I passed the New Year by drinking half a bottle of champagne left over from Christmas and falling asleep. I am all class.
Re the horrifying bushfire situation,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil and I are currently
- not on fire
- very worried about people in fire areas
- may be on fire later in the summer
- having conversations on evacuation procedures and hating that this is our life now
It's rough, and I'm surprisingly upset by all the climate change deniers flushing out of the woodwork as the country burns. (This is a surprise because I know they're out there, I know what their agenda is, and there are better things to blow my mental cope on than their bullshit. And yet it still upsets me.)
I am seeking solace in Yuletide - so many good fics. (And also so many fandoms I've never heard of, which is great. Fandom is a big, sprawling land of people who love things, and it heartens me.) I have nowhere near read everything I want to, and have barely dipped into the Madness collection, but I want to get some recs out before reveals later today.
My gifts
I was so lucky this year!! Two in the main collection and a tiny gem of a treat from Madness:
Moonbase Theta, Out (Podcast)
An Evening in the Garden (Rated General, Roger Bragado-Fischer/Alexandre Bragado-Fischer)
A lovely gem of a moment, set before Roger goes into space to live on Moonbase Theta. Just so sweet and gentle and romantic.
A Discovery of Witches (TV)
In a Witch's Blood (Rated Explicit, Diana Bishop/Matthew Clairmont)
A whirlwind party at Sept-Tours, with Diana and Matthew negotiating vampire society. Sweet and romantic and hot.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (book)
Interweave (Rated Explicit, Keita Mori/Thaniel Stephenson)
I am so glad to have gotten fic for my favourite read of 2019 and this is wonderful: perfectly in character, perfectly hot. Synaesthesia, ropes and clockwork. So good.
Recs:
Imperial Radch: (Shut up, I'm reccing all three fics because they're that good.)
High Above the Trees (Rated G, Breq and Awn Elming)
One of the best Awn Lives AUs I've come across, and an excellent, excellent picture of life with the Rrrrrr.
Worthy of Attention (Rated G, Gem of Sphene and Translator Zeiat)
Gem of Sphene and Translator Zeiat, tremendously weird in all the right ways, and also a surprisingly dark look at what it's like to be a Presger-grown translator. (Are they Significant? Zeiat doesn't actually know.)
Still Left in Want of Mercy (Rated Teen, Mercy of Kalr)
Mercy of Kalr POV, and it's so good! Seivarden is a mess, but a very Seivarden mess, and Mercy of Kalr helps her figure out some things. Also, I got a great Seivarden song out of this fic, too, which I greatly appreciate.
The Exorcist:
Little Church Mouse (Rated G, Mouse)
Some lovely backstory for Mouse, filling in the space between where we see her in flashbacks, to where we see her in the series.
The Middleman:
The Rock Star Reunion Irrelevancy
A really fun, punchy hair rock case, with lots of clever one liners. (Sweet child o' mine, Dubbie!)
Bake-off RPF/Untitled Goose Game:
To Do In Tent (Rated G)
Just the best definition of 'soggy bottom' ever. Clever and funny and full of terrible (excellent) puns. Puns and buns.
Sandman Comics:
An Explorer of Delirium (Teen, Delirium of the Endless)
From Yuletide Madness, appropriately. Joyful and a bit terrifying, as a Delirium story should be.
Russian Doll:
Commence! (Rated Teen, Nadia and Alan)
A lovely 'what happens next' story, as Nadia and Alan visit their friends, and try to piece together what actually happened to them.
Batwoman (TV):
Stir and Cook Slowly (Rated General, Mary Hamilton and Kate Kane)
This has a Jewish Kate Kane approaching Beth's yarzheit, and Mary trying to find a place as Kate's sister.
Anne of Green Gables:
Altogether Too Queenly (Rated Teen, Katherine Brooke/Anne Shirley)
I love Katherine, and this gives us some relationship history that really suits her character, and an excellent inner voice that really suits Katherine's character.
221b Baker Towers:
Full House, (Not rated)
221b Baker Towers is a shared Sherlock universe that reimagines the original characters as POCs living on a council estate in London. (You can read more about it at this tumblr: 221b Baker Towers: About.) This fic is fantastic, imagines Watson as part of a three generation family speaking Pashto round the dinner table, imagines Sherlock as trans, and puts together an excellent casefic of marginalised people. It's really well developed, and I would watch this series if it were in my TV.
Ugh, such a good Yuletide. I'm still reading.
Re the horrifying bushfire situation,
lilacsigil and I are currently - not on fire
- very worried about people in fire areas
- may be on fire later in the summer
- having conversations on evacuation procedures and hating that this is our life now
It's rough, and I'm surprisingly upset by all the climate change deniers flushing out of the woodwork as the country burns. (This is a surprise because I know they're out there, I know what their agenda is, and there are better things to blow my mental cope on than their bullshit. And yet it still upsets me.)
I am seeking solace in Yuletide - so many good fics. (And also so many fandoms I've never heard of, which is great. Fandom is a big, sprawling land of people who love things, and it heartens me.) I have nowhere near read everything I want to, and have barely dipped into the Madness collection, but I want to get some recs out before reveals later today.
My gifts
I was so lucky this year!! Two in the main collection and a tiny gem of a treat from Madness:
Moonbase Theta, Out (Podcast)
An Evening in the Garden (Rated General, Roger Bragado-Fischer/Alexandre Bragado-Fischer)
A lovely gem of a moment, set before Roger goes into space to live on Moonbase Theta. Just so sweet and gentle and romantic.
A Discovery of Witches (TV)
In a Witch's Blood (Rated Explicit, Diana Bishop/Matthew Clairmont)
A whirlwind party at Sept-Tours, with Diana and Matthew negotiating vampire society. Sweet and romantic and hot.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (book)
Interweave (Rated Explicit, Keita Mori/Thaniel Stephenson)
I am so glad to have gotten fic for my favourite read of 2019 and this is wonderful: perfectly in character, perfectly hot. Synaesthesia, ropes and clockwork. So good.
Recs:
Imperial Radch: (Shut up, I'm reccing all three fics because they're that good.)
High Above the Trees (Rated G, Breq and Awn Elming)
One of the best Awn Lives AUs I've come across, and an excellent, excellent picture of life with the Rrrrrr.
Worthy of Attention (Rated G, Gem of Sphene and Translator Zeiat)
Gem of Sphene and Translator Zeiat, tremendously weird in all the right ways, and also a surprisingly dark look at what it's like to be a Presger-grown translator. (Are they Significant? Zeiat doesn't actually know.)
Still Left in Want of Mercy (Rated Teen, Mercy of Kalr)
Mercy of Kalr POV, and it's so good! Seivarden is a mess, but a very Seivarden mess, and Mercy of Kalr helps her figure out some things. Also, I got a great Seivarden song out of this fic, too, which I greatly appreciate.
The Exorcist:
Little Church Mouse (Rated G, Mouse)
Some lovely backstory for Mouse, filling in the space between where we see her in flashbacks, to where we see her in the series.
The Middleman:
The Rock Star Reunion Irrelevancy
A really fun, punchy hair rock case, with lots of clever one liners. (Sweet child o' mine, Dubbie!)
Bake-off RPF/Untitled Goose Game:
To Do In Tent (Rated G)
Just the best definition of 'soggy bottom' ever. Clever and funny and full of terrible (excellent) puns. Puns and buns.
Sandman Comics:
An Explorer of Delirium (Teen, Delirium of the Endless)
From Yuletide Madness, appropriately. Joyful and a bit terrifying, as a Delirium story should be.
Russian Doll:
Commence! (Rated Teen, Nadia and Alan)
A lovely 'what happens next' story, as Nadia and Alan visit their friends, and try to piece together what actually happened to them.
Batwoman (TV):
Stir and Cook Slowly (Rated General, Mary Hamilton and Kate Kane)
This has a Jewish Kate Kane approaching Beth's yarzheit, and Mary trying to find a place as Kate's sister.
Anne of Green Gables:
Altogether Too Queenly (Rated Teen, Katherine Brooke/Anne Shirley)
I love Katherine, and this gives us some relationship history that really suits her character, and an excellent inner voice that really suits Katherine's character.
221b Baker Towers:
Full House, (Not rated)
221b Baker Towers is a shared Sherlock universe that reimagines the original characters as POCs living on a council estate in London. (You can read more about it at this tumblr: 221b Baker Towers: About.) This fic is fantastic, imagines Watson as part of a three generation family speaking Pashto round the dinner table, imagines Sherlock as trans, and puts together an excellent casefic of marginalised people. It's really well developed, and I would watch this series if it were in my TV.
Ugh, such a good Yuletide. I'm still reading.