Yuletide recs

[cyphomandra]

Sliding in pretty much on reveals....


This Yuletide I received Quiet in Kakariko, a charming piece with Link & Zelda, post-canon, with Zelda showing Link something of her journey and their world (also cats!)

Quiet in Kakariko (1195 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Link & Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
Characters: Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Link (Legend of Zelda)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Slice of Life, Cats
Summary:

Zelda likes Kakariko a lot. It is, perhaps, the simplest and quietest place her long adventure took her to, but it’s one she’s been excited to introduce to Link.

I have also been through a selected chunk of the archive and will keep going, but these are stories I've particularly enjoyed so far:

Scrape Our Shoe on the Stars (2238 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ray Garraty/Peter McVries
Characters: Ray Garraty, Peter McVries
Additional Tags: Fix-It of Sorts, Post-Canon, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Internalized Homophobia, surreality, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:

You just won the Long Walk, Ray Garraty. What will you do now?

Lovely, dreamy, post-canon story, with the two of them in their own world, still on the road.

A Meeting of Minds (2440 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mervyn Bunter & Peter Wimsey
Characters: Mervyn Bunter, Peter Wimsey, Bruce Bairnsfather (historical person)
Additional Tags: First Meetings, World War I
Summary:

Corporal Bunter is on temporary duty with the intelligence division when he truly meets Captain Wimsey in 1916.

Yuletide always has good Wimsey fic and I particularly liked this one, with Bunter and Peter meeting for the first time in the middle of the war - Bunter pov.

Picked or Pickled Shrimp (9260 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Dolly Bantry
Summary:

All is not well at Gossington Hall. Dolly Bantry has a house full of guests and no explanation for her growing sense of unease. Convinced that something terrible is about to happen, she enlists the help of an old friend. Can Miss Marple get to the bottom of the mystery simply by telling a story about shrimp?

Lucy Eyelesbarrow and the Olympian Task (12820 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, Alexander Eastley (Miss Marple)
Additional Tags: casefic, Olympics, British public schools, period-typical extractive industries, Hoarding, Country House Mystery
Summary:

Lucy Eyelesbarrow is engaged to clean out the house of an old woman who has never thrown anything away--but muddy footprints and a mysterious prowler suggest someone believes there's treasure among the trash.

Both the Marple fics are great case-fic, true to canon, and both featuring some of my favourite detective story tropes (unfortunately to disclose which would involve spoilers!)

The dance of nature forward far (8221 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Mask of Apollo - Mary Renault
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nikeratos/Thettalos (Mask of Apollo)
Characters: Nikeratos (Mask of Apollo), Thettalos (Mask of Apollo)
Additional Tags: Ancient Greece, Theatre, Established Relationship, Catharsis, Acting, Gods
Summary:

No one drew attention to my increasing efforts and difficulties—not at performing Aigeus or Athene, which weren't going badly, but in the role of Nikeratos, son of Artemidoros. Perhaps I had them all fooled...or perhaps they were kind.

A layered fic, with grief and roles and gods all woven together.

The Ship Sails On (6650 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: CW: contains canon-typical descriptions of child neglect in the various re-tellings of Cinderella.
Summary:

A series of different cultural artifacts illustrating some of the ways culture changes aboard ship over the course of the first 100 years or so.

Found documents fic tracing the evolution of life on a generation ship, themed around Cinderella; thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Memories of Glow (2311 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dys & Sol (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist), Sol & Sym (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist), Sol/Tangent (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)
Additional Tags: Male Sol (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist), Post-Canon, Introspection, Pondering the void, Surveyor!Sol, Glow Month, references to the Transcended ending
Summary:

Many years later, the Chief Surveyor finds himself outside the colony walls during what used to be the most dangerous month.

Gets across the magic and wonder (and danger) of Glow, and shows Sol, older and possibly wiser.

Also I cannot get the link to work right now, but Monster Manual, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, is Xenk/Edgin timeloops & monster fucking, in which Edgin is cursed. Curséd. Very funny and oddlly hot.