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Yuletide!!!
Dec. 26th, 2016 11:20 amLOOK at the presents that I got for Yuletide! Two of them, both amazing pastiches of tiny tiny fandoms, featuring owls and thunderbirds!!
I got a treat:
For the Birds (2114 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Achilles, Mr Tortoise (Gödel Escher Bach), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Mathematics, Ultrafilters, script dialogue, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2016
Summary:
The fact that anyone wrote to this prompt, let alone that someone out there voluntarily wrote it as a treat in addition to their assignment, is just amazing to me. And this is so true to the canon, up to and including the part where I have to read it through again to understand the math better, and everyone just whizzes about making bird puns to explain set theory.
And then I got this treasure of a primary gift:
The Very Secret Areas of My Expertise (2526 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Compendium of World Knowledge - John Hodgman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Hodgman, Hobos (Compendium of World Knowledge - John Hodgman), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: The Hobo Wars, hobo history
Summary:
YOU GUYS, HOBO JO JUNKPAN! HODGMAN'S GIN AND ABSINTHE BATH! AND HIS SECRETLY VERY EARNEST SEEKING AFTER WEIRD TRUTHS!! Everything in this story is such a perfect example of taking the canon one step further, and I just love it so much.
I had a devil of a time finishing my own story this year, but it was worth it to get presents like these in return.
I got a treat:
For the Birds (2114 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Achilles, Mr Tortoise (Gödel Escher Bach), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Mathematics, Ultrafilters, script dialogue, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2016
Summary:
When the Tortoise is waylaid by a pair of Cardinals, Achilles discovers the wonders of a Parliament of Owls.
--The fact that anyone wrote to this prompt, let alone that someone out there voluntarily wrote it as a treat in addition to their assignment, is just amazing to me. And this is so true to the canon, up to and including the part where I have to read it through again to understand the math better, and everyone just whizzes about making bird puns to explain set theory.
And then I got this treasure of a primary gift:
The Very Secret Areas of My Expertise (2526 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Compendium of World Knowledge - John Hodgman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Hodgman, Hobos (Compendium of World Knowledge - John Hodgman), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: The Hobo Wars, hobo history
Summary:
"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or for that matter, as true.)" John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise
In which John Hodgman discovers that there is more to Hobo history than he had previously realized, and that sometimes truth disguised as lies is the strangest and truest knowledge of all.
--YOU GUYS, HOBO JO JUNKPAN! HODGMAN'S GIN AND ABSINTHE BATH! AND HIS SECRETLY VERY EARNEST SEEKING AFTER WEIRD TRUTHS!! Everything in this story is such a perfect example of taking the canon one step further, and I just love it so much.
I had a devil of a time finishing my own story this year, but it was worth it to get presents like these in return.
