yuletide reveals!
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neveralarchHappy New Year and happy Yuletide reveals! I only wrote five fics this year, but it was nice to do a much more scaled-back version of my Yuletide tradition.
For Yuletide this year I was gifted this amazing fic:
In our house full of violets and sun (1527 words) by caughtinanocean
Fandom: The Half of It (2020)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Ellie Chu/Original Character(s), Aster Flores/Original Character(s), Ellie Chu/Aster Flores
Summary: Sometimes, falling for someone is about learning who you are – not about ending up together.
This is such a lovely thing! After watching this movie I really really wanted a fic about their lives after high school where they DON'T get together, where they learn and grow and become complete people and look back on each other with fondness but not necessarily regret. IDK, man, but I'm glad caughtinanocean was like 'ok I got you' haha. Several of the comments are along the lines of 'this is the first fic I've read that isn't endgame Ellie/Aster but it's so good.' The heart wants what it wants!!
My main fic is:
Lost Thoughts (2479 words) for janie_tangerine
Fandom: Johannes Cabal - Jonathan L. Howard
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Horst Cabal, Johannes Cabal
Summary: Johannes Cabal woke up on the stone floor of a bare room. It smelled of dirt and mildew, with a faint undertone of something that Johannes easily identified as blood. There was a little light filtering dimly through a slit in the door—just enough to see that the room was indeed as bare as bare could be. Except, of course, for the man lying on the floor next to him.
I also wrote four treats:
The Best Defense (1271 words) for kouredios
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Summary:
You had to fight a big snake for your thesis defense. One of the largest ones you'd ever seen—and you'd attended plenty of defenses, seen the fear in the doctoral candidates' eyes as they sought out their snake in the shadows. You don't actually know if it's the biggest snake the facilities department had to offer, because they don't like to give out that much information. But it was a very big snake indeed.
First off, if you've never read this McSweeney's article, please do, it's amazing. Second, uhhhh I might have some. Thoughts about grad school and academia. My experience has mostly been positive! I feel very lucky with where I ended up. But man, is it a perilous road and I've seen so many people fall down hidden pits through no fault of their own. Kouredios had a particularly difficult time and wanted a snake to eat their abusive advisor, so I needed to oblige.
Face-up (1192 words) for DesdemonaKaylose
Fandom: 月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Hori Masayuki, Kashima Yuu (Gekkan)
Summary: "Hey, Kashima," Hori said, staring intently into his tea, "do you have makeup?"
I wrote a little thing for Dez! This one is about gender nonconformity in an anime she suggested to me earlier this year. Dez actually got a much longer response to the same prompt by an amazing veteran Hori/Kashima writer, hooray for Yuletide! It was so fun to write this, but it was also very fun to be like 'hehehehe.... I did a nice thing for Dez.... LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW....'
(She says she knew.)
Monitor Lizard (1906 words) for Rosencrantz
Fandom: Transformers: Beast Wars
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Dinobot/Rattrap (Transformers)
Summary: It's a long, boring shift on monitor duty. Fortunately, Rattrap's got some ideas for how to liven it up.
We watched all of Beast Wars in the discord chat this year and oh MAN is it good. It's so good, and this is such a good ship. That's really all I can say, haha.
Energon on Your Lips (1236 words) for rayguntomyhead
Fandom: Transformers: Shattered Glass
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Jazz/Prowl (Transformers)
Summary: Jazz was already good at killing before he met Prowl. That was the joke about Autobots, wasn't it? Hang around with them too long and your head might just come off.
raygun is a v rad person and I was delighted to write some Jazz/Prowl for them - and then even more delighted bc they left a series of amazing comments on my ongoing Prowl wip!! Another 'hehehe I have a dastardly plot to be nice' moment :) Jabberish also sent this fic to me like 'I think you would like this but I also think you wrote it' haha. I wanted to take SG a little more seriously, and spin Prowl a bit on his conscience - here he likes sharing information and doesn't like killing people, which implies that 'normal' Prowl is actually the evil one.
And that's all of em! Here's to 2021, hope it gets better from here.
For Yuletide this year I was gifted this amazing fic:
In our house full of violets and sun (1527 words) by caughtinanocean
Fandom: The Half of It (2020)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Ellie Chu/Original Character(s), Aster Flores/Original Character(s), Ellie Chu/Aster Flores
Summary: Sometimes, falling for someone is about learning who you are – not about ending up together.
This is such a lovely thing! After watching this movie I really really wanted a fic about their lives after high school where they DON'T get together, where they learn and grow and become complete people and look back on each other with fondness but not necessarily regret. IDK, man, but I'm glad caughtinanocean was like 'ok I got you' haha. Several of the comments are along the lines of 'this is the first fic I've read that isn't endgame Ellie/Aster but it's so good.' The heart wants what it wants!!
My main fic is:
Lost Thoughts (2479 words) for janie_tangerine
Fandom: Johannes Cabal - Jonathan L. Howard
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Horst Cabal, Johannes Cabal
Summary: Johannes Cabal woke up on the stone floor of a bare room. It smelled of dirt and mildew, with a faint undertone of something that Johannes easily identified as blood. There was a little light filtering dimly through a slit in the door—just enough to see that the room was indeed as bare as bare could be. Except, of course, for the man lying on the floor next to him.
Johannes kicked him.
Janie_tangerine wanted Cabal brothers fic and I looked at my giant pile of Cabal brothers fic I'd already written and panicked a little because I couldn't think what else to do. But! Eventually I came up with this. It was so easy to write once I got started (banter!!), and fascination_ex very kindly poked at me when I needed to work on it and betaed it for me once it was done :)I also wrote four treats:
The Best Defense (1271 words) for kouredios
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Summary:
You had to fight a big snake for your thesis defense. One of the largest ones you'd ever seen—and you'd attended plenty of defenses, seen the fear in the doctoral candidates' eyes as they sought out their snake in the shadows. You don't actually know if it's the biggest snake the facilities department had to offer, because they don't like to give out that much information. But it was a very big snake indeed.
First off, if you've never read this McSweeney's article, please do, it's amazing. Second, uhhhh I might have some. Thoughts about grad school and academia. My experience has mostly been positive! I feel very lucky with where I ended up. But man, is it a perilous road and I've seen so many people fall down hidden pits through no fault of their own. Kouredios had a particularly difficult time and wanted a snake to eat their abusive advisor, so I needed to oblige.
Face-up (1192 words) for DesdemonaKaylose
Fandom: 月刊少女野崎くん | Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Hori Masayuki, Kashima Yuu (Gekkan)
Summary: "Hey, Kashima," Hori said, staring intently into his tea, "do you have makeup?"
I wrote a little thing for Dez! This one is about gender nonconformity in an anime she suggested to me earlier this year. Dez actually got a much longer response to the same prompt by an amazing veteran Hori/Kashima writer, hooray for Yuletide! It was so fun to write this, but it was also very fun to be like 'hehehehe.... I did a nice thing for Dez.... LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW....'
(She says she knew.)
Monitor Lizard (1906 words) for Rosencrantz
Fandom: Transformers: Beast Wars
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Dinobot/Rattrap (Transformers)
Summary: It's a long, boring shift on monitor duty. Fortunately, Rattrap's got some ideas for how to liven it up.
We watched all of Beast Wars in the discord chat this year and oh MAN is it good. It's so good, and this is such a good ship. That's really all I can say, haha.
Energon on Your Lips (1236 words) for rayguntomyhead
Fandom: Transformers: Shattered Glass
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Jazz/Prowl (Transformers)
Summary: Jazz was already good at killing before he met Prowl. That was the joke about Autobots, wasn't it? Hang around with them too long and your head might just come off.
raygun is a v rad person and I was delighted to write some Jazz/Prowl for them - and then even more delighted bc they left a series of amazing comments on my ongoing Prowl wip!! Another 'hehehe I have a dastardly plot to be nice' moment :) Jabberish also sent this fic to me like 'I think you would like this but I also think you wrote it' haha. I wanted to take SG a little more seriously, and spin Prowl a bit on his conscience - here he likes sharing information and doesn't like killing people, which implies that 'normal' Prowl is actually the evil one.
And that's all of em! Here's to 2021, hope it gets better from here.
