Merry Christmas, everyone!
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osprey_archerI feel...satiated. I had duck and dumplings and trifle for dinner, I have Christmas presents to squee over (I finally have a copy of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Changling! Best book ever, even better than her Egypt Game), and of course there's an entire archive of Yuletide fics to dig through.
A few recs, because that's just the Thing To Do today:
the sandwich story. Calvin & Hobbes. This has been recced by pretty much everyone already, but it's so wonderful that it deserves every recommendation it can get. Sweet and sad and so, so well written.
The Starkadder Switchback: a Fitz Fortune Thriller, which is fic for Cold Comfort Farm if anyone has read that - but even if you haven't this story is fantastic. It features detectives trying really hard to be hard-boiled, movie studios trying to drum up scandal, lovely figurative language ("the gentle patina of mildew on the walls"), and Flora Fairford (nee Poste) applying her inimitable brand of common sense to make everything come out just as she wants it.
It's lovely having all these stories to dig through, although I'm a little sad that Yuletide is over. It's a pity that there isn't a Yuletide friending meme; I bet it would go over really well, given how bonded everyone is from the excitement and effort and staying up ridiculously late refreshing the archive every ten seconds, waiting for it to open.
A few recs, because that's just the Thing To Do today:
the sandwich story. Calvin & Hobbes. This has been recced by pretty much everyone already, but it's so wonderful that it deserves every recommendation it can get. Sweet and sad and so, so well written.
The Starkadder Switchback: a Fitz Fortune Thriller, which is fic for Cold Comfort Farm if anyone has read that - but even if you haven't this story is fantastic. It features detectives trying really hard to be hard-boiled, movie studios trying to drum up scandal, lovely figurative language ("the gentle patina of mildew on the walls"), and Flora Fairford (nee Poste) applying her inimitable brand of common sense to make everything come out just as she wants it.
It's lovely having all these stories to dig through, although I'm a little sad that Yuletide is over. It's a pity that there isn't a Yuletide friending meme; I bet it would go over really well, given how bonded everyone is from the excitement and effort and staying up ridiculously late refreshing the archive every ten seconds, waiting for it to open.
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Date: 2008-12-26 05:21 am (UTC)it's probably pretty much impossible to guess who wrote which stories, but if you run across anything you feel is a strong contender feel free to tell me. :p