I haven't done much commenting yet due to other commitments but I have a bunch of tabs open and am really enjoying the fic this year.
For Yuletide I received two fantastic gift fics:
put the cart before the cow (2169 words) by beleghir
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 銀の匙 | Silver Spoon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ensemble Cast - Character, Hachiken Yuugo
Summary:
Silver Spoon is such a satisfying manga - it’s about teamwork, and trying even when things don’t work out, and enjoying delicious food and companionship along the way. This fic is exactly that; it's a great look at yet another agricultural experiment, with Hachiken getting involved almost despite himself and then fully committing to the process, and everyone else showing up as equally recognisable and endearing. (also there is a Katsudon shout out!). Lovely piece.
A Bridge Over Fishy Waters (2169 words) by LookingForOctober
And this! Joan Aiken’s Armitage stories are compelling and effective in combining fantasy and the everyday, and they’re never entirely comfortable; this is most true for The Serial Garden, which is heartbreaking, and which I’ve mourned over for years. I asked for a fix-it and was thrilled to receive it! This has that concatenation of the fantastic that I love about Aiken, with myth and more domestic magic intruding and, finally, a glimpse of that long-awaited happy ending.
And I wrote one story, for DK Broster’s Flight of the Heron:
Blood and Iron (6668 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Lachlan MacMartin
Additional Tags: AU, magical au, Jacobites, Worldbuilding, Slow Burn, Get Together, Fix-It
Summary:
I have loved DK Broster’s The Flight of the Heron for a very long time - I read it when I was 8 years old, and I’m sure it set me up for falling for slash fic (well, that and all the Frodo & Sam bits in Lord of the Rings that I read around the same time). I did not know for quite some time that there were sequels (despite the fact that they were actually mentioned on the back of my copy!) and I have long thought fondly about writing fix-its. I knew the fandom was developing but hadn’t managed the time to catch up with it, and so I offered it for Yuletide, and matched. Woo hoo! I thought. Time to pay homage to this formative work!
And then I stalled, because of other work and because I couldn’t work out how to write something that was that close and important to me, and the deadline crept up on me and I panicked. I went back to Regshoe’s prompt about worldbuilding with supernatural/magic elements and wrote Keith’s first diary entry, which shook something free, then the first meeting with a flipped pov from the book.
I fully intended to finish there, because of how little time I had left, but I couldn’t get the ending to work as an ending, and I realised I had to do all five meetings to make the story function. I wrote the Edinburgh section with only Ewen having magic and then realised this was a mistake, and rewrote it with Keith having magic as well, and then ploughed onwards with some exceptionally late nights. I am massively grateful that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
luzulaagreed to provide beta at ridiculously short notice and point out all my canon mistakes (“Did you move the war?”) and china_shop carried on her Christmas Day ritual of fixing all my commas, and I finally finished edits 30 minutes before the collection opened.
After all that I have started writing a sequel, because I have Ideas, but I am also reading the rest of the fic in the fandom, and re-reading The Gleam in the North for ideas.
For Yuletide I received two fantastic gift fics:
put the cart before the cow (2169 words) by beleghir
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 銀の匙 | Silver Spoon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ensemble Cast - Character, Hachiken Yuugo
Summary:
Tokiwa has a fact that needs checking. Hachiken has a plan. Nishikawa has ... several broken radios? And Inada - plus all the rest of their class - has a keen interest in the outcome of all of this.
Silver Spoon is such a satisfying manga - it’s about teamwork, and trying even when things don’t work out, and enjoying delicious food and companionship along the way. This fic is exactly that; it's a great look at yet another agricultural experiment, with Hachiken getting involved almost despite himself and then fully committing to the process, and everyone else showing up as equally recognisable and endearing. (also there is a Katsudon shout out!). Lovely piece.
A Bridge Over Fishy Waters (2169 words) by LookingForOctober
And this! Joan Aiken’s Armitage stories are compelling and effective in combining fantasy and the everyday, and they’re never entirely comfortable; this is most true for The Serial Garden, which is heartbreaking, and which I’ve mourned over for years. I asked for a fix-it and was thrilled to receive it! This has that concatenation of the fantastic that I love about Aiken, with myth and more domestic magic intruding and, finally, a glimpse of that long-awaited happy ending.
And I wrote one story, for DK Broster’s Flight of the Heron:
Blood and Iron (6668 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Lachlan MacMartin
Additional Tags: AU, magical au, Jacobites, Worldbuilding, Slow Burn, Get Together, Fix-It
Summary:
Five times Keith and Ewen met (now with magic).
I have loved DK Broster’s The Flight of the Heron for a very long time - I read it when I was 8 years old, and I’m sure it set me up for falling for slash fic (well, that and all the Frodo & Sam bits in Lord of the Rings that I read around the same time). I did not know for quite some time that there were sequels (despite the fact that they were actually mentioned on the back of my copy!) and I have long thought fondly about writing fix-its. I knew the fandom was developing but hadn’t managed the time to catch up with it, and so I offered it for Yuletide, and matched. Woo hoo! I thought. Time to pay homage to this formative work!
And then I stalled, because of other work and because I couldn’t work out how to write something that was that close and important to me, and the deadline crept up on me and I panicked. I went back to Regshoe’s prompt about worldbuilding with supernatural/magic elements and wrote Keith’s first diary entry, which shook something free, then the first meeting with a flipped pov from the book.
I fully intended to finish there, because of how little time I had left, but I couldn’t get the ending to work as an ending, and I realised I had to do all five meetings to make the story function. I wrote the Edinburgh section with only Ewen having magic and then realised this was a mistake, and rewrote it with Keith having magic as well, and then ploughed onwards with some exceptionally late nights. I am massively grateful that
luzulaagreed to provide beta at ridiculously short notice and point out all my canon mistakes (“Did you move the war?”) and china_shop carried on her Christmas Day ritual of fixing all my commas, and I finally finished edits 30 minutes before the collection opened.After all that I have started writing a sequel, because I have Ideas, but I am also reading the rest of the fic in the fandom, and re-reading The Gleam in the North for ideas.
