Yuletide Reveal

[daisyninjagirl]

And now all the anonymity has been removed, and we're OK to talk about who wrote what.

Mine were:
The Affair on Strigoi Street (3785 words) by DaisyNinjaGirl
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ivan Vorpatril, Ethan Urquhart, Terrence Cee, Gregor Vorbarra, Byerly Vorrutyer
Summary:

In which Ivan goes to Athos, and furthers the course of True Love.Allusions to pornography, but nothing explicit. One character has minor problems with homophobia that he has to confront, and there’s canon misogyny. Mostly about Ivan, but Gregor, Byerly, Ethan Urquhart and Terrence Cee appear as minor characters.

This one was my assigned story. I got really lucky with the prompt - the recipient wanted a story about Ivan Vorpatril (because he's awesome), was happy with any kind of content, and made a side comment about the Ethan of Athos novel and how it would be fun if the major characters from that got to meet up again, and it all just gelled in my head. I was originally going to have a much more serious side story, but then Cat wanted Byerly to turn up and I couldn't think of anything snarky for him to say, but figured that videos 'of a certain type' would be By's idea of a good farewell present. And Cat made some suggestions for movie titles, and the rant about fire fighting and plot in Lance Goes Logging II, and then suddenly Bernard, Reggie and Ron were in my head and the rest just happened.

Five Endings, Five Beginnings (1883 words) by DaisyNinjaGirl
Fandom: Princess of Flames - Ru Emerson
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elfrid/Baldyron, Rolend/Juseppa, Fialla/Gespry
Characters: Elfrid, Fialla, Gespry, Baldyron, The Reader, Juseppa, Sigurdy, Rolend
Summary:

Some things that might have happened after, in The Princess of Flames. Note to people who haven’t read the novel – this story is pretty spoilerific. But you should totally go read the book, it’s awesome.

The Princess of Flames is one of those books where you know someone has read it because it comes up in conversation and someone says: "but I loved that story!" And other than that, it's quite rare. This was written as a treat for someone else with Princess of Flames love.

Letting Go (1062 words) by DaisyNinjaGirl
Fandom: Never Let Me Go (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Summary:

Near Hailsham School, a woman is arrested for theft.

And this was a last minute story, written as a treat for someone who wanted some fixit fic for Never Let Me Go. I saw this movie quite recently and found that it made me feel quite dreadful about the passivity and acceptance of their fate from the donors. So this was hoping to write in a tiny bit of hope into their story.

All up, this was lots of fun! Thanks fellow Yuletiders.

Comments

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Hey, you remembered the sheep story! I tried reading the book once, got bored and depressed, skipped to the end, and was depressed there too. Good job on on "Letting Go".

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

The movie is very depressing, also.

[morbane.livejournal.com]

I was trying to guess which fandoms you had written in (without cheating by looking at your profile last week) and was utterly wrong. Nice work on the Vorkosigan story - I'm afraid that's the only one of your canons I know, so that's what I read. It's very Ivan. :)

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

:-)

I checked your ones out, but don't know the fandoms (both the ones you wrote and were given). What are the handles of the other Wellingtonians?

Steph

[morbane.livejournal.com]

See BooksasFurniture, labellementeuse, EcclesCake, ShadedTopaz, lupinemusic (I think), and Three_Headed_Monkey.

I'd recommend Kristin Cashore's books (the Seven Kingdoms trilogy); they're YA with super-powered heroines that manage good characterisation and dialogue.

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I know who Books As Furniture is, not too sure about the other ones. Will check out the Seven Kingdoms.