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A few Yuletide Recs
Dec. 28th, 2010 10:55 pmI'm trying to avoid reccing ones that I've seen all over the place, so:
My favourite film this year was Winter's Bone, and And Spring is Coming Soon is a beautiful sequel: Ree/ Gail femslash, not ducking the bleakness of canon, but with some believable hope.
I've always loved Swallows and Amazons, and We Climbed the Matterhorn is a smashing look at Molly Blackett's life, before and after canon.
Yuletide always produces a sprinkling of Wimsey fic; my favourite of what I've read was the fluffy but amusing Peter and the Power of Suggestion, in which Harriet and Peter struggle with gift-buying on a budget, and there is bonus Miss Climpson.
Nor Custom Stale almost made me sorry for Olive Stirling (LM Montgomery, The Blue Castle - a very underrated work).
The Lai of Bisclavret's Wife is a marvellous take on it, with a wonderfully drawn female protagonist. Also, it has an anchoress being awesome.
I have trouble believing that 'sociology RPF' constitutes a fandom, especially when one of the protagonists is Foucault and not actually a sociologist, but I don't actually give a damn, as Many Forms of Resistance, in which a zombie apocalypse hits a critical theory conference, is hilarious.
Offerings to History (Vorkosiverse) shows Duv dealing with his own past, his choice of profession(s) and the alarming experience of getting up close and personal with recent Barrayan history. His reaction to the Vorkosigan attics is a particular highlight.
Finally, Mother Tongue adds a few glimpses of mothers in Beowulf. Fascinating stuff, and there's a very good imitation of the style of Heaney's translation.
My favourite film this year was Winter's Bone, and And Spring is Coming Soon is a beautiful sequel: Ree/ Gail femslash, not ducking the bleakness of canon, but with some believable hope.
I've always loved Swallows and Amazons, and We Climbed the Matterhorn is a smashing look at Molly Blackett's life, before and after canon.
Yuletide always produces a sprinkling of Wimsey fic; my favourite of what I've read was the fluffy but amusing Peter and the Power of Suggestion, in which Harriet and Peter struggle with gift-buying on a budget, and there is bonus Miss Climpson.
Nor Custom Stale almost made me sorry for Olive Stirling (LM Montgomery, The Blue Castle - a very underrated work).
The Lai of Bisclavret's Wife is a marvellous take on it, with a wonderfully drawn female protagonist. Also, it has an anchoress being awesome.
I have trouble believing that 'sociology RPF' constitutes a fandom, especially when one of the protagonists is Foucault and not actually a sociologist, but I don't actually give a damn, as Many Forms of Resistance, in which a zombie apocalypse hits a critical theory conference, is hilarious.
Offerings to History (Vorkosiverse) shows Duv dealing with his own past, his choice of profession(s) and the alarming experience of getting up close and personal with recent Barrayan history. His reaction to the Vorkosigan attics is a particular highlight.
Finally, Mother Tongue adds a few glimpses of mothers in Beowulf. Fascinating stuff, and there's a very good imitation of the style of Heaney's translation.