'14 Yuletide Stories (while still anonymous)

[brightknightie]

It looks like I'm not going to get deeper into the stack any time soon, so I'm going to just go ahead with this list of links now:

Dungeons and Dragons (the '80s cartoon) scored two stories this year, both for Astolat. I enjoyed each in its own way. Both are very pleasingly canon-friendly. The longer is the more skilled, but the shorter serves up an idea that's drawing me back to canon to explore.

• "Dropping In for a Spell" (~3K words, PG)
• "and knowing we are not alone in the dark" (~18K words, PG)

Forever Knight also boasts two stories, both hefty, one for Greerwatson and one for Quietcuriosity. The one for Greer is plot-driven casefic, just as she likes best; it's set in early to mid second season. The other may be exceedingly excellent, and certainly is canon aware, but it's tagged for graphic violence and rape, so I haven't read it and probably won't; it's set before the flashbacks of "A Fate Worse Than Death." If you read it, let me know what you think — should I go there? We all have our squicks and triggers...

• "Chasing Prey" (~8K words, PG-13)
• "Couched Work" (~9K words, R)

1,623 fandoms are represented, but no one happened to write Battlestar Galactica ('78) or Young Blades this year. There are 9 stories each for Forever and Grimm, but a quick glance didn't yield any immediately grabbing my fancy. (There's also nothing for Call the Midwife; did the fandom get too big for this game?)

Do you have any recommendations to share from this year's Yuletide?

Comments

[pj1228]

Happy new year!

While I enjoyed reading “Chasing Prey“, I haven't read “Couched Work“ for the same reasons you mentioned.

[brightknightie]

Happy new year to you, too! I have tremendous optimism for 2015. May it be a better and brighter year for all!

It turns out that Greer wrote "Couched Work." I will definitely take that fact into consideration. As it is hers, I know that it is scrupulously canonical.

At least for right now, though, in this moment, today, I don't wish to face a "graphic violence"-tagged depiction of rape anywhere, anywhen. I know that Anna and Janette suffered. I would need the story to pay off with deep and wide insights, to make it worthwhile to endure that torture with the characters in "graphic" form.