Yuletide

I got an Eroica story for my yuletide treasure, and it's wonderful. Really excellent characterisation, short and well written. Klaus and Dorian are perfect. So, mmmm. I've only read a few other fics so far, but expect I'll be dipping in there regularly for quite a while to come. Thank you to those people organised enough to put up recs posts for fics they liked- (afrai and bethbethbeth), it's good having somewhere to start.

The day has gone swimmingly in a haze of presents (daegaer, thanks for my lovely gifts!), champagne cocktails, endless nibbling at cheese and crackers, and Scrabble. Now I'm going to drag myself to the kitchen and make a nut roast and Yorkshire puddings to round things off. (Or should that be, 'round me off'? I defintely feel more round than yesterday)

Some Yuletide recs

Here's a few stories that leapt out at me as I was reading this evening, from Yuletide Treasures

The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland is a Sherlock Holmes story with wonderfully convincing voices and plot.

Alike in Ignorance- Sandman, Dream/Hob Gadling, and Dream/Desire. I'm far too full to be very coherent, but this was a great. The strange coldness of the Endless contrasts well with Hob's very human worrying and there's a lovely, tentative, not-quite-romance between Hob Gadling and Dream.

Cumulative effort Good Omens. There's some lovely stuff here, and I really enjoyed Crowley's part-snarky, part-baffled interest in Aziraphale's love life. Yes, he has a love life!

For Every Season Eroica. Klaus/Dorian. Very short and full of yearning. Lovely understated writing.