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Jan. 1st, 2026 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsAha! it's Yuletide reveals time!
So my Yuletide recipient this year wasgenarti, who is either just about to find out this fact from my post, or has known for weeks and is just biding her time to reveal her knowledge and I'm just about to find out that fact after she reads this. Stay tuned for breaking developments!
So, for her, I wrote The Villainous Princess Saves Her Kingdom, a fix-it fic for the kdrama Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born about the most dysfunctional lesbian of that whole cast of lesbians picking up various postcanon pieces of herself and incidentally the rest of the troupe.
HOWEVER, for obvious reasons, I had to immediately come up with a decoy fic, so from the beginning having readraven's Yuletide letter at the same time I happened to be rereading The Dispossessed I decided I was also going to write a treat for raven that I would present to genarti as my assignment, which ended up as More A Comment Than A Question, a strange little timebending fic about Shevek's daughter contacting Laia Aseio Odo through time and space and not really necessarily making the most of it.
Tangled webs, etc; after I had confidently reported submitting my decoy fic on deadline togenarti, raven's prompt went to the pinch-hit list and I had to frantically fake a different panic than the panic I was actually feeling -- ANYWAY. Hilariously, raven discovered my identity immediately due to the usernames reveal error whereas genarti was at church through that entire event and thus remained completely oblivious (unless, of course, she isn't, see first paragraph above.) A very chaotic Yuletide on several fronts! But I had a lot of fun writing both fics although I would prefer not to be wrangling quite this much deception every year.
So my Yuletide recipient this year was
genarti, who is either just about to find out this fact from my post, or has known for weeks and is just biding her time to reveal her knowledge and I'm just about to find out that fact after she reads this. Stay tuned for breaking developments! So, for her, I wrote The Villainous Princess Saves Her Kingdom, a fix-it fic for the kdrama Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born about the most dysfunctional lesbian of that whole cast of lesbians picking up various postcanon pieces of herself and incidentally the rest of the troupe.
HOWEVER, for obvious reasons, I had to immediately come up with a decoy fic, so from the beginning having read
raven's Yuletide letter at the same time I happened to be rereading The Dispossessed I decided I was also going to write a treat for raven that I would present to genarti as my assignment, which ended up as More A Comment Than A Question, a strange little timebending fic about Shevek's daughter contacting Laia Aseio Odo through time and space and not really necessarily making the most of it. Tangled webs, etc; after I had confidently reported submitting my decoy fic on deadline to
genarti, raven's prompt went to the pinch-hit list and I had to frantically fake a different panic than the panic I was actually feeling -- ANYWAY. Hilariously, raven discovered my identity immediately due to the usernames reveal error whereas genarti was at church through that entire event and thus remained completely oblivious (unless, of course, she isn't, see first paragraph above.) A very chaotic Yuletide on several fronts! But I had a lot of fun writing both fics although I would prefer not to be wrangling quite this much deception every year.
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Date: 2026-01-02 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-01-02 01:42 am (UTC)Glad it was a fun Yuletide, even with the stress of deception! <3
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Date: 2026-01-02 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-02 02:02 am (UTC)Massive kudos to the game not being given away until LITERALLY THIS POST, dang! xD
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Date: 2026-01-02 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-01-02 01:53 am (UTC)BECCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL THIS EXPLAINS HOW INCREDIBLY TAILORED TO MY INTERESTS IT WAS AND HOW INCREDIBLY GOOD IT WAS, HUH
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Date: 2026-01-02 02:06 am (UTC)Kdrama-appropriate levels of drama achieved, then.
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Date: 2026-01-02 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-01-02 02:44 am (UTC)But I don’t think I had nearly such a good strategy for hiding it! I’m pretty sure I just lied to her and invented someone else’s prompt which was for a series of (maybe Barbara Hambly?) books she hadn’t read and would’ve had a hard time acquiring. And we lived in different states at the time, which (epic gchat annals notwithstanding) made the whole deception a lot easier. All of which is to say, my sympathy for the conundrum and admiration for your success!!
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Date: 2026-01-02 03:00 am (UTC)(And much kudos on the subterfuge, hee!)
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Date: 2026-01-02 03:10 am (UTC)(My wife and I have discussed our mutually agreeable contingency plans for if we ever get assigned to one another in Yuletide - it hasn't happened yet!)
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Date: 2026-01-02 03:14 am (UTC)AMAZING. Congratulations on (as I see in the comments) your successful deception!! :-DDD