Getting rid of things: JUST THE BEST. This not only includes the old year, last of its name, but a bunch of junk I had cluttering my apartment and my life in general: old t-shirts I was never going to wear again and chintzy Judaica I was never going to use and small notebooks that I needed to let go of, not to mention just... pieces of paper and ( Read more... )

Yuletide is somehow this embarrassment of riches this year. Why do so many of us have multiple fills? Did everybody default? Were there that many people writing treats? I'm overwhelmed! And delighted. I haven't touched the archive yet, and may not for several days, but I did get two phenomenal stories this year, and you all should read them and ( Read more... )

Hello, unknown friend! I am all over the place right now in terms of trying to figure out what I'd want to say, but here is my Yuletide tag and here is last year's letter. This year I'm not really looking for sexy things, but I do love characters who love and respect each other, as complicated as that may be. To steal from 2015, I enjoy stories ( Read more... )

I guess we are!

When I got my assignment, I said to myself, "Self, your time has come! It's time to give the world the Downton Abbey pastiche Edward Gorey would have wanted ( Read more... )

I discovered the panorama setting on my iPhone at Coney Island today, which was great! Not as great as getting to hang out with
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Happy Crimble, world! I have so, so many Yuletide tabs open. What a glorious problem! (Thanks to my writer, who kicked off my reading binge with 4K of Agent Carter RPF pranking wars. What a good start!) The following are 12 stories that I inhaled last night that utterly, utterly blew me away. You have to read them. You have to. Italian-American ( Read more... )

Yuletide writer, hello! I am so excited for all this. Thank you for volunteering to write one of these fandoms! My first priority is that you have fun doing this - the writer having fun makes everything the best. My needs are pretty simple: I love characters who are genuine and genuinely fond of each other, and I enjoy stories that are really ( Read more... )

Okay! I had a moment of crisis as to whether I wanted to nominate Everything Is Illuminated and finally ask for the gorgeous Yiddish magical realism of the Trachimbrod sections, but I realized this year is the year I can't live without someone filling my "Nino loves monsters; Amelie is a monster" prompt from a sharp_teeth of many moons ago.

So! It wound up ( Read more... )

Oh! Are we doing Yuletide reveals too? This might work out, trolololo, since I still have to do my Year in Writing review, and, well. This Yuletide was something that I'd never done before. Remember when I told you we'd all be laughing?

Bzzt (4148 words) by
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The Pirate Bachelorette (The Princess Bride, 6K)
Ines Montoya and the story of being the sixth Dread Pirate Roberts. Very charming! And perfect voices too.

Over and Away (The Sandman, 1050 words)
Merv, Lucien, Cain and Abel go on a road trip. Atmospheric and brief, but pleasantly weird and suggestive.

Bucky Bear and Pizza Dog (Together, They ( Read more... )