Belated Yuletide Post

I had a wonderful Yuletide, look!

I received three gifts:

A delightful spoof-noir Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully fic that feels like a missing episode, from bluemoonrune:

Death Among the Dahlias (4001 words) by bluemoonrune
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully (BBC Radio)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Uljabaan (Welcome to Our Village), Katrina Lyons, Lucy Alexander (Welcome to Our Village), The Computer (Welcome to Our Village), Richard Lyons (Welcome to Our Village), Margaret Lyons (Welcome to Our Village)
Summary:

Murder is afoot in Cresdon Green - or is it?

A pitch-perfect piece of weirdness for The Prisoner (1967) from believerindaydreams:

I say, do you like rhubarb? (778 words) by Believerindaydreams
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Prisoner (1967)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Number Six (The Prisoner)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Behavior, Comedy, Mind Games, Fluff
Summary:

A bit of fluff, by the Prisoner's standards at least.

One small word can change a whole Village...

And a piece of interactive fiction starring Lita from Game of Rassilon, by kittyeden:

LitaQuest (23 words) by TheBigCat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Game of Rassilon (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Doctor (Peck) & Lita Fane
Characters: Lita Fane, The Doctor (Peck) (The Game of Rassilon)
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction, Episode: s04e05 Bad Habits, Trust Issues, second-person, Multiple Endings, Either Canon-Compliant or Canon-Divergent (depending), game mechanics
Summary:

You are Lita Fane, and you're determined to get some answers - even if you have to turn the whole TARDIS upside-down to find them.

I would wholeheartedly recommend all of these; they were all absolutely delightful. And I especially encourage any Doctor Who fans who would enjoy a bit of choose-your-own-adventure, whether you know GoR or not, to check out LitaQuest--it's all about exploring the TARDIS, even though it's a version of the TARDIS from a fan-made podcast (hence Yuletide eligibility!).

Also I had two INCREDIBLY fast writers: my Madness gift from believerindaydreams popped up almost as soon as the Madness collection opened, while Kitty apparently decided to write LitaQuest *on Christmas* and wrote, coded, and polished it in a matter of hours. (respectfully) Absolute madwoman.


But as we all know, just as much fun as reading your Yuletide gifts is writing them, and I had a very rewarding year on that front too!

I was assigned to Kitty and wrote her a Game of Rassilon fic:

A Big Rock Falls and Everyone Dies (1465 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Game of Rassilon (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Doctor & Carrie Vu (The Game of Rassilon), Lita Fane & Carrie Vu, The Doctor & Lita Fane & Carrie Vu (The Game of Rassilon)
Characters: The Doctor (Peck) (The Game of Rassilon), Carrie Vu, Lita Fane
Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, Adventure, Friendship, slight meta-ness depending how you read it, Time Travel, like more so than usual
Summary:

Things go wrong—badly wrong. Carrie won't stand for it. The universe is just gonna have to do better.

It was really fun to spend time in the GoR 'verse--and in Carrie's mind specifically--and since Kitty was responsible for getting me into GoR in the first place, it was really lovely to exchange gifts with her in this fandom!

Which I followed up with a little drabble, just because I'd thought of a joke that didn't quite fit into the main fic:

Every Beatles Song at Once (100 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Game of Rassilon (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Doctor (Peck) (The Game of Rassilon) & Lita Fane & Carrie Vu
Characters: Lita Fane, Carrie Vu, The Doctor (Peck) (The Game of Rassilon)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Humor, running jokes
Series: Part 64 of Aurelia's Drabbles
Summary:

The TARDIS' built-in music player (well, I say built...) gets a tiny bit confused....

And I was over the moon that somebody requested my favorite underappreciated Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, so I had to write a treat for that too:

whether he holds this same space still (200 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Philoctetes - Sophocles, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Odysseus & Philoctetes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Characters: Philoctetes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Odysseus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Double Drabble, Chronic Pain, the internalized ableism of Greek heroic values, Loneliness, Hurt/Comfort
Series: Part 65 of Aurelia's Drabbles
Summary:

Philoctetes, before and after the rescue.

I think that's the first fic that I've written while actually referring to my own academic writing--I did a term paper on the Philoctetes a couple of years ago, and I reread the paper to remind myself what I found most interesting in the play.

The recipient said they were particularly interested in exploring Odysseus' character, and at first I wasn't quite sure how to think about Odysseus' character, but then I remembered he's basically just Seven. Awful little schemer, wanderer, dedicated mentor, morality veers across stories from "what a great dad <3" to "will stab you in the back for arcane reasons of his own"... and I thought, well, okay, that I can write! The play doesn't show him at his best, and the recip said they wanted to see a more positive side of him, so thinking about how those nuances might fit together really helped me, although I don't think much of it ended up in the drabble itself.

I hope you've all had a pleasant time, whether you've been celebrating and/or Yuletiding and/or not!