Yuletide Recs, Part 2
Here are more stories I enjoyed; hopefully you will enjoy some of them too.
Don't Need to Know Canon
An Orchid Keeps Its Secrets. "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" - Ursula K. Le Guin. An insect linguist discusses a case study in orchid linguistics and defends the concept of plant art, with an aside about wasp love poetry. What it says on the can. If this is the sort of thing you enjoy, you will enjoy this.
If you've never encountered the charmingly spooky one-panel webcomic Behind You, oh boy are you in for a treat. It's drawings and animations of people with creepy things behind them; you'd think this would get receptive quickly but it's so inventive that it doesn't. Here's one of my favorites. This one is animated so keep watching.
The Rotten Heart - Behind You is essentially original fiction inspired by the webcomic. It's halfway between urban fantasy and the spooky (as opposed to gory) sort of horror, loosely inspired by the legend of Bloody Mary, and is great fun.
Feathers and Whiskers. MOJO Magical Horses. Art! A black, winged horse meets a black, un-winged cat.
Knowing Canon Would Be Helpful But is Maybe Not Necessary.
Flora's Adventures in Ghostland. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James. This weird and charming story re-imagines the original as if it was a children's book written at the same time. Truly the sort of thing Yuletide is for.
Sugar Lumps - The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison. Maia gets a horse, and they both get a little sweetness in their lives.
Need to Know Canon
A Light to Guide You Home. Dark Tower - Stephen King. Roland's spirit is lost after Mejis; Cuthbert plays Scheherazade to bring him back. A clever, touching, and metafictional love story about the power of love and story.
Ars Longa. In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden. Two of my favorite supporting characters from the novel, Abbess Hester and the sculptor Stefan Duranski, in a beautiful look at art and faith, perfectly in tune with the book.
upside down from the moon. The Long Walk - Stephen King. There were two stories this Yuletide about Ray and Pete escaping the Walk and holing up in a motel. I recced one last post, and now I've read the other and I'm reccing it too. They're both terrific, and together they make a neat look at two takes on a similar idea can be both similar and very different, which is something I always enjoy seeing when it happens in exchanges.
Please comment if you can, it makes the authors' day.
What have you been enjoying this Yuletide?
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Don't Need to Know Canon
An Orchid Keeps Its Secrets. "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" - Ursula K. Le Guin. An insect linguist discusses a case study in orchid linguistics and defends the concept of plant art, with an aside about wasp love poetry. What it says on the can. If this is the sort of thing you enjoy, you will enjoy this.
If you've never encountered the charmingly spooky one-panel webcomic Behind You, oh boy are you in for a treat. It's drawings and animations of people with creepy things behind them; you'd think this would get receptive quickly but it's so inventive that it doesn't. Here's one of my favorites. This one is animated so keep watching.
The Rotten Heart - Behind You is essentially original fiction inspired by the webcomic. It's halfway between urban fantasy and the spooky (as opposed to gory) sort of horror, loosely inspired by the legend of Bloody Mary, and is great fun.
Feathers and Whiskers. MOJO Magical Horses. Art! A black, winged horse meets a black, un-winged cat.
Knowing Canon Would Be Helpful But is Maybe Not Necessary.
Flora's Adventures in Ghostland. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James. This weird and charming story re-imagines the original as if it was a children's book written at the same time. Truly the sort of thing Yuletide is for.
Sugar Lumps - The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison. Maia gets a horse, and they both get a little sweetness in their lives.
Need to Know Canon
A Light to Guide You Home. Dark Tower - Stephen King. Roland's spirit is lost after Mejis; Cuthbert plays Scheherazade to bring him back. A clever, touching, and metafictional love story about the power of love and story.
Ars Longa. In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden. Two of my favorite supporting characters from the novel, Abbess Hester and the sculptor Stefan Duranski, in a beautiful look at art and faith, perfectly in tune with the book.
upside down from the moon. The Long Walk - Stephen King. There were two stories this Yuletide about Ray and Pete escaping the Walk and holing up in a motel. I recced one last post, and now I've read the other and I'm reccing it too. They're both terrific, and together they make a neat look at two takes on a similar idea can be both similar and very different, which is something I always enjoy seeing when it happens in exchanges.
Please comment if you can, it makes the authors' day.
What have you been enjoying this Yuletide?
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