Yuletide: What I wrote

[sholio]

The reveals are out and here's what I wrote!

Photo Finish (Mrs. Pollifax, 5500 wds, Grace & Farrell, gen)
The recipient had an amazing prompt, which was for Miss Hartshorne (Emily's neighbor who has no idea that Emily is a spy) running into Farrell while she's on a travel tour and he's on a case. I couldn't resist this - so Grace gets her own little CIA spy adventure, for a treat.

Demon Touched (Chalion, 3600 wds, Adelis & Penric & Desdemona, gen)
Another irresistible prompt, in this case for Adelis acquiring a demon. This also led me to finally read the early Penric books, which I really enjoyed. I needed to brush up on Chalionverse theology and make sure I wasn't writing something that completely broke canon.

Merry Midwinter (Daniel Blackland, 4800 wds, Gabriel/Max)
I had decided ahead of time that even if I didn't match on it, I was going to treat the one Daniel Blackland requester in Yuletide, because there needs to be more fic for it in the world. The recipient prompted for between-books fic with Max and Gabriel getting to know each other better, so that's what I wrote, a getting-together fic with some AU holidays mixed in.

Second Case (MacGyver, 1100 wds, Mac & Pete, gen)
This was my assignment - I had no details to go on, so I stalked the recip a bit to see which characters they preferred, and decided to go with an additional scene to the flashback in "Partners" (the "how they met" flashback ep).


The obligatory Biggles

And of course I treated some Biggles!

Last Resort (5800 wds, Biggles & Ginger & EvS, gen + some background Biggles/EvS-ishness)
AU of Foreign Legionnaire in which EvS does actually try his doomed last stand idea, gets shot, but survives. Nice try, Erich, but you're just going to have to deal with the mortifying ordeal of not dying and having Biggles being nice to you.

And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay (2700 wds, Biggles/von Stalhein)
This is an idea I had been vaguely kicking around for a while, a post-Looks Back fic in which they both have to deal with the emotional fallout from Biggles getting shot and EvS's attendant feelings about that. Bonus: weak, recuperating Biggles.

Comments

[philomytha]

That's an amazing amount of writing! It's been such a great Yuletide this year. And thank you again - I thought the one for me sounded a lot like you :-D. Poor EvS, he almost got his heart's desire of dying in Biggles's arms after doing something heroic and ridiculous, and it's just like his luck that instead he got to live and be cuddled by Biggles some more...

[sholio]

Everyone has been writing their hearts out in Biggles fandom lately; it's great! I loved yours so much. :D

Poor EvS, he almost got his heart's desire of dying in Biggles's arms after doing something heroic and ridiculous, and it's just like his luck that instead he got to live and be cuddled by Biggles some more...

I KNOW, he definitely gave it his best shot, but he's just doomed to survive and have Biggles gaze at him affectionately and pet him until he gives in.

[lunabee34]

*high five*

That's so much Yuletide goodness. Hurray!

[sholio]

It's been so delightful! :D

[sheron]

Amazing Yuletide haul. My gift fic is the absolute best. Each year you manage to write something that is so perfectly to my id that I can just squeal in delight, and this year is no different. ♥

[sholio]

Your id is just so much fun to write for! ♥ Probably because the Venn diagram of your id and my id is nearly a single circle.

[sheron]

Probably ♥

[rachelmanija]

Your stories were fantastic! I loved them all (that I read, I missed two), but the post-Looks Back one was another "instant all-time favorite."

I already had the Mrs. Pollifax one bookmarked. Do I need to be fully up on Adelis canon to read the Penric one, or is "He's the guy who had his eyes regrown" sufficient?

[sholio]

Do I need to be fully up on Adelis canon to read the Penric one, or is "He's the guy who had his eyes regrown" sufficient?

I'd say that's proooobably enough; the only other thing you need to know is that he and Desdemona are friends at this point.

[sholio]

Oh, and I completely forgot to say, thank you so much!! ♥ ♥ ♥ And thanks for the rec as well!

[hamsterwoman]

I was guessing from the start that you were the author of my Adelis gift, and 100% sure before reveals. It was so great!! <3 And I'm happy to have been tangentially inovlved in you catching up on the earlier Penric books.

(And on a side note, I was so amused that almost all the Chalion fic in Yuletide + Madness this year ended up featuring Adelis, given how we were both pleasantly surprised someone else even thought to nominate him. Clearly this was his year! :)

(Now to go off and read some of this bountiful Biggles fic canon-blind XD)

[sholio]

Heeeee! I figured that you had guessed me! (I am, as always, terribly subtle and hard to guess.) But it was such an excellent prompt that I could already feel the plot wheels turning in my brain as soon as I saw it.

And I also noticed that about Adelis having his Yuletide year! I was surprised to see how many people requested him, and even more surprised that so many people wrote him, given the absolute dearth of Adelis fic on AO3 beforehand. I guess it just goes to show that it's always worth nominating a rare character in the hopes that fandom will come through.