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Yuletide recs post!
What a good yuletide! I got through the entire alphabet for once, and I am celebrating with RECS!!! These were all amazing. I have to start with my three gifts, though, which were not only for me but were also, in my opinion and without exaggeration, the cream of the crop.
( Recs for: Kill Your Darlings (2), Villette, 21 Jump Street (2012), Aubrey-Maturin Series, Baby-Sitters Club, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Catherine Called Birdy, Cloud Atlas, Clue (1985), Cold Comfort Farm/The World's End, Coriolanus, Cotillion - Georgette Heyer, Disney Princesses, Folgers Holiday Commercial, Frances Ha, Galaxy Quest, The Godfather, The Heat, The Hollow Crown/1 Henry IV, The History Boys, Legally Blonde, Maurice, Now You See Me, Stoker, Tombstone, The Westing Game (2), The World's End ) -
DYW 2013
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Dear Yuletide Author
HELLO AUTHOR! I'M JUST EDITING MY LETTER TO TELL YOU SOMETHING! So, I just noticed while rereading this letter that the first part of my letter, which is copy-pasted basically verbatim from previous years, may sit really oddly with some of my specific-to-this-year requests. I signposted this with Chronicle, but Young Adult is hardly a fluffy fandom ( Read more... ) -
Dear Yuletide Writer
Dear, dear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you SO MUCH for offering to write in one of these fandoms. You are clearly a person of discernment and taste, and I am absolutely going to love whatever you write! I am a very easy person to please, so please write a story that makes you happy, above all. I’m going to give you some ideas about the sort of thing I ( Read more... ) -
obligatory yuletidery
So, Yuletide happened again this year! I have been busy and have only gotten through a tiny sliver of the archive, but I wanted to do some recs before the new year of awesome things I did get a chance to read. And tomorrow I'll be allowed to let you guys know what I wrote, in case you are curious about that!
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Dear Yuletide Writer
Dearest loveliest Yuletide Writer,
You have already made me tremendously happy by agreeing to write me one of these weird-ass stories, so the whole ‘actually writing it’ part should be the icing on the cake! I know I am going to love whatever you come up with, and I am super easy to please. But, in case it’s helpful or sparks something for you, here ( Read more... ) -
lots of photos. sorry for partying. this entry is my masterpiece.
Day 12: Whatever tickles my fancy.
Okay, as promised, let's talk holiday programming.
The essence of a good Christmas special or movie is simple: disillusionment, doubt, self-seclusion. I can think of a couple of counterexamples that I'll go into below, but in general this is true. Let's look at our lineup:
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