Pack Clouds Away, by yunitsa
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61421212
➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire
➜ featuring laurence/tharkay on tharkay's estate post-canon; laurence comes to tharkay with a business proposition
➜ and by business proposition he means --
➜ anyway it is SO CUTE I love themmmmm
➜ 2k words in length
Socially Liberal, Fiscally Draconic: Complicating Narratives of Political Reform in the 19th Century, by BaronetCoins
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61423408
➜ yuletide fanfic, for Temeraire
➜ in the form of a student's essay written centuries later about Temeraire's political career after the war
➜ absolutely delightful, the things you can see about what the standard narrative about Temeraire must have been, that this student is trying to upend!
➜ and it's so right about Temeraire, too....his temperament is revolutionary but he loves money too much to be in favour of any politics that might lead to him having less of it
➜ also, love the very Student Essay nature of it, with most of the footnoted sources leading back to a single book, lol
➜ 1k words in length
a clear lake without tides, by clachnaben
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60469633
➜ yuletide fic, for The Left Hand of Darkness
➜ Genly and Estraven, post-canon, from Estraven's pov
➜ suffused with this unshakeable sense of the connection between the two of them in a really gorgeous way
➜ what a perfect coda to canon!
➜ 2k words in length
Katharina Stellans, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61425775
➜ a yuletide fic, for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
➜ About the tudor-era magician Martin Pale and his relationship with his tutor, Catherine of Winchester, from the golden age of magic
➜ gosh wow I am just -- so blown away by this?! it feels like it fits so perfectly into the interstices of canon. The undeniable weight of reality that the whole piece has, even as it is shot through with shards of the numinous....the characters all being people who are difficult, and real, and not altogether pleasant, but you love them for how real they are.
➜ Pale and Catherine are so different from each other, yet so connected, and though we get to hear much of Pale's life, Catherine remains as mysterious to us as she is to Pale. And yet we know her from who she is.
➜ idk, idk, I'm not sure how to explain this better! I just....really recommend reading this fic. it is so satisfying.
➜ 16k words
As a stranger give him welcome, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61341184
➜ yuletide fic - for Hamlet
➜ taking an interpretation that Horatio and Hamlet barely knew each other before the start of the play, and running with it from Horatio's pov
➜ I love the way this interpretation shapes the story!
➜ And Horatio's pov is so good. the way he feels helplessly drawn into the mess by Hamlet's charisma, never sure what he can do or what he should do, but unable to make himself step back and leave Hamlet alone
➜ because Hamlet IS so charismatic, and so visibly struggling at the same time! and there's so much depth there that Horatio simply cannot have the context to understand, but he wants to, he wants to be there for Hamlet
➜ but in the end, of course, all he can do is tell everyone what happened.
➜ I'm so emotions!!!!
➜ 9k words
Jeeves and the Birdcatcher's Costume, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61622692
➜ yuletide fic, for Jeeves & Wooster
➜ in which Jeeves and Wooster separately attend a masquerade ball, each in costume
➜ hidden identity shenanigans are such fun and this one is great!
➜ I love how much Wooster loves getting to interact with Jeeves without Jeeves's feudal spirit getting in the way
➜ and the vision of Jeeves at a party flirting with a flighty young master of unknown identity.....so good
➜ 11k words in length
The First Morning, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61428073
➜ yuletide fic, for A Little Princess
➜ Becky's pov on the day after all the climactic reveals, when she gets to leave Miss Minchin's and go join Sara next door
➜ this does such a good job of capturing the tone of the book, the magic and wonder and the depths of emotions, and the kind of relationship Sara and Becky have
➜ these two young edwardian-era girls doing their best to navigate what they can be to each other within the bounds of societal understandings of power differentials, and their own internalized senses of such things.....I'm so emotions!!
➜ 3k words in length
Processing Time, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61422142
➜ yuletide fic - for Fandom For Robots
➜ Computron and bjornruffian work on their next collab, and Computron revisits memories of his creator
➜ and hello I had SO many sad robot feels and robot friendship feels! shrieking with delight
➜ 2k words in length
If our two loves be one, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61571734
➜ yuletide fic - for the Lord Peter Wimsey books
➜ Harriet's POV on v-shaped polyamory negotiations, Harriet/Peter and Peter/Bunter
➜ the voice is so well done, of Harriet's whole pov but also every line of Peter's dialogue is dripping with the exact right kind of piffle he likes to talk, with all the casual references and so forth
➜ and the way they work out the relationship dynamics between the three of them, what is and isn't said, and what each of them is looking for, feels so right too!
➜ 10k words in length
hear the wrong and see the right, by Anonymous
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61420555
➜ yuletide fic - for Mairelon the Magician
➜ set mid-canon, a conversation between Mairelon and his mother about the realities of Kim being out in society and the male attention she'll attract
➜ Mairelon's oblivious focus on Kim's magical education and inability to follow where his mother is going with this line of questioning is so fun and so him
➜ what a cute and fun fic!
➜ 1k words in length
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