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2020-01-01 01:12 am
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yuletide reveals! (if anybody attempted to guess my fic, I didn't see it)

speak truth to knowledge by equivalence relation (1656 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caged Cyborg & Hooded Cyborg
Characters: Caged Cyborg (Ready For It), Hooded Cyborg (Ready For It), Original Trans Female Character, Original Male Character
Additional Tags: Dialogue-Only, Artificial Intelligence, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Identity Issues, Queer Themes
Summary:

severalty: the sole ownership of property by someone

cage:
• to confine in a barred enclosure; to put into and keep in something that hinders freedom
• to restrict someone's movement or creativity


hood:
• a covering for the head attached to a larger garment
• an enclosure that protects something, especially from above

forethought:
• thinking beforehand or in advance, planning; prior or previous consideration; premeditation
• provident care; prudence


[tumblr.com profile] prettyboysdontlookatexplosions, when reccing this, described it as a marvelously weird, slightly creepy, linguistically intelligent, formally inventive science-fiction story about cyborgs learning with an assist from fairy tales, used to great contrasting effect

and I p much melted in a puddle of joy because clearly I did the thing right

…though in the interest of full disclosure, I should mention I got the complete draft posted to AO3 with nine hours to spare before deadline, having gotten to T minus twelve hours without getting one single word on the screen…
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2019-12-31 09:38 am
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you know what, let's play. anyone who guesses before author reveals which Yuletide fic is the one I wrote, I will write you a thing of some mutually agreeable description.

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([personal profile] silveradept, the beta a Yuletide Discord hippo found me, and anyone on the access filter I drafted it on are banned from this game for obvious reasons.)
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2019-12-28 11:18 am
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no [community profile] fanfic_friday post this week? okay then, Yuletide recs can go here I guess

4'33" - John Cage (Song)
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey
Emelan - Tamora Pierce
Mulan (1998)
Untitled Goose Game (Video Game)
The Lion King - Civil Rights Movement Era Harlem (Gifset)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Jolene - Dolly Parton (Song)
Ever After (1998)
Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF

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2019-12-25 03:50 pm
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*excited squeaking*

lookit my Yuletide gift!

A Silent Triptych (1092 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 4'33" - John Cage (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: written for the Yorkshire Tourist Board, Unnecessarily pretentious, second person narrative
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2019-11-15 02:34 pm
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brains. why.

Me: I should watch the last three eps before working on any of the current projects; where the firelight fades is absolutely not changing for the finale and probably isn't for "Felix" either, but at least one of the current projects I should know what canon is on certain things before deciding whether to ignore it. Also watching "Chat Blanc" in English dub and "Ladybug" in production code order would be a good thing.

Also Me: I can't watch any episodes right now.

Me: …why not?

Also Me: not allowed!

Me: …why not?

Also Me: stuff to do first!

Me: …why? what stuff?

Also Me:

Me:

Also Me:

Me:

Me: *wracks brain*

Me: Literally the only things I can think of I have to do today are (1) watch for a delivery (2) canon consumption/review (3) fic.

Me: and I bet I'm not allowed to rewatch the other two canons either.

Also Me: nope, not allowed, stuff to do first

Me:

Me: aaaaugh
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2019-10-29 02:18 pm
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dear yuletide writer!

ɬax̣ayam! Dia dhaoibh! Khairete! Hello! My AO3 name is [personal profile] AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki).


I am explicitly open to crossovers between my requests. I am totally here for poetry treats (or poetry full assignment if you are nuts like me—for srs I'm nuts), and interactive and/or choose-your-own-adventure fiction. Also genderbending, racebending, queer headcanons, trans and genderqueer headcanons, neurodivergent headcanons, and other flavors of respectful representation of marginalized people.

Likes: FEMSLASH. GEN. Het centering and empowering the woman. Polyamory. Ladies being awesome. People of color being awesome. Queer people being awesome. Trans and genderqueer people being awesome. People of minority religions (especially polytheists, ancestor worshippers, and animists) being awesome. Disabled people being awesome. Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people being awesome. Mentally ill people being awesome. Competence kink. Nonperfect people having nonperfect relationships (whether familial, platonic, romantic, or sexual) but all parties are good people trying to make the relationship work as best they know how. Ordinary people caught in extraordinary events. Worldbuilding!

Dislikes: Non- or dub-con sexual activity and anything that contributes to rape culture. Sexual and/or romantic relationships that break the xkcd 314 rule, which is to say, if a character's age is x, the youngest someone they're involved with can be is ((x/2) + 7) and the oldest someone they're involved with can be is 2(x - 7)—immortal characters break the letter of this rule as a matter of course, so if relevant, use your judgment on how to abide by its spirit. Magically healed disability. Anything that sets off my embarrassment squick—avoid public humiliation, for instance. Anything sexy involving eating or excreting (though if you want to write food porn in the sense of conveying what a tasty meal the characters are having, go to town) (and no, this doesn't bar one character eating out another, as long as there's no food in that bit). Disrespectful treatment of polytheism, ancestor worship, and/or animism. Disrespectful treatment of [insert marginalized group here]. "Idiot ball" (which trope needs a less ableist name).


4'33" - John Cage (Song)
I could say a lot about exploring what do we mean by 'art' (and/or 'craft(s)') and what do we mean by 'artist(s)' and what do we mean by 'audience' and how these interact on various levels, but let's be honest: you probably had a story in mind when you offered this canon. I want that story.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Cartoon 1966)
The Grinch (also nominated: Max, Cindy Lou Who, The Whos)
What brought the Grinch to his solitary cave? Post-movie, how does he build and maintain relationships with Cindy Lou and the other Whos, and how much of that involves hiding in the cave with no one but maybe Max? He seems very autistic to me—how do the Whos adapt to make visiting the village more accessible for him?

Something Familiar - S. N. Arly
Brigitte Defresne-Li; Hēi Māo | Jacque Parenteau (also nominated: Pierre Parenteau)
The future of Brigitte and Hēi Māo's relationship, please. How they, individually or together, relate to Pierre, or to anyone else in their orbit. Worldbuilding?
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2019-10-04 10:02 am
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2018-12-28 10:26 am
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go and read my Yuletide gift delightfulness, like, seriously march

Interwoven Lives (1048 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Emelan - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Trisana Chandler & Daja Kisubo & Briar Moss & Sandrilene fa Toren
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary:

A lifetime of Sandry's work


(I am refraining from reccing my other gift at this time because it is a chaptered work and AO3 would rather give me a 503 than the second chapter, but, like, watch this space)

Pearl of my Heart (1960 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Emelan - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rizuka fa Dalach/Daja Kisubo, Daja Kisubo/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Daja Kisubo, Briar Moss, Sandrilene fa Toren, Trisana Chandler, Little Bear (Circle of Magic), OFC, Jorality Bancanor
Additional Tags: Misses Clause Challenge, Trans Female Character
Summary:

5 times Daja's family took the measure of her new love, and 1 time Daja made her own assessment

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2018-12-25 08:55 am
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dear the writers of my yuletide fics

I am here but apparently it's a shittastic mental health day* so I'm just gonna ignore those gift notifications for a while on account of it is not fair to you if my first impression of your work is based around "it is a shittastic mental health day" and not, y'know, the actual merits of your work. sorry :(


* my first Christmas any distance from my parents, and I don't plan to acknowledge their existence. who could have predicted this.
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2018-10-18 04:50 pm
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Yuletide 2018 letter

ɬax̣ayam! Dia dhaoibh! Khairete! Hello!

My AO3 name is [personal profile] AlexSeanchai (EllieMurasaki), and let me reassure you at the jump that optional details are optional. I tend to babble, I really do, and I think my copy-paste from earlier letters gets longer every letter!

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2018-06-21 11:14 am
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I remember that a few Yuletides ago someone's gift was an interactive fiction. I don't remember the fandom or the settings clearly enough to describe them, but I do remember that one had to play through several times in order to win it, and if one had collected an item or performed an action at one spot in one play-through then one would have the item and see different text at that spot in later play-throughs.

HALP WHERE IS
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2018-01-03 02:00 pm
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snowflake day 3 slash yuletide recs post

[community profile] snowflake_challenge!

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

Mordre, She Wroot (8040 words) by sistermagpie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wife of Bath, Second Nun, The Host (Canterbury Tales), Pardoner (Canterbury Tales), Clerk (Canterbury Tales), Prioress (Canterbury Tales)
Summary:

At least one pilgrim will not make it to Canterbury.




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2017-12-10 03:55 am
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I can't sleep so I read Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

It's a f/f contemporary romance novella starring two Jewish women, one's a small-batch yarn dyer and the other's a painter with stuff in art shows, Florida is practically a character in its own right here, they're fannish

Sweetest return on a two-buck investment I've seen in quite a while

Eeeeeeeee

oh and if the yarn dyeing thing interests you

Also re #ownvoices: Glassman is Jewish, and clearly it matters to Glassman that she's Jewish. So of course the Jewish cast are all treating each other's Judaism with the deepest of respect. And I'm not Jewish? But I'm also not a member of the locally dominant religion in the US? And—having in American lit characters who are not Christian being treated respectfully wrt religion by the narrative and the other characters? It just hit me how rarely you get that. With respect to my own (much smaller) religious tradition, I hope to write the sort of story that Glassman wrote here with respect to her Judaism.

(Jesus Haploid Christ I hope either she doesn't see that or she finds it complimentary—it's meant complimentary but that doesn't mean the transposition will be taken that way)

And! Explicitly trans characters exist and are treated respectfully!

...yeah so I'm already taking notes for what to nominate for Yuletide 2018 :P

OH AND! the sisterly relationship! *_* and the leads explicitly respect each other's agency and consent
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2017-10-10 11:38 am
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*does the happy Yuletide-assignments dance*
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2017-09-30 10:08 pm
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dear yuletide giftwrapper!

Hi there! My AO3 name is [personal profile] AlexSeanchai, and let me reassure you at the jump that optional details are optional.

I should also advise you up front that I am a Hellenic polytheist, ancestor worshipper, and animist, and I am really hoping to see, anywhere it might come up, respect for my religious beliefs. (I'm only skewing my requests a little in favor of stories about my religious beliefs, this year.) This hope is an optional detail, but I want to highlight the DNW of "Disrespect to my religious beliefs".

I am explicitly welcoming crossovers between my requests.

I am totally here for the Wrapping Paper art treat challenge, Misses Clause, Chromatic Yuletide, Femslash Festivus, and Yuleporn. Also here for poetry (if you are nuts like me [for srs I'm nuts] and/or writing a treat) and interactive fiction.

Likes: FEMSLASH. GEN. Ladies being awesome. People of color being awesome. Queer people being awesome. Trans and genderqueer people being awesome. People of minority religions (especially polytheists, ancestor worshippers, and animists) being awesome. Disabled people being awesome. Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people being awesome. Mentally ill people being awesome. Competence kink. Nonperfect people having nonperfect relationships (whether familial, platonic, romantic, or sexual) but all parties are good people trying to make the relationship work as best they know how. Ordinary people caught in extraordinary events. Worldbuilding!

Likes if you're leaning porny: vanilla is a lovely thing but also there's bondage, body modification, endurance, nipple play (okay, really breast play, but [community profile] kink_wiki doesn't have a tag for that), sensation play, temperature play, impact play with the emphasis on play, toys toys toys, soft sensuous things, and writing.

Dislikes: Underage. Non-con. Anything that sets off my embarrassment squick—avoid public humiliation, for instance. Anything sexy involving eating or excreting (though if you want to write food porn in the sense of conveying what a tasty meal the characters are having, go to town). Disrespectful treatment of polytheism, ancestor worship, and/or animism. Disrespectful treatment of [insert marginalized group here]. Magically healed disability. "Idiot ball" (which trope needs a less ableist name). Cross-generational sexual and/or romantic relationships, though if an involved character does not, in my head, have an age, then it won't bother me as long as all the involved characters are clearly adult. (Deities don't have ages. Just flat out don't. Or rather, since they can appear as any age they like... Does that make sense?)


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2017-09-03 03:53 am
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SHIT IT'S ALMOST YULETIDE

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M NOMINATING

...right, I wanted—say, you know what would be nice? If my tablet had not abruptly decided COPY DOESN'T WORK—"Peace and Love, Inc. - Information Society (Song)". And I'd still like stories for "Mary Mary - SJ Tucker (Song)" and "Mother of the Crows - Seanan McGuire (Song)", and a particular bit of "Earthquake Weather - Seanan McGuire (Song)", and wait shit. I'm only allowed three noms...
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2017-04-12 04:21 pm
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Remind me next year to nominate "Peace & Love, Inc. - Information Society (Song)" for [community profile] jukebox_fest.

Or this fall for Yuletide! That would work too!
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2016-12-30 11:52 am
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YULETIDE RECS hurry before anon ends!

I'm just gonna dump all the links of everything that pleased me enough to comment on. \o/


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2016-12-25 08:53 pm
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Ooo, Madness fics!

The Strangest Dreams (100 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tarot (Divination Cards)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Magician/High Priestess (Tarot Cards)
Characters: Magician (Tarot Card), High Priestess (Tarot Card)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Introspection, Drabble, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational
Summary:

The Magician reflects on her relationship with the High Priestess.

*bounce*

Memory of Stone (200 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Neolithic Sites of Southern England (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Stonehenge (Henge), Avebury (Henge), Wayland's Smithy (Barrow)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Yuletide Madness 2016, Yuletide 2016, Drabble, Double Drabble, Seasons, Sacred Stones, liminal space
Summary:

The Stones speak to each other

POETRY I TELL YOU.
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2016-12-24 09:27 pm
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I have TWOOOOO Yulegifts!

Longhand Texting (1796 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: You Belong With Me - University of Rochester Yellowjackets (Music Video)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Glasses Guy/Jock Guy
Characters: Glasses Guy (You Belong With Me), Jock Guy (You Belong With Me), Girl (You Belong With Me)
Additional Tags: Pining, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Background Het, Backstory, Pre-Canon
Summary:

How Dan and Kevin began to exchange messages written with marker on paper instead of texting like ordinary people of the 21st century.

This is the sweetest thing.

Seeds and Stones (1628 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Neolithic Sites (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Waylands Smithy, Avebury, Giant of Cerne Abbas, Grey Wethers Stone Circle
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Dandelion pushed her head out of the soil. She'd been waiting until the last minute to make sure that nothing happened to her beautiful golden crown.

What she beheld was lovely. Weathered. Watching the wheel of the world.

LYRICAL BEAUTY. And I wanna see those photos.
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