“Some are of weal, and some of woe”

I have Yuletide gifts! Plural! And two are for Chinese ghost fandoms! And they’re both faboo!

One is a story for one ghost:

Paper Beats Duke (1384 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 掷裴武公诗 | A Poem Thrown at Martial Duke Pei - 介胄鬼 | An Armored Ghost, Unspecified Fandom
Additional Tags: Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), Blacksmithing, Ghosts, Poetry, War, Brush Writing
Summary: Where the poem thrown at Martial Duke Pei came from.

The other are poems about all three that I requested, with references to still others:

Shovels Stranded on a Riverbank (353 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 幽恨诗 | Poem of Hidden Resentment - 安邑坊女 | A Woman of Anyi Lane, 掷裴武公诗 | A Poem Thrown at Martial Duke Pei - 介胄鬼 | An Armored Ghost, 虎丘石壁鬼 | Three Poems by a Ghost on a Stone Wall in Huqiu, Unspecified Fandom
Additional Tags: Poetry, Ghosts
Summary: A trio of golden shovels based on the following:

1. Poem of Hidden Resentment, A Woman of Anyi Lane
2. A Poem Thrown at Martial Duke Pei, An Armored Ghost
3. Three Poems, The Ghost of a Stone Wall in Huqiu

(Do people still use faboo? I don’t think they do. I’m not keeping up on internets very well.)

Plus I got a tripartite fic for the medieval lay of Sir Orfeo that’s pitch-perfect in all its AUs—which was exactly my prompt, what happens when the canon AU is AUed further afield:

Some are of weal, and some of woe (3886 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sir Orfeo (Poem)
Summary: Having wandered from Ancient Greece to Norman Britain, the tale of Sir Orfeo spreads further, into the folktales of Vietnam, China and Russia.

Such riches.

FWIW I wrote one fic. I suspect it will be obviously mine to anyone who manages to come across it, but I always think that.

(I think this totally counts as a post for Poetry Monday.)

—L.