Yuletide Recs of Love
First on my list is a gift for me because someone wrote me poetry for Yuletide. Did I mention someone wrote me poetry for Yuletide? Someone wrote me excellent poetry for Yuletide...
Six Days (1050 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Imagine A Day - Rob Gonsalves & Sarah L. Thomson
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Balloon Girl (Imagine a Day), Girl Building Skyscraper (Imagine a Day)
Summary:
Glimpses of a strange and shifting world.
Nice background piece for Feste in Twelth Night. Also of note for the links to 16th and 17th jokes and riddles. Good for research!
movements of the mind (1886 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Feste & Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Feste (Twelfth Night), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Friendship, Backstory, Jesters, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary:
”Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged.”
All the NASA 'Journey to Mars' stories were great, but these two were standouts:
Letters from Mars (6178 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Official NASA Journey to Mars Posters (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Mars, Space Colonization, Epistolary, Don't Have to Know Canon, Misses Clause Challenge, non-binary, Space Madness, Family, Cheese, Bees, tomatoes
Summary:
Letters from Mars to Earth, between early colonists and their loved ones.
Selected Correspondence of Aris Merrick, Martian surveyor (2230 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Official NASA Journey to Mars Posters (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Yuletide Treat, Mars
Summary:
A new Martian sends letters to friends and family on Earth.
When Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich were fanfic betas for each other...
(Gotta love the bit where the advice is to add some porn, and Margery's response to that.)
Love, Marge (897 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women RPF, 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Margery Kempe (14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women), Julian of Norwich (14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Alternate Universe - Fans & Fandom, In period, Middle English, Yuletide 2016, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Mostly I'm just in love with the thought that Marge and Jules hung out and talked about Christ and possibly beta'd for each other....
And someone else wrote poetry for Yuletide - a really nice moment from the Startide Rising part of the Uplift books.
* shallow cluster * deep dive * Streaker find * (41 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Uplift Saga - David Brin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Creideiki
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Poetry, Trinary, Alien Cultural Differences
Summary:
When asked later why he chose to investigate the shallow cluster, Captain Creideiki would not, or could not, offer any explanation beyond this particularly obscure piece of Trinary haiku.
I found this an incredibly peaceful story.
Red Sky at Evening (1542 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fiddler's Green | Gilbert, Rose Walker, Matthew the Raven, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus
Summary:
Gilbert has a few growing pains settling back into himself.
The summary says it all, really.
I don't know myself (3411 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent (Genghis Khan - Miike Snow)
Summary:
In which Gold Nose villain's henchmen see him come up with flimsier and flimsier evil plans to mask that all he really wants to do is dance with Secret Agent.
And saving the best for last, this is my standout for all my reading so far - getting to play out the end of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It's got the philosophical differences between factions, and the complexity of the gameplay decisions, and the sheer mind boggling weirdness of Voice of Planet, and a romance to boot. Definitely worth checking out.
CHANGE (1158 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corazon Santiago/Deirdre Skye
Characters: Corazon Santiago, Deirdre Skye
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction, Twine game, Choose Your Own Adventure, Time Travel Fix-It, Yuletide Treat, Possible Character Death
Summary:
Deirdre and Corazon face near-certain defeat at the hands of Chairman Yang. But there may just be a way to change the history of Planet. Can you guide them to a better future? Or perhaps a better past?
Six Days (1050 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Imagine A Day - Rob Gonsalves & Sarah L. Thomson
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Balloon Girl (Imagine a Day), Girl Building Skyscraper (Imagine a Day)
Summary:
Glimpses of a strange and shifting world.
Nice background piece for Feste in Twelth Night. Also of note for the links to 16th and 17th jokes and riddles. Good for research!
movements of the mind (1886 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Feste & Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Feste (Twelfth Night), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Friendship, Backstory, Jesters, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary:
”Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged.”
All the NASA 'Journey to Mars' stories were great, but these two were standouts:
Letters from Mars (6178 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Official NASA Journey to Mars Posters (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Mars, Space Colonization, Epistolary, Don't Have to Know Canon, Misses Clause Challenge, non-binary, Space Madness, Family, Cheese, Bees, tomatoes
Summary:
Letters from Mars to Earth, between early colonists and their loved ones.
Selected Correspondence of Aris Merrick, Martian surveyor (2230 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Official NASA Journey to Mars Posters (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Yuletide Treat, Mars
Summary:
A new Martian sends letters to friends and family on Earth.
When Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich were fanfic betas for each other...
(Gotta love the bit where the advice is to add some porn, and Margery's response to that.)
Love, Marge (897 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women RPF, 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Margery Kempe (14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women), Julian of Norwich (14th and 15th Century CE Religious Women)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Alternate Universe - Fans & Fandom, In period, Middle English, Yuletide 2016, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Mostly I'm just in love with the thought that Marge and Jules hung out and talked about Christ and possibly beta'd for each other....
And someone else wrote poetry for Yuletide - a really nice moment from the Startide Rising part of the Uplift books.
* shallow cluster * deep dive * Streaker find * (41 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Uplift Saga - David Brin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Creideiki
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Poetry, Trinary, Alien Cultural Differences
Summary:
When asked later why he chose to investigate the shallow cluster, Captain Creideiki would not, or could not, offer any explanation beyond this particularly obscure piece of Trinary haiku.
I found this an incredibly peaceful story.
Red Sky at Evening (1542 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fiddler's Green | Gilbert, Rose Walker, Matthew the Raven, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus
Summary:
Gilbert has a few growing pains settling back into himself.
The summary says it all, really.
I don't know myself (3411 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (Music Video)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent (Genghis Khan - Miike Snow)
Summary:
In which Gold Nose villain's henchmen see him come up with flimsier and flimsier evil plans to mask that all he really wants to do is dance with Secret Agent.
And saving the best for last, this is my standout for all my reading so far - getting to play out the end of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It's got the philosophical differences between factions, and the complexity of the gameplay decisions, and the sheer mind boggling weirdness of Voice of Planet, and a romance to boot. Definitely worth checking out.
CHANGE (1158 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corazon Santiago/Deirdre Skye
Characters: Corazon Santiago, Deirdre Skye
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction, Twine game, Choose Your Own Adventure, Time Travel Fix-It, Yuletide Treat, Possible Character Death
Summary:
Deirdre and Corazon face near-certain defeat at the hands of Chairman Yang. But there may just be a way to change the history of Planet. Can you guide them to a better future? Or perhaps a better past?