Since completely failing to get my post-Yuletide act together, what's happened?

I got temporarily obsessed with ancient Romans via too much TV, and then heard this song at just the right moment to marry my newfound Rome obsession to all my feelings about my Rust Belt hometown and the pre-apocalyptic desert city where I went to school ( Read more... )

For some reason, I thought I was going to have time to read a bunch of Yuletide stories this year and make a proper rec post, but it didn't turn out that way. Yuletide Is The Greatest, but it comes at a time when family obligations collide with a busy work season in a spectacular starburst of Not Reading Fic. However, I did get two very different ( Read more... )

. . . and then I got sick. Just a heavy cold with strong brainfog and sleeping all day components; nothing serious, unless I was planning to do anything that required attention to detail. Which, oops, I was. Yuletide, why can't you be every three months so that your valuable lessons about procrastination will have the chance to stick ( Read more... )

More lighthearted-fun-amazing than like genre-destroying-genius amazing or Kazuo Ishiguro trick-you-into-being-bored-and-then-punch-you-in-the-face-with-feels amazing, but the former is really more what I'm looking for in the immediate short term anyway.

It's called Fangirl. It's about a college freshman who writes Fanfiction Masterpieces. Do you ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Author ( Read more... )