( stuff I watched )
placeholder! letter TK - updated 10/29 to add my usual DNWs. Writer, I am heading into a ridiculously busy couple of sweeks so I do not know when I will be able to update more, and I know that that's a giant pain if you want to start writing now. I think all of the important info is in the signup and please feel free to send questions through the mods!
Overall DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, extreme gore, body horror, infidelity, bearding, homophobia and transphobia, fat hate, watersports, scat, eye and dental trauma.
Likes: Some angst and pain is okay if there's a happy ending. Friendships, bonds forged in adversity, banter, romance, trust. AUs are generally fine, especially if you do something interesting with them.
I am open to treats! And my AO3 name is metonymy, just like this journal.
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Overall DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, extreme gore, body horror, infidelity, bearding, homophobia and transphobia, fat hate, watersports, scat, eye and dental trauma.
Likes: Some angst and pain is okay if there's a happy ending. Friendships, bonds forged in adversity, banter, romance, trust. AUs are generally fine, especially if you do something interesting with them.
I am open to treats! And my AO3 name is metonymy, just like this journal.
( signup below! )
Letter is complete and finished as of October 22! Thank you for bearing with me while I recovered from jet lag.
I love Yuletide and I'm glad I could be a part of it again this year.
( DNWs, likes, and fandoms under the cut )
I love Yuletide and I'm glad I could be a part of it again this year.
( DNWs, likes, and fandoms under the cut )
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what's this, an entry? YES, I saw Theater and I have THOUGHTS
First a bit of backstory: about a week and a half ago I sprained my knee. I had bought tickets to see Sleep No More and Merrily We Roll Along for the 8th and 9th, and I really did not want to cancel my plans and miss the shows. I was wearing a knee brace and using a cane.
( Sleep No More )
AND THEN. The next day! I went to see Merrily We Roll Along!
( How did you get to be here? )
Not-theater related but important: I had a great solo dinner and then brought dessert back to my hotel and watched Barbie, which was fine. And I can recommend Bagel Pub by Penn Station for a good big-style bagel.
First a bit of backstory: about a week and a half ago I sprained my knee. I had bought tickets to see Sleep No More and Merrily We Roll Along for the 8th and 9th, and I really did not want to cancel my plans and miss the shows. I was wearing a knee brace and using a cane.
( Sleep No More )
AND THEN. The next day! I went to see Merrily We Roll Along!
( How did you get to be here? )
Not-theater related but important: I had a great solo dinner and then brought dessert back to my hotel and watched Barbie, which was fine. And I can recommend Bagel Pub by Penn Station for a good big-style bagel.
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Hello Yuletide Writer!
( DNWs and likes )
( Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) )
( Exandria Unlimited: Calamity )
( The Gilded Age )
( Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) )
( DNWs and likes )
( Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) )
( Exandria Unlimited: Calamity )
( The Gilded Age )
( Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) )
HELLO YULETIDE AUTHOR. First of all, thank you for your patience! This letter is complete as of 10/31/21.
What a year it's been, huh? Above all I hope you enjoy yourself writing this story. I'm not in it for anything super dark or tragic this year given the state of the world, but I hope I've given you enough room to write something you have fun with. If you have any questions feel free to contact the mods to pass questions along for me.
( info below the cut )
What a year it's been, huh? Above all I hope you enjoy yourself writing this story. I'm not in it for anything super dark or tragic this year given the state of the world, but I hope I've given you enough room to write something you have fun with. If you have any questions feel free to contact the mods to pass questions along for me.
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First off, I got a lovely story: 'Tis A Gift To Be Simple, for the musical adaptation of Legally Blonde, in which the author fills in a plot point I have always been annoyed by and Emmett invites Elle to Thanksgiving dinner with him and his mom. It's very sweet and exactly what I wanted.
I also got a treat in Yuletide Madness for Little Women, Romeo et Juliet, which is a brief but delightful "queer Jo March" story.
AND I really wanted to get this up before reveals, so there might be some additions to this later, but here are my recs as of 10:16 AM on 12/31.
( the rest of the recs under here )
I also got a treat in Yuletide Madness for Little Women, Romeo et Juliet, which is a brief but delightful "queer Jo March" story.
AND I really wanted to get this up before reveals, so there might be some additions to this later, but here are my recs as of 10:16 AM on 12/31.
( the rest of the recs under here )
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First of all, thank you for writing for me! I am very excited, and I love Yuletide in general - I've met some great people through it and I always enjoy the challenge of writing for someone, and getting a fic written just for me is delightful. Second, thank you for your patience, as of 11/6/19 this letter is now complete.
( requests and more behind the cut! )
( requests and more behind the cut! )
Here is a thing that is making me happy and that was too long for Twitter.
My sister became friends with J, a girl in her class, when they were in kindergarten. They were nearly inseparable for all of their childhood and adolescence, our parents became friends, they were constantly at sleepovers at each other's houses. When they were in high school, J's dad (working for a branch of the federal government) got a promotion and the family moved to Virginia, but the girls stayed in touch. All the way through college, all the way through to now, through terrible boyfriends and family tragedies and cross-country moves.
J's older sister, who's a little older than me, happens to live in Denver, where Isa lives now. And this week J is visiting her sister and her new nephew, and J and Isa have been hanging out. The pictures Isa has sent me are definitely different from the ones of the two of them in kindergarten - they're grown women, sitting in the front seat of her car, makeup on point, casually but comfortably dressed. My sister doesn't have huge glasses anymore, they're not both wearing pigtail braids. But their smiles are the same.
My sister became friends with J, a girl in her class, when they were in kindergarten. They were nearly inseparable for all of their childhood and adolescence, our parents became friends, they were constantly at sleepovers at each other's houses. When they were in high school, J's dad (working for a branch of the federal government) got a promotion and the family moved to Virginia, but the girls stayed in touch. All the way through college, all the way through to now, through terrible boyfriends and family tragedies and cross-country moves.
J's older sister, who's a little older than me, happens to live in Denver, where Isa lives now. And this week J is visiting her sister and her new nephew, and J and Isa have been hanging out. The pictures Isa has sent me are definitely different from the ones of the two of them in kindergarten - they're grown women, sitting in the front seat of her car, makeup on point, casually but comfortably dressed. My sister doesn't have huge glasses anymore, they're not both wearing pigtail braids. But their smiles are the same.
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So the Good Omens miniseries premiered last week. For various reasons it took me a week to get around to it.
And listen: Good Omens has been one of my favorite books since I was in high school. I loved my first copy so much it appears to have disintegrated into the ether. I bought a second copy when I was studying abroad in England because Terry Pratchett was doing a signing at the bookstore in our city (for a Discworld novel) and I waited in line and had him sign it and he was lovely and kind for the thirty seconds I talked to him. And then a friend was attending a Neil Gaiman signing and she had him sign the same copy, and I have the title page and cover in a frame (because the book itself was a misprinted paperback with a duplicated section and a chunk missing) and it's one of my treasures. I was on at least one mailing list for the book, and I remember reading a lot of very good fic about how Crowley and Aziraphale loved each other, and some about Adam and the Them that was also good, and reading people talk about some of the references that I didn't get yet. We reread it for our book club last month and I was surprised how much of the book I still have straight-up memorized. It holds up pretty well, for being written by two white straight dudes in England in the 1980s. I'm not as big a Neil Gaiman fan as I used to be, and I love the Pratchett I've read but I haven't seen any of the Discworld adaptations, and I was trying hard not to get my hopes up.
( I guess a cut for spoilers? )
And listen: Good Omens has been one of my favorite books since I was in high school. I loved my first copy so much it appears to have disintegrated into the ether. I bought a second copy when I was studying abroad in England because Terry Pratchett was doing a signing at the bookstore in our city (for a Discworld novel) and I waited in line and had him sign it and he was lovely and kind for the thirty seconds I talked to him. And then a friend was attending a Neil Gaiman signing and she had him sign the same copy, and I have the title page and cover in a frame (because the book itself was a misprinted paperback with a duplicated section and a chunk missing) and it's one of my treasures. I was on at least one mailing list for the book, and I remember reading a lot of very good fic about how Crowley and Aziraphale loved each other, and some about Adam and the Them that was also good, and reading people talk about some of the references that I didn't get yet. We reread it for our book club last month and I was surprised how much of the book I still have straight-up memorized. It holds up pretty well, for being written by two white straight dudes in England in the 1980s. I'm not as big a Neil Gaiman fan as I used to be, and I love the Pratchett I've read but I haven't seen any of the Discworld adaptations, and I was trying hard not to get my hopes up.
( I guess a cut for spoilers? )
HELLO PALS. I had grand plans for a timely Yuletide reclist but we're most of the way through January and I am accepting defeat. Here are fics I liked!
First up: I received Common Ground, a Tam Lin fic that covers Janet and Tina facing their term without Molly. I really enjoyed this! (Out of the three Tam Lin stories in this year's archive I received one and wrote a second. The third is also amazing.)
( AND NOW, THE REST. )
First up: I received Common Ground, a Tam Lin fic that covers Janet and Tina facing their term without Molly. I really enjoyed this! (Out of the three Tam Lin stories in this year's archive I received one and wrote a second. The third is also amazing.)
( AND NOW, THE REST. )
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