yuletide | 17 Yuletide recs

A Dreaming Art (Piranesi), 5k: a look into other worlds from a different cultural perspective, aka just what I needed for canon expansion

Two Winged Angel and a Bell-igerent Honk (Untitled Goose Game), 3k: not a full-on crossover but almost exactly what it says on the tin, and having fun with it every step of the way

Snakes and Snakes (Snake fight portion of your thesis defense), 1k: my fave out of the many snics (snake fics) due to two hilarious elements of worldbuilding

The Only Place That's Real (Thomas Kinkade cottage painting), 1k: delivers on treating Kinkade’s paintings as horror prompts and also features a Coop, as cool things sometimes do

Learn to Fly (Pyre), 8k: Liberation, Revolution and Union as seen by ae and Ti’zo, with gusto and plenty of details

For the Trees (The Prisoner), 4k: daaaaaaamn that’s an episode and a cool one at that. Beautiful setup, beautiful dog.

Houses Built in Years and Miles (Vagrant Story), 2.5k: meditative postcanon time with Ashley&Sydney, very chill, great sense of this strange bond

Haze (Night in the Woods), 1k: dream road trip dream road trip dream road trip! Fun cool approach to liminality

while it burns (Night in the Woods), 1k: stunning Gregg vignettes adding up to a cool day

Hilda Shelters in Place (Hilda the plus-sized pinup), 3k: lockdown references warning. I’m feeling this pin-up-ness in modern times, Patreon and all

on placid shores (Hollow Knight), 1k: Quirrellllllllllllllllll ;o;

Three Lights to a New Dawn (Ghost Trick), 1k: drabbles collection for the good ol’ OT3, good and cozy and occasionally sad but looking at better futures

A Test of Tempered Steel (FFV), 1k: spunky early days party bonding. Fun fun fun!

The Well-Informed Traveller (chapter 26, Octavia) (Le Città Invisibili), 1k: suspended worldbuilding in cool & hip travel guide format

Amazing! This Secret Meeting Between President Nixon and the Apollo 11 Astronauts Was Almost Lost to History (some clickhole article apparently), 1k: ............what it says on the tin but more deadpan

And I have already recced my gifts but please look at them again they’re still the be(e)st:

Transcript of the lines that were found in the sand (Strandbeest), 9k: history and individual inclinations in a complex, incredibly beautiful tapestry traced on the sand

Inertia (Strandbeest), 1.5k: reframing death, rebirth and community and shooting off beyond imagination