yuletide reveal

[rushthatspeaks]

Yuletide this year was complex and stress-making in ways it's never been before, and then some people Saved Yuletide for me (you know who you are) and I sat around saying to myself, I have the best friends in all of explored space, and it is awesome.

Anyway, I wrote a Yuletide Treat this year that I am very proud of and that was an utter joy to write: Several Architects, of Michael Ende's novel Momo, for octopedingenue. I don't think you need to have read the book to read this, although it is set post-book. If you haven't read Momo, I recommend it, although it is of course harder to find than The Never-Ending Story (I bought my copy in Japan, and the cover is horrendous), and it isn't quite as good, but it's very worthwhile. I saw octopedingenue's prompt in her Yuletide letter on my f-list, and had that marvelous experience where you sit down and a story of whose existence you had no notion comes fully built out your fingertips. It required only minor revision and has made me smile even to think about ever since. Thank you, octopedingenue, for the prompt, as the whole experience has been a Christmas present for me too.