#harry dubois that one Sunday night

[hangingfire]

Yuletide 2020 roundup

This year's Yuletide fic exchange was extraordinarily busy for me, even despite the fact that my main fandom of choice these days is no longer YT-eligible. I got an excellent assignment, and then when the prompts went public, I found three that spoke to me, and so I set myself a goal: assignment, plus three treats. Somehow I did it ... and then ended up throwing myself an additional curveball at the eleventh hour.

First though, my three lovely lovely gifts:

that world as well as this by raven (singlecrow) for hangingfire (G, 1.4k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke12 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Friendship, Chromatic Yuletide Summary: It's a Sunday afternoon in December when Sarah gets a text from Piranesi. My note: Really lovely post-canon interlude for Sarah and Matthew in an art gallery, a delicate portrait of a friendship between two unusual people who are not quite at ease with the worlds they inhabit.

The Stars above the Forty-Eighth Vestibule in the Northern Halls by laughingpineapple for hangingfire (G, 2.1k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke24 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Worldbuilding, Exploration, Far Future, Classical Statuary, Birds Summary: Sarah Raphael in a distant future, holding a lantern up against the night. My note: Gosh this is gorgeous. It riffs gloriously on the House as we see it in canon, and ends on an extraordinary, beautiful image that hit me just as hard as the ending of the original novel did.

Angel Investor by karanguni for hangingfire (T, 3k) Fandom: The Culture - Iain M. Banks,Discworld - Terry Pratchett Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Cheradenine Zakalwe, GCU Grey Area, Original Culture Mind(s) (The Culture), The Culture Citizen Known As Elon Musk, Crossover, Alternate Universe - Real World, Special Circumstances (The Culture Series), Yuletide Treat Summary: 'You look like shit,' Zakalwe informed him. 'Not so easy, is it, dragging humanity kicking and screaming towards enlightenment?' My note: Last year karanguni pretty much made my year with a Culture/Discworld crossover, and this year, A SEQUEL. I haven’t laughed this hard at a fic in ages; the image of a certain Famous Dudebro as a Culture citizen gone wildly off-piste is brilliant and kind of horrifying. I loved it.

Maybe this year I’ll actually get together a proper recs list? We’ll see.

Update: bookmarking my Yuletide 2020 recs here. 

So this year, like I said: I was really busy. Entirely self-inflicted, but I’m pretty happy with the results.

Left To My Own Devices by hangingfire for ianthebroome (G, 2.5k) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke10 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Character Study, Introspection, liminal spaces, parallel worlds, Portal Fantasy, Misses Clause Challenge, Missing Scene Summary: "She distrusts high places and open plains. She loves caves, hollows, and shadows; she is fascinated by deep clear pools and flowing water." As the Smiths song goes: "There is another world / There is a better world / Well, there must be". Sarah Raphael has known this since childhood. Director’s commentary: I originally started on a crossover between Piranesi and Borges’s “The Library of Babel”. I went kind of sideways from there, started over, and this was the result. I latched onto a few details and added some of my own personal obsessions (it may be that I find Sarah Raphael intensely relatable in some ways), and here we are.

A map of the House by hangingfire for chillydown, deliarium, GloriaMundi, Gracierocket, hellseries, ianthebroome, Jenett, raven (singlecrow), Relia, Sinope, soupytwist (G, 132 + picture) Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorenson, Map - Freeform, Reference material, Graphics, Yuletide Treat Summary: In my Father's House there are many rooms, vestibules, halls, and statues. The Beauty of the House is immeasureable, its Kindness infinite. Director’s commentary: While I was working on “Left To My Own Devices”, I started hand-drawing a map of the House to keep it straight in my head, and being me, I decided to redraw it as a schematic that I could actually read. Then I figured, I might as well share it.

The Thing That Eats by hangingfire for chillydown (M, 2.8k) Fandom: Confessions of Dorian Gray,The Terror (TV 2018) Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Dorian Gray, Original Female Character(s) of Color, Crossover, Highly specific crossover, Horror, Body Horror, Extremely niche crossover in fact, Yuletide Treat, White dudes ruin everything, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Summary: A hundred and seventy years after the disastrous Franklin Expedition, an intelligent woman is burdened with the shenanigans of immortal dilettante and bad-decision-dinosaur Dorian Gray. He's in over his head again and doesn't know it. But what else is new? Director’s commentary: I happen to know chillydown and that she’s also a fan of The Terror, and, well ... once the idea presented itself (along with the requirement that something super gory had to happen to Dorian Gray), the pieces fell into place very quickly. 

Professionals by hangingfire for karanguni (T, 1.9k) Fandom: The Culture - Iain M. Banks,John Wick (Movies) Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, John Wick, Cheradenine Zakalwe, Diziet Sma, Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Crossover, Yuletide Treat, Alternate Ending, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions Summary: "John had an uncanny sensation of looking in a mirror." Director’s commentary: Returning the Culture crossover favor to karanguni—when I saw the prompt “Crossover ideas: John Wick (and Zakalwe get into a gun fight?)”, the story practically wrote itself, structure and all.

Four Unrequited Loves of the Holy See, and One Fulfilled by hangingfire for Elfgrandfather (T, 500) Fandom: The Young Pope (TV) Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Mario Assente/Bernardo Gutiérrez, Lenny Belardo/Andrew Dussolier, Lenny Belardo/Esther Aubry, Sister Mary/Angelo Voiello, Sofia Dubois/John Brannox, Lenny Belardo, Andrew Dussolier, Mario Assente, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Esther Aubry, Sister Mary (The Young Pope), Angelo Voiello, Sofia Dubois, John Brannox, Drabble, Four and One, Unrequited Love, Requited Unrequited Love, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational Summary: Love and the Vatican: it's complicated. Five drabbles about just how complicated it is. Director’s commentary: I put in a request for TYP/TNP this year, and no nibbles, but I saw that someone else had done the same and decided that someone was going to be getting fic for that this year, even if it wasn’t me. The N+1 drabble format ended up working best, but there’s a longer, more ambitious WIP about the canonization of Lenny Belardo that can be glimpsed in the background, possibly to be finished someday.

This week on the Repair Shop: a Time Turner, a Victorian Portrait, and an antique wardrobe by hangingfire for Orockthro (G, 3.5k) Fandom: The Repair Shop (UK TV),Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling,The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde,Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis20 Dec 2020 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Steve Fletcher (The Repair Shop), Will Kirk (The Repair Shop), Lucia Scalisi, Jay Blades, Hermione Granger, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Crossover, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Never thought I'd be interested in writing RPF and yet here we are, Yuletide Treat, Screenplay/Script Format, If you can't write ridiculous crossovers for Yuletide then when can you? Summary: Lucia turns her talents to a lost Victorian masterpiece. Will’s abilities will be tested by a special wardrobe, and Steve has an extremely unusual timepiece. Director’s commentary: So I absolutely thought I was done after I posted the previous four, and then I figured I’d chill with a little Repair Shop, since Season 3 was just added to Netflix. About halfway through one episode, I wondered idly if anyone had nominated and requested The Repair Shop. Of course they had. Writing the story in script format meant that I was able to move very quickly and stick to the essentials, and picking out the crossover objects was basically the second thing I thought of after wondering if there were any prompts in the tagset. The space for this kind of lunacy is why I love Yuletide.

[nexrp5-blog]

NAME: Harleen Dubois. BIRTHDAY: October 31st, 1969. PRONOUNS: She/her. GENDER/SEX: Female/cis. OCCUPATION: Student and a Pharmaceutical Assistant. FACE CLAIM: Haley Lu Richardson.

AESTHETIC – ��a doll in a gilded birdcage, soft piano music, coffee shops late at night, wisps of hair sticking to glossed lips, a bed strewn with papers and books, sunlight slipping through clouds, rotting flowers on a grave, the distant sound of fireworks, roses with thorns on the stems, love letters spritzed with perfume, a child’s fear of the dark, the contrast of blood against snow and fireflies on a cool summer night.

LIKES: vanilla milkshakes, persian kittens, french bulldogs, pink nail polish, strawberry lip gloss, cherry cola, lip smackers, daisy fields, sweet pears, the rich smell of old books, riding with the hood down, the lavender in sunsets, thoughtful letters, hair ribbons, going to church, travels without a destination, vanilla scented bubble baths and spending sunday afternoons with her grandmother.

DISLIKES: thunderstorms, disappointing people  -  especially her parents, people who break promises, large dogs, raised voices, foggy mornings, grocery stores at midnight, the woods, confrontation, wet grass, chocolate cake, ouija boards and the silence of 3 a.m.

HEAD CANONS

– Harleen is the youngest daughter out of three children, but is the second youngest child; she was born a measly two minutes before her brother  -  something she never fails to remind him of.

– Harley and Harry, being the youngest, were the only two children left for Eloise and Pierre to raise  -  their brother had gone off to University and sensing a better future for the little ones, her parents moved them to New Orleans when they were toddlers. It wasn’t until her father was offered a job in Sheffield that they moved again. By then, the kids were about seven years old.

– A devout Catholic. Harleen’s family wasn’t overly religious; sure, they practiced their faith on a day to day basis, but it had never been something their parents had pressured them into  -  that is until her father found himself in murky waters and turned to God for assistance. Rather, he turned to his faith in order to get himself out of trouble and appear as though he was nothing more than an All American Man, dedicated to his family and the lord. Eloise and her children remained blissfully unaware of the fact that her father was struggling and smuggling.

– Upon digging himself out of trouble, Pierre became much more strict with his children  -  especially Harleen. She was, after all, his only daughter; and the last thing he wanted was for her to be exposed to the dangers that seemed to lurk at every corner. Due to how protective he was, Harley was shielded from many truths of the real world; she was shielded from pretty much anything that didn’t have to do with school, family, or church.

CONNECTIONS

HAROLD DUBOIS –  Twin brother. TBA.

JOEL GUALTIERI – Age is just a number & jail is just a room.

PENNED BY KARMA.