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[skygiants]

a.) YULETIDE! I got three fantastic gifts this year and am feeling very undeserving because, for the first time in years, I only managed to write one.

Two of my gifts, to my very great delight, are Wen Qing Lives fics for The Untamed, the first one a canon divergence AU that not only saves Wen Qing but gives Jiang Yanli actual stuff to do while we're at it:

Ring the Bells (That Still Can Ring)

“There has been enough death.” Jiang Yanli moved forward, one measured pace at a time. She stroked Jin Ling’s head as she walked and added, “Don’t shout. He’s sleeping.”

and the other an amazing postcanon fic about Jiang Cheng and Lan Sizhui chasing down rumors of a healer that has immediately become my new actual canon:

The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

There's a woman traveling the countryside. She wears the white of mourning and she always travels alone. No one knows what clan she came from -- she never even shares her name. If you ask too many questions about her past, she'll leave and never come back.

However! in addition to all this bounty! I have had the great honor to also receive the VERY FIRST Chicago Typewriter ghost OT3 fic on Yuletide, which I have been desperately wanting for years and had almost given up hope of ever receiving! AND IT'S KIDFIC. WITH A GHOST PARENT.

may your song always be sung

“I could be happy with him back,” Seol agreed.

"He'll be back, then." Se Joo looked thoughtful. "Don't you think he'll come be with us because we need him here?"

So that's Yuletide; later tonight or tomorrow I will start reading the rest of the archive but for now I'm just going to bask.

b.) also, hey, while we're at it, it's Hanukkah and also Christmas! The overlap is kind of weird and (although I am having as usual having a really pleasant time with ep_birdsall's family) conceptually I don't love it, but it does mean I can count my Yuletide gifts as Hanukkah presents.

In the spirit of the weird overlap: a few days ago, after we all remembered the existence of Christmas Hallelujah, I decided that Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird (translators of Hallelujah into Yiddish among other acts of radical Yiddish punk cabaret) were now legally obligated to release an album covering Christmas classics in response.

catchaspark, immediately:

oh the weather outside is dreary,
and the workers all are weary,
but since we know where we are,
kill the tsar, kill the tsar, kill the tsar

Although nowhere near as good, I've also got

silent night
let us unite
workers all
join the fight

and it really takes only the barest nudge to turn Un Du Akerst (which we're singing in my chorus this year) into a "Carol of the Bells" medley:

klapt der hamer, mit zayn gezang
tserayst di keytn, fun shklafn-tsvang!

DA DADADADA DA DADADADA DA DADADADA da dadada

so if anyone else wants to take advantage of this weird Chrismukkah day to write some radical Jewish Christmas carol covers, please be my absolute guest!

Comments

[the_rck]

I choked laughing at 'kill the tsar, kill the tsar, kill the tsar.'

[skygiants]

A WORK OF TIMELESS ART

[sovay]

but since we know where we are,
kill the tsar, kill the tsar, kill the tsar

Since I am not on Twitter, please compliment catchaspark for me.

[lannamichaels]

oh the weather outside is dreary,
and the workers all are weary,
but since we know where we are,
kill the tsar, kill the tsar, kill the tsar

*falls over laughing* Beautiful. :D

[seekingferret]

I'm dreaming of a Red Nittl
for all the workers that I know

[sperrywink]

Radical Jewish Christmas Carol Covers is the best concept I have heard all year. Sometimes I have hope for humanity. *g*

[skygiants]

she truly does deserve all the accolades for this

[skygiants]

RIGHT, it brings me such joy!

[skygiants]

👍👍👍

[skygiants]

IT'S ONLY FAIR

[seekingferret]

I'm sorry, it's two weeks later and I cannot get over how angry the Goyische Hallelujah makes me. What the fuck? And everything that's actually significant about the changes makes me angry, but the thing that most enrages me is their consistent refusal to actually rhyme anything with the word Hallelujah.