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selenakI feel showered in riches as I didn't just get one story but a treat as well, both Lucrezia Borgia/Giulia Farnese from The Borgias.
Petrarchan Sonnets from the Vatican Archive: this was my main Yulegift, and what a gift it was. Yuletide has such original writers and forms at times, and this year I really lucked out with mine. It's a story in the guise of a fake article about the discovery of sonnets between L.B. and person unknown, female and apparantly her tutor. Complete with the sonnets. And the commentary. Absolutely delightful, needless to say, poetic (my Yulewriter's ability to compose Petrarchan Sonnets with clever allusions to events from the show's first season stuns me), and full of subtlety, and the wit and love for language that the characters in question display on the show as well (and did in history).
Salome Dances: my unexpected treat: teenage Lucrezia musing on her father's new mistress, her mother, and her own confused feelings. Delightful.
Before I head off to read all the other treasures, another reccomendation, not a Yuletide story but a Christmas one. If you're in Buffy fandom, you may remember the Christmas flashback from The Body where Anya springs the news of a demon Santa on us. In this great story by Sylvia Volk (responsible for some of my favourite Highlander tales back in the day), Illyria (from Angel, BTVS-only people) teams up with Andrew, of all the people, at some point post NFA to go up against Santa. It's a terrific Illyria pov, and Andrew (armed with a Fourth Doctor scarf, bless him) makes such an entertaining foil for her:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Petrarchan Sonnets from the Vatican Archive: this was my main Yulegift, and what a gift it was. Yuletide has such original writers and forms at times, and this year I really lucked out with mine. It's a story in the guise of a fake article about the discovery of sonnets between L.B. and person unknown, female and apparantly her tutor. Complete with the sonnets. And the commentary. Absolutely delightful, needless to say, poetic (my Yulewriter's ability to compose Petrarchan Sonnets with clever allusions to events from the show's first season stuns me), and full of subtlety, and the wit and love for language that the characters in question display on the show as well (and did in history).
Salome Dances: my unexpected treat: teenage Lucrezia musing on her father's new mistress, her mother, and her own confused feelings. Delightful.
Before I head off to read all the other treasures, another reccomendation, not a Yuletide story but a Christmas one. If you're in Buffy fandom, you may remember the Christmas flashback from The Body where Anya springs the news of a demon Santa on us. In this great story by Sylvia Volk (responsible for some of my favourite Highlander tales back in the day), Illyria (from Angel, BTVS-only people) teams up with Andrew, of all the people, at some point post NFA to go up against Santa. It's a terrific Illyria pov, and Andrew (armed with a Fourth Doctor scarf, bless him) makes such an entertaining foil for her:
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Salome Dances
Date: 2012-01-02 08:31 pm (UTC)Re: Salome Dances
Date: 2012-01-02 08:52 pm (UTC)Re: Salome Dances
Date: 2012-01-02 09:33 pm (UTC)