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Yuletide!
Fellow Yuletider, hi!
Whee! Here we go again! (Alt: If it's your first time, welcome!) I hope you're excited and not freaking out too much.
My general likes/dislikes have tended to stay consistent through the years. Feel free to read back through the tags below, and this year's is below, if you want.
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Complementer
Bang-makers! If you have put a bang in the collection, you have been checked off! You are officially done until the week before reveal, when we'll be poking our noses in to make sure your bangs are complete. Feel free to report in on your progress, but it is no longer required.
Complementers! You are officially on deck! Your official poking and ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide 2014 letter!
Yuletide writer! Wow, hi, suddenly we're here again! Welcome, if you're new to all this ( Read more... ) -
[Captain America : the winter soldier fic] Paths not your own (unthought knowns)
Paths not your own (unthought knowns) (5702 words) by maharetr
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Winter Soldier, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Brainwashing, Memory Loss, Hydra (Marvel), Torture, Mission Fic, Pre-Movie(s), Canon Compliant, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary: ( Read more... ) -
Random reading post, to be updated as I remember
What I've read this year:
Arclight by Josin Mcquein: A solid enough post-apoca YA novel. Strong opening pacing. I finished it thinking that I would be interested in reading the second one, once she needed a plot, and where she'd take that plot.
Gifts by Ursula Le Guin: A bequilingly simple story. It does facinating, tiny things; setting us up with ( Read more... ) -
Dear Ante Up Creator!
Ante-up Creator! Hi!
How you doing? I'm seriously excited it's that time of year again -- Losers things! I hope you're stoked, and not freaking out too badly. Hopefully you're going to look at my letter and go 'yaaay! I can do that!' If you don't... can I offer you reassuring hugs, and 'you're making something, just for me! So much love! <3 ( Read more... ) -
Dear Yuletide writer!
Sorry! I hope you haven't needed to be refreshing too much ( Read more... ) -
Dear Labor
Labor/a guy called George Wright emailed me a few days ago, asking for donations to help win the 'neck and neck' polling race. He asked me to foward the email on to three friends. This was my mostly-coherent reply. I'm sending it to more than three friends.
Dear George,
I read the first email you (or your staff, whichever) sent with interest ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide 2012 recs
Squeaking in just in time with my Yuletide rec post!
I didn't read as nearly as wide as I wanted to be able to do this year, but there were standout fics everywhere! Here are a handful that made me laugh, cry, and/or gave me that heartsqueeze of recognition.
My gift!
Birth Neverwhere (Implied Hunter/Serpentine. Content notes: mentions of non-con)
The ( Read more... ) -
Shower poll!
Posting this poll because it's something I've been curious about for a while. And it's nearly research for a fic!... and it's a writing distraction. *cough*
View poll: Showering poll!