dolorosa_12 | Entries tagged with yuletide

I mentioned in a previous post that I had a particularly successful Yuletide this year, in terms of both the gifts written for me, and how the fic I wrote was received. (I was completely overwhelmed by travel and visiting my in-laws, however, and didn't have a chance to read anything else in the collection besides my own gifts, so for the first time since I participated in Yuletide, I unfortunately won't be able to include recs from the collection here.)

This year, I received not one, but two gifts, which I can now see were written by the same author.

The main gift was Paige/Arcturus fic for The Bone Season — a pairing and fandom which I have been requesting for ten years in almost every single exchange in which I participated. I'm so delighted that someone chose to write it for me at last, and to have dug into so many things that I love about these characters and this pairing.

Adamant (1024 words) by cher
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Paige Mahoney/Warden | Arcturus Mesarthim
Characters: Paige Mahoney, Warden | Arcturus Mesarthim
Additional Tags: POV First Person, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma Recovery
Summary:

Paige vs PTSD, with her usual feelings about battles.

Every year, I've hoped (while knowing that no one is entitled to such things) that someone might choose to write an additional treat for me, and for the first time in ten years of Yuletide participation, someone did! I feel very grateful and privileged, especially since the fic is for a tiny (even by Yuletide standards) fandom of which I thought I was the only person who felt fannish: Gillian Rubinstein's Space Demons trilogy. Again, the fic really got to the heart of what I love about this canon, characters, and pairing — right down to the nostalgic 1990s tech and internet!

futurism (1259 words) by cher
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Space Demons Series - Gillian Rubinstein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: pre Mario Ferrone/Elaine Taylor
Characters: Mario Ferrone, Elaine Taylor, Ben Challis
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Mario in the aftermath, reaching for a future.

( My three fics — The Dark Is Rising, and the Winternight series )

So that was my Yuletide. I have today and tomorrow remaining as holidays, before returning to work (from home) on Friday. I'm going to ease my way gently into 2025 with a long yoga class, doing the final bits of set up of my bullet journal, and starting a new book. I hope the first hours of the new year have been kind to you.

Thank you for writing for me!

I'm pretty easygoing about what type of fic you want to write for me. I read fic of any rating, and would be equally happy with plotty genfic or something very shippy. I read gen, femslash, het and slash, although I have a slight preference towards femslash, het, and gen that focuses on female characters. I mainly read fic to find out what happens to characters after the final page has turned or the credits have rolled, so I would particularly love to have futurefic of some kind. Don't feel you have to limit yourself to the characters I specifically mention — I'm happy with others being included if they fit with the story you want to tell.

Feel free to have a look around my Ao3 profile, as it should give you a good idea of the types of things I like to read. You can also look at my Yuletide tag, which includes past letters, and recs posts of my previous gifts and other fic I've enjoyed in previous Yuletide colletions.

I have treating enabled on Ao3 and would be delighted to receive treats for any of my requests.

( General likes )

( DNWs )

Fandom-specific prompts:

( The Bone Season — Samantha Shannon )

( The Pagan Chronicles - Catherine Jinks )

( Space Demons trilogy )

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly within the bounds of my prompts. As long as your fic is focused on the characters I requested, I will be thrilled to receive anything you write for me, as these really are some of my most beloved fandoms of the heart, and the existence of any fic for them will make me extremely happy.

Happy New Year to everyone! Matthias and I saw out 2023 in our usual way — with canapes, champagne, and films at home, and it was cheerful and relaxing and cosy. I wasn't quite intending to wake up at 7am, but in the end it was nice to be up and about in the very first sliver of the morning, drinking tea, eating a cooked breakfast, and chatting about which books with which we planned to start our 2024 reading. We then went out for a looping, 5km walk along the river and through the sleepy suburban streets, and back — via the coffee rig in the market square — past the cathedral, drenched in silvery sunlight, watching the canal boats and swans drift by. Here's a little photoset of the transition from one year to the next.

It being 1st January means two things: Yuletide reveals, and the start of

snowflake_challenge. I'm planning to participate in a low key way in the challenge this year: I'll do all the prompts, but I'm not going to link them in the comm. I know this goes somewhat against the spirit of the thing, but I found dealing with the increased replies overwhelming at times last year, and this feels like a compromise that will keep things manageable. But more on Snowflake later: let's get to the Yuletide recs!

I only make rec posts for the exchange once authors have been revealed, because it feels unfair to share all these things I've enjoyed without the authors getting credit, hence why I always wait until 1st January. I'm pleased to see that several of my favourite fics that I'm reccing from this year's collection are written by friends!

( Nine recs behind the cut — mainly book fandoms )

I wrote four fics this year — my main assignment, two treats in the main collection, and one treat in the Madness collection, which seem to have been well received, so from my perspective, this has been a good Yuletide all around: a great gift, a good reception for my own writing, and a collection with some fantastic pieces of work.

( My four fics behind the cut )

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of horse drawn red coach in snowfall. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Today's prompt is:

In your own space, update your fandom information.

My intro post remains up to date, which is pleasing. Something which I had been intending to do for last year's challenge, but which never happened, was writing a template post for fanwork exchange letters, with prompts for all the fandoms I'm likely to request. The idea was that this would save me time and avoid the need to go trawling back through multiple previous letters. I can obviously update it with new fandoms if I decide to request them. I'm really happy that the template letter post is all set up — it should save me a huge amount of time in the future.

And that's

snowflake_challenge Day 1 completed!

The Yuletide collection is live, and I've received a great fic in what I had assumed to be the rarest of my three requested fandoms — so that was quite an unexpected delight! Tochmarc Étaíne is a weird, weird, messy medieval Irish text, filled with animal transformations, people being reborn after thousands of years having lost all memory of their previous lives, soap operatic relationship drama, and the supernatural world constantly bleeding and intruding into the physical world in all sorts of chaotic ways. I requested a fic about two of the women in the story — the titular Étaín, and Fúamnach, who in the text is presented as a stereotypical jealous wife who uses magic to get rid of her rival, but both of whom I've always viewed as having more going on than what meets the eye. My author definitely took that idea and ran with it!

Those Who Play in the Fields of Brí Léith (3363 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tochmarc Étaíne (Folk Tale)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fúamnach & Aengus (Tochmarc Étaine), Fúamnach/Étaín (Tochmarc Étaine)
Characters: Fúamnach (Tochmarc Étaíne), Aengus (Tochmarc Étaíne), Étaín (Tochmarc Étaíne), Midir (Tochmarc Étaíne), Dian Cécht (Tochmarc Étaíne), Étaín's Daughter (Tochmarc Étaíne)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Parent-Child Relationship, Pre-Relationship, Canon Relationships, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Fúamnach dies. And yet Fúamnach lives.

I have three fics in the main collection (my main assignment, plus two treats), and an additional treat in the Madness collection which won't be live until tomorrow. Let's hope all of them are well received! For those of you who do Yuletide, I hope your gifts are great, your recipients enjoy the things you've written for them, and that the collection as a whole is to your taste. I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow before diving into the rest of the collection, but there look to be a lot of fun things to read, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Matthias and I have both spoken to our respective families, we went out for a slow, wandering walk around the cathedral and river, and I'm about to start putting together a lunch of cold leftovers from our Christmas Eve dinner. This afternoon, I'll finish off my annual reread of The Dark Is Rising (the plot of the book continues on until Twelfth Night, and to do things properly it should be read in step with the actual days on which the events in the book take place, but I tend not to stretch it out beyond Christmas Day), and get stuck into cooking.

I hope everyone is having wonderful days, wherever you are and whatever you're doing.

Thank you for writing for me!

I'm pretty easygoing about what type of fic you want to write for me. I read fic of any rating, and would be equally happy with plotty genfic or something very shippy. I read gen, femslash, het and slash, although I have a slight preference towards femslash, het, and gen that focuses on female characters. I mainly read fic to find out what happens to characters after the final page has turned or the credits have rolled, so I would particularly love to have futurefic of some kind. Don't feel you have to limit yourself to the characters I specifically mention — I'm happy with others being included if they fit with the story you want to tell.

Feel free to have a look around my Ao3 profile, as it should give you a good idea of the types of things I like to read. You can also look at my Yuletide tag, which includes past letters, and recs posts of my previous gifts and other fic I've enjoyed in previous Yuletide colletions.

I have treating enabled on Ao3 and would be delighted to receive treats for any of my requests.

( General likes )

( DNWs )

Fandom-specific prompts:
( The Bone Season — Samantha Shannon )
( The Pagan Chronicles - Catherine Jinks )
( Tochmarc Étaíne )

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly within the bounds of my prompts. As long as your fic is focused on the characters I requested, I will be thrilled to receive anything you write for me, as these really are some of my most beloved fandoms of the heart, and the existence of any fic for them will make me extremely happy.

Thank you for writing for me!

I'm pretty easygoing about what type of fic you want to write for me. I read fic of any rating, and would be equally happy with plotty genfic or something very shippy. I read gen, femslash, het and slash, although I have a slight preference towards femslash, het, and gen that focuses on female characters. I mainly read fic to find out what happens to characters after the final page has turned or the credits have rolled, so I would particularly love to have futurefic of some kind. Don't feel you have to limit yourself to the characters I specifically mention — I'm happy with others being included if they fit with the story you want to tell.

Feel free to have a look around my Ao3 profile, as it should give you a good idea of the types of things I like to read. You can also look at my Yuletide tag, which includes past letters, and recs posts of my previous gifts and other fic I've enjoyed in previous Yuletide colletions.

I have treating enabled on Ao3 and would be delighted to receive treats for any of my requests.

( General likes )

( DNWs )

Fandom-specific prompts:

( Benjamin January mysteries — Barbara Hambly )

( The Bone Season — Samantha Shannon )

( Cupid and Psyche (Metamorphoses - Apuleius) )

( Galax Arena series )

( The Iliad - Homer )

( Legendsong series )

( The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay )

( The Pagan Chronicles - Catherine Jinks )

( Romanitas trilogy — Sophia McDougall )

( Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Grimm) )

( The Queens of Innis Lear — Tessa Gratton )

( Sally Lockhart series )

( Six of Crows series — Leigh Bardugo )

( Space Demons trilogy )

( Spinning Silver — Naomi Novik )

( Sunshine — Robin McKinley )

( Winternight series — Katherine Arden )

( Tochmarc Étaíne )

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly within the bounds of my prompts. As long as your fic is focused on the characters I requested, I will be thrilled to receive anything you write for me, as these really are some of my most beloved fandoms of the heart, and the existence of any fic for them will make me extremely happy.

Yuletide was a bit of a weird one for me this year, for reasons I've explained in other posts.

My gift itself was wonderful — a really good character study of Ban from The Queens of Innis Lear (Tessa Gratton) that dug into a lot of things I particularly enjoy seeing explored in fiction: travel causing people to shed their skin and come to a greater understanding of themselves, bittersweet relationships, and an emphasis on the sky and the natural world.

guiding star (1306 words) by liesmyth
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Queens of Innis Lear - Tessa Gratton
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ban the Fox (The Queens of Innis Lear)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Self-Discovery, mentions of Ban/Elia
Summary:

Sometimes a prophecy can be a compass, not a chain.

( What I wrote )

What did you write and receive? Is there anything you particularly enjoyed in the collection?

Thank you for writing for me!

I'm pretty easygoing about what type of fic you want to write for me. I read fic of any rating, and would be equally happy with plotty genfic or something very shippy. I read gen, femslash, het and slash, although I have a slight preference towards femslash, het, and gen that focuses on female characters. I mainly read fic to find out what happens to characters after the final page has turned or the credits have rolled, so I would particularly love to have futurefic of some kind. Don't feel you have to limit yourself to the characters I specifically mention — I'm happy with others being included if they fit with the story you want to tell.

Feel free to have a look around my Ao3 profile, as it should give you a good idea of the types of things I like to read. You can also look at my Yuletide tag, which includes past letters, and recs posts of my previous gifts and other fic I've enjoyed in previous Yuletide colletions.

I have treating enabled on Ao3 and would be delighted to receive treats for any of my requests.

( General likes )

( DNWs )

Fandom-specific prompts:

( The Bone Season — Samantha Shannon )

( The Pagan Chronicles - Catherine Jinks )

( The Queens of Innis Lear — Tessa Gratton )

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly within the bounds of my prompts. As long as your fic is focused on the characters I requested, I will be thrilled to receive anything you write for me, as these really are some of my most beloved fandoms of the heart, and the existence of any fic for them will make me extremely happy.

Now that author reveals have happened, I can post my recs for this year's collection. Of course, I first want to highlight the wonderful gift I received — a Lions of Al-Rassan fic that showed off the competence and mutual admiration of my favourite OT4.

All Roads Lead to Ragosa (1818 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Belmonte/Rodrigo Belmonte, Jehane bet Ishak & Ammar ibn Khairan & Rodrigo Belmonte
Characters: Miranda Belmonte, Jehane bet Ishak, Ammar ibn Khairan, Rodrigo Belmonte
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Reunions
Summary:

Word of the ambush at Emir ha'Nazar gets out. Miranda moves the Belmonte household to Ragosa.

I only wrote my one assignment fic this year, which is something of a departure for me (for comparison, the last two Yuletides I wrote four treats in addition to my assignment). It's a The Dark is Rising fic — my recipient had requested something that explored Merriman's past.

The Water Key (3610 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Merriman Lyon, Original Characters
Summary:

In those days, the war between Dark and Light was ever present, pressing in from all corners. Neither side was in a position to claim anything like a victory, and instead things progressed with an agonising sense of attrition — one human heart turned from the Dark here, one ancient song leading the way to a magical object there. All that could be hoped for was a breath, a pause — a temporary respite.

I've got recs for a bunch of stuff — mainly book fandoms — from both the main collection and Madness. They're listed in the order in which I read and bookmarked them.

The fandoms are: Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik), The Old Kingdom (Garth Nix), the Odyssey, Yudah Cohen series (Rebecca Fraimow), The Nutcracker, the Dark is Rising sequence, Tam Lin, the Mabinogion, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke), The Demon's Lexicon (Sarah Rees Brennan), Beowulf/The Legend of Good Women crossover, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Lupin (TV series).

( Recs behind the cut )

I'm so pleased to see that after reveals so many of the things I'd bookmarked to rec were written by Dreamwidth friends! What did you write? What did you enjoy from the collection?

Christmas Day is going swimmingly so far. I managed to catch up with most of my maternal family via FaceTime first thing in the morning — my mum passed the phone around the table, where they had gathered at one of my aunt's places for canapes and champagne — and followed that with yoga and a long walk with Matthias along the river.

I'm going to make myself scarce for the rest of the day, but I wanted to duck in briefly and burble a bit about my Yuletide gift, which is lovely.

My author wrote me a great Lions of Al-Rassan fic, featuring my favourite OT4 being competent at their respective talents and delighting in each other's competence, which is the main thing I love about these characters, so I'm very happy.

All Roads Lead to Ragosa (1818 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miranda Belmonte/Rodrigo Belmonte, Jehane bet Ishak & Ammar ibn Khairan & Rodrigo Belmonte
Characters: Miranda Belmonte, Jehane bet Ishak, Ammar ibn Khairan, Rodrigo Belmonte
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Reunions
Summary:

Word of the ambush at Emir ha'Nazar gets out. Miranda moves the Belmonte household to Ragosa.

I'm going to leave the rest of the collection until tomorrow, and work my way through it in the days leading up to reveals, but I hope that everyone who participated has received great gifts, and that their own assignments, treats, and/or pinch hits will be well received. As always, I don't do a recs post until after creators have been revealed, so expect to see that at some point on 1st January.

I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas are having a good time, and those of you who don't are having a relaxing and fun Saturday.

As seems to be the case most years, Yuletide has very much creapt up on me without warning, until suddenly here we are, with about nine days left for nominations.

If you're planning to nominate, the tagset to do so is here.

There's a nominations coordination post here, plus a coordination spreadsheet.

As always, you can nominate up to three fandoms, and up to four characters in each. I'm pretty sure I'm going to fill all my slots, but if anyone wants characters nominated from Samantha Shannon's Bone Season series, please let me know as I have two character slots there.

yuletide_admin is the main comm for rules, deadlines and announcements.

yuletide is where you go to coordinate nominations, promote your fandoms, and otherwise be enthusiastic.

Who's participating this year?

I only like to do recs posts once authors have been revealed — doing it during the anon period always feels to me like it doesn't give authors proper credit. In any case, now that authors have been revealed, here are my recs. They're in a range of fandoms, but mainly books and literature.

( My recs behind the cut )

Now that reveals have happened, I can post what I wrote, as well as the gift I received.

I'd been wondering who wrote my amazing gift, and now I know: it was

lirazel! I'd suspected it might have been you from the author's note, and I'm glad to have been right! Thank you so much: it was exactly what I wanted from a Benjamin January fic!

A Woman's Weapons (9876 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chloe Viellard & Dominique Viellard
Characters: Chloe Viellard, Dominique Viellard, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2020, Yuletide, Case Fic, Canon Compliant, Female Character of Color, Female Friendship, Moral Dilemmas, squint for the bisexual dominique agenda, chloe is one of the most competent (read: terrifying) people in new orleans
Summary:

It should have been more awkward than it was--it should have been unthinkable--having her lover’s wife here in her parlor. But Chloë had a way of refusing to allow for awkwardness by refusing to acknowledge it, and as she settled herself on the striped silk settee and folded her small gloved hands in her lap, she looked as composed as she did anywhere else Dominique had ever seen her. It gave Dominique rather a dizzy feeling.

Chloë, Dominique, gossip, code-breaking, burglary, and blackmail.

I wrote five fics this year: my main assignment, and four treats.

( My fics behind the cut )

A recs post will follow, but I'm in the throes of moving house and I need to get back to the boxes.

Just a brief update, as I have a lot of cooking to do.

I will write a longer recs post on 1st January, once author reveals happen, but I just wanted to flail about with happiness a bit regarding my Yuletide gift: nearly 10,000 words of plotty, character-driven problem-solving with my two favourite Benjamin January characters, Dominique and Chloë. This fandom was my greatest new discovery of 2020, and brought me a huge amount of happiness, and those two characters are my very favourite. It was as if the author reached into my mind and wrote a story to my exact specifications — the fic has everything I could possibly have wanted for this fandom, and these two characters. I am ecstatic. (I'm also really intrigued to know who wrote it!)

My own assignment and treats seem to have gone well so far. I wrote five things in total in this year's collection, and if any of you can identify them ... well, I don't know what I'll do, but it would amuse me. Obviously I'm not going to confirm or deny anything until after reveals.

Christmas so far has been quiet and relaxing. As Christmas Eve dinner is the main event for Matthias's family (as with other people from continental Europe), we unwrapped presents last night with my in-laws via Zoom, and then I cooked a dinner of salmon and roast vegetables. Today's going to be slower, and heartier, and with more grazing rather than a formal dinner — and then we'll eat all the leftovers for the next week or so!

There's been a huge amount of flooding here, to the extent that the paddling pool in the park (normally empty during winter) has completely filled with rainwater, the river has burst its banks, and all the fields are covered with water. This is a photoset from yesterday, and today's early morning walk out to Grantchester was pretty similar: Grantchester Meadows had become Grantchester Lakes, with a gaggle of very confused ducks, geese, swans and seagulls swimming around on what is normally a grassy field. There were a lot of other walkers out and about, and everyone was cheerful and friendly in spite of the dire state of affairs in the country at large. There is light enough, for now.

I hope everyone else who participated in Yuletide is enjoying their gift(s), has had a good reception for their own writing, and is in general having a good day. If you celebrate Christmas, I hope you are having a restful holiday, and celebrating in a manner which makes you happy.

This is one of those posts about unrelated things, none of which I feel really warrants a post of its own.

I stumbled across this excellent post by Ada Palmer on her blog. On the surface of things, it's about the two recent TV series about the Borgias, but what it's really about is being a professional historian (or someone who has deep historical knowledge about specific time periods), and learning to switch off that part of the brain when engaging with historical fiction. I really love the way Palmer writes — I haven't seen either series, but this doesn't matter, as her writing draws you in, no matter what the subject.

I've hit a bit of a reading slump, and it hasn't helped that the book I was reading, The Library of the Unwritten by AJ Hackwith, sounded cool in terms of concept (a librarian who spends the afterlife preserving and collecting all unwritten books, for the library of Hell), but really didn't work for me in terms of execution. It's the sort of book about books, stories, authors and bookishness that I think I would have adored fifteen years ago, but with which I am swiftly losing patience — the literary equivalent of Oscar-baity films about Hollywood. (Other recent examples of this subgenre of fantasy novel which I also found tooth-gratingly irritating include The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow, and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (both of which were, indeed, pushed at me by Goodreads when I marked The Library of the Unwritten as 'read'.) I think it doesn't help that these types of stories have a tendency to be extremely twee — this wasn't as bad in that regard as Harrow's writing, but it was still too treacly for my tastes. I wanted more celestial and infernal politics, and less pontificating about the power of stories.

Talk to me about Yuletide! Who is planning to participate this year? What fandoms are you thinking of nominating? Nominations coordination in the comments is most welcome!

I'm back from Ely, new year's celebrations were had, and it's 1st January, which means that Yuletide authors have been revealed. That means it's time for my annual post-reveals friending meme, as well as a rec list of my favourites in the collection.

My first recommendation will have to go to my lovely gift, which was a great fic about Ali and Nahri from the Daevabad series having adventures in Cairo.

On The Banks of the Nile (4639 words) by athersgeo
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Daevabad Trilogy - S. A. Chakraborty
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alizayd al Qahtani, Nahri (Daevabad)
Summary:

Stranded in Cairo, Nahri thought the worst of their problems was Ali's trouble with Suleiman's Seal. Nahri had reckoned without the intervention of the British authorities, an Ifrit out for vengeance and a Jewish apothacary who knows far more than he's willing to admit...

I wrote five fics this year — my assignment, and four treats. These were across three fandoms: Romanitas by Sophia McDougall, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip, and Something Dark and Holy series by Emily A. Duncan.

( Links to my five fics behind the cut )

I was very methodical about keeping track of all the fic in the collection I was planning to rec, and I was really pleased to be able to recommend so many wonderful pieces of writing in so many fandoms! The recs are for Dominion of the Fallen (Aliette de Bodar), Ballet Shoes (Noel Streatfeild), Daevabad trilogy (S.A. Chakraborty), Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin), Jane the Virgin, Pride, A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett), A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine), Peaky Blinders, Sorcerer to the Crown (Zen Cho), Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik), Sorcery of Thorns (Margaret Rogerson), Tanakh (specifically the Book of Esther), The Thick of It, This is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone), and What We Do In The Shadows (TV and movie versions).

( Recs behind the cut )

I have not yet had time to go through Madness, so I don't have any recs from there yet. I'll come back and do that in another post.

What did you all like from the collection? I hope everyone's gifts and treats were great, and that their own assignments were well received.

I hope everyone had as good a Yuletide as I did! It's sometimes hard to find people who like the same small, Yuletide-eligible fandoms as you do, so as in the past two years, this is a friending meme for after reveals, so that people can find and add the authors, recipients and commenters who made their 2019 Yuletides so enjoyable.

Please feel free to share this meme far and wide. To participate, just leave a comment on this post, copying the code below and filling in your own answers. I've enabled anonymous commenting so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account you can still participate.

People who didn't participate in Yuletide are also welcome to participate in this friending meme — obviously just leave out answers to the questions regarding Yuletide.

The first half of the Christmas festivities with my in-laws has gone off without a hitch: Christmas Eve dinner at the holiday cottages where they're staying. I organised the entire menu, which was cold seafood, bread, and salad, as they always eat on Christmas Eve. Today we will be having a meal at our place, also all cooked by me.

in_a_peartree has gone live, and my own tree is already starting to fill up with gorgeous icons and some great recipes. I'm hoping to have time to contribute to other people's trees later this week when things have calmed down.

Yuletide has also gone live, and I have a great gift, and look forward to having some time to properly browse the collection. Right now, however it will have to wait as I get on with the vast amount of cooking I need to get done.

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