Yuletide recs (anime and manga edition)

Or, things I do to avoid tidying the house, part one. Recs for the following below the cut:

( Gake no Ue no Ponyo | Ponyo, Kaze Hikaru, Mushishi, Ōoku, Pluto (manga), Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away, Sono Te wo Dokero | Hands Off! )

Yuletide recs (books and literature)

I still have at least three 10k+ stories to read through in this section, but they're all ones that have been recced widely elsewhere, and I'd like to get this posted.

( Bellwether - Connie Willis, Anthony Bourdain RPF/Narnia, Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones, Dark Tower - Stephen King, Chinese Mythology, Encyclopedia Brown - Donald J Sobol, Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown, Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, The Secret History - Donna Tartt. )

Yuletide recs (everything else!)

First, and most importantly (and I apologise if my authors have been lurking out there waiting!), my gift fics – Five Trades Worth Making, and Lonely Hearted, both in Settlers of Catan. This was my wildly insane request, and I’m thrilled to get not one but two stories set in it.

( Settlers of Catan (board game), Othello - Shakespeare, Bacchae - Euripedes, Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (reboot). )