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thisbluespirit) wrote2019-01-01 12:53 pm
Yuletide Reveals II: Treats in Historical RPF, Shadow of the Tower & Dracula
allegoriesinmediasres for Shadow of the Tower, which would have been fine if I hadn't, when my original attempt fell through, thought, how about a canon AU for Henry/Elizabeth... and then been unable to decide which ones to write. So I wrote them all, hoped the recip would enjoy it, and eventually posted to both 15thC as well as SotT as it seemed relevant, but didn't expect anyone but the recip to really read it. Except they did - 8k words, Yule regulars and steadily mounting kudos and no comments. I was beginning to wonder what horrible and embarrassing error I (and Pers) had somehow missed until it dawned on me that shipping Henry VII was too weird for Yuletide. I would say I'm sorry but I'm not. I did research and listened to 15th century music on YT, and I'll have to make a post for somewhere about the BBC costume department & my history book, Tesco's magic bookstall, or suddenly realising AU #3 was totally a Gothic Romance... But I probably should have been more concise and decisive in the first place, instead of going for All the Words. (What's quality over quantity, right?) Pro-tip for Yuletide, though: don't ship Henry VII. Ship people who are in the History plays instead, that's just normal.
i love the rose both red and white (8072 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shadow of the Tower, 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England
Characters: Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Henry VII of England, Margaret Beaufort, John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford, Catherine Gordon, Jasper Tudor, Cecily of York Viscountess Welles, Perkin Warbeck
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, 5 Times, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Arranged Marriage, The Wars of the Roses, Background Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Trust Issues, unfortunate people get sacrificed/locked in the Tower in each AU
Summary: I love the rose both red and white, Is that your pure, perfect appetite?
Five other ways it might have gone for Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor.
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Going through the letters, I loved halotolerant's Battle of Hastings request. They wanted crack and this instantly occurred to me and my main worry was that I would not have time or strength to eventually write it after my assignment and the giant treat above. (Well, until I wrote it, and then I worried in case they wanted crack, but not a Modern AU.) It went down well, luckily, and everyone was happy; the perfect Yule outcome, except for me thinking belatedly of Jokes I Should Have Made/forgot when typing in a hurry.
Do you want 1066 retold in a 21st epistolary Organic Farming AU? Possibly not, but I have 100% for real been told in the comments that it has a better ending than canon. So, my fic - totally better than an arrow to the eye! It's official.
We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (3511 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 11th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harold II of England/William the Conqueror
Characters: Harold II of England, William the Conqueror, Edith of Wessex (c. 1025-1075), Matilda of Flanders
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Crack, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Epistolary, Humor, Angry exes, Swearing, Arson, Bees
Summary: from: h.godwinson@homespuntwaddle.com
to: brn@norman.org.fr
Hi Bill
Look, can we just talk this over like adults?
And the fact that I’m saying this despite the WIRE FENCE you’ve now erected round the perimeter of my farm ought to show you that I mean it. Please reply!
Harry.
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Right at the last minute, I also managed to type up a hasty little Dracula (TV 1968) treat for calliopes_pen, a darkish little Jonathan-centric post canon piece, based on part of one of her prompts.
Road to Recovery (2056 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Post-Canon, Vampires, Victorian, Hurt/Comfort, Dark
Summary: It will take time for Jonathan to become well again, but both Dr Seward and Mina are willing to do everything they can to help him – in very different ways...
(I went over and over it after typing, but it was unbetaed, so apologies for any errors - just let me know and I will fix them, as ever.)
There really were so many great prompts this year, had I only but world and brain enough, but it was a lovely Yuletide that even included a tiny SotT treat for me on top of my gift. I hope everybody else had an equally lovely time with it.
With many thanks to persiflage_1, who never even blinks at the random things I send her to beta, especially at Yuletide! <3 (You dodged a bullet, Pers - there were 1960s vampires in the end! ;-p)
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Does no comments (but good kudos) mean something's weird in YT?
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Not necessarily, but on an 8k historical fic by readers who took the trouble to read it & were leaving comments on my shorter cracky one, it just wasn't the usual pattern at all, so, being very worried about it anyway, I was perturbed for a day or so. Then I remembered it was a weird ship - I think it's not unusual with shorter, lighter pieces, or kinks, or weird ships, that kind of thing, where people don't know what to say. Or where the readers are coming from outside Yuletide, of course, but that wasn't mainly the case here.
I'm just being an obsessive author, but aren't most of us? ;-)
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That was magnificent.
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