Yuletide recs

[white_hart]

I never have the energy to do Yuletide myself, but I always enjoy browsing the archive, and here is a short list of favourites so far:

Serpentine (3892 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Snakeform Servitor (Machineries of Empire)
Additional Tags: Age of Sail, Slight crossover with Machineries of Empire, Communication, navigation, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

In which Jack and Stephen find a snake, and Stephen accidentally invents Morse code.

A Long Way from the Cromwell Road (1510 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Petrova Fossil, Pauline Fossil
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Sisters
Summary:

Petrova visits Pauline in Hollywood after the war ends.

The Colors of Lorbanery (2000 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

The woman who had once been Akaren stayed inside her house for several days, changing.

When It Happens (6503 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thomas Lynn/Polly Whittacker, Fiona Perks/Polly Whittacker
Characters: Fiona Perks, Polly Whittacker, Thomas Lynn, Edward Davies, Leslie Piper
Additional Tags: Futurefic
Summary:

Fiona Perks has never wavered when it comes to Polly, and now she knows why. But spells are easier to cast than to break.

Special Delivery (1548 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jedao Two (Machineries of Empire), Jedao the Calico Cat (Machineries of Empire), Shuos Nija, Shuos Jedao, Ajewen Cheris
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff
Summary:

Jedao is watching over Jedao Two and Cheris when someone arrives with an unexpected gift. AU post-"Glass Cannon."

Thanks to hamletta, Sonya Taaffe, and UrsulaKohl for the beta.

In Which the Nature of Demons is Illuminated (6932 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sophie Hatter/Howl Pendragon
Characters: Sophie Hatter, Howl Pendragon, Calcifer (Howl Series)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, canon-typical smack talk, Magic Mishaps
Summary:

Sophie runs into problems. Howl makes them worse. Calcifer reminisces.

The Facebook of Margery Kempe (4505 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Book of Margery Kempe - Margery Kempe, 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Margery Kempe
Additional Tags: Modern AU, Margery has Facebook, Margery has Twitter, Margery has concerned family members
Summary:

IF YOU ARE UNASHAMED OF BELIEVING IN THE LORD JESUS OR HIS UNWORTHY SERVANT WHO WEEPS WHENEVER SHE THINKS OF HIM THEN SHARE THIS POST.

A Place and Time (3153 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: BOSCH Hieronymus - Works, The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Quests, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, That Hieronymus Bosch. What a weirdo.
Summary:

All of them – flock and flowers, beasts and humans alike - bear witness to this beginning that starts with a crack in the ice.

Wild and Clear (1249 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Box of Delights (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Jones & Kay Harker
Characters: Maria Jones, Kay Harker
Additional Tags: Magic, Matter-of-fact Spellcasting, Standing Stones in Strange Places, Men Getting Themselves in Trouble
Summary:

When Maria Jones was eleven years old, she had one of the most realistic, terrifying, exhilarating, wondrous dreams she would ever have in her life. Amazingly, unlike so many of her other adventurous dreams, when she woke from this one she found it had not been a dream at all. Magic was real and by the time Maria is an adult, she and Kay have found different ways of going about it.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

OMG Margery Kempe! I am going to go read that right now. :)

[white_hart]

That one is great fun!