whee, yuletide!

[fox]

I got two presents, which I can't quite work out in my head -- I think that should mean someone somewhere defaulted, but I didn't see my request on the pinch-hit list or the stocking-stuffer list or anywhere at all ever, so I'm confused.  (I can believe that they managed somehow to send pinch-hit requests to the whole mailing list except for the person whose request it was -- I don't know how, but I bet it can be done -- but I can't imagine they could have made the stocking-stuffer list n requests long appear n-1 if the requester of one of them was looking at it, because, hi.  Also, why is this what I'm puzzling about at 11:00 on Archive-Opening Day?)

So!  My presents are The Knowledge, the Truth, and the Love, a fabulous story of Gwydion going to rescue toddler!Eilonwy from an Achren who is not nearly as nasty, yet, as she gets to be when we know her in The Chronicles of Prydain, and I adore it.  Hurrah for fate, and prophecy, and wistfulness, and Gwydion/Achren, and in general: yaaay!

Plus I got a stocking-stuffer, Resisting Temptation, which shows us Gwydion's thoughts as he's warning Taran against Achren's enchantments in the throne room of Spiral Castle.  Again with the yay!

Plus, my recipient appears from her message to have liked her present!  In short:  a successful Yuletide all around.

And now I go read some more things.

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

You could get a stocking stuffer without being defaulted upon this year; in the last few hours, after everyone had a story in the archives, the stocking stuff list was randomly generated to show up to 20 people who hadn't gotten a stocking stuffer yet.

[axiom_of_stripe]

or you might have had an overachieving santa. :)