As the Cardinal Flies

Greetings, O YuleScrivener, and welcome!

First of all, thank you! As a longtime requester of Seriously Obscure Fandoms™, I'm constantly amazed when the matching process succeeds in finding authors who have actually heard of and fallen in love with the canons I so persistently request. I am also invariably delighted on Christmas morning when wonderful and wondrous stories land in my AO3 gift-folder. In particular, I've gotten some truly excellent treats in recent years, as well as a stream of gorgeous gifts - it boggles my mind that the Yuletide community is as consistently productive - and as consistently talented - as it is, and the fact that some of those stories are written just for me never ceases to amaze me.

With the evolution in Yuletide customs over the last few years, my detailed fandom requests, prompts and all, are mirrored straight from the signup itself. Anyone needing further details regarding a specific request should email the Yuletide mods. (As far as I'm concerned, this goes both for assigned writers and prospective creators of treats - to which I remain very much open - unless and until the mods tell us otherwise.)

My AO3 dashboard is linked to your left; feel free to cruise it looking for fandoms of mutual interest (or just to see what all I've written for). Here on DW, all my fic-exchange letters are tagged "dear santa" as well as to the relevant exchanges, Yuletide included. For those of you willing and able to feed my endless desire for crossovers and fusions, let those listings be your guide to prospective combinations.

Now, then: here's what you need to know about my reading tastes:

Things I like:
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Now for the specific requests:

Diana Winthrop series - Kate Chambers (any character)
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Enola Holmes series - Nancy Springer (Cecily Alistair)
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Jackie Chan Advantures (any character)
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Planet Builders - Robyn Tallis (any character)
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Power Rangers Dino Thunder (Tommy Oliver)
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Stealing the Elf-King's Roses - Diane Duane (any character)
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Herewith the highlights of a day wandering through Yuletide:

ETA: I've given up trying to figure out why everything goes bold beyond the Gargoyles cut tag in this entry (*except* when you view it on a page by itself, when everything looks normal). Whatever's going on there, it's not an HTML thing, I promise.

( Aladdin (1992) )

( The Cremation of Sam McGee - Robert Service )

( Enola Holmes - Nancy Springer )

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An account from a cache of manuscripts attributed to Enola Holmes - which both answers a great many questions about significant women in the Holmesian canon, and raises a great many others.

I've had parts of the underlying action in mind for this since writing a prior Enola Holmes story some rounds back -- having wondered what effect Enola's presence in the Russellverse might have had on the events of The Beekeeper's Apprentice. But I didn't know how to fill the glaring hole I'd chopped in the back end of that book till I did a quick reread of Peerless Peer. It was clear at once that (1) bringing "Nell" home would be a catalyst for more feminine strategizing, and (2) that swapping in a freshly escaped Von Bork for the Moriarty I'd displace would set up a revised finale very nicely indeed.

Not surprisingly, I fooled pretty much no one in the guessing round with this contribution, but it was great fun to write and seems to have pleased its readers, so all is well on the home front.

As to gifts: it was a season for podfic this round:

[Podfic] The Kincardine File: Notes From an Untold Case by flashforeward
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
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Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Untold Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes

A podfic of Gray Cardinal's fic "The Kincardine File"

What it says on the tin – a collection of notes and correspondence from a case for which no full manuscript has been found (almost certainly because Watson thought better of writing this one up for posterity).

A lovely reading of one of my prior Holmestice stories -- in this case, a short epistolary account of a matter that didn't make it into Watson's official memoirs. I am delighted to be able to listen to this; I was a CBS Radio Mystery Theater fan back in the day, and Holmesian tales in general tends to make for good audio material.

And then, while the treat was officially for starfishstar , the written story podficced below was originally a gift to me in a prior round, so I count this as a double win on my end. It's an excerpt from a longer story by language_escapes, written for me (for which my prompt was essentially "how do you explain Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes being alive and well this far into the 21st century?"). I am hoping that the teaser here will eventually be expanded into a complete reading....

[Podfic] an excerpt from Blood Relatives by starfishstar
Fandom: Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, Dracula series - Fred Saberhagen
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 0-10 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Russell, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Crossover, Post-Canon, excerpt

A teaser excerpt from “Blood Relatives” by language_escapes .

Left at home while Holmes is away applying his skills to the war effort, Russell receives an unexpected visitor.