This year's Yuletide gift

[dolorosa_12]

The Yuletide collection is live, and I've received a great fic in what I had assumed to be the rarest of my three requested fandoms — so that was quite an unexpected delight! Tochmarc Étaíne is a weird, weird, messy medieval Irish text, filled with animal transformations, people being reborn after thousands of years having lost all memory of their previous lives, soap operatic relationship drama, and the supernatural world constantly bleeding and intruding into the physical world in all sorts of chaotic ways. I requested a fic about two of the women in the story — the titular Étaín, and Fúamnach, who in the text is presented as a stereotypical jealous wife who uses magic to get rid of her rival, but both of whom I've always viewed as having more going on than what meets the eye. My author definitely took that idea and ran with it!

Those Who Play in the Fields of Brí Léith (3363 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tochmarc Étaíne (Folk Tale)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fúamnach & Aengus (Tochmarc Étaine), Fúamnach/Étaín (Tochmarc Étaine)
Characters: Fúamnach (Tochmarc Étaíne), Aengus (Tochmarc Étaíne), Étaín (Tochmarc Étaíne), Midir (Tochmarc Étaíne), Dian Cécht (Tochmarc Étaíne), Étaín's Daughter (Tochmarc Étaíne)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Parent-Child Relationship, Pre-Relationship, Canon Relationships, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Fúamnach dies. And yet Fúamnach lives.

I have three fics in the main collection (my main assignment, plus two treats), and an additional treat in the Madness collection which won't be live until tomorrow. Let's hope all of them are well received! For those of you who do Yuletide, I hope your gifts are great, your recipients enjoy the things you've written for them, and that the collection as a whole is to your taste. I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow before diving into the rest of the collection, but there look to be a lot of fun things to read, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Matthias and I have both spoken to our respective families, we went out for a slow, wandering walk around the cathedral and river, and I'm about to start putting together a lunch of cold leftovers from our Christmas Eve dinner. This afternoon, I'll finish off my annual reread of The Dark Is Rising (the plot of the book continues on until Twelfth Night, and to do things properly it should be read in step with the actual days on which the events in the book take place, but I tend not to stretch it out beyond Christmas Day), and get stuck into cooking.

I hope everyone is having wonderful days, wherever you are and whatever you're doing.

Comments

[corvidology]

Looks like you had a lovely restful Christmas! ♥

[dolorosa_12]

Definitely! It's been wonderful.