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This is a great Yuletide year. I'm having such a good time reading stories and watching rain fall. I am behind in commenting; if I recced your story without doing so, that's why.
The Biggles and Worrals fic is GREAT. I'm going to attempt a dedicated Biggles & Worrals post later.
Don't Need to Know Canon
Chalice - Robin McKinley
There are two stories in the collection for this, both excellent and readable as original fantasy. What you need to know: In this land, a pair of magic users are bound to the land and keep it whole and healthy. One is the Master, a wizard. The other is a Chalice, a woman who makes potions with some drinkable liquid, usually water.
triptych. 8058 words.
Three Chalices. Three portraits in brine, milk, and blood.
Fascinating fantasy with three very different settings and problems the Chalices are trying to deal with.
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Some Fragments Concerning the Island of Bereswek. 1177 words.
There's a saying: “Rules change in the Reaches.” That certainly seems to be true on this island.
Intriguing worldbuilding about an island of Earthsea, in a style reminiscent of A Wizard of Earthsea but with some concerns typical of the later books.
Into the Woods - Sondheim & Lapine
The Tale You Tell. 2991 words.
She never pretended to be the hero of this particular story.
The backstory of the Baker's Wife - touching, clever, and excellent dialogue that really catches the tone of the musical. All you need to know is that Into the Woods is a metafictional fairy tale mashup, but the story does have spoilers for the outcome of the Baker's Wife's story.
Need to Know Canon
Andor (TV)
There Is A World Beyond This Place. 1081 words.
Twelve things Cassian Andor misses most in prison.
What it says on the tin; insightful and heartbreaking.
The Long Walk - Stephen King
Impossible Objects. 3716 words.
"Some people got up the nerve to go inside, but I don’t know if anyone ever lasted the night. There were murmurs that you could make certain trades there, in contact with the dead. Take your supplication to the ghosts, and whisper to them your secrets."
Heartbreaking post-canon story with some fascinating worldbuilding and folklore.
The Perfection (Movie)
What's Expected of Us. 1789 words.
Outside, a northern chill sliced a path down from Canada carrying flurries of snow. Inside was the sanctum, the center of Charlotte’s universe, clothed in polished wooden walls and warm indirect light. And elsewhere, in the place beyond the binary confines of here and there: in that place, They waited.
A cosmic horror take on The Perfection, hot and horrifying and very well-written. Mind the tags. No, seriously, MIND THE TAGS.
The Biggles and Worrals fic is GREAT. I'm going to attempt a dedicated Biggles & Worrals post later.
Don't Need to Know Canon
Chalice - Robin McKinley
There are two stories in the collection for this, both excellent and readable as original fantasy. What you need to know: In this land, a pair of magic users are bound to the land and keep it whole and healthy. One is the Master, a wizard. The other is a Chalice, a woman who makes potions with some drinkable liquid, usually water.
triptych. 8058 words.
Three Chalices. Three portraits in brine, milk, and blood.
Fascinating fantasy with three very different settings and problems the Chalices are trying to deal with.
Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Some Fragments Concerning the Island of Bereswek. 1177 words.
There's a saying: “Rules change in the Reaches.” That certainly seems to be true on this island.
Intriguing worldbuilding about an island of Earthsea, in a style reminiscent of A Wizard of Earthsea but with some concerns typical of the later books.
Into the Woods - Sondheim & Lapine
The Tale You Tell. 2991 words.
She never pretended to be the hero of this particular story.
The backstory of the Baker's Wife - touching, clever, and excellent dialogue that really catches the tone of the musical. All you need to know is that Into the Woods is a metafictional fairy tale mashup, but the story does have spoilers for the outcome of the Baker's Wife's story.
Need to Know Canon
Andor (TV)
There Is A World Beyond This Place. 1081 words.
Twelve things Cassian Andor misses most in prison.
What it says on the tin; insightful and heartbreaking.
The Long Walk - Stephen King
Impossible Objects. 3716 words.
"Some people got up the nerve to go inside, but I don’t know if anyone ever lasted the night. There were murmurs that you could make certain trades there, in contact with the dead. Take your supplication to the ghosts, and whisper to them your secrets."
Heartbreaking post-canon story with some fascinating worldbuilding and folklore.
The Perfection (Movie)
What's Expected of Us. 1789 words.
Outside, a northern chill sliced a path down from Canada carrying flurries of snow. Inside was the sanctum, the center of Charlotte’s universe, clothed in polished wooden walls and warm indirect light. And elsewhere, in the place beyond the binary confines of here and there: in that place, They waited.
A cosmic horror take on The Perfection, hot and horrifying and very well-written. Mind the tags. No, seriously, MIND THE TAGS.
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