So I was having a Facebook message conversation earlier today with my Partner in Crime about Lymond fancasting, in which she was once again attempting to convince me of Richard Armitage as Richard Crawford.

PiC: I think you underestimate Richard. He's way more than the solid dependable one, that's why I love him.... And if there's one thing RA ( Read more... )

Okay, I am no longer even ashamed of myself for enjoying these. Because - and I wish someone had told me this - the ridiculously tropetastic "Prisoner of the Harem" stuff is really only the first half of the first book, and after that it's all intrigue and politics and a very satisfying slow-build love story: the whole second book is entirely ( Read more... )

In a shocking and surprising development, I wrote the Lymond/Christopher Marlowe (in his Gay Atheist Spy incarnation) story :D

A Meeting of the Minds (2417 words) by yunitsa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 16th Century CE RPF, Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Christopher Marlowe, ( Read more... )

I take it back, I've decided I really want Hayley Atwell as Christian - she's about the same age as Hiddles, and they can dye her hair. And Kelly MacDonald as Margaret Erskine, and Tamzin Merchant as Joleta, whom I cast ages ago but forgot to include.

Off to Derbyshire tomorrow! So much still to do!

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This comes at a good time, for I have just seen the cat creature off and will not get to pet her fluffy belly for a whole month, so I have a sad.
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While finishing the reread of GoK this evening, I felt utterly compelled to write a missing scene while the spell was still upon me. I'll tidy it up and post it to the AO3 tomorrow, I hope.

Lymond/Will Scott, 600 words, entirely G-rated, set directly after the scene where Lauder and Will come to show him Harvey's testimony, which concludes:

"You ( Read more... )

Have spent the weekend battling an infestation of weevils in my kitchen and finishing The Game of Kings. One was a frequently-tragic story filled with set-backs and leavened with punning literary jokes, and the other is one of my favourite books, ba-doom ( Read more... )

It's been a rather nice day. First, had lunch and a pot of peach tea at the lovely Eteaket while beginning a Lymond reread - it's been years, but I think my heart is finally ready. And the first book is so good! It may not be the best-written of the lot, being her first novel, but the plot is perfect, and even more perfect since, unlike everyone ( Read more... )

So here I am trying to transcribe this manuscript, which is the order of the funeral of the Earl of Derby in the late 1590s, describing everyone going "ij by ij" to the chapel and so on. And there's this one word that keeps coming up that I can't quite get, about the people accompanying the groups of riders -- wishers (for ushers?)? wifcers ( Read more... )

I was away for New Year in the Internet-less wilds of Devon (on which more in a subsequent post), so here is a somewhat belated reveal post. I wrote three fics this year! My assigned story was:

The Head That Wears the Crown (1218 words) for
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