Yuletide recs (part ii)
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kaberettElementary, I'm the Greatest Star, ~1.3k words. I DID A CRY ABOUT THE CREATIVITY INHERENT IN SCIENCE, also Joan has boundaries.
Elementary, Breathtaken, ~1.3k words. Joan while a medic! First interaction with Bell! FEELINGS.
Elementary, always be chasing the sun, ~3k words. Joan thinks long and hard, and goes back to medicine.
Fire and Hemlock, Ring in the True, 1.2k. Music and mistletoe and magical shenanigans. :-)
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, Rise, ~1k words. Cities are alive and have secrets, and some of their residents are listen better than others.
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, The Heart Grows Fonder, ~5k words. Miracles fade to commonplace, and Tara deals with contract law.
DWJ's Howl series, Second Time Lucky, ~5.7k words. The tone is spot-on! The characterisation is spot-on! The punctuation doesn't make me cry inside! The entire thing is gloriously endearing! EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS AMAZING THIS IS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES SO FAR.
DWJ's Howl series, starfall, ~2k words. I am cackling with glee a fraction of the way in. To the ending of which I have only to say, !!!
DWJ's Howl series, Five Times Howl And Calcifer Came To An Agreement (And One Time They Didn't), ~3k words. Recced for the first few paragraphs, which are absolutely the perfect thing to be reading in a high bed in a slope-ceilinged room in the attic of an old house in Cornwall with the wind rushing around the house, as the Gregorian year turns. And then I left it grinning: family, found and chosen.
The Middleman, The Injurious Internet Meme Incursion, ~2k words. Everything I never knew I wanted.
The Middleman, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, ~6.5k words. Very very adorkable, with excellent tone and lots of good callbacks and an immense amount of derring-do.
Discworld, Where The Streets Have My Name, ~3.3k words. In which I have FEELINGS about Tiffany and about Vimes and about the rock beneath our feet and about wearing midnight. Makes me cry, in the same way that Tiffany books always do.
Discworld, New Beginnings, ~4k. Post Monstrous-Regiment; it's a brave new world, and we're the change in it.
Discworld, Interlude With Some Vampires, ~6.6k words. Post Unseen Academicals; contains an awful lot on how to be a person, and how time works, and the tone is brilliant. Also, SPARKLEVAMPIRES.
Elementary, Breathtaken, ~1.3k words. Joan while a medic! First interaction with Bell! FEELINGS.
Elementary, always be chasing the sun, ~3k words. Joan thinks long and hard, and goes back to medicine.
Fire and Hemlock, Ring in the True, 1.2k. Music and mistletoe and magical shenanigans. :-)
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, Rise, ~1k words. Cities are alive and have secrets, and some of their residents are listen better than others.
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, The Heart Grows Fonder, ~5k words. Miracles fade to commonplace, and Tara deals with contract law.
DWJ's Howl series, Second Time Lucky, ~5.7k words. The tone is spot-on! The characterisation is spot-on! The punctuation doesn't make me cry inside! The entire thing is gloriously endearing! EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS AMAZING THIS IS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES SO FAR.
DWJ's Howl series, starfall, ~2k words. I am cackling with glee a fraction of the way in. To the ending of which I have only to say, !!!
DWJ's Howl series, Five Times Howl And Calcifer Came To An Agreement (And One Time They Didn't), ~3k words. Recced for the first few paragraphs, which are absolutely the perfect thing to be reading in a high bed in a slope-ceilinged room in the attic of an old house in Cornwall with the wind rushing around the house, as the Gregorian year turns. And then I left it grinning: family, found and chosen.
The Middleman, The Injurious Internet Meme Incursion, ~2k words. Everything I never knew I wanted.
The Middleman, Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, ~6.5k words. Very very adorkable, with excellent tone and lots of good callbacks and an immense amount of derring-do.
Discworld, Where The Streets Have My Name, ~3.3k words. In which I have FEELINGS about Tiffany and about Vimes and about the rock beneath our feet and about wearing midnight. Makes me cry, in the same way that Tiffany books always do.
Discworld, New Beginnings, ~4k. Post Monstrous-Regiment; it's a brave new world, and we're the change in it.
Discworld, Interlude With Some Vampires, ~6.6k words. Post Unseen Academicals; contains an awful lot on how to be a person, and how time works, and the tone is brilliant. Also, SPARKLEVAMPIRES.
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Date: 2015-01-03 04:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-01-03 10:00 pm (UTC)In no expectation that you will read it etc, BUT given our similar tastes I feel the need to at least offer you the link to what is possibly my favourite DW fanfic ever - it's a crossover with Nightmare Before Christmas; it is 1500 words long and entitled The Ill-Advised Skeletal Exchange Programme.