yuletide reveals (and new year)
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ravenHappy new year, folks. I wrote two yuletide stories this year. The first one is for a McSweeney's piece called We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your Romantic Comedy. It's very funny but is a mere 500w. Somehow, I went from that to writing a 9000w romcom that is essentially wholly original f/f SF. Unavoidably, it's very like my pro work. I had an amazing time writing it, I hope you like it.
spirit falling (a ship's proper motion) (8723 words) by raven
Fandom: We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom - Rachel McKenny
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Romance, Alien Cultural Differences, Telepathy, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Space, Romantic Comedy
The characters are going to appear in their own book, I've decided, which is a good way to start your new year off right.
My other yuletide story was a treat, for T Kingfisher's Temple of the White Rat books, and is the story of how Bishop Beartongue and Zale invent judicial review.
In the Consul's Court of Archon's Glory // Applicant No. #001 (on the instigation of the Temple of the White Rat) (5971 words) by raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher
Characters: Zale (The Saint of Steel), Bishop Beartongue (The Saint of Steel), Galen (The Saint of Steel), Wren (The Saint of Steel)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, the Temple of the White Rat, no spoilers for Paladin's Faith, Yuletide Treat
spirit falling (a ship's proper motion) (8723 words) by raven
Fandom: We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom - Rachel McKenny
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Romance, Alien Cultural Differences, Telepathy, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Space, Romantic Comedy
While the aliens are on board, there will be no romance on the good ship Spirit Falling.
None.
Zero.
(Everything is fine.)
The characters are going to appear in their own book, I've decided, which is a good way to start your new year off right.
My other yuletide story was a treat, for T Kingfisher's Temple of the White Rat books, and is the story of how Bishop Beartongue and Zale invent judicial review.
In the Consul's Court of Archon's Glory // Applicant No. #001 (on the instigation of the Temple of the White Rat) (5971 words) by raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher
Characters: Zale (The Saint of Steel), Bishop Beartongue (The Saint of Steel), Galen (The Saint of Steel), Wren (The Saint of Steel)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, the Temple of the White Rat, no spoilers for Paladin's Faith, Yuletide Treat
Administrative public law concerns the proper relations between government and governed; or, to put it another way, Zale and Bishop Beartongue have had it with this shit.