Yuletide Largesse and Once Upon a Fic
Feb. 16th, 2020 05:49 pmIt is never too late to talk about awesome things, right? People were very generous to me this recent Yuletide and I have much to celebrate there.
I received two stories for the fairy tale The Lute Player - one an intricate, unsettling, seamless meld with Sir Orfeo, and one a more irreverent, but equally heartfelt story breathing life into the heroine especially. I love how the two stories expand the tale along such different axes. I also received:
- an incredibly indulgent threesome story for The Seer and the Sword, a slight but fun YA fantasy that has given me very shippy feelings since I read it half my life ago;
-a rich, strange, and fascinating story from Odile's perspective for the ballet Swan Lake;
-and a fun and intense worldbuilding snippet for Hive Mind, based on the very latest canon that had come out just weeks before Yuletide reveals (allowing me to devour it).
Details below the cut!
( Riches of Yuletide 2019 )
I also have a second reason for mentioning fairy tales: sign-ups are open for Once Upon a Fic, the fairy tales / legends / ballads / urban legends / myths / rhymes exchange I help![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
crantz run. They close on the 19th. I'm extremely excited for this exchange - I tend to struggle each year with writing and then come out with something I'm really proud of. And people's interpretations are so creative!
This year I'm asking for the following stories:
-The Cat Who Became a Queen - summary: His wife? A CAT. Deceptions and shenanigans and goodheartedness.
-Childe Rowland - a classic eerie fairyland quest! I want to explore it
-Lokasenna - look I just want to roll around in angry mythology!Loki feelings and the tragedy of it all
-East of the Sun, West of the Moon - It has bears AND fantastical locations AND personified elements AND a strange courtship and redemption! what's not to love
-The Green Knight - meet-cutes and dream technology! and more goodheartedness (though some spite as well) (Danish fairy tale, not Gawain's encounter)
Come write one of those for me! :P Or come write other things for other people. I'm not picky. Just come play -![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
once_upon_fic.
I received two stories for the fairy tale The Lute Player - one an intricate, unsettling, seamless meld with Sir Orfeo, and one a more irreverent, but equally heartfelt story breathing life into the heroine especially. I love how the two stories expand the tale along such different axes. I also received:
- an incredibly indulgent threesome story for The Seer and the Sword, a slight but fun YA fantasy that has given me very shippy feelings since I read it half my life ago;
-a rich, strange, and fascinating story from Odile's perspective for the ballet Swan Lake;
-and a fun and intense worldbuilding snippet for Hive Mind, based on the very latest canon that had come out just weeks before Yuletide reveals (allowing me to devour it).
Details below the cut!
( Riches of Yuletide 2019 )
I also have a second reason for mentioning fairy tales: sign-ups are open for Once Upon a Fic, the fairy tales / legends / ballads / urban legends / myths / rhymes exchange I help
crantz run. They close on the 19th. I'm extremely excited for this exchange - I tend to struggle each year with writing and then come out with something I'm really proud of. And people's interpretations are so creative!This year I'm asking for the following stories:
-The Cat Who Became a Queen - summary: His wife? A CAT. Deceptions and shenanigans and goodheartedness.
-Childe Rowland - a classic eerie fairyland quest! I want to explore it
-Lokasenna - look I just want to roll around in angry mythology!Loki feelings and the tragedy of it all
-East of the Sun, West of the Moon - It has bears AND fantastical locations AND personified elements AND a strange courtship and redemption! what's not to love
-The Green Knight - meet-cutes and dream technology! and more goodheartedness (though some spite as well) (Danish fairy tale, not Gawain's encounter)
Come write one of those for me! :P Or come write other things for other people. I'm not picky. Just come play -
once_upon_fic.
