Beyond the Roundels

I'm just stopping by to say a Happy Wednesday or possibly something else. I wasn't around much this week because I was unwisely trying to get two treats down for yuletide. I managed the first obviously, but tied myself up in knots over the second yesterday, but at least my resulting overtiredness was hopefully not in vain - I think I can untangle it for an NYR.

What I would have said had I not been doing that was that THREE GIFTS have been appearing for me over the last couple of weeks, in THREE different super-rare fandoms. I am still so overtired and also excited and also general Christmas that I am still at the stage of looking at them on my gifts page and my brain sticking at !!!!! and am too excited to read them.

Anyway, I will calm down before the end of the day and actually read them, and in the meantime, they look amazing and here they are, and I am overtired, there's nearly rain on my face:

Common Ground (14870 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Catherine Winslow, Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Arthur Winslow (Winslow Boy), Desmond Curry, Grace Winslow, Ronnie Winslow
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, World War I, Courtship, Reunions, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, minor character injury, (neither of these two tags happen to the main characters in the pairing), home front, Sequel
Summary:

Robert and Catherine meet again and begin a hesitant courtship. But when war breaks out, neither of them can remain unchanged or unscathed.

like birds i' th' cage (5366 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Craddock and Co (Radio)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles Craddock & Lucy Greenwood
Characters: Charles Craddock, Lucy Greenwood, Mr. Grout
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Family Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Protectiveness, not entirely a casefic but casefic-adjacent, Yuletide 2024
Summary:

“Oh, uncle.” Me heart sank right down into my stomach. “Don’t you talk like that."
“Like what, dear girl?”
“Like you won’t have any other chance to say it.”

 

Or: Uncle Charles runs afoul of a band of criminals, and despite Lucy's best efforts, their rescue might not arrive in time...

All's Fair in Love and Invasions (4864 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully (BBC Radio)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katrina Lyons/Uljabaan
Characters: Katrina Lyons, Uljabaan (Welcome to Our Village), Lucy Alexander (Welcome to Our Village), The Computer (Welcome to Our Village)
Additional Tags: Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Cultural Differences, Attempted Seduction, Humor, Enemies to Lovers, Antagonism, that thin line between love and hate, or between romance and interplanetary conflict, Yuletide 2024
Summary:

“I will defeat Uljabaan with something uniquely and deeply human, which the alien menace will be defenceless against! I will bring him down with…”
Katrina leaves a pause. Clutches her fist to her chest, adopting the noble gaze-into-the-distance pose she hopes the history books will depict in their illustrations of this moment.

 

“...love.”

 

“Oh, ew,” says Lucy, instantly. Katrina hopes the history books will cut that bit out.

I mean. I don't think any actual irl presents are going to beat that, really. *flails like a faily thing*