Yuletide recs
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dolorosa_12I definitely need to rec my incredible gift first:
A Woman's Weapons (9876 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chloe Viellard & Dominique Viellard
Characters: Chloe Viellard, Dominique Viellard, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2020, Yuletide, Case Fic, Canon Compliant, Female Character of Color, Female Friendship, Moral Dilemmas, squint for the bisexual dominique agenda, chloe is one of the most competent (read: terrifying) people in new orleans
Summary:
It should have been more awkward than it was--it should have been unthinkable--having her lover’s wife here in her parlor. But Chloë had a way of refusing to allow for awkwardness by refusing to acknowledge it, and as she settled herself on the striped silk settee and folded her small gloved hands in her lap, she looked as composed as she did anywhere else Dominique had ever seen her. It gave Dominique rather a dizzy feeling.
Chloë, Dominique, gossip, code-breaking, burglary, and blackmail.
Dry as a Bone (2541 words) by DoreyG
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Abishag Shaw, Benjamin January
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Hugs, Developing Relationship, Job Loss
Summary:
“Oh. Well, I’ve been better, maestro, been a hell of a lot better to tell truth.” Shaw stared at him for a long moment, and he was stunned to see honest to God grief in his eyes. Even when Shaw had just lost his brother he had been so much more himself than this lost man currently standing before him. “Not that I mean to put anything extra on your shoulders, I’m sure you’ve got enough of your own shit going on at present moment, but it seems like I’ve just lost my job.”
Moments Ago and Seconds Away (1575 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Additional Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It
Summary:
"You should tell me I'm the most beautiful thing you've ever set eyes on. Like a sunrise," Bran said.
"I've seen some very pretty sunrises." Will grinned as Bran scowled at him. (Will, Bran and memories)
Green Grow'th the Holly (2126 words) by ceci_n_est_pas_un_corbeau
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Canon Fix-It, Kissing in the Rain, Dreams, Getting Together
Summary:
Bran has dreams, and Will knows things about them. But the answers are never quite within their reaches.
Altogether Your World (9554 words) by Slantedlight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Jane Drew
Summary:
Will Stanton has been watching for years, and now it seems there's something to see.
The Promise of the Future (8398 words) by estelraca
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dominion of the Fallen - Aliette de Bodard
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Asmodeus/Rong Minh Thanh Thuan
Characters: Asmodeus (Dominion of the Fallen), Rong Minh Thanh Thuan
Additional Tags: Holidays, Family, Canon-appropriate heresy
Summary:
When Thuan finds a dead body in his bed, his first thought is that it's Asmodeus' fault. The second is that he doesn't want his visiting grandmother to find out about this.
passing fell and wrath (1992 words) by Assimbya
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Folk of the Air - Holly Black
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eva Duarte/Madoc, Eva Duarte/Justin Duarte
Characters: Madoc (The Folk of the Air), Eva Duarte, Justin Duarte
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon
Summary:
Madoc and Eva, at the beginning and the end.
Teeth and Bones (1905 words) by Blurble
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Beautiful
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Baba Yaga
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Witches and their houses, Witches and their cats, Fairytale world building
Summary:
Baba Yaga was always hungry.
Cvilidreta (6054 words) by cirque
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Müllers Tochter | Miller's Daughter (Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin)
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!
Summary:
'Rumpelstiltskin'. Never in a million years would she guess that one.
who says he knows love (3343 words) by neros_violin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Rodrigo Belmonte/Ammar ibn Khairan, Jehane bet Ishak/Ammar ibn Khairan, Rodrigo Belmonte/Jehane bet Ishak/Ammar ibn Khairan, Miranda Belmonte/Rodrigo Belmonte
Characters: Rodrigo Belmonte, Ammar ibn Khairan
Additional Tags: Reunions, Intimacy, Flash Forward, Love, First Time, Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:
The day after tomorrow, he will kill the man he loves.
This Is How You Lose Armageddon (773 words) by MiraMira
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blue/Red (This is How You Lose the Time War)
Characters: Blue (This is How You Lose the Time War), Red (This is How You Lose the Time War)
Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions), Religion, Angel/Demon Relationship, Crisis of Faith, Epistolary
Summary:
Some angels - or agents - don't so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downthread.
Taken by the Dragon (952 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Dragon | Sarkan/The Falcon | Solya
Additional Tags: Background Femslash, Dragon Sarkan (Uprooted), Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
Summary:
"Did you actually manage to kidnap a princess this time, or is it another peasant girl?"
Malvolio takes a walk through the Complete Works of Shakespeare (1287 words) by the_alchemist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost - Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2 - Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Malvolio (Twelfth Night), King of Navarre, Henry IV of England, Antonio (Merchant of Venice), Theseus (Midsummer Night's Dream), Titania (Midsummer Night's Dream), Oberon (Midsummer Night's Dream), Puck | Robin Goodfellow
Additional Tags: Fix-It
Summary:
Malvolio moves on, learns from his mistakes and uses his considerable talents in the service of a few Shakespearean characters who need of a good valet ...
Marzenya's Book of Clerics (1176 words) by ellida
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Something Dark and Holy Series - Emily A. Duncan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marzenya & Nadezhda Lapteva
Characters: Marzenya, Nadezhda Lapteva
Additional Tags: POV Marzenya, POV First Person, POV Second Person, Experimental Style, Minor Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, mortals wrestle with divinity and the divine wrestles back, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Vasiliev famously chronicled the lives of saints. But Marzenya keeps a record of her own.
The Cloud Mirror (1460 words) by Miss_M
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Chaye Roznatovsky, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, World War II, Resistance, Holocaust, Canon Jewish Character, Forests, Winter, Period Typical Attitudes, Antisemitism, Mentions of Death, Yuletide Treat, Tide of History Challenge
Summary:
The first time she saw a demon, Chaye had been on the lookout for the whole world trying to kill her.
The Fire and the Place in the Forest (4542 words) by strange_Selkie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chaye Roznatovsky/OFC
Characters: Chaye Roznatovsky, Velvl Aronowicz
Additional Tags: WWII, Partisans, Jews with Guns?, hfn, Original Character(s), Yiddish, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Somewhere in a forest, somewhere in Poland, December 1942: Chaye Roznatovsky (who will someday meet a demon) meets a wolf.
See endnotes for Yiddish glossary.
Learn (2768 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Miryem Mandelstam/The Staryk Lord
Characters: Miryem Mandelstam, The Staryk Lord (Spinning Silver), Rebekah bat Flek, Flek (Spinning Silver)
Additional Tags: Rebekah is Jewish, Judaism is my other fandom, canon-typical feminism, knowledge is power, Shabbat is awesome
Summary:
Besides, I wanted to give Rebekah another lesson in numbers. And now that he had suggested it, I wanted to teach her alef-beit, too. Perhaps I would paint her first page of letters with honey, to teach her that learning what she does not yet know is sweet.
Entanglement (1287 words) by SouthernContinentSkies
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Nineteen Adze/Yskandr Aghavn, Six Direction/Yskandr Aghavn, Nineteen Adze & Six Direction
Characters: Nineteen Adze, Six Direction, Yskandr Aghavn
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, V-shaped polyamory, Loyalty, conflicting agendas, conflicting emotions
Summary:
In Teixcalaan, these things are certain: poetry, and betrayal.
Many Happy Returns (No Exchanges or Refunds) (2804 words) by boasamishipper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Colin Robinson, Guillermo de la Cruz, Nandor the Relentless (What We Do in the Shadows TV), Laszlo Cravensworth, Nadja (What We Do in the Shadows TV)
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2020, Birthday, Birthday Presents, Friendship, Vampires, Canon-typical shenanigans, Episode Style, Humor, Crack
Summary:
“...Isn’t June 6th Colin Robinson’s birthday?” Guillermo says.
Everything comes to a screeching halt. The camera pans from face to face.
“Fuck,” Nadja says empathetically.
un mir zenen ale shvester (7836 words) by ryfkah
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fiddler on the Roof (2018 Folksbiene Production), Fiddler on the Roof - Bock/Harnick/Stein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Shprintze (Fiddler on the Roof), The Fiddler (Fiddler on the Roof), Tzeitel (Fiddler on the Roof), Chava (Fiddler on the Roof), Hodel (Fiddler on the Roof), Perchik (Fiddler on the Roof)
Additional Tags: Sisters, Russian Revolution, personal relationships with language, and religion, and tradition, mild period-typical anti-Semitism
Summary:
In a minute, Shprintze thinks, the fiddler will say what every other neighbor has said: oy, what a trip! Are you sure you’ll be safe? Oh, well, but you’ll see your sister, and that meshuggeneh radical of hers, and maybe if you’ve the time you could bring a letter to my cousin, who lives in the Pod'iacheskii neighborhood –
In fact what the fiddler says is: “Since you’re going, I’m thinking I might come with you.”