there will be a fish

So I just realized I never posted about Yuletide stuff! Which is terrible of me; bad Lindsey, no cookie.

My gift was the utterly awesome Black Shuck, written for Neil Gaiman's A Study In Emerald. My author (WHO I LOVE) wrote a retelling of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and it's just completely wonderful -- it just nails the pastiche-but-not-quite-the-same-world writing and this version of Holmes and Watson, while also managing to be a thrilling adventure and a truly creepy horror story. I am so, so, so delighted by it, and you should all go read it immediately! Um, unless you're planning to go to sleep right afterward, in which case you might want to wait until it's light outside. :D?

I've been reading my way through the fics in a very random manner, but have some ( recs for Alice, Hawaii Five-0, Banlieue 13, Calvin & Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes/Foxtrot, James Bond, Lord Peter Wimsey, Old Spice Guy metafic, Temeraire/Pride & Prejudice, and Wishbone/Vorkosigan )

I feel vaguely guilty for having the deathplague and defaulting rather than risking a crappy fic for my recipient, but them's the breaks, I guess. I tried to make up for it by beta-ing like a mofo (up till 3am two nights in a row with my sister, what what), but I may also have to do a NYR, too...