Yuletide

I am still away (just) and so not really here (merely a figment of your imagination, or possibly mine) but despite defaulting, I had two Yuletide gifts, one amazing-looking longfic in Dracula TV 1968 as my gift and a delightful drabble chain in Madness.

I am the worst recipient, as I have been too tired to read my longfic, although I am impatient to do so. It looks excellent and I obv have to find out whether there is any more fainting or not! Just right now I am all unbrained alas. but here they are. I have a vampire theme, it appears...

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (38879 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Lucy Weston/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Lucy Weston, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968), Mrs Weston (Dracula TV 1968), Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Mind Control, Possession, Vampires, Friendship, Gothic, Dabbling In The Black Arts, Post-Canon, Blood, Fog, Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, Vampire Bites, Vampire Turning, So much for that hot tea and a blanket, Jonathan takes a tumble for Mina
Summary: The Count has been defeated, but all is not as it should be. In the wake of their presumed victory, Mina Harker stands at a crossroads. She finds herself torn between one world and the next; the living and the undead. She is dragged ever further from the light with every breath she takes. In the fallout, the ripples of her eventual choice will change those she holds dearest to her heart most of all.

!!! See? I am the luckiest recip and the worst.


The Highgate vampire (1000 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Department S, Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Annabelle Hurst, Jason King, Stewart Sullivan (Department S), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Case Fic, Elemental Weirdness, Supernatural Elements, Team as Family, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Treat
Summary: Highgate, North London. December 1969. Fragments from a very straight-forward case.

(Or: a case told in 10 drabbles.)

This was within brain-reach, happily, and so I can say it is a delightful and unexpected little crossover case for both teams and again I am the luckiest recip. (Also I had really not quite taken in the similarity of some of the dynamics in my OT3 for both, and now I am amused at myself.)

I hope everyone else doing Yuletide is having an equally nice time if with more brain, and I will be back soon and hopefully will regain brain, or at least enough to read my enticing gift.


It was very weird not having a fic that I wrote in either collection at all, though. FIrst time that has happened in 10 years, and I trust it won't happen again for another 10!! (I am here for both giving and getting; that is rather the point of exchanges!)