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I have no Yuletide reading strategy. I look up fandoms I like, and sometimes read all the stories at once, or sometimes just one or two. I read by other people's recs. I randomly browse the archive. I boggle at the people who apparently start reading at 'A!'
I have been having a wonderful lazy holiday reading so many great Yuletide stories!
A hilarious Homicide: Life on the Streets ensemble story from the first season, in which the detectives are forced to give presentations to the Police Academy. Spot-on banter and grumpiness.
Learning is Fundamental.
This Mushishi story captures the series' humor, wonder, and sensitivity to the rhythms of nature and the cycle of seasons. The Spring Thaw.
Here are a sexy set of stories from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, all set in the Night Court.
The first, which is my favorite, doesn't require familiarity with the books other than to know that there are twelve brothels, each named for a flower and representing some aspect of sex: healing, sensuality, playfulness, sadism, masochism... The story, which reminded me of Japanese seasonal poetry, is a year of seasonal vignettes at each House. Twelve Months, Plus One
Imriel and Mavros go to Mandrake House for some cousinly flogging. Mandrake House.
A sexy little BDSM snippet, in which Phedre understands the nature of masochism and Joscelin doesn't. Joie.
In a classic Yuletide moment, someone said that Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish was kind of creepy, and a genuine horror story based on it and in that style would be awesome. Someone else obliged. Though definitely in the school of writing that suggests rather than splatters, this story proves that horror and childhood innocence go together like apples and caramel. And razor blades. Out of the Dark.
An AU for the Aliens movies, taking off from the end of the second one. Creepy and disquieting, action-packed and touching: this should have been the third movie. But I'll take it as is. Far Across the Stars.
I have been having a wonderful lazy holiday reading so many great Yuletide stories!
A hilarious Homicide: Life on the Streets ensemble story from the first season, in which the detectives are forced to give presentations to the Police Academy. Spot-on banter and grumpiness.
Learning is Fundamental.
This Mushishi story captures the series' humor, wonder, and sensitivity to the rhythms of nature and the cycle of seasons. The Spring Thaw.
Here are a sexy set of stories from Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books, all set in the Night Court.
The first, which is my favorite, doesn't require familiarity with the books other than to know that there are twelve brothels, each named for a flower and representing some aspect of sex: healing, sensuality, playfulness, sadism, masochism... The story, which reminded me of Japanese seasonal poetry, is a year of seasonal vignettes at each House. Twelve Months, Plus One
Imriel and Mavros go to Mandrake House for some cousinly flogging. Mandrake House.
A sexy little BDSM snippet, in which Phedre understands the nature of masochism and Joscelin doesn't. Joie.
In a classic Yuletide moment, someone said that Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish was kind of creepy, and a genuine horror story based on it and in that style would be awesome. Someone else obliged. Though definitely in the school of writing that suggests rather than splatters, this story proves that horror and childhood innocence go together like apples and caramel. And razor blades. Out of the Dark.
An AU for the Aliens movies, taking off from the end of the second one. Creepy and disquieting, action-packed and touching: this should have been the third movie. But I'll take it as is. Far Across the Stars.
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