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larryhammerMeanwhile, I have been given a third Yuletide gift: Tsubame ni Naru Toki ("When I became a swallow"), being a retelling Philomela/Procne/Tereus set in modern Japan in (English) haiku stanzas. To which I can only say "Oh. My." Combined with the other two, I have an Ovidian trifecta.
So far, my favorite, even over my Arachne gift, is Today the World is Dreaming, in which Yotsuba meets snow, hand-me-downs, ice-skating, and the parental mortality. Lyrical and inventive, and has the character on.
The best pure writing I've seen may be in The River to the Sea, a Spirited Away story about Chihiro as a ghost tied to the mouth of a river, where she is visited betimes by Haku.
For the classicists among us, I recommend to A Future, No Future at All, a viciously brilliant Cassandra story;
Last Days, which surpised me by being the better of the two Orestia fics despite being the one not tagged "major character death"; and Arca Salvii, which is an explicit BDSM Cambridge Latin Course fic written in Latin. Pause to let the jaws be picked up off the floor. A translation exists, for those of us not so fluent with our ablative absolutes as we might wish.
In other mythologies, I'm most taken with Before We've Come So Far, a quiet Loki/Sif seduction, though In the Dark House, which might well have been titled The Other Descent of Ishtar, while not entirely successful does some interesting things: At the sixth door, the gatekeeper pulled off the bangles from Ishtar's wrists and ankles. In the world above, the young men slept alone in their own rooms, and the young women remained in the company of their friends.
Tori Kumo ni Iru (Birds Enter Clouds)* is a Natsume's Book of Friends story that manages to work a fair amount of folklore into a quiet, atmospheric story about something approaching normalcy for Natsume. Nyanko-sensei is spot on.
After reading The Pigeon Wants a Story I, along with everyone else, want to read the story about Mo Willems and the runaway bus.
In general comments, I am mildly disappointed by the lack of Chaucer fic, not even for the blog, but amused to see there are two Sir Gawain and Green Knight fics, both "lost" episodes in the original verse form, and two Eugene Onegin fics, both Onegin/Lensky.
* Though surely that should be "are in" not "enters"?
ETA: And Yuletide Madness brings us a second Cambridge Latin Course ficlet, this a crossover with Doctor Who. Heeee!
---L.
So far, my favorite, even over my Arachne gift, is Today the World is Dreaming, in which Yotsuba meets snow, hand-me-downs, ice-skating, and the parental mortality. Lyrical and inventive, and has the character on.
The best pure writing I've seen may be in The River to the Sea, a Spirited Away story about Chihiro as a ghost tied to the mouth of a river, where she is visited betimes by Haku.
For the classicists among us, I recommend to A Future, No Future at All, a viciously brilliant Cassandra story;
Last Days, which surpised me by being the better of the two Orestia fics despite being the one not tagged "major character death"; and Arca Salvii, which is an explicit BDSM Cambridge Latin Course fic written in Latin. Pause to let the jaws be picked up off the floor. A translation exists, for those of us not so fluent with our ablative absolutes as we might wish.
In other mythologies, I'm most taken with Before We've Come So Far, a quiet Loki/Sif seduction, though In the Dark House, which might well have been titled The Other Descent of Ishtar, while not entirely successful does some interesting things: At the sixth door, the gatekeeper pulled off the bangles from Ishtar's wrists and ankles. In the world above, the young men slept alone in their own rooms, and the young women remained in the company of their friends.
Tori Kumo ni Iru (Birds Enter Clouds)* is a Natsume's Book of Friends story that manages to work a fair amount of folklore into a quiet, atmospheric story about something approaching normalcy for Natsume. Nyanko-sensei is spot on.
After reading The Pigeon Wants a Story I, along with everyone else, want to read the story about Mo Willems and the runaway bus.
In general comments, I am mildly disappointed by the lack of Chaucer fic, not even for the blog, but amused to see there are two Sir Gawain and Green Knight fics, both "lost" episodes in the original verse form, and two Eugene Onegin fics, both Onegin/Lensky.
* Though surely that should be "are in" not "enters"?
ETA: And Yuletide Madness brings us a second Cambridge Latin Course ficlet, this a crossover with Doctor Who. Heeee!
---L.