reveals are now up! I received this wonderful, lovely gift:

Autumn Leaves Lie Thick and Still (2581 words) by yeats
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez
Additional Tags: Football, Slow Burn
Summary:

Scotland, at long last, qualifies for the World Cup. Jimmy and Duncan, at long last, figure some things out.

there are a lot of things to love about it. for me I can't stop marvelling at how the football game is written - the tension, and how it breaks - and how it works as both the metaphor (callback to the end of s5!) and vehicle for bringing them together. lovely stuff.

I had a lovely Christmas Eve with my family, and then yesterday and today I've spent my time reading Yuletide fic, re-watching all Ocean's movies, and writing fic. I'd hoped I'd be able to post a new chapter of my ongoing Afdeling Q wip before Christmas, but what with the move and my Yuletide commitments that wasn't possible. I'm now aiming to post a new chapter by the 28th, as last time I updated was 28th november and I was a bit surprised to discover it's almost been a month.

anyway, Yuletide recs! starting with my gift, a lovely selection of moments of Danny/Rusty (with background poly), including Tess and Rusty getting along, and an appearance from Debbie - and the reason why I decided to rewatch the Ocean's movies:

ain't that a kick in the head (2010 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean
Characters: Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Background Poly
Summary: danny ocean, 11 moments

before I go into the rest of the Yuletide recs I also want to give a shout to this gift fic:

The Laws of Thermodynamics (5163 words) by berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean, Tess Ocean & Rusty Ryan
Characters: Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Polyamory, a story mostly about how tess and rusty should unionise
Summary: The three laws of thermodynamics, as described in American Scientist, March 1964:

First law: You can’t win, you can only break even.
Second law: You can only break even at absolute zero.
Third law: You can’t reach absolute zero.

I got the gift notification for this in November and instantly thought 'aw hell, somebody messed up their Yuletide posting didn't they? I will pretend I didn't see it. but lemme click through real fast and read it before they realise their mistake...' and it turned out it wasn't a Yuletide mess up, but it was in fact Yuletide related: berlincorpography wrote my Danny/Rusty Yuletide gift last year. this was the fic they initially wrote, realised it was maybe veering too close to my DNWs and pivoted to write something else, but then finished this up anyway and gifted me anyway, and I am delighted!! It does not in fact veer too close to any of my DNWs and I love it very much.

More Yuletide recs under these cuts!
( Ocean's 8&11 )

( Temeraire )

the following three fics are 2 x Temeraire and 1x Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - I'm grouping them together instead of under their own fandoms, because they are academic takes on canon and I'm both amused an delighted that there are three whole fics in this genre in fandoms I enjoy.

( academia (2x Temeraire, 1x JSAMN) )

I'm still reading, so I hope to be back with more recs later.

as it happened, I did not have time to read anything else from the collection before reveals and I'm doubtful I'll have time today either, so, this is a repeat of the gifts I received + the two fics I wrote.

my gifts:

One Who Kneels (3027 words) by VirginiaPlain64
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter/Donna Killick, Duncan Hunter/Fran Hunter Perez, Fran Hunter Perez/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez, Cassie Perez (Shetland), Donna Killick, Fran Hunter Perez
Additional Tags: Pining, Masturbation, Whiskey & Scotch, Pre-Slash, Angst, Yuletide Treat, Fantasizing, Internalized Homophobia, Self-Pity, Introspection, Character Study, Sweaters
Summary: Duncan searches Jimmy's bedroom. What is he really looking for?

bet your bottom dollar (2447 words) by berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan
Characters: Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Hurt/Comfort, background Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean, Pre-Canon
Summary: In some ways, it would have been easier if he was still mad at Danny. It would have been easier if the time and distance had left them foreign to each other. It would, fundamentally, have been easier if he hadn’t gotten damningly hard under the table the second Danny started talking.

Better Than Milk and Honey (1881 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck
Additional Tags: Only One Bed
Summary: “We might have found another hotel,” Assad said.Carl scoffed. “At this time of night? No, thank you.”

the fics i wrote:

somebody else's wallet (1081 words) by nerakrose for berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, First Meetings, Made For Each Other, Partners in Crime, Life Partners, Implied Sexual Content, how else do we categorise and/or define Danny and Rusty's relationship?, Rusty POV - Freeform
Summary: When you look at another man for too long, you risk giving several things away.

a dollop of honey (1221 words) by nerakrose for queermccoy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Havemercy Series - Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alcibiades/Caius Greylace
Additional Tags: Queerplatonic Relationships, Cottagecore, Family Fluff
Summary: Al’s favourite time of day is evening, just after the last meal of the day. He goes out for a swim in the river, to rinse off the worst of the day’s sweat, and then comes inside to the warm bath that Caius prepared for him. It’s scented with lavender and rose, the water turned milky by oats - good for Al’s hardened hands, his weathered skin. Caius has already had his own bath, but he washes Al’s hair for him, untangles it gently and extricates hay and wildflowers. Forget-me-nots like to cling, and while Caius doesn’t understand how a weed that grows on the ground winds up so high that it filters into Al’s hair, he finds it charming all the same.


do I think it's very funny that berlincorpography and I wound up writing each other ocean's 11 fic? yes absolutely. yuletide is huge, but fandoms are small.