and now for your regularly scheduled separation, +belated Yuletide

Katie left me today to go back to the wild wilderness of Connecticut. I'm trying to decide whether curling up on the couch and watching Benton Fraser be a giant goofnut or watching angst-filled anime on Netflix instant viewing would be better.

Oh! And I just remembered that I never posted about the fic I wrote for Yuletide! My recipient was automaticdoor, and she requested fic for L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. I wrote Once In A Blue Moon for her, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

For those of you who have never read The Blue Castle, allow me to highly recommend it. You can read it online here thanks to Project Gutenberg (*draws nerdy hearts*). Valancy is a really fun character, full of guts and a snarky sense of humor that I would enjoy in a modern heroine, much less a book set in 1926, small-town Canada. She's totally awesome, and the book itself has some really hilarious scenes. (I made Katie read it when she was back for Christmas, and she was laughing out loud.) Go read! Especially if you're already an Anne of Green Gables fan! You won't regret it. :)

( writing process stuff )

I'm going to repost the fic here in my journal in just a bit, for the sake of tagging OCD/archive crash paranoia. :)

Fic: Once In A Blue Moon (The Blue Castle, PG-13, Barney/Valancy)

Fandom: The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Valancy/Barney
Summary: "The first time Barney Snaith was in love, he wasn't actually Barney Snaith yet. He was still Bernard Snaith Redfern, and he was insanely, imprudently in love with Ethel Traverse."
Notes: 2568 words. Written for automaticdoor for Yuletide 2007 and also archived there. Thanks to calathea for looking this over and telling me it didn't suck. :)

( Once In A Blue Moon )

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