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Dec. 25th, 2013 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretFor Yuletide this year, I wrote... oops, not supposed to say that yet.
For Yuletide this year, I got two fantastic gifts.
"My Terrible Friend" is my main gift. It is a story about Bree, Andi's best friend from Serra Elinsen's Lovecraftian romance Awoken, in which she realizes that her best friend is a big jerk and she should find better friends who appreciate her for who she is. It's awesome, exactly what I was hoping for from my request. Awoken is such a strange novel because it is being written by writers who are clearly better than the material, and this story is the same way: The care that is taken to make Bree believable as a teenager who is smart and curious and caring, but also self-absorbed and judgmental, builds on the original canon in just the ways I was hoping my gift would.
I also got a drabble sequence for a Whodunnit AU where the murderer can kill people using magic, "Poisonous", which I love for two reasons. First of all, I love it because it gives the murderer motivations! They're not just randomly bringing people into the house to kill them, they have reason for doing it and a sociopathic personality that is drawn out with care and thought. Second, I love it because it creates a world where the Whodunnit murder house could really happen, and it takes it seriously and puts the reality show aspect of it completely to the side, and I love it for taking the show seriously.
Thanks to both of my authors.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the Danger 5 fic thatmorbane received, because I am kind of proprietary about Danger 5 fandom and I regard every new fic in the fandom as a gift for me personally.
"A Sudden Rush of Gold To the Head" is a fantastic look at the ridiculousness of the Danger 5 universe, from an observer who can see how preposterous it is but can't seem to stop it from happening. And it even has a cocktail recipe.
I've read a few other things, but it is Jewmas and theoretically I should get off the computer and talk to people. Happy holiday, all!
For Yuletide this year, I got two fantastic gifts.
"My Terrible Friend" is my main gift. It is a story about Bree, Andi's best friend from Serra Elinsen's Lovecraftian romance Awoken, in which she realizes that her best friend is a big jerk and she should find better friends who appreciate her for who she is. It's awesome, exactly what I was hoping for from my request. Awoken is such a strange novel because it is being written by writers who are clearly better than the material, and this story is the same way: The care that is taken to make Bree believable as a teenager who is smart and curious and caring, but also self-absorbed and judgmental, builds on the original canon in just the ways I was hoping my gift would.
I also got a drabble sequence for a Whodunnit AU where the murderer can kill people using magic, "Poisonous", which I love for two reasons. First of all, I love it because it gives the murderer motivations! They're not just randomly bringing people into the house to kill them, they have reason for doing it and a sociopathic personality that is drawn out with care and thought. Second, I love it because it creates a world where the Whodunnit murder house could really happen, and it takes it seriously and puts the reality show aspect of it completely to the side, and I love it for taking the show seriously.
Thanks to both of my authors.
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the Danger 5 fic that
morbane received, because I am kind of proprietary about Danger 5 fandom and I regard every new fic in the fandom as a gift for me personally."A Sudden Rush of Gold To the Head" is a fantastic look at the ridiculousness of the Danger 5 universe, from an observer who can see how preposterous it is but can't seem to stop it from happening. And it even has a cocktail recipe.
I've read a few other things, but it is Jewmas and theoretically I should get off the computer and talk to people. Happy holiday, all!