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Happy Yuletide reveals day! This Yuletide year I wrote hyper-specific fic with absolutely no intention of broad appeal or indeed being read by anyone other than my recipients, which was extremely pleasing and restful tbh.

My assigned fic was The Branch, a fic about the tragic evil henchman/righteous general pairing that tenillypo and genarti and I made up out of our own heads for the kdrama The King's Affection while watching it and then went ham over their incredible exes energy ... which I guess makes it not a surprise that I ended up assigned to write for tenillypo but it was very funny, especially since we hang out almost every week and traditionally spend a large chunk of that time complaining about the progress of our Yuletides. HAPPY YULETIDE, TENILLE, please forgive my small white lies over the past couple months and I hope you enjoyed my best attempt at a fix-it for these sad old men!

Then, just as I was contemplating resting on my laurels and perhaps focusing on my Festivid early for once, I saw a last-minute Homeward Bounders pinch-hit come over the list ... and then I did some snooping and realized that this stranger and I shared a number of other fandoms, all of which had some kind of multi-dimensional or portal fantasy or transmigration angle, and my fate was sealed. Addendums is an epistolary fic about what Jamie's friends do to try and reach out to him after the end of the book, but it's also a series of hyperspecific crossover jokes wrapped in a DWJ jacket, and if I made myself and my recipient laugh then I succeeded in the goal.

I have read through a small chunk of the archive and am looking forward to perusing through more -- I hope everyone else is having a pleasing New Year weekend in whatever way seems best to you!

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I tried an experiment this year in keeping track of all media that I was experiencing and not just the books ... this was useful in reminding me what I have consumed but also I am massively behind on booklogging alone aand this just made me feel even more sheepish about everything else I was not writing up, so you guys are still just getting the books and can find out about television or films or theater if and when the fancy strikes.

Anyway! Here is my annual ( books read list for 2022! )

Some new-to-me and unexpected favorites this year included Symphony for the City of the Dead, Death in Captivity, The Color of Distance, We Ride Upon Sticks, and ... if it must be admitted .... Omniscient Readers Viewpoint; I also of course had a lot of expected favorites as there was really no world in which I was not going to love the new Hardinge or the new Riverlands or When the Angels Left the Old Country and also several of my friends put out extremely good books.

As always I have great ambitions of catching up on many of the things that I have not posted about, but the list is long and life is short so if you would particularly like me to opine on anything let me know!