september recs, day fifteen: yuletide

[meretricula]

thefourthvine suggested that I do a set of small fandom recs, but I'm terrible at judging what is or isn't qualified as a "small fandom", so I decided to let the experts sort it out for me and just picked from the Yuletide pool. I tried to get a wide selection, so they're not all from the same year -- one is from 2006, one is from 2012, the rest are somewhere in between!

Wait Wait Don't Eat Me, by nestra [National Public Radio RPF, Yuletide 2009]
Probably the most (in)famous Yuletide fic of all -- NPR got their hands on it somehow and linked it to the non-fannish masses. At least it wasn't knotting fic, amirite? No, seriously, I do think this is a perfect showcase of what Yuletide is best at: a loving homage to a source that a whole lot of people are familiar with but very, very few would ever contemplate writing fic for.

Gamol-léac, by Castiron [Old Spice Guy commericals, Yuletide Madness 2010]
The concept is great, but it's the execution that really makes it memorable. What a fantastic Beowulf pastiche.

a spring fling, by screamlet [Avengers RPF, Yuletide 2012]
Everything is ridiculous and yet it's not really a fluffy fic, if that makes sense -- the story is funny, but mostly because it's about perfectly ordinary events that the characters can't really deal with because they aren't used to functioning in the everyday world. (To wit: ScarJo, Chris Evans and Renner live together in collegiate-level filth and attend the birthday party Chris Hemsworth throws for his baby daughter.)

Duende, by astolat [Master and Commander, Yuletide 2006]
God, I tend to forget this story exists and then I remember and reread it and fall in love all over again. It's a very sweet love story, for Aubrey and Maturin at least, but it's the worldbuilding that gets me every time.

A Room With a View, by hollimichele [Temeraire, Yuletide 2009]
THIS STORY, GOD. Perscitia! Wellington! Roland! All the historical details that don't necessarily appear in the books, up to and including Wellington's poor wife! I love the Temeraire books with a fiery burning passion and I mean it as a great compliment when I say that this fic could perfectly well be an interlude written by Naomi herself.

HEY GUYS BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW NOMINATIONS OPEN TOMORROW? YEAH. YOU SHOULD ALL GET ON THAT.

Comments

[fandomonymous.livejournal.com]

Regarding Yuletide: I have exactly one nomination I'm absolutely sure I'm doing (and requesting, and oh god if I get to write it I will do unit circle waltzes in glee). I have a fandom I always always love to read and probably could write just from sheer canon knowledge, but I received both of the fanfics I would have wanted from it in the past year between Yuletide and fandom_helps; I would feel bad nominating a fandom without actually contributing to it in some way. Otherwise I'm really not sure what to request - there's a few I can vaguely think of, but I am almost certain they'll be too big to Yuletide.

I AM SO LOST WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOOOOOOO