Yuletide :D

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Well, I am one very fortunate Yuletide participant this year...! I have received five (!) gift fics, covering all my requested fandoms between them, and they're all really, really good. I am utterly delighted, and I highly recommend them all. :)


This post-canon Travel Light fic, featuring Halla getting to know her new flying horse and the Valkyries, meeting the goddess Freyja and choosing where her next adventure will take her, is a perfect take on the canon and the characters' future, full of beautifully chosen details and great character moments:

To Fólkvangr (1784 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Halla, Steinvor
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:

Halla drops her cloak and goes with the Valkyries, but what next?

I was surprised and very pleased to receive not just Quatrevingt-treize fic, but Quatrevingt-treize ghost fic! This story follows a ghostly Housarde as she stays with Michelle and helps her find her children. It has a really impressively Hugolian tone, and contains some intriguing ghost stuff and some very appropriate setting details:

Momomme (5465 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Quatrevingt-treize | Ninety-three - Victor Hugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Michelle Fléchard, Housarde, Tellmarch
Additional Tags: Ghosts
Summary:

The dead do have power to protect.

This is a gorgeously shippy Malory Towers story, with a clever premise that took me a while to figure out, some lovely descriptive detail and a great interpretation of the characters' future in a world that's partly the canon setting and partly something a bit stranger...

Where the Lovelight Gleams (3818 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Clarissa Carter/Wilhelmina "Bill" Robinson
Characters: Clarissa Carter, Wilhelmina "Bill" Robinson
Additional Tags: Miss Peters (minor appearance), Darrell Rivers (minor appearance), Sally Hope (minor appearance), christmas pantomime, Post-Canon, Bill and Clarissa are so married, First Kiss, Fade to Black, Friends to Lovers, minor supernatural elements, True Love, Miss Peters ships it, so much pining, Happy Ending, They love each other so much
Summary:

Clarissa put her hand close to Bill's. Not quite touching. Not quite holding hands. But close enough to let her pretend a little, and make her happy.

Another gorgeously shippy Malory Towers fic (I do love Bill/Clarissa, and it's such a treat to have so much lovely fic for them!), with a lovely atmosphere and some very inventive magical elements that fit brilliantly in with the canon setting and themes:

Thunder (1206 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clarissa Carter/Wilhelmina "Bill" Robinson
Characters: Wilhelmina "Bill" Robinson, Clarissa Carter
Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Horses, Boarding School, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:

The dreams started after Thunder cantered through the middle of a fairy ring on the beach below Malory Towers.

And finally, in Madness this morning, this beautiful little fic crossing over Travel Light and Lolly Willowes in an absolutely perfect way:

Different Kinds of Freedom (647 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison, Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Laura Willowes, Halla
Additional Tags: Crossover, Post-Canon
Summary:

Laura has a visitor at Great Mop.

I've made a start on reading round the rest of the collection—it looks like being a good year for both Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi, and I've come across some real gems in smaller fandoms as well. Expect a general recs post later on this week!

And I've also received some lovely comments from my own recips—but more on what I wrote after author reveals. :)