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graycardinalWhoof. The Christmas tree has been hauled off to recycling, the holiday leftovers have all been eaten or otherwise dispatched, a key football game has been listened to (since both of the relevant family households source their TV over the air, and are therefore cut off from the higher-end bowl games nowadays), and the opening hour of Galavant has been watched.
Which means I can finally take a moment to post my Yuletide contribution for this year, which has generated a very satisfying round of comments:
And I Do Mean Yours [for serenityabrin]
Length: ~2000 words
Fandom: Gargoyles (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Owen Burnett & David Xanatos
Characters: Puck | Owen Burnett, David Xanatos
Additional Tags: References to Shakespeare
"Use your best judgment – and I do mean yours, Mister Burnett,” Xanatos added pointedly. “If I’d wanted a clone as my right-hand man, I’d have commissioned one.”
This was an assignment that shifted ground on me several times in the course of the writing -- and in a somewhat different way than my Yuletide stories often do. This one started out very compact, then looked as if it was going to expand dramatically, and then condensed again but in a different way than I'd expected. (Most of the time, the shift stops at the "expand dramatically" phase.) Surprises along the way notwithstanding, I am very pleased with the way it turned out, and chuckled to myself a good deal as I was researching and slipping in Easter eggs. [Most of the Easter eggs have been tagged by various alert commenters, but there are one or two as yet unremarked. Which is all right, because I did indulge in one bit of whimsy that possibly a dozen people in the world might possibly catch, and AFAIK at most one of them is even remotely likely to ever see the story. Or possibly two.]
All in all, a very satisfying Yuletide indeed, in both the writing and the reading.
Which means I can finally take a moment to post my Yuletide contribution for this year, which has generated a very satisfying round of comments:
And I Do Mean Yours [for serenityabrin]
Length: ~2000 words
Fandom: Gargoyles (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Owen Burnett & David Xanatos
Characters: Puck | Owen Burnett, David Xanatos
Additional Tags: References to Shakespeare
"Use your best judgment – and I do mean yours, Mister Burnett,” Xanatos added pointedly. “If I’d wanted a clone as my right-hand man, I’d have commissioned one.”
This was an assignment that shifted ground on me several times in the course of the writing -- and in a somewhat different way than my Yuletide stories often do. This one started out very compact, then looked as if it was going to expand dramatically, and then condensed again but in a different way than I'd expected. (Most of the time, the shift stops at the "expand dramatically" phase.) Surprises along the way notwithstanding, I am very pleased with the way it turned out, and chuckled to myself a good deal as I was researching and slipping in Easter eggs. [Most of the Easter eggs have been tagged by various alert commenters, but there are one or two as yet unremarked. Which is all right, because I did indulge in one bit of whimsy that possibly a dozen people in the world might possibly catch, and AFAIK at most one of them is even remotely likely to ever see the story. Or possibly two.]
All in all, a very satisfying Yuletide indeed, in both the writing and the reading.
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