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Dec. 25th, 2020 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsYuletide!!!! I received FOUR (four!!!!) wonderful gifts and I'm really not at all sure what I've done to deserve such bounty but I'm Overwhelmingly Delighted.
Two are for Frances Hardinge's Deeplight and, serendipitously, they work as a set; one is a fantastic, harrowing fic about Quest's backstory from his own POV, and the other is the story as retold by the woman Quest loved, and they both have different exquisitely painful knives with which to stab:
Pieces of the End
It had to be done, he told the sea. My lady, you knew it had to be done.
A seagull cried out over his head: but, Quest, did it have to be you?
Deeplie
“We tell everyone that the gods were monsters, because we cannot believe what real monsters we keep as our friends.”
The other two are for Hotel del Luna! The first thing I saw was that someone had taken me up on my wistful rarepair suggestion of Sanchez/Grim Reaper and written 6K of absolutely adorable postcanon romance, and I thought, 'wow, this is the wonderful Yuletide gift I least expected to get!'
To Steal a Jujube
He always came with gifts—champagne from France, bagels from New York, the softest leather gloves from Rome, and antique vases that Sanchez suspected, but couldn't prove, were worth more than his house. Jujubes, of all things, seemed to be a particular favorite.
Sanchez suspected the Grim Reaper was getting them from Sanchez' own trees.
Again.
And then I dove into the next one, which is 8k of impeccably characterized outsider POV casefic on Gu Chan Seong and Kim Yu Na's postcanon hotelier adventures written in the style of a dry British thriller and featuring a subplot about Scottish lobster smuggling, and I thought 'okay, no, THIS is the wonderful Yuletide gift I least expected to get!' I would never have thought of this conceit and it's INCREDIBLE.
Castle Sonas
I don’t know if the Harvard MBA syllabus includes a module on Advanced Level Devious Bastardry And General Shenanigans, but, if it does, Mr Koo had clearly aced it.
Thank you so much, mystery authors one and all -- I'm beyond delighted by each and every one of my gifts and I'm just going to roll around in them for a while!
Two are for Frances Hardinge's Deeplight and, serendipitously, they work as a set; one is a fantastic, harrowing fic about Quest's backstory from his own POV, and the other is the story as retold by the woman Quest loved, and they both have different exquisitely painful knives with which to stab:
Pieces of the End
It had to be done, he told the sea. My lady, you knew it had to be done.
A seagull cried out over his head: but, Quest, did it have to be you?
Deeplie
“We tell everyone that the gods were monsters, because we cannot believe what real monsters we keep as our friends.”
The other two are for Hotel del Luna! The first thing I saw was that someone had taken me up on my wistful rarepair suggestion of Sanchez/Grim Reaper and written 6K of absolutely adorable postcanon romance, and I thought, 'wow, this is the wonderful Yuletide gift I least expected to get!'
To Steal a Jujube
He always came with gifts—champagne from France, bagels from New York, the softest leather gloves from Rome, and antique vases that Sanchez suspected, but couldn't prove, were worth more than his house. Jujubes, of all things, seemed to be a particular favorite.
Sanchez suspected the Grim Reaper was getting them from Sanchez' own trees.
Again.
And then I dove into the next one, which is 8k of impeccably characterized outsider POV casefic on Gu Chan Seong and Kim Yu Na's postcanon hotelier adventures written in the style of a dry British thriller and featuring a subplot about Scottish lobster smuggling, and I thought 'okay, no, THIS is the wonderful Yuletide gift I least expected to get!' I would never have thought of this conceit and it's INCREDIBLE.
Castle Sonas
I don’t know if the Harvard MBA syllabus includes a module on Advanced Level Devious Bastardry And General Shenanigans, but, if it does, Mr Koo had clearly aced it.
Thank you so much, mystery authors one and all -- I'm beyond delighted by each and every one of my gifts and I'm just going to roll around in them for a while!
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Date: 2020-12-25 11:29 pm (UTC)Go, you!
I really need to read Deeplight.
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Date: 2020-12-26 11:09 am (UTC)