in ur yuletide, makin it gay

[meretricula]

let the reccing begin! :D (not to worry, it will continue.)

Obligatio (381 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF
Horace/Vergil Horace/Vergil Horace/Vergil somebody wrote me Horace/Vergil I'm just going to skip around for a bit now. by which I mean: it may be short but it is AWESOME.

closing your curtains at night (2856 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Football RPF
BABY DREAM TEAM THREESOME FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. that is all.

The Six Days (2834 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Football RPF
sooooo cute! tons of Cesc being a total goofball with Pique (what, I know what I like) and a really good feel for the distinctions between Cesc-at-Arsenal and Cesc-at-Barcelona. plus, slutty Germans!

Bonding For Rivals (3713 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Football RPF
aww, Germans. don't know 'em but they're still cute. (there was some sort of copy-paste mishap, I gather, so the text is a bit hard to follow in places; you'll work it out, and I'm sure it'll be fixed quickly anyway.)

Free Bitch (5203 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Bad Romance (Music Video), Doctor Who (2005)
I really think "Doctor Who/Lady Gaga crossover" should be sufficient explanation, don't you?

Bakcheios (9755 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Bacchae - Euripides
ever since I read the Bacchae I have been longing for creepy Dionysus/Pentheus noncon. behold, the beauty of yuletide! I didn't even ask for it!

Five Times Jess & Jules Kissed in Public (2872 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Jess/Jules and oh-so-sweet. I love them. this movie should have a fandom the size of the sun.

Long Way From Home (2717 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
and more of the same!

Journey to Make, Horizon to Chase (3027 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
it doesn't even feel like a crossover. it feels like Susan belonged at Blackstock College all along.

in from the cold (3268 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Demon's Lexicon - Sarah Rees Brennan
oh, Nick.

Unnatural mother (2261 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Demon's Lexicon - Sarah Rees Brennan
Annabel Crawford is brilliant and amazing and this is so perfectly her. I love it.

Experience (2170 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: EDDINGS David & Leigh - Works, Elenium/Tamuli Series - David & Leigh Eddings
uh. Danae grows herself a dick and fucks the living daylights out of Talen. when you think about it, why the hell not?

Sliding Scale (1449 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hanazakari no Kimitachi e - Ikemen Paradise | Hana-Kimi (TV)
Nakatsu has a sexual identity crisis. again. gets the light-hearted tone of Hana Kimi down perfectly.

Down All the Days (3776 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: HOMER - Works, The Iliad - Homer
totally brilliant reworking of the Iliad in myriad AUs.

Sweet Villainy (4882 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Despicable Me (2010)
it doesn't get much more adorable than this movie. or this fic.

Invasion and Inscrutability (1426 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
gets the feel of the original almost perfectly! and it's always fun to see the gentleman with the thistledown hair getting thwarted.

Avalon Manor (9890 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster, Merlin (BBC)
Jeeves and Wooster crossover. with Merlin. and it works. (there's going to be a lot of Jeeves and Wooster on this list, be forewarned. it's such a perfect Yuletide fandom and I love it to bits.)

Get Warm, Jeeves (4485 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster
is there anything better than good cliche fic? oh wait, yes. good cliche fic with added porn!

Pace the Meadows With a Heavy Tread (7302 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster
kidfic! only the kids are kind of horrible, which I think is an awesome twist. will I ever get tired of reading about Bertie realizing he's in love with Jeeves? um, to be honest, probably not in the foreseeable future.

Jeeves and the Newt of the Fink-Nottles (5261 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves and Wooster solve a mystery, a la Sherlock Holmes. complete with funny hat.

Harriet and Sergeant (9831 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
not actually a threesome, but Harriet and Bunter bond over worrying about Peter, which is almost as good!

The Magicians and the Revenants (4991 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & ZOMBIES. there are footnotes! words cannot express my glee.

When the Tide Comes (I'll Take You Away) (2242 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Love Mode
a little bit of Naoya-kun and Aoe-san, and every bit as sweet as it ought to be.

Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like) (2367 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Yuletide Fandoms (Anthropomorfic), TV Commercials, Old Spice Guy (Commercials), Fandom RPF, TV Tropes (Anthropomorfic)
it's been recced to hell and back already, but yes, it is that good.

Smell Like a Yeti (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Old Spice) (1502 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Old Spice Guy (Commercials)
ahh, Old Spice Guy. source of all that is hyperbolic and awesome.

Involuntary Response (1956 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: On the Road with Austin & Santino RPF
I have seen exactly one episode of this show but from that knowledge base I feel confident in asserting that this really needs to happen. actually what really needs to happen is the unwritten epilogue where they finally hook up, but I'm not complaining. my imagination works just fine.

The Game Is a Lie (1026 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Portal (Video Game)
Portal fanfiction. yeah. wow. the creativity of Yuletide authors still astounds me even now.

Lieutenant Bennet's Visit (3172 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
every bit as charming as the crossover would suggest!

Dial M for Manly (6150 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Old Spice Guy (Commercials), TV Commercials
oh man. maybe I'm not very perceptive, but the twist totally blindsided me, and it was AWESOME.

Texts From Your Shower (686 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Old Spice Guy (Commercials), Texts From Last Night, TV Commercials
yup, every bit as amazing as you'd expect.

Gamol-léac (482 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Old Spice Guy (Commercials), Beowulf
crying with laughter just a little bit.

Comments

[jjhunter]

:oD

I participated this year. Ended up late last night doing frantic revisions, but I am now somewhat pleased with the final product. Now I get to wait for something *other* than kudos to pop up. (Comments, darn it, I want comments.)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

merry christmas and happy yuletide! you just gotta be patient - the archive is having its annual fit of "oh my god how many people want to read their stories right now?"

[jjhunter]

By and by...I *so* know what you wrote this year. It's really quite beautiful; macte, amica, macte.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

haha well I guess we'll see when reveals go up! challenge accepted~

(soooo... which fandom is it that you think I wrote? I can at least tell you if you're hot or cold.)

er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

The Aeneid. Definitely the Aeneid.

Kudos to you if you manage to figure out mine.

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

BZZZT INCORRECT

kind of close fandom-wise though! relatively speaking. I don't even know what fandoms you read in, so I wouldn't dare to venture a guess. XD

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

Really? There's Nisus/Euryalis, and the summary is in Latin... Darn. You obviously have a clone. Go read now: Mirabilis visu.

As for me...I'll tell you after YT! But it is a fandom that I think a lit-inclined femme fabulous like yourself will take a looksie at eventually.

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

it is open in my tabs! my many, many, many tabs of Yuletide fic. >_>;; will get there eventually.

haha as always I feel that you and many other people overestimate how many books I actually read. (and what quality they tend to be.) but we shall see!

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

...out of curiosity, just how many tabs are there?

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

34 single stories (although I've gone through a lot more; I appear to be somewhere around "O") and 13 fandoms where there were too many stories and I put them aside for later. BUT I WILL PREVAIL.

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

*gets out the pom-poms*

You've read all the way through 'O'? *boggles*

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

well only for fandoms I actually know! XD

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

Ah, so maybe you have hit mine! I'm giving you a big honking clue here: it's somewhere before 'o' in the alphabet. ;o)

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

haha well unless it's Hunger Games, Fairy Tales, mythology or American Gods, which are in the "oh god too much fic abort abort ABORT" window. guess we'll see after the reveal! :P

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

Yes, my precious. Yes we will. :oD

Re: er, screen after reading?

[jjhunter]

OMG. V--, you liked the Old Spice Guy Commercial yuletide crack? Then you must read this, you absolutely must. Yuletide Madness is mad inspired: Gamol-léac .

Re: er, screen after reading?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha A++!

[tabacoychanel.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha what happened to "i hate html coding i'm just gonna spam y'alls timelines"???

omg i hate you i wish i could read these but i am basically going to spend the day as a kitchen drudge but hopefully will be able to sneak online every couple of hours? happy yuletide!

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

ahhh but the AO3 is so clever that they actually provide html coding for all their stories, you just click a link and it pops up. so. it's genius, man. XD

well I will put all the good ones here so you can find them later, then! happy yuletide! ♥

[tinuvielchild.livejournal.com]

I awww'd at the Narnia/Tam Lin one.

♥

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

♥ you too! merry christmas!

[oneshottoyour.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, BACCHAE FIC.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT

[oneshottoyour.livejournal.com]

...I am dead. Creepy Dionysus/Pentheus dub-con is...creepy, but oh-so-good. AND EPIC ACTAEON BACKSTORY IS EPIC, omg.

Between this fic and mannschaft_subs releasing the English subs for Ein Sommermaerchen, I don't even need presents irl anymore. *__*

[tinuvielchild.livejournal.com]

A comment about regulation zeppelin-piloting handlebar moustaches in the Dial M for Manly fic just made me think of this...

Does fanfic for Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date exist? And if so, can you find me some, O Queen of Rec-lists?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

lol well I've never seen it but hey, search the AO3. it's pretty good for weird stuff. (and if it's not there you could always request it for next yuletide!)

[tinuvielchild.livejournal.com]

looks like I will have to make a mental note to request it for yuletide. thus is life!

or, well, I could write it myself, I guess. we'll see.

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

The Germans are the goalkeepers! Well, the cute goalkeepers. René Adler, 25, from Leipzig, plays for Bayer Leverkusen, and Manuel Neuer, 24, from Gelsenkirchen and plays for his hometown team of Schalke 04. Manuel is the current German #1. René was supposed to be #1, but got injured just before the World Cup and hasn't gained his place back from Manu. And the story is awesome except for the formatting, just what I wanted for German-fic. :D

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

haha, well, I gathered the goalkeeping part XD somehow I thought Rene would be older though. or possibly Manu would be younger.

[louis-quatorze.livejournal.com]

René will be 26 in a couple of weeks (Manuel turns 25 in March). They're very much about the same age. Manuel tends to come off as somewhat of an innocent, which I put down to having not left home/his first club. We'll see how he changes if/when he leaves Schalke in the summer...

[eileenyx.livejournal.com]

I would like to thank you for introducing me to the wonderful fandom of Old Spice Guy. That Dial M for Manly is ridiculously kick-ass.

Also, happy 2011! :D

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

always happy to be of service. :) you too!