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.

I slept for ten hours, with a break around four in the morning which I used to read my Yuletide treat, by a very kind person who dealt with my utter failure to generate a prompt (hypothetically, what sort of fanfic would I read, if my relationship to fandom was fundamentally about reading fic, rather than going to parties in undergrad and writing odd pairings, in rather the same spirit that other people borrow cigarettes? I pondered this question for a while and then decided my time would be more efficiently spent finishing my pinch hit) by reading both of the things I've posted on AO3. By natural process of extrapolation, this means my treat is a Cyteen/Regenesis story with the Loyalty tag on it (which definitely is the kind of thing I would read all of if I were reading fic regularly). The extreme thoughtfulness evinced by all characters involved is, I think, tribute to the author's character.