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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2009-12-28 04:22 pm
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Yuletide madness recs

These are treats written for Yuletide madness, all being fics of less than 1000 words.

Babylon 5
In the Midnight Dreams of the Emperor - Vir walking the palace at night
Gloves Come Off - Bester before his first visit to Babylon 5

Burn Notice
In Sight - Fiona keeps an eye on Michael; excellent Fiona voice

Cambridge Latin Course / Doctor Who
In Pompeium - in Latin! If you've ever learned it, this is very easy to understand, and they provide a vocabulary table. So cute!

Discworld
Observer Effect - Vetinari watches Drumknott

Discworld / Thursday Next
"Ook," said the Librarian - Fun with footnotes, and footnotes within footnotes, and very meta

Strangely, these all turned out to be at the beginning of the alphabet; coincidence only.

[identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
I did that Latin course! The layout looked just like that.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I thought was so cute, that they did that--and also thereby helped people with rusty Latin to read it.

[identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I did study Latin for 3 years at Grammar School but I would have sworn I didn't remember a word of it. But apart from a couple of words, supplied by the dictionary appended. And it is a very good precis of that episode.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Well done! It's surprising how much one remembers.