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eccentric_hatI started a second Yuletide recs post while feeling ambitious, and then I got busy with other things, so here are the three more recs I wrote before getting distracted:
Exclusive Content (3964 words) by ellen_fremedon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sesame Street (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cookie Monster, Count Von Count, Grover (Sesame Street), Prairie Dawn, Don Music, Biff (Sesame Street), Sully (Sesame Street), Herry Monster (Sesame Street)
Additional Tags: backstage drama, issues of representation, muppet identity politics, literary adapations, kind of a lot of annotations
Summary: In old days, Cookie think, just having monsters on television was spooky. Monsters doing classy drama was transgressive. Transgressive mean it a thing that people not expect you to do, and they think you strange when you do it. It special kind of surprise.
Can I even explain how great this is? It makes the issues of representation and identity and art and intersectionality seem like something Sesame Street could legitimately tackle. Plus it's funny and playful and so respectful of the Muppet aesthetic and the Sesame Street ethos. I love it.
The Courage of Which He Has the Reputation (4680 words) by syllic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton & Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton & Angelica Schuyler, John Laurens & Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette
Characters: Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler, Angelica Schuyler, Hercules Mulligan, Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Slow Burn, American Revolution, Alternate Universe - Pirate, Friendship, A.Ham on the High Seas, Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage
Summary: Pirates. Arranged marriage. Revolution. Love letters. And the birth of the American banking system.
Yep.
This is a Yuletide treat and the first chapter of something that will ultimately have some 50,000 words, an AU in which Hamilton is a pirate (er, privateer?) working under Schuyler and also there seems to be no heteropatriarchy at all, even though otherwise it's much like the actual 18th century. None of that is something I would have thought to look for--my Hamilton feelings are very tightly connected to the nonfictional history behind the show, and my general feelings about nonfiction mean that I'm not a big RPF person--but then I read the first chapter and it reminded me that I actually love long well-written romantic historical AUs, like remember how many Pride & Prejudice AUs I read on a binge a couple years ago?, and this particular one promises sailing ships. So if this story sticks the landing I suspect I'm going to love it, and in the meantime the first chapter is quite beguiling, and also this whole paragraph suggests I should probably get over myself on the subject of romance novels, but meanwhile this stuff is available online for free.
Commandments (650 words) by gogollescent
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton
Characters: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction
Summary: The world was wide enough -- for what, exactly?
A game a game a Hamilton game! In which Burr wanders through his own memories and things might have come out differently, but probably not. I am not very good at this type of game but fortunately chapter 2 of this fic is a walk-through, which helps you not get stuck forever in a tent with an injured Charles Lee. The important thing is that this is beautifully written; it's like a big, engagingly structured poem.
Exclusive Content (3964 words) by ellen_fremedon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sesame Street (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cookie Monster, Count Von Count, Grover (Sesame Street), Prairie Dawn, Don Music, Biff (Sesame Street), Sully (Sesame Street), Herry Monster (Sesame Street)
Additional Tags: backstage drama, issues of representation, muppet identity politics, literary adapations, kind of a lot of annotations
Summary: In old days, Cookie think, just having monsters on television was spooky. Monsters doing classy drama was transgressive. Transgressive mean it a thing that people not expect you to do, and they think you strange when you do it. It special kind of surprise.
Can I even explain how great this is? It makes the issues of representation and identity and art and intersectionality seem like something Sesame Street could legitimately tackle. Plus it's funny and playful and so respectful of the Muppet aesthetic and the Sesame Street ethos. I love it.
The Courage of Which He Has the Reputation (4680 words) by syllic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton & Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton & Angelica Schuyler, John Laurens & Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette
Characters: Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler, Angelica Schuyler, Hercules Mulligan, Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Slow Burn, American Revolution, Alternate Universe - Pirate, Friendship, A.Ham on the High Seas, Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage
Summary: Pirates. Arranged marriage. Revolution. Love letters. And the birth of the American banking system.
Yep.
This is a Yuletide treat and the first chapter of something that will ultimately have some 50,000 words, an AU in which Hamilton is a pirate (er, privateer?) working under Schuyler and also there seems to be no heteropatriarchy at all, even though otherwise it's much like the actual 18th century. None of that is something I would have thought to look for--my Hamilton feelings are very tightly connected to the nonfictional history behind the show, and my general feelings about nonfiction mean that I'm not a big RPF person--but then I read the first chapter and it reminded me that I actually love long well-written romantic historical AUs, like remember how many Pride & Prejudice AUs I read on a binge a couple years ago?, and this particular one promises sailing ships. So if this story sticks the landing I suspect I'm going to love it, and in the meantime the first chapter is quite beguiling, and also this whole paragraph suggests I should probably get over myself on the subject of romance novels, but meanwhile this stuff is available online for free.
Commandments (650 words) by gogollescent
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton
Characters: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction
Summary: The world was wide enough -- for what, exactly?
A game a game a Hamilton game! In which Burr wanders through his own memories and things might have come out differently, but probably not. I am not very good at this type of game but fortunately chapter 2 of this fic is a walk-through, which helps you not get stuck forever in a tent with an injured Charles Lee. The important thing is that this is beautifully written; it's like a big, engagingly structured poem.
