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thisbluespiritI wasn't very well for most of the week, although I'm beginning to feel a bit better again now, so my Yuletide reading got severely curtailed. However, reveals have happened and I can see who wrote my gifts, and ha. XD (I did have my suspicions...) Thanks lurking_latinist! The S&S one was by TheBigCat so you can see that I did indeed get very lucky all round (and do seem to have been, quite incestuously, double-assigned. *\o/*)
Anyway, as I said, I did manage to complete my assignment and to write a last minute treat - thanks toluthien for providing a fandom beta for the former and to persiflage_1 for helping me out speedily on Christmas Eve with the other!
My assignment:
Chance Is A Fine Thing (4254 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Snowdrift and Other Stories - Georgette Heyer, Hazard - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington/Helen Morland
Characters: Helen Morland, Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington, Original Characters, Ralph Morland, Lionel Winter, Marmaduke Shapley
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Regency, Pining, Weddings
Summary: Helen's luck was also in that night.
Last time I was assigned to write Heyer, it happened with an unfortunate combination of events that forced me to default, so I was especially pleased to complete this one. It's for one of Heyer's short stories, Hazard, which has always been my favourite out of those (and a lot of other people's, I think). mardia's request was great, and easy to put something together for (in my head, anyway). I went from feeling very smug about the first draft to realising Part 3 was extremely lacking in... uh, everything... and then spent a week, much later than should have been the case fixing it (Part 3 is everybody's favourite part, so far, it seems, so it was worth it! Originally NOTHING HAPPENED in that bit; I can't tell you why I thought that was a good idea.) Anyway,luthien said it was okay and the recip liked it, so I think it must have turned out all right! (I got NO other comments on it for days so I did start to wonder if they just hadn't liked to tell me the awful truth, but then another arrived, and it was okay.)
I also wrote Sapphire & Steel. I'm sure anyone who read this anon and knows me will know it was me already! (I have to say, I got comments the first day fromsovay and lurking_latinist and panicked for a minute that I was, in fact, not anon and my flist had somehow seen me. lol.)
Started as a Whisper (3026 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel (S&S), Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S), Lead & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Steel (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Lead (S&S), Silver (S&S), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Assignment One, Serial: s03 Assignment Three, Serial: s06 Assignment Six, numbers stations, Gossip
Summary: There’s a saying – careless talk costs lives. But that’s not how it always goes…
Anyway, I love Sapphire & Steel and it was lovely to write this. It wasn't the fandom I was sure I was going to try and treat, so that bit was surprising to me at least. But aaahhhh I miss S&S when I don't write it for ages. No other fandom is like it. I just tried to make this not quite so obviously me and went for it, incorporating as much of Emmzzi's request as possible. I wish I'd started it not actually with less than 40 hours to go and had a bit more time for adding in more elements-are-their-element stuff, that I managed with Jet. But I wasn't feeling well that week, either, so I was v chuffed to have written this. And spent most of it just thinking I love S&S, I love S&S... XD
lurking_latinist! The S&S one was by TheBigCat so you can see that I did indeed get very lucky all round (and do seem to have been, quite incestuously, double-assigned. *\o/*)Anyway, as I said, I did manage to complete my assignment and to write a last minute treat - thanks to
luthien for providing a fandom beta for the former and to persiflage_1 for helping me out speedily on Christmas Eve with the other!My assignment:
Chance Is A Fine Thing (4254 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Snowdrift and Other Stories - Georgette Heyer, Hazard - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington/Helen Morland
Characters: Helen Morland, Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington, Original Characters, Ralph Morland, Lionel Winter, Marmaduke Shapley
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Regency, Pining, Weddings
Summary: Helen's luck was also in that night.
Last time I was assigned to write Heyer, it happened with an unfortunate combination of events that forced me to default, so I was especially pleased to complete this one. It's for one of Heyer's short stories, Hazard, which has always been my favourite out of those (and a lot of other people's, I think). mardia's request was great, and easy to put something together for (in my head, anyway). I went from feeling very smug about the first draft to realising Part 3 was extremely lacking in... uh, everything... and then spent a week, much later than should have been the case fixing it (Part 3 is everybody's favourite part, so far, it seems, so it was worth it! Originally NOTHING HAPPENED in that bit; I can't tell you why I thought that was a good idea.) Anyway,
luthien said it was okay and the recip liked it, so I think it must have turned out all right! (I got NO other comments on it for days so I did start to wonder if they just hadn't liked to tell me the awful truth, but then another arrived, and it was okay.)I also wrote Sapphire & Steel. I'm sure anyone who read this anon and knows me will know it was me already! (I have to say, I got comments the first day from
sovay and lurking_latinist and panicked for a minute that I was, in fact, not anon and my flist had somehow seen me. lol.)Started as a Whisper (3026 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel (S&S), Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S), Lead & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Steel (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Lead (S&S), Silver (S&S), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Assignment One, Serial: s03 Assignment Three, Serial: s06 Assignment Six, numbers stations, Gossip
Summary: There’s a saying – careless talk costs lives. But that’s not how it always goes…
Anyway, I love Sapphire & Steel and it was lovely to write this. It wasn't the fandom I was sure I was going to try and treat, so that bit was surprising to me at least. But aaahhhh I miss S&S when I don't write it for ages. No other fandom is like it. I just tried to make this not quite so obviously me and went for it, incorporating as much of Emmzzi's request as possible. I wish I'd started it not actually with less than 40 hours to go and had a bit more time for adding in more elements-are-their-element stuff, that I managed with Jet. But I wasn't feeling well that week, either, so I was v chuffed to have written this. And spent most of it just thinking I love S&S, I love S&S... XD