What I wrote for Yuletide this year
Yuletide reveals! I can talk about what I wrote!
My actual assignment:
Lifeline (Punisher, 10K, Frank & David plus others)
A flashbang leaves Frank temporarily blind and deaf while attempting to rescue hostages, including David.
My expression when I opened my assignment email and saw that I'd gotten
rachelmanija can basically be expressed as ":DDDDDDDDDD", especially since this was like 2 days after we'd just had a discussion about all the things she likes in Punisher fic. I used Die Hard as a starting point, because I mean ... Frank, and then made him blind and deaf, which was a fascinating challenge to write. I've always kinda wanted to do a fic in which the characters can communicate only through Morse code.
The one no one would ever in a million years guess was me:
The Hatchling Job (From Eroica With Love/Pern fusion, 1500 wds, Dorian/Klaus)
K'Laus stares at the empty sand and tells himself he's wrong. Dorian couldn't. He wouldn't. There was no way that even Dorian would be audacious enough, stupid enough, to steal a queen egg directly off the hatching grounds.
This was for a person who went out as an emergency last-minute pinch hit right before the archive opened. I didn't grab them as a pinch hit, but their letter said this was their first Yuletide and they sounded super excited about it, so I felt they should have a treat, and skimming their letter, my eyes caught on "Pern fusion." I've never tried to write Eroica or Pern, but I've read both, so I figured, why not?
The ones I am sure EVERYONE knew was me, aka a slew of Iron Fist fics:
I, um, ended up double-treating the Iron Fist people, because I just wanted to keep writing it and there weren't that many people requesting it, okay. Also, everyone wanted Ward! I mean. Twist my arm.
Cookies and Sympathy (Iron Fist, 2900 wds, mostly Ward & Colleen with a little Danny)
Ward has a concussion; Colleen keeps an eye on him. Set post-S2.
some kind of happy ending (Iron Fist, 1900 wds, Ward, Bethany, Danny)
After coming back from Asia, Ward starts taking a few tentative steps towards figuring out the future.
Touch of Gray (Iron Fist, 500 wds, Ward & Danny)
Ward is still trying to figure out who he is in the post-Harold era. This is one of his experiments.
Bachelor Auction (Iron Fist, 900 wds, light Ward/Misty)
Ward loses a bet, and Misty agrees to a favor.
The equally mysterious Defenders treats:
Okay, so, Danny wasn't officially in the tagset this year, which means if anyone wanted the whole team they had to request it specially. And some people DID specially request it, and that made me so delighted that I went through all the Defenders letters and decided that anyone who asked for Danny was getting a treat. (Plus, one person who asked for Defenders was someone I really wanted to treat anyway. Win!) Most of them also wanted Elektra, not a character I normally write as well as being inconveniently dead, so I worked my ass off finding ways to get Elektra into people's fic (unless they'd said they were okay with a subset of characters, but even then, I really wanted to if I could make it work). Now I want to write more of her. Win??
The First Annual Defenders Secret Santa (Defenders, 2000 wds, gen teamfic + perhaps very light hints of Jessica/Luke and Jessica/Matt)
Jessica really hates this team thing sometimes. (Except in all the ways she doesn't.)
Snowpocalypse (Defenders, 2100 wds, gen teamfic)
The forecast called for at least a foot of snow, and it was already ankle deep by the time Jessica ended up in a narrow side street in Hell's Kitchen, freezing her ass off and watching Matt fall off a fire escape.
Six Scenes from a Hospital on Christmas Eve (Defenders, 3300 wds, gen teamfic + a little ambiguous Matt/Elektra + various supporting characters)
Sometimes the more breakable members of the Defenders team get hurt.
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My actual assignment:
Lifeline (Punisher, 10K, Frank & David plus others)
A flashbang leaves Frank temporarily blind and deaf while attempting to rescue hostages, including David.
My expression when I opened my assignment email and saw that I'd gotten
rachelmanija can basically be expressed as ":DDDDDDDDDD", especially since this was like 2 days after we'd just had a discussion about all the things she likes in Punisher fic. I used Die Hard as a starting point, because I mean ... Frank, and then made him blind and deaf, which was a fascinating challenge to write. I've always kinda wanted to do a fic in which the characters can communicate only through Morse code.
The one no one would ever in a million years guess was me:
The Hatchling Job (From Eroica With Love/Pern fusion, 1500 wds, Dorian/Klaus)
K'Laus stares at the empty sand and tells himself he's wrong. Dorian couldn't. He wouldn't. There was no way that even Dorian would be audacious enough, stupid enough, to steal a queen egg directly off the hatching grounds.
This was for a person who went out as an emergency last-minute pinch hit right before the archive opened. I didn't grab them as a pinch hit, but their letter said this was their first Yuletide and they sounded super excited about it, so I felt they should have a treat, and skimming their letter, my eyes caught on "Pern fusion." I've never tried to write Eroica or Pern, but I've read both, so I figured, why not?
The ones I am sure EVERYONE knew was me, aka a slew of Iron Fist fics:
I, um, ended up double-treating the Iron Fist people, because I just wanted to keep writing it and there weren't that many people requesting it, okay. Also, everyone wanted Ward! I mean. Twist my arm.
Cookies and Sympathy (Iron Fist, 2900 wds, mostly Ward & Colleen with a little Danny)
Ward has a concussion; Colleen keeps an eye on him. Set post-S2.
some kind of happy ending (Iron Fist, 1900 wds, Ward, Bethany, Danny)
After coming back from Asia, Ward starts taking a few tentative steps towards figuring out the future.
Touch of Gray (Iron Fist, 500 wds, Ward & Danny)
Ward is still trying to figure out who he is in the post-Harold era. This is one of his experiments.
Bachelor Auction (Iron Fist, 900 wds, light Ward/Misty)
Ward loses a bet, and Misty agrees to a favor.
The equally mysterious Defenders treats:
Okay, so, Danny wasn't officially in the tagset this year, which means if anyone wanted the whole team they had to request it specially. And some people DID specially request it, and that made me so delighted that I went through all the Defenders letters and decided that anyone who asked for Danny was getting a treat. (Plus, one person who asked for Defenders was someone I really wanted to treat anyway. Win!) Most of them also wanted Elektra, not a character I normally write as well as being inconveniently dead, so I worked my ass off finding ways to get Elektra into people's fic (unless they'd said they were okay with a subset of characters, but even then, I really wanted to if I could make it work). Now I want to write more of her. Win??
The First Annual Defenders Secret Santa (Defenders, 2000 wds, gen teamfic + perhaps very light hints of Jessica/Luke and Jessica/Matt)
Jessica really hates this team thing sometimes. (Except in all the ways she doesn't.)
Snowpocalypse (Defenders, 2100 wds, gen teamfic)
The forecast called for at least a foot of snow, and it was already ankle deep by the time Jessica ended up in a narrow side street in Hell's Kitchen, freezing her ass off and watching Matt fall off a fire escape.
Six Scenes from a Hospital on Christmas Eve (Defenders, 3300 wds, gen teamfic + a little ambiguous Matt/Elektra + various supporting characters)
Sometimes the more breakable members of the Defenders team get hurt.
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