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Yuletide Recs 2021
Dec. 30th, 2021 07:43 amOnce again, I won Yuletide! I got the most wonderful Bright Smoke Cold Fire fic:
the word at the heart of the world. A worldbuilding-centric fic about the last stand of the ancient Sisters of Thorn in the Sunken Library; if you've read the books, you'll know that everyone sacrifices their lives to save and seal the library, but this is the most heartwarming, tragic-but-triumphant story about the death of all the characters you've come to love in the brief time you've met them that you'll ever read. But canon knowledge isn't really necessary to enjoy this fic! It's set long before the books and doesn't involve any canon characters: all you need to know is that the Sisterhood of Thorn is an ascetic & grim order of nuns who use their own blood (and sometimes others') to work magical protections against Death and keep it from overwhelming the world.
I also got a delightful Bright Smoke Cold Fire treat in Madness: shipshape, set post-canon, in which Runajo attempts to build boats (or rather, get other people to build boats).
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the word at the heart of the world. A worldbuilding-centric fic about the last stand of the ancient Sisters of Thorn in the Sunken Library; if you've read the books, you'll know that everyone sacrifices their lives to save and seal the library, but this is the most heartwarming, tragic-but-triumphant story about the death of all the characters you've come to love in the brief time you've met them that you'll ever read. But canon knowledge isn't really necessary to enjoy this fic! It's set long before the books and doesn't involve any canon characters: all you need to know is that the Sisterhood of Thorn is an ascetic & grim order of nuns who use their own blood (and sometimes others') to work magical protections against Death and keep it from overwhelming the world.
I also got a delightful Bright Smoke Cold Fire treat in Madness: shipshape, set post-canon, in which Runajo attempts to build boats (or rather, get other people to build boats).
( More recs! )
