Yuletide 2012 Reveal

[prodigy]

I actually drafted this post at like 5AM in a bout of sleeplessness and boredom, FYI, so hi from the stream of consciousness. Also, Happy New Year, all! I think it's 2013 everywhere. That's four different digits. Sure is fun up here, woop woop. Apple juice is tasty. I still have a cold.

Come to think of it, I wish my mom was around to make me tteokguk right now. Maybe I'll acquire some in Manhattan if anything is open today. I mean, I could always try and make ha ha, procure some on the lunar New Year, according to actual tradition, but we always ended up eating it on the solar New Year and sort of slinking off in the direction of Chinese celebrations come lunar because they throw grander parties and a Korean hates to be overshadowed. :P In conclusion: nooo come to me tteokguk whyyy

For Yuletide this year I ended up writing two pre-canon backstory fics:

For scuttlesworth: All Souls, Johannes Cabal, PG, Johannes Cabal & Horst Cabal, 8335 words: In which a German schoolboy misplaces his brother.

For relia: John Childermass's Last Employer, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, PG, John Childermass/Gilbert Norrell, 12574 words: To the city of York, in the year of our Lord 1780, there came a young man who had fallen upon hard times.

Both very different and challenging prompts. Thanks to nextian for beta on "Last Employer" and kaianos and corialis for beta on both fics; I really couldn't have done without you guys. ♥

ETA: I can't get kaianos's username right on literally any platform, apparently.

Comments

[relia]

BEST STORIES? BEST STORIES.

[prodigy]

:D

I'm just lucky I managed to make this post rather than keeping on trying to make a decent icon in MSPaint out of a picture of Marius Pontmercy

[gloss]

CHILDERMASS SLASH. YES YES YES.

Happy New Year, you! <3

[prodigy]

Hee, if you decide to read I hope you like! ♥ It, um, has footnotes, and doggerel I made up. The fandom's such a good excuse for that stuff.

You too! <3 <3 Cripes, I have half-finished comments on several of your DW entries, off to go post those. I'm so sorry, I think the winter low-daylight blues have me all zoning-out.

[gogollescent]

Oh, jeez, that Cabal fic! I haven't even thought about the books in forever, but that was great. Nothing like Johannes and Horst saving each other, in their horrible way.

[prodigy]

Thanks! I am vaguely sad nobody wrote Johannes and Leonie bickering adventures incestuous idfic more stuff for the fandom this Yuletide, it's the kind of thing where I read it and was like, hunh, that was pretty fun, but you know what would be more fun? A crazy fandom.

Also, writing baby versions of characters is like..... my G-rated idfic. So yeah.

[gogollescent]

Okay, I definitely merged those two strikethroughs into "Johannes and Leonie bickering adventures incestuous idfic", which meant I spent a minute thinking frantically 'DID I MISS A SCENE WHERE IT WAS REVEALED THAT THEY WERE SECRET HALF-SIBLINGS?? HOW COULD I POSSIBLY FORGET THAT. my heart is given new and terrible life', etc., but anyway yes, concur. If they aren't going to bone, let them be tiny and dreadful instead.

[prodigy]

Oh man, that would've been awesome and awkward though. It would've been awksome. (I have never had such conflicting ego/id of "man I would read him on five million more adventures with Leonie though, including one where they have to seriously pretend to be married" and "but I'd also read every anon kinkmeme fill where he sleeps with his brother")

[gogollescent]

Awksome. Awe-ward. It would have won an awe-ward! From… me. But yeah, I am familiar with…….. the sensation……………. ideally one would have both. Ideally, the books would have one of those kinkmemes that churns out beautiful multichapter AUs and strangely involved Inception fusions and slow-burn telepathy fic. Haha, imagine Johannes beginning to hear Horst's voice in his head long after the sunshine hit! Hahahaha. Ha.