osprey_archer | Yuletide reveal

MY FICS MY FICS MY YULETIDE FICS! You should read them ALL because they are FANTABULOUS!

(One of my New Year's resolutions is to be more modest. Is it working?)

The main story: Covetous, 101 Dalmations, PG. Beta'ed by the marvelous

asakiyume.

It's a story about how Cruella and Anita met. They were at school, right, and Anita had the most glorious hair, and Cru...well. You know how Cruella's hair is.

I actually hadn't signed up for this fandom, but I saw my recipient's prompt and thought, "OBVIOUSLY CRUELLA WANTS TO MAKE NITA'S HAIR INTO A WIG and also if I set it in a school I can create cool secondary characters!" and of course then I had to write it.

The treats

Five Times Jess & Jules Kissed in Public, Bend it Like Beckham, Jess/Jules, PG-13. Beta'ed by brilliant and wonderful

radio_silent and

entwashian, who saved me from my panic over the ending.

You should read this fic! Because it is awesome and exhilarating and giggly and frightening and fun, just like being young and in love!

I'm ridiculously proud of this story; it's probably my best this Yuletide.

The King's Guard, The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whelan Turner, Gen/Costis (and also a little Gen/Attolia), PG

I love the Queen's Thief books to death, especially the last three (the first one is cute but not awesome while the last three are awesome). They are the books that I want to write some day: the spare but emotional prose style and the rich characterization and the twisty plots that award rereading and the way that half the story lies in what remains unsaid.

And I managed to capture a little bit of all that in this story! I'm totally jazzed! Probably my favorite part is the end, where Gen is shamefacedly 'splaining himself to Attolia, but I think the whole fic is adorable.

And now for something completely different: Sealskin, a fairy tale about a selkie and the girl who falls for her. PG-13 or maybe R.

This is a peculiar story for me because there's not a lot of dialogue - well, actually, now that I look at it there's lots of dialogue. But normally dialogue is the driving force in my stories, and here the driving force is description and atmosphere (the naked selkie dripping on the jagged black rock by the sea). I'm pleased with it; I think it turned out well. Maybe I'm better at description than I thought.