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.