Yuletide in experimental styles!

[ursula]

For Yuletide, I retold A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet in the persona of Chaucer from Chaucer Hath a Blog:

The Pelerins Progress, or a Long Wei to a Smalle Angri Islet (1220 words) by UrsulaKohl
Fandom: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers, Chaucer Hath a Blog | Chaucer Doth Tweet
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rosemary Harper/Sissix Seshkethet, Lovey/Jenks (Wayfarers Series)
Characters: Rosemary Harper, Sissix Seshkethet, Lovey (Wayfarers Series), Jenks (Wayfarers Series), Geoffrey Chaucer, Corbin (Wayfarers Series), Ohan (Wayfarers Series)
Additional Tags: Middle English, Pilgrimage, Miracles of Saint Isidore, Crossover, Geometry is magic
Summary:

Chaucer hath a blog wherein he revieweth manye grete workes of literature. A Long Wei to a Smalle Angri Islet is a tale of faythe and love most fitting to thys seasoun.

ofunaq had asked separately for Chaucer's retelling of some famous story (maybe Star Wars) and for more of the relationship between Rosemary and Sissix, so of course the best thing to do was to combine them. Small Angry Planet has an episodic structure which works very naturally with medieval storytelling rhythms. I also got to compare Rosemary/Sissix to "the love of the engels and cherubynnes"!

I beta-read two stories that do neat things with structure and point of view. A Quickstart Guide to Voynich RPG by yhlee is light-hearted horror in the shape of an RPG manual. Correspondence by isis is the monster's half of the story from Shaenon Garrity's "To Whatever", with accompanying translator's notes.

Comments

[redbird]

That is most excellent, and I almost certainly wouldn't have found it browsing by fandoms, so thank you.

[ursula]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[thistleingrey]

oh gosh, the Chaucer Blog one is by you! Well done.
(I find it really amusing, no rancor, that the actual Chaucer Hath a Blog blogger tends to do age-of-Caxton orthography. Easier, to be sure--and something that your tale matches neatly.)