Yuletide reveal!
Jan. 1st, 2011 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amataraMy second Yuletide, and although I was a little worried it might not live up to the great experience I had last year, I needn't have fretted a bit! Many thanks to my Yuletide author nemo_everbeing, who in an epic stroke of coindidence turned out to be the same as my author from last year, and wrote me a gift every bit as gorgeous! And who is now, as it turns out, writing a coda to If It Had To Perish Twice, in reply to my own coda Acquainted with the Night, which... *squees* I am really too lucky, guys!
I had a lot of fun with my own assignment, which was Despicable Me fic, a story about Gru and the girls post-movie, written from the viewpoint of Margo, the oldest of the three:
Sweet Villainy (4882 words) by
Amatara
Fandom: Despicable Me (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gru, Margo (Despicable Me), Agnes (Despicable Me), Edith (Despicable Me), The Minions
Summary: Now that he has the girls to think of, Gru considers quitting his job as a villain. Fortunately Margo, Edith and Agnes are there to help convince him otherwise.
I saw the movie in the theatre earlier this year and loved it, both for its sweet humor and the fact that it hadn't been made by one of the giants like Pixar or Dreamworks - it's from Universal, and apparently their very first CGI picture, which struck me as pretty impressive. More companies making great animated movies can only be a good thing! For those of you who haven't seen the film, I don't think it's out on DVD yet (not in my country, at least) but I found this great little trailer on Youtube which contains some of the funniest scenes:
My fic received some lovely comments, including one by my recipient saying she really enjoyed it, and I even got recced a few times, all of which made me very happy!
Funny fact: halfway into writing this fic I realized I was writing Gru in more or less the same mindset that I used to write Londo Mollari in, which - well, given they both speak with an accent, have similar postures and similar types of sarcasm, both play underdog roles, and both have redemptive storyarcs (although, granted, Londo's is a little more tragic) it's not quite far-fetched, but still. *g* I suppose this is my subconscious telling me to write more B5 fic?
nemo_everbeing, who in an epic stroke of coindidence turned out to be the same as my author from last year, and wrote me a gift every bit as gorgeous! And who is now, as it turns out, writing a coda to If It Had To Perish Twice, in reply to my own coda Acquainted with the Night, which... *squees* I am really too lucky, guys! I had a lot of fun with my own assignment, which was Despicable Me fic, a story about Gru and the girls post-movie, written from the viewpoint of Margo, the oldest of the three:
Sweet Villainy (4882 words) by
Fandom: Despicable Me (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gru, Margo (Despicable Me), Agnes (Despicable Me), Edith (Despicable Me), The Minions
Summary: Now that he has the girls to think of, Gru considers quitting his job as a villain. Fortunately Margo, Edith and Agnes are there to help convince him otherwise.
I saw the movie in the theatre earlier this year and loved it, both for its sweet humor and the fact that it hadn't been made by one of the giants like Pixar or Dreamworks - it's from Universal, and apparently their very first CGI picture, which struck me as pretty impressive. More companies making great animated movies can only be a good thing! For those of you who haven't seen the film, I don't think it's out on DVD yet (not in my country, at least) but I found this great little trailer on Youtube which contains some of the funniest scenes:
My fic received some lovely comments, including one by my recipient saying she really enjoyed it, and I even got recced a few times, all of which made me very happy!
Funny fact: halfway into writing this fic I realized I was writing Gru in more or less the same mindset that I used to write Londo Mollari in, which - well, given they both speak with an accent, have similar postures and similar types of sarcasm, both play underdog roles, and both have redemptive storyarcs (although, granted, Londo's is a little more tragic) it's not quite far-fetched, but still. *g* I suppose this is my subconscious telling me to write more B5 fic?
