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COMING IN UNDER THE WIRE! I wanted to get this in before reveals AND I DID. (I read a LOT of fic this week.)

First of all, I received THREE gifts this year, I am positively spoiled:

Have Yourself A Merry Little GLOWmas, for the Netflix series GLOW; a Christmas party that goes predictably and is a beautiful little illumination of Debbie and Ruth's faltering journey back towards maybe-friendship.

Stars and Crossbones, for the Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo, Inej/Nina. Space pirates AU, updates the canon to the new setting flawlessly, characterization utterly perfect, and my girls being perfect.

Waffles, also for Six of Crows, a Madness ficlet with Nina and Inej FINALLY getting their waffles, and super adorable to boot.

And now for…
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13051596
"so come home," 12 Dancing Princesses
Space AU that focuses hard on the mystery aspects and is just so great. It's a novella. Grab a cup of tea and settle in.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13135581
"only a full house gonna have a prayer," 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future
Voyager 2 has been out there an awful long time. If you liked this weird multimedia series about football and satellites and humanity, this is an outstanding follow-up.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/12937734
"walls yet to climb", Anastasia the Musical
Anya/Dmitry
First Christmases, memories and family and making a new life together and still being the kind of people who will bicker over everything.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13038576
"airs of space", Austin/Murry/O'Keefe Families - L'Engle
Alex Murry/Kate Murry
Really sweet slice-of-life about how the Murrys came to live in their farmhouse, and a beautiful portrait of their relationship that's from their perspective, not one of their kids'.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/12898524
"Sovereign," Brave (2012)
Merida/OFC
Marriage alliances are tricky, but Merida encounters an unorthodox solution to her problems. (A very cute unorthodox solution.)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13072971/chapters/29905605
"Impossible Magic," Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Cimorene/Mendanbar
Okay but why does Cimorene really decide sixteen years of waiting is okay? WHAT IF SHE DIDN'T? This is a 20K epic that answers that question and it is enormously satisfying and dead-on tonewise.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/12867336
"mutually-assured destruction, and other empty threats", GLOW
Debbie/Ruth
Ruth knows she and Debbie aren't friends anymore, but what they are now is more complicated than that.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13134345
"Care and Feeding of Your Janet," The Good Place
A user manual for your Janet.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/12801054
"Attempt #534: The One With The Bees," The Good Place
Chidi/Eleanor
“The universe doesn’t want us to have sex, okay?”

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13045962
"so slip your hand inside of my glove," The Handmaiden
Hideko/Sook-hee
A post-canon fic that gives us a happy ending that's not perfect but feels absolutely right.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13041522
"Endless is the Good," Lilo and Stitch
Nani introspection and both pre and post-canon. The movie makes me sob, as a big sister who would take a bullet for her siblings, and this made me cry too.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13021464
"It wasn't anger, but longing," Persuasion
Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth
LOOK IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF AUS MOVING THROUGH CANON AND I'M WEAK

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/12964752
"Staunch," Six of Crows
Jesper/Wylan
A great little slice of post-canon focused on Jesper and how he tries to move forward in their new life.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13032306
"shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth", Six of Crows
Five times Inej thought "oh no" and one time she thought "oh yes." Jesper and Inej's friendship pre-books, and the very earliest flutterings of Inej/Kaz.

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2017/works/13052433
"On a Lavender Night," Wonder Woman
Diana and Etta Candy go undercover at a lesbian bar in Berlin, what else do you need to know.