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larryhammerO. My. Gods and goddesses. People. Yuletide. It is a most amazing year for me. Six gifts! In many fandoms! I am amazeballed.
BTW, pagingsovay for these first three, for they are for The Lyke-Wake Dirge:
Fire and Fleet and Candlelight - A space AU, taking the “Fleet” as literal. A priest arrives at a small town on Pluto and discovers his first duty is the funeral of his predecessor—and another. I adore the religious syncretism here, and the inclusion of the Folk in the worldbuilding.
Christ, Receive Thy Soul, Already! - In which a newly departed soul must decide whether to follow into the afterlife the Luke-Wake Dirge, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Total crack, completely silly, 10/10 would reread again and again.
Through Candlelight - A lovely drabble of a soul departing to the sound of the Dirge.
For the Odyssey, I received:
The Companion of an Evening - I asked for Odysseus/Penelope domestic fluff, and this is exactly that, a married couple reuniting their bond after long parting. Perfectly detailed and perfectly paced.
And for the Ballad of Mulan, two stories, each focused on one of Mulan’s siblings:
cloud-hair by the window - Ruolan had just been betrothed when her little sister, Mulan, disappears, upending everything. It is a long wait by the home fires.
The Burden of the Sword - Mulan’s little brother feels keenly that he was too young to have gone instead of Mulan, so while she is gone he in turn tries to take the place of Older Sister-Brother. An interesting gender-fluid take.
TL,DR: Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!1!
—L.
Subject quote from I Think of Him As One Who Fights, Anna Hempstead Branch.
BTW, paging
sovay for these first three, for they are for The Lyke-Wake Dirge:Fire and Fleet and Candlelight - A space AU, taking the “Fleet” as literal. A priest arrives at a small town on Pluto and discovers his first duty is the funeral of his predecessor—and another. I adore the religious syncretism here, and the inclusion of the Folk in the worldbuilding.
Christ, Receive Thy Soul, Already! - In which a newly departed soul must decide whether to follow into the afterlife the Luke-Wake Dirge, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Total crack, completely silly, 10/10 would reread again and again.
Through Candlelight - A lovely drabble of a soul departing to the sound of the Dirge.
For the Odyssey, I received:
The Companion of an Evening - I asked for Odysseus/Penelope domestic fluff, and this is exactly that, a married couple reuniting their bond after long parting. Perfectly detailed and perfectly paced.
And for the Ballad of Mulan, two stories, each focused on one of Mulan’s siblings:
cloud-hair by the window - Ruolan had just been betrothed when her little sister, Mulan, disappears, upending everything. It is a long wait by the home fires.
The Burden of the Sword - Mulan’s little brother feels keenly that he was too young to have gone instead of Mulan, so while she is gone he in turn tries to take the place of Older Sister-Brother. An interesting gender-fluid take.
TL,DR: Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!1!
—L.
Subject quote from I Think of Him As One Who Fights, Anna Hempstead Branch.
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Date: 26 December 2023 10:42 pm (UTC)I'm delighted!
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Date: 27 December 2023 12:13 am (UTC)