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Yuletide reveals time!

My assigned fic was The Young Chants, a Chrestomanci story about Christopher Chant and his expanding family.

I have been very surprised and pleased with the reception this fic has gotten! My recipient asked for fluffy family fic; I don't think she was expecting A FLUFFY CHRESTOMANCI FAMILY EPIC, and to be fair I was not expecting to write one either, but once I started, as often happens, I couldn't stop. I don't think anyone guessed me as the writer for this, which makes a nice change from last year when I was hilariously called out in the very first comment. Secrecy IS possible!

I also wrote The Rule of Cool, a Gravity Falls treat for

wakeupnew, with shout-outs to Community and a few other things.

I've always wanted to write a Yuletide treat for Lexie, because she writes SO MUCH every year and I feel like she deserves a million treats in response! So finally a prompt of hers came along that I actually had inspiration for, and I jumped on it. I did it at the last minute in like three hours so it is not, er, the most nuanced thing I have ever written, but . . . it has ladyfriendship and velociraptors, so that's something?

Lexie maaaay have guessed me on this one, I'm not sure! Let me know, Lexie, I was cracking up when your comment came through.

Many thanks to all my betas, including

innerbrat,

izilen,

wickedtrue,

genarti,

saramily,

shati, and

arushindoll. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME.

I'm still working my way through the archive, veeeeery slowly. Someday there will be a recs post. SOMEDAY. But I'm determined to do it, because I want to rec everything I betaed, which was ALL AMAZING.

(PS: Thank you so much for my wonderful gifts, Ione and Alona! I don't know where you are on LJ/DW, but if you're reading this, HI, YOU'RE BOTH AMAZING! Come say hello, let's be friends!)

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Oh hey, that was you? Amazing! It's a wonderful fic.

Aha! I remembered thinking that the voice was wonderfully true to canon. I don't think I've ever read a fic of yours that wasn't great, what sorcery is this

aw, my baby janet is in it. i haven't read it yet, but i definitely will!

HAAHAHAHAHAHA IT WAS YOU!!!! I ACCUSED KELSEY OF BEING YOU

SO CLOSE YET SO FAR

BECCA, I'M SORRY ABOUT BABBLING ABOUT MY FIC IN THE COMMENTS! I really loved your adorable and hilarious Gravity Falls fic! SLEEPOVERS. ALL THE SLEEPOVERS!!!

... so I definitely almost gave you a rec for your own fic, uhhhhh

(I would have left a comment on it already but I have not yet gotten over my terror of leaving actual comments; I will say here, then, that I loved your fic so much and it was basically perfect and I want to read it forever, oh my goodness.)

OMG "The Young Chants" is best! I loved all of it, but especially the newlyweds, Janet, and Cat bits. Cat will be happy! *massive aerial heart barrage*