I had such plans...
...and life kept intervening. That said, herewith a roundup of recs in a variety of fandoms, some popular and some decidedly obscure, before the fest skips town on me. Most of these are self-recs; for space reasons, I'm attaching creator credits only to those works that are not self-recs (including the two podfics that have been produced).
Day 2: Changes
The Women in the Case
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oldshrewsburyian
Enola Holmes (Nancy Springer) / Mary Russell (Laurie R. King) / Adventure of the Peerless Peer (Philip Jose Farmer)
Fusion/AU. Sherlock Holmes' apprentice meets his younger sister, and the two in turn meet the not-exactly-African jungle princess who's arrived just in time to foil an old enemy's revenge. (Rings several major changes to King's The Beekeeper's Apprentice.)
Day 3: Blood, Sweat & Tears
The Other Scottish Play
Agent Carter (TV)
Angie Martinelli is in rehearsals for the Broadway premiere of Brigadoon, Peggy Carter's future with the SSR is looking up...and Dottie Underwood is plotting positively murderous mischief.
Day 6: Secrets
A Candle in the Fog
Candleshoe (Disney, 1977)
This Disney movie was one of Jodie Foster's first feature films and one of Helen Hayes' last (plus bonus David Niven and Leo McKern). It's both a classic English country-house yarn and a classic treasure hunt adventure. Foster is an orphan from the L.A. streets, who's recruited by McKern to find a fortune supposedly hidden on the grounds of a country estate. She poses as Hayes' long-lost granddaughter (and may in fact be the genuine article, though this is left unresolved onscreen).
The fic is a straight-up "what happened next" story featuring new villains, more hidden treasure, and classic Disney family dynamics. To quote Casey herself at the end, "Everything is spectacular, but the story’s complicated. And I still kinda want to go back for the crocodile."
Day 9: Aging
Blood Relatives by language_escapes
podfic excerpt by starfishstar
Mary Russell (Laurie R. King) / Dracula series (Fred Saberhagen)
Gifted to me for two rounds of Holmestice, when I asked for a story explaining how Mary Russell (and Sherlock Holmes) could be alive and well and active on Twitter well into the 21st century. This story provides both the explanation and a piercing glance at women's roles in society in the early years of World War II.
Day 10: Seasons
A Child's Christmas in Sunnydale
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A vintage drabble from very early in my fic-writing career, involving all three Summers women. The tone is a bit different from my usual; I'm not often drawn to this sort of dark-and-eerie.
Day 12: Caregiving
Written in the Stars
Stargate SG-1 / Elementary
CAUTION: Canonical Character Death (offstage)
Epistolary crossover. Janet Fraiser writes to an old friend from medical school to ask a favor, Joan Watson becomes an honorary aunt...and Joan and her "niece" face new choices when tragedy strikes. (Not as sad as that sounds, I promise.)
Day 14: Grace
Mrs. Pollifax and the Irish Expatriate
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sholio
Mrs. Pollifax (Dorothy Gilman)
I couldn't resist including these two Yuletide stories - one of mine, and one written as a gift for me. Both feature brief appearances of one Grace Hartshorne, spinster neighbor to the widowed Emily Pollifax. In the books, Grace is a seasoned international traveler via organized tours, and is naturally curious when Emily takes up foreign travel on her own - but somehow never comes back with pictures. (We readers know this is because Emily has fallen into a career as an improbable CIA courier with a knack for improvising her way out of imminent disaster.)
In my tale, Emily and Grace cross paths in Ireland, where Emily (for once) is on family business, and Grace (for once) is on her own and likewise on a personal mission. Emily's instincts send the two into the Irish countryside...and beyond, wherein Grace learns more about her own heritage than she could have dreamed.
By contrast, Sholio's story starts in Rome, where Grace is distracted from her tour group's activities by a chance encounter with fellow American (and occasional CIA operative) John Farrell, who appears to be in some trouble with unsavory locals. Grace is able to help him out of it courtesy of finely honed photographer's instinct and a good deal of grace under pressure (the pun is wholly mine) - but neither she nor Farrell are prepared, months later, to find themselves facing each other across Emily's doorstep....
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