last minute yuletide recs

i wanted to finish reading everything i wanted to read before making this post, but reveals are tomorrow. ah well! i have two more fics marked for later, which i suppose i'll read tomorrow and hopefully love enough to rec along with sharing the fic i wrote.

first, my gifts! i got TWO gifts, which was unexpectedly awesome, and they're in the same fandom (Mulan!!)

Honored Spouse (2130 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Relationships: Fa Mulan/Li Shang
Additional Tags: Genderfluid Character, Gender Identity
Summary: Ping was a part of Mulan, not simply a role she played. Some days that was more comfortable, some days the feminine was. Shang might not have understood that feeling, but it was part and parcel of who she was, and he loved all of her.

short but sweet and i liked especially that shang was open to questioning his own gender and how it helped him understand mulan.

Be Brave, be true, save the Empire. (8025 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Relationships: Fa Mulan/Li Shang
Additional Tags: Genderfluid Character, Bisexual Male Character
Summary: Mulan never thought she would fit in.
Shang never thought he would marry.
As it turns out, they were both wrong.

guys, this is GORGEOUS. i suspect it's written by an ESL speaker who also got fucked over by autocorrect, but it's easy enough to look past the spag issues - please do, it's so, so good. this fic takes place entirely (or almost entirely?) in the 'gaps', with only the barest hint to canon scenes to set the timeline. sloooow burn. it's beautiful. content warning: dub/non-con, when shang is forced to go to a brothel by his father to 'man up'.

other fics i enjoyed:

( mulan, god's own country, temeraire, ocean's 8 )