metonymy

media 2026

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:55:35 GMT

( stuff I watched )

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Dear Yuletide Writer 2025

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:33:27 GMT

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.

( signup below! )

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media 2025

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 02:36:16 GMT

( media 2025 )

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Yuletide 2024!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:44:48 GMT

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 )

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naomi has theater opinions

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:12:01 GMT

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.

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dear yuletide writer 2023

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:57:08 GMT

( DNWs and likes )

( Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery )

( Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey )

( Gucci Fragrance Guilty 2023 Commercials )

( Worlds Beyond Number (Podcast) )

( Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) )

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media 2023

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:24:27 GMT

( films, shows, etc. )

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yuletide letter 2022

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:14:24 GMT

Hello Yuletide Writer!
( DNWs and likes )

( Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) )

( Exandria Unlimited: Calamity )

( The Gilded Age )

( Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022) )

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Thu, 06 Jan 2022 03:23:05 GMT

( media 2022 )

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yuletide 2021: dear author

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:07:25 GMT

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 )

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yuletide recs!

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:17:12 GMT

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 )

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DEAR YULETIDE WRITER 2K19

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:02:03 GMT

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! )

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Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:50:59 GMT

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.

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Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:12:15 GMT

so, on the various stresses:

( again in numbers )

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time for a brain dump

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:10:16 GMT

REASONS I AM STRESSED OUT

( in convenient list form )

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Sun, 09 Jun 2019 02:03:39 GMT

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? )

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three weeks late and a dollar short

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:59:12 GMT

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. )

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YULETIDE 2018???

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:20:44 GMT

HELLO YULETIDE WRITER. I love this exchange, I love the tradition, and I am excited for another year! I'm mostly active on Tumblr these days, and a little bit active on AO3 here.

General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships and found families, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind.

General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, infidelity, bearding, A/B/O, watersports, scat, eye and dental trauma.

( Cinderella (Bourne) )

( Stardust (2007) )

( The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton )

( Tam Lin - Pamela Dean )

( Ghost Quartet - Malloy )

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media in 2018

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:03:57 GMT

( everythingggg )

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yooltied

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:47:11 GMT

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… ( the rest of the recs )

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Sun, 07 May 2017 01:19:04 GMT

( A Good Day )

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Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:14:59 GMT

( rambling, marching, et al )

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dear yuletide author

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:57:11 GMT

HELLO YULETIDE WRITER. Thank you for your patience while I finished this letter - I was caught off guard by how early noms and signups were, and I definitely did not expect assignments to go out this fast. I've been doing Yuletide for a fair few years now, and I really do love it as an exchange.

General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships and found families, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind.

General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, infidelity, incest, bearding, A/B/O, mpreg, watersports, scat.

( Fandoms: Hail Caesar!, Lunar Chronicles, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Hadestown, Critical Role )

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cheers. ta. cheers. ta.

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:44:31 GMT

This is mostly for my own reference! I took a two-week trip to the UK and got back Wednesday night and it was EXHAUSTING and GREAT and I had an amazing time!

( blah blah blah travelcakes )

And then I came home and took another few days of vacation to recover from jetlag, AND THEN. AAAAAAAAND THEN.

My sister moved to Colorado in March. She is loving it out there. But a couple months ago she messaged me and asked if I could help her out, because she was thinking of flying home to surprise my mom for her birthday (which is July 2d). And she wanted to keep it a secret from Mom AND Dad.

I said of course I would help, because I'm not a monster. She bought a ticket to fly into Boston on Saturday at like 2 AM. I talked my parents into coming out for Mom's birthday - it would be nice to get a change of scene, they could come see me but I wasn't coming out to see them after my big trip, wouldn't it be great for Mom to have her birthday with one of her kids. Sister and I proceeded to lie like rugs so that neither of them knew this was coming. She arrived as promised in spite of delays and my parents managed to make it out in spite of Mom's ever-changing health issues. AND IT WORKED. Mom cursed very loudly and dad made an amazing expression of surprise. And then there was cake and dinner and sister went home with them for the rest of the weekend. It was delightful. YAY US.

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dear yuletide writer 2015

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:48:56 GMT

HELLO, DEAREST WRITER. I've done Yuletide a few times now and every year I just get so pumped. It's a great exchange and I love both giving and receiving fic. If you'd like more information on what I like and what I'm a giant nerd about, you can check out my tumblr or my AO3. (It's kind of all Hamilton all the time on the tumblr right now, I apologize.)

General likes: humor, friendship, family relationships, adventures, happy endings, character studies, great dialogue, explorations of the world around the characters. Ratings from G to NC-17 are fine, though please keep the canon atmosphere in mind. I tend to focus on the women in my fandoms, and I'm primarily a canon shipper, though there's one big exception on this list that I'll get to.

General DNWs: graphic violence, rape, major character death, general grimdarkness, incest, A/B/O, watersports, scat. I'm also not super into body horror. (By which I mean I am a GIANT WIMP.)

( A Year and a Day in Old Theradane )

( Hamilton )

( Raven Cycle )

( Stardust )

( Uprooted )

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