a partridge and a pear tree

[bond_girl]

I can't believe this Yuletide, I got FOUR gifts! It took me a whole Christmas day to read just that, I didn't want to get out of that bubble! As Peri ♥ said, I made out like a bandit! I am so unbelievably grateful, you can't imagine. I'm ecstatic, bowled over, blown away. Like, I want to run around and hug writers if they are into hugs from some randos like me! And like one of my fave songs says, I feel like the girl with the most cake :D

So, I want to share that cake because it's EXCELLENT stuff:

• warp of water, weft of stone
Rivers of London, Peter/Nightingale, casefic/character study: cosmic horror with happy ending, 10K
(the style is just *PRAISE HANDS EMOJI*, the Nightingale's tone is elegiac, and his thoughts on Peter are everything I wanted and more, the research is astounding; there's VARVARA and Molly, bog bodies, grabby tentacles, eerie beautiful songs, and punching people before kissing them)

• down goes the mist
Rivers of London, Peter/Nightingale, sex pollen, 3K
(a hot sex-pollen romp with so many fun worldbuildey details, and the pining and then the awkwardness of the aftermath is so real and delicious; I'm always a huge fan of Latin riddles and spells, and of slightly evil wizard artefacts!)

• three ways of playing a chorus
The Talented Mr. Ripley, EVERYBODY goes to Cortina: sex and murder on the slopes, 10K
(tags are, I kid you not: #Love Polygon, #Rough Sex, #Snow --- I was SCREAMING when I shook that treat; change of location doesn't mean change of character or heart for Tom; so amazingly in-character all around, all this subtle class interplay and twisted desire that can only lead to a murder or two; I so enjoyed the sexual dynamics between everybody in this one, but this Peter esp. slayed me on a deep personal level, lol)

• veils
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Peter/Tom, snow as an allegory, 1K
(a lovely, atmospheric glimpse of Peter and Tom's relationship that grows from cozy to ominous as the winter weather is as chilling as Tom's real nature)



And my recipient looks happy with her gift, so all in all, this has been a blast of a Yuletide.

Hope you're having luck with people getting to your fandom letter after all these holidays! I'm reading from Z and now I'm up to Nice Guys (marked some longer fics for later).

Comments

[gwyn]

You deserve four stories! I'm glad you have so many happy-making gifts!

[bond_girl]

I don't know about deserving it ♥♥♥ :))), but I feel very happy with every single one of those, phew. It still feels ike a Christmas morning blowout of gifts and eggnog: sitting here surrounded by mountains of torn wrapping paper and feeling slightly drunk on porn and plot.

And I guessed your fic (I think)? You give a reader a great feeling for what the canon is like, and I imdb'ed characters to put faces to names. Hoping to watch it soon :)

[gwyn]

I will be very curious about which fic you think is mine! I stopped doing the "guess my fic" thing because no one ever did, but I guess there must be things that give me away, though I hate to think what they are. I'm sure they're all bad!

I don't think anyone could guess my treat fic, just because I never spoke about the canon to anyone, so no one would expect me to work in it. :-D

[bond_girl]

I think it's has a "cute" title and there's a pet involved? :)

[peripety]

What a wonderful YT! I'm looking forward to reading these

[bond_girl]

I think you're about to have some great reads! I'm so, so pumped these stories are doing super in their respective fandoms and the writers are getting the love they deserve.