more Yuletide recs

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just my job five days a week (1838 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Martian - Andy Weir
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mark Watney
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Log Entries
Summary:

Log excerpts from the notes of Mark Watney, Interplanetary Celebrity, circa 2039.

Jeeves and the Birdcatcher's Costume (11429 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990), Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Reginald Jeeves
Additional Tags: Humor, Mistaken Identity, Costume Parties & Masquerades, Class Differences, Pining, First Kiss, POV Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Misunderstandings, Identity Porn, oh to flirt with your gentleman's gentleman at a masked ball!, Yuletide 2024
Summary:

But here, now, was my chance. I was not the young master to Jeeves now - in fact, Jeeves, in his current role, had no y. m. at all. He was a gentleman of means and breeding, and I a rather fantastically attired birdcatcher of presumably Viennese extraction; and two such fellows could hold a conversation without any wayward “sirs” inserting themselves where they were not wanted.

 

Or: In which a gentleman and his valet both attend a masquerade under false pretences.

Two amazing Shakespeare retellings:

Ammurapi, King of Ugarit (14581 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 12/12
Fandom: Late Bronze Age Collapse RPF, Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ammurapi of Ugarit, Queen Eḫli-Nikkal, Niqmaddu III of Ugarit, Tanhuwatasha of Hapissa
Summary:

The crops are failing. The sea people are invading. Your beloved father’s corpse is barely cold and your mother has swanned off to marry someone else. You are King Ammurapi of Ugarit, and is it any wonder that your mental health is not great right now?

A loose retelling of Hamlet set during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Riddles and Affairs of Death (8150 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hecate (Macbeth), Three Witches (Macbeth), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Noir, Past Hecate/Lady Macbeth, Offstage Macbeth/Lady Macbeth
Summary:

"I tossed the newspaper on the desk, pushed back my chair, and grabbed my coat and hat from where they hung on the hook near the door. Time to go out and find some hard facts about this.

Duncan King had been dead for less than a day, but the whole thing was already starting to stink."

In which Hecate Jones, PI looks into a suspicious death, and grapples with the shadows of her past.