Babblings of a Muppet-Loving Freak

Another Yuletide Madness fic, this one for saturni_stellis

( The Corleone women have always known. )

Yuletide Madness fic for Vae.

( Benedick has deeply offended Beatrice. )

I'm rather late with my recs, but they're still heart-felt. There were some wonderful stories in both the main collection and the treat ones, so here we go!

First off, my wonderful gift:

The Movies Never Get It Right - Anonymous - "Killer Queen" by Queen - Following the life of a spy who is being spied on, the offer made to her, and the surprise twist at the end. Loads of fun and really well-written. I love the level of descrition.

Then I received a pair of treats:

Never Fully Dressed without a Knife - Anonymous - "Killer Queen" by Queen - A brief look at a very powerful woman.

It's an Okay Life - Anonymous - It's a Wonderful Life - Finally, a plausible explanation why Mary is completely tragic in George's vision of a future without him.

Other wonderful fics:

Follow the Leader - Anonymous - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) - A little treat of Quasi being able to live a happily ever after surrounded by love.

O Kindness - Anonymous - Gone with the Wind - A little scene between Ella, Scarlett's first daughter, and Rhett, who always was kind to children.

Protagonist - Anonymous - Animaniacs - Dot and Hello Nurse chat for a bit.

Circle Round - Anonymous - Mary Poppins - A moment between Mary and Bert which turns into a very long time.

Willie Scott and the Accidental Child Acquisition - Anonymous - Indiana Jones - Answering the question of whatever happened to Shortround, and answering it perfectly.

Peerless - Anonymous - The Iliad - Achilles and Patroclus, happily in love, then in war, and finally in death.

Five Songs Sung on the Slaked Vengeance - Anonymous - The Princess Bride - Fezzik and Inigo taking up the pirate business and generally having a lovely time. The last one in particular was wonderful.

More recs to come after reveals!

Here was the Yuletide fic I wrote for 2017.

( delving into Topher's backstory )

I've been wandering through the regular and Madness collection a bit, and here are a few recs:

( Recs in Antigone, A Passage to India, Aladdin, The Addams Family, The Arrival, Alice in Wonderland, The Yellow Wallpaper )

In addition to the four (!) wonderful fics I received as presents, here are a couple other fics that were just wonderful to read. I haven't read as many as I've wanted to yet (and I admit there were a lot of fandoms I'm not familiar with at all this year), so I may well do some recs after reveals as well.

12 Days After - 12 Angry Men - by Beatrice_Otter - A really good look at what happened to each of the twelve jurors after the case was finished. I love this play, and every one of the jurors is represented well here, showing how they ended up feeling about what they did, what "home" looks like, and a few small surprises here and there. Definitely worth a read if you know the original work at all (and it has images to jog your memory of who's who if it's been a while)

Life of the Party - Gotham - by cyren2132 - Bitty Bruce dons a cap and mask to go to a Halloween party... but not as a superhero. And of course, no matter what he promises Alfred, he can't stay out of trouble.

Hi ya, Santa!

First of all, thank you so much for agreeing to write a story for me this year. I'm sure that I'm going to love pretty much anything you write. I like lots of different kinds of fic: missing scenes, alternate time periods, what ifs, character studies, scenes from after the story is over, alternate POVs, crossovers, fluff, comedy, angst, changing genres, just about anything you care to play with. I'm a bit on the shy side, so PWP isn't really my thing, and I avoid incest or underage sex. Pretty much all of my fic is up at A03 under the penname Meltha.

As far as the different works I've picked, here are a few things I love about them. These really are in absolutely no particular order; I'd love to get a fic about any of them at all, with no favorites involved. Pick what you like!

Gone with the Wind - I think I became obsessed with this movie when I was about 9, and I haven't completely gotten over it even yet. Belle is such a neat character. I love her friendship with Melanie, and I'd love to know what her life was like before Atlanta and after the war. What happened to her son? Does Rhett ever buy a dang clue that she's obviously in love with him? How did she get out of the burning of Atlanta? Does she ever look in on Ashley out of respect for Melanie? How did she find out Melanie died and what was her reaction? Any of these (or anything else you might come up with) could be a jumping off point.

The Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim - I guess I'm weird enough to have picked a Yuletide fandom that quite possibly no one but me remembers! This show aired for a long time in reruns up in Canada. It's only one season long with a series of short episodes about a homeless boy in 1975 who winds up finding a magic trunk that forms a link to 1875 and a medicine man named Zachariah Gibson. It's by turns really odd, rather touching, magical, inexplicable, and oddly hypnotic, maybe from the near constant ticking of clocks. I'd like to see someone play with this since really a lot is left unresolved in the last episode (all of which are on Youtube).

The Watertower by Gary Crewe - At this point no one has signed up for this one either, so I'm guessing we didn't get matched here, but in case you're curious, this is one of the eeriest children's picture books I've come across. Bubba and Spike wind up swimming in a water tower, and when they get out, something bizarre has happened in the town, and I'm not sure I can exactly put into words what it is. It's like no one is human anymore, but what they are is anyone's guess. Feel free to play with this if you want.

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle - I saw the film of this years ago and loved it, but only got around to reading the absolutely wonderful book in the last year. The friendship between Molly and the unicorn really struck me. It was unlikely, but it also made perfect sense as well. I'd love to see anything with these two, from a meeting after the events of the book to a missing scene, when the unicorn is human or not. Heck, maybe they get to have their own adventure. I enjoyed all the other characters as well, including the cat, so throw in anyone you like if you have a hankering for it, but that's totally up to you.

Gotham - I've been writing a bit about my reactions to this show under the tag Gotham in this journal, though I think I've made those friends-only entries. I can open those up, though. This is another one where I really like most of the performers on the show, so I will enjoy seeing any of them, but as I mentioned in my sign up, I'd like something about Oswald/Penguin/whatever he's currently calling himself. Where did he come from? What's going on in his head? How did he originally wind up working for Fish? How does he really feel about Jim Gordon (that relationship could go a thousand ways, really)? Why has he apparently decided to keep Selina around? What would he and Nygma make of each other? Again, anything at all, and I will be a happy Yuletider.

Most of all, have fun, and thank you so much again!

This was a Yuletide treat for Blackbird_song

( Tevye discusses his problems in the New World with his old Friend. )

This was a Yuletide treat for Mark_C.

( This settles it. The little green guys are definitely Commies )

Yup, the names have been revealed for the authors over on Yuletide. I've gone through and added the (hopefully correctly spelled on my part) authors of all the wonderful fics I've been reccing, and a special thank you again to Laura 47, Aeriel, and Rabidsamfan for my presents. I truly loved them all!

I did write a bit more this Yuletide than I have in a while. My actual assignment was for National Treasure (National Treasure: British Edition), and I did treats in West Side Story (Something), Fiddler on the Roof (New Tune, Same Fiddle, The Greatest American Hero (Magic Jammies, Take Two, and Othello (Desdemona's Choice, so a total of five works. I'll post those in separate entries in a bit as well.

Fun Yuletide, and I still have lots more fics to read! Happy New Year to all!