skygiants

YULETIDE YULETIDE YULETIDE

. . . uh, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Have fun with your holiday, I'm going to be over here with my giant pile of glorious Yuletide to wade through. *____*

I got two stories this year and they are both PERFECTION.

The Marriage Masquerade, The Talisman Ring

Ludovic waved a hand. “I want nothing—the reek from that devilish carpet is sobering enough.”

Sir Tristram exerted a super-human effort, and refrained from pointing out that this ruinously expensive carpet had been an excellent example of its kind before he and his Bedlamite wife had entered the room uninvited.

Ludovic and Eugenie are having some marital problems, so obviously it's up to Tristram and Sarah to sort them out, as usual. This fic is hilarious and perfectly in-character all around, but the greatest thing about it is that it is Talisman Ring fic WITH CROSSDRESSING, like, man, guys, somebody clearly knows exactly what I want in my fiction. WELL DONE, MYSTERY AUTHOR.

Civilized Indecency, Fly By Night

“We must do something about these disruptive tendencies of yours, Mosca. Oh, yes, they’re endearing on a certain level, but that hardly balances the inconvenience, not to mention mortal peril, your revolutionary little heart brings upon us with stunning regularity. Can we, just this once, drop it?”

Mosca encounters a corrupt legal system, proceeds to drag Clent into attempting to turn it on its head, as is her wont, and finds out things are immensely more complicated and troubling than she thought - so basically this fic like someone wrote me a new Mosca Mye novel in two thousand words AND IS PERFECTION, everyone go read it immediately! Oh Mosca, my very favorite angry little girl.

There might be actual recs later as I dive into the rest of the archive, but for right now I just have to do a special shout-out to the greatest mystery (for me) of Yuletide so far: Step by step on the flowers placed before you, a Capital Scandal/Sungkyunkwan Scandal CROSSOVER FIC about YONG HA AND CHA SONG JOO HANGING OUT oh my god beautiful brilliance (beautiful heartbreaking brilliance)

This was a gift for

shati, who for the record I sat down and forced to watch both Capital Scandal and Sungkyunkwan Scandal this summer. So when she saw the tags we had this conversation:

SHATI: WAS IT YOU?
BECCA: No! It wasn't me! Was it you?
SHATI: It's a gift for me, so I'm pretty sure no! Are you sure it wasn't you?
BECCA: Not unless I wrote it in my sleep!
SHATI: . . .
BECCA: . . . Debi . . .?

But it doesn't read particularly like

innerbrat, or

viviolo or

dharmavati either, who would be my first range of usual suspects. If I'm wrong: CONGRATS GUYS, you totally fooled me, and also, YOU'RE AMAZING. If it's someone else I know: DITTO. If it's a stranger: HI, YOU'RE A GENIUS, LET'S BE FRIENDS.

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innerbrat

I KNOW WHO DID IT.

I'M NOT TELLING.

I also have something interesting to say about this year's SSK fic, the tags thereof, and what this suggests about who wrote it.

skygiants

. . . SSK? I feel like I'm mis-parsing an acronym and feeling dim.

I typoed SKKS - because SSK is a knitting acronym and I'm more used to seeing it.

Edited Date: 2012-12-25 04:19 pm (UTC)

OH OKAY. I got confused because there are like four of them now! (SUCH AN ABUNDANCE OF RICHES. :D :D :D)

(Also . . . yes. Those tags are a little bit of a giveaway. *loling*)

Becca, I want to read all the archive and do all the recs posts but I don't even know where to start! *flails*

THIS IS THE ANNUAL PROBLEM WITH YULETIDE. I always give up and end up going alphabetically because I can't process it any other way! CANNOT COPE, TOO MUCH AWESOME

genarti

THAT IS MY PAIN ALSO.

I'm downloading basically everything in a fandom I know (unless the summary puts me off) onto my kindle, which helps with the reading all the archive part, but I still don't know where to start for recs posts! Usually my reaction is "want to rec lots and lots, get overwhelmed, never do anything," which... may well be what I do again, but.

I did books, (Except Discworld, which;ll get its own post maybe) and now I'm doing comics! This is my plan.

It's a good plan!

I'm downloading them alphabetically, so if I manage to get my act together and do recs, that will probably be alphabetical too. Stick A-D (or whatever) on my kindle, read & comment & rec, stick E-J on, repeat.

(The trouble now is that with all the recs on my flist and everybody talking about Yuletide, every time I take a mini-break from work and check my flist, I just want to give up on productivity and go faceplant into Yuletide for hours... Soon I'll be able to do so free and clear, though!)