Happy Holidays, All Participants and Readers!

[amand_r]

This is the last fic of the fest. I encourage you to read stories you haven't and give our authors lots of feedback! Additional guessing will be open in a new thread here until Sunday morning, when authors will be revealed! You can read the old guesses in the first post, here. And if you haven't read and commented on your gift fic, please do so

Comments

[macgeorge1]

(sigh) This was very sad for me. Painful, but in a good way. A kind of final statement of the fandom itself, perhaps? Beautifully expressed.

[amand_r]

Thank ya.

[unovis]

and somewhere, a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

[killabeez]

Aw, yes! What a perfect commentary on this lovely, bittersweet story.

[amand_r]

::sniff::

[dswdiane]

This was lovely and both an ending and a beginning. Thank you again for organizing all of this.

[amand_r]

You are welcome, and thank you for pinch hitting!

[dswdiane]

The entire experience was a pleasure (except, of course, when I was tearing my hair out over the story, convinced that I had lost all of my ability to write a decent story). I was pleasantly surprised that the story turned out not totally lame and mostly liked by my wonderful beta (you know who you are and thank you so much). I was delighted with the plethora of wonderful stories I read. I so enjoyed bantering with you, Amand_r in the guessing threads. I still think and perhaps will always think that you are three of the funniest and brightest folks I have ever known. And I have been incredibly impressed with the generosity you have given of your time, energy, and talent in making all of this happen.

Amand_r, I will always think you are the bee's knees and the cat's pyjamas (excuse me, spell checker, but I do think Cole Porter spelled pyjamas that way. I might be wrong). You have proven this yet again to all of us. My hat is off to you, my dear. And I wish you, Viola, and all of your family glorious and wonderful holidays. Don't be

[amand_r]

She does love to eat her some cards.

[ithildyn]

That was lovely.

And thank you for all the work you put into this shindig! It's been fun :)

[amand_r]

Thanks!

[hafital]

Oh, sad, but beautiful. And, having never seen The Source, now I really don't need to. Thank you!

[amand_r]

Yeah, you really should avoid The Source. Unless you're drunk.