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YULETIDE SQUEE!
Dec. 24th, 2015 11:06 pmI AM SO HAPPY. I got two great fics, one Star Wars fic (with a great Mara Jade), and a Donovan's Reef treat. I have been nomming and requesting Donovan's Reef for YEARS, and I have FINALLY GOTTEN IT and it is an AWESOME fic!
we floated there along with the clouds. The trip to the canyons of Hakeakaloha for a Christmas tree had made for easily the strangest day Amelia had spent on the island. (Or: between the Christmas tree scene and Miss Lafleur's performance, Amelia invites Lelani to go swimming.) The author REALLY gets both characters, it's awesome. (You do need to know something of the movie to understand the fic. Basically: Amelia is a Boston shipping firm CEO whose Dad has been off in the South Pacific for her entire life and who just inherited enough stock to give him control of the family business. She goes to dig up dirt and cheat him out of his stock, he's off traveling, and so his friends pretend that his half-Polynesian children belong to John Wayne until the real Dad gets back and can explain things. So here, Lelani knows that Amelia's her older half-sister and that she and her siblings are being kept out of the way because they're not white, but Amelia only sees a cute and mysterious island girl.)
Massassai Dreams. During the events of "I, Jedi" (11ABY) after Mara's first departure from the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV - Mara Jade reflects on her training at the Jedi Academy and overcoming her history as an Agent of the Darkside. The author really understands Mara, and I liked the way she was written here. And the glimpses we got of Mara's past were also interesting.
I feel sorry for the author who was assigned to me, because they wrote a wonderful fic about one of my favorite characters in any media--I deeply love Mara Jade when she is written well (as she is here), and in any other year that fic would be the highlight. But I've been waiting for Donovan's Reef for YEARS.
Also, I wrote FOUR Yuletide fics this year. Can anyone guess what they are?
we floated there along with the clouds. The trip to the canyons of Hakeakaloha for a Christmas tree had made for easily the strangest day Amelia had spent on the island. (Or: between the Christmas tree scene and Miss Lafleur's performance, Amelia invites Lelani to go swimming.) The author REALLY gets both characters, it's awesome. (You do need to know something of the movie to understand the fic. Basically: Amelia is a Boston shipping firm CEO whose Dad has been off in the South Pacific for her entire life and who just inherited enough stock to give him control of the family business. She goes to dig up dirt and cheat him out of his stock, he's off traveling, and so his friends pretend that his half-Polynesian children belong to John Wayne until the real Dad gets back and can explain things. So here, Lelani knows that Amelia's her older half-sister and that she and her siblings are being kept out of the way because they're not white, but Amelia only sees a cute and mysterious island girl.)
Massassai Dreams. During the events of "I, Jedi" (11ABY) after Mara's first departure from the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV - Mara Jade reflects on her training at the Jedi Academy and overcoming her history as an Agent of the Darkside. The author really understands Mara, and I liked the way she was written here. And the glimpses we got of Mara's past were also interesting.
I feel sorry for the author who was assigned to me, because they wrote a wonderful fic about one of my favorite characters in any media--I deeply love Mara Jade when she is written well (as she is here), and in any other year that fic would be the highlight. But I've been waiting for Donovan's Reef for YEARS.
Also, I wrote FOUR Yuletide fics this year. Can anyone guess what they are?
