resolutions, yay

[schmerica]

New Year's Resolution challenges are up on yuletide, yay!

*making really long list of unfulfilled requested to ponder in the back of my head*

My other requests besides my fabulously-filled All About Eve, for those of you playing at home, were The Producers, Leo/Max; The Lion in Winter, Henry II/Eleanor of Aquitaine; and The Royal Tenenbaums, Margot/Richie (although the latter did get filled as requests for other people).

Although, you know, even just looking at some of the fandoms that were written in and not still requested is making me itchy. I know I recced cmshaw's lovely Sorcery & Cecelia story, and ... dude. If people continued to actually write that, I might have to die of excitement. Young adult fantasy alternate history! Wittiness and post-Napoleonic Britain setting! Darlingness! Plus, the second volume has a lot of fade-to-black inferred sexin', if you like that sort of thing.

*tries to remember who on friends list likes those books, too* twinkledru? mimesere?

*vows to poke Fox about them a little*

Ooh, getting late. Back to packing for tomorrow, now, I think.

Comments

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

ooh! me! me!

Only, I could not possibly write something half as charming with all the fade to black sexin' of the book. Though I'd be tempted, solely to give Cecilia and James their turn at the hot hot lovin'.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

You two are evil, and work scarily well together.

Sometimes I fear you.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*snugs*

[juleskicks.livejournal.com]

Dude, I... am largely over the thrill of slash, in many ways, and I absolutely adore the canon relationships?

But I also want so, so very much to write James/Thomas set during the War.

Because... yes.

And someone so needs to poke Amy about these books, too.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

*eyes*

Dude, you guys are GOOD.

Also.

*cowers*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You know, I feel very vaguely OTP-ish about both the canon ships, but cmshaw's backstory slash during the war still really worked for me. And, dude, I can't imagine who would be more qualified for Napoleonic war era fic than you.

I think the "someone" in your last sentence might need to be replaced by "all of us", though.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, you totally could! I believe in you!

And Cecy and James totally deserve some lovin'. They're not either much younger than the other two or, like, related to each other, so there's no reason they should almost come across that way there. Especially with all the flirting and arguing in the first one.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I also heart those books. I'm not sure I liked the sequel as much, but squee.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

The sequel abandoned the concept of the first book, and I also don't think the plot was as good, but despite that I might like it even more, just because it was so ridiculously charming.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

It was ridiculously charming. So are Wrede's Mairelon the Magician books -- hell, I just like Regency fantasy in general.

I have been contemplating reading Stevermeyer's College of Magics books. Do you know anything about them?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I've read the first of the College of Magics books, and I did like it, enough for the sequel to be on my reading list, at least. I'm a sucker for that genre, though. It did have some flaws -- I really wanted a clearer sense of the alternate historical world they were living in, and that was really missing; the backstory was too vague for me to completely get into it.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Sorcery & Cecelia...is that Patricia Wrede? I think I have that around here somewhere, along with the whole "[Verbing] to Dragons" series...

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Cowritten between Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, yeah. Very good.