Yuletide recs

A Chord of Roses, fanfic for Guy Kay's A Song for Arbonne. Spot on elegiac, bittersweet tone to the point that I'd have believed it was a deleted scene; perfectly captures GGK's method of being sexy and a little bit kinky but not at all explicit; much more about the emotion of wanting than the mechanics of having. Also worth reading for the poly among us for its sensitive and non-dismissive handling of the concept of multiple loves.

Domestic Affairs, fanfic for Lois McMasters Bujold's Vorkosiganverse. Also something that could slip seamlessly into a book, plus, like Busman's Honeymoon, notable for being in that underwritten genre, the newly married couple learning how to do it right together. (I do not count arranged marriage romance plots in this; I'm talking about people who have already found their happy ending but it didn't come with a manual.)

Harmless. Fanfic for Pratchett's Discworld, but most entertaining for readers of Azimov's robot stories.