raspberryhunter

Dear trick-or-treater,

Thank you for writing for me! I am very excited to get anything from any of these fandoms :D Feel free to use your own ideas or prompts — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. (Since I'm low on time right now, if I've requested the fandom before or if I wrote it early in the letter process, it's more likely to have a lot of stuff written for it.)

For ToT in particular: I interpret trick/treat in the broadest possible way. "Trick" just means I want you to delve into more of the darkness and messiness of the canon. It could have a happy ending, could have a dark ending, could have character death, adultery, people finding out terrible secrets, people's brains getting stuffed into machines, the supernatural, zombie pumpkins, ...I'd love to see whatever you want to write. I'd ask you to tag for dark elements if not already present in canon, but if you tag than go for it!
"Treat," for a dark canon, means something at least slightly happier than what canon gives us. (Sundial, looking at you -- anything happier than "rocks fall everyone dies" counts, including major character death!) For a lighter canon, you can go as dark as you want during the story itself, but I all I mean by "treat" is that I want happy endings for Our Heroes :) Does not have to be fluff (and in fact I tend not to be a big fan of fluff). Cute zombie pumpkins also welcome here :)

( General: )

Canons:

( Babylon 5 )

( 18th C CE RPF )

( Les Contes d'Hoffman )

( Pelléas et Mélisande - Debussy/Maeterlinck )

( Sundial - Catriona Ward )

( Revelator - Daryl Gregory )

( Verity - Colleen Hoover )

( Portal (Video Game) )

This year the kinds of stresses my brain was under were the sort that meant I wrote a lot of Yuletide fic (at least comparatively to other years) :)

My assignment was Scholomance, and the recip indicated they would like Scholomance worldbulding and non-El POV, so I happily wrote the Scholomance-POV fic that I desperately wanted after reading The Last Graduate :) A very large amount of credit goes to

sprocket, who did a lot of alpha and beta work on this one, batted all kinds of ideas around with me and went through multiple drafts poking me to get more of an arc in there, and at one point made a (invaluable) whole timeline of everything that had happened in the books.

To Offer Sanctuary and Protection (4054 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Scholomance (Scholomance)
Additional Tags: sentient building, Worldbuilding, POV Nonhuman, the canon is the warning, Canon-Typical Death Rates, Canonical Character Death, School
Summary:

The Scholomance watches its children die, in direct violation of its charge, for a hundred years and more.

Many if not most years I start writing something while waiting for assignments to come out -- this year, I saw Waste Land in the tagset and thought, "you know, for Yuletide, December is the cruelest month..." and it just... sort of happened from there. I tried to keep most of the iconic lines from the poem (it's kind of amazing how little I had to change sometimes), but also put in stuff I made up myself (or quoted from other sources, like Eliot) that at least vaguely fit the mood and meter of the particular part. I'm particularly proud of the repurposing of "Unreal City" to reflect the problems of a fic that needs a lot of beta help, and the death of Phlebas the Phoenician becoming the defaulting of A. Nonnimous. It was super fun and I came out with much more of an appreciation of Eliot than I'd had before. It's hard to write good poetry! While I'm not sure I'd call mine good poetry, at least I think I got to the point where it is reasonable parody :) and I may be the most proud of this of everything I wrote this Yuletide, I think. Thanks to

sprocket for beta, and for

mildred_of_midgard for finding a suitable Latin quote for me!

The Yule Land (1193 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Poetry, Parody, Pastiche, Literary References & Allusions, Fandom Allusions & Cliches & References, Quotations, Yuletide, Yuletide Treat, Possible implicit time travel
Summary:

December is the cruelest month, breeding
Bears out of the wordless desert, mixing
Canons and desire, stirring
Dull minds with ideas filled with dnws.

So this is the third year that I swore up and down I wasn't going to write any Frederician RPF, and the third year that mildred was supposed to write Frederician RPF and wasn't able to, so I had to write it, because obviously V_V_lala ought to get Fritz/Katte fic from salon! And there exists, well, quite a lot of

rheinsberg material for this ship. Also I remembered, back when salon talked about Katte's last letter and how impersonal and obviously-masterminded-by-Fritz's-dad it was, I'd really wanted Katte to be sending another message with his last letter, so then I had a plot! This took the longest to write -- it takes me forever to write even short history RPF, sigh. But many thanks to

mildred_of_midgard for fixing all my mistakes, the very many historical and the perhaps slightly fewer non-historical. (I would have really liked to also write something for

selenak, who ended up writing me three presents! But one history RPF is, I think, kind of my limit.)

The Last Letter (2753 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Hans Hermann von Katte, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: letter writing, Loyalty, First Kiss, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Secret Messages, Angst and Tragedy, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Katte has a chance to send a last letter to Prince Friedrich before his execution -- and he hopes that Friedrich will remember what he remembers.

I'd told

cenozoicsynapsid that I really liked their prompts but couldn't write them myself, but I kept thinking about their Tanakh prompt, which I absolutely loved, and... eventually... apparently I was able to write it :) I like Jezebel rather more than I did before writing it -- or, well, maybe "like" isn't quite the word... Thanks to seekingferret for answering questions about naming conventions, and to sprocket and iberiandoctor for beta :)

Triptych (2677 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: תנ"ך | Tanakh
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ahab/Jezebel
Characters: Ach'av | Ahab, Izevel | Jezebel (Abrahamic Religions)
Additional Tags: Revisionist History, Polytheism, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Ahab and Jezebel were successful monarchs who struck a balance between the god of Tyre and the god of Judah, and their prophets. Until they weren't.

And lastly, the one that wouldn't have gotten written, except that because of canceling of Christmas plans, I turned out to have an extra evening (and, fortunately, morning after to fix issues I'd slept on) that I hadn't thought I would have -- so I looked at the app and found this amazing canon and that no one had written for it so far, and clearly someone needed to. And, haha, I guess a couple of years ago I'd spent some time thinking about ants for Giant Ant alienfic, so maybe I was already primed for writing something like this? I meant the end to be slightly hopeful if one had read canon and knew that the human scientists came back and did indeed give them a way to escape, but most people seem to be reading it as straight horror, which, yeah, considering the fic ends before the humans come back, fair.

Go Falling One by One (1323 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cannibal Ants in a Polish Bunker, Undisclosed Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Female Ant
Additional Tags: Cannibalism, Decentralized organization, the canon is the warning, Ants are basically alien, finding meaning in life, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

There is no light and no honeydew here, but there is still the Colony.

( 16th C Hapsburg RPF (x2), 18th C Frederician RPF (1+Madness), Tillerman Cycle (Madness), Traveller in Black - Brunner, Archy and Mehitabel (x2), Scholomance - Novik (x2), Rake's Progress - Stravinsky, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith, Fudge Series - Judy Blume, This Is Spinal Tap (1984) -- many don't need to know canon or short canon )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

My Yuletide Tradition is to write Way Too Many Words in my letter. Feel free to ignore these ideas and use your own — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. :D

( General: )

( Tillerman Cycle - Voigt (Any) )

( 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) (Consort Jing) )

( The Scholomance (Worldbuilding) )

( The Matter of Seggri (Worldbuilding) )

( 18th Century CE Frederician RPF (Frederick, Voltaire, Heinrich) )

( 16th Century CE Hapsburgs RPF (Any) )

( Where to find canon / How much canon: )

Hi! I am SO SORRY that I didn't come back and finish my letter when I said I would. Hopefully this hasn't been too much of a problem for you! I honestly think I don't have too much to add to the cut and paste I had before. The one thing I would really like to add is that I adore all these operas and I would love ANYTHING you want to write about them -- the prompts etc. in the letter should not be taken too seriously, I am really just interested to know what you think about these operas/plays and these characters!

Because of time constraints I've just cut and pasted from previous letters. One thing I do not generally have in those letters is art: I would LOVE art for these fandoms! I adore acts of fealty (like, one character kneeling to another) and loyalty, or really just any two characters interacting in any way, e.g., La Muse and the Four Villains looking at each other suspiciously? Any sort of complicated emotions (or a scene that would be reminiscent of a complicated emotion, like Posa and Carlos with a letter between them, lol) would be just amazing.

( Added some general notes (again cut and paste from previous letters) )

( Opera/play fandoms! :D )

Hi!

I think this is the first time I've signed up officially for RMSE? I'm excited! Feel free to write what you want! If you would like to write unresolved pining and UST, I absolutely love that. If you would like to write dark sexytimes, I love that too! Romance without sex is fine; sex without romance is fine; romance + sex is also fine; a relationship that is perhaps not best described as romance or sex but involves the characters having ~FEELINGS~ about and for each other is something I adore! And/or if you have a plot for which a slash pairing is firmly there but not necessarily the be-all and end-all of the story, yes please! As long as a relationship between these characters is somewhere in the story, I would basically just love stories about these fandoms :D

Please don't read anything into the amount I've written per fandom, I would love any of these!

( General: )

( Fandoms: Fountainead, Don Carlos - Verdi, Don Carlos - Schiller, 18th Century Frederician RPF, Tillerman Cycle )

...right, so I wrote some stories. ( Parker Pyne; FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense; The Sea Witch; 18th Century RPF (sort of) )

So I somehow got three Yuletide gifts and three Madness gifts and I love them so much!! Thank you authors!! Here I will talk about my gifts and more recs:

( Recs in Main and Madness: The Tillerman Cycle - Cynthia Voigt x 2, Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky, 18th Century CE RPF x 3, Deeplight - Frances Hardinge, Emily of New Moon, Possession - A. S. Byatt, Pelléas et Mélisande - Debussy/Maeterlinck )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Yet again I have written Way Too Many Words. Feel free to ignore these ideas and use your own — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. :D

( General: )

( Pelléas et Mélisande - Debussy/Maeterlinck )

( Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky )

( Tillerman Cycle - Voigt )

( 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) )

( Circle of Voltaire RPF )

( 18th Century CE Frederician RPF )

( Where to find canon / How much canon: )

Hi! This is my fic journal. This fic-list is woefully out of date; probably better to check my AO3 profile. But anyway, here's a fic-list of my older fic. Asterisks denote my favorites.

( Miscellaneous (Dark is Rising/Welsh Mythology, Dune, Le Morte d'Arthur, Norse Mythology) )
( Bible (including crossovers) )
( Greek Mythology )
( Legally Blonde )
( Les Miserables (Hugo) )
( Once Upon a Time )
( Star Trek (TNG, DS9) )
( Stargate: Universe )

Crossposts: http://berryhunter.livejournal.com/4672.html

I wrote my assignment and co-wrote a treat! Assignment was in Bible/Tanakh: The Book of Esther :D

The Book of the Queens of Old Earth in Exile (13784 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: תנ"ך | Tanakh, Megillat Ester | Book of Esther
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Esther/Vashti
Characters: Ester | Esther, Vashti (Abrahamic Religions), Achashverosh | Ahasuerus | Xerxes I of Persia, Haman (Abrahamic Religions), Mordechay | Mordecai
Additional Tags: Misses Clause Challenge, Alternate Universe - Space, Artificial Intelligence, Alien Cultural Differences, Alien Planet, human/alien (mis)communication, Slow Burn, Canonical Character Death, giant ants, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, dislike to love
Summary:

They called her a queen, though she was not one: but the circlet of light on her head and the ceremonial robes she wore gave her the semblance of one to the Terrans in the city of Zsa, the Terrans who had been carried away from Old Earth when it was conquered by the Psyn.

She was not a queen, but the Terran Liaison to the Empress of the Psyn; and now she was no longer that.

So I saw sephemeral's prompt about Vashti/Esther IN SPACE and I offered because it sounded fun! Though quite possibly I should be forcibly restrained from offering to prompts where my brain decides that it requires a ton of worldbuilding and character building and etc., because this basically took over my life from mid-November (it would have taken over my life before that but I had RL things that took precedence) to, uh, pretty late on Dec 24, and I still wish I'd had another month to work on it. (I am probably lucky that I escaped with it only being 13k. It wanted to be a novel. I have neither the time nor the capability to write a novel. I do have a whole new respect for novelists now!)

I wanted to write one of those stories where the setting of SPACE (or whatever) plays with the source material and isn't entirely rigidly bound to it but departs from it in ways that make sense for the story, while still holding on to (what I think are?) the important themes. I had a really difficult time with it (I rewrote the first chapter three times, for example), but in the end I'm proud of it and rather pleased by how it turned out. And I learned a ton about writing at this length, and about worldbuilding, and about writing one's worldbuilding so it's not deathly boring to the reader (at least I hope not), and about how to layer in theme. (And yes, betas, how not to do those things, thank you :P :) )

Speaking of betas, a very great deal of the credit here goes to my fabulous betas zdenka and sprocket and iberiandoctor, for both alpha and beta work, and who bore with me sometimes with rather tight turnaround times. Without their compassionate but ruthless dedication to making this story better, and their skill in articulating to me the things that were wrong (and that sometimes I knew were not working but had no idea what wasn't working or how to fix it), it would have been a lot (a LOT) worse. AND my beta saved me from falling into several terrible pitfalls in terms of writing Space Jews (although as a consequence of one of those alpha conversations I had fun identifying Space Jews with all of humanity). Anything weird leftover is my fault, not theirs, especially as I ran out of time near the end there.

And I learned a lot about ants while writing it! (The Psyn are not exactly giant ants... but they basically are giant ants.) The terrible name pun within is due to my spouse, who was not sure he wanted to be given credit in a giant ants fanfic so I have left him out of the AO3 notes :) (It is one of those things that admittedly doesn't fit with original canon, but it seems to me, through personal experience with engineers, to be exactly the kind of way an engineer would name something in a SPACE story :P :) )

I felt, writing it, like I might as well have signed my name to this story; I'm curious as to whether anyone who read it thought it might be me?

And, because I am crazy and clearly didn't have enough to do (but mostly because

selenak and

mildred_of_midgard are so great), I also co-wrote a treat with the lovely

mildred_of_midgard for the equally lovely

selenak!

Counterpoint for Two Flutes (6467 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
Additional Tags: Music, Flute - Freeform, Mother Love, Healing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mood Swings, Yuletide Treat, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Crown Prince Friedrich's escape attempt having failed, the King's judgment took all that the Prince loved from him, and now the Prince is languishing under house arrest, bereft of even music. Young army musician Fredersdorf finds himself trying to help the Prince in every way he can think of, no matter how small.

I spoke more about this here [link to follow as I post] so I won't belabor the point here, but there is basically no way in heck I would ever have been able to write for any sort of History RPF by myself, it was really fun collaborating with mildred, and I am proud of what we were able to do together :D

I am folding my gifts in because they were SO GOOD, all of them were basically in my Favorites of Yuletide if not My Absolute Favorites :D Trying to get this done in between Family Stuff, so apologies for any inadvertent errors. Have made notes as to whether canon knowledge is needed or not.

( Recs in 18th Century CE RPF x2, In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden, The Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith x2, A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine x2, The Ravens' Tower - Ann Leckie x2, Slings & Arrows x2, Star Trek: Rihannsu - Diane Duane, Tanakh x2 )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Yet again I have written Way Too Many Words. Feel free to ignore these ideas and use your own — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. I have gotten some wonderful stories for some of these canons, and I want mooooore :D

( General: )

( Pelléas et Mélisande - Debussy/Maeterlinck )

( The Instrumentality of Mankind - Cordwainer Smith )

( The People - Zenna Henderson )

( Taliessin through Logres - Charles Williams )

( 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV) )

( 18th Century CE Frederician RPF )

( Where to find canon / How much canon: )

(Edited 10-29-19 to make more readable, organize better, and add prompts.)
(Edited 10-30-19 to add prompts for Frederician RPF and welcome setting-changed AU for Charles Williams.)
(Edited 11-4-19 to add/clarify prompts for CW, NiF, and F-RPF.)

Meme! I think I've seen this a couple of places, but most recently from

zdenka.

( Read more... )

So I have been sort of slammed in RL and never did do a Yuletide reveal or any kind of Chocolate box posts. So I'm just going to cram them all here :)

( Yuletide reveal: Norma and Book of Mormon and faith struggles )
( I got FMA Olivier fic for Chocolate Box! )
( Chocolate Box reveal: Hamilton, Don Carlo(s), Falsettos )
( One more bonus Norma fic, Yuletide-related )

Dear chocolate box creator,

Thank you for writing for me! I am very excited to get anything from any of these fandoms :D Feel free to use your own ideas or prompts — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them.

( General: )

Canons:

( Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga )

( Les Contes d'Hoffman - Offenbach/Barbier )

( Simon Boccanegra )

( Un Ballo in Maschera - Verdi )

( Portal (Video Game) )

I got some lovely Yuletide fic!

You guys, Yuletide is the best because you can go around and prompt things like "Please write me fic where Duncan is part of the Alien Invasion" and I got not one but TWO Alien Macbeth fics, YAY, very different in feel, and I love them both!

Favor for Ruin (8062 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth
Characters: Three Witches (Macbeth), Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo (Macbeth), Hecate (Macbeth)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Aliens, Historical Science Fiction, Tragedy, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

To reclaim humanity's sovereign hold on the Earth, the Three Witches enlist Macbeth to kill Duncan, the alien king of Scotland.

No share button for the other. I don't know if that means the author doesn't want it shared? Please let me know if so; until then I will drop a link: So Green and Pale

And Schiller Don Carlos fic about my favorite in that play, Elisabeth, using all the wit and political knowledge and compassion she displayed in canon to play a desperate gambit to survive post-canon -- and winning. I love this so much!

Queen‘s Gambit (4382 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller, 16th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Élisabeth de Valois & Princess Eboli, Élisabeth de Valois/Philip II of Spain, La princesse Eboli | La Principessa Eboli/Felipe II de España | Philip II of Spain, Phillippe II of Spain/Ridrigue (Don Carlos), Carlos/Élisabeth de Valois, Élisabeth de Valois/Rodrigo
Characters: Élisabeth de Valois | Elisabetta di Valois, La princesse Eboli | La Principessa Eboli, Felipe II de España | Philip II of Spain
Additional Tags: POV Female Character, Character Study, Complicated Relationships, Post-Canon, Unrequited Love, Survival, Yuletide, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

How Elisabeth de Valois escapes her doom, with some help from the Princess Eboli.

I wrote three fics for ToT and had entirely too much fun doing so. Two were for

zdenka:

Führt Liebe ihn zur Pflicht (1681 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Die Zauberflöte | The Magic Flute - Mozart/Schikaneder
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sarastro & Pamina's Father
Characters: Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Paminas Vater | Pamina's Father
Additional Tags: Friendship, Music, Canon-Typical Misogyny, Angst
Summary:

The last meeting of Sarastro and Pamina's father.

I love Die Zauberflöte so so much, it's probably my favorite opera ever, all the hope and love in it and the gorgeous gorgeous music. I've had in my head for a while that Sarastro and Pamina's father were friends, and I really enjoyed getting to write this down and get it to explain some things, like why Sarastro pushes for Pamina being initiated into the Temple. Zdenka asked for music, and I had a lot of fun putting lots of music in the story too. Basically, getting to spend time with this opera makes me happy <3 Thanks to

sprocket and

justplainsavannahd for beta!

With Me Your Heart Will Be Stronger (9649 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don Carlos | Don Carlo - Verdi/du Locle/Méry
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos/Rodrigue, Rodrigo & Elisabeth, Elisabeth & Eboli, Philip & Rodrigo
Characters: Rodrigue | Rodrigo, Élisabeth de Valois | Elisabetta di Valois, La princesse Eboli | La Principessa Eboli, Philippe II | Filippo II, Carlos | Carlo
Additional Tags: Fix-It, fix all the things, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Extremely Ahistorical, Save Flanders, Trick or Treat: Treat, Treat, Rodrigo/Flanders, Elisabeth/Philip - Freeform, Carlo/Elisabeth, Loyalty, Trust
Summary:

Rodrigo and Elisabeth, Elisabeth and Eboli, Philip and Rodrigo, Carlos and Rodrigo: together, they can strengthen each other; together, they can save the ones they care for.

Of course Don Carlo(s) is the one I have all the FEEEEEELINGS about, and here is my fix-it where, after many words and four pairs of people having Feelings at each other, I finally managed to fix All The Things, and put in a lot of loyalty bonds and pining and reconciliation and trust because both Zdenka and I love those things. And it was not easy! (I mean fixing all the things, not putting in loads of people flinging themselves to their knees -- that was easy because LOVE.) Verdi/du Locle/Mery put a LOT OF THINGS in the way of Our Heroes, as it turns out, so it took a fair number of words (at least for me, I'm not really a longfic writer)...

Thanks to

sprocket and

iberiandoctor for beta, with an especial thanks to iberiandoctor for the last-minute beta and "here's what you need to do in the next 36 hours to make this fic THAT MUCH BETTER" talk :D

And then I wrote another small little bitter-chocolate treat for

iberiandoctor, because she had the Don Carlo(s) prompt "The opera canon is such a terrible Bad Ending, but I would not mind at all if you tried to make it worse this Halloween," and if you think I could resist that you clearly don't know me very well :D

This one is set in a universe sort-of (?) like the "Coeur de Flamme" fic, in that Philip and Rodrigo are in a sexual relationship at the time of canon (though nothing super explicit). But darker. :P

ma confiance fut trompée (352 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don Carlos | Don Carlo - Verdi/du Locle/Méry
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Philip II/Rodrigo (Don Carlos)
Characters: Philippe II | Filippo II
Additional Tags: dubcon, Betrayal, Missing Scene, Sex makes everything worse
Summary:

Philip is told about the traitor of Flanders.

I did Trick or Treat for the first time this year and I got three presents, eeee! :D

The assignment gift:
Day of the Ice Queen (383 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

A gift for the Trick or Treat Exchange 2018

Just a quick fluff story of Olivier Armstrong, some time after the events of canon take place. Very minor spoilers for FMA:B, but nothing life-changing.

Basically, I will read anything about Olivier Armstrong, particularly when she's interacting with her family :D Cute fluff, yay!

And two treats!

The Sorrows of the Earth (2080 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don Carlos | Don Carlo - Verdi/du Locle/Méry
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Carlos/Rodrigue, Philip II & Rodrigo, Philip II/Elisabeth de Valois, Carlos/Elisabeth de Valois (unconsummated)
Characters: Rodrigue | Rodrigo, Carlos | Carlo, Élisabeth de Valois | Elisabetta di Valois, Philippe II | Filippo II, The Grand Inquisitor
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Trick, Canonical Character Death, Angst, Pining, Betrayal, Ghosts, Loyalty
Summary:

It was not the voice of the Emperor.

:D I wrote the prompt "What if Rodrigo were the ghost that shows up at the end, rather than Charles V?" and it got written for meeeeee!! I really appreciate how it takes all the relationships Rodrigo's formed into account -- Carlo, of course! and the Rodrigo-Philip strained bond, and the Rodrigo-Elisabeth bond that in the opera exists more in reference than in on-screen time, but is brought out here as well -- and how it makes some things different, and changes the meaning of others, while keeping others the same. (Also. This fic's ghost!Rodrigo is sooooo much more effective than useless Carlo V in every way possible. THANK YOU AUTHOR.)

iberiandoctor and I have been having loads of fun writing increasingly less anonymous Don Carlo fic for each other (...I probably win the prize on this, but), so, er, yes. Thank you

iberiandoctor!!

Coaching the Princess: A Zombie Epilogue in Verse (4844 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tatyana Larina/Eugene Onegin, Gremin/Tatyana Larina
Characters: Tatyana Larina, Gremin (Eugene Onegin), One Zombie Pumpkin, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Treat, Humor, Fluff, Moving On, Halloween, Magic
Summary:

Original prompt: Tatyana's cute zombie pumpkin pal helps her get over Onegin and fall properly in love with Gremin! Or something.:)

Now this one. This one. Is the one where someone wrote me almost 5k of Pushkin sonnets. I can't even believe someone did that at all (like, I might... be able to write... one? a it would take me a while), let alone for me! Pushkin sonnets where, indeed, an incredibly cute zombie pumpkin helps Tatyana get over Onegin and fall in love with Gremin, with bonus ghost!Lensky and two ghost letters, and it's also this profound story about what love means and how we love. And also extremely funny! It's just everything I adore about both the verse-novel and the opera, and just so brilliantly done.

I could not imagine who was super amazing enough to do something like this until I got to what may or may not have been a hint tucked in the middle, at which point I immediately realized that

selden is indeed super amazing enough to do something like this. ...I don't know this for sure, but it's my guess :D

Other works of note (in the small fraction of the fic I've actually read). Full disclosure that I have betaed for two of the works listed below :)

In the Cards (753 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ben Pollard, Jurgen Graff, Meg Kady, Signy Mallory
Summary:

Well, someone has to keep them alive.

Perfect Ben voice, snarky and elliptic and calculating all at the same time. Quite well done.

Catching the Lark (2786 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Les Contes d'Hoffman - Offenbach/Barbier
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Dapertutto (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Additional Tags: Shadows and Reflections
Summary:

Giulietta makes a bargain with a mysterious stranger.

Can be read without knowing canon. A lovely, beautifully-written, creepy story.

For some reason there isn't a share button on this fic so I can't share it the way I do the others, but I will just drop a link: What Gets You Through, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood/Manga, is a brilliantly Ed-voice huddling-for-warmth/Canadian-shack Ed/Mustang fic.

απολογία | apología (4572 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Greek and Roman Mythology
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ἁδης | Hades/Περσεφόνη | Persephone (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Characters: Περσεφόνη | Persephone (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Ἁδης | Hades (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Charon
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Travelogue, complicated family relationships, Rituals, Love in difficult situations, Wooing, Gift Giving
Summary:

It is not a right and natural place, the underworld, and Hades tries and tries and tries to make her realm's majesty measure up to the up above and never quite makes it right. But he keeps on trying, and she keeps making the journey.

A gorgeously-written story about Persephone, and Hades, and the god-sized compromises that have to be made in a marriage of gods.

Turning Point (1720 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Real Penguin Fiction
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Happy Feet
Additional Tags: First Person, Penguin POV, Creepypasta
Summary:

I knew there was something wrong a long time before I got back to land.

Oh man, this is a creepy story about what happens to a penguin. It has an unambiguously happy ending, but I'm not sure I will ever look at the local zoo's penguins again in quite the same way.

Dear Yuletide writer,

Uh, apparently it is my Yuletide tradition to write Way Too Many Words. Feel free to ignore these ideas and use your own — I love seeing how other people think about my favorite fandoms, and I love seeing interpretations that are different from mine (some of my favorite fics are the ones that made me look at things in a new way). Also, please don't read anything into the amount of stuff I have written for each fandom; I would be extremely pleased to receive anything for any of these, otherwise I would not have requested them. (In fact, this is the first year I've ever bumped up against the max number of allowable requests!) I have gotten some wonderful stories for some of these canons, and I want mooooore :D

( General: )

( Der Ring des Nibelungen (Brunnhilde, Sieglinde) )

( Macbeth - Shakespeare (Macbeth, Three Witches) )

( Turandot - Turandot, Liu )

( La Clemenza di Tito - Mozart (Tito, Sesto, Vitellia, Servilia) )

( Don Carlo(s) - Verdi (Rodrigo) )

( Don Carlos - Schiller (Any) )

(lightly edited 10-22-18 to stress that (a) I am happy with gen or ships for all relationships mentioned here, and (b) I love lots of ways of telling stories)

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