Yuletide Gifts!
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przedI'm a bit late on posting about my Yuletide gifts this year. In my defense, I've spent most of the holidays relaxing and staying off my computer.
I was fortunate to get two wonderful Yuletide gifts this year, for the Enola Holmes movies and Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. I can totally recommend them both!
The Enola Holmes story concentrates on Enola's (and Sherlock's) mother, Eudoria Holmes, and the growth of her friendship with her best friend and radical suffragette, Edith Grayston. Told from Edith's POV, it's a wonderful story, and really gets into the details of how a working class Black activist could befriend a posh white woman in Victorian England. (Thank youbeatrice_otter!)
Women's Will (2046 words) by Beatrice_Otter
Summary: 'Mrs. Treven' was not the first wealthy woman gone slumming with radicals in search of adventure. They were not terribly common, given the sort of social consequences polite society would heap upon them if it became known, to say nothing of the other sort of consequences their male relations might dole out.
The Batman: Wayne Family Adventures has Jason and Damian bonding over reading books in the Wayne mansion library and contemplating what they'd do if they weren't vigilantes. It's got a wonderful sense of both their voices.
Fragile and Unprovable Things (1780 words) by Rivulet027
Summary: Jason tries to cheer Damian up. He wasn't ready to question what he wants for his future.
I was fortunate to get two wonderful Yuletide gifts this year, for the Enola Holmes movies and Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. I can totally recommend them both!
The Enola Holmes story concentrates on Enola's (and Sherlock's) mother, Eudoria Holmes, and the growth of her friendship with her best friend and radical suffragette, Edith Grayston. Told from Edith's POV, it's a wonderful story, and really gets into the details of how a working class Black activist could befriend a posh white woman in Victorian England. (Thank you
beatrice_otter!)Women's Will (2046 words) by Beatrice_Otter
Summary: 'Mrs. Treven' was not the first wealthy woman gone slumming with radicals in search of adventure. They were not terribly common, given the sort of social consequences polite society would heap upon them if it became known, to say nothing of the other sort of consequences their male relations might dole out.
But they did happen. Edith cast a cool eye over the newcomer.
The Batman: Wayne Family Adventures has Jason and Damian bonding over reading books in the Wayne mansion library and contemplating what they'd do if they weren't vigilantes. It's got a wonderful sense of both their voices.
Fragile and Unprovable Things (1780 words) by Rivulet027
Summary: Jason tries to cheer Damian up. He wasn't ready to question what he wants for his future.
