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Yuletide 2018 Recs
Dec. 26th, 2018 07:04 pmI was lucky enough to receive two gifts from Yuletide this year, and they're both brilliant, so they absolutely make this list.
The Blood Moon and the Sun
Fandom: Baraou no Suretsu | Requiem of the Rose King
Pairing: Henry VI/Richard III
For those of you unfamiliar with the canon, it's an au of the Wars of the Roses featuring an intersex Richard III who is haunted by the ghost-witch of Jeanne d'Arc. He has a vaguely romantic relationship with a shepherd called Henry - secretly Henry VI, who keeps slipping away in an attempt to escape the duties he hates so much. There are other, more complicated plotlines, but that's the jist of it. It's unapologetically weird, grim-dark, and quite fun.
This fic is very much along the same lines. The narrative is vague - we don't know how much is real and how much is a hallucination. The pairing is handled with the same air of inevitable tragedy as in canon, and Jeanne's appearance is gloriously in character.
the second interesting thing about angels
Fandom: Cthulhu Mythos - H.P. Lovecraft
Pairing: Nyarlathotep/Randolph Carter
Okay, so this is the best fic for this pairing that I've ever read. Ever. Nyarlathotep is perfectly written - he's unapologetically inhuman and, for all his professed fondness for Carter, he approaches their liaison (relationship?) with much the same attitude as a cat approaches a spider. Carter is going to be eaten alive; Nyarlathotep is going to make sure that he enjoys the process (mostly). There's some extremely well-written, dimension-shattering and weird sex in here - super hot and uncompromising in its interspecies nature.
( Other recs for Agatha Christie's Poirot, AvP, Blackadder, Cthulhu Mythos, Ocean's 8, and The Terror )
And that's it! If you're interested, check them out! And, of course, check out the Yuletide archive as a whole for a wide-range of excellent fics in over a thousand small fandoms.
The Blood Moon and the Sun
Fandom: Baraou no Suretsu | Requiem of the Rose King
Pairing: Henry VI/Richard III
For those of you unfamiliar with the canon, it's an au of the Wars of the Roses featuring an intersex Richard III who is haunted by the ghost-witch of Jeanne d'Arc. He has a vaguely romantic relationship with a shepherd called Henry - secretly Henry VI, who keeps slipping away in an attempt to escape the duties he hates so much. There are other, more complicated plotlines, but that's the jist of it. It's unapologetically weird, grim-dark, and quite fun.
This fic is very much along the same lines. The narrative is vague - we don't know how much is real and how much is a hallucination. The pairing is handled with the same air of inevitable tragedy as in canon, and Jeanne's appearance is gloriously in character.
the second interesting thing about angels
Fandom: Cthulhu Mythos - H.P. Lovecraft
Pairing: Nyarlathotep/Randolph Carter
Okay, so this is the best fic for this pairing that I've ever read. Ever. Nyarlathotep is perfectly written - he's unapologetically inhuman and, for all his professed fondness for Carter, he approaches their liaison (relationship?) with much the same attitude as a cat approaches a spider. Carter is going to be eaten alive; Nyarlathotep is going to make sure that he enjoys the process (mostly). There's some extremely well-written, dimension-shattering and weird sex in here - super hot and uncompromising in its interspecies nature.
( Other recs for Agatha Christie's Poirot, AvP, Blackadder, Cthulhu Mythos, Ocean's 8, and The Terror )
And that's it! If you're interested, check them out! And, of course, check out the Yuletide archive as a whole for a wide-range of excellent fics in over a thousand small fandoms.
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