Yuletide. What would Yule be without it. Also, Recs I

The people

It was my second time participating, and my god I was a young and silly fool to have missed out on yulechat last year. Because this year's yuletide experience was characterised by late-night/early-morning flailings and made possible only by the insane generosity and madness that is the #yuletide channel. Coming off the plane three days before stories were due, I didn't think I'd make my pinch-hit, much less come out with eight stories and a boatload of awesome new friends. ♥ to everyone: sara(aah), whetherwoman, mjules, deejay, kristin, Snow, deepa, hh, Jaded, voksen, Lferion, Llwyden, yf, moontyger, Grey Bard, Livia, kankeigo, Franzi, Piru, Truth, MsMcK, Now I Am Running Out Of Space and Memory For Names Here. You guys (whether named or tragically unnamed by my failure to recall) are the bestest thing since the thing before and the thing after sliced bread. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ You guys are the bringers of comfort and joy.

The fic!

I do not know what amazing small god I pleased, for serious. I came in expecting nothing, and came out with four amazing, amazing fics in fandoms that I feel have been sorely lacking love. Here, let me rec them to you with great reccage:

( Lucifer, Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries )

And now for some quickrecs before lunch:

( One rec each for Boston Legal, The Graveyard Book, History Boys, Junjou Romantica, Wild Adapter )

THIS ART YOU MUST SEE. I PIMP IT. I *COMMAND* IT

I DO NOT KNOW WHY THE UNIVERSE LIKES ME SO MUCH RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE TODAY HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE.

TSENG. DRAWN. PAINTED. WITH RUFUS. BY dnatio_memoriae. IF YOU DO NOT LOSE AT LEAST A FEW BRAINCELLS LOOKING AT THE SHEER HOTNESS OF HIS SUIT AND RUFUS IN A TIE, YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY BLIND AND MUST LOOK CLOSER FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SOUL.

ajflka fjlas fjlkas fljs kfja slkjf as *lick* *lick* *LICK*

Plus, it comes over and on top of other awesome things this week:

1. Getting a POSTCARD from Columbia. What the fuck, university, you're months away and already you are beautiful.
   
2. Getting a letter from Columbia, which - as copy/pasted as I'm sure it is - is still so damned shiny, because, my god, it's like, this adult woman telling me she loves me and that she spoke for me during the admissions panel, and then she signs off in real pen, even managing to almost misspell "New York". I am in so much love it's crazy.
   
3. It turns out that the best friend is, actually, alive! Tired sounding, but alive! My heart is more at peace than it has been in a while upon hearing that.
   
4. Getting friended by yuletide people is like getting people-shaped presents in my inbox.
   
5. Writing an insane number of fics for yuletide apparently generates an insane amount of feedback; this is something I can live with.
   
6. Hopefully we will be upgrading to better internets soon! Faster surfing. I like muchly.

[edit] Omg. It is five minutes later and I am still looking at the pretty. The shoes. THE SHOES. And Tseng's VEST. And my god the creases, they look so real, I want to touch them. And then make them... creas-ier.

I seriously have been so fucking gifted with amazing friends and crazymadawesome fellow fandom people. Yuletide's an important season for this journal, since (looking back) I realise that my first venture into fic and fandom et al s'dated almost exactly a year ago from now. *g* I'd never have imagined that I'd meet so many insanely talented and beautiful human beings. Thank you, flist, for being who and what you all are. I LOVE YOU, and am so lucky to be blessed to know you.

Yuletide Friending Meme!

Because it's yuletide, and because there's #yuletide, and because you are all awesome, and because I want to send people from all over the world presents. So there!

[edit] If you want to be super sekrit about your fandoms because this is pre-reveal, please do! Or there's always the alternative of spamming the fandom segment until it's impossible to tell. *g*

Yuletide handle/nick:
LJ:
Location:
Fandoms:
When I Say Yuletide, You Say:
What would you like in your stocking?:

<B>Yuletide handle/nick:</b> <B>LJ:</b> <B>Location:</b> <B>Fandoms:</b> <B>When I Say Yuletide, You Say:</b> <B>What would you like in your stocking?:</b>