Yuletide: REVEALED
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kormanticDexterity
Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
In which Costis needs to learn to stop lowering his point in third, Phresine tells a story, and Eugenides steals the very stars from the sky.
I hope that Sour_Idealist is safe and well, and that s/he enjoyed my story half as much as I enjoyed writing it. I've been positively itching to write a myth in the tradition of Turner's pantheon, and I liked it enormously when it was finished. I'm not sure the framing sequence was in the proper tone - maybe it went a bit maudlin on me, but hey! Their relationship? HELLA COMPLICATED. So.
Restoration and Rectification
Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
Cassie knows something about labyrinths in the dark.
This was my pinch hit, written on the sly on The Man's dime so I could post it by the first deadline. I threw in nods to Ariadne and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
I think the kid who wrote let's collect our memories like diamonds in the dark wrote the story most of us had been hoping for, since Cassie/Ryan is the bread and butter of that fandom, and s/he had a gorgeous way with the tone and imagery we expect from French, so if you haven't read that, skip to it!
As for me, blueteak had some really interesting prompts, but I sort of skirted most of them without ever really getting to anything she'd specifically asked for. (g) Part of this was the fact that I'd read Broken Harbour so recently, and part of it was that I had gotten so fond of Scorcher, so I tried to have Frank mentor Scorcher via Cassie. S/he seemed pleased, and that's what you hope for!
I hope everyone got just what they wanted this year - I have acres of fic open and waiting for me to dive in. Woo, 2013 and knee deep in fanfic! That bodes well for the rest of this year!
Happy New Year, kids!
Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
In which Costis needs to learn to stop lowering his point in third, Phresine tells a story, and Eugenides steals the very stars from the sky.
I hope that Sour_Idealist is safe and well, and that s/he enjoyed my story half as much as I enjoyed writing it. I've been positively itching to write a myth in the tradition of Turner's pantheon, and I liked it enormously when it was finished. I'm not sure the framing sequence was in the proper tone - maybe it went a bit maudlin on me, but hey! Their relationship? HELLA COMPLICATED. So.
Restoration and Rectification
Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
Cassie knows something about labyrinths in the dark.
This was my pinch hit, written on the sly on The Man's dime so I could post it by the first deadline. I threw in nods to Ariadne and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?
I think the kid who wrote let's collect our memories like diamonds in the dark wrote the story most of us had been hoping for, since Cassie/Ryan is the bread and butter of that fandom, and s/he had a gorgeous way with the tone and imagery we expect from French, so if you haven't read that, skip to it!
As for me, blueteak had some really interesting prompts, but I sort of skirted most of them without ever really getting to anything she'd specifically asked for. (g) Part of this was the fact that I'd read Broken Harbour so recently, and part of it was that I had gotten so fond of Scorcher, so I tried to have Frank mentor Scorcher via Cassie. S/he seemed pleased, and that's what you hope for!
I hope everyone got just what they wanted this year - I have acres of fic open and waiting for me to dive in. Woo, 2013 and knee deep in fanfic! That bodes well for the rest of this year!
Happy New Year, kids!
