Yuletide recs part 1

[starlady]

Some disclaimers: These are in no particular order other than alphabetical. Chromatic recs will be a separate set. I have many more tabs open; there will be more recs later.

Fandoms: Bagthorpe Saga, Captain America/various, Don Giovanni, Hark! A Vagrant, Historical/literary RPF, Indiana Jones, Inspector Spacetime, Madelyn Mack, Magic Schoolbus, Mary Poppins/Doctor Who, Octopus Steals My Video Camera…, Old Kingdom Chronicles, Queen's Thief, The Sandbaggers/James Bond, St. Trinian's, The Secret of Kells, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Vienna Teng songs, Young Wizards


Bagthorpe Saga
Bagthorpes v. Zombies (7103 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Bagthorpe Saga - Helen Cresswell
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Henry Bagthorpe, Laura Bagthorpe, Grandma Bagthorpe, William Bagthorpe, Grandpa Bagthorpe, Jack Bagthorpe, Tess Bagthorpe, Rosie Bagthorpe, Gladys Fosdyke, Russell Parker, Celia Parker, Daisy Parker
Summary: When the first representative of the swelling hordes of the living dead arrived at Unicorn House, it received an unsurprisingly inhospitable reception.

If you don't know the Bagthorpes, you should. If you do, you will love this to pieces. Either way you should read it.


Captain America/Marvel 1602, Captain America/Texts from Last Night, Captain America/Holmes on Homes
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (12218 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Marvel 1602, Marvel
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Nick Fury, Pepper Potts, Clea Strange, Virginia Dare, Rojhaz, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Matt Murdock, Peter Parker, Reed Richards, King James I and VI
Summary: Two days after his spies reported that Anthony Stark had returned to England—battered, they told him, but alive—Sir Nicholas Fury rode to Deptford.

Go Hard (9303 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Texts From Last Night, The Avengers (2012), Captain America (2011), Iron Man (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Jarvis (Iron Man movies)
Summary: No one has figured out that it's him, but Tony Stark is kind of a sensation on Texts From Last Night.Jarvis has helpfully categorized Tony's TFLN texts by time period and subject matter. Steve has some opinions about all of this.

Make it Right (496 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Holmes on Homes RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mike Holmes, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Thor, Steve Rogers
Summary: The guy waiting in the foyer of Stark Mansion is large. Like, Thor-large. Only it's not Thor, clearly, because Thor is face down on the rug in the den having an intense conversation with a Speak-n-Spell that Clint dragged up from – well, Tony doesn't know where, exactly. The bowels of hell.


Don Giovanni
il catalogo è questo (5581 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Don Giovanni - Mozart/Da Ponte
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Don Giovanni/Leporello, implied Don Giovanni/random female OCs, implied Leporello/random female OCs
Characters: Leporello, Don Giovanni - Character
Summary: Leporello keeps two lists.


Hark! A Vagrant
The Case Of The Fat Goose With A Stone In (1881 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hark! A Vagrant
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stupid Watson
Summary: Watson attempts his hand at a bit of editing, with mixed results.


Historical RPF
an odd carriage (271 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Historical RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Emily Dickinson, Death (Discworld)
Summary: This is what happens when you read too much Discworld, and then read a certain famous poem. And are me.

The Division Of Labor In The Creation Of “The Dog Beneath The Skin”: Exploring The Individual Authorship Of Words, Lines, and Scenes In An Auden And Isherwood Collaboration (617 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Literary RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: W.H. Auden/Christopher Isherwood
Characters: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood
Summary: Auden writes Christopher who writes back to Auden.


Indiana Jones
Academe: Four Conversations the Jones Boys Had about Education and One They Didn’t (1320 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Indiana Jones Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henry Jones Sr, Henry "Indiana" Jones, Mutt Williams, Short Round
Summary: I think the title pretty much says it all.


Inspector Spacetime/Sesame Street
The Monster at the End of this Story (1749 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Inspector Spacetime, Sesame Street (TV), The Monster at the End of This Book - Michael J. Smolin
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ninth Inspector, Grover (Sesame Street), Lily Taylor (Inspector Spacetime)
Summary: The Ninth Inspector, played by Mark Williams, saw a return to genuine, somewhat realistic, and well-plotted tales of the earlier Inspectors before the strange wackiness of the sixth morph or the staid, ill-written episodes of the seventh. In addition, Williams brought a gravitas to the role that drew back many wayward fans, while creating even more.Not all involved in the Inspector Spacetime franchise were pleased, however. One writer, in response to several rejected scripts, wrote a series of short stories featuring her plots. 'The Monster at the End of this Story' (TMES) was intended for early series two, shortly after the introduction of Lily Taylor. The episode deals with the initial friction between the Inspector and Lily in Rory's absence, while also alluding back to the well-known puppet episode from the Sixth Inspector's run.


Madelyn Mack
Variations on the Word Love (8868 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Miss Madelyn Mack Detective - Hugh Cosgro Weir
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Madelyn Mack/Nora Noraker, Thorny Preston/Nora Noraker
Characters: Madelyn Mack, Nora Noraker, Thorny Preston, Original Characters
Summary: Madelyn Mack had fully intended to leave her dear friend Nora Preston neé Noraker ensconced in the arms of matrimony. When threatening letters begin arriving at The Bugle, however, Madelyn, Nora, and Thorny find themselves drawn into yet another case.


Magic Schoolbus
As I Always Say (1724 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Magic School Bus, Mary Poppins (1964), Doctor Who
Summary: Ms. Frizzle has always enjoyed the third grade.

Tribute (2034 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Magic School Bus
Summary: Third grade has far-rippling effects. About twenty years on, the kids remember Ms. Frizzle's impact on their lives, each in their own way.


Mary Poppins/Doctor Who
A Change in the Wind (2481 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mary Poppins (1964), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Poppins, Eleventh Doctor
Summary: Why does Mary Poppins have a bag that's bigger on the inside? Why, because she's a Time Lady, of course!

A Family (1636 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mary Poppins (1964), Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mary Poppins, Romana (Doctor Who), Bert (Mary Poppins), Original Male Character, Jane Banks, Michael Banks, Original Female Character
Summary: After the Time War, Mary finds her own means of travelling.


Octopus Steals My Video Camera…
Experiments In Intelligence (1017 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Octopus - Character, Guy
Summary: Three Quick Flickers And All Arms Waving is young, but she is not reckless, nor is she a coward, either. She is an observer of humans. She experiments with them because she wants to solve the ancient, controversial question of whether the humans are intelligent.

This is not the breakout Yuletide fic, but you should read this one, because it is truly science fictional and very awesome.

Texts From Cephalopods (1547 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Octopus/Squid
Characters: An Octopus, Squid
Summary: It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.


Old Kingdom Chronicles
A Brief History of Liars (2121 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Yrael/Astarael
Summary: A history, a love, an ending.


Queen's Thief
The Grief of Going On (1224 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Major Character Death
Characters: Minister of War, Eugenides (Queen's Thief), Eugenides the God (Queen's Thief)
Summary: “If the gods are real, they could have caught her!” The words were spat out with venom, and even the Minister of War flinched at their implication. “If it’s not just a story, if Eugenides is real and if thieves only fall if he lets them… he made that choice. Why did he make that choice? What did she ever do to deserve that?”


The Sandbaggers/James Bond
The Rest (2072 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Sandbaggers, Casino Royale (2006), James Bond (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: M (James Bond), James Bond, Neil Burnside, Marianne Straker
Summary: Very few people remember where M came from.

Very few people know The Sandbaggers, but if you do this AMAZING, and it's great even if you don't.


St. Trinian's
Saddle Oxfords and Stiletto Boots (1583 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: St Trinian's (2007 2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annabelle Fritton/Kelly Jones
Characters: Annabelle Fritton, Kelly Jones
Summary: Annabelle visits Kelly a few months after the Globe.


The Secret of Kells
Inghinidhe na hÉireann (2200 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Secret of Kells (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Brendan (Secret of Kells), Aisling (Secret of Kells), Pangur Ban (Secret of Kells)
Summary: Aisling asks Brendan to draw her mother, and Brendan tries.


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Simulacrum (11619 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mirror Julian Bashir, Julian Bashir, Mirror Miles O'Brien, Mirror Jadzia Dax, Mirror Jennifer Sisko, Mirror Benjamin Sisko, Benjamin Sisko, Mirror Tuvok, Mirror Dukat, Mirror Kira Nerys, Mirror Garak
Summary: Through the looking glass, Miles O'Brien makes the acquaintance of two Julian Bashirs. He's always had a talent for fixing broken things.

Past Lives and Propaganda (774 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jadzia Dax, Kira Nerys, Odo (Star Trek), Quark (Star Trek)
Summary: When a Trill is Joined with a new host, most of the previous hosts' things are put in storage until after the new Trill's zhian'tara. Kira helps Jadzia go through Curzon's stuff.

In the Files (2839 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kira Nerys, Jadzia Dax, Miles O'Brien, Benjamin Sisko, Quark (Star Trek), Odo (Star Trek)
Summary: After the events of the retaking of Deep Space Nine, Kira is actually looking forward to a quiet day going through the paperwork. Needless to say, it doesn't work out quite like that.

Deductive Reasoning (2117 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Jadzia Dax, Miles O'Brien
Summary: Bashir definitely isn't dating Garak. Almost certainly. Probably.


Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy
The Only Puzzle Worth Solving (1000 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thrawn (Star Wars), Gilad Pellaeon
Summary: Thrawn knew the truth: winning an individual's spirit was a far more productive and lasting conquest than mere puppetry or physical subjugation.


The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
The Tough Guide to Yuletide (3820 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: What it says on the tin.

A Special Limited-Time Offer (1059 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary: It's the adventure you've been waiting for!


Vienna Teng, Vienna Teng/Dragonriders of Pern
In Unending Storms (1402 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: TENG Vienna - Works, Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Characters: Original Female Character of Colour, Original Female Character
Summary: "Shine with all the untold / Hold the light given unto you / Find the love to unfold / In this broken world we choose." Four visits to an island.

Clouds the Color of Fire (1588 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Vienna Teng (Musician), Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: F'lar/Lessa
Characters: F'lar, Lessa, Manora, Ramoth, Mnementh
Summary: Lessa discovers that she is pregnant with F'lessan. Fusion with the Vienna Teng song Shasta (Carrie's Song), with a few bits of Homecoming thrown in.


Young Wizards
Remaking (2414 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carl Romeo/Tom Swale
Summary: Inside, they don't plan.

Die Morgensheutegesternwelt (2389 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane, Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Sandman
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carl Romeo/Tom Swale
Characters: Carl Romeo, Tom Swale, Delirium of the Endless
Summary: A pair of wizards and an enormous heap of pop culture references walk into a music festival in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Some abnormal things happen.

Operettic Nuisance (1005 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carl Romeo/Tom Swale
Characters: Tom Swale, Carl Romeo, Peach
Summary: “Oh, come on, Tom, how bad can it be?"“How bad can it be? Once Peach here gets a listen to it we’ll never here the end of ‘I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General’.”

keep on marching forward (600 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carl Romeo/Tom Swale
Characters: Tom Swale, Carl Romeo
Summary: the one in which they decide to get married - the second time

a dust of snow (1955 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dairine Callahan/Roshaun ke Nelaid
Characters: Dairine Callahan, Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunst am det Nuiiliat
Summary: Dairine is feeling disconsolate on Christmas.

This one got me right in the heart. Christmas, and grief, and what wizardry can and can't do.

Comments

[starlady]

Yeah, seriously. Yuletide is generally the source of the good YW fic, and this year was a bumper crop.

[thistleingrey]

*adds tabs to Read It Later* Thanks for these!