Thank you so much for writing this Yuletide! It's one of my favourite events, and I'm glad we've matched on at least one of these fandoms this year.
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So, postage from NZ to the US seems to be pretty normal; two and a half weeks is well within the antipodean mail expectations for delivery. Mail coming from the US to NZ seems to be another story. Anyway, today is about my second parcel, which went to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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So, this was the third year of homemade2homemade, and I completed a few things. Just a few, in my copious spare time.
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I don't think I've ever posted before about my deep and abiding love and admiration for Annie Lennox and the Eurythmics. We will have to take it as read, at this point, while we thank our lucky stars that she was a musician and never tried to make it in the corporate world, because I believe I have found photographic proof that she styled an alternate version of Working Girl. Only, it was Lennox's weirdly repressed doppelganger. Fashion is complicated, okay?
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Today, I bring you how you solve a problem like Mariam. Well, actually, I don't, because the problem is all a little bit WTF, really. ( Fashion magazine pics and unlikely commentary )
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I know I'm always about the moderation (in moderation), but that never applies to writing.
Anyway, have a fic round up:
Title: Bibliomancy
Fandom/characters: Harry Potter: Irma Pince
Summary: Irma Pince was called as Librarian to fulfil the vision of the Hogwarts Library. She's spent her life turning that vision into reality with the complicated magic of books. People are no less complicated.
Author's notes: Written for the hoggywartyxmas exchange.
Read it on AO3
Read it at the hoggywarty comm on LJ
Title: The joy of making
Fandom/characters: Sumerian Mythology, Enki, Ninki and Inanna
Summary: Enki burst forth from water, distinct and struggling, and he saw his path laid out before him as he emerged from the abzu. He walked towards it with joy. Humans were supposed to be the pinnacle of his orderly achievement, but other gods strive differently and build their world in different ways. Both Ninki and Inanna are such gods, and Enki would regret forgetting that. Enki makes some monumentally poor decisions, drinks too much, and finds himself back on the path fate laid down for him at the moment of his creation.
Author's notes: My yuletide assignment, and, I think, pretty obviously written by me if you have ever read anything I've ever written before. I believe this is the third time I've been assigned to Sumerian Mythology, and I love it.
Read it on AO3
Title: A place of calm and order
Fandom/characters: The Talisman Ring - Heyer, Tristram Shield and Sarah Thane
Summary: Sir Tristram, despite being a great collector of antiquities and artworks, prided himself on having a comfortable home. He hadn't thought much about what would change when he brought Sarah into it, but he had vaguely expected some kind of feminine housewifery to settle into effect. He had not expected her to completely overset the household just by her arrival.
Author's notes: Because what would yuletide be without a Heyer fic from me? Also, I know there are a couple of anachronistic quibbles, but I'm rolling with it.
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Title: Lekach
Fandom/characters: Penny Dreadful: Ferdinand Lyle, Sembene, Ethan Chandler
Summary:A cut finger takes Ferdinand Lyle to the kitchens, where he finds warmth, acceptance and help from Ethan and Sembene. They all find ways to look for simple hope and joy in the work of their hands.
Author's notes: Lekach is a type of honeycake, traditionally made for Yom Kippur.
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Title: Two heroes, a river and love
Fandom/characters: Sino-soviet propaganda posters
Summary:Born of earth and water in the light of heaven, tamer of the river, and a heroic lapdog of a political elite he can't understand, Huáng Zhì finds love, understanding and freedom in an unexpected place. He will walk towards that future, shoulder to shoulder with his lover.
Author's notes: I wanted to write for this prompt as soon as I found it in the letters post, but I was worried about it coming out cracky or weird, but it was irresistible. As you might know, I lived in China for three years when I was younger, and I loved it, and so I wrote this as a sweet and sincere love story. I used some of the framework of traditional Chinese mythology, some of the earnest belief of early communism that I'd read about, and some of the breathtaking cynicism I'd seen when I lived there.
Read it on AO3
Anyway, have a fic round up:
Title: Bibliomancy
Fandom/characters: Harry Potter: Irma Pince
Summary: Irma Pince was called as Librarian to fulfil the vision of the Hogwarts Library. She's spent her life turning that vision into reality with the complicated magic of books. People are no less complicated.
Author's notes: Written for the hoggywartyxmas exchange.
Read it on AO3
Read it at the hoggywarty comm on LJ
Title: The joy of making
Fandom/characters: Sumerian Mythology, Enki, Ninki and Inanna
Summary: Enki burst forth from water, distinct and struggling, and he saw his path laid out before him as he emerged from the abzu. He walked towards it with joy. Humans were supposed to be the pinnacle of his orderly achievement, but other gods strive differently and build their world in different ways. Both Ninki and Inanna are such gods, and Enki would regret forgetting that. Enki makes some monumentally poor decisions, drinks too much, and finds himself back on the path fate laid down for him at the moment of his creation.
Author's notes: My yuletide assignment, and, I think, pretty obviously written by me if you have ever read anything I've ever written before. I believe this is the third time I've been assigned to Sumerian Mythology, and I love it.
Read it on AO3
Title: A place of calm and order
Fandom/characters: The Talisman Ring - Heyer, Tristram Shield and Sarah Thane
Summary: Sir Tristram, despite being a great collector of antiquities and artworks, prided himself on having a comfortable home. He hadn't thought much about what would change when he brought Sarah into it, but he had vaguely expected some kind of feminine housewifery to settle into effect. He had not expected her to completely overset the household just by her arrival.
Author's notes: Because what would yuletide be without a Heyer fic from me? Also, I know there are a couple of anachronistic quibbles, but I'm rolling with it.
Read it on AO3
Title: Lekach
Fandom/characters: Penny Dreadful: Ferdinand Lyle, Sembene, Ethan Chandler
Summary:A cut finger takes Ferdinand Lyle to the kitchens, where he finds warmth, acceptance and help from Ethan and Sembene. They all find ways to look for simple hope and joy in the work of their hands.
Author's notes: Lekach is a type of honeycake, traditionally made for Yom Kippur.
Read it on AO3
Title: Two heroes, a river and love
Fandom/characters: Sino-soviet propaganda posters
Summary:Born of earth and water in the light of heaven, tamer of the river, and a heroic lapdog of a political elite he can't understand, Huáng Zhì finds love, understanding and freedom in an unexpected place. He will walk towards that future, shoulder to shoulder with his lover.
Author's notes: I wanted to write for this prompt as soon as I found it in the letters post, but I was worried about it coming out cracky or weird, but it was irresistible. As you might know, I lived in China for three years when I was younger, and I loved it, and so I wrote this as a sweet and sincere love story. I used some of the framework of traditional Chinese mythology, some of the earnest belief of early communism that I'd read about, and some of the breathtaking cynicism I'd seen when I lived there.
Read it on AO3
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