Yuletide Recs, Part III
Canon knowledge preferable but not strictly necessary:
17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion... - Sandia Labs
Long-Term Projects. 2128 words.
Even after radiation stops being able to kill, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant doesn't offer a lot of entertainment. What keeps drawing people back? A sense of duty to a lost future? Reenacting old mistakes? Boredom?
It's probably mostly boredom.
I think all you need to know is that it crosses over a future in which everyone is immortal with the real-life monument trying to warn future people away from nuclear waste. Like most of the "Football in the Future" stories I've read, it's very moving in a way that sneaks up on you.
Content Note: Contains brief, non-graphic, but conceptually disturbing mention of radiation sickness.
Need to know canon:
Dark Tower - Stephen King
You Sound Like the Fuckin' Terminator. 1750 words.
“Do you hear yourself, Roland?” Eddie asks, lowering his voice and putting on his best Schwarzenegger impression. “Your clothes… give them to me now. You sound like the fuckin’ terminator.”
“Or stand here blathering like a fool till the world’s moved on,” Roland offers dryly.
Eddie/Roland PWP bondage, hot and funny and perfectly in-character, which is not something one often finds in PWP smut. Great dialogue.
Dread and Faith.
The laughing boy couldn’t even keep the son of Steven safe.
Painful, sweet, touching Cuthbert/Alain fic, on the road back from Mejis.
The Green Knight (Movie)
he shall have of me the same. 1424 words.
Five answers Gawain might have made to the knight's challenge, and one he did.
Beautifully written, elegantly designed, strange and atmospheric.
The Red Tree - Caitlin Kiernan
Not Bound to be Kind. 2531 words.
Rereading some of these onionskin pages, it’s all there, sprinkled like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs, like arsenic on rock cake. I’m going to list all the clues I’ve finally gathered up, the better to poison myself with my dear, and yes, I am mixing up my fairytale metaphors, fuck off and leave me alone:
Both Constance and Amanda are (were. are) roughly the same height and build and have (had. have. had. do-si-fucking-do) pale skin and black hair, on their heads and on their sex.
Pitch-perfect Sarah voice, intense, explicit, clever, terrifying.
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
She Wore a Crimson Flower. 1021 words.
The gunslinger rides up at dawn, a lone figure on a high-stepping white mount.
Gorgeously written, very in-character Western AU.
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What have you enjoyed so far this Yuletide?
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17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion... - Sandia Labs
Long-Term Projects. 2128 words.
Even after radiation stops being able to kill, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant doesn't offer a lot of entertainment. What keeps drawing people back? A sense of duty to a lost future? Reenacting old mistakes? Boredom?
It's probably mostly boredom.
I think all you need to know is that it crosses over a future in which everyone is immortal with the real-life monument trying to warn future people away from nuclear waste. Like most of the "Football in the Future" stories I've read, it's very moving in a way that sneaks up on you.
Content Note: Contains brief, non-graphic, but conceptually disturbing mention of radiation sickness.
Need to know canon:
Dark Tower - Stephen King
You Sound Like the Fuckin' Terminator. 1750 words.
“Do you hear yourself, Roland?” Eddie asks, lowering his voice and putting on his best Schwarzenegger impression. “Your clothes… give them to me now. You sound like the fuckin’ terminator.”
“Or stand here blathering like a fool till the world’s moved on,” Roland offers dryly.
Eddie/Roland PWP bondage, hot and funny and perfectly in-character, which is not something one often finds in PWP smut. Great dialogue.
Dread and Faith.
The laughing boy couldn’t even keep the son of Steven safe.
Painful, sweet, touching Cuthbert/Alain fic, on the road back from Mejis.
The Green Knight (Movie)
he shall have of me the same. 1424 words.
Five answers Gawain might have made to the knight's challenge, and one he did.
Beautifully written, elegantly designed, strange and atmospheric.
The Red Tree - Caitlin Kiernan
Not Bound to be Kind. 2531 words.
Rereading some of these onionskin pages, it’s all there, sprinkled like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs, like arsenic on rock cake. I’m going to list all the clues I’ve finally gathered up, the better to poison myself with my dear, and yes, I am mixing up my fairytale metaphors, fuck off and leave me alone:
Both Constance and Amanda are (were. are) roughly the same height and build and have (had. have. had. do-si-fucking-do) pale skin and black hair, on their heads and on their sex.
Pitch-perfect Sarah voice, intense, explicit, clever, terrifying.
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
She Wore a Crimson Flower. 1021 words.
The gunslinger rides up at dawn, a lone figure on a high-stepping white mount.
Gorgeously written, very in-character Western AU.
If you enjoy something, please comment and let the author know!
What have you enjoyed so far this Yuletide?
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