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skygiantsI have only read an infinitesimal number of Yuletide fics so far, all in the As - aside from my own brilliant gifts which I can never ever glee about enough (Which World and Brush Contact, guys! I will fangirl until the COWS COME HOME). I regret this especially because there were a few of your fics I wonder if I would have been able to guess if I had gotten to them pre-reveal! But I am super looking forward to reading them all as I get to them. :D :D :D
I wrote three stories this year - one assigned, one pinch-hit, and a Madness drabble. My goal was to write more stories than last year so I am moderately pleased with this. Next year perhaps I will write FOUR! Though let's not get crazy in our ambitions.
My assigned story was for Joie de Combat (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joiedecombat) in Baccano! fandom: While Recognizing the Importance of Luck in Certain Situations, Eve Genoard Continues to Disapprove of Gambling. It's about Eve Genoard and the Gandor brothers and Mafia politics, and features Luck Gandor getting kidnapped because it amuses me. I almost never write anything involving action, so this was epic amounts of fun for me to write - kidnapping! arson! assassins! severed fingers! dramatic games of billiards! - which is possibly also why it grew RIDICULOUSLY long. Also, genarti and areyoumymemmy are to blame for any and all horrible puns in the title and the chapter headings.
My pinch-hit was for Katrick (kindness_says) for Tamora Pierce's Tortall books: Armiger, a series of vignettes about the changes that take place in the friendships between Alanna and Jon and Gary and Raoul and Alex over the course of In the Hand of the Goddess. It was a bit bizarre writing fic in this fandom because the last and only thing I ever wrote for the Alannaverse was, um, my thesis, which meant I constantly had to remind myself that I was not allowed to get on any hobbyhorses about crossdressing and gender roles and Judith Butler. But fun!
And the one Madness ficlet (and the only DWJ fic I wrote this year, shockingly!) I wrote was for MiraMira (miramira.dreamwidth.org) for Homeward Bounders: Jamie Hamilton's Rotten Luck. I wrote this in half an hour in my towel on December 24th when I was struck by an idea that made me giggle in the shower, so I don't take much responsibility for it, but I never turn down an excuse to write dorky Homeward Bounders crossovers.
Also, while I am linking things, it strikes me that I never linked back here the fic I wrote ages ago for the Avatar: The Last Airbender Ladyfest ficathon. It was Jailhouse Rock forescalove and was about Mai and Suki not doing the insta-bonding thing postcanon (OR DO THEY???) I was quite pleased with it until I read it right after posting my Baccano! fic and realized I used at least two of the exact same turns of phrase. Uh. YOU NOTICED NOTHING.
genarti, areyoumymemmy, varadia and dictator_duck were all marvelous about beta-ing; thank you all so much! Special thanks goes to Emmy and Gen, however, for not only beta-ing an epically long fic in a fandom they knew not much about, but then patiently listening while I explained every little reference to them, usually while cackling maniacally ("NO SEE IT'S FUNNY IF YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT CLAIRE STANFIELD HERE LET ME TELL YOU!")
I wrote three stories this year - one assigned, one pinch-hit, and a Madness drabble. My goal was to write more stories than last year so I am moderately pleased with this. Next year perhaps I will write FOUR! Though let's not get crazy in our ambitions.
My assigned story was for Joie de Combat (
joiedecombat) in Baccano! fandom: While Recognizing the Importance of Luck in Certain Situations, Eve Genoard Continues to Disapprove of Gambling. It's about Eve Genoard and the Gandor brothers and Mafia politics, and features Luck Gandor getting kidnapped because it amuses me. I almost never write anything involving action, so this was epic amounts of fun for me to write - kidnapping! arson! assassins! severed fingers! dramatic games of billiards! - which is possibly also why it grew RIDICULOUSLY long. Also, genarti and areyoumymemmy are to blame for any and all horrible puns in the title and the chapter headings.My pinch-hit was for Katrick (
kindness_says) for Tamora Pierce's Tortall books: Armiger, a series of vignettes about the changes that take place in the friendships between Alanna and Jon and Gary and Raoul and Alex over the course of In the Hand of the Goddess. It was a bit bizarre writing fic in this fandom because the last and only thing I ever wrote for the Alannaverse was, um, my thesis, which meant I constantly had to remind myself that I was not allowed to get on any hobbyhorses about crossdressing and gender roles and Judith Butler. But fun! And the one Madness ficlet (and the only DWJ fic I wrote this year, shockingly!) I wrote was for MiraMira (miramira.dreamwidth.org) for Homeward Bounders: Jamie Hamilton's Rotten Luck. I wrote this in half an hour in my towel on December 24th when I was struck by an idea that made me giggle in the shower, so I don't take much responsibility for it, but I never turn down an excuse to write dorky Homeward Bounders crossovers.
Also, while I am linking things, it strikes me that I never linked back here the fic I wrote ages ago for the Avatar: The Last Airbender Ladyfest ficathon. It was Jailhouse Rock for
escalove and was about Mai and Suki not doing the insta-bonding thing postcanon (OR DO THEY???) I was quite pleased with it until I read it right after posting my Baccano! fic and realized I used at least two of the exact same turns of phrase. Uh. YOU NOTICED NOTHING.genarti, areyoumymemmy, varadia and dictator_duck were all marvelous about beta-ing; thank you all so much! Special thanks goes to Emmy and Gen, however, for not only beta-ing an epically long fic in a fandom they knew not much about, but then patiently listening while I explained every little reference to them, usually while cackling maniacally ("NO SEE IT'S FUNNY IF YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT CLAIRE STANFIELD HERE LET ME TELL YOU!")
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:23 pm (UTC)I had no idea it was you. THOUGH I SHOULD HAVE, now that I think about it!
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-03 02:06 am (UTC)Yuletide is so awesome and there's just so much awesome that I'm still reading it all.
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Date: 2010-01-03 02:19 am (UTC)Not only did I see it - I beta'ed it! :D Your author wrote my Yuletide story last year; she is on my flist and she is made of 100% awesome. I have not yet read the completed version, though!
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:08 am (UTC)Though, when I saw the mention of severed fingers, I totally thought there'd be Claire in it. *eyes him*
*from safe distance of three or four worlds over*
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:26 am (UTC)And it just wouldn't be a Baccano! fic without someone losing some fingers.
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Date: 2010-01-03 04:02 am (UTC)So utterly wonderful and hee, I'm not surprised that she's on your flist.
I ended up writing for a fandom that I've never written for before.
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:49 am (UTC)I'm so glad that I did it though I hope next time I have a bit more time to polish my story.
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Date: 2011-01-10 09:35 am (UTC)I had no idea that you picked me up as a pinch-hit! Although, now it kind of makes more sense why I ended up with three fics last year.... Anyway, amused and impressed am I; thank you again!
What on earth was your thesis? I'm so curious now.
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:48 pm (UTC)And you are very welcome again - I was super pleased to get a chance to grab your pinch-hit, it was huge amounts of fun for me to write.
I wrote my thesis on cross-dressing girls and coming of age in YA! This was basically an excuse for me to babble about books I loved as a kid at great length. LEAST ACADEMIC THESIS EVER.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:19 am (UTC)I didn't know TL at the time! I do now. And Lexie, because the fandom that I wrote in this year that you just commented on came into my life via her, basically.
Oooooooooooooooooooh, that's cool. Nice icon. MULAN!! La la laaa, ooh, maybe I will go shower to Disney musiccc.
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Date: 2011-01-11 02:24 am (UTC)TL and Lexie are both extremely awesome people, so I am glad. :D Hah, yeah, I wouldn't know enough to have read it if it weren't for Lexie evangelizing either. She's very convincing!
The biggest problem with writing my thesis on the Alanna books is that people kept stealing my primary sources. I was like, yes, I am glad you are having fun reading them, but I SORT OF NEED THEM. (There is no better music to shower to than Disney, obviously.)
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Date: 2011-01-11 02:58 am (UTC)The idea of Alanna-as-primary-source makes me giggle. That's awesome, though. I am jealous. I do not get to write about anything interesting. -mutter-
(I ended up not showering until just now, and it was to a youtube fanvid set to Hey, Soul Sister. OH, WELL. -dances around-)
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Date: 2011-01-11 03:13 am (UTC)(*giggling* That also works! I tend to just go with "I'll Make a Man Out of You" as default shower song. IT'S PEPPY.)
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Date: 2011-01-12 09:05 am (UTC)Wasn't going to share this originally, because really? worst story ever. But since it's not like I have anything useful to do right now... -flops about-
Maybe I should friend you and use your posts to encourage myself to...read more. x_x I do not understand how you have time to read as much as it seems like you do.
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Date: 2011-01-12 02:56 pm (UTC)I would encourage this, I am always excited to have more people around here to babble about books and/or dorky Disney songs with! :D (Hah, the only secret is commuting. I get all my reading done on the subway.)
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Date: 2011-01-13 08:55 am (UTC)