New podfic and some fic recs!

[regshoe]

I think hyarrowen's 'The Lady of the Loch' is one of the most delightful stories in the fandom, so it was a natural choice for what to record next :D It's been a nice challenge—a bit longer than anything I'd attempted before, and with some more dramatic dialogue and action—but mostly just a lot of fun.

[Podfic] The Lady of the Loch (9 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Nessie
Additional Tags: First Time, Fluff, slight AU, Podfic, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes
Summary:

A fishing trip to Loch Ness, an unexpected encounter that Ewen and Keith have there, and the consequences.

And a few fic recs!

I have loved E. M. Forster's The Longest Journey in all its weird gloomy complexity for years, and now phantomtomato has written the Rickie Elliot/Stewart Ansell fic I always wanted <3 Taking a canon scene that really called for some kissing and adding the kissing, it's a beautiful story, develops the characters and the book's ideas in a really interesting way, and gives these two the warm happiness they were never going to get from this particular canon. Highly, highly recommended.

Idyll XII (2733 words) by Phantomato
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Longest Journey - E.M. Forster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Stewart Ansell/Rickie Elliot
Characters: Stewart Ansell, Rickie Elliot
Additional Tags: Physical Disability, Love Confessions, Cambridge, First Kiss, Philosophy, Romance
Summary:

During their final term at Cambridge, Stewart once more engages Rickie in a discussion of whether a cow exists.

And unsent_letters_exchange, the exchange for epistolary fic, revealed this week with two Flight of the Heron stories in the collection! Authors are still anonymous but, er, I suspect I know who they both are :P The fics are both amazing, both make really creative use of the epistolary format, and they form a lovely complement to each other. This one is canon-compliant and beautifully angsty, using Ewen's correspondence with the real Jacobite historian Robert Forbes to explore his grief over Keith's death; it's a very good bit of understated, significant sadness as well as a brilliant historical pastiche:

Preserv'd for Posterity (1668 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Robert Forbes
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Epistolary, Grief/Mourning, Documentation, Post-Canon
Summary:

To Ewen Cameron of Ardroy

Dear Sir, I have not the Honour of being known to you, & you will no doubt wonder at a Stranger writing to you without an Introduction, but I must hope that you will excuse the Liberty when I have explain'd my Purpose.

And this one is a happy Ewen/Keith AU, in which Keith and Ewen, parted by circumstances, write amazingly romantic letters to each other using an ingenious code. It's very clever, deeply warm-hearted in mood and generally a beautiful epistolary shipfic:

Comfort Me With Apples (1676 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Codes & Ciphers, Established Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship
Summary:

'Then it must be a cipher that none will suspect as a cipher,' Ewen answered stubbornly. 'Surely if we put our heads together we can manage that.'

 

On the eve of war, Keith and Ewen devise a code to keep their letters private.

...and between those two and my podfic, we have 100 works in the FotH tag! Well done, fandom \o/

Comments

[sanguinity]

Authors are still anonymous but, er, I suspect I know who they both are :P

Do you? I am baffled, baffled! flummoxed! by the authorship of my gift...

And hurrah, a new podfic! I look forward to listening to it!

[regshoe]

Perplexing!...

And I hope you enjoy the podfic :)