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Yuletide 2019, Recs 3
Dec. 30th, 2019 11:02 amBoth the stories for the horror film Us are great--Do You Remember That Birthday Cake? is an excellent look at Adelaide's mother and the various other ways we can treat someone as a disposable duplicate, realizing the horror of it all only too late; Dance for Two is sharp little piece about Adelaide and Red's dancing. (You would definitely need canon familiarity for both of these.)
cacio e pepe is a buoyant, amazingly well-wrought Some Like it Hot post-canon OT4 fic--a configuration I'd never thought of for this film but which is worked out brilliantly here, and with a lovely amount of emotion. Plus bonus historical grappling with sexuality and gender.
Discipulae is a lovely post-book fic for A Little Princess, following Sara and Becky as they begin establishing their new lives, particularly as they begin tackling the question of what they're going to learn (and who that's going to help them become). This does one of my favorite historical fiction things: it understands the world in which it's set, including the believable limitations of it, and still manages to find hope and happiness there anyway. And Sara and Becky's friendship is just perfect.
good boys do fine always is a searing futurefic for Lord of the Flies, with Ralph and Jack meeting up in their nearly-apocalyptic-but-not-quite world and contending with everything that's between them and everything that's behind them--soaked in violence and ambivalence and trauma and worldbuilding.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand (The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick) recreates the novel's fantastic, hyper-inventive worldbuilding and hard-earned hope in miniature. It's about Jane, in college, discovering a tribe of meryons in the student lounge, and it's filled with vivid "tiny people making a tiny world" details and weird Faerie details. Feels perfectly like the book.
a burning coal of kindness is for the Goblin Emperor, and it's Maia & Beshelar hurt/comfort with kidnapping and questions of honor, loyalty, responsibility, and friendship, and it's so exactly my id that I'm taking it as a secret present for me. Beautiful.
Rocks in His Pocket is futurefic for Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," in which little Davy Hutchinson grows up and takes his place in a world that hasn't left the lottery's savageries behind quite as well as it thinks. Terrific, with spare prose and a lingering impact.
The Rock Star Reunion Irrelevancy is brisk, funny, beautifully canon-toned Middleman fic, with Wendy and the Middleman investigating a mysteriously packed performance of a has-been band. The banter is a total delight.
A Tomorrow at the End of the World and upside down from the moon are both beautiful fix-its for Stephen King's The Long Walk, with Garraty/McVries and hurt/comfort. "Tomorrow" is a little more bittersweet, about escape rather than rescue; "upside down" is tad more hopeful, while still being thoroughly grounded in the novel's practicalities of food and sore bodies. They're both lovely.
cacio e pepe is a buoyant, amazingly well-wrought Some Like it Hot post-canon OT4 fic--a configuration I'd never thought of for this film but which is worked out brilliantly here, and with a lovely amount of emotion. Plus bonus historical grappling with sexuality and gender.
Discipulae is a lovely post-book fic for A Little Princess, following Sara and Becky as they begin establishing their new lives, particularly as they begin tackling the question of what they're going to learn (and who that's going to help them become). This does one of my favorite historical fiction things: it understands the world in which it's set, including the believable limitations of it, and still manages to find hope and happiness there anyway. And Sara and Becky's friendship is just perfect.
good boys do fine always is a searing futurefic for Lord of the Flies, with Ralph and Jack meeting up in their nearly-apocalyptic-but-not-quite world and contending with everything that's between them and everything that's behind them--soaked in violence and ambivalence and trauma and worldbuilding.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand (The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick) recreates the novel's fantastic, hyper-inventive worldbuilding and hard-earned hope in miniature. It's about Jane, in college, discovering a tribe of meryons in the student lounge, and it's filled with vivid "tiny people making a tiny world" details and weird Faerie details. Feels perfectly like the book.
a burning coal of kindness is for the Goblin Emperor, and it's Maia & Beshelar hurt/comfort with kidnapping and questions of honor, loyalty, responsibility, and friendship, and it's so exactly my id that I'm taking it as a secret present for me. Beautiful.
Rocks in His Pocket is futurefic for Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," in which little Davy Hutchinson grows up and takes his place in a world that hasn't left the lottery's savageries behind quite as well as it thinks. Terrific, with spare prose and a lingering impact.
The Rock Star Reunion Irrelevancy is brisk, funny, beautifully canon-toned Middleman fic, with Wendy and the Middleman investigating a mysteriously packed performance of a has-been band. The banter is a total delight.
A Tomorrow at the End of the World and upside down from the moon are both beautiful fix-its for Stephen King's The Long Walk, with Garraty/McVries and hurt/comfort. "Tomorrow" is a little more bittersweet, about escape rather than rescue; "upside down" is tad more hopeful, while still being thoroughly grounded in the novel's practicalities of food and sore bodies. They're both lovely.