my Yuletide fics
Jan. 1st, 2011 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castironBefore I go into mine: Thanks again to wendelah1 for writing me Melendy family fic! Good as New shows the characters as they might be several years down the road and is a great read.
My Yuletide story was Assistance, for polishmyarmor, who'd requested Sense and Sensibility fic with Colonel Brandon and Elinor, happy but not shippy. (Aside: I was also intrigued by polishmyarmor's request in fandom that wasn't the one we'd matched on, RPF in which Disraeli and Gladstone have a conversation while Gladstone chops down a tree, but I don't know 19th century British history well enough to write something non-stupid. So I'm hoping someone else will write that!)
So I'd finished my story and was reading the pinch hit requests, and one caught my eye and gave me the germ of an idea. I didn't get the assignment, but the idea stuck, so I went ahead and wrote it up for Yuletide Madness: Gamol-léac, for laura47.
I am not the first person to get the idea of crossing Beowulf with a deodorant commercial. About 25 years ago, I heard about some folks in my high school doing a presentation on Beowulf for English class, including a commercial: "Do your armpits smell of roses? Then try Be-Odorant, and smell like a real man!" That story's always stuck with me, so when I read laura47's request for Old Spice Guy crossed with anything, Beowulf immediately came to mind.
And apparently a lot of people liked the results, much to my surprise and delight. Thank you all!
My Yuletide story was Assistance, for polishmyarmor, who'd requested Sense and Sensibility fic with Colonel Brandon and Elinor, happy but not shippy. (Aside: I was also intrigued by polishmyarmor's request in fandom that wasn't the one we'd matched on, RPF in which Disraeli and Gladstone have a conversation while Gladstone chops down a tree, but I don't know 19th century British history well enough to write something non-stupid. So I'm hoping someone else will write that!)
So I'd finished my story and was reading the pinch hit requests, and one caught my eye and gave me the germ of an idea. I didn't get the assignment, but the idea stuck, so I went ahead and wrote it up for Yuletide Madness: Gamol-léac, for laura47.
Up then came / a worthy warrior,
Oak-tall, oak-strong / shorn-locked, short-shaven,
Dark as leather / dyed in walnut;
Clad in canvas / white as moonlight.
Up he strode / fearless, noble,
where Geatlings gathered. / Scorning arms
He spoke these words: / "Look upon me.
Now upon yourselves. / Again upon me.
You are not me."
I am not the first person to get the idea of crossing Beowulf with a deodorant commercial. About 25 years ago, I heard about some folks in my high school doing a presentation on Beowulf for English class, including a commercial: "Do your armpits smell of roses? Then try Be-Odorant, and smell like a real man!" That story's always stuck with me, so when I read laura47's request for Old Spice Guy crossed with anything, Beowulf immediately came to mind.
And apparently a lot of people liked the results, much to my surprise and delight. Thank you all!