Yuletide recs part 2

[raspberryhunter]

Just under the wire, three more:



The Ship Sails On (6650 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: CW: contains canon-typical descriptions of child neglect in the various re-tellings of Cinderella.
Summary:

A series of different cultural artifacts illustrating some of the ways culture changes aboard ship over the course of the first 100 years or so.

This is just a wonderful found-documents story about how culture evolves, both intentionally and non-intentionally, on a generational ship. Don't need to know canon except that it's about a generational ship.
(the canon novelette is also worth reading and is here:
https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Sarah_Pinsker.html)

Semasiography (1551 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Arrival (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Louise Banks, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, POV Outsider, Non-Linear Narrative, Language
Summary:

I’m fifty-six and I’m wearing a black suit at Louise Banks’ funeral.

Gorgeously bittersweet look at the world with Heptapod B. Don't need to have seen the movie if you've read Story of Your Life (pdf link), but you need to know at least one of the two canons.

Better Solutions (12609 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Balthasar Lake/Ophelia Rhys-Lake, Orion Lake & Ophelia Rhys-Lake
Characters: Ophelia Rhys-Lake, Balthasar Lake, Orion Lake
Additional Tags: Character Study, Ophelia at the scholomance, there are no funerals in the scholomance, pet death, Canon-Typical Violence, Animal Death, Animal Abuse, the pet death is a Malia Ritual Situation and not like sadism, Parenthood, but it's still somewhat graphic so proceed with caution
Summary:

I know you must be angry and upset with me. You have every right to be, and I can't even apologize, because if I had made other choices, I wouldn't have you. So I can't ever be sorry. I want you not to be sorry either.

 

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The morning after the fighting, he'd told me earnestly that she'd made a terrible mistake and she'd apologized to him and asked him to forgive her and he had, and I'd nearly gnashed his entire face off in a frothing rage.

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Or: Ophelia, through the years.

Ahhhhh I have been wondering about Ophelia Rhys-Lake since first reading the Scholomance, and this fic does a brilliant job of making sense of her and her decisions. Need to know fandom.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Oof, "Semasiography" is so well done. Thanks for reccing it!

[raspberryhunter]

Ahh, I'm glad you liked it! (I had missed it previously myself because it was under "Arrival" and not "Story of Your Life," and I haven't seen the movie.)

[zdenka]

The first one was my gift, and it was very good! So I'm happy to see it recced. :)

[raspberryhunter]

I actually read it because I remembered reading your letter and your awesome prompts for it, and hoping someone would fill them! And then I loved it :D <3

[zdenka]

Aww, yay! I'm glad you enjoyed it too.

[raspberryhunter]

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