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K ([personal profile] karanguni) wrote2020-12-27 01:12 pm
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Yuletide 2020

This year, I reaped from the bountiful fields of The Culture, which I've wanted for so long.

Re-in-vent the Revent (E, 1.9K)
FOTNMC/Zakalwe. Mind fucking, in every sense of the word, with bonus interference from Sma and as she tries to stop Zakalwe from blowing himself up too many times by throwing him at the Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints. What could possibly go wrong? I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS.

Professionals (T, 1.9K, crossover with John Wick)
John Wick passes an S.C. interview. Was there any doubt he wouldn't? No, no there wasn't. A glorious shoot-me-up that ends with Skaffen-Amtiskaw sticking its face into Sma's recruitment drive. What could be better, except maybe John's first mission for the Culture???

And some other recs:

Everything's Jake (State Farm Insurance Commercials, G, 3.4K)
Psychological horror and State Farm Commercials; surely the pearly-white smiles are too pearly...

please please please (let me get what i want) (A Knight's Tale, T, 4.7K)
Wonderful Chaucer voice and wonderful romp through London!

The Murderer is Among Us Now (Poirot/Among Us crossover, G, 1.5K)
It's all in the title. It's amazing. All of Poirot's neuroses... on Zoom.

The Bamboo Spinner (Tang Dynasty RPF, G, 1.1K)
Atmospheric worldbuilding that serves as excellent backstory for the poet Li He.

Land of Steady Habits (Oh Hello, E, 4.6K, mind the warnings)
I confess that I don't know the canon for this one, but the writing - a la Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - blew me away.