eccentric_hat

I almost forgot to do this, but I did write a story for Yuletide 2024! Writing has been really slow in the last couple years, and I signed up for Yuletide offering a bunch of canons I know well and/or would be able to review quickly--mostly one-off stories and plays and feature films. Then my assignment was for someone who did not understand some things about Yuletide, and I contacted the mods and ended up basically insta-defaulting and getting first dibs on pinch hits. I was a little worried about getting an assignment, so I gave them the entire list of fandoms I had even considered offering, and the end result was that I picked up a request for The Dark is Rising and then spent the remainder of autumn and early winter meaning, and forgetting, and remembering again, to do canon review. I did not actually finish rereading the series before I had to stop and write this story; but I got halfway through Silver on the Tree, and jumped ahead and read the end, and that was enough, because it had to be.

I wrote a deleted a fair amount of scruff for this piece before I got my legs underneath me, and while I was dawdling through canon review. I write every day, but it's mostly journaling, and as far as actual creative work I'm willing to share, the well has been dry, dry, dry. I drafted an essay about Moby Dick in the summer that I would like to shape up just to the level of blog post, but it's slow going. This story came together all right, though, I think--some trademark eccentric_hat melancholia, and only as much reflection on mortality as the canon justified. The race to a bus pass was rocky, but once I got to start revising, I felt like I got my sea legs. So that's good to have. A little gift of the end of the year. Here is the story:

Rooted in the flesh, stone, tree and flower (1778 words) by Eccentric_Hat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:

Sometimes Will lets himself talk of the true shape of human history. Usually no one notices.