A day in the life of one Morwen, witch. What domestic life with Telemain would be like at it's best.
Mrs. Blomfield At the Theater - Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - mention of canon pairings
This story was wonderful. It successfully caught the feel and voice of the original story, and was also firmly set in WWII and gave that feeling very clearly. The characters are wonderful and their voices are spot-on, but the author has also allowed them to develop in entirely believable ways. It left me with a big old smile on my face.
Release - The Giver
One version of what happens in the Community after the events of The Giver.
Irrational Acts - RPS - David Tennant/John Barrowman
David and John... well, they're kind of messed up. Method acting at it's most problematic? Sweet and interesting, but not terrifically functional. Deals with John's partner in a postive way.
I Doubt Your Committment to Sparkle Motion - RPS - Robert Pattinson/Kyle Schmid
Okay, I really don't care what you think of RPS, or RPattz, or Twilight (though if you hate it, you'll probably appreciate this more). This is HILARIOUS and worth reading.
Paradise Lost - LOLcats - uh, catslash?
Words cannot adequately describe this. It's so very, very wrong, in a purely amazing way. What else would you expect from Basement Cat?
Note: mercifully the narrative is NOT written in lolspeech.