Yuletide recs

[vivien]

Picture Book, the story written for me was lovely and had this great image:
"Ah, delightful," Aziraphale cried, holding a small print aloft. "Bavaria, 1903. I must say... you looked so very charming in lederhosen."


Worry/Neverwhere - this one could've been written for me. It was one of my requests. Door is gone, looking for Ingress, and Richard waits.


Just Between Us (AbFab) - Hysterical, well written, and prefectly voiced.

"But do you even need your liver, Pats? I thought it was like that thing, that other thing you don't need. Saffy, what's that thing called?"

Saffron tore herself away from her homework - homework, Patsy sneered to herself, doing homework over Christmas - long enough to scowl at them. "It's called your appendix. And no, mum, she does need her liver."

"I told them to take it out," Patsy said. "Rip it out, fry it with onions, bring me the fava beans and pour the chianti. Wouldn't do a thing. Said I'd die or something. Might as well be dead if I'm not allowed to drink any more. Bloody doctors."

"*Bloody* doctors," Eddie agreed. "Holistic medicine, that's the only real science. I told you about my new acupuncturist, didn't I? Uses needles and crystals and chimes and all sorts of lovely things? You should make an appointment. A couple of little pricks, darling, and you'll be back on a hundred units a day."


A Traditional Yorkshire Christmas/All Creatures Great and Small
This is perfect. Perfectly Herriot, and I laughed out loud at the end.


Like Tears in Rain/Bladerunner - This was a really cool one with background and insight into Roy Batty.


The Descent of Persephone - this retelling of Persephone was beautiful and so bittersweet.

When time came for her to deliver, Hekate sat with her and held her hand. Persephone suffered the birth pangs for three days before the child left her womb. When Persephone asked after the child, Hekate only said, "Nothing grows in the underworld, Kore. Not even you could change that."

She understood and wept.