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My Yuletide gifts - all, incidentally, to my Chinese Mythology request:
Goddess And The City by Fresne: the most ancient and terrible of goddesses let loose in the modern world.
Climbing Mount Kunlun by Salifiable: a walk through Chinese myth and legend for a faithful girl brings happiness and hope from the gods.
Four Seasons, A Dragon, And A River In Flood by Redsnake05: tales of the origins of a goddess.
All excellent fics, although I admit that 'Climbing Mount Kunlun' is my favourite for the adventure aspect.
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My assignment was for athersgeo:
FANDOM: The Bourne Trilogy (movie)
TITLE: Galatea, Shaped By His Hand
CHARACTERS: Nicky Parsons, Pamela Landy, Jason Bourne; implied Nicky/Jason.
SUMMARY: The intersection of Jason Bourne's paths with Nicky Parsons and Pamela Landy. Some things change. Some things don't.
I also wrote two treats - one of them very short!
FANDOM: Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
TITLE: Metamorphose
CHARACTERS: Kit Rodriguez, Nita Callahan; Kit/Nita
SUMMARY: Last night, sitting on his bed with Nita's feet resting in his lap while they read through their manuals on their current errantry, Kit paused in his reading for a moment and realised he could feel her breathing in her skin.
FANDOM: Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
TITLE: Origami
CHARACTERS: Moist Von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart; Adora Belle/Moist, D/s
SUMMARY: She looks at him, and he folds like paper.
Of them all, I think 'Metamorphose' was best-received by the fandom, although 'Galatea' has overall more hits.
If there'd been more to 'Origami', then it probably would have been better received. However, I wrote it in the five minutes before Yuletide Madness ended (as in the five minutes before Elyn closed the archive), so, all things considered, I think I did pretty well! I'd rather like to add to it, but I need to re-read Going Postal and Making Money to properly get Moist's voice firmly in my head before I'd feel comfortable writing any more.
'Galatea' was written fairly fast in the end: about two days before the deadline, and with the last section written in the two hours before you had to have your Yuletide entry in or be labelled a defaulter. I suspect that most people want a more romantic interpretation of their relationship, but I couldn't really see them there before he joined Treadstone, although there's the implication that they at least knew each other. Afterwards, though, I can see them on the lam together, not getting sexual at first, but moving there given time.
I also had a completely off-the-wall idea for a Bourne Trilogy prompt, which I might write as a Yuletide NYR.
One thing I love about Diane Duane's writing is that Kit and Nita are very adolescent in their relationship. It's not as simple as instantly falling in love - they're friends and wizarding partners, sure. But more? Well, that's a bit of a toughie, isn't it?
'Metamorphose' was supposed to be more of a story about Kit dealing with the emotional side of a relationship with Nita. But after trying a few tacks, I wasn't sure there even was that much to explore on that side of things. Kit and Nita may not be sappy adolescents, staring deeply into each other's eyes - but just about everything they do, all the way back to the 2nd book, Deep Wizardry (they're presently on the 9th book), screams that they care to the point of each one being willing to sacrifice themself for the other.
So I went more for the physical side of things - and Kit's POV, because in the books, we've seen less of him asking himself about the more delicate steps of his friendship with Nita, while Nita's asked herself several times about how much she likes Kit and whether she really wanted to take it there. I'm pretty happy with it as it turned out, and I think others are pretty happy with it, too!
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On the list of "to write treats for", there were X-Wing fics and Discworld prompts, Tanya Huff's Smoke and Blood series, Melanie Rawn, Sanctuary, The Dark Is Rising and the Chronicles of Prydain.
Well, maybe next year?
Goddess And The City by Fresne: the most ancient and terrible of goddesses let loose in the modern world.
Climbing Mount Kunlun by Salifiable: a walk through Chinese myth and legend for a faithful girl brings happiness and hope from the gods.
Four Seasons, A Dragon, And A River In Flood by Redsnake05: tales of the origins of a goddess.
All excellent fics, although I admit that 'Climbing Mount Kunlun' is my favourite for the adventure aspect.
--
My assignment was for athersgeo:
FANDOM: The Bourne Trilogy (movie)
TITLE: Galatea, Shaped By His Hand
CHARACTERS: Nicky Parsons, Pamela Landy, Jason Bourne; implied Nicky/Jason.
SUMMARY: The intersection of Jason Bourne's paths with Nicky Parsons and Pamela Landy. Some things change. Some things don't.
I also wrote two treats - one of them very short!
FANDOM: Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
TITLE: Metamorphose
CHARACTERS: Kit Rodriguez, Nita Callahan; Kit/Nita
SUMMARY: Last night, sitting on his bed with Nita's feet resting in his lap while they read through their manuals on their current errantry, Kit paused in his reading for a moment and realised he could feel her breathing in her skin.
FANDOM: Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
TITLE: Origami
CHARACTERS: Moist Von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart; Adora Belle/Moist, D/s
SUMMARY: She looks at him, and he folds like paper.
Of them all, I think 'Metamorphose' was best-received by the fandom, although 'Galatea' has overall more hits.
If there'd been more to 'Origami', then it probably would have been better received. However, I wrote it in the five minutes before Yuletide Madness ended (as in the five minutes before Elyn closed the archive), so, all things considered, I think I did pretty well! I'd rather like to add to it, but I need to re-read Going Postal and Making Money to properly get Moist's voice firmly in my head before I'd feel comfortable writing any more.
'Galatea' was written fairly fast in the end: about two days before the deadline, and with the last section written in the two hours before you had to have your Yuletide entry in or be labelled a defaulter. I suspect that most people want a more romantic interpretation of their relationship, but I couldn't really see them there before he joined Treadstone, although there's the implication that they at least knew each other. Afterwards, though, I can see them on the lam together, not getting sexual at first, but moving there given time.
I also had a completely off-the-wall idea for a Bourne Trilogy prompt, which I might write as a Yuletide NYR.
One thing I love about Diane Duane's writing is that Kit and Nita are very adolescent in their relationship. It's not as simple as instantly falling in love - they're friends and wizarding partners, sure. But more? Well, that's a bit of a toughie, isn't it?
'Metamorphose' was supposed to be more of a story about Kit dealing with the emotional side of a relationship with Nita. But after trying a few tacks, I wasn't sure there even was that much to explore on that side of things. Kit and Nita may not be sappy adolescents, staring deeply into each other's eyes - but just about everything they do, all the way back to the 2nd book, Deep Wizardry (they're presently on the 9th book), screams that they care to the point of each one being willing to sacrifice themself for the other.
So I went more for the physical side of things - and Kit's POV, because in the books, we've seen less of him asking himself about the more delicate steps of his friendship with Nita, while Nita's asked herself several times about how much she likes Kit and whether she really wanted to take it there. I'm pretty happy with it as it turned out, and I think others are pretty happy with it, too!
--
On the list of "to write treats for", there were X-Wing fics and Discworld prompts, Tanya Huff's Smoke and Blood series, Melanie Rawn, Sanctuary, The Dark Is Rising and the Chronicles of Prydain.
Well, maybe next year?
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