Tidings of Yule
Oct. 6th, 2012 03:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokifanTwitter just sent me an email with the subject line ‘because you have more to show’. I’m not just imagining the suggestive tone there, am I? Because I saw that and was like, clutching the tattered remains of my privacy like a Victorian maiden post-ravishing. What satisfaction canst thou have tonight, Twitter?? You’ve already seen everything I’m going to show!
ANYWAY.
Yuletide! What did you guys nominate? Do you think you're going to play?
I nominated Maledicte by Lane Robins. It's a very good book, and also lots of sex and canonical dub-con and there's swordfighting and love and vengeance. I actually had a hard time choosing which characters to nominate – I had to nominate Maledicte, of course, the fantastic central character. And Gilly, the country-boy who works for Maledicte's noble patron, because he is lovely in lots of ways and I want fic about him. Then I went with Janus I think – I kind of hate him but he's Maledicte's lover and therefore important, and I would read him if it was in the context of something sexy. Maledicte's obsessions are interesting, after all... and then, to my sorrow, I had to let go of Vornatti, this incredibly pervy old nobleman who teaches Maledicte what he needs to know for use of Maledicte's body. But I am happy with my fourth pick: Mirabile is this fantastic woman who's all vengeful and gorgeous and survivalist and power-hungry and generally fantastic, and also a mirror character for Maledicte.
HOW MUCH DO I LOVE MIRRORS.
(ps this has been a sekrit promo for Maledicte, so you will all read it and write me porn of it. The central character is a trans dude! There is love and vengeance and swordfighting! Maledicte is driven to the point of madness by the goddess whose power he claims! The fantasy set-up seems to be on the brink of an industrial revolution! Poisons!)
Anyway, otherwise I nominated Being Human UK and Annie, Nina, George and Mitchell. Because they are my favourites, and the ickle fandom seems fairly heavy on S4. Also Kristin Cashore's Seven Kingdoms books – I couldn't work out how to tell which characters had already been nominated, annoyingly, but I got Fire and Clara and Bo onto the list, so huzzah!
Don't know if I'll actually have time to play, due to Developments in RL. But fingers crossed!
ANYWAY.
Yuletide! What did you guys nominate? Do you think you're going to play?
I nominated Maledicte by Lane Robins. It's a very good book, and also lots of sex and canonical dub-con and there's swordfighting and love and vengeance. I actually had a hard time choosing which characters to nominate – I had to nominate Maledicte, of course, the fantastic central character. And Gilly, the country-boy who works for Maledicte's noble patron, because he is lovely in lots of ways and I want fic about him. Then I went with Janus I think – I kind of hate him but he's Maledicte's lover and therefore important, and I would read him if it was in the context of something sexy. Maledicte's obsessions are interesting, after all... and then, to my sorrow, I had to let go of Vornatti, this incredibly pervy old nobleman who teaches Maledicte what he needs to know for use of Maledicte's body. But I am happy with my fourth pick: Mirabile is this fantastic woman who's all vengeful and gorgeous and survivalist and power-hungry and generally fantastic, and also a mirror character for Maledicte.
HOW MUCH DO I LOVE MIRRORS.
(ps this has been a sekrit promo for Maledicte, so you will all read it and write me porn of it. The central character is a trans dude! There is love and vengeance and swordfighting! Maledicte is driven to the point of madness by the goddess whose power he claims! The fantasy set-up seems to be on the brink of an industrial revolution! Poisons!)
Anyway, otherwise I nominated Being Human UK and Annie, Nina, George and Mitchell. Because they are my favourites, and the ickle fandom seems fairly heavy on S4. Also Kristin Cashore's Seven Kingdoms books – I couldn't work out how to tell which characters had already been nominated, annoyingly, but I got Fire and Clara and Bo onto the list, so huzzah!
Don't know if I'll actually have time to play, due to Developments in RL. But fingers crossed!
