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Yuletide authors have been revealed -- I can admit to writing an Iliad fic for myhappyface focused on Hector and Paris and their two marriages: Two Brothers, Two Weddings, Two Partings. I'm afraid I broke two rules of fanfic, by incorporating whole-cloth far too much Sappho and Morris and by directly quoting canon. But aside from that and completely failing to disguise anything about the way I write, I'm fairly pleased with it. The story is told slantwise enough you probably need to be familiar with the Iliad.
Many thanks, again, to the authors of my gifts, springgreen for A Prelude to the Adventures of the Boatperson of Heaven and snowynight/sinngrace for To the Star. (I should have known I knew them both, heh.)
While I'm at it, more recs from the Yuletide archive, still in no particular order:
"Worked okay so far?" - A lovely, lovely fic for Hobbes and Bacon, and since all the canon is these four strips (click "Newer Entries" to see the others), all you need to know is the characters and premise of Calvin & Hobbes, which you of course already do (you do, right?) and that Bacon is the nickname of Calvin and Susie's daughter.
Lunete and Ondine, or The Clever Maiden - a "translation" of a sequel to Yvain, complete with "scholarly" introduction explaining why it could not, despite the text's claim, to have been by Chrétien de Troyes. I somewhat regret that the "translator" did not attempt rhyme or meter, but do not hold it against them as 1300 lines of Arthurian femslash is an laudable accomplishment in itself. Can be read without knowing canon, as most of the backstory is explained, though a familiarity of the conventions of medieval romance probably helps. One of my favorites of the season (along with "Contagious Fogs").
Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua - Technically, this is a fic for Pat Barker's Regeneration, but in effect it's historical RPF about Siegfried Sassoon conversing with something who may or may not be the ghost of Wilfred Owen, but certainly a ghost of his war experiences. Knowledge of the novel not needed, but knowledge of the poets helps.
Die ente magd - Uses the characters and tropes of Princess Tutu to tell an archetypal fairy tale and critique several of its tropes, including the treatment of villains. Requires knowing the series.
Into the Woods - A space marines adventure in a dystopic future. A backstory fic for Aliens, but it works just fine without knowing canon.
Lebenswerk - Another backstory fic, this one for Sunset Boulevard. Works quite well indeed even if you haven't seen the movie but only know something of the history of Hollywood and the transition from silent movies to talkies. It probably works even better with the movie, though.
---L.
Many thanks, again, to the authors of my gifts, springgreen for A Prelude to the Adventures of the Boatperson of Heaven and snowynight/sinngrace for To the Star. (I should have known I knew them both, heh.)
While I'm at it, more recs from the Yuletide archive, still in no particular order:
"Worked okay so far?" - A lovely, lovely fic for Hobbes and Bacon, and since all the canon is these four strips (click "Newer Entries" to see the others), all you need to know is the characters and premise of Calvin & Hobbes, which you of course already do (you do, right?) and that Bacon is the nickname of Calvin and Susie's daughter.
Lunete and Ondine, or The Clever Maiden - a "translation" of a sequel to Yvain, complete with "scholarly" introduction explaining why it could not, despite the text's claim, to have been by Chrétien de Troyes. I somewhat regret that the "translator" did not attempt rhyme or meter, but do not hold it against them as 1300 lines of Arthurian femslash is an laudable accomplishment in itself. Can be read without knowing canon, as most of the backstory is explained, though a familiarity of the conventions of medieval romance probably helps. One of my favorites of the season (along with "Contagious Fogs").
Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua - Technically, this is a fic for Pat Barker's Regeneration, but in effect it's historical RPF about Siegfried Sassoon conversing with something who may or may not be the ghost of Wilfred Owen, but certainly a ghost of his war experiences. Knowledge of the novel not needed, but knowledge of the poets helps.
Die ente magd - Uses the characters and tropes of Princess Tutu to tell an archetypal fairy tale and critique several of its tropes, including the treatment of villains. Requires knowing the series.
Into the Woods - A space marines adventure in a dystopic future. A backstory fic for Aliens, but it works just fine without knowing canon.
Lebenswerk - Another backstory fic, this one for Sunset Boulevard. Works quite well indeed even if you haven't seen the movie but only know something of the history of Hollywood and the transition from silent movies to talkies. It probably works even better with the movie, though.
---L.