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[skygiants]

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!

Comments

[aamcnamara]

I did think, while reading Addendums: lol I think this crossover bit is with The Magnus Archives, I should tell Becca about this fic

[skygiants]

well I mean you WERE right

[aamcnamara]

The thought crossed my mind you might have written it, but in truth, that is not the reason I did not tell you about it; I just forgot

[teenybuffalo]

"Addendums" was great!

[skygiants]

aw thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

[superborb]

I feel like it's traditional to end up getting assigned to a close friend and have to white lie for Yuletide.

[skygiants]

It's important to hone one's skills in deception! (This is the first time it's happened to me for Yuletide, though -- I've done it for other, smaller exchanges, but usually I trust in Yuletide to be large enough to save me.)