Yuletide gifts

[thisbluespirit]

I had a lovely day yesterday (am v tired now!) - and also had two amazing stories when yuletide went live:

Bestride the Narrow World (2502 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully (BBC Radio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katrina Lyons & Lucy Alexander
Characters: Katrina Lyons, Lucy Alexander, Uljabaan, Richard Lyons, Margaret Lyons
Additional Tags: book clubs, References to Shakespeare, alien invasions
Summary: Roped into leading a book club for the Geosin minions, Katrina finds her literary choices intersecting with life in the Cresdon Green Resistance.

Somebody wrote me WtOVPIC! I grinned a lot throughout. It's absolutely pitch perfect in every way and therefore delightful - what more could I ask for?

Oh, and except for also this:

Don't Get Attached (10172 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Silver & Ruby (S&S), Sapphire/Silver/Steel (background)
Characters: Silver (S&S), Ruby (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Steel (S&S), Original Character
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2021, Illnesses, Implied/Referenced Child Death, Elemental Weirdness, Domesticity, Existential Dread, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary: Really, when it comes down to it, isn't an accurate enough simulation just as good as the real thing?

In which Ruby steals a human – and Silver watches, and waits, and worries.

Basically, take one usually heart-warming and fluffy trope, apply elements to it, and come out with a thing of slowly creeping dread and wrongness leading to inevitable horror/bleakness, plus the lightness of an engaging Silver-voice and a little redeeming coda with the three of them. Amazing, in short.


I think I may have been double assigned, or just possibly it was the same person, as they both say they were very happy to get this fandom/assignment! (If double-assigned, I want the same again next year, please, this was amazing, lol.)


I hope everyone else Yuletiding also had good fortune, and that everyone celebrating had a lovely day (and if not celebrating, well, it is at least nearly all over now). ♥

Comments

[persiflage_1]

I just cackled at the fact that your tag is "Welcome to our village please invade car" - presumably there's a character limit on DW tags! Sorry, it just struck me as amusing...

And wow, lucky, lucky you, getting two Yuletide fics. I'm off to read them...

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, it seems to be too long! I should have done wtovpic, but never mind! It makes me grin too.

I am a fortunate soul!

[persiflage_1]

Heh! Being given a reason to grin is good!

[lurking_latinist]

I feel it's only right to mention that your curtailed tag caused me to perpetrate a drabble: Please Invade Car

[thisbluespirit]

ahaha, thank you!

[astrogirl]

Ooh, I must read that S&S fic. At some point, anyway. I've been busy this year, and I've barely had time to read anything other than my own gifts yet, but it does look like there's some good stuff in the collection!

I have a strong suspicion that the same person wrote both my main gift and my extra treat (which I know must be a treat and not a double assignment, because it showed up at the last minute before reveals). Which is a thought that makes me feel extra flattered, on top of how over the moon I already am about how awesome they were.

[thisbluespirit]

The S&S fic is evil enough that it ought to appeal to you as well as me! (In the right way, I hasten to add, heh.)

Which is a thought that makes me feel extra flattered, on top of how over the moon I already am about how awesome they were.

Aww.

I can't remember if I've ever been double-assigned before (assuming I have been), but I like it. I like it a lot. lol.

[hamsterwoman]

Yay, glad to hear you're having a lovely Yuletide with great gifts! (I saw Sapphire and Steel and Welcome to Our Village fic when I was browsing the list of fandoms prior to reveals, and was hoping at least some of it was for you :))

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you, and yes! It was for me! Nearly all of it, in fact. XD lol.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

and if not celebrating, well, it is at least nearly all over now

Thank you for thinking of us Grinches! XD I'm glad you got nice yuletide gifts, you definitely deserve the best! <3

[thisbluespirit]

I think many many people have very good reasons indeed for not celebrating or ebing able to celebrate, and are not grinches. ♥

And I really did get lovely gifts! What could be a better pairing than a gloriously in-tone rare humorous fandom fic and a lovely long and very bleak Silver-fic? I am very grateful to my authors!

And I am also grateful to readers, for I was feeling v low this morning due to feeling grotty, and lack of any comment other than my recip on a fic that I thought would have garnered one or two - and just now a person has left a very nice comment on it! I am not a hopeless failure after all; or at least only at panicking about writing. XD

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I know that many people who don't celebrate aren't Grinches! I am, though, and even though I have reason to be, I still own it! XD

I am not a hopeless failure after all

Absolutely not! <3 I'm glad you had a comment to make you feel better! *hugs*