wickedwords

I am a random reader in yuletide, so I started with a plan ("I will read from the 'B' fandoms") which has devolved into "oh! That looks cool! And that's cool! And that!" I have a dozen stories saved to-read on delicious, and have started filling comments in the ones that I have read. I also have swaths of story tabs open on my browser, too.

Better Days: James Bond: Casino Royale (2006) M's voice is just fablous here, despite the story being so short.

I read a lot of Burn Notice yesterday, and thought that most of them had really good character voice for Michael, Sam, and Fi. Lock and Keys was written for me, and I give more details on what I loved about it here.

Wild Turkey Chase also had great character voices, plus nice Fi and Michael relationship. And it was fun.

xkcd is slightly surrealistic, and it was fabulous to read a story that captured that insanity, The Amazing Adventures of Hat Guy and the Girl Who Stole His Hat

There were a couple of stories that I read yesterday that I thought were just plain clever, as I love comparison and contrast. These two stories combine writing styles that are diametrically opposed to the fandom and story that they are telling, and both managed it amazingly well:

Paradise Lost: The overarching story is told in the style of Milton, however, the fandom is LOLcats. It is creepy, sordid and disturbing at the same time that is is clever and funny, all of it rolled into one. It's fabulous, even though mortal eyes were never meant to see anything like it. You may need to avert your eyes as you read.

Out of the Dark is Dr Seuss - One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and it's written in that sweet, child-like rhyming format while telling a creeping, shambling, shuffling horror story that oozes out of the bright shiny happiness of childhood to slaughter everything around it. It's sheer awesomeness in its budding sense of dread, and it's poetical form.

So little time, so many stories to go...