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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
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(WORK IN PROGRESS! DE-DRAFTIFYING TO COMMENCE IN...)
FINISHED! THREE CHEERS AND CONFETTI AND EXPLOSIONS AND--
Hrm? Okay, yes, Yulewriter! Sorry. Hello and thank you so very much for writing for this prompt! And for your patience in waiting an extra day for this letter to go up. :>P
Optional details are... well, you know the drill, right? Anything contained in this Dear Yulegoat letter could and may indeed be useless to you, in which case forget about it. I'm much more interested in seeing what you do with this fandom and how you play around with the settings and characters than in getting a story designed to please only me. It's not about me, after all; it's about ( these folks... )
ETA (11/25): Turned out I kind of missed not having any pictures or quotes this year, so here's some added! Pics in order of appearance are from this site, which has prettier High Noon screencaps than I was able to manage; the No More "I Love You's" video, natch; Hausecke bei Mondschein by Adolph von Menzel (from sort of the right time period as Passion, if not the right part of Europe); and James Ng's webgallery, also natch. :>)
ETA (Post-reveal)( !!! )
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Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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In short order -- I'm figuring tomorrow night (11/22) -- this will be a most excellent and hopefully enlightening Dear Yulegoat letter. Until then, it is a most generic placeholder post.
Thank you for your patience, dear writer (or if you don't have any, sorry about the wait -- I'll get back here quick as I can)!
ETA: Okay, I just nearly fell asleep in the middle of typing about why I'm so enthused about my fandoms, and that's just not right. :>P
It'll all still get finished, honest, but in case you're champing at the bit, let me just say that optional details are indeed optional, that I don't expect you to answer any/every question or include any/every extra character suggested therein, that I really want you to write the story you want to write in this incredible fandom, whichever incredible one it is; they're all just so awesome and... yeah, nodding off again.
Good luck and plenty of yawns and good wishes,
~Mardy
ETA2: ( Yay! Finished! )
ETA3 (post-reveal): Two gifts this year! Two lovely-sad stories exploring the lives and afterlives of people who have no place to be: Don't forget your dancin’ shoes by Katarik in The ArchAndroid fandom, which is about (among other things) a future world where heritage and history are all mixed up with music and magic, and how this could be a very unsettling thing for a certain nurse at the Palace of the Dogs; as well as Watching You Without Me by gamerfic in The Ninth Wave fandom, about what happens after the end of all the songs, what it means to be a ghost in the empty spaces of living people’s stories.
So much gratitude to both writers, and happy reading and writing till next year! *dives back into the archive, and is gone*
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
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More stuff will go here, on the soonish side of eventually.
In the meantime, dear writer, I'll just say thank you! For liking one or another of those four fandoms enough to want to write potentially anything for it, you brave person, you. Oh, and don't hassle too much over the details part of the request -- that's entirely optional, remember? Just have fun! Write what you want to write, and be assured that I like each and every one of those four fandoms enough to want to read potentially anything you care to give me, whether it's tailor-made to one of my prompt suggestions or something completely new and unexpected and amazing. :>D
ETA: Sorry for the wait! I got ( just a bit carried away... )
ETA2: Whee! Three stories! Thank you so, so much, dear Yuletide writers of awesome! Now if only the archive would let me read them... :>P
ETA3 (1/12/10): And finally it did! But then one thing and another happened and I didn't get around to doing the obligatory New Year's Reveal post. ( Which I'll try to correct now... )
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
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Started on this one not too long after the last post, but then I got some kind of plague that's been going around, and between coughing and sort of working and coughing and not exactly sleeping and coughing and throwing up and seeing blue 3-D kaleidoscopes behind my eyes (thank you, prescription meds!), it really seemed like the best thing to do was to leave this one the back burner for a while until the worst of the weirdness wore off.
( DoctorDonna and Rose and explosions and technobabble, oh my! )
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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Now that I know who they are, I can thank my Yuletide authors by name: Lassarina Aoibhell for In the Service of Snark, and lilyayl for Even. Both of them wrote King Thrushbeard stories, both wonderfully clever and feeling, and both stories play so very satisfyingly off the source material -- and also each other, funnily enough. (I like to imagine Snark as a sequel to Even, showing how a marriage like that would play out day to day, and Even as a prequel to Snark, showing how those two personalities could come to such an understanding in the first place.)
Fairy Tales was one of my favorite discoveries in Yuletide last year, but it's even better when you've got something -- two somethings! -- waiting there in the lists, ready to come back to any time a happy ending fix is needed (as they so often are).
Continuing with the gratitude, I also want to make a note here of my last-year Yuletide gifts: We're Always Leaving Somewhere for Somewhere by Mosca (RPF Top Chef - Hung & Howie), Vivace by scarletts_awry (RPF Classical Composers - Brahms & Joachim), and à son ami by eris (RPF Classical Composers - Liszt/Chopin). They're all of them lovely, just as much on this year's read-through as they were the first time.
And my own fic... well, I'm too pooped to go into details just now, but there's links to them here, if anyone else's interested. And my Yuletide favorites so far, over here.
Tomorrow, a drabble about hiccups. But now? Sleep.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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Just this evening watched the Drake & Josh Save Christmas special, or whatever it was, and promptly lost all faith in humanity. Then my nephew wanted to watch Blue’s Clues and I just didn’t care anymore. Is Nickelodeon’s network mission to liquefy the brains of America, or am I just being a grinch? Is there any good holiday programming out there at all, anywhere?
( Malaise and procrastination and drabbles under cut. )
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Virtual to-do list:
Get Yuletide letter scribbled up and posted, check.
Start reassembling my wiped whofic favorites, this time somewhere safely outside Firefox, check.
Tag all those moldy old holiday drabbles, check. Sixteen of them now, counting ( this one. )
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
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How amazing is it, how completely utterly scary that things on the internet never go away? Like this journal and half its friends list, apparently. *hugs for anybody out there still reading*
( Writerly-type stuff behind cut... )
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
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Originally this was just posted to the Yuletide member com, not to my journal -- I was a Yulenoob at the time, and not really sure what the whole journal stalking thing entailed, so I didn't want to invite disaster (or creepiness). But Yuletide is not a time of creepiness but of craftiness and sanctioned snooping, and in that spirit I give any secret snooping writers out there ( a peek at this... )
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I had another something to post for the double challenge drabblefest, but somebody already beat me to the theme. Just as well, since what I wrote isn't very happy -- but here it is anyway, ( just because. )
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
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Whee, I’m feeling industrious this week. Maybe not productive or accomplished, but definitely busy. :>)
Okay, so I’ve been enjoying everybody’s selections for poetry month; now it’s my turn to share:
Since You Asked - Lawrence Raab
And also a drabble, because that’s obligatory.
( Memorial Day )
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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So last week didn’t even get one drabble. And the way things are going, next week might not either. It’s kind of the middle slump of this series, so I’m just going to write things as they come, and not worry too much if they don’t. *crosses fingers*
( Josie & Caroline under the cut. )
And since people are starting to weigh in on the MC Rove thing, I have to say I found the whole situation funny in an awkward and unexpected kind of way. We got to see yet another Republican make a complete ninnyhammer of himself in front of the cameras, which is always satisfying. We got to see Colin show off his rap moves and beatboxing, which is always silly. And Brad got his name on C-SPAN, which is just plain weird.
Now I’m just waiting for Greg to touch on this in his next update....
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
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Probably not the best time to be posting this, but ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) cosmicwaffles wrote me a Ry/Col quickie days back, so now I suppose fair’s fair:
Comment on this post to request a drabble-fic from you. In return, they have to post this in their journal [only if you want to]. Post the fandoms you're willing to write for.( ... )
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loopytired.
pins and needles.
gleeful.
wussy.
exhausted.
busy.
slightly embarrassed.
energetic.
rushed.