Yuletide Reveals!

[barometry]

Happy new year, folks! I totally forgot about this yesterday, which is a good thing because I would have been fretting about being revealed myself, but not I get to say that I absolutely lucked out my first yuletide.

Ione wrote me an epic alternate ending to Mansfield Park, the Austen novel with which I have always been perhaps least satisfied. It is lovely and believable and exactly what I was hoping to get -- believing all the while that this was an unreasonable thing to imagine any Yuletide author might write.

Mansfield End (38569 words) by Ione
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Henry Crawford/Fanny Price
Characters: Henry Crawford, The Bertram Household, Mary Crawford, William Price
Summary:

An alternate ending to Mansfield Park, beginning with Book Three, Chapter XV

And then, the first fic I have posted on the internet since I had a Geocities Sailor Moon fan page (yes, that long), I wrote an Orphan Black story for yahtzee, which is basically a long study of my (many) feelings about Paul and the entire lies-within-lies of his relationships with Beth, then Sarah-as-Beth, then Sarah. (Also my complex feelings about living with addiction):

Duplicity (6282 words) by barometry
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Orphan Black (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Paul Dierden/Sarah Manning, Beth Childs/Paul Dierden
Characters: Paul Dierden, Sarah Manning, Beth Childs
Additional Tags: Canonical Drug Use, Suicide
Summary:

Beth was everything Paul had been led to expect. And then one day she was different.

Comments

[likeadeuce]

Oooh, I haven't gotten to the Orphan Black part of the Yuletide, but I'm fascinated by Paul and that's definitely going on the to-read list!

I'm also curious about how to make Henry/Fanny work so I'll be checking that one out too.

Thank you!

[barometry]

Confession: I ship Fanny/Henry a lot, always have, and I find Fanny/Edward slightly creepy, which probably says a lot about why I never liked the ending of the book much. But I strongly recommend this story, which fleshes out the possible alternate ending describes in the book itself!

[likeadeuce]

I like Fanny/Henry until the point where everybody is insisting she needs to marry him and she keeps saying she doesn't want to!

The whole ending of that book could have gone in a different direction, so I'm interested in reading an AU.

I sort of ship Henry/Mary most tho. . .Don't judge!