Oh Stella Gibson, reigning ice queen of my heart, where do I even begin? I love her and her take no prisoners, unashamedly feminist and looking gorgeous while doing it approach to everything. Gillian Anderson said in an interview that “Stella is an island.” It is an island I desperately wish to be stranded on. In lieu of that, I’d love to learn ( Read more... )

This year I received a fic and a Madness story and I wrote a fic and a Madness story. Parallelism!

I received The Case of the Sunken Safe, a lovingly crafted Mathnet casefic as my main gift. I was also gifted Island, a Stella-centric drabble from The Fall. The drabble is really just so perfectly Stella. Please check them out and give them lots of ( Read more... )

First of all, thank you for agreeing to participate in this challenge and write a story for me! I am a seasoned Yuletider and it is definitely the highlight of my fannish calendar every year. The holidays are often a stressful time loaded with unpleasant family drama (as I'm sure they are for many) and Yuletide has become my happy place in all of ( Read more... )

First of all, let me thank you for agreeing to participate in this challenge and write a story for me! This is my third year participating in Yuletide and it is definitely the highlight of my fannish calendar every year. The holidays are often a stressful time loaded with unpleasant family drama (as I'm sure they are for many) and Yuletide has ( Read more... )

Yay, reveals time! I wrote 3 fics this year- my assignment, a full length treat, and a Madness ficlet. Lots of firsts for me this Yuletide: I wrote in two fandoms I'd never written in before, one of which was its first story in the archive. I wrote boyslash! I wrote an AU! I wrote a story in present tense for reasons I don't understand other than ( Read more... )

It's been fun browsing the Yuletide collection while snowbound at my parents house this week. First, I'd like to put in a plug for my 4 (4!) gift fics in Greek & Roman Mythology. They are all retellings of the Orpheus & Eurydice myth and they kick ass. You can read about them in this post.

( Recs in Kushiel's Legacy, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Project Runway-RPF, Les Adieux a la Reine, The Thin Man )

Or, in other words, how I through no fault of my own, won Yuletide this year, with FOUR (count 'em FOUR) fics. Somebody up there must like me, which is nice, because I've had a rough past month or so. Though, who hasn't really- I'm not worthy of such splendor O' Gods of Yuletide!

Anyway, my prompt of reworking the Orpheus descending myth proved ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

First of all, let me thank you for agreeing to participate in this challenge and write a story for me! Last year was my first Yuletide and I had such a wonderful time that I am now back for more! The holidays are often a very hard time for me and it cheered me up so much last year to have a wonderful story written just for me- ( Read more... )

I just turned in a very unfinished chapter draft to my adviser today, which brings the total up to 4/5 chapters drafted. *insert Liz Lemon self-high five here* I'm still hoping to have it all drafted by Christmas, though unfortunately what I turned in today is very much a work in process. I'm workshopping it back at Big Blue next month and it still ( Read more... )

Not that I have an overabundance of lj friends, but here's a random list of recs. Yuletide has truly been a banquet and it's a pleasure to read so many fics from fandoms I love and from fandoms I never imagined even would have fic.

There were so many excellent Kushiel's Legacy fics this year and several featuring fiction's most amazing villainess, ( Read more... )