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DAAAAAHHH!!!
Relief is the feeling of going back to your journal a year ago to see what your resolutions were, and discovering that you didn't record any. \o/
Everybody is posting their LT readlists and yuletide recs again, though. Last year, I actually did manage to do more paper-book reading; this year, I will actually keep a list of what I've read, so I can see how much it is. And last year, I did manage to keep a bookmarks file of good fic I've read; this year, I will actually post some actual recs and actual feedback.
... Those seem like high enough goals.
Did I mention that I got 62 more books this holiday?
mmmm. Books.
Also, YULETIDE!!!
I need to get back to my feedbackers tonight. Meanwhile, just for fun, now that author search is up again, my yuletide history:
2003: For me, by Amy: The Best Christmas Ever, GO, gen. This was the first year, when you could ask for rare pairings in large fandoms too. I asked for Shadwell/Tracy. This is fun all-cast fluff, so ... I guess it counts? It does kind of demonstrate why the rarepairs thing went away, though. (I don't actually remember what else I asked for that year
2005: /Unanswered Riddles, by Rhi, Riddle of Stars, gen. OMG, everyone, this story is the *best Yuletide present ever*: The fandom of my heart, perfectly on-pitch, exactly what I wanted, and *69k*.
2006: Frontier Games, by Jay Tryfanstone, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Alexios/Hilarion. In 2005 I didn't ask for any specific pairings. 2006 I did, and I'm so glad I did, because I got this. Off the pinch hits list! And it is so good, and by the author who is *the* author in that fandom, too. This made the second year in a row I was written for by somebody I had already admired from afar.
2007: Tow Rope by Lydiabell, Richard Peck, Irene/Peewee. This is a fandom so rare that not only had nobody written fic for it, I was sure anybody knew it existed. And then I asked for it, and by maigc, not only is there fic, there's femmeslash! In my OTP! And it is really, really, really, really wonderful. That's the magic of yuletide!
...Now somebody should write me Mrs. Frankweiler/Saxonberg w/light bondage for NYR. (Or you could write me Philip/Olivier de Bretagne from last year...) I would, but I'm too busy trying to read the whole archive.
And written by me:
2003: The One Thing More Ridiculous Than A Merry Christmas, for Franzi, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge/Marley : I think this puts me in a fandom of two, with Henry Jenkins.
2005: Calving, for firerose, Earthsea, Thorion and Irioth : writing for somebody for whom you've already done a fest fic in that fandom that year is *tough*. :D
2006: Coin for the Man Who Has Nothing, for Tathchan, Riddle of Stars, Deth : writing in the fandom somebody wrote the best Yultide Story Yet for you, last year? Even tougher.
2007: Highway Lessons, for Dragonfly, Wise Child, Euny. Writing in a fandom neither you nor your recipient has read in years, with a new book since then that neither of you have read at all, and nobody else you know has even heard of? ... interesting.
What the fics I wrote all have in common is that they were uploaded the day of the deadline, and they're the first bit that could conceivably make a "complete" story out of outlines I had made that were at least novella-length. This makes me less proud than I wish I were of them. But hey, maybe someday I'll actually finish some of them!
Also, is it only me this always happens to? The first piece of feedback I got after the archive went live was in fact for a piece of SGA flashfic that had gotten a total of four comments in the previous three years. It seems like getting feedback for one story draws it for others - others that are posted in completely different places for completely different communities with no visible connection whatsoever.
Everybody is posting their LT readlists and yuletide recs again, though. Last year, I actually did manage to do more paper-book reading; this year, I will actually keep a list of what I've read, so I can see how much it is. And last year, I did manage to keep a bookmarks file of good fic I've read; this year, I will actually post some actual recs and actual feedback.
... Those seem like high enough goals.
Did I mention that I got 62 more books this holiday?
mmmm. Books.
Also, YULETIDE!!!
I need to get back to my feedbackers tonight. Meanwhile, just for fun, now that author search is up again, my yuletide history:
2003: For me, by Amy: The Best Christmas Ever, GO, gen. This was the first year, when you could ask for rare pairings in large fandoms too. I asked for Shadwell/Tracy. This is fun all-cast fluff, so ... I guess it counts? It does kind of demonstrate why the rarepairs thing went away, though. (I don't actually remember what else I asked for that year
2005: /Unanswered Riddles, by Rhi, Riddle of Stars, gen. OMG, everyone, this story is the *best Yuletide present ever*: The fandom of my heart, perfectly on-pitch, exactly what I wanted, and *69k*.
2006: Frontier Games, by Jay Tryfanstone, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Alexios/Hilarion. In 2005 I didn't ask for any specific pairings. 2006 I did, and I'm so glad I did, because I got this. Off the pinch hits list! And it is so good, and by the author who is *the* author in that fandom, too. This made the second year in a row I was written for by somebody I had already admired from afar.
2007: Tow Rope by Lydiabell, Richard Peck, Irene/Peewee. This is a fandom so rare that not only had nobody written fic for it, I was sure anybody knew it existed. And then I asked for it, and by maigc, not only is there fic, there's femmeslash! In my OTP! And it is really, really, really, really wonderful. That's the magic of yuletide!
...Now somebody should write me Mrs. Frankweiler/Saxonberg w/light bondage for NYR. (Or you could write me Philip/Olivier de Bretagne from last year...) I would, but I'm too busy trying to read the whole archive.
And written by me:
2003: The One Thing More Ridiculous Than A Merry Christmas, for Franzi, A Christmas Carol, Scrooge/Marley : I think this puts me in a fandom of two, with Henry Jenkins.
2005: Calving, for firerose, Earthsea, Thorion and Irioth : writing for somebody for whom you've already done a fest fic in that fandom that year is *tough*. :D
2006: Coin for the Man Who Has Nothing, for Tathchan, Riddle of Stars, Deth : writing in the fandom somebody wrote the best Yultide Story Yet for you, last year? Even tougher.
2007: Highway Lessons, for Dragonfly, Wise Child, Euny. Writing in a fandom neither you nor your recipient has read in years, with a new book since then that neither of you have read at all, and nobody else you know has even heard of? ... interesting.
What the fics I wrote all have in common is that they were uploaded the day of the deadline, and they're the first bit that could conceivably make a "complete" story out of outlines I had made that were at least novella-length. This makes me less proud than I wish I were of them. But hey, maybe someday I'll actually finish some of them!
Also, is it only me this always happens to? The first piece of feedback I got after the archive went live was in fact for a piece of SGA flashfic that had gotten a total of four comments in the previous three years. It seems like getting feedback for one story draws it for others - others that are posted in completely different places for completely different communities with no visible connection whatsoever.
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I shall not sully my childhood, even for you!
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