Yuletide recs (briefer and crazed-er edition)

[elsane]

Last year I hurriedly posted some recs just before reveal and called them the brief and crazed edition. Well, this year I've read an even smaller fraction of the archive and am feeling even more crazed (I notice a trend), but three awesome stories make a post, right?

• Outdwelling (Duane's Door Into aka Tale of the Five series) is about Hasai, it's from his point of view, and it moves through time and memory as freely and as changingly as sunlight through water. It's beautifully written, and makes magnificent use of the draconic sense of time.
  
  
• The Young Chants (Chrestomanci) is a lovely series of character studies as Christopher grows up and adds people to his family, one at a time. The characterization is keenly and subtly observed and, as is perfectly in keeping with canon, occasionally veers into the hysterically funny. (Tell me you don't love the bit where Chrestomanci is called away complete with fussy baby, and I will refuse to believe you're completely human.)
  
  
• Couldn't Drag Me Away (Sungkyunkwan Scandal) takes on Yong Ha and Jae Shin's first meeting, with an absolutely fantastic Yong Ha voice, and some brilliantly in-character cleverness.
  

Please tell me about your favorites!

Comments

[skygiants]

Okay, I just have to say, I am laughing SO HARD at this post, because shati and I have spent the last week flailing at each other about WHO IT COULD BE who wrote the SKKS/CS crossover of our hearts . . . and of the three fics you've recced here, one is mine, and one is Shati's. (And the third is a fic that I betaed, written by one of my best friends.) HOW DID YOU DO THAT?

[elsane]

/falls over laughing

Oh my god. CLEARLY we are some kind of fic mind triplets or something, this is hysterical.

Also, by the way, you're awesome! Loved the fic <3

[skygiants]

APPARENTLY! And right back at you. <3

I also forgot to say that I have now been informed that your beta was my roommate . . .

[elsane]

HAHAHA I knew you knew each other, but I didn't realize you knew each other that well! Too. Funny.

Please tell me participating in Yuletide is always this magical and funny.