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Yuletide reveals!

My main assignment was Supplemental Lectures, a Sungkyunkwan Scandal Moon Jae-shin/Gu Yong-ha fic featuring cross-dressing, rooftop-jumping concubines, and an irritable revolutionary aunt. In other words, it is enormously self-indulgent and very clearly has my fingerprints ALL OVER IT.

I loved writing this and my only regret is that I couldn't write literally everything else that [personal profile] teleidoplex requested as well because I matched on ALL their prompts and they were all SO GOOD; if I'd had time I definitely would have rewatched Faith: The Great Doctor to write the Evil Time-Travelers Flail Into The Future Fic as well but as it is I barely made it all the way through the 20 episodes of SKKS before it was time to buckle down and actually write the fic. Maybe next year!

Let's Get Together is a pinch-hit I picked up for Jane the Virgin because I wanted to write Jane/Petra, and then immediately instead found myself writing futurefic set in a hypothetical tenth or eleventh season starring Mateo, Anna and Elsa, and a diamond heist. It is total nonsense and I made myself laugh a lot while writing it (although halfway through I realized what I ought to have been writing all along was the reverse Parent Trap briefly referenced in this fic, in which Anna and Elsa realize that Petra/Jane/Rafael have sorted out a functional threesome, panic about having to deal with a United Parent Front, and immediately launch an elaborately complex scheme to break them all up. But maybe now someone else will write that for me! :D)

And the third fic I wrote was And So The Garden Grew, a surprise Lord Peter Wimsey gift for [personal profile] genarti about Mary Wimsey Parker taking on a case for Mrs. Grimethorpe. This required GREAT STEALTH on my part, as Gen has been staying with me since early December. I reread Clouds of Witness during my lunch breaks at work, started the fic on Christmas Eve while she and her family were at church, and then finished it up later that night when she was literally in bed next to me -- fortunately [personal profile] izilen had asked us to stay up betaing her lovely Gokusen fic Tuesday Afternoon while she finished writing it, so I had an excuse for being awake and typing industriously in a Google doc until 2 AM, without which I probably would not have finished and definitely would not have escaped detection.

Anyway, the next morning Gen woke up and was like "I have a Mary Wimsey and Mrs. Grimethorpe fic! :DDD" and I said "Oh, great! ...who's Mrs. Grimethorpe?" and have successfully managed to keep up the masquerade until reveals this very morning. Who said I've got no poker face?

Thank you to [personal profile] genarti, [personal profile] izilen, [personal profile] newredshoes, [personal profile] aquamirage, [personal profile] innerbrat and [personal profile] saramily for reading and commenting on various drafts of various things, and thank you also again to [personal profile] vass and [personal profile] joking for my delightful Yuletide gifts!!! ([personal profile] vass, I had no idea that was you, I am CRACKING UP, that fic was a joy and a wonder.)
skygiants: Sokka from Avatar: the Last Airbender peers through an eyeglass (*peers*)
I found In the Teeth of the Evidence at a used bookstore when I was still in the midst of my Sayers reread, and bought it because it contained a bunch of Sayers stories that (to the best of my recollection) I had not read and I figured I might as well.

These are ... not Sayers' greatest works. The first seven stories feature Lord Peter Wimsey and Sayers' other recurring detective, traveling salesman Montague Egg; they're all very much of the Solve A Brain-Twister In Four Pages variety and are otherwise not very interesting. Also, Montague Egg is the sort of person who goes around quoting maxims like "Never miss a chance of learning for that word spells '£' plus 'earning,'" and, like, on the one hand, I respect Sayers for resisting the temptation to make her other detective as Dreamy as Lord Peter, but on the other hand.

I found the back half of stories easier going; they were not any better per se but at least there was more variety? Stories included:

I'm just straight-up spoiling the punchline for many of these so click at your own risk )
skygiants: Sokka from Avatar: the Last Airbender peers through an eyeglass (*peers*)
I have finished rereading the back half of the Wimsey books and I have a fair number of opinions! BEAR WITH ME.

This gets a little long )
skygiants: Sokka from Avatar: the Last Airbender peers through an eyeglass (*peers*)
As a comfort read project, I've been rereading the Lord Peter Wimsey books for the first time since I was in high school - with the exception of Murder Must Advertise, which I wrote a paper on in college, and The Nine Tailors, which I realized I'd never read after writing my paper on Murder Must Advertise and therefore read shortly afterwards. But I haven't hit either of those yet on my reread; I've currently gotten through Whose Body, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and Strong Poison, and I just hauled myself over the finish line of Five Red Herrings today.

It's been an interesting and occasionally unexpected experience. Here are some general impressions )

Five left, but of those five, three of them -- Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon -- are the ones that I remember best, so it'll be interesting to see if the reread continues to be as much of a voyage of discovery as the early ones have been or if the later books generally match up with the impressions they've already left in my brain.

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