thisbluespirit | Yuletide Reveals: you asked me how i knew (my true love was true)

yuletide reveals have now happened, and I can admit that I wrote this five times fic for The Lady Vanishes (1938) for heartofwinterfell.

I did say when I signed up and swapped out S&S for TLV, that with two of us, surely one of us would get fic! I just overlooked the part where I might have to be the one to write it, which was the only drawback of this experience. I still didn't get TLV fic to read! lol

It was a particularly fun assignment, not only because TLV is a delight, but because while my recip and I apparently coincide fannishly on nothing else whatsoever, we share a love of TLV, a whole list of tropes/fic types and our DNWs were so near to being an exact match I laughed aloud when I saw them.

Overall I managed to write despite feeling dreadful all November yet again, not default, and even feel happy with the result, which is definitely an improvement on my last few Yuletides (for entirely me-related reasons). This feels a bit light, perhaps, but it isn't really, not underneath. I think it's partly because it was the no. 1 request I might have written as a treat because of the shared likes, so it felt sort of as if I'd only written a treat and not an assignment, but, of course, that is silly. The recip left a lovely comment and I even got a couple of others and a rec, so *\o/*

I did miss writing at least 1 treat, which I usually try to do, but I just could not. I'll take this one as a win anyhow.

you asked me how i knew (my true love was true) (2657 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Iris Henderson/Gilbert Redman
Characters: Iris Henderson, Gilbert Redman
Additional Tags: Yuletide, 1930s, Banter, 5 Times, Spies & Secret Agents, Hurt/Comfort, Humor, Fluff, Not entirely linear
Summary: Iris and Gilbert navigate a whirlwind romance (with musical accompaniment); or Five Tunes That Brought Them Together & One That Didn't.

I would also have loved to write the Modern AU or a Time Loop thing, because it is such fun and v freeing to find your recip has asked for those kinds of things, but I also adore five times, which is also a good way to write a decent fic when you're not feeling decent, and this happened. The only remaining element of some of the more random ideas I had is the pre-canon near-miss at the end.

Research was done, disappointing amounts of it did not end up in the fic, lol, but all the songs and lyrics quoted or referenced are real songs from around at the time or slightly earlier in the century.

With thanks, as ever, to

persiflage_1 for being my trusty beta! (♥)

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liadt

Research was done, disappointing amounts of it did not end up in the fic such is fic writing, lol.

I'm glad you won at Yuletide writing and maybe had a happy time listening to old tunes:)