Yes, Piglet! It is Yuletide!

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After three years of asking, I got SeaQuest DSV fic for Yuletide! Specifically, I got The Time Comes, a coda to "Nothing But the Truth," one of my favorite eps of the whole series. The fic takes my prompt "Ben Krieg - just because he's a scheming opportunist doesn't mean he doesn't have good intentions" and turns it into a character study. If you are SQ-inclined (which is to say, if you're ), you should check it out.

I haven't been doing a whole lot of reading yet, but here are other goodies I've found so far:

Ladyhawke
A Woman's Whole Heart
A gorgeous character study of Isabeau after the movie, exploring what it means for Isabeau to join polite society again after two years of cooking her meat as she liked, wearing her hair as she pleased, and worrying for no one's opinion.

Raines
big ideas (don't get any)
An absolutely pitch-perfect exploration of an intriguing what-if. Voices are perfect, prose is perfect, fic is exactly as long as it needs to be (which isn't very). Focuses on Michael Raines and Dan Lewis.

Discworld
Carrying a Concealed Weapon (and other crimes committed while being Adora Belle Dearheart)
Basically, an excuse to put Spike and Lady Sybil in a carriage together. Nothing much happens, but it's got some marvelous Pratchettian lines in it - I shrieked with laughter more than once.

The Muppet Show
Follow That Star!
Kermit, Fozzie, and Scooter - the three wise guys - set off after a mysterious star. I confess, I wanted the ending to be bit more... more, but otherwise it's glorious fun, with exactly as much reverence to the source material as one would expect of such an enterprise.

The Iron Giant
Through His Iron Fingers
Hogarth waits for the giant to come back. Quiet, gentle, no real surprises but a delight nonetheless.