Lise's Yuletide Rec List (thus far)

[minviendha]

Silmarillion
Her Eyes - Future!fic, in which Elves are released from Mandos. Everything about this I love. There are perfect little details - Caranthir likes the modern arms trade, Celegorm makes a brief appearance as his annoyed and slightly disappointed self, and Aegnor and Finrod are spot on and it's just - adorable all over and the ending leaves it full of possibilities. I think I ship this now, just for this one fic.
Meldor - Maedhros/Fingon. The writing is lovely, it's set up as a recovery fic after Thangorodrim - the first piece describing Maedhros' pain is gorgeous and the rest of it lives up to that. There is such a sense of brothers-in-arms-but-more that characterizes this pairing, in my head, and the way Fingon shepherds Maedhros along and at the same time he's so determined to recover and is worried and focused as always - in capitalism!AU, Maedhros would be a workaholic, I suspect. Am I right or am I right?

Temeraire
Gemology - Emily Roland fic, in which she is a perfect child - curious, intelligent, asking too many questions. There is just such adorable and authentic character in this, and again, the details as when Emily considers whether she might be half-dragon...I loved it.
wisdom to the mighty, honor to the brave - I don't have much coherent to say here but pretty pretty pretty. It's set after Victory of Eagles and is just a fantastic medley of interactions between Tharkay (who is priceless), Granby (who is adorable), Laurence, and Riley, and while my attention span doesn't often hold for fic of long lengths, this filled in the gaps of things I needed to see nicely.

Doctrine of Labyrinths
Medicine for the soul - Felix and Mildmay, genfic after Corambis AND I WANT MOORREEE this has been the first fic in a while, completed, that I have sincerely wanted to see more of because what was there just didn't give me enough. I wanted! More of it! And that's a good feeling.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Snow and Stark - My actual fic that I received! It has Jon and Robb being close and adorable and brotherly, and I don't know how this person knew all my pseudocanon but they did, somehow. They steal a pie! And are competitive and adorable! Robb is noble and a little bit dense! I loooffff it.

Guesses on which fics I wrote are/are not allowed, lololol. Still working my way through, and of course there's all of Yuletide Madness yet to see...

I have so many things I want to write I can't decide what to do first! This is a novel problem.

Comments

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

ahahaha, I feel ricockulous saying this, but I almost want you to rec things anyway and I would be curious if anything of mine would turn up on there without your knowing that I wrote it. >.> But that's ricockulous.

Oooh, how would you set it up? Just curious, because that actually was one of my favoritest favoritest parts. Though of course it implies dragons/people which is one of those things I kind of avoid touching much. *blink*

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

awwwwww that one is really cute I do like that one (and it isn't mine). And well you can so do the reverse! I mean, I would be just as curious that way, since you know. I'll never get concrit/neg. feedback for these otherwise, aight? So I'd be curious and I doubt you are going to Hurt My Feelings honestly, because mostly I just like to know how things come out sounding. And the things I'm proudest of I'm probably going to feel good about regardless so.

And yes, keep me posted!

[umihebizanomiko.livejournal.com]

The DoL fic is lovely. The grasp on everyone's voices is just wonderful.

[llwyden]

Thank you for your kind words! :) I'm very glad you liked it.

[minviendha.livejournal.com]

Oh man, it was glorious. Thank you so much for sharing! /do you have more of that pairing/fic I can reeed. XD I'm pretty picky about my Silmarillion fic/characterization so it really makes me glee when something meshes this thoroughly. SO YES congratulations.

[llwyden]

Thank you! Silmarillion is so hard to get right, because I wanted to do the language in keeping with the story, without it being overblown. And I am a *huge* Tolkien fan. (Have a degree in Linguistics and an Elvish tattoo huge. *g*) I'm really glad it worked.

I don't have any more of that pairing, I'm afraid; the only other Tolkien-based fic I've written is LotR. You can check out all my stuff on my AO3 page, if you're interested. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad you liked it! I was trying to decide between writing Jeyne/Robb at The Crag vs. Jon+Robb at Winterfell and eventually realized that the former might get a bit too involved (like 20k+ words) for Yuletide. Maybe I'll still write it sometime. Hm.

And yes, it seems like we have the exact same personal pseudo-canon.

-Ariana

(PS: Sorry for the anony-ness, just haven't really bothered to get a LJ.)