Yuletide Recs part 2

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I'll never read as much as I want before reveals, but 'm glad I'd had as much time as I have this year to poke around :) I was going to dividing this again into things I've come across myself vs things I've read because they were recced, but honestly i have lost track at this point -_- There are definitively reccs of both kinds in here though!


Alien: Solitude (2799 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aliens (1986)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

Technicians aboard a secure Weyland-Yutani communications and relay station get to observe things from afar.

A very nice and claustrophobic perspective, beautifully suggestive of the company's inhumanity and of how people operate in that environment.

A Flag That Bears the Name (2211 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Attack the Block (2011)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Moses (Attack the Block), Pest (Attack the Block), Biggz (Attack the Block), Sam (Attack the Block)
Summary:

Moses used to think about saving the world. Now that he's done it, he can't go back.

I love how plausible this feels, and the small and personal scope of it. The characters are perfect

A Flash of Purity and Truth (6461 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: The Flashman Papers - George MacDonald Fraser
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Harry Flashman/Elspeth Flashman, Harry Flashman/OFC
Characters: Harry Flashman, Elspeth Flashman
Additional Tags: Flashy being awful, Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Historical Accuracy
Summary:

How did Flashy win the San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth by hiding under the bed?

Excellent Flashman voice, with perfectly in canon references to past adventures and historical events. Perfectly, awfully, in character and in tone!

Brother my heart is an open wound (1229 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rameses II of Egypt, Moses (Prince of Egypt), Tuya (Prince of Egypt), Seti (Prince of Egypt)
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, POV Second Person
Summary:

You are Egypt. You know how to suffer.

I really felt this did an excellent job showing Ramses's perspective, and giving insight as to why it was so impossible for him to reconcile it with what Moses was trying to tell/show him.

And Tie It All Up With A Tom-Tit's Feather (100 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel (song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Narrator/True Love
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Drabble, Break Up, Angst, World War I
Summary:

Tell her to buy me an acre of land? But it is 1916, and land is bought with blood.

A really great setting and concept for this drabble - I think it manages to convey quite a lot in its 100 words!

gather it all in a bunch of heather (1696 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel (song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: True Love (Scarborough Fair)/Singer (Scarborough Fair)
Characters: Singer (Scarborough Fair), True Love (Scarborough Fair), You (Scarborough Fair)
Additional Tags: First Love, Falling In Love, Identity Porn, Bittersweet, Unreliable Narrator
Summary:

Are you going to Scarborough Fair


Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme


Remember me to one who lives there


She once was a true love of mine.

I really liked this take on the story - there are a few little twists that are pulled off quite elegantly, I thought!