Yuletide Reveal

[karanguni]

Yuletide 2008 came very close to not happening at all; I landed home three days before the reveal with nothing written for one main and a pinch hit, and mostly did the "despair!!!" thing. *g* Then I stuck my head into #yuletide, and everyone there was so enthusiastic, awesome and relentlessly evil encouraging that I ended up with 3 main stories, 5 treats and a hangover:

Other Kinds of Men (The Left Hand of Darkness), for mauvecloud.

2966 words, PG, Therem/Arek. Therem Harth rem ir Estraven must have tried, at some point, to seek another way.

Notes: I really, really wanted to write and received Left Hand of Darkness fic, but even then I was worried that the fandom would come up empty. *g* This fic holds prime position in my heart, and I was really happy to see a few people turn up and recognise the canon. \o/ Estraven!

Weight (Wild Adapter), for reddwarfer.

1658 words, R, Kubota/Tokito (or: Kubota/everyone he comes across). The act of feeling is a possessiveness blunted by logic and re-sharpened by the ability to move and do and act.

Notes: I flailed so hard for this one: I sped-read through the whole canon possibly eleven hours before the deadline, and I can only say thank god for 4chan because I'd never have got my hands on volume 6 otherwise.

All Across Manhattan (Baccano!), for cleflink.

2194 words, PG, Gandor family and adoptee. Claire comes home to things that have changed, and things that have stayed the same.

Notes: I actually quite liked this one, but reception was poor like a cellphone in a dungeon. *laughs* But, seriously, it was possibly the most fun and least stress free main story I had to write.

Shadows cast behind you (The Left Hand of Darkness), for melannen.

733 words, PG, Therem (with throwbacks to Ashe and Arek). In the kemmerhouse.

Notes: My personal favourite! :D With the helpful hands of mjules as my trusty beta, I beat the shit out of personal pronouns, and then uploaded the fic only to discover that I'd left ONE "him" in a recently appended paragraph. D'oh! But other than that - more Left Hand fic! Sometimes less words = more, especially with Estraven. Ajlfksjflksajfl.

Rest ye merrily (The Graveyard Book), for Femme

208 words, PG, Bod and Silas. If Silas were to take rest at Bod's house on some cold Yule.

Note: This is where my mind started to cave and everything became slightly Yule-tinted. *g*

youth: a heartbreakingly schmoopy work of staggering genius (Ocean's 11/12/13), for Nubi-chan

596 words, G, Danny, Rusty and Rueben. Danny and Rusty remember being young. Vaguely.

Note: I managed, very intelligently, to mess up the formatting on this, but not badly enough, it seems! :D I love me some thieves.

In places across the wide world (Lucifer), for Hyzenthlay.

506 words, G, Lucifer. Lucifer in all shades.

Note: Random Good Omens cameo! Random fairy tale cameo! This fic was meant to be 6000 words! Guess what I'll be writing as an NYR! 8D

Ho ho ho (Discworld), for Adaptation Decay.

193 words, G, Vetinari versus the Assassins. Sometimes, students from the Academy visit the Patrician.

Note: My beta, nextian/Emma, deserves all the credit for this: the bloody-mindedness line was hers, and without it none of this drabble would've held water.



\o/ I am five seconds from being very late [edit: Mine is the art of calling in sick], but if anyone wants a DVD commentary on any of these fics, I will be happy to come home and flail on my keyboard. ♥

Comments

[paceus.livejournal.com]

I found my way here from the Yuletide reveal post, and since you so generously offered, I'd love a DVD commentary for Ho ho ho! It's marvellously written but I feel like I'm not getting all of it, so more would be wonderful, and I love to read what writers have to say about their work. You don't need to, of course, but it would be wonderful! And in case you didn't see it, I recced the ficlet here (http://paceus.livejournal.com/97083.html).

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you muchly for the rec! ♥ ♥ I shall do some DVD-ing for Ho ho ho tonight, then. :D

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

There ya go! (http://karanguni.livejournal.com/95386.html#cutid1)

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

Have read the Lucifer one and am liking it muchly <3

A question though, because it was bugging me as I read through it: the title of part 3 made me think "Macbeth", but then the mention of Denmark made me go "Hamlet?"
Alternatively, I am completely and utterly off the mark. Regardless, I'd like to know which of these it is.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥

Heh, I actually wasn't thinking of Shakespeare at all when I was writing that one! Though, now that you mention it, I see where the links might've been pretty strong, considering it's padded on both ends by literary references. *g* No, K is not that smrt and meta -- Denmark was the result of my beta correcting me: I'd originally put Salem, but apparently they only hanged witches there, never burned.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I guess it's because I'd had Hamlet drilled into my brain in high school that the whole Denmark + men being senseless and tearing themselves apart thing stood out for me.

In other news: on the house of windowless rooms arc (Lucifer). Hybrid eastern/western style is slightly strange but am slowly growing accustomed to it. Lucifer in a kimono. Or at least, an oriental style robe. I thought of Tseng when I saw this, and of the ever-increasing cross over potential *promptly shoots it*

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

I APPROVE OF TSENG IN A KIMONO

OH HEY CONSIDERING THAT RUFUS/LUCIFER ONE HAD THEM IN WESTERN STYLE SUITS.

YOU KNOW.

BUBBLE BUBBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE, BABY.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Oh man. If Tseng were, you know, a real person, he would probably shoot me in the head for drawing attention to his ethnicity in such a blatant and unoriginal way. Hell, I could go the full nine yards and throw in a few katanas and random Chinese characters and place it all against a generic Japanese setting.
Orientalism, why art thou so easy to fall back on? D:

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Heh. Tseng probably doesn't care much about ethnicity unless someone makes a point of it. *g* I bet most people he encounters couldn't tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese and anything else if it sat up and punched them in the face. :D :D

ALSO, you should totally leave a list of things you want to see in the fic. *BEAMS*

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

ooooh. The Lucifer/Rufus one yes? Erm, let's see. I think I've mentioned most of them before, but in short: many different kinds of bastardry, mind games, power games, snarky dialogue, religious references/double entendres, drawing attention to the similarities between the two (because that's what started this whole fiasco anyway)...and perhaps a scene where they are sharing a sofa, as in the image?

THAT LIST IS LONGER THAN I INTENDED IT BE TO. I HONESTLY DON'T MIND AS LONG AS THE TWO OF THEM ARE PRESENT AND INTERACT. I AM EASY TO PLEASE. REALLY.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

OKAY.

I WILL FIGHT TO KEEP TSENG OUT OF THIS, OH YES I WILL.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

Oh, no need to keep Tseng out, if he decides he wishes to be present for the fireworks. *adding fuel la di da*

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Now, what would Rufus and Lucifer be meeting for, hmmmm; a Lucifer-in-Midgar or a Rufus-in-Hell, hmmmmm.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

Hell and Midgar are arguably the same thing, or at least, there is a great deal of overlap (post-apocalptic Midgar anyway oh god lack of canon knowledge showing through here)

Otherwise, Rufus-in-Lux is another possibility.

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Now I need Lucifer to stop Not Caring about things. *g* I will go plot.

[dnatio-memoriae.livejournal.com]

ohohoho