Yuletide letter
27/10/15 12:00 amHey, hello, hello! Thank you for being my author and for having great taste in media :) This is gonna be awesome.
( requests under the cut )
( requests under the cut )
Yuletide reveals!
2/1/15 05:36 pmI checked who my authors were as soon as they were revealed because I really wanted to know, haha. Not Like I Feint Every Time We Touch is by Aja, and VII. Lakeland is by livii (which I had kind of guessed). Very grateful to both of them, this was an awesome Yuletide :)
My main fic:
On Land and At Sea (8283 words) for binz
Hornblower - C. S. Forester, Adult
William Bush/Horatio Hornblower/Barbara Wellesley
Summary: Hornblower introduces his captain to his wife. (A missing chapter from the beginning of Commodore Hornblower.)
This was super last minute for me - I had to upload a finished but very rough draft for the deadline, then got aralias to do a last-minute beta for me, and edited and posted the final version on the 23rd/24th. But it did get finished, and I think it turned out pretty well :) It was a little weird to be writing sex stuff for Yuletide, but I am huge fan of binz (and shiplizard)'s kinky Hornblower fic, so as soon as I saw binz's prompts I wanted to write something along similar lines.
On the 22nd and 23rd I wrote a bunch of Madness fic (as usual), and all of those are under the cut.
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My main fic:
On Land and At Sea (8283 words) for binz
Hornblower - C. S. Forester, Adult
William Bush/Horatio Hornblower/Barbara Wellesley
Summary: Hornblower introduces his captain to his wife. (A missing chapter from the beginning of Commodore Hornblower.)
This was super last minute for me - I had to upload a finished but very rough draft for the deadline, then got aralias to do a last-minute beta for me, and edited and posted the final version on the 23rd/24th. But it did get finished, and I think it turned out pretty well :) It was a little weird to be writing sex stuff for Yuletide, but I am huge fan of binz (and shiplizard)'s kinky Hornblower fic, so as soon as I saw binz's prompts I wanted to write something along similar lines.
On the 22nd and 23rd I wrote a bunch of Madness fic (as usual), and all of those are under the cut.
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yuletide has happened!
26/12/14 04:54 pmThis year I got two (two!) fics for Yuletide and I adore both of them so much, gosh. They are both about sports but only tangentially, in much the way that my fannish life recently has been weirdly about and not about sports.
My main fic was for By the Sword (!!!!)
Not like I feint every time we touch (1831 words)
Fandom: By the Sword (1991)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Max Suba/Alexander Villard, Danny Gallagher, Erin Clavelli
Summary: It’s all about prise de fer, baby.
This is a very silly fic about a terrible fencing movie that I love. I talk about By the Sword ALL THE TIME, I have forced many people to watch it, and now I can apparently add my Yuletide author to that list :D And they have written me the perfect coda to the movie, one that embraces the absurdity, doesn't let anyone off the hook, and includes a soundtrack. It's glorious. Also I am in love with the title. (And if any of this is intriguing you and you want to watch the original movie - it's on youtube!)
I also got a bonus fic for the Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles which makes me super gleeful.
VII. Lakeland (2002 words)
Fandom: The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Tim Tebow, lots of Argonauts
Summary:
Go Toronto Argos go go go
Pull together fight the foe foe foe
Scoring touchdowns for the blue on blue
The Argos will win for you!
TTCC is a surreal take on football, Canada, and the energy crisis. This fic is also a coda, bringing the tone of the ending way way up as Tim Tebow's football studio is joined by a bunch of former Argonauts and made into a success. It's really funny and sweet and has excellent illustrations, and it's exactly what I wanted from TTCC fic.
Man, what a great Yuletide. IDK when I'll get around to going through the rest of the collection, but I'm looking forward to it.
(As usual I went a little off the deep end on the last couple days, so I have 5 fics in the main collection and 6 in Madness. So far they've been well received :) )
My main fic was for By the Sword (!!!!)
Not like I feint every time we touch (1831 words)
Fandom: By the Sword (1991)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Max Suba/Alexander Villard, Danny Gallagher, Erin Clavelli
Summary: It’s all about prise de fer, baby.
This is a very silly fic about a terrible fencing movie that I love. I talk about By the Sword ALL THE TIME, I have forced many people to watch it, and now I can apparently add my Yuletide author to that list :D And they have written me the perfect coda to the movie, one that embraces the absurdity, doesn't let anyone off the hook, and includes a soundtrack. It's glorious. Also I am in love with the title. (And if any of this is intriguing you and you want to watch the original movie - it's on youtube!)
I also got a bonus fic for the Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles which makes me super gleeful.
VII. Lakeland (2002 words)
Fandom: The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Tim Tebow, lots of Argonauts
Summary:
Go Toronto Argos go go go
Pull together fight the foe foe foe
Scoring touchdowns for the blue on blue
The Argos will win for you!
TTCC is a surreal take on football, Canada, and the energy crisis. This fic is also a coda, bringing the tone of the ending way way up as Tim Tebow's football studio is joined by a bunch of former Argonauts and made into a success. It's really funny and sweet and has excellent illustrations, and it's exactly what I wanted from TTCC fic.
Man, what a great Yuletide. IDK when I'll get around to going through the rest of the collection, but I'm looking forward to it.
(As usual I went a little off the deep end on the last couple days, so I have 5 fics in the main collection and 6 in Madness. So far they've been well received :) )
yuletiiiiiide
25/10/14 06:09 pmHello, author! I am so psyched for Yuletide and I'm hoping you are too, because we have matched and thus you have EXCELLENT taste.
( under the cut! )
( under the cut! )
Yuletide reveals!
1/1/14 07:33 pmBut first - my giftfic! Joanne_c wrote One Night In A Castle for me and I ADORE it and maybe you will love it too. It is Lion in Winter rpf. If you have not seen A Lion in Winter you should definitely see it. If you are not aware of the ridiculousness of the actors involved in the movie (including the late greats Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn) you should check that out also.
Here is what I wrote:
Team The Best Team (5715 words), for defcontwo
Elementary (TV), Teen. Marcus Bell/Ms. Hudson/Alfredo Llamosa, Joan Watson and Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Marcus gets along really well with Holmes' friends.
My assigned fic! I wrote it in like... four days, and lyryk was super awesome and beta'd it for me. It was a lot of fun to focus on the side-characters, and it was interesting to write reasonable, practical characters who can actually just decide to go on a date instead of having to angst about it forever, haha. Also I am glad I finally got a full-sized Elementary fic off the ground, I have three in my WIPs. (Aaaand this fills my M/F/M threesome square in my idfic bingo, because I can make yuletide work for me.)
And then I wrote my 10 treat-fics on the 23rd and 24th:
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And that's the lot! Going to start replying to comments tomorrow, it might take a while. Hopefully I'll get some recs in soon-ish - I'm maybe half-way through the archive right now, so it'll probably be mid-January before I'm ready for recs.
Here is what I wrote:
Team The Best Team (5715 words), for defcontwo
Elementary (TV), Teen. Marcus Bell/Ms. Hudson/Alfredo Llamosa, Joan Watson and Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Marcus gets along really well with Holmes' friends.
My assigned fic! I wrote it in like... four days, and lyryk was super awesome and beta'd it for me. It was a lot of fun to focus on the side-characters, and it was interesting to write reasonable, practical characters who can actually just decide to go on a date instead of having to angst about it forever, haha. Also I am glad I finally got a full-sized Elementary fic off the ground, I have three in my WIPs. (Aaaand this fills my M/F/M threesome square in my idfic bingo, because I can make yuletide work for me.)
And then I wrote my 10 treat-fics on the 23rd and 24th:
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And that's the lot! Going to start replying to comments tomorrow, it might take a while. Hopefully I'll get some recs in soon-ish - I'm maybe half-way through the archive right now, so it'll probably be mid-January before I'm ready for recs.
here is a bunch of stuff
26/12/13 07:54 pmI have been home for a ten days, and in that time I have been sick twice. Cold at the beginning of break, and I'm running a mild fever now. Bluh. I have also finished two term papers, done a bunch of RA work, written 11 yuletide fics, and done the whole Christmas thing. Woooo. (It actually has been pretty great.)
And I got an awesome fic for Yuletide! One Night in a Castle is Lion in Winter RPF where the cast hangs out in a drafty castle and make fun of it/each other. It's great, and exactly what I wanted. Check it out.
Maybe I will be well enough tomorrow to actually read other yuletide fics, we will see.
And I got an awesome fic for Yuletide! One Night in a Castle is Lion in Winter RPF where the cast hangs out in a drafty castle and make fun of it/each other. It's great, and exactly what I wanted. Check it out.
Maybe I will be well enough tomorrow to actually read other yuletide fics, we will see.
a yuletide letter
12/10/13 08:10 pmHello, author! I am super excited for Yuletide, and I hope you are too, because we've already established that you have excellent taste in media.
( the rest is under a cut )
( the rest is under a cut )
Let me mention my giftfic again real quick first: A Pain in My SideKICK (The Non-Adventures of Wonderella) and Nonstarter (By the Sword), both by leidolette who is apparently a stellar human being. They're awesome.
Here is what I wrote:
Some Time Before (7080 words), for anstaar
Discworld, Teen. Sybil Ramkin/Samuel Vimes, Adora Belle Dearheart/Moist von Lipwig
Summary: The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.
My assigned fic! I was deeply uncertain about this as I was writing it, but people liked it and I think it must have turned pretty well after all. And it has four of my favorite Discworld characters in it, so.
And then I wrote ten treats while not writing a term paper:
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The end! Tomorrow I start replying to comments, and then I will finally stop talking about Yuletide for at least nine months.
Here is what I wrote:
Some Time Before (7080 words), for anstaar
Discworld, Teen. Sybil Ramkin/Samuel Vimes, Adora Belle Dearheart/Moist von Lipwig
Summary: The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.
My assigned fic! I was deeply uncertain about this as I was writing it, but people liked it and I think it must have turned pretty well after all. And it has four of my favorite Discworld characters in it, so.
And then I wrote ten treats while not writing a term paper:
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The end! Tomorrow I start replying to comments, and then I will finally stop talking about Yuletide for at least nine months.
Yuletide Recs
31/12/12 11:45 amI actually made it through the archives before reveals this year!It is because I was writing a paper, so I was on my laptop and procrastinating.
I figured I'd do quick recs, so here are 17 fics in 15 fandoms
( Black Books, Brick, By the Sword, DC Comics, Discworld, Gallifrey, Hark! A Vagrant, Hobbes and Bacon, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Journey to the West, Lackadaisy, Master Li and Number Ten Ox, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, The Thick of It )
And that's it! Back after reveals with my fics. Have a great New Year's, guys!
I figured I'd do quick recs, so here are 17 fics in 15 fandoms
( Black Books, Brick, By the Sword, DC Comics, Discworld, Gallifrey, Hark! A Vagrant, Hobbes and Bacon, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Journey to the West, Lackadaisy, Master Li and Number Ten Ox, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, The Thick of It )
And that's it! Back after reveals with my fics. Have a great New Year's, guys!
More Yuletide
27/12/12 05:11 pmI got a treat fic! Someone wrote me By the Sword fic, which, I don't want to be hyperbolic here, but it is nearly the best thing that has happened to me so far. It looks like the person who wrote it watched BtS after reading my Yuletide letter, which is totally rad. I am spreading this gospel, guys.
Nonstarter, Danny Gallagher pov gen. Really interesting and intense, just like the movie. Check it out!
Saw the Hobbit yesterday, it was pretty good. Not struck by immense feelings about it. Anyway, back to my paper! One draft done, at least two sets of revisions to go.
Nonstarter, Danny Gallagher pov gen. Really interesting and intense, just like the movie. Check it out!
Saw the Hobbit yesterday, it was pretty good. Not struck by immense feelings about it. Anyway, back to my paper! One draft done, at least two sets of revisions to go.
And also Christmas. But let's talk about the important things, shall we?
This Yuletide I got Wonderella fic! Wonderella is an awesome webcomic, nominally a parody of wonder Woman, but mostly a parody of superhero comics in general. As I said in my letter, it speaks to my terrible cynical heart - Wonderella is a hard-drinking, hard-partying, extremely commercial superhero, surrounded by way more competent people (and several less competent people), who still manages to save the day. And I got fic! About her and Queen Beetle (one of the competent people)! And it is glorious.
A Pain in My SIDEKICK - gen, Wonderella and Queen Beetle centric. If you're familiar with the comic, I definitely recommend the fic, and if you're not familiar with the comic, then go check it out and get back to me. It's worth it!
Meanwhile, I finished up classes on the 19th, spent two days driving back home and have since kind of collapsed. I'm still writing a term paper (it's due on the 30th), but I'm taking a day off for Christmas. And, per tradition, I wrote way too many Yuletide stories while avoiding my paper, so I'm trying not to check my email too often while I wait for comments. There are three in the main archive and eight in Madness (which opens tomorrow, I think). We'll see what people think!
Okay, I have to go help make dinner. Hope everyone's having a good day :)
This Yuletide I got Wonderella fic! Wonderella is an awesome webcomic, nominally a parody of wonder Woman, but mostly a parody of superhero comics in general. As I said in my letter, it speaks to my terrible cynical heart - Wonderella is a hard-drinking, hard-partying, extremely commercial superhero, surrounded by way more competent people (and several less competent people), who still manages to save the day. And I got fic! About her and Queen Beetle (one of the competent people)! And it is glorious.
A Pain in My SIDEKICK - gen, Wonderella and Queen Beetle centric. If you're familiar with the comic, I definitely recommend the fic, and if you're not familiar with the comic, then go check it out and get back to me. It's worth it!
Meanwhile, I finished up classes on the 19th, spent two days driving back home and have since kind of collapsed. I'm still writing a term paper (it's due on the 30th), but I'm taking a day off for Christmas. And, per tradition, I wrote way too many Yuletide stories while avoiding my paper, so I'm trying not to check my email too often while I wait for comments. There are three in the main archive and eight in Madness (which opens tomorrow, I think). We'll see what people think!
Okay, I have to go help make dinner. Hope everyone's having a good day :)
beta search!
15/12/12 05:38 pmHey, peeps! I am looking for a yuletide beta. Mostly for grammar/style/coherence, since I'm fairly knowledgeable about the source. I'd be happy to trade betas as long as you can get me your fic by the 17th.
My fic is going to be around 6-7000 words, pg-rated with canon het ships. If you are a person who could look it over and get it back to me by the 18th, I would really really appreciate it :)
My fic is going to be around 6-7000 words, pg-rated with canon het ships. If you are a person who could look it over and get it back to me by the 18th, I would really really appreciate it :)
yuletide assignments
2/11/12 10:47 pmSo I heard people got their assignments today? I got mine, and it's pretty good - I matched on a fandom that I'm now not as sure I should have offered, haha, but I've already got some ideas, and I know two of the other three fandoms (though I didn't offer them), so I think it'll be okay. My first year I wrote Gallifrey (totally a gimme, especially back then when I had just been totally immersed in writing On Her Lady President's), and then last year I totally manipulated my signup in order to be assigned to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sophia_sol (a plan that worked out very well). Hoping this year will also be relatively easy.
Mostly this is reminding me that I really need to finish my DW Femslash fic, so I'm going to try and do that this weekend as I do all my homework and catch up on sleep.
sophia_sol (a plan that worked out very well). Hoping this year will also be relatively easy.Mostly this is reminding me that I really need to finish my DW Femslash fic, so I'm going to try and do that this weekend as I do all my homework and catch up on sleep.
Really not ready to do a Yuletide sign-up or Dear Author letter yet, but I just wanted to say that I'm def requesting By the Sword this year, so if you're one of the people on my flist who I got to watch it and you're planning on signing up for Yuletide, maybe you would consider offering that fandom? Because I'm not sure if anyone else has seen BtS recently (except my old fencing team, maybe I'll find out that they're closet fans.)
This is a post about Richard Burton
1/1/12 05:06 pmThis is an annotation/commentary for Chai! or, the Unhappy Cafe and also for Personal Narrative, which are about Richard Francis Burton. It's meant to be read after those fics, though if you want a bunch of random history and opinions you can probably read this anyway!
( This is also really long )
( This is also really long )
Yuletide reveals!
1/1/12 01:25 pmLet me talk about my Carnivale giftfic again, first: From the Dirt by arllama was really great, and I love it and the author forever because I got a story for meeee. (I'm like this during every story exchange, but especially Yuletide. A story for meeeee.)
And Reveals! I wrote eleven fics again, just like last year - it may possibly become a tradition, though it's probably best that I don't try to commit to it. I was much more delayed on my main fic this time, and then I ended up writing a second fic for my assigned person and a bunch of random treats on the 20th, which was better than last year (when I wrote treats on the 24th). Basically my only resolution last year was to start writing treats earlier, so that worked out, haha.
Short headers and some commentary:
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In summary, Yuletide was a blast and now I have to go respond to comments. And start stockpiling obscure fandoms for next year.
And Reveals! I wrote eleven fics again, just like last year - it may possibly become a tradition, though it's probably best that I don't try to commit to it. I was much more delayed on my main fic this time, and then I ended up writing a second fic for my assigned person and a bunch of random treats on the 20th, which was better than last year (when I wrote treats on the 24th). Basically my only resolution last year was to start writing treats earlier, so that worked out, haha.
Short headers and some commentary:
( ...under the cut )
In summary, Yuletide was a blast and now I have to go respond to comments. And start stockpiling obscure fandoms for next year.
Yuletide! And other things.
26/12/11 11:36 amSo I finished finals on the 21st, drove home on the 22nd, and then have been asleep and/or writing for most of the last three days. Good times, man, good times.
For Yuletide I got a fic about Carnivale! It is basically the best, seriously. From the Dirt is about Jonesy and working at a carnival and what he sees there. There's a bit of Jonesy backstory (hooray!), and a lot about how he sees other people - both the marks and the people he works with. If you know anything about Carnivale I would definitely go and read it. If you don't know anything about Carnivale but you're interested in carnivals and migrant entertainment I would go read it anyway? Because, speaking as someone from that community, the fic is super interesting and accurate.
Also I was really glad to get Carnivale fic that was written for me, because I can't really go dipping through the archives for more. Carnivale as a show has a lot of things that I can't deal with well (body horror, things being alive that aren't, abuse, general horror tropes), and I get nervous about whether people will try to warn and whether they'll be warning for the things I'm worried about. I need to find someone who is sort of 'in' the fandom so I can ask them for recs, haha.
I also have three fics in the main Yuletide collection and eight in Madness, so I'm sort of waiting around for recipients to notice and tell me if it's awful. But the person I was actually assigned to seems really happy, so I am calling this a win. Yes. I won Yuletide.
Also! Christmas was good and there was lots of food, and I got--
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Okay! My brother and I are heading out to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and then I'm planning on starting edits on the Shalka script and maybe trying to actually unpack. Or I could just lie around and read the rest of this Dresden Files novel.
For Yuletide I got a fic about Carnivale! It is basically the best, seriously. From the Dirt is about Jonesy and working at a carnival and what he sees there. There's a bit of Jonesy backstory (hooray!), and a lot about how he sees other people - both the marks and the people he works with. If you know anything about Carnivale I would definitely go and read it. If you don't know anything about Carnivale but you're interested in carnivals and migrant entertainment I would go read it anyway? Because, speaking as someone from that community, the fic is super interesting and accurate.
Also I was really glad to get Carnivale fic that was written for me, because I can't really go dipping through the archives for more. Carnivale as a show has a lot of things that I can't deal with well (body horror, things being alive that aren't, abuse, general horror tropes), and I get nervous about whether people will try to warn and whether they'll be warning for the things I'm worried about. I need to find someone who is sort of 'in' the fandom so I can ask them for recs, haha.
I also have three fics in the main Yuletide collection and eight in Madness, so I'm sort of waiting around for recipients to notice and tell me if it's awful. But the person I was actually assigned to seems really happy, so I am calling this a win. Yes. I won Yuletide.
Also! Christmas was good and there was lots of food, and I got--
( cut for an image and resulting babbling )
Okay! My brother and I are heading out to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and then I'm planning on starting edits on the Shalka script and maybe trying to actually unpack. Or I could just lie around and read the rest of this Dresden Files novel.
Another beta search
21/12/11 12:35 pmEvery time I post lately, it is a looking for a beta post. This is because I am both writing and trying to finish finals, which is a) a bad idea, and b) leaves me no time to have a life.
This is another Yuletide fic, but it's a treat so there's really no huge hurry? Like, I have three days. The fic is about 5k and gennish (i.e., some pairings but they're not really the point). I know the canon really well, but there are some social justice issues and readability things I'm not sure I'm dealing with properly. Also the last fic I had betaed had major typo issues, so I'm worried that this one will too (again, I blame finals).
I can trade betas, but only on treats/fics for something else entirely, because I definitely won't get it back to you until the 24th. But if you want to just help me out because you're awesome, that's great too!
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This is another Yuletide fic, but it's a treat so there's really no huge hurry? Like, I have three days. The fic is about 5k and gennish (i.e., some pairings but they're not really the point). I know the canon really well, but there are some social justice issues and readability things I'm not sure I'm dealing with properly. Also the last fic I had betaed had major typo issues, so I'm worried that this one will too (again, I blame finals).
I can trade betas, but only on treats/fics for something else entirely, because I definitely won't get it back to you until the 24th. But if you want to just help me out because you're awesome, that's great too!
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Yuletide stuff
17/12/11 04:05 pmHey! I'm looking for a Yuletide beta - really just spelling, grammar, and readability, since I kind of know the canon backwards and forwards. The fic is about 3k words and gen. I probably won't have it out until this evening, but there's not a huge rush on the turn-around either. I'm also up for trading betas if you need one too. Or if you just want to offer out of the goodness of your heart...
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