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yuletide!
Several recs:
Climbing Mount Kunlun - Chinese Mythology
"Not all over the table, venerable sir!" cried Xiao Zhen, but it was already too late.
This is one of the stories written for me: a young woman leaves her family and goes on an adventure through gods and legends to find a cure for her cousin. The use of Chinese mythology is wonderful, and I love that Xiao Zhen isn't pretty, but clever and hardworking and thoughtful.
Quartet - Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
Four Christmases in Nita's life.
Funny and tender and poignant by turns, Kit/Nita, futurefic. And Dairine starts a band! (No, really, she does!)
The Wizard's Oath - Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so -- till Universe's end.
They're not young wizards anymore, they're young parents. It's a lot more scary. And I love this story - a different kind of oath: 'for Life's sake'.
Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.
LOL AT THE FOOTNOTES! (Very important in a Discworld fic.) Grin at the golems! Observe the Watch trying to get out of a tricky situation! (They've just arrested Adora Belle Dearheart.) Now with extra swamp dragons!
The Ill-Advised Skeletal Exchange Program - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Death has apparently temporarily exchanged places with his pen pal, Jack Skellington. Susan is, understandably, Not Impressed (though the Death of Rats finds the whole thing hilarious)
I really really really want to see the sequel to this, wherein Miss Susan goes to town on Halloweentown. If you thought Christmas without Sandy Claws was bad, imagine Halloweentown with Death in charge and Susan on the warpath...
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I only wrote one Yuletide fic this year. If you work out which one it is before the reveal and tell me, I'll write you a fic. :)
Climbing Mount Kunlun - Chinese Mythology
"Not all over the table, venerable sir!" cried Xiao Zhen, but it was already too late.
This is one of the stories written for me: a young woman leaves her family and goes on an adventure through gods and legends to find a cure for her cousin. The use of Chinese mythology is wonderful, and I love that Xiao Zhen isn't pretty, but clever and hardworking and thoughtful.
Quartet - Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
Four Christmases in Nita's life.
Funny and tender and poignant by turns, Kit/Nita, futurefic. And Dairine starts a band! (No, really, she does!)
The Wizard's Oath - Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
In Life's name and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone, rejecting all other usages. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will put aside fear for courage, and death for life, when it is right to do so -- till Universe's end.
They're not young wizards anymore, they're young parents. It's a lot more scary. And I love this story - a different kind of oath: 'for Life's sake'.
Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.
LOL AT THE FOOTNOTES! (Very important in a Discworld fic.) Grin at the golems! Observe the Watch trying to get out of a tricky situation! (They've just arrested Adora Belle Dearheart.) Now with extra swamp dragons!
The Ill-Advised Skeletal Exchange Program - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Death has apparently temporarily exchanged places with his pen pal, Jack Skellington. Susan is, understandably, Not Impressed (though the Death of Rats finds the whole thing hilarious)
I really really really want to see the sequel to this, wherein Miss Susan goes to town on Halloweentown. If you thought Christmas without Sandy Claws was bad, imagine Halloweentown with Death in charge and Susan on the warpath...
--
I only wrote one Yuletide fic this year. If you work out which one it is before the reveal and tell me, I'll write you a fic. :)