So far, I have spent my 2021 attempting to write a Python script that will parse my AO3 reading history into a csv file so I can run end-of-year stats on it, because I may not have accomplished a lot for a year-end roundup post this year, but I did manage to fill 100 pages of AO3 history, and that deserves to be celebrated.

But I am totally stuck on the "access your AO3 reading history" part of the python script, so that's a wash. (I do have a pretty good parsers that works for users' works and gifts and

Anyway. Yuletide! Yuletide was a good yuletide for me this year.

I got two stories! They were both really good, and don't-really-need-the-fandom stories, so everyone should read them!

I am amazed my assigned didn't turn out to be somebody I know on DW, because the story they wrote was so much my thing. So many crossovers! So many muppets! So many failed attempts to sing the Teeny Little Super Guy theme without having bad thoughts!

A Travel Mug Travels Home (4948 words) by SCFrankles
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teeny Little Super Guy (Sesame Street), Sesame Street (US TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Teeny Little Super Guy, R. W. Shipshape (Teeny Little Super Guy), Original Female Character(s), Miss Piggy, Swedish Chef, Suspendisse (Strandbeest - Theo Jansen)
Additional Tags: Humor, Some innuendo, Pigs in Space (The Muppet Show), Mild Chicken Peril
Summary:

R. W. Shipshape is now grown up and has become a teacher. But when a student needs some help in dealing with bullying and feeling more at home, RW finds he needs some assistance from an old mentor...

I got a blank travel mug for Christmas and now I really want to put a TLSG or R.W. Shipshape on it. Anyone know a microwave-safe way to decorate a mug?

And my madness treat was for the Strandbeest and did a perfect job of capturing the feeling I get watching strandbeest videos, with some really thoughful worldbuilding that went into a plot.

Shore of moss (822 words) by laughingpineapple
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Strandbeest - Theo Jansen, Undisclosed Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Animaris Bruchus
Additional Tags: ...windy, Worldbuilding, Non-human POV, Travel, but mostly: windy.
Summary:

A land wind blows.

I wrote a Machineries of Empire fic, because I was having a bad October and only did minimal offers, mostly for escapist SF books I'd already been re-reading and loving lately (So... basically MoE, Murderbot, Locked Tomb and Imperial Radch). MoE is kind of a weird canon to write for Yuletide, but I didn't think that one through. :P

Anyway, my prompt was just anything with Cheris and Jedao, and I wasn't sure which Jedao my recipient wanted with Cheris, so I wrote about them all.

Duels in the Dark (4120 words) by melannen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ajewen Cheris & Garach Jedao Shkan, references to past jedao/khiaz
Characters: Ajewen Cheris, Garach Jedao Shkan
Additional Tags: terrible media, less-than-canon level mentions of trauma rape abuse torture genocide violence etc., characters watching porn of themselves, Sort Of, five things fic, sort of-, THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED, sort of--, Platonic Life Partners, sort of., self-insert reader fic, (sort of, what would that even mean in this fandom anyway)
Summary:

Every Kel cadet went through a General Jedao phase. Usually it was around the end of their first year at the Academy, when what it meant to be Kel really hit them. Cheris's came later.

(Or, five Jedaos that Ajewen Cheris shared a bed with.)