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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?