the traditional Yuletide reveals post

[philomytha]

My gift, the lovely On Steadiness and Integrity, was by fawatson. Thank you very much! And I should mention again that if you like slashy enemies-to-friends historical novels with bags of h/c, you should go and read The Flight of the Heron by DK Broster.

My assignment was Tent Bluefield for neonhummingbird, who wanted a post-series Sharing Knife fic and

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I have finally had a chance to read "the walls of where". It's definitely by far and away the standout of the RoL Yuletide crop I've read so far (actually, of all the Yuletide fic I've read so far). I wasn't sure Nightingale's direct POV of Ettersberg could work for me -- it's just so enormous a thing, I wasn't sure if even canon would be able to pull that off to my satisfaction, if Aaronovitch were so inclined -- but this did, ultimately, and will stay with me for a long time. I really liked the Oswald and Caffrey cameos, and everything just slots in perfectly into what we know about Ettersberg from canon. I found the tank destruction scene particularly effective, the way Nightingale's POV ("The thud inside the tank was surprisingly muffled. || The explosion when the fuel lines went was not.") is so very, very different from Peter's "Oh sorry was that your Tiger Tank" fanboying. And it was really interesting to read the background research, so I'm glad you set that down

[philomytha]

Thank you! I never intended to write Nightingale's POV of Ettersberg, I had vague thoughts of a Hugh Oswald POV story, but I just had the start of it come into my head and it was Nightingale, and I liked it too much to scrap it and try the Hugh story instead. The real difficulty with it was not having a lot of other characters to use, so I put a Caffrey ancestor in there as someone for Nightingale to interact with as well as Mellenby. I did feel like I had to have a lot of nerve to write the Nightingale-at-Ettersberg story, so I'm very glad you thought I did it justice.