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One of the great traditions of Yuletide is recommending works to others - there are so many good works in the collection and you want everyone to know about them! We've discussed several options of how you can share recommendations at the admin LJ and admin DW.

This post is the catch-all recs post. Use it as:

an index - if you make a recs post of your own to the Yuletide LiveJournal community or Yuletide Dreamwidth community, consider also linking your post under this post's index comment.

a place to ask for recs - comment with themes, ratings, or tropes you want recs for!

a place to post your recs if you don't want to make a post to the community. Put your recs, or a link to your tumblr/Pillowfort/twitter/?? recs, in a comment, if that is your preference

Please use subject lines when commenting to this post. ETA: Please rec 3 or more things per individual rec post - fewer is OK if you're replying to a specific request.

You can also save recs on AO3 itself - see tutorial.

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10 recs for The Goblin Emperor, Guardian (TV), Modao Zushi, The Course of Honor, and Voynich Manuscript, over on my DW. Yuletide comm post.

Recs! Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, From Eroica With Love, Natsume Yuujinchou, Pied Piper of Hamlin, Cowboy Bebop, Integrate: here

One rec each for the Enchanted Forest series, Nero Wolfe mysteries, Moomintroll books, and Le Guin's Always Coming Home.

my gifts! two wonderful Guardian fics and one most excellent Vatican Miracle Examiner h/c piece:

https://eglantiere.dreamwidth.org/234490.html

10 recs for Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, Imperial Radch, Machineries of Empire, Night in the Woods, Sen no Kiseki, Star Stealing Prince, and Transistor: here!

9 recs, from 18th Century RPF, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jodhaa-Akbar, The Magnus Archives, Medieval Manuscript Illustrations, Moomins, Dorian Gray, Kids on the Slope & The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Part One of my reccs! My list has fics from Nikita (TV), Letterkenny (TV), Justice League, 19th Century Paleontology RPF, and 1850s Cholera Epidemic RPF.

Edited 2018-12-30 23:49 (UTC)

Link: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/153769.html

Recs in The Americans, Bill & Ted, Blackadder, Calvin & Hobbes, Clue, Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette, Doxey Pool Legend, Emma - Jane Austen, Endeavour, The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison, God's Own Country, The Good Place, Heathers, Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup/Fixing a Flat, History Boys - Bennett, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Killer Queen (song) - Queen, Legally Blonde, The LEGO Movie, Logan Lucky, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Macbeth - Shakespeare, Master and Commander, Moonlight, My Fair Lady, The Nice Guys, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, Pitch, Political Animals, Political Animals/Push, Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse, The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner, Selfie, Speed, Sports Night, Spy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Strangers with Candy, To Whatever - Shaenon Garrity, Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Voynich Manuscript, We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

3 Recs for Cloak and Dagger (TV 2018), Groundhog Day (1993), Punisher (TV 2017)

http://htbthomas.tumblr.com/post/181584812940/yuletide-2018-recs

https://karanguni.dreamwidth.org/284133.html 7 recs!

5 madness recs: Better Call Saul, The Good Place, Imperial Radch x Murderbot, The Martian, Nuremberg Renaissance RPF
9 recs for fandoms I know well: American Vandal, The Americans, 4 Imperial Radch, Killing Eve, Moby Dick, Strangers with Candy
10 recs for fandoms I'm less familiar with: Anthony Bourdain x ST:DS9, Chess, Crimson Peak, The Culture, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Rai-Kirah, The Stand, To Whatever, Voynich Manuscript

Hi ya! My recs post is over here . Works from both collections include Killer Queen, It's a Wonderful Life, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), Gone with the Wind, Animaniacs, Mary Poppins, Indiana Jones, The Iliad, and The Princess Bride.

Four recs at my journal in Bodyguard (2018), Venom, Versailles, Westworld: https://eyebrowofdoom.dreamwidth.org/218999.html

11 recs for Cowboy Bebop, The Expanse (TV), Final Fantasy I, Monster Prom, NieR: Automata, Oxenfree, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Stardew Valley, and Transistor over here!

HI THERE pls check out this super cute work of cuteness that a wonderful anon gifted me! Also check out the rest of this year's Mission: Impossible works; they are humorous and poignant to a one. ♥

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the cook is bringing the horse
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17098367

A hilarious story about Duo, the Duolingo owl.

Rec some AUs! Less canon divergent and more "IN SPAAAAACE" or magical realism or interesting fusions and the like, please!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17050184

"An Account of the Nanite Epidemic in Broad Street"
1850s Cholera Epidemic RPF, in space. Human-android friendship! Cool worldbuilding!

I second this! I didn't know anything about the 1850s Cholera epidemic and this still was a great read.

Ad Astra Per Viscera (https://archiveofourown.org/works/17142494):
William Beaumont/Alexis St. Martin in space. Starts with alien impregnation, rapidly gets weirder. Not for the easily squicked. Pretty great.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17073518

Little Red Riding Hood IN SPAAAACE.

Delightfully bizarre.

Here's a a "Black books" rec:
Had They Been Drinking?
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018/works/17148797
A story about Bernard and Fran's first meeting.
Very true to the spirit (haha, "spirit", get it?) of the show! Cheers and happy holidays! :D

Thumbs up to everything in Foundryside (fantasy novel by Robert Jackson Bennett) and Pitch (2016 TV show). They're all Sancia/Berenice and Ginny/Mike respectively.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018/tags/Foundryside%20-%20Robert%20Jackson%20Bennett/works
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018/tags/Pitch%20(TV%202016)/works

I'll probably spend all of tomorrow combing through Yuletide, but if anyone has recs for anime fandoms, I'd love those! :)

I very much enjoyed this fic for Revolutionary Girl Utena! :3

Sunday tea (1333 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Himemiya Anthy & Shinohara Wakaba
Characters: Himemiya Anthy, Shinohara Wakaba
Additional Tags: Sundays, Tea dates, Missing Scene, episode 33, implied Utena/Akio
Summary:

“At least if Utena’s out with your brother, then you know she’s in good hands.”

4 Recs in the Exiles - Melanie Rawn fandom (https://www.pillowfort.io/posts/358080)

https://cnoocy.dreamwidth.org/96450.html
Six recs, three of them for Voynich Manuscript.

There are a bunch of fics for The Tay Bridge Disaster - William McGonagall this year, and there are a couple I especially want others to see:

Seven Views of the Tay Bridge Disaster:

There’s something not right with the Bridge at the Tay —
there’s bits of it strewn on the silt beneath.
But there’s more than that — I’ve heard that the train
was ablaze when it fell — that the wind was alive —
that there were only forty six bodies —
only forty six, on a loaded train. I ask you.

De Tavi Pontis Clade Carminis Fragmenta: Newly Discovered Fragments

The opening and closing of Gulielmus McGonagall's De Tavi Pontis Clade, newly discovered in the original Latin.

Fifteen Ways to Die Horribly at Wormit Bay on 28 December, 1879

Wear chapstick when kissing the Tay Bridge.

Hi! I was a pinch hitter. I intended to sign up, but my internal clock is really bad and I missed signups for Yuletide and Holly Poly this year. I tried to make up for it with what I wrote. In any case, here are some recs that I put in the yuletide_recs collection as well.

Since this is my first Yuletide I did go back and read some from previous years as well but most of these are 2018.

Defenders (post-canon), Luke/Jessica and Jessica's PTSD:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16654486

American Gods (TV) extended/slightly AU scene, Salim/Ifrit

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16975785

American Gods (TV/book): Significantly post-canon, no real spoilers though. Shadow and Easter, gen.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17021745

And one from a previous year, Black Sails, James McGraw (Flint)/Thomas Hamilton. Pre-Flint is my favorite.This fic isn't anon anymore since it isn't from 2018. This is also a fandom that I think might not have been eligible this year (at least, I don't think it was nominated, so I assume it was because of that). I hope it's okay if I rec it anyway.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5534402

I wrote up a bunch of recs here: https://starfishstar.dreamwidth.org/99024.html (includes Seraphina, John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, 221B Baker Towers, The Thing in the Walls Wants Your Small Change, Love Simon, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and more).

Yuletide is great. \o/

Künstlerroman (Little women)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17045519

your words devour my heart (Lawrence of Arabia)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17059286

the rain falling on the sunshine (The secret garden)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17035847

Video games fandom recs would be lovely. I prefer the story-based games more, but feel free to go wild with anything you've seen.

Have you seen this post?
https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/148728.html
:)

Papers found amongst the personal effects of Dr John Seward, 17th September 1896 (Dracula)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16927428/

A Long Time Coming (The magnificent 7 - 2016 movie)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17049062

The Saga of Gorgeous Blue (Knitting - anthropomorphic)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17077055

Some recs before reveals. Sorry about the craptastic linking; I'm away from my computer and this is the best my phone will allow!

Papers found amongst the personal effects of Dr John Seward, 17th September 1896
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16927428

This is so good. It stands alone as a short story if you even know the slightest bit about Dracula, but if you know Dracula, the research and characterisation is astonishingly good. It's the story of Seward looking back to the final journey to destroy Dracula, as he cares for another member of their party and awaits a reckoning of his own. The relationship between the two men is deftly drawn, and the character voices are spot on.

Reports of Witches Falling https://archiveofourown.org/works/17122601

This is just a delight to read; wry without tipping into silliness, and sweet without being saccharine. It's the story of a young witch whose parents replaced the Hoover with a Roomba, and his determination to ride it like a broomstick anyway, for the artwork "Good Luck, Roomba Witch."

You Need a Big God https://archiveofourown.org/works/17111783

This is such a brilliant Small Gods fic. The author absolutely nailed the tone and morality of canon, and there's so many great one liners in here. The characterisation of Om and Brutha and their connection as god and prophet is fantastic, especially as it changes.

Separation Anxiety https://archiveofourown.org/works/17020920

Post-canon for Charm of Magpies. Lovely Crane voice and obliviousness, along with great characterisation for Crane, Stephen, Saint and Merrick. The four are on a steamship, Stephen hates it, Jenny is pretending to be Lady Crane, and Lucien just doesn't get what everyone else is trying to get done around him.

Murderbot's Accidental Exchange Program https://archiveofourown.org/works/17009607

Murderbot visiting the Radch, with a great culture clash and comparison of Breq's position at the end of her canon, and Murderbot's position during theirs.

Fridge Raider https://archiveofourown.org/works/17064524

This was one of my gifts, for the strange and adorable "To Whatever". This is the short story from Whatever's point of view, and it is an endearing and charming Whatever, with a great voice and love of food.

Be Mine https://archiveofourown.org/works/17075558

Another one for me (I was lucky this year!), and a delightful Whatever who is just a bit jealous (but who'd also like to make Ethan his queen, which is understandable). A different but no less endearing Whatever to the other story.

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