Good Yuletidings!
Dec. 30th, 2010 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotBelated Merry Christmas to those who celebrate that, early Happy New Years to those who celebrate this now, and happy holidays to all!
Am having a good vacation myself, back at my parents', but busy with all the relations about the house 'til lately. I have had time to read a bit of Yuletide fic, though I've still got most of the archive to go through:
Firstly, my gift - I got Ben 10! With Kevin/Gwen! A post-recent-finale tag (which episodes badly were in need of tagging - did love the end of this season, btw, though in classic B10 fashion it went way too fast - gotta love the way kids' shows - and that one in particular - can stuff two hours of plot into twenty minutes): Missing Kevin
Speaking of kids' fiction - much enjoyed this blast from the past: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Science Fiction, fic for The Girl with the Silver Eyes, which book I adored when I was ten (I believe it's where I learned the word "telekinesis", in fact). This story made me dig out my old copy and reread it. It's fascinating how books read twenty years after the fact, what parts of the stories you remember, what you've forgotten (oh, how parents often suffer in kids' books, with their children always running away, whether down the block or to the Met or to outer space..)
While I'm at it, this is from last year's Yuletide, but just as sentimental - Epilogue, Part II for the My Teacher Is an Alien series, which books I also just reread and still rather love (I suspect my love of multi-species space opera comes from that series as much as from Diane Duane's Star Trek novels...)
Then, writing for Futurama last year inspired me to check out this year's batch, which lead to The Start of a Beautiful Something, which is Fry/Leela/Bender OT3 and more cute than crack. No really.
Cute also applies to The Roommate of +10 Confusion - Jason Fox meets Calvin (& Hobbes). While most of the Calvin & Hobbes fic I've seen over previous Yuletides goes for evoking the wistful melancholy of growing up, this one is just fun and adorable, and I loved it for that.
And I'm assuming you've seen the Old Spice Man writing for Yuletide, but if you've missed it: Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like)
Am having a good vacation myself, back at my parents', but busy with all the relations about the house 'til lately. I have had time to read a bit of Yuletide fic, though I've still got most of the archive to go through:
Firstly, my gift - I got Ben 10! With Kevin/Gwen! A post-recent-finale tag (which episodes badly were in need of tagging - did love the end of this season, btw, though in classic B10 fashion it went way too fast - gotta love the way kids' shows - and that one in particular - can stuff two hours of plot into twenty minutes): Missing Kevin
Speaking of kids' fiction - much enjoyed this blast from the past: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Science Fiction, fic for The Girl with the Silver Eyes, which book I adored when I was ten (I believe it's where I learned the word "telekinesis", in fact). This story made me dig out my old copy and reread it. It's fascinating how books read twenty years after the fact, what parts of the stories you remember, what you've forgotten (oh, how parents often suffer in kids' books, with their children always running away, whether down the block or to the Met or to outer space..)
While I'm at it, this is from last year's Yuletide, but just as sentimental - Epilogue, Part II for the My Teacher Is an Alien series, which books I also just reread and still rather love (I suspect my love of multi-species space opera comes from that series as much as from Diane Duane's Star Trek novels...)
Then, writing for Futurama last year inspired me to check out this year's batch, which lead to The Start of a Beautiful Something, which is Fry/Leela/Bender OT3 and more cute than crack. No really.
Cute also applies to The Roommate of +10 Confusion - Jason Fox meets Calvin (& Hobbes). While most of the Calvin & Hobbes fic I've seen over previous Yuletides goes for evoking the wistful melancholy of growing up, this one is just fun and adorable, and I loved it for that.
And I'm assuming you've seen the Old Spice Man writing for Yuletide, but if you've missed it: Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like)
