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Sprocket ([personal profile] sprocket) wrote2017-01-01 01:37 pm

Yuletide Reveals

For Yuletide I got insanely lucky: I received two stories in the main collection and a gift in Madness as well.

The two stories in the main collection are both Velgarth stories, about Tarma and Kethry. All I really wanted in this fandom was Tarma and Kethry being awesome, and I got this twice. I got Tarma and Kethry being awesome in a quieter moment, and Tarma and Kethry on a case.

a lingering season (2015 words) by inlovewithnight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tarma shena Tale'sedrin, Kethry (Valdemar)
Additional Tags: Horses, Partnership
Summary:

In their mercenary days, Tarma and Kethry take a job watching over a herd wintering in the mountains, waiting for spring foaling.



Self-Reliance (2545 words) by russian_blue
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey, Vows and Honor - Mercedes Lackey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tarma shena Tale'sedrin, Kethry (Valdemar), Warrl
Additional Tags: Case Fic, allusion to offstage child harm, magic going wrong, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:

After a creature in the Pelagirs curses Kethry's magic, she and Tarma have to take a great risk to rescue three kidnapped children.



For Madness I got a Sense8 double-drabble, focusing on Sun. GO SUN. This is even more awesome after watching the Christmas special.

Righting a Wrong (200 words) by Sarren
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sense8 (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nomi Marks, Sun Bak, Soo-Jin (Sense8)
Summary:

Nomi helps Sun help her friend.



I wrote in Alliance-Union for Yuletide this year.

Judgment Call (1638 words) by sprocket
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Allison Reilly, Sandor Kreja
Summary:

What's worked for eight years might need some review.



I'm happy with the narrative voice, and I had fun putting in bits of canon, but the actual story I think sounds like everything else I've ever tried to write. Getting the story to gel was surprisingly tough, and I kept tweaking until pretty much the last moment. One of my 2017 goals has to be to push harder to write more fic, and put more variety in it.

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