Yuletide Recs

[alley_skywalker]

A batch of recs from yuletide! The first two fics are my lovely gifts! This is an initial batch, there will hopefully be a second batch in the next few days.

Impact (2008)
In Event of Moon Disaster (11135 words) by Anonymous
Roland/Alex UST and various canon het. This fic is all sorts of AMAZING.The fandom, the canon-right nature of it, the writing style, OMG

Comments

[therealjae]

Thanks so much for the rec (of "A Great and Gruesome Height"), too--it meant so much to see it on your list! :)

-J

[alley_skywalker]

I was really happy to rec it :) I don't think it got recced at the Yuletide comm that much, which is a shame since it's such a great fic. I think, aside from my own gifts, this was definitely in my top three Yuletide fics this year (I'm biased toward anything Brideshead...).

Also, the fact that you're Canadian and was able to portray the US political climate (emotionally, at least) so well is very impressive. My educated guess was wrong ultimately, although I did stop to wonder if you weren't from the US. But the amount of accuracy in this fic made me doubt that lol.

[therealjae]

I should clarify so that you're not too impressed: I'm Canadian now. I immigrated to Canada from the U.S. in 1997. So actually this story is set just after I left, and that meant I could draw not just on research (which of course you have to do for a story like this no matter what), but also on my memories of what the political climate in the U.S. was like back then. :)

The field campaigning stuff, though, that was all research (all of my hands-on political experience has been in Canada for campaigns for Members of Parliament, and there's only so much that transfers), so you made me very happy that that worked for you! :D

-J

[mctabby]

Thanks for these lovely comments about the Vanity Fair fic! :)

Thought you might like to know that I've posted a Vanity Fair vid as well. A character study of George Osborne, to "Die Young" by Kesha. Not slashy, unfortunately; just the canon het pairings (George/Amelia, George/Becky, Dobbin/Amelia).

The vid-bunny hit me in November, once I'd started re-reading the book and re-watching the miniseries and thinking about how to approach your Yuletide request.

If you feel like checking it out, it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_sujdsdjxc

[alley_skywalker]

Thank you for the link! The vid was really fun :)

[mmebahorel]

Just dropping by to say thanks for the rec! (Lonely Under Moon and Star) I see you enjoyed and rec'd my 2010 one, too, A Trance Sublime and Strange (Charles/Sebastian is always popular).

Thanks again - recs always mean a lot.

[alley_skywalker]

Thank you fro writing such lovely fics, I really enjoyed them :)