My Yuletide fics! Yay!
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snick_backupI got not one but two rich, wonderful Yulefics this year. In my requests I shied away from anything angst-prone - this year has been too full of RL weariness to want angst in the off hours. So I aimed for fun and possibly frolic, and that's just what I got.
First, I got just exactly the Spirited Away fic I wanted!!! I asked for something that dealt with the day-to-day workings of the bath house, because I find them all fascinating - I love how Miyazaki tends to ground his fantasies with things like ironworks and boiler rooms. And my assigned Yulewriter wrote me Good Children, in which Chihiro deals with cleaning up the aftermath of the river god's visit and also deals with a potentially cranky radish spirit. And it's fabulous! All the details are perfect: the radish spirit, the bath house's frog employees.
But what surprised me and what I think I like the most is how very much herself Chihiro is in this fic. I hadn't given her all that much thought before, but every bit of her portrayal in this rings true: her persistence, her tendency for weird but topical questions, her pluck. She's a determined young lady who gets things done, is Chihiro. I love it.
Second, a wonderfully generous soul wrote me Eh by Gum!, which is everything I could possibly want in a Wallace&Gromit fic. Wacky inventions (complete with a numbered list of what should happen, and another of what does happen)! A new scheme! Wonderful Wallace lines! (“Gromit!” Wallace shouted in panic. “Get out of here, lad, she's gone loco for cocoa!”)! The return of old friends! (Naturally, Gromit and Wendolene have bonded over knitting.) Just fabulous stuff.
So, go check them out. 'Cuz they're really neat.
First, I got just exactly the Spirited Away fic I wanted!!! I asked for something that dealt with the day-to-day workings of the bath house, because I find them all fascinating - I love how Miyazaki tends to ground his fantasies with things like ironworks and boiler rooms. And my assigned Yulewriter wrote me Good Children, in which Chihiro deals with cleaning up the aftermath of the river god's visit and also deals with a potentially cranky radish spirit. And it's fabulous! All the details are perfect: the radish spirit, the bath house's frog employees.
But what surprised me and what I think I like the most is how very much herself Chihiro is in this fic. I hadn't given her all that much thought before, but every bit of her portrayal in this rings true: her persistence, her tendency for weird but topical questions, her pluck. She's a determined young lady who gets things done, is Chihiro. I love it.
Second, a wonderfully generous soul wrote me Eh by Gum!, which is everything I could possibly want in a Wallace&Gromit fic. Wacky inventions (complete with a numbered list of what should happen, and another of what does happen)! A new scheme! Wonderful Wallace lines! (“Gromit!” Wallace shouted in panic. “Get out of here, lad, she's gone loco for cocoa!”)! The return of old friends! (Naturally, Gromit and Wendolene have bonded over knitting.) Just fabulous stuff.
So, go check them out. 'Cuz they're really neat.
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-03 01:22 am (UTC)OTOH, everyone of good taste should be immediately supplied with some Wallace and Gromit. Wallace is a wacky inventor, Gromit is his entirely non-speaking dog, a sort of Jeeves to his Wooster, if you will - completely with highly expressive eyebrows. It's all stop-animation, on wonderfully detailed sets. But most of all: it is delightfully quirky. And punny. And British. It comes in lengths of long, short, and very short.
Here, see for yourself.
(Er, okay, so I might like these all rather a lot...)