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aberration) wrote2017-12-28 06:43 pm
aberration) wrote2017-12-28 06:43 pm
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Yuletide Gifts!
So this is my first Yuletide in a couple years, and it was a lot of fun to get back into it again! I really enjoyed writing my fic, and like before I've been really lucky to receive multiple wonderful gifts.
My gift was:
Hell Takes All the Credit (5914 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Good Place
Rating: Teens and Up
Warnings: None
Relationships: Eleanor Shellstrop/Tahani al-Jamil
Characters: Eleanor Shellstrop, Tahani al-Jamil, Chidi Anagonye, Janet (The Good Place), Jianyu Li/Jason Mendoza, Michael (The Good Place), Bea (The Good Place)
Summary: It’s a selfish schemer, an empty-headed socialite, a dummy from Florida, and a tortured genius against the Afterlife.
The Afterlife isn’t going to know what hit it.
I can't pull a quote from this or really even talk about it too much without delving into potential spoilers, but it's amazing and exactly the kind of Good Place fic I wanted. From when I first started watching the show, I've wanted to see the characters challenge the whole strange system they've been put in, and the author does this in a fantastic way. And even manages to include a wonderful thread of Tahani/Eleanor! It's all so great and well-written and imaginative, and the Author totally went out of their way to make it perfect for me, it's everything I could hope for from my weird prompt.
I also received a Yuletide Madness treat -
Should Have Known (621 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arrival
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Characters: Louise Banks, Ian Donnelly, Hannah (Arrival)
Summary: And she knows, of course, how Ian will respond, and still it will surprise her.
I really loved Arrival's look at how time is perceived, and this is a lovely little fic that examines how Louise's changed perception of time works into her relationship with Ian, and what follows from it. This sort of thing was mostly just hinted at in the movie, so it was nice to get that closer peek into this relationship, and how Louise's actions and perspectives played into it.
So yes, I'm really happy to be doing Yuletide again! I need to look through the archive more thoroughly, but it's really fun to be back into this!
(And yeah, I need to post more in general, I know. I am working on it. ... there are 6000+ words of Last Jedi meta sitting in a word doc IT WILL HAPPEN.)
My gift was:
Hell Takes All the Credit (5914 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Good Place
Rating: Teens and Up
Warnings: None
Relationships: Eleanor Shellstrop/Tahani al-Jamil
Characters: Eleanor Shellstrop, Tahani al-Jamil, Chidi Anagonye, Janet (The Good Place), Jianyu Li/Jason Mendoza, Michael (The Good Place), Bea (The Good Place)
Summary: It’s a selfish schemer, an empty-headed socialite, a dummy from Florida, and a tortured genius against the Afterlife.
The Afterlife isn’t going to know what hit it.
I can't pull a quote from this or really even talk about it too much without delving into potential spoilers, but it's amazing and exactly the kind of Good Place fic I wanted. From when I first started watching the show, I've wanted to see the characters challenge the whole strange system they've been put in, and the author does this in a fantastic way. And even manages to include a wonderful thread of Tahani/Eleanor! It's all so great and well-written and imaginative, and the Author totally went out of their way to make it perfect for me, it's everything I could hope for from my weird prompt.
I also received a Yuletide Madness treat -
Should Have Known (621 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Arrival
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Characters: Louise Banks, Ian Donnelly, Hannah (Arrival)
Summary: And she knows, of course, how Ian will respond, and still it will surprise her.
It was and will be, and yet, when she considers the pain to him (and to her, but the choices were hers) it's a formula which cannot have been balanced until after it will be completed in permanent ink, and so she opts to answer with her heart: worth it. She rejects the question regarding the nature of permanence.
I really loved Arrival's look at how time is perceived, and this is a lovely little fic that examines how Louise's changed perception of time works into her relationship with Ian, and what follows from it. This sort of thing was mostly just hinted at in the movie, so it was nice to get that closer peek into this relationship, and how Louise's actions and perspectives played into it.
So yes, I'm really happy to be doing Yuletide again! I need to look through the archive more thoroughly, but it's really fun to be back into this!
(And yeah, I need to post more in general, I know. I am working on it. ... there are 6000+ words of Last Jedi meta sitting in a word doc IT WILL HAPPEN.)
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(Also, hope you had a good birthday!)
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