December Days 2018 #25: Yuletide
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silveradeptYuletide is here! Which means there's an entire collection of very interesting works in small fandoms (defined as less than 1000 complete works, in English, of 1000 words or more, between fanfiction.net and the AO3 at the time of nomination) waiting for everyone to go through and enjoy. It's also a big exchange, and so figuring out how to navigate it for maximum enjoyment in limited time is definitely a thing that I am slowly learning how to do.
It looks like I ended up with four works this year, one from the main collection, and three from the Yuletide Madness collection. Since only the main one is revealed at this point, that's what we'll talk about tonight.
The Ballad of the Burgled Beats! (6950 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Chief (Carmen Sandiego), Carmen Sandiego, Studying Anime Girl (lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to)
Additional Tags: the near future, Crossover
Summary:
Hee. It's casefic using the cast of characters from the PBS production of Carmen Sandiego, and it's very clear that the writer enjoyed that series as much as I did. I liked the caper and what got stolen (and the handwave of how, exactly, Carmen managed it). If you're allergic to puns, though, you might have to pass on it, because there's a goodly amount of them and they are all well-deployed. The twist involved is really great, as well, so go ahead and read it.
And, so far, I've gotten good feedback from the recipient of the gift I gave, so I'm happy that this has turned out well again for this year. Without divulging specifics about what I wrote (because that's not kosher until reveals), I will say that this year's work involved a certain amount of stop-start on trying to bring something together into a unified whole, before settling into the form that it ultimately took, which I think played to the source material's strengths and storytelling style. I also believe it was ultimately true to the characters that I know and enjoy, while taking into account the necessary bits of expansion on the canon that would be needed to tell the story the recipient was interested in. The biggest bump that I had to get over in that segment was figuring out how to get each of the various parts of the plot to tie into the overarching theme. I think some of that frustration ended up being channeled through one of the characters, and turned out to produce a pretty significant amount of the wordcount by essentially transcribing the argument I was having internally, once that argument had finished and I had a direction of where to go from there. Sometimes the planning process makes it into the final material, if you can find a way of making it work.
Happy Yuletide, everyone. It's usually the final project/exchange of the year for me, so there aren't likely to be any more reveals, but there is likely to be an "AO3 output" post up and ready once author reveals happen for this year, so that I can put this final work into the list of things that I did this year. The statistics are still pretty good in terms of raw word output for this year, from what I can track, so that's nice to see.
It looks like I ended up with four works this year, one from the main collection, and three from the Yuletide Madness collection. Since only the main one is revealed at this point, that's what we'll talk about tonight.
The Ballad of the Burgled Beats! (6950 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Chief (Carmen Sandiego), Carmen Sandiego, Studying Anime Girl (lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to)
Additional Tags: the near future, Crossover
Summary:
A theft. A game. A mystery. When one of the most popular internet radio streams vanishes, it's a case for the detectives at Acme. When it's accompanied by a taunting message from the world's greatest thief, it's personal.
Hee. It's casefic using the cast of characters from the PBS production of Carmen Sandiego, and it's very clear that the writer enjoyed that series as much as I did. I liked the caper and what got stolen (and the handwave of how, exactly, Carmen managed it). If you're allergic to puns, though, you might have to pass on it, because there's a goodly amount of them and they are all well-deployed. The twist involved is really great, as well, so go ahead and read it.
And, so far, I've gotten good feedback from the recipient of the gift I gave, so I'm happy that this has turned out well again for this year. Without divulging specifics about what I wrote (because that's not kosher until reveals), I will say that this year's work involved a certain amount of stop-start on trying to bring something together into a unified whole, before settling into the form that it ultimately took, which I think played to the source material's strengths and storytelling style. I also believe it was ultimately true to the characters that I know and enjoy, while taking into account the necessary bits of expansion on the canon that would be needed to tell the story the recipient was interested in. The biggest bump that I had to get over in that segment was figuring out how to get each of the various parts of the plot to tie into the overarching theme. I think some of that frustration ended up being channeled through one of the characters, and turned out to produce a pretty significant amount of the wordcount by essentially transcribing the argument I was having internally, once that argument had finished and I had a direction of where to go from there. Sometimes the planning process makes it into the final material, if you can find a way of making it work.
Happy Yuletide, everyone. It's usually the final project/exchange of the year for me, so there aren't likely to be any more reveals, but there is likely to be an "AO3 output" post up and ready once author reveals happen for this year, so that I can put this final work into the list of things that I did this year. The statistics are still pretty good in terms of raw word output for this year, from what I can track, so that's nice to see.
