Yuletide Recs 2024
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thisbluespiritThe Train of Adventure (2859 words) by Small_Hobbit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adventure Series - Enid Blyton
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dinah Mannering, Lucy-Ann Trent, Allie Mannering
Summary: Allie Mannering watched as Dinah and Lucy-Ann's train departed for Dover on the first leg of their journey to Vienna. She told herself that both girls were now grown up and she really shouldn’t worry about them.
Both a great look at Lucy and Dinah, grown up, and a typical adventure to fix with it.
more lovely, more temperate (3474 words) by mardia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer, HEYER Georgette - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jenny Chawleigh/Adam Deveril
Characters: Jenny Chawleigh, Adam Deveril Viscount Lynton, Original Male Character(s), Julia Oversley
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Slice of Life
Summary: It was a boon of marriage Adam had never thought of—having someone to depend upon, rely upon. His own parents’ marriage had not been a sterling example of the institution, and neither of them had been dependable—not for each other, and not for their children.
Really lovely & satisfying post-canon piece.
like birds i' th' cage (5366 words) by WyvernQuill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Craddock and Co (Radio)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles Craddock & Lucy Greenwood
Characters: Charles Craddock, Lucy Greenwood, Mr. Grout
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Family Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Protectiveness, not entirely a casefic but casefic-adjacent, Yuletide 2024
Summary: “Oh, uncle.” Me heart sank right down into my stomach. “Don’t you talk like that."
“Like what, dear girl?”
“Like you won’t have any other chance to say it.”
Or: Uncle Charles runs afoul of a band of criminals, and despite Lucy's best efforts, their rescue might not arrive in time...
Uncle Charles & Lucy are in big trouble, with perfect voices and made me go awww in the right places just like canon.
It's Not Christmastide (1237 words) by MaeveBran
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Death in Paradise
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Richard Poole, Camille Bordey, Catherine Bordey, Fidel Best, Dwayne Myers (Death in Paradise)
Summary: It's sunny, warm, and raucously festive on Saint Marie in December but as far as Detective Chief Inspector Richard Poole was concerned, it's just not Christmas.
Sweet and has exactly the right feel for those early episodes of canon, with Richard and Camille.
to go easy, to be filled with light (3012 words) by whalebone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Detectorists (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lance Stater & Andy Stone
Characters: Andy Stone (Detectorists), Lance Stater
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Metal detecting, History, Parenthood, Nature
Summary: Andy’s tiredness seemed to lift as he looked out at the waking world, because today was important. Today was Stanley’s first day detecting.<
Captures canon so well - this is beautiful.
Hunter Vision (1167 words) by nomeancity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dominic Alastair/Mary Challoner
Characters: Dominic Alastair, Mary Challoner, Rupert Alastair
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons
Summary: Mary Challoner disagrees with her daemon.
Brilliant daemons AU.
The Hero We Deserve (2185 words) by brutti_ma_buoni
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Drop the Dead Donkey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alex Pates, Dave Charnley, Damien Day, Helen Cooper (Drop the Dead Donkey), Joy Merryweather
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Apocalypse
Summary: Change is in the air at Globe Link. Either it's because Alex is unsettled, or it's because Damien is ending the world. Or, conceivably, both.
Brilliant, and an apocalypse is barely even noticeable in amongst the usual chaos.
Of Gloves and Laces (3751 words) by Rusakko
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: George Knightley/Emma Woodhouse
Characters: Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Misunderstandings, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Emma does not renew the conversation in the garden, and Mr Knightley goes away without proposing. Still, the strings (or shoelaces) of fate have a way of arranging things for the best.
Really sweet & well done alternative ending for the book.
...bitte verbreiten (4272 words) by Lilliburlero
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Enemy at the Door (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dieter Richter, Otto Kluge, Klaus Reinicke, Philip Martel, Clare Martel, Olive Martel
Additional Tags: World War II, Nazis, Modernist Art, 1940s
Summary: Some resistance actions on Guernsey take avant-garde artistic form, troubling Major Richter and Dr Martel.
This perfectly captures the sense of the show's dealing with the painful complexities of humanity, plus some lovely Martel family banter.
and we'll take a cup of kindness yet (3999 words) by david
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ghosts (US TV 2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samantha Arondekar & Hetty Woodstone, Jay Arondekar/Samantha Arondekar, Samantha Arondekar & Woodstone Mansion Ghosts
Characters: Samantha Arondekar, Jay Arondekar, Hetty Woodstone, Pete Martino, Woodstone Mansion Ghosts (Ghosts US TV 2021)
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Hurt/Comfort, Hypothermia, Found Family, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Light Angst
Summary: “Samantha, you simply cannot die out here. I explicitly forbid it.”
“I know, I know,” Sam mumbles. Her eyelids flutter shut despite Hetty’s orders. “You need a Living to turn on the TV for you.” “No-” she starts, then stops. “Well, yes, that is part of it, but that’s not what I meant.”
Hetty has to rescue Sam, and it's excellent.
The Contractualism of Fair Play and Hot Wings (3085 words) by Rockinlibrarian
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Place (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michael & everyone
Characters: Michael (The Good Place), Janet (The Good Place), Eleanor Shellstrop, Chidi Anagonye, Tahani Al-Jamil, Jason Mendoza, Real Eleanor Shellstrop | Vicky, Glenn (The Good Place), Chris Baker
Additional Tags: Spicy Food, eating competitions, Competition, the philosophy of gaming and fair play, humans are unpredictable, and Michael still hasn't gotten the hang of that, Good Place Reboot, cartoon violence?, maybe? - Freeform, There'd be a lot of Niednagelling in this episode, Whenever I'm posting a Good Place fic, and I see the Archive Warning option for "Major Character Death", I always want to retort "MAJOR CHARACTERS ARE ALREADY DEAD! DEATH IS MEANINGLESS!", which Michael thinks is a bit of a problem at one point in this fic
Summary: Michael's got the perfect torture idea during a chili-pepper-based-restaurant-themed reboot: a hot wings eating competition! The humans would actually, willingly, compete to see who can burn themselves more! And competition always brings out the worst in humans, right? ...Right?
Are we sure this wasn't actually an episode? Brilliant piece.
Understanding (1235 words) by ChokolatteJedi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Place (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Michael (The Good Place), Dave the Demon Architect (The Good Place), Demons (Characters)
Additional Tags: Flashbacks, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Afterlife, Demons, Implied/Referenced Torture, canon typical references to torture, Time Skips, Backstory, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Michael just wants to understand things; a rarity in the Bad Place.
This is an excellent look at Michael's backstory.
We All Start Somewhere by wormsafe (G, 2364 words. The Good Place. Janet & Michael.) Michael contemplates his mortality, being human, and bucket lists.
A really lovely exploration of Janet & Michael's friendship.
journeys end (in lovers meeting) (3944 words) by alasse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Holiday (2006)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miles Dumont/Iris Simpkins
Characters: Iris Simpkins, Miles Dumont, Amanda Woods, Graham Simpkins, Arthur Abbot
Additional Tags: Post-Movie, Fluff
Summary: Iris and Miles figure out what comes after a first date when the first date is New Year's Eve and meeting the family. They go through two goodbyes, and one hello—the last one for keeps.
Sweet bit of post-canon for these two and how they worked their relationship out.
3.0: Subject content (1061 words) by oxymoronic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Pseudo-History
Series: Part 7 of Yuletide Fics
Summary: Extracts from the subject specification for the UK A-level in Magical History (7081).
Amazing set of extracts from the UK A-Level syllabus for the JS&MN universe.
And the rocks below say by theseatheseatheopensea (G, 3062 words. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell/Ladies of Grace Adieu & A Room of One's Own. Jane Tobias, Judith Shakespeare, Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael, John Uskglass. (Give her another hundred years, give her a room of her own. She will be a poet, in another hundred years' time. Why not?)
Beautiful and poetic piece about Jane Tobias - really dreamlike and wonderful.
Change of Scenery (5892 words) by catchmeifyoucreon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mabinogion - Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arawn & Pwyll Pen Annwfn (Llên a Chrefydd yr Hen Gymraeg), Arawn's Wife & Pwyll Pen Annwfn (Llên a Chrefydd yr Hen Gymraeg)
Characters: Arawn (Llên a Chrefydd yr Hen Gymraeg), Pwyll Pen Annwfn, Arawn's Wife (Llên a Chrefydd yr Hen Gymraeg)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, (With a historical twist), Team Bonding, Cymraeg | Welsh, References to Llên a Chrefydd yr Hen Gymraeg | Ancient Welsh Religion & Lore, Friendship, Implied Reincarnation
Summary: Pwyll is fighting for his life on a disastrous team-bonding trip that he organised. Frustrated by his team and lost in the woods on a rainy winter day, the last thing he expects is to run into a man who claims to be Arawn, the legendary prince of the Welsh otherworld Annwn. Well, actually, maybe the last thing Pwyll expects is to be transported to said otherworld to learn lessons about leadership from Arawn's wife. Either way, it's shaping up to be a weird day!
Marvellous Modern AU of one of the stories from The Mabinogion!
Mundane Magic (1061 words) by SoVeryAverageMe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: McDonald & Dodds (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lauren McDonald (McDonald & Dodds) & Dodds (McDonald & Dodds)
Characters: Lauren McDonald (McDonald & Dodds), Dodds (McDonald & Dodds)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Weddings, Humor, Fluff and Humor, Dialogue Heavy
Summary:
“Can I talk to you for a second, Dodds?” McDonald tugged on his arm as he was exiting the break room.
“Oh, you almost made me spill my tea, ma’am.” He readjusted his hold on his cup, “but of course you can. Is it about the last case?”
"No, actually.” She looked unsure of herself and pulled them out of the hallway. “It’s actually about something more personal.”
(or, McDonalds asks Dodds to be in her wedding party, and a few scenes thereafter).
This captures their friendship so well.
Knowing Your Role (100 words) by DesertVixen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: No Wind of Blame - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hugh Dering/Vicky Fanshawe
Characters: Hugh Dering, Vicky Fanshawe, Inspector Hemingway
Additional Tags: Drabble, YUMADRIN 2024, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Post-Canon
Summary: Inspector Hemingway meets the Derings at a party...
Vicky continues to be Vicky, and murder never takes a holiday.
Plum Pudding & Clustered Grapes (7459 words) by Sobriquett
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret Hale/John Thornton, Margaret Hale & Nicholas Higgins, Margaret Hale & Hannah Thornton
Characters: Margaret Hale, John Thornton, Nicholas Higgins, Hannah Thornton
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Christmas, A good old-fashioned Victorian Christmas story, Yuletide 2024, Married Margaret Hale/John Thornton, Christmas Fluff
Summary: Margaret wants to host Christmas Dinner for the workers at Marlborough Mills. Nobody, from her husband to her mother-in-law to Nicholas Higgins, is having any of it.
Detailed and lovely Christmas-set post-canon fic for the Thorntons & Higginses.
Common Ground (14859 words) by edwardianspinsteraunt
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Arthur Winslow (Winslow Boy), Desmond Curry, Grace Winslow, Ronnie Winslow
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, World War I, Courtship, Reunions, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, minor character injury, (neither of these two tags happen to the main characters in the pairing), home front, Sequel
Summary: Robert and Catherine meet again and begin a hesitant courtship. But when war breaks out, neither of them can remain unchanged or unscathed.
Amazing, pitch-perfect, post-canon slow burn for these two. ♥
Two Turtledoves (1104 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Additional Tags: Married Couple, Fluff, Historical Inaccuracy, Yuletide Treat
Summary: There was another cartoon in the morning paper that day. Really, Cate thought, it was intolerable.
Delightful post-canon happily-married scene.
All's Fair in Love and Invasions (4864 words) by WyvernQuill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully (BBC Radio)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katrina Lyons/Uljabaan
Characters: Katrina Lyons, Uljabaan (Welcome to Our Village), Lucy Alexander (Welcome to Our Village), The Computer (Welcome to Our Village)
Additional Tags: Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Cultural Differences, Attempted Seduction, Humor, Enemies to Lovers, Antagonism, that thin line between love and hate, or between romance and interplanetary conflict, Yuletide 2024
Summary: “I will defeat Uljabaan with something uniquely and deeply human, which the alien menace will be defenceless against! I will bring him down with…”
Katrina leaves a pause. Clutches her fist to her chest, adopting the noble gaze-into-the-distance pose she hopes the history books will depict in their illustrations of this moment.
“...love.”
“Oh, ew,” says Lucy, instantly. Katrina hopes the history books will cut that bit out.
Hilarious story in which Katrina and Uljabaan turn out to have been having cultural differences all along, and, well, Katrina gets to have sex for once, ethics are complicated.
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Date: 2025-04-30 06:15 pm (UTC)Same here!
And, by the way, thank you for including my fic! <3
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Date: 2025-05-01 12:59 am (UTC)Thank you for this list! It includes several fics I really enjoyed and left no comments on because that's how the winter went: now I can find them again.
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