adiva_calandia: (At Tara)
Was I awake at 7:30 on New Year's Day just so I could look at Yuletide reveals? Maaaaaybe.

First off, I want to rec my gifts again now that I know who to thank!


All These Gliding Ghosts (3578 words) by shinobi93
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Horatio (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Hamlet
Additional Tags: Magical Realism, Ghosts, Underworld - Freeform, Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death, Yuletide
Summary: When the ghost of the old king appears at the castle, he is not alone. Soon, it is down to Horatio and Ophelia to stop these spirits from terrorising Hamlet and Elsinore, but the stakes are high and tragedy has a strange way of defying anyone's efforts to the contrary.
Still, they will battle on regardless, even if it takes them to the edges of their sanity…or the Underworld.


My original request was for a magical realist Hamlet story, and I'm still so delighted by the way [archiveofourown.org profile] shinobi93 folds a fantastical story into the standard plot of the play.

Out of the Clutch of Chaos (1546 words) by astralis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Janet Carter/Thomas Lane
Characters: Janet Carter, Thomas Lane, Lily Carter
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Pregnancy, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Janet wakes on Christmas morning struck by the strangeness of her situation.


[archiveofourown.org profile] astralis notes that the title of this fic comes from The Lady's Not For Burning, which made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Because as it turns out, a ghostly Hamlet and a post-canon Thomas and Janet make for a nice trio with the one fic I wrote for the archive:


The Soldier's Not for Leaving (2303 words) by adiva_calandia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lady's Not For Burning
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jennet Jourdemayne/Thomas Mendip
Summary: 1400, more or less, and a day later, to be precise.

The soldier, the lady, and her dog watch the moon rise. Because there is life beyond the pyre -- but it's going to take work, and time, and love, to keep it going.

A helpful spell might not go amiss, either, if the right one comes along.


It's like a Tam Lin triple-play!

SO this is one of my favorite things I've ever written, and I cannot thank [personal profile] fahye enough for giving me the chance to write it, because I've always wanted to write something about The Lady's Not for Burning but could never unlock it until she requested Jennet as an actual witch. I was pretty fucking intimidated by the canon, though -- Christopher Fry's poetry is well nigh inimitable -- and by the recipient, because I know of old that Fahye's writing is awesome and rich and complex and beautiful and I didn't want to fuck this up for her.

My betas, [personal profile] newredshoes and [personal profile] mercuria and [personal profile] batyatoon (and college roomie), all were instrumental in making sure I didn't fuck up, and I can't thank them enough. (Especially Esther and Merc, who were very patient with me as I fancast (Tom Hiddleston for Thomas, Anne Hathaway for Jennet) and read scenes from the original play aloud and forced them to watch the 1987 Kenneth Branagh production which is TERRIBLY paced and shot and aggressively '80s BBC but features a beautiful performance from Branagh.)

I also want to point out, delightedly, that this isn't the only TLNfB fic in the archive this year -- there's also Accessory After the Fact, a very sweet look at Thomas and Jennet dealing with pregnancy with a beautiful final line.

Seriously, though, it was like all Tam Lin canons all the time up in here and I loved it.
adiva_calandia: (Merry Fucking Christmas)
YULETIDE. I'm lying in bed squirming happily like any five-year-old on Christmas morning.

I actually got two Yuletide fics, which I was not expecting at all, and they're both delightful in completely different ways:

Out of the Clutch of Chaos, which is a post-canon Tam Lin (Pamela Dean's) fic about Janet and Thomas on Christmas morning and is absolutely pitch perfect. It reads just like the original work, and it captures all these wonderful details of Janet's life as a pregnant college student who's been threatened by the Queen of Faerie. MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Similarly kind of grim but AMAZING, I got All These Gliding Ghosts, which is about Ophelia and Horatio, GHOST HUNTERS. It's more of an AU of the original canon, providing a new explanation for Ophelia's actions in particular, repurposing lines and scenes in fascinating and beautiful and sad ways. And also Ophelia and Horatio hunt ghosts.

I should get up and make coffee now, since I'll need to be functional when my parents pick me up in forty minutes. May the rest of the day live up to this promising beginning.
adiva_calandia: (Default)
 I DID IT I finished my Yuletiiiiiide and now I can think about something else.

Maybe.

At least I can stop editing it. Right?
adiva_calandia: (Left Coast girl)
Dear Yuletide author,

Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, I have never done this before (which is why I'm so slow with this letter). I'm so, so excited. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to create something for me! I hope you have fun with this, and I hope this letter helps you out.

If you want to get a sense for the kind of fiction I write, my AO3 profile is here. (You can also check out my writing tag here, which is mostly going to show you my non-fiction blogging.) I love stories that focus on female characters, particularly women navigating male-dominated worlds, and stories that deal with gender and queer sexualities. (Gender-bending is the best thing ever.) I have a slight preference for gen fic over shippy stuff, with a couple exceptions. I LOVE crossovers and AUs, so if you see a good opportunity to bring in another canon (or two, or six, or whatever strikes your fancy) and you want to follow it, please, knock yourself out!

I'm not averse to getting a little dark and edgy (especially given the fandoms I requested, which all have a lot of dark/heavy undercurrents), but please no rape-as-plot-development.

Mostly, I hope you have a great time writing in these fandoms we both love, and I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Here's some specifics:

Young Wizards )




Mairelon the Magician )




Hamlet )




Tam Lin )




One more time -- thank you so so much for taking the time to create something for me. I hope you have a great time, and I can't wait to read it.

--AC
adiva_calandia: (iBook)
OKAY I'm gonna do Yuletide. WHY NOT. BRING IT ON. Shit what the fuck am I going to offer.

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