Yuletide Friending Meme

[karanguni]

Posting this a little before reveals for anyone who wants to come around and meet new Yuletide people. Please comment only after authors are revealed!

Here are some optional details prompts if you don't want to freeform your comment:

<strong>What do you go by/where can you be found?</strong> <strong>What did you write this Yuletide?</strong> <strong>What are your fandoms?</strong> <strong>What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?</strong> <strong>Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?</strong> <strong>Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)</strong> <strong>Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?</strong>



Sample Answers, all extremely facetious:

What do you go by/where can you be found?

nonny mcnonnyface on Tumblr, AO3, DW, Discord

Are you a Yuletide veteran? First timer?

I've been here since the start of time, during the Dark Days of the Cruel Upload Form.

What did you write this Yuletide?

The best of fics, the worst of fics:

1. leonard cohen lowercase song lyric title in Perennial Yuletide Fandom

2. Fallout! With the Titles in Unwrangled Fandom

What are your fandoms?

Marvel Cryptographic Universe, Ghost Soup Purple

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?

In-depth discussions of what makes an AU an AU, Archive Warnings As Semiotics, and the names of fancy spaceships. Anything to do with cats.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)

Yuleswaps bring me joy drinks and candy and books. Coal polls are fun to fill out.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?

Knives In!

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?

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Comments

[minebyrights]

It is, yes!! :D

[htbthomas]

Cool! I would have loved a Cliff & Jane fic, but it's okay. :) I got gifts in my other two request fandoms that were intensely good. ♥ Will follow back!

[htbthomas]

Are you also on Goodreads? Because I read a lot, and some genre fiction (mostly things anonmemers recommend).

[wakeupnew]

What do you go by/where can you be found? I go by Lexie! I'm most active on growingintheweeds and wakeupnew these days (if you friend me on Twitter, please drop me a line here so I can approve the request!), and I'm Lexie and also picky about books on Goodreads.

What did you write this Yuletide? I wrote Hold Your Friends Close (Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Moon Jae-shin finally catches a clue about his longstanding relationship with best friend Gu Yong-ha) and where there's smoke, there's fire (911, Buck/Eddie navigate the HR minefield of dating and raising a kid while being firefighters who are on the same crew). Looking at that I realize now that I just wrote about best friends in love this year, which is v on brand.

What are your fandoms? A lot of Thai and Taiwanese dramas (3 Will Be Free, History2: Crossing the Line, He's Coming to Me, Great Men Academy, others!), 911, Schitt's Creek, The Adventure Zone, Dragon Age 2, romance novels (KJ Charles, Courtney Milan, Cat Sebastian, Alyssa Cole, and Kate Clayborn among my faves).

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? More Thai and Taiwanese dramas!! More people to talk about romance novels and how delightfully stupid 911 is with me!

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? I realize I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but I was psyched to see a bunch of Thai dramas nominated this year and I'm looking forward to seeing more! A lot of my old standard fandoms were too big or weren't nominated this year, so I was especially excited about all the dramas.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? I mostly lurk but I loved the writing discussions and I found a bunch of great stuff to read through people's recs. Last year someone on an anon meme titled one of my fics for me (thanks again, nonny!) when I was title-blocked and I'm still eternally grateful.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I'm trying to write a romance novel?? I'm not getting very far but an attempt is being made!

[singedsun]

What do you go by/where can you be found? singedsun | singedsun | singedsun | singedsun

What did you write this Yuletide? Gonna Have a Good Time (The Spy Who Dumped Me; f/f) Morgan/Aubrey and ye olden And There Was Only One Bed. A Familiar Ache (Fleabag; Fleabag/Hot Priest) Real deep dive into the Priest when he sees Fleabag from a distance. Patternless and Colorful (Wilder Girls; Hetty/Reese & Byatt) getting by after their own island apocalypse.

What are your fandoms? Mostly Critical Role, Dragon Age, The Adventure Zone and Dimension 20 (v. new). Mostly. But I dabble in plenty more when I find quick fandoms that suit me. Books: Six of Crows, Wicked Saints, Gideon the Ninth, Wayfarers series. TV/Moviews: I watch very broadly, so I pick up small fandoms for a time, every year (loves of SFF and/or Horror related shows, usually).

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?I love reading about what other people are reading and/or writing - whether it's fanfiction or original. I also talk about real life, so I like talking to other people's lives too. And I make a weekly (Friday) post about music I've been listening to, so other music fans welcome.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? I have no idea yet. More new books probably, my TBR for 2020 is shaping up quite a lot.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) I lurked only this year, but I will always love to see treat lists and useful comments on PHs that go out.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I'm picking up edits for a novel I started in November this month, and will probably be working on it a lot this year. I'll be posting the stuff I wrote for Critmas Exchange as soon as it's de-anoned. Don't know what else, but new friends are always welcome.

[singedsun]

If you like spoken word poetry, my favorite is Andrea Gibson.

Thanks for your coding work!

[radialarch]

I also wrote some code. Lolol. I had a feeling the AlphaGo fic was written by a coder!

Actually, can I ask, what's the set-up for a Firebase app like? I just fired up an old Heroku account with Github integration but hobby devs/free tier only gets 10k free db rows, gotta either pony up or think if there's a nicer hosting option.

[extrapenguin]

And that day, space_swap will be there for you!

[escritoireazul]

You're trying to write a romance novel?! I am here for this. And available for cheerleading and early reading if that's something you need.

[bond_girl]

I wasn't, but I set it up now: this is me :) Hopefully, it'll be a better system for tracking my reads and audiobooks.

[htbthomas]

Added you! :)

[escritoireazul]

What do you go by/where can you be found? escritoireazul and escritoireazul

What did you write this Yuletide? Two Baby-Sitters Club stories (Draw Me Like You Do and Five Secrets from an Art Portfolio, both of which are Claudia/Ashley and basically two artists connecting or reconnecting.); one Lost Boys story (Burn, Michael/Star, a canon divergence where killing the head vampire doesn't save the half vampires.); and one The Ghost and the Darkness story (The Care and Handling of Maneaters, John/Helena, in which the Ghost and the Darkness were supernatural and John and Helena hunt other monsters too.)

What are your fandoms? Almost all of them are Yuletide eligible. I write and read broadly, but things I currently love include: all things werweolf, Leverage, horror stories including cheesy creature features, Willow, the Fast and the Furious movies including Hobbs & Shaw, romantic suspense, pro wrestling, and catching up on the to read spreadsheet that has several several hundred on it.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? Everything. Some specific things off the top of my head: I love reading about things that people love. Queerness, activism, werewolves, horror, and books to read or avoid.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? I am 100% nominating and requesting Willow again because the amazing story I received this year made me want even more. I keep a running list of potential fandoms throughout the year that includes stuff I love but also stuff other people recommend. So far it contains Willow and this Renault 30 Years in the Making ad with queer girls (here on Youtube).

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) Wrestling nonnies are the best! Recommendations, particularly book recs, on meme are why I have such a huge spreadsheet of things to read and watch and play and listen. Coal's prompt discussions have given me a lot of things to attempt to write (even though my writing output was down for Yuletide). I both love and hate talk about fic exchanges.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? My current public about me page.

[cerberusia]

What do you go by/where can you be found?

I'm Cerberusia on DW, Tumblr and AO3.

What did you write this Yuletide?

I wrote a Callan fic for Firestorm717! 'A Face That Fits', Callan/Meres smut set after Meres comes back from Washington.

What are your fandoms?

Star Wars, Callan, Percy Jackson, Oasis RPF, Weiss Kreuz - currently the big ones.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?

Any of the above fandoms, plus Harry Potter and older anime fandoms (Gundam Wing, YGO, Rurouni Kenshin...). I also like folk and classical music, languages (esp. ancient ones) and general entertaining animal titbits.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?

Same as usual: Raffles, Ted&Ralph, Callan, Wells&Wong.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)

I've been spreading the Gallaghercest love on FFA, so that was really fun! And talking Star Wars, even if I did have to dodge various wanks (god, why does fandom-at-large not embrace my preferred femdom reading of Reylo??).

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?

My other interests include the Heian era and Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). I'm the cultured sort of weeb, thank you very much. Also, incest.

[karanguni]

Heh, nice to see another Heian person around. That said, my own Heian writing and reading all seems to stem from Yuletide itself pushing me over some edge...

[wakeupnew]

Yes!! I got like 15 or 20k in while doing Camp Nanowrimo this summer, and then I petered out when the school year started again; I'm hoping to make more progress this year. Right now it's a wild Google doc full of half-written scenes, but I would love your eye once it gets into a space where it makes some actual sense! <3

[merriman]

What do you go by/where can you be found?
AO3: merriman
DW: merriman
Discord: merrimanlyon #3258
tumblr: flukeoftheuniverse

What did you write this Yuletide?
Your New Ship and You! An Owner's Manual - Spaceteam epistolary weirdness.
The Galaxy is an Imperfect Place - Breakfast Club IN SPACE!
When is a Train Not a Train? - The Dark Tower (books) backstory for Blaine the Mono
Wild and Clear - The Box of Delights grown up Maria using magic in a very Maria way
Tales the Dahan Tell - Spirit Island (board game) storytelling and mythology
Tamper-Proof - The Dark is Rising Bran remembering what he forgot
Teacher Conference - Emelan books the teachers talk about their students and their progress

What are your fandoms?
Highlander, primarily. I still love Pacific Rim. I love a lot of things that I don't write for, like Star Trek, LotR, MCU (except for a crossover), HP, etc. But Highlander is my one true fandom. Otherwise I tend towards children's lit, videogames, board games. In Yuletide, things I've written four or more stories for are Black Books, Emelan, Ocean's Eleven, and The Magicians. I've got a fondness for 80s movies too like Breakfast Club, Lost Boys, Real Genius, etc.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?
I love varied enthusiasm about fannish things and food.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?
I'm really hoping to see more Spirit Island! I'm also hoping to get more people into Arcade Spirits so I'm not the only one looking for it.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)
I lurk for the most part and enjoy seeing people get excited about things without being too obvious. It's such a delicate balance!

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?
I'm usually only really active in the winter, and I don't post much, but I love to read what folks put out there.

[karanguni]

/makes Methos hands at you

[karanguni]

Just like Heroku or any other of the modern hosting places, fairly painless. I used it because it's by far and away the cheapest database hosting; I haven't used the new Firestore but Firebase is just JSON, which makes it easy to not have to code any server side stuff. Then the rest is just static file hosting; the app is pretty much entirely frontend code.

For exchanges it's definitely one of the only ways I've found to get a DB without ridiculous setup or paying money (for the smaller exchanges, and even then Yuletide only breaks the free tier). You have to be a little efficient about it though.

[karanguni]

Man I now want to rewatch Ghost in the Darkness!

Hi!

[partypaprika]

What do you go by/where can you be found? partypaprika on most platforms--I'm mostly active on ao3 (partypaprika), will try to be active here on dreamwidth(partypaprika), have letters for exchanges on lj (partypaprika), on goodreads as paprika, marginally active on tumblr (prettypaprika).

What did you write this Yuletide? Three stories--The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating (Burnt), A Cliff so Tall (The Green Men Series), The Man Advantage(Mighty Ducks)

What are your fandoms? I don't know if I have fandoms as such these days, but aside from nostalgia fandoms that I've always liked (SGA, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers etc.), I tend to read a lot of fantasy and romance books. This year, I became obsessed with Kate Daniels (and would gladly welcome recommendations for other things to try!) I can pretty much be persuaded to read/watch/consume any fandom if there's a good enough pairing!

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? Anything with good story lines/pairings :)

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? Knives Out! Guns of the Dawn (I'm so stoked someone wrote in this fandom this year!)

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) I really love all the fandom recommendation comments (I have so many saved to try!)

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I'd love to write more and have some ties back into fandom again--I can't promise that I'll be more active on dreamwidth this year, but I will certainly try.

[partypaprika]

I've been somewhat intrigued by Roswell, New Mexico as a fan of the old show. What are your favorite parts of it?

[partypaprika]

Your book taste sounds right up my alley! Are you on goodreads? I'm always on the hunt for more books about the 20s (especially romances) and fantasy.

[partypaprika]

When you say JE, are you referring to Johnny's Entertainment? If so...wow that takes me back. JE was my first real fandom and probably the fandom that I was involved with the longest! If you meant something else, ha ha please ignore me.

[jenett]

I am, but as my author-self (I am also writing and self-pubbing 1920s romances with magic)

I have a weird thing about 'if people know what I'm reading they can steal my soul" so I have a really hard time talking about what I read (especially given that I'm a librarian) but I use that account to share stuff that's either relevant that I've loved (romances and mystery, mostly) or stuff I've read for research.

(I fell off doing useful things with it last year, and am determined to fix that this year. We'll see how that goes.)

[karanguni]

I do indeed; another coalie and I went into a hilarious off-topic discussion on it!