11:20 am Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Little darling, the smile's returning to their faces Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun It's all right It's all right
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests, and my eyesight is getting too poor to appreciate fan art so no wrapping paper, please. I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Do not want: original character as POV character or major character, noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O, mundane AUs, harm to children or animals, unrequested identity headcanons
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests, and my eyesight is getting too poor to appreciate fan art. I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children or animals
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests, and my eyesight is getting too poor to appreciate fan art. I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children. Please no harm to animals in canons where the animals are not the main characters. (Example: Bad things can happen to Retsuko, which Gori can kiss better, but please don't hurt a horse in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.)
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I am happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests (though I could see the BoJack requests going there and I would be fine with that). I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children. Please no harm to animals in canons where the animals are not the main characters. (Example: Bad things can happen to BoJack but please don't hurt a horse in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.)
My yuletide gift this year was Meet Again On Separate Paths by LovelyPoet, a gorgeous Neverending Story fic about finding your way home via the long way around.
I did not write much this year. I loved the letter from my recipient Fenellaevangela and I feel terrible for not writing at least three fics based off all the ideas in the letter. I did write The Case of the Golden Head, Sky High, eventual Warren/Layla. I also wrote a Mulan drabble and a Darkwing Duck short for Madness. Then I realized both had the tag "Father/Daughter Relationship," and I stopped writing.
My yuletide resolution for 2017 is if the depression is this bad during the writing period next time, I'm defaulting. I've participated without defaulting every year since 2003. It might be time for a break.
I have a Dreamwidth, same username, though I'm not sure if I'll use my circle there. I use LJ primarily as an RSS reader and occasionally a means of writing down a to do or grocery list visible only to me and Abrazak. Id has an inactive Tumblr, and my Facebook is primarily for keeping in touch with people from back home. I have the same AOL address that I've used since 1996. You can find me around.
2016 saw the death of the grandmother I lived with for years as a child, the sudden death of my father, and the suicide of my best friend from college. I spent the last several weeks of the year desperate to keep my kids alive past the new year. (They're fine.) I am glad to see the year gone. 2017 doesn't promise much in the way of good, but I can close off one year of terrible.
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children or animals, harm to heroic characters which is not made better by the end of the story. (I realize this is harder with apocafic. Don't kill off my faves or the kid or the dog, and you're probably okay.)
07:52 pm - YULETIDE! Happy New Year! Welcome to the future, or as we will refer to it a year from now, the past! I've been quiet on the fandom front and taking everything in, but my two word non-spoiler review of everything I have been watching (Supergirl, Sleepy Hollow, Agents of SHIELD, Doctor Who, Star Wars and probably Sherlock later tonight) can be summed up by two words:
MY BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*cough*
Anyway, yuletide has come and gone, and has left me multiple goodies under my virtual Winter Solar Holiday Plant. My main gift was written for my very favorite Disney Channel musical. you come along on summer days was written by annemari for ME! It is the fluffiest, most wonderful Teen Beach Movie gift I could imagine, all Lela and Mack being adorable together in every way. I also received two wonderful treats based on the Pina Colada Song. doreyg wrote Getting Caught in the Acid Rain, and rise_your_dead wrote c://dos/run/prog/iwastiredofmyoldlady, both takes on the seriously broken relationship at the center of the song, except updated and in space! :D
I wrote several other treats this year. The runaway hit (oh my GOD) was Accio Insurance, which was what I had originally intended to request about how the State Farm insurance agents are clearly wizards, which means so are the rest of the insurance mascots, including Flo, Mayhem, and the Gecko, and if they are insurance wizards, there's clearly an insurance wizarding school named Aflac.
You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy.
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O, original characters, harm to children or animals, harm to heroic characters which is not made better by the end of the story. (I realize this is harder with apocafic. Don't kill off my faves or the kid or the dog, and you're probably okay.)
07:10 pm - Yuletide Reveals (A little late, but the second to last guest from New Years went home today, and I have no regrets about spending time with friends.)
Another year, another Yuletide. You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.
Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.)
Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, original characters, harm to children or animals, harm to heroic characters which is not made better by the end of the story. (I realize this is harder with apocafic. Don't kill off my faves or the kid or the dog, and you're probably okay.)
07:57 pm - Yuletide Things So it was Yuletide and I did the thing. Yay?
I got three prezzies this year! taraljc who loves me lots wrote Hidden Heart, which is a Gargoyles fic with Princess Katharine (aka the character I would have named JT after had he been a girl instead). karrenia_rune wrote me a "Piano Man" treat called Nuts and Bolts about an original character (Davey's daughter). Then desert_vixen wrote a He-Man drabble called Darkest Hour which was exactly everything I have always wanted in post-apocalyptic He-Man fic. I am delighted and blessed, and you should go and read all three fics right now. I'll wait.
Still waiting.
Okay, back? Good.
As usual, I kind of went overboard. Hide your shock. My assignment was Carrefour, a Neverwhere fic, Richard/Door with slight hints of Richard/Door/marquis de Carabas ('cause eustacia_vye mentioning liking OT3s but not if this one was among that number). I picked up two pinch hints. First, I wrote Prehistoric Park Series Two for tetsubinatu, which is exactly what it says on the tin. (Prehistoric Park remains a delight forever.) I also wrote a tropealicious Transformers pinch hit for dellessa.
In the treats department, I wrote a full-sized Justice League/JLU treat for Kansas42 called Gifts, in which Shayera and Wally are bffs, also there are Barbies. I wrote On the Nature of Footnotes for Oddegg, a fun little Discworld fic about everyone's favorite literary aid. I wrote a Sarah Jane Adventures fic for recessivejean called Virgin Births which combines my favorite tropes of confused newcomers to traditions and built families. Then I wrote a lot of little ficlets and drabbles for Empire Records (Deb), Indiana Jones (OFC), Warm Bodies (R/Julie), Holes (Kate/Sam), The Last Unicorn (Molly/Schmendrick), Wreck it Ralph (ensemble), Mythbusters RPF (Grant/robot), and Slings & Arrows (Geoffrey/Ellen/art).
So happy yuletide, and here's to the New Year, may she be a damn sight better than old one (Potter, no, the other one).
Hi! If it's your first yuletide, welcome to the party. If you've been here for years, we've probably seen each other around. I've participated in this fest since 2003, and if you're here to stalk me, feel free to visit my yuletide tag for previous requests, old gifts, and a long list of things I like. :)
Basically, I like happy fics for the dark of the year. I like various 'ship genres but usually have a preference for who's shipped with whom, and it's almost always canon pairings. (Yes, I'm still arguing Diana/Audrey is practically canon. Even now. Shut up. She threw a tank through the church to stop the wedding. And I didn't request that this year.)
The following are prompts and ideas. Some include ideas for possible crossovers with other shows, but consider these suggestions only, and I'd prefer no crossovers with large fandoms. In general, if you're writing about the requested characters, I'm going to be happy.
09:12 pm - Yuletide!! It's the most wonderful time of the (new) year: yuletide reveals! My ZOMG fantabulous prezzie this year was written by Cinaed, and I cannot rec this fic enough. Diana/Audrey is my guilty pleasure femslash OTP in JL/JLU, and "The Head That Wears a Crown" is just a perfect moment with them in an established relationship, which is my favorite kind of fic. I am over the damn moon, people. :D :D
Beta brag: of you haven't already, go read Lay Across the World and Explode Everything which amilyn wrote to fill in the gaps between the first two Terminator films. It is SARAH and she is AMAZING and READ IT!
*cough*
This year, I wrote seven fics, four full-sized fics and three Madness treats. My assignment fic was Godma, or, the Seven Tages of Grace (Dogma) for dhampyresa. I'm a huge fan of Kevin Smith's movies, and this fic let me play more with the characters. It was hard writing, because I am such a dork, and frankly I could not figure out how to make something worthy of the original, and I never did nail Bethany's voice (sorry), but I was pleased with how the rest of the characters' parts turned out.
I picked up a Candle Cove prompt that I missed catching as a pinch hit, and wrote On the Good Ship Laughingstock for sailorhathor as a treat. This one completely wrote itself, so that was kind of creepy given the source material. I did like the idea, given the original format of the creepypasta, that the characters were basically us. I enjoyed all the fics written for Candle Cove this year, so if you want to take the less than five minutes to read the original here, you may want to give the other fics a read. Assuming you like horror and don't mind not sleeping ever again.
While I was looking through the full prompts listing, I happened to see sotto_voice's prompts, and wrote Fire and Water and the Car That Went Zoom (Hellboy) to celebrate our mutual adoration of Liz Sherman. She also prompted Static fic, and as a matter of fact, so had fresne when I read her prompts, and that idea ended up becoming with the roses of the may (Static Shock), a story about Virgil Hawkins approaching forty.
Birthday Bash (He-Man & She-Ra) was inspired by foxy11814's prompt, with a dollop of my old head canon thrown in. Adora is home for a shared birthday party with her twin, but birthdays aren't the same for her. Fortunately, she finds a friend who understands.
Arktos (Brave) was written for birgitriddle to answer the question of why the witch was so fixated on bears. I am tremendously pleased on how it turned out.
Finally, Still As Sweet (The Incredibles) is a drabble about Violet picking her Super name, written for ficwize.
Yay Yuletide! I hope the New Year is going well for you and yours. I have been ringing in 2013 with good friends and a job I like, and it's all good.
10:10 pm - Holiday Joy! Now that the relatives have left, I've dived face-first into yuletide and fandom again, and it's a glorious feeling. Yule and Christmas came and went with goodies both real and virtual. (I have Pratchett movies! And audiobooks! And the worst Sherlock Holmes film ever made! My fannish delight runneth over, even if I couldn't properly explain to the family why.)
Also, this has been my Christmas of Fictional Lesbians! Not only did [Spoiler (click to open)]Doctor Who provide me with squealing joy on that front, my sekrit yuletide author wrote me the JLU femslash pairing of my heart.
The Head That Wears a Crown is an absolutely adorable Audrey/Diana established relationship fic, in that super-rare Audrey POV that actually addresses the political issues in Kasnia post-MOH. Anonymous author, somewhere the Maestro is smiling on you. :)
09:01 am - PSA I am letting the domain registration expire on my website, and it will go down very shortly. I have backups of everything, and will be moving some of the sites (like Robin Red Bird, R 'Verse, and Role of a Lifetime) to Livejournal pages instead, and will update the links on my sidebar here so you can locate them/update your own links. (My plan is to work on that later today. ETA: Finished. The links at the left will take you to the new pages.)
If there's anything still up there of yours, you'll want to grab it now. Or I can mail you the file later.
I had nominated and requested the song 99 Love Balloons due to the interesting world-building behind the story told in the song, and I was given this awesome femslash fic: Falling in Love on Free Day (2342 words) which was also by Kariszma83
So, thank you writers, these were a joy to read. :D
For my part, I only wrote three fics this year. Bedtime Stories was a new Thundercats fic I had SO MUCH FUN writing for hokuton_punch. Thundercats is really the One True Fandom of my heart, which tells you everything you ever needed to know about where my standards are set. AND I DON'T CARE. GIMME FIC. *cough*
I picked up a pinch hit for girl_called_sun in American Gods, and wrote The Man in the Gaberdine Suit, which turned out a lot more surreal than I had planned, but I like how it worked. Then I saw stefy_coool's requests go by on the pinch hit list, and found out she was also all about watching people be eaten by dinosaurs, so I wrote a short treat for her called RAR!, in which Velociraptor has an advice column.
In the real world, dream_scaper managed to track down a River Song dolly FOR ME so I am astoundingly happy. :D I want to set up a diorama where River and Hawkgirl and Lorder Hawkgirl and Lady Jaye go beating up bad guys together.
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did this year.
08:09 am - Ugh Every time a web designer uses small font grey on grey as the default settings and takes away the text buttons to replace them with ICONS because it's PRETTY, an angel gets its wings ripped off and stomped on. Trufax.
Brought to you by AOL's new inbox and my new headache.
09:47 am - PSA Camping this weekend. Back late Sunday. I'll have my cell for emergencies only (no way to charge it, so texting is also for emergencies only and that includes incoming texts). abrazak37 will be home with the kids, but assume I am out of touch.
10:07 pm - PSA I am in the process of uploading old Yuletide fics to AO3. I met several of you via Yuletide, so you may be getting gift alerts. No new presents, alas, just the same old sweaters from years past.
09:04 pm - Three Things 1. Work is going to be kicking my ass for the next few weeks. I will be around, but quieter than usual.
2. Project JT appears to be a preliminary success in some pretty awesome ways.
3. medie wrote TOS Saavik fic for a prompt I left, and it is made of win! Go read it and squee in her general direction! Bonus: she let me help with a beta, and she wrote this awesome Demora Sulu fic, and you should go squee over that as well. :)
(No, I haven't posted anything about world events. My reaction is still in the "holyshitWHAT?" department, and of no use to anyone.)
