FINALLY able to relax... (Yuletide Edition)

Christmas itself was actually quite relaxing (more on that later), but I spent a good 15 hours yesterday Being Productive. This included errands (Bed, Bath and Beyond makes me lose my faith in humanity), the emptying and re-organizing of every single drawer and shelf in the bedrooms, cleaning, ironing, paperwork, hanging blinds, etc. etc. etc. Today, after I go do my workout, I'll be able to collapse and spend some time browsing through the Yuletide archive.

Speaking of Yuletide, I'm counting this year as a solid win.

One, my recipient LOVED the fic I wrote for her. I'm quite pleased myself with how it turned out, especially given that I was still doing major work on it through Christmas Eve morning.

Two, I received not just one but TWO fics in the fandom I had mentally tagged as "least likely to receive" out of all my requests! Both are for "Sapphire and Steel," which is a delightfully creepy British sci-fi series from the late 70s/early 80s starring Ilya Kuryakin and Patsy David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Anyhow, what's especially delightful is that each author picked a different aspect of the prompt I left, and I got two very different and very wonderful stories.

One is a nicely creepy story that explores some of the (many) unexplained aspects of the show's world, gives the spotlight to a character I adore, and has an OC who could fit perfectly into the original show. The other is a pitch-perfect Discworld crossover that plays the characters from both verses against each other perfectly (Silver and Nanny Ogg? Brilliant).

If you have any familiarity with the fandom at all, I highly recommend both of these.

In Darkness (4870 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Silver (Sapphire and Steel), Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel), Plutonium
Summary:

Silver doesn't like assignments that begin with him alone in a place where nothing is as it seems. These things shouldn't happen to a technician, especially not more than once.

Of Elements and Existence (2642 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel, Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steel (Sapphire and Steel), Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Silver (Sapphire and Steel), Death (Discworld), Mustrum Ridcully, Ponder Stibbons, Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax, Gytha "Nanny" Ogg
Summary:

There are some places even Elements should never go. The Discworld is unquestionably one of them...