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I Must Go Up From The Seas Again. (2524 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth
Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2022, Yuletide Treat, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary:

It sounds bitter to say that he's still not over his ex who wouldn't uproot her entire life, leave her entire support system behind, and go be a trailing spouse for five years in a place with no career prospects for herself.

A modern AU that is still somehow perfectly Austen, which is a feat.

i was so ... cold

I'm not sure I've done this before. Let's try it out.

my present for me
Modern Witchcraft for the Fiber Arts (1124 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fiber Arts (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Knit & Crochet, Crochet & Weaving
Characters: Knit (Fiber Arts), Crochet (Fiber Arts), Weaving (Fiber Arts), Spinning (Fiber Arts)
Additional Tags: Witchcraft, Developing Friendships, Fluff and Mush, Dungeons & Dragons References
Summary:

Crochet doesn't understand why Spinning would let Knit into the coven, especially when Knit practices chaos magic.

Personification of fiber crafts, delightful and charming and I love Yuletide for seeing how many different people treat the same basic concepts!

other things
Frost and Folly - an Emma variation (18381 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 12/12
Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen, Emma. (2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: George Knightley/Harriet Smith, Emma Woodhouse/Robert Martin
Characters: Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, George Knightley, Mrs Weston, Jane Fairfax, Robert Martin, Mrs Cole, Mr Woodhouse
Additional Tags: Emma has a plan, Emma is inevitably wrong about her plan, Mr Knightley also has a plan, Christmas, Winter, Snow and Ice, Mrs Coles' ball, Emma's Hartfield ball, Friendship, Romance
Summary:

It is winter, and Emma is looking forward to the ball at Mrs Coles', and Hartfield's own winter party. The year has brought many changes to Hartfield, and Emma is determined that nothing more shall threaten her peaceful life and her fledgling idea that she, too, might like to marry. She only wishes to see her friend Harriet Smith suitably settled, and everything will be just as she wants.

But then Mr Knightley makes a hint, and upsets all her plans for herself, and Harriet.

As snow falls, Emma begins to realise that change can be good, and fledgling ideas can leave the nest very quickly indeed.

Bang-on Austen voices and (even better) Austen-style excruciating romantic tension.

The Code (3595 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galaxy Quest (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alexander Dane, Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Tommy Webber, Mathesar (Galaxy Quest)
Additional Tags: Meta, Star Trek References
Summary:

The ever-expanding world of Galaxy Quest proves to be a legal conundrum for the Thermians. Crew to the rescue!

A love letter to the show and the fandom, just as the movie was in the first place, with internal references to GQ fics already in the archive, including (to my surprise) my own entry from Yuletide 2006.

the tale you tell (2991 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baker/Baker's Wife (Into the Woods)
Characters: Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Witch (Into the Woods)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Introspection, Backstory, Canonical Character Death, POV Female Character, Romance, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:

She never pretended to be the hero of this particular story.

Everyone's recommending this, as well they should. Goosebumps.

pro hac vice (5591 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matt Murdock/Jennifer Walters, Matt Murdock & Jennifer Walters, Mallory Book/Nikki Ramos (implied)
Characters: Jennifer Walters, Matt Murdock, Nikki Ramos
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Law (not so much with the Order), Christmas Fluff, Bureaucracy, Forms & Documents & Filings Oh My, Christmas, Humor, Attempt at Humor, Some Toying with the Fourth Wall, No Smashing (general), New York City
Summary:

Matt Murdock needs help on a case; Jennifer Walters doesn't mind taking a cross-country flight on short notice.

Hey, it's (almost) Christmas.

Again with the pitch-perfect dialogue, and also a level of law-detail geekery (I mean, I assume the writer—whose identity I have begun to suspect for Other Reasons, but never mind—is themselves a lawyer or extremely lawyer-adjacent) that pleases me greatly.

Hopefully more to come as I read further in the next, um. Two and a half days? Before reveals?

i was so ... awake

So I ran the junior championships at my curling club, which involved being at the club from 3:30-10:30ish Wednesday, 6:30-11ish Thursday-Saturday, and 7:30-5 Sunday, but only because I had a plane to catch, because thanks to tiebreaker hell the event actually went to about 9:30 Sunday and my capable deputy handled the final match and the wrap-up.

Gentleman Caller and I went to Florida for New Year's to College Roommate L's parents' house. L, her husband, her parents, her three kids, and friend S and her husband J. It was good. A quick visit but a good one, and Himself might not have been able to handle any more togetherness, even though it's a lovely family - it's still a lot. (The kids barely let me get in the door before glomming on for hugs, and when I introduced him they glommed on to him too. Me, they remember, but him, they've obvs never met before, but they are utterly unconcerned by new people as long as the new people are not strangers to their parents. By this morning the seven-year-old was climbing up to sit on GC's lap and show him the video game she was playing on her iPad-for-kids. He was bemused but not unwilling to be Uncle Jungle Gym. When I told her we had to say goodbye because it was almost time for us to go home, she cried. ("But ... right now?" She's used to my staying longer than just two nights.)) GC has asked that after our trip home to my family for MLKmas, we can have at least a couple of months without out-of-town travel. I don't think that's at all unreasonable. Oof.

Before the curling, my mother had come down for Christmas (arriving Monday and leaving Wednesday, another quick trip), which was very nice - GC and I did a roast with Yorkshire pudding and potatoes and broccoli and it was lovely. Next year I might try to make my own Christmas pudding, if I can remember in time. Last thing before I went off to the curling, I finished up my New Year's cards, so if I have your mailing address, watch your box. Now I am back home in comfy clothes, thinking about sorting but not laundering the laundry, and knowing I'm off to work again in the morning.

Last night L's mom drove GC and me back to our hotel a little after midnight, and the moment the door to our room closed behind us, I mean the moment that 2012 was really over for good, I just burst into tears. He held me while I sobbed and sobbed, but you know, the good thing is that it will never be last year again. This morning when we woke up he held me tight and it was better. I'm counting on this year to be an improvement over the last one.

I thought I'd do

snowflake_challenge. Here's the Day 1 challenge.

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Sure, I can do that.

Fortune's Fool, which so far is always at the top of the list of things I'm proudest of. Romeo and Juliet, Romeo/Mercutio, written (in iambic pentameter!) for Yuletide 2004.
No Rest, a drabble based on a Banksy picture of what may be a fallen angel, but which to me looks like an angel who has been working far too hard and needs a weekend. I may have recently read Good Omens at the time that I wrote this? I don't remember.
A Very Small Number of Immortal Beings, which is about Jack Harkness and another character not named until the story is over, and which I enjoy a lot and choose to believe more people would enjoy if they only knew about it. :-)

i was so ... okay
Crossposts: http://darthfox.livejournal.com/1363746.html

Today is my father's birthday.

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i was so ... okay
Crossposts: http://darthfox.livejournal.com/1363560.html

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