Yuletide Reveals - Your Reveals Posts

[morbane]

Everyone creating this year was on roughly the same journey - but the devil's in the details, and there are diamonds in those differences too. You've shared your stories. Now share your stories about your stories!

Now that author names have been revealed at the main Yuletide 2023 and Yuletide Madness 2023 collections, it's traditional for people to share thoughts on what they made this year. Maybe you want to write a post on your own social media (Dreamwidth or other) about your thoughts during canon consumption, your false starts, your research rabbit holes - please link it here! Or maybe you'd like to comment directly with much shorter thoughts. There's room for options in between, too.

See past posts at the reveals tag.

Comments

[birdylion]

I guessed you'd written the fic about Onfim and Danilo, and I'm delighted to see that you wrote another one I liked very much! (The Monstrous Regiment one)

[choirwoman]

Because of the Orthodoxy?

The Monstrous Regiment one was an irresistible pinch hit, and I wrote it in the same headspace as With This Ring (trans Mal, Polly who is "she" when people know her and "sir" to strangers). We can safely assume that they're married by now.

[birdylion]

Partly, but mostly because you were among the few people who gushed about the idea when it was brought up in the discord, and I knew I didn't write it. There was another fic which I didn't think was yours though. And I think that was because the one you wrote felt perhaps more in line with what I remembered from your likes/dislikes post. But. You know. Vibes are hard to grasp.
(Knowledge about orthodoxy alone doesn't mean you're familiar with birch bark texts.)

Re: Monstrous Regiment: Oh it seems I haven't read that one, I've got to check that out!

[choirwoman]

Yes, but knowledge about Orthodoxy does mean knowing about married priests and their wives' titles! (I can't find the other Onfim fic, do you have a link?)

[birdylion]

That's right, true. Perhaps I noticed that but didn't realise - or it was just a lucky guess :)

Poems about Onfim by 27twinsister

[choirwoman]

Oh right! Already read that and left kudos :-)