Fic Announcement (Yuletide)
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the_rckTitle: Not Even the Night Lasts
Fandom: Rainbow Magic Series - Daisy Meadows
Rating: T
Length: 6397 words
Characters/Pairings: Rachel Walker, Kirsty Tate, Titania, Oberon
Tags: Memory Alteration, Magic, Grief/Mourning, Changelings, Civil War, Fairies, Bittersweet
Notes: Written for Yuletide 2019. The Rainbow Magic books are a series of early reader chapter books that have been coming out steadily since 2003. Wikipedia has a list, very long list.
Cordelia was very fond of them for 2-3 years, between about 4 and 6. Scott and I read them to her. When I volunteered in her elementary school library, the series was very popular, and we donated all of the books we had to the school when Cordelia outgrew them. Most of those we read had been semi-localized to the US after coming out first in the UK, but some volumes had crossed the Atlantic. Mostly, the changes seems to have been spelling, a few words that might confuse a six year old, and a few of the fairy names.
The books are formulaic enough that an adult who's read one or two could predict the course of events in a volume based on the blurb. I read or reread about a dozen of these while working on this story, all as ebooks from the library, and none of them took me even half an hour. Basically, there's a rather large canon, but a person doesn't need to know it all in order to understand this story. The usual story is that Jack Frost steals something but loses control of it. The pieces end up in the human world. The fairies connected to each piece go looking and ask two human girls for help. Jack Frost's goblins try to intervene but fail to do much of anything. Item found. Repeat six times for a set of seven. Party in Fairyland.
My recipient pointed out that the two main characters, Rachel and Kirsty, aren't getting older or registering that they've had several Christmas specials which ought to mean years passing between. The question was what was really going on. Fairies always want something, and their gifts have double edges.
Summary: "Have we gotten too old?" Kirsty whispered while Rachel's parents were trying to decipher a map. "That happens. In stories, I mean."
"I hope not!" Rachel replied. "They never said we might." She tried to think about time passing, about birthdays and holidays and counting them, but found the concepts slippery. She shook her head. It wasn't important. Time was the same for everybody. She could look at a calendar later. "It's only been a year."
That had to be right. Rainspell Island had been summer, and now was summer. There'd been things in between, exciting things, secret things.
Story on AO3.
Fandom: Rainbow Magic Series - Daisy Meadows
Rating: T
Length: 6397 words
Characters/Pairings: Rachel Walker, Kirsty Tate, Titania, Oberon
Tags: Memory Alteration, Magic, Grief/Mourning, Changelings, Civil War, Fairies, Bittersweet
Notes: Written for Yuletide 2019. The Rainbow Magic books are a series of early reader chapter books that have been coming out steadily since 2003. Wikipedia has a list, very long list.
Cordelia was very fond of them for 2-3 years, between about 4 and 6. Scott and I read them to her. When I volunteered in her elementary school library, the series was very popular, and we donated all of the books we had to the school when Cordelia outgrew them. Most of those we read had been semi-localized to the US after coming out first in the UK, but some volumes had crossed the Atlantic. Mostly, the changes seems to have been spelling, a few words that might confuse a six year old, and a few of the fairy names.
The books are formulaic enough that an adult who's read one or two could predict the course of events in a volume based on the blurb. I read or reread about a dozen of these while working on this story, all as ebooks from the library, and none of them took me even half an hour. Basically, there's a rather large canon, but a person doesn't need to know it all in order to understand this story. The usual story is that Jack Frost steals something but loses control of it. The pieces end up in the human world. The fairies connected to each piece go looking and ask two human girls for help. Jack Frost's goblins try to intervene but fail to do much of anything. Item found. Repeat six times for a set of seven. Party in Fairyland.
My recipient pointed out that the two main characters, Rachel and Kirsty, aren't getting older or registering that they've had several Christmas specials which ought to mean years passing between. The question was what was really going on. Fairies always want something, and their gifts have double edges.
Summary: "Have we gotten too old?" Kirsty whispered while Rachel's parents were trying to decipher a map. "That happens. In stories, I mean."
"I hope not!" Rachel replied. "They never said we might." She tried to think about time passing, about birthdays and holidays and counting them, but found the concepts slippery. She shook her head. It wasn't important. Time was the same for everybody. She could look at a calendar later. "It's only been a year."
That had to be right. Rainspell Island had been summer, and now was summer. There'd been things in between, exciting things, secret things.
Story on AO3.
