Beyond Selidor

I always wait until after author reveals to post my Yuletide recs, because I like to be able to credit the authors. I had a great Yuletide in 2017, both in terms of my gift, the reception of my own assignment and treats, and the other fic I read in the collection. If you, like me, are interested in adding new people on the basis of shared Yuletide (or other) fandoms, I have set up a friending meme here -- please feel free to link it anywhere you want, and leave your own comments if you so desire.

On to the fic!

I have been asking and asking for Pagan Chronicles fic in multiple exchanges for so many years, and this year I was lucky enough to get it! My gift is absolutely gorgeous: the perfect blend of humour, compassion, well-researched allusions to medieval literature, history and religion, and deeply felt human emotion that drew me to the original canon in the first place, and I'm thrilled to have received it.

Still Waters Run Deep (1362 words) by Lauren
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pagan Chronicles - Catherine Jinks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pagan Kidrouk, Isidore Orbus
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide 2017
Summary:

Just another night on the Peregrinatio Compostellana. Isidore's still wondering why they're out here. Pagan's still wondering why horse farts are so revolting.

I wrote four fics this year: my main assignment, and three treats. Looking back at them, I've noticed that, true to form, two of them have titles from song lyrics (one from a Cut Copy song, the other from a Massive Attack song), and the other make heavy reference to medieval Irish tales (Tochmarc Étaín and Buile Shuibne in one fic, Fléd Dúin na nGéd and Cath Muige Rath in the other). I guess those are my signature things?

My main assignment was for tassosss, for Kate Elliott's Court of Fives series.

Always from the Same Height (3406 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Court of Fives Series - Kate Elliott
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kalliarkos/Jessamy Ottonor, background Maraya Ottonor/Polodos, background Amaya Ottonor/Denya
Characters: Jessamy Ottonor, Kalliarkos (Court of Fives), Amaya Ottonor, Denya (Court of Fives), Maraya Ottonor, Polodos (Court of Fives)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship
Summary:

Six months have passed since the events at the end of Buried Heart, and Kal has returned to Saryenia for his first leave from the spider scouts. He returns to a city transformed: neither a monument to the old injustices of Saroese colonial rule, nor a complete reversion to what it was in the Efea of dimly-remembered history, but something messier, more complicated, and more hopeful. Who better than Jessamy to be Kal's guide through this changed city?

I also wrote three treats, for 'Seasons of Glass and Iron' - Amal El-Mohtar, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows duology respectively.

The Heart's Gold Thread (4890 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Seasons of Glass and Iron - Amal El-Mohtar
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amira/Tabitha (Seasons of Glass and Iron)
Characters: Amira (Seasons of Glass and Iron), Tabitha (Seasons of Glass and Iron)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

After leaving the glass hill, Tabitha and Amira find themselves walking strange paths and wandering into other people's stories.

A Cold Mirror (2293 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Lady (Dark Is Rising), The Black Rider
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

'I will always be up here, above you, and you will always be down there in the earth, mourning lost causes.'

Throughout the long years of the ceaseless struggle between Light and Dark, the Lady and the Black Rider's paths cross frequently. Usually, their encounters occur at turning points, spaces between — at times when choices are made.

Please see the endnote for details of applicable warnings.

Kintsukuroi (1760 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Post-Canon
Summary:

Ketterdam is the only place where Kaz Brekker feels any semblance of safety and control. Inej Ghafa's feelings are more complicated: she left to fight the injustices she saw every day on Ketterdam's streets, but finds she's drawn back in spite of herself to the city where she spent so many years. And in that city — a city of refugees, misfits, and the dispossessed, the city where Kaz and Inej found each other — the pair slowly begin to mend the broken pieces of themselves.

This fic takes place some time after the events of Crooked Kingdom.

There were so many great fics in the collection. My recs are behind the cut.



An Undiscovered Country (3183 words) by Luzula
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Will Stanton, Bran Davies (Dark Is Rising), Ensemble
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Coming of Age
Summary:

After the victory of the Light, Will returned home.

He was still a boy, and like a boy he went to school, was scolded by Barbara, fed the rabbits, quarrelled with James, teased Mary. With the part of his mind that was not a boy, he began to understand why he was the one who went alone: because he was not yet truly alone in the world, in the way that Merriman was.

The Tale of the White Lady of Iffish (8178 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: pre-Ged/Tenar
Characters: Vetch (Earthsea), Yarrow (Earthsea), Tenar (Earthsea), Ged (Earthsea)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Misses Clause Challenge, Pre-Relationship
Summary:

It is not told in the Deed of Seren how Tenar of the Ring became the White Lady of Iffish. This is that story.

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication (2535 words) by Mici
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Handmaid's Tale (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Moira (Handmaid's Tale), Luke (Handmaid's Tale)
Additional Tags: Canon-Compliant, Trauma, PTSD, Mentions of non-con, Mentions of Prostitution


Let's Get Together (3308 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jane the Virgin (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Petra Solano/Jane Villanueva, Petra Solano/Rafael Solano/Jane Villanueva
Characters: Mateo Solano Villanueva, Elsa Solano, Anna Solano, Jane Villanueva, Petra Solano, Rafael Solano, Rogelio de la Vega
Additional Tags: Hijinks & Shenanigans, Family
Summary:

Relationship drama, twin swaps, a minor diamond heist - just a standard Saturday brunch at the Marbella.

Thread of Grace (1314 words) by Arsenic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jewish Scripture & Legend
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Achasvherosh/Ester | Ahasuerus/Esther
Characters: Esther/Hadassh, Achashverosh | Ahasuerus | Xerxes I of Persia, Mordecai
Additional Tags: intended genocide, anti-Semitism, unequal marriage dynamics, purim story, female voices
Summary:

Esther is in a world she has never known, a world she has never wanted to know. Still, she must save the one that is all she has ever known.

The Opposite of Regret (1398 words) by Sanj
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jehane bet Ishak/Ammar ibn Khairan, Rodrigo Belmonte/Jehane bet Ishak/Ammar ibn Khairan
Characters: Jehane bet Ishak, Ammar ibn Khairan
Summary:

Jehane and Ammar, on the road leading away from Rodrigo.

Moon, Sun, Stars over Sorenica (5641 words) by iberiandoctor
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Jehane bet Ishak/Ammar ibn Khairan, Miranda Belmonte/Rodrigo Belmonte, others
Characters: Jehane bet Ishak
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Fix-It of Sorts, Canon Divergence, Turn-left canon-based AU, Polyamory, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-typical mentions of war, Canon-typical religiosity, Canon-typical race and religious issues, Canon-typical medical procedures, Unconventional marriages, Disability
Summary:

They’re celebrating Jehane bet Ishak’s birth day when they hear the news about Al-Rassan the Beloved.

When the Trees Were Enchanted (4673 words) by Zdenka
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Llyfr Taliesin | Book of Taliesin, Mabinogion (Myth)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Gwydion (Mabinogion), Gilfaethwy (Mabinogion), Rhiannon (Welsh Mythology), Arawn's Wife (Mabinogion), Arawn (Mabinogion)
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, The Battle of the Trees
Summary:

How Arawn King of Annwvyn pursued Gwydyon after the death of Pryderi, and how Gwydyon called up an army of trees to fight for him.

Drüskelle, Drüsje, Wraith (4807 words) by saiditallbefore
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik, Inej Ghafa/Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik
Characters: Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Inej Ghafa
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Canon Fix-It, Angst, Religion, Threesome - F/F/M, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

“We’re being hunted.”

Inej offers Matthias and Nina safety on the Wraith. They offer her something else.

adrift in past and future tense (5075 words) by younglegends
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Nina Zenik
Additional Tags: Post-Series, Future Fic, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

One grey morning a shadow is docked at the Ketterdam harbour.

How a story ends, and begins, and is made in between.

shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth (4224 words) by lovebeyondmeasure
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey, Jesper Fahey & Inej Ghafa
Characters: Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker, Jesper Fahey
Additional Tags: Inej-centric, Recovery, Trust, Minor Hijinks, Minor pining, 5+1 Things, Yuletide 2017
Summary:

“Kaz,” Jesper said, not looking away from Inej, “have you brought me someone who knows how to break into buildings?” His voice held barely-contained glee.

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five times Inej thought “oh no” and one time Inej thought “oh yes”

set in the early days of her time with the Dregs

Putting Down Roots (1790 words) by Joylee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agnieszka/The Dragon | Sarkan
Characters: Agnieszka (Uprooted), The Dragon | Sarkan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:

He's still stiff, prickly, impatient and sure he knows everything. She would not have him any other way.