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I am extremely excited to announce that my Yuletide gift this year inaugurated the Crossroads Series tag on the AO3: Let us go then, you and I, a fic about how vet student Laurie and a vengeful warrior Griffin met and entered into a tragic interspecies relationship that by the time the actual books begin is in full swing and never explained!

Laurie would never, later, admit this to him, but her very first thought was: Aslan?

"I won't refuse it," Laurie said. Thought: I deeply resent how much less fun being the heroine of a doomed romance is, compared to reading about it at thirteen.

I'M SO HAPPY.

As you may remember, I rediscovered the Crossroads books, an obscure portal fantasy series about vet students who go perform minor surgeries in a constantly endangered fantasyland, earlier this year. I had no expectations that I would ever receive fic for it; a million thanks to my mystery author for proving me wrong.

While we're talking about books I loved in the 90s: one of my other best holiday presents this year was a set of Fionavar Tapestry cover art, from

genarti. I'm mentioning this because a.) I'm extremely delighted b.) I NEEDED A SEGUE AND HEY, HAVE WE ALL HEARD ABOUT THE FIONAVAR TV SERIES? I am still trying to sort out how I feel about this, but I definitely have some basic requirements:

- amazing 80s hair for everyone, but especially Kim
- I expect serious commitment to the tragic Arthurian threesome and by that I mean Arthur and Lancelot had better make out by the end
- the CBC had better not cut Dave's law notes, the best joke in the series
- if Paul doesn't make someone cry in the first episode then honestly what is even the point

FIONAVAR FRIENDS, please tell me your hopes, fears, and dreams about this thing that is apparently happening!

ETA: And now I have a surprise Madness treat as well! Conversations with Righteousness, which very impressively manages to explore a whole bunch of the things I most wanted to see about Orth and Aria and Righteousness and The Shadow Of Ibex in several quick readable chatlogs.

Orth: Do you want to remember where you end and Righteousness begins? Here’s my advice, for whatever it’s worth: remember where your costume ends and you begin. Yours isn’t a suit, but you’ve still got one. Don’t become it.

A YULETIDE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. :DDDD

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Can I see pictures of your covers?

I am very excited about the Fionavar series. Here is what I want:

- Jennifer does not get the personality transplant post-pregnancy.

- They do not cut the flying unicorn.

- They do not cut the sea serpent eating ALL the elves.

- Diarmuid and Paul make ME cry.

You can see pictures when I get back to Boston! (I am currently in Vermont.) So, watch this space. :D

If they cut the sea serpent eating ALL the elves I will personally go to Canada and explain, at length, individually,, to EVERY EXECUTIVE INVOLVED IN THE SERIES, why they have just destroyed it and need to provide me with personal recompense.

(I am looking forward to all the things that will make me cry, but I've just realized another thing I need from the series is that they pronounce Diarmuid's name properly, as 'Dermott.')

Noooo, is that really how it's pronounced? I hope they mispronounce it.

It super is and, alas, my ability to talk about Diarmuid's plotline with a straight face has never been the same.

(Maybe they'll skip all the pretense and just call him 'Francis Crawford.')

Damn you, now I probably won't either.

That would be better.

Sadly yeah, it's like me learning how to say "Fionn mac Cumhaill" as a kid rather than how it looked when I read it.

It's "Finn MacCool," right?

Yeah, or even "Fen MacCoul." I was disappointed! And embarrassed. (I mispronounce words to this day because I only saw them written down.)

The cover posters in question are these! The landscape-oriented ones, not the portrait-oriented ones below.

Those are very pretty! And I am inappropriately cracking up at the giant sea serpent.

Oh, no, I think it's perfectly appropriate to crack up at the giant sea serpent. :D That part is forever hilarious to me, SORRY ELV-- I MEAN, LIOS ALFAR.

It's somehow especially funny because literally all the other OTT high-tragedy moments in the trilogy really work for me. Just not that one.

The fact that you can really see the LOTR fingerprints on that whole section makes it even funnier. I should not laugh at the idea that Frodo and Gandalf and all got EATEN BY A SEA SERPENT on the way to the Grey Havens. And yet.

It remains the funniest thing to me in the ENTIRE BOOK (and there are a lot of things that make me laugh in the book.)