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Yuletide Treasure Fanfic Exchange 2011

  • Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:21 pm

In honor of the current Yuletide exchange, I actually updated the page of stories written for me by adding the stories from Yuletide 2010. I didn’t realize I’d neglected to do that until a few days ago–oops. I did post links in this blog some time ago, but if you missed that you should scroll back or follow that link. I was gifted wtih some amazing stories as Yuletide gifts!

The exchange is already in full swing this year, with assignments having gone out on Monday night. My Yuletide requests were in Fantasy Island (1977), Touching Evil (US), American Gothic and Lawrence of Arabia. My Yulegoat letter is here, if you want to read me going on and on about these things. :) I offered to write in 10 different fandoms that I thought I’d really enjoy writing in.

I am quite thrilled with my recipient’s request in the fandom we matched on, though I’ll admit that was dampened a little by her expressing a preference for a different fandom. But I dealt with that in my own way, and am back to all kinds of excited again. There’s one request from a fandom I offered (and I’m the only one who did offer it) that looks like so much fun I have to write it. A Treat for my recipient in a fandom she requested but no one offered, and that makes 3 definite stories I want to finish before I do anything else Yuletidey.

There are maybe three or four other requests of those available right now, among those who chose to write letters, that I could write and have a blast with. I’m not sure I’ll write as many Treats as I did last year, but those are potentials if I decide to. I, um, have a spreadsheet. :)   There are some requests in a couple of fandoms that I’m curious about, but who haven’t opted to post letters. Those requests may not be revealed until Yuletide Madness, which starts on the 23rd or so. I have my spreadsheet so I can find the requests I’m looking for quickly and determine if something sparks an idea I write quickly.

I don’t anticipate any flanicking this year, since I am actually organized and, much like last year, have already started both the assignment story and a Treat. If all goes well, I’ll have to save the flanicking for Madness, when I start what’s supposed to be a short story and watch it try to grow as time runs out.

 

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Yuletide Treasure 2010–Fanfic I Wrote

  • Posted on June 4, 2011 at 6:50 pm

The list of stories I was gifted with this year is lengthy, and it’s here. Awesome, awesome stuff!

I wrote quite a bit this year, as well, and had a lot of fun doing it! You can find this list and all the other stories I’ve written for Yuletide at my Works page at the Yuletide archive, if you’d rather read them there instead of here. It shows the comments people have made, who they were for, that sort of thing.

What’s in a Name? — Modern Family fan fiction, Phil/Claire Dunphy. This was my assigned story. It’s a Phil and Claire story (completely PG-13ish, by the way) but most the extended family make an appearance. It’s the second Modern Family story I’ve written–tons of fun.

Yuletide Treats:

Playing the Part — Hogan’s Heroes fan fiction; Klink, Hogan. The story primarily features Klink and Hogan. I grew up on this show, but never thought about writing it before. Two people had very similar Klink/Hogan prompts, and while I didn’t go into slash territory (the story’s PG-13, I think), the prompts were the perfect excuse to write a friendship and growing bond between them that I’d always wanted to be there when I was a kid watching the show. God, I loved writing this story. It was so satisfying!

Skin Deep — Eastern promises slash with Nikolai/Kirill. Three years of Yuletide, three EP slash stories. A tradition maybe? It is Christmastime in the movie, you know. Adults only.

Nothing in My Hat, Nothing Up My Sleeve — Night Court slash with Dan/Harry. I’m a die-hard Night Court fan. I used to videotape the episodes on Thursday nights and watch them all week. I love these two.

$#*! Denny Says — Boston Legal slash with Denny/Alan. Fairly tame. Technically, it’s a crossover. This isn’t actually part of the Yuletide collection, but it’s Yuletide to me all the same, written for Lyrastar who couldn’t participate this year and posted Christmas eve to seem legit.

Morning with Johnny — WKRP in Cincinnati genfic. Johnny Fever was my favorite, so I couldn’t resist the prompt.

Not Much for Conversation — True Blood fanfic. It gave me the excuse to have Eric being sexy and Pam being snarky. Adults only.

Everybody Loves Cheese, or Else – Panda Cheese commercials fanfic. Yes, the story was written based on some funny cheese commercials. Pure crack, and a lot of fun. Never say no to Panda!

Again, I had a blast with Yuletide. I almost didn’t sign up because I knew I’d be busy, but I’m so glad I did. I always seem to make the time for it, so I anticipate playing again this year. It’s too much fun not to!

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Yuletide Treasure Fanfic Update

  • Posted on at 6:24 pm

Yuletide was, of course, December 25th. That’s when we all got our stories. Then author names were revealed on January 1st.

I’m not sure how I managed it, but I forgot to update this blog with links to the great stories I got, and the stories I wrote for other people. First, the stories written for me.

As it turned out, I was one of the people who somehow didn’t have a story written for her and it wasn’t discovered until Christmas Eve. That happened to several people this year for some reason, but everybody ended up with at least one story for the holidays anyway. I got a bounty of them! I ended up with 8 stories! And they were spread across all 4 of my requests, so I got something in every single one. It was like several Christmases. :)

Here they are so you can read them for yourself. I’m listing them in the order they show on my give page, by category.

Rorschach from Watchmen was one of my requests (with the caveat that I didn’t really want slash or explicit fiction, just him being him, and friendship with Night Owl was also fine). Boy, did I get him! :) .

I also asked for Legion fanfic featuring Gabriel and Michael. They made the movie for me, and they made a great story.

I requested The Prophency fanfic, specifically the characters Thomas and Lucifer, and it was all right if Gabriel was tossed there in somewhere. I love their dynamic, the tension, the whole thing between them. These were so awesome!

And I requested Lawrence of Arabia fan fiction, Lawrence and Ali. I love them together in friendship, in love, in any kind of the obvious devotion that’s between them. What I got was gorgeous.

The really amazing thing is that people took time at the last minute to write something for a stranger to make sure she’d get something in the exchange, and that even written last-minute the stories are all just wonderful.

I LOVE YULETIDE!

I wrote a lot this year too, but I’ll put it in a separate post. I wrote my assigned story, 6 Yuletide Treats and an unofficial Yuletide story for someone who wasn’t participating. When I was busily writing I had no idea I’d get so many stories. What a lovely experience.

For those on the fence, you have 4 or 5 months before the call for fandom nominations, and even beyond that before you have to decide. Consider playing this year if you love fanfiction and have some obscure fandoms you don’t see enough in. You’ll probably have a lot of fun.

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Yuletide 2009, in the Can

  • Posted on January 30, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Well, that was fun. The writing was fun, anyway.

If I participate this year, I just have to remember to do a couple of things.

1. Stay off everything except the yuletide admin community and avoid all the wank elsewhere.

2. Don’t even try to get into the archive to read Jack until a few days have passed.

If I can follow those two things, it will be far more fun. The inability to get in and read anything was pretty aggravating, and the slowness even after getting in much later, my god. If I play this year, I just won’t even try for a while, and then there’s no disappointment. It’s disappointing that they plan to keep the Yuletide Treats in a completely separate section, which means that instead fo the short stories getting read and commented on more, as shorter ones tend to do, they get a fraction of the views because finding them isn’t intuitive.

Despite the things that I’m unhappy about, it’s still fun and I’m grateful for the work that goes into it, even though I’m not a fan of the whole move to the new archive because of that surrounding wank. But if you want to participate in Yuletide, you have to join it and use it. I don’t intend to upload my other stories there, so it’ll just be for Yuletide for me.

All the stories I wrote for Yuletide at the archive

But if you’re reading this right now and it’s December 25th-January 1st or so, you might as well forget it (unless things have drastically improved since Yuletide 2009) because you’ll just time out or get an error. The thing was woefully underprepared for the whole exchange, but maybe it’ll get better.

I immensely dislike the ability to respond to comments privately. Ah well.

You’re better off reading anything right here at the site. Here are the stories I did for Yuletide 2009:

Some Crazy, Random, Happenstance Bullshit That All Turned Out Okay 

This was my assigned story. She wanted Lafayette from True Blood to have a good day.

I also wrote the following Yuletide Treats:

Father, Brother, Child - This is Eric and Godric from True Blood. She wanted an exploration of why they were apart for so many years.

Counts, Curves and Cognac - Victor/Victoria, a Victoria and Toddy interlude. I love those two.

Soft and Bright — Nikolai and Kirill from Eastern Promises

Just Doing His Part for Morale — Galaxy Quest. She wanted something with Fred and Laliari.

Since the archive switch, I’ve also added my 2008 stories to my site instead of just linking to the old Yuletide site.

Thespians, Aliens and a Damn, Stupid Hammer — Galaxy Quest, Alexander/Quellek slash. This was my assigned story.

Tests of Power — Eastern Promises, Nikolai/Kirill slash. I did this one as a pinch hit.

I’ve already posted links to the stories I got that year, but here’s a link to the story I got this time. It was American Gothic fic!

Physical Fitness – I wanted Gail/Lucas and she delivered! :) I loved that show with all its dark twistedyness, and the sexy Lucas Buck. Buck, with a B.

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Yuletide Assignment Ahoy!

  • Posted on November 17, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Scrooge YuletideWell, I narrowed my list down to about 11 fandoms to offer, and made my selection about which 3 to request. I almost added a 4th, but then opted not to. My requests and letter to my Yuletide Santa/Goat is in my LiveJournal: Fan Fiction Requests for My Dear Yuletide Santa!

Two of my requested fandoms were the same as last year (Lawrence of Arabia and SeaChange) but I couldn’t reproduce my requests from last year completely since two fandoms weren’t eligible this year. American Gothic fandom is a new request for me, but I’ve loved the show for years. I’ll be excited no matter which request I’m matched on.

Can’t list the fandom or the assignment I got as that flies in the face of the spirit of the Secret Santa thing. But it’s not one I really expected to get (because that’s pretty much how it works, just like last year) but one that’s going to be fun. Got the assignment on the 15th I believe, and so far I have almost 300 words written. I actually wrote 150 words right after I got the assignment because I had immediate ideas. I’ve been adding to that in spurts. This one is a lot of fun, and my recipient wants fluff rather than angst, so it’s just going to be a good time had by pretty much all.

A complete draft for the X-Men movieverse ficathon is due Thursday, which isn’t a problem, I’m just aggravated that someone has misplace my X-Men DVDs which is making it difficult for me to fact check. And that someone, for the record, is not me.  Fortunately the completed and ready to roll story isn’t due Thursday–that’s Saturday the 28th. Which makes the whole thing a bit easier, as I’m sure I can find the DVDs over the weekend.

I also have a story to complete by Thanksgiving for the Child. We did an impromptu fic exchange about a month, maybe 6 weeks ago, just between us. That’s a fun one, too. Of course, I have a feeling she hasn’t done much with it, so it may get extended. And I’m also trying to put the final edit on a 27,000 word story that’s been languishing for EONS.

So it goes to figure that during a week when I want to do TONS of fan writing, the RL writing that pays the bills has just exploded and I have more this week to do than I have in a while. Still, all good, all fun.

Regarding Yuletide, here are the two wonderful stories I got last year. I hesitate to ask for Lawrence of Arabia again this year becuase the story I got last year was so fantastic:

The Vices of Old Men

It’s a remarkable piece of writing, and so perfectly captures their relationship and the essence of the film.

And I got a Yuletide Treat, too! These are stories that don’t have to make the 1,000 word limit that can be posted after the deadline for assigned stories up until the evening of the 24th, I believe. This story was based on one of my other requests, from the film 300. This one comes with an adult material warning–if you’re underage or squicked by sex between men, give it a miss.

Lessons

I’m looking so forward to the 25th to see my story and to see how well my recipient likes the story I wrote for her! I’m just as excited about the reveal for the X-Men fication on the 28th, too. It’s my first foray into writing anything but drabbles in this fandom, and I hope I please my giftee.

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Yuletide Treasure Project 2009

  • Posted on November 11, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Tomorrow at 8pm my time is the cut-off to sign up for this year’s Yuletide Treasure project, the holiday exchange for obscure and underwritten fandom fiction.

I so enjoyed it last year. I’ve been looking forward to it all year. I thought about skipping it because I may end up really pressed for time right before Christmas, but I’d be too disappointed if I skipped it and then had time.

The hardest part is trying to figure out exactly what to request. I got a wonderful Lawrence of Arabia story last year (and a treat, a 300 story, too!). I think I may request Lawrence again, because there’s not nearly enough written in it. 300 is gone this year–I missed the nominations somehow, and it maybe have been disqualified for not being obscure enough, anyway. Stranger things have happened.

All I know is that between now and 8pm tomorrow night–and it’s not wise to wait until the last minute in case the database keeps breaking down–I need to sign up if I’m going to do it. I actually started making a list of fandoms I could write something in, and got tired after this many:

Allo Allo
Are You Being Served?
American Gothic
Appaloosa
Arrested Development
Constantine
John Dies at the End
Seachange
Someone Like You
District 9
Dexter
Galaxy Quest
Equilibrium
Forever Knight
Futurama
Ghost Town
Glee
Modern Famiy
Zombieland
Hot FUzz
Shawn of the Dead
The Road to El Dorado
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog
True Blood
In Treatment
Tropic Thunder
King of the Hill
Kolchak
Life on Mars US
Blades of Glory
Public Enemies
Bolt (which I just saw last night)

There are more, but I got tired of looking at the list.  I could offer them all (I just checked my email–I offered 17 last year) but I’d rather choose a handful that I’d be most excited about if I got it as my yuletide assignment. If I see a request in one of the others that really inspires, there are always treats or NYR stories. I love the challenge of writing something I’ve not done before.

The problem I have is that while I’m thinking about the characters I’d be willing to write, I end up with bunnies and scenarios, and then I just want to write the story. And when I think about the stories I’d like to get, I end up thinking about them and wanting to just go ahead and write them.

Now to figure out 3 requests! I think I’ll use at least 2 of my requests from last year. The other 2 fandoms aren’t on the list this year so I have to come up a one new one. So exciting!

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