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Yuletide Letter 2019 ♥

2019-11-01T00:36:53Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

First off, I'm very sorry for being tardy on getting this letter up. Work has been eating me alive and then my wifi at home had the nerve to collapse, gurgle, and die on me. But thanks for being so patient with me, a Mess of a Human Being. *insert prayer hands emoji*

When it comes to fic, the optional details below are optional. I will be extremely happy with anything you write that has my requested characters in it. ♥♥♥ But if you'd like more detail, I can tell you that I don't have any major triggers, and I'm open to liking any genre, style, or level of sexual explicitness.

A laundry list of tropes I love: pining (I love pining so much), slow burn, dorks, distinctive narrative voices, ridiculous plots and tropes, anything that can make me laugh, anything that can make me cry, hopeful endings, open endings, genre subversions, friendship, teams, separation and reunion, characters being passionate about really niche interests, good people trying to be good even when it's hard, not-so-good people trying to be good when it's even harder, waking up together, time travel.

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Yuletide Letter 2018 ♥

2018-10-20T21:51:07Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you very much for writing something for me! It's been kind of a tradition for me to throw this letter up last minute, for which I am properly apologetic - i am the woooorst, I'm sorry. Below are some details about things I quite enjoy in fics, and some more discussion of the fandoms that I requested, but optional details are always optional. I'm not the greatest at coming up with specific prompts, unfortunately - I often only have a vague sense of what I'd like. But the plus side is i am genuinely very easy to please and ultimately if you enjoy writing something then I will be beyond happy to read it. I hope Yuletide is a fun, low-stress event for you this year!

I do not have any major squicks or triggers, and I'm open to liking any genre, style, or level of sexual explicitness. My favourite things to read are humour and detailed, plotty stuff. A genre I am less likely to seek out is hurt/comfort, and these days I don't read AUs as much as I used to (with the exception of canon divergence AUs). But with that said I am not anti h/c or AU at all, have definitely written many myself, and would likely enjoy a fic written for me in those genres.

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Yuletide Letter 2017 ♥

2017-10-08T02:51:05Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you very much for writing something for me! First off I apologize for getting this actual letter up kind of late, and hope you will forgive me. Below are some details about things I quite enjoy in fics, and some more discussion of the fandoms that I requested, but optional details are always optional. Ultimately if you enjoy writing something then I will be beyond happy to read it. I hope Yuletide is a fun, low-stress event for you this year!

I do not have any major squicks or triggers, and I'm open to liking any genre, style, or level of sexual explicitness. My favourite things to read are humour and detailed, plotty stuff. A genre I am less likely to seek out is hurt/comfort, and these days I don't read AUs as much as I used to (with the exception of canon divergence AUs). But with that said I am not anti h/c or AU at all, have definitely written many myself, and would likely enjoy a fic written for me in those genres.

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Story: Strange Lexicons

2014-12-22T14:41:24Z

The December issue of Shousetsu Bang*Bang is probably my favourite issue because 1) it comes right at the time of the year when I get the urge to read something heavy and meaty and awesome, and 2) so many talented writers contribute to it! So I'm super stoked that the December issue is up today. Read it here.

I have a contribution too: Strange Lexicons. (Illustrated by the marvelous beili).

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Story: Let X Be Y

2013-06-26T04:45:28Z

The SSBB Heroes & Villains has hit the stands, and this is my contribution! Wherein we have nerd romance to the max.

Superheroes, whee! Nerds, yay! Art by mincamo, even better!

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New SSBB issue out!

2013-03-25T15:51:54Z

L-L-L-LADIES. ♫

It's spring-time, and you know what that means. SSBB has their annual f/f issue out, which you should never walk to but rather sprint to as if your life depends on it (because it's true: I find my life a sad and bereft place without a regular dose of awesome queer women). Anyway, I have a story in this issue, illustrated by the effing fantastic beili. This is the sort of story where you can see why I would never make it as a mystery writer. I do, however, hope to have a full and fulfilling career as a professional pastry-eater.

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Fic: Xanadu in Three Acts

2013-02-16T02:12:31Z

Fic for Nellie on the occasion of her wedding! :D

Title: Xanadu in Three Acts
Fandom: Mass Effect
Rating: PG
Pairing: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Warnings: Character death
Word count: 4k

You can read the story here.

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On the skin of an orange peel

2013-01-01T18:36:52Z

New Year's! Yuletide reveals! I spent most of the night being sick and hacking into my kleenex while watching Gravity Falls, because that devilish fandom pusher sorrynotsorry told me to (watch Gravity Falls, that is, not the hacking part. That would be mighty devilish).

For Yuletide, I wrote two fics for two lovely recipients:

Tigers Tonight for rethira (Persona 3, Akihiko/Shinjiro). aka Akihiko is pretty when he's sad, and Shinjiro is tired of putting up with it.

Turn the Clock Upside Down for sumeria (Princess Tutu, Ahiru/Fakir). aka I couldn't resist delving into Princess Tutu fic for Yuletide again, and QUACK QUACK ROBOT.

meiface, being magic, guessed both of these fics, so expect something in your mail soon! :DDDD

:::

2013: the year in which I resolve to be less of an antisocial zombie, and to wear matching socks.

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Waddle down the holly-decked halls

2012-12-25T23:55:42Z

Back in Toronto for the holidays! It's been a busy season -- a busy year, if we want to get technical about it, what with graduating and moving out west and then (two weeks ago) getting promoted to a full-time permanent librarian, hooray hooray. (Which means, of course, that my mother immediately skyped in and said to me, "Now that you've got your career nailed down, it's time to think about finding a boy and starting your family." Words to make me break out in hives, those).

It is also YULETIDE! And this year I got not one, but two fabulous stories fdasjka;fa

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Story notes for "The Eye and the Eye"

2012-12-17T18:14:20Z

Iiiiiiiiiit's SSBB time, baby! This is the December big bang issue, where the going gets big and the big gets going, and I am happy to say that I have a contribution! This one is pretty dark, though, so I'll give you a warning for violence, child abuse, prostitution, drug addiction, and attempted suicide. You know, the typical cocktail of evils when living in a Victorian slum.

Why are you running away ;_____;

Story notes:

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Fic: If Through a Door

2012-10-30T01:39:39Z

Yeah, somehow I was flaky enough to pick my Cap/Iron posting date as the same day as SSBB. Oops. Won't make that mistake again.

Title: If Through a Door
Fandom: The Avengers
Artist: tripperfunster and niki_chidon
Pairing: Steve/Tony
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 42k
Warnings: Some violence and discussion of a gruesome murder; the violence is not particularly graphic and the murder happens off-screen.
Comments: Written for the Cap/Iron Man Big Bang!

Link to Art: trippfunster
Link to Art Niki (forthcoming)

Read it here.

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There's an apple turnover underneath the darkness of your soul

2012-09-03T02:46:18Z

I think it's a really great feeling, in the mornings when the sunlight is peeling into my eyes as I sit on the bus, my ipod plugged into my ears, coffee warming the dry skin of my hands -- I think it's a really great feeling, to love what you do for a living, to be happy to be there every day. I feel lucky.

My new job isn't perfect, oh god no. There have been some budgeting issues and bureaucracy with my hours that have made me rage. Sometimes you do what you love, and sometimes you do what you gotta. Next year, one of the librarians in my department is retiring, and unless I make a dick of things, they'll probably offer me her permanent job. It's just a waiting game.

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Fic: How to Lose a Super Soldier in One Easy Step

2012-08-23T06:57:11Z

Title: How to Lose a Super Soldier in One Easy Step
Fandom: The Avengers
Authors: and_backagain & jibrailis
Rating:
Characters/Pairings: Tony/Steve
Word Count: 19,000
Warnings: There's definitely quite a bit of chit chat about death, and one of the characters begins the story dead, though he doesn't stay that way.
Summary: Rogers jerks backwards, shock registering on his face, and Tony thinks, welcome back to the land of the living, Cap, looks like you're sticking around. Or, a Pushing Daisies AU.

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Fic: And the Whole World Waiting

2012-07-29T02:45:03Z

Title: And the Whole World Waiting
Fandom: The Social Network
Rating: PG
Characters : Erica Albright/Christy Lee
Word Count: 3k
Warnings: None.
Summary: Her name is on the masthead, up at the top. Erica Albright, co-founder, right beside the ubiquitous Christina Lee, founder and CEO. (Alternate Universe).

Link goes to AO3.

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The royal society for the proliferation of dolphins with monocles

2012-06-21T19:25:12Z

1. Yes, be very afraid: I am now joining the ranks of the professionally employed. Long story short: I graduated with my library science degree in April, wallowed in unhappiness for a while because omg no one is hiring, I am a failure, etc, and managed to snag one interview, which magically turned into one job offer! So this story has a happy ending. I am now the newest librarian at a major public library system in western Canada!! *___*

This does mean I'll have to move, but fortunately I have friends and family in the city. I've already gotten permission to rent a room in someone's basement until I find my own place, yayyyy.

2. Summertime means books and lemonade, and I really want to rec Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which is a dense but eloquent history of cancer both in terms of biology and society. ( Also, a huge huge rec for... )

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Fic: We Learned By Doing

2012-06-02T21:36:51Z

Title: We Learned By Doing
Fandom: The Avengers
Rating: PG
Characters: Tony/Steve, the rest of the Avengers
Word Count: 5k
Warnings: spoilers for the film
Comments: The one in which all the Avengers are women.

Link goes to AO3.

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Fic: The Sky and Everything Beneath It

2012-05-17T21:52:16Z

Title: The Sky and Everything Beneath It
Fandom: The Avengers
Rating: G
Word Count: 7k
Characters: Steve and the rest of the team
Warnings: none
Comments: The idea for this fic belongs to intomorning, who said: " Oh! So... where does Steve go after the end of the movie? I mean, I heard he's supposed to stick with SHIELD? I think he deserves a break though esp with being a Capsicle for 70 years and then going straight to superhero-ing. I kind of want to see him taking a road trip... but then the Avengers keep popping up."

Sarah, this one's for you.

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What I wrote (the slightly dazed and confused remix)

2012-04-30T06:12:22Z

Remix reveals are up! and now I know that and we'll never be lonely anymore was written by the lovely duckgirlie. ♥ 'My Big, Fat Slightly Annoying Wedding' (the original fic) was totally not a fic I would have anticipated being picked, but that's the beauty of remix, seeing how someone else's brain works tinkering with your stories. And what a brain indeed.

As for what I wrote, I can tell you I had one fic for the main collection and two for Remix Madness.

My assignment fic was Be No Stranger (All Your Saints and Soldiers Remix), which was Steve/Tony for the Avengers fandom and a remix of gyzym's it should follow you know this (like the panels of a comic strip).

( Line by line, we never recline. )

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Story: Your heart an open flame

2012-04-26T20:34:58Z

Here's an epilogue to my SSBB story Unidentified Friendship Objective. I wrote it ages ago, except for a few scenes, and then I left it languishing on my hard drive. Recently I found it again and decided to dust it off and finish it.

This is pure schmoop. Oh my god, it is so schmoopy. I don't even. If I remember correctly, I started writing it as a pick-me-up after a long week. /o\

( Lysandros is from Venus, Felix is from the USS Enterprise. )

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With completely steady hands, Arthur opens the box

2012-04-23T01:14:00Z

Remix went live today! And a lovely, generous anon has written me and we'll never be lonely anymore, a remix of my rather silly piece 'My Big Fat Slightly Annoying Wedding.' The remix takes the conceit of the original fic (Arthur and Eames get married! Everyone meddles!) and turns it into a sweet, tender story about people we love, both romantically and otherwise, and the ways we want those we love to be happy.

eeeeeee. ♥

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AO3 meme, by the numbers

2012-04-20T18:24:22Z

Meme time! My top 10 AO3 fics by hit count.

1. The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark (Avengers, Steve/Tony)
2. Mr. July (Avengers, Steve/Tony)
3. Throw Your Back Into It (Social Network, Mark/Eduardo)
4. Antimony (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
5. The World, Double (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
6. His Lordship Makes a Match (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
7. Mr. Eames and Mr. Eames (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
8. A Piece of the Plate (Got Stuck In My Heart) (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
9. Good to the Last Drop (Inception, Arthur/Eames)
10. The Short Fuse and the Long Con (Inception, Arthur/Eames)

( It's like mahjong in closets. )

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March on, March

2012-03-09T01:24:14Z

I have managed, in the past two weeks, to break both my netbook and my ereader. The first by having a water bottle leak in my backpack, the second by having it fall on the floor and then accidentally stepping on it in the dark.

March is already beginning with rage, frustration, and social anxiety. I really didn't need this.

Coincidentally, I have become the sort of person who waits outside liquor stores at opening hour (in my own defense, I just happened to be in the neighbourhood. Erm, yes).

( There is nothing more precise than the sound of your head against the wall. )

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Fic: The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark

2012-03-01T20:23:26Z

Title: The Last Love Song of Anthony E. Stark
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Steve/Tony, some Loki/Sif
Rating: R
Word Count: 42k
Warnings: violence
Comments: This story would not be possible without the brilliance and generosity of my three incredible betas: sorrynotsorry, torra, and starlingthefool. Not only did they tackle this fic like champs, they also put up with my whining, ranting, and raving. Their sainthood should be arriving any day in the mail now.

Link goes to AO3.

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The only solution to this is to retcon everything

2012-02-18T00:45:09Z

This post has been brought to you by the Association of Disassociated Thoughts.

1. Thank you to everybody who sent me V-Day gifts! My love for you is immense, like a hippopotamus rising majestically from the clouds.

2. I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I enjoyed it a lot, but my inability to keep track of people's faces meant the plot pretty much sent me into the Land of Confusion. No, seriously. I am awful with faces. It took me half an hour into the movie before I realized why Guillam looked so familiar. All the while I was wondering when Benedict Cumberbatch was going to show up in the movie. /headdesk

( The sound of popcorn is more pleasing than the taste. )

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Fic: Antimony

2012-02-04T17:12:11Z

[Antimony]

Illustrated by bluelittlepig

( If you're going to run, then you need good shoes. )

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