island_of_reil

The authors mentioned in this post are as follows:

"Most Fervently," the cracky yet gorgeous Lost Prince story, was written by halotolerant.

"Wherever You Go," the fic for The Eagle that segues from beautifully rendered h/c and pining into fiery porn, was written by alby_mangroves.

"All The Pleasures Prove," the witty and hot Marlowe/Shakespeare fic, was written by wildestranger.

The brilliant " \Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine," in which Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes challenges Death with a game of Calvinball, was written by starlingthefool.

"The Queen of Rokovoko," Melville pastiche featuring an orgy to which Ahab isn't invited and the mating habits of cetaceans, was written by the_alchemist.

And "The Velvetskynn™ Rabbit," a hilarious adult version of the Margery Williams book, was written by gnomad.


I still have a lot of YT stories I want to read but haven't yet. Here are four more:

"Delete Selected Email?" by storiesfortravellers. This is based on Mallory Ortberg's post "The Rage of Jonathan Franzen" and is a screamingly funny piss-take of one of litfic's most grossly overrated and most unpleasant figures.

"The Red Hot Brawling Sun" by Nokomis. It's the story of Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons (which I had no idea was an actual 1895 murder), played out night after night at a roadhouse stuck in the mists of time. So you ignore the railspike and hammer lying carelessly next the broad-shouldered man whose chair threatens to break under his massive musculature, and the haunting strains of the blues coming from the guitar of a man with hellfire in his eyes. Chills.

"The Not Entirely Accurate Chronicle of John Polidori, Genius Physician and Brilliant Writer, and His Rather Less Distinguished Companions" by lady_ganesh. A cracky recounting of Polidori's, Byron's, and the Shelleys' Not-So-Excellent Vacation, influenced by Kate Beaton, as well as by The Awl. Includes the tag "Lord Byron's Penis."

"Back on the Horse" by novembersmith. I know absolutely nothing about Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, but I clicked through anyway upon seeing a rec for this fic somewhere. The sex scene between the two main characters is absolutely incendiary, full of love and new sensations and trembling and saying each other's names, and the teasing that leads up to it makes it even hotter.

Over here at yuletide_recs.

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Dear Yuletide Author,

Hello there. Thanks for offering to write for me, and for reading this letter.

This is my first Yuletide. I've been reading other people's current and past letters for a sense of what to ask for. I'd rather err on the side of too much than not enough detail. Let me start with the four fandoms I'm requesting, and then I'll move on to general preferences.

Fandoms

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General Preferences

What I like/would be fine with
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What I would not like
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What is context-dependent
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Thank you for reading. I look forward to your fic! :)

P.S. My AO3 handle: Island_of_Reil