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larryhammer) wrote2013-12-27 12:08 pm
larryhammer) wrote2013-12-27 12:08 pm
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"The dreary night comes to an end without his coming. Is this year as cold as the autumn wind?"
So about that Tales of Ise fic I got for Yuletide, Cold Autumn Wind: it's based on this part of chapter 82, in which a strayed hunter ends up at the bank of the River of Heaven (aka the Milky Way) and has to find lodgings. Pretty darn close to the tone of the source, and since it's an original Tale, it doesn't require knowledge of the canon (though recognizing the Tanabata bits would be helpful). It even has original poetry, because Narihira. Not to mention because Ise. (I suspect, given the classical Japanese, I know who wrote this -- but it would be fun to be proven wrong.)
As for myself, I wrote a single fic, which I very strongly suspect will be obvious to anyone who actually stumbles across the fandom. Feel free to guess at me if you do. (I tried to write two treats, but one turned out to be overly ambitious given the time I had, while the other just sucked -- I might finish on the former at leisure.)
I have only just begun to scrape the Yuletide archive, but here's my first batch of recs:
Caffeine and Unpaid Overtime - A retelling of Rosemary Sutcliff's Frontier Wolf as a modern-day AU set in a hospital in northern England, with Alex and Hilary as doctors-in-training in over their heads. Very good and very tasty.
Grace and Sally - Lovely, lovely story about a girl and her plesiosaur, and about growing up. The fandom is a 4-panel webcomic linked in the notes, so you have no excuse not to read this.
A Crack in the Wall - A Hadestown / Greek myth fic, in which Hades run an underground mining camp where Persephone is in charge of the speakeasy. Or to put it another way, it has Eurydice breaking Persephone out of the underworld.
There are not one but TWO fix-fics for Marie de France's "Eliduc," taking a third option on the ending -- the same in both cases, and both using further involvement of the canonical magical lesbian weasels. (Yes, "Eliduc" has magical lesbian weasels -- as if you needed any more reason to read it.) Of Woodland Bowers and Cloven Fruit retells the story in the original style, and is possibly more charming for it, while Amaranth aims for a more modern style that digs into the psychologies involved. Both are excellent.
---L.
As for myself, I wrote a single fic, which I very strongly suspect will be obvious to anyone who actually stumbles across the fandom. Feel free to guess at me if you do. (I tried to write two treats, but one turned out to be overly ambitious given the time I had, while the other just sucked -- I might finish on the former at leisure.)
I have only just begun to scrape the Yuletide archive, but here's my first batch of recs:
Caffeine and Unpaid Overtime - A retelling of Rosemary Sutcliff's Frontier Wolf as a modern-day AU set in a hospital in northern England, with Alex and Hilary as doctors-in-training in over their heads. Very good and very tasty.
Grace and Sally - Lovely, lovely story about a girl and her plesiosaur, and about growing up. The fandom is a 4-panel webcomic linked in the notes, so you have no excuse not to read this.
A Crack in the Wall - A Hadestown / Greek myth fic, in which Hades run an underground mining camp where Persephone is in charge of the speakeasy. Or to put it another way, it has Eurydice breaking Persephone out of the underworld.
There are not one but TWO fix-fics for Marie de France's "Eliduc," taking a third option on the ending -- the same in both cases, and both using further involvement of the canonical magical lesbian weasels. (Yes, "Eliduc" has magical lesbian weasels -- as if you needed any more reason to read it.) Of Woodland Bowers and Cloven Fruit retells the story in the original style, and is possibly more charming for it, while Amaranth aims for a more modern style that digs into the psychologies involved. Both are excellent.
---L.