back to life

Yeah, I know everyone else did this a few days ago, but I've been busy with real life and sick. Also I had to watch the complete miniseries of The Stand yesterday.

So, for Yuletide I wrote A Game of You for gyzym. The fandom was The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.

( A little meta back here.. )

I have to thank rthstewart and crantz/crantz for their excellent beta, and crantz/crantz made all the graphics for me. And since I am always title-challenged, I have to thank musesfool for the title. ;)

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Also, for the NFFR Secret Santa Exchange, I wrote The Riddle of the Sphinx, Narnia fic for wingedflight21, from this prompt:

I'll just list a ton of stuff I love and you can pick and choose: Snarky Edmund, Susan in battle, Lucy in trousers, mythical creatures not often found in Narnia fic, Eustace post-dragon, darker AU (not necessarily meaning "everything turns out worse AU", just "everything involves a lot of hard decisions and potential angst AU"), consumption of (too much) wine, down the rabbit hole, the treasure chamber of Cair Paravel, Jill and Eustace relationship (not necessarily romantic) directly before the train wreck.

If you like crossovers, other fandoms I would love to see crossed over with Narnia are Doctor Who and Swallows and Amazons.

So that was a great prompt, with lots of stuff to choose from. Originally I had considered a darker AU of The Silver Chair, but then it seemed a little too dark for a holiday fic (although I'll probably write that someday), so in the end I went with Snarky Edmund, Lucy in trousers, mythical creatures not often found in Narnia fic, consumption of (too much) wine.

I amused myself writing it, because Edmund's always a fun character, but am never sure if the things I think are funny make anyone else laugh. ;)

Again, I have to thank rthstewart and crantz/crantz for their excellent beta. This one I titled myself, though, as you can probably tell. :D