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Yuletide Friending Meme

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:

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

extrapenguin,

ExtraPenguin, as ExtraPenguin on Yuletide & EAD and some fandom-specific Discords.

What did you write this Yuletide? 5 fics for Guardian and 1 for Sha Po Lang! Guardian: The Darkest Hour (Brings the Dawn), No Tome Unturned, Start the Sex Cycle, Shaving Face, Recentre the Heart, Reformation. Sha Po Lang: Storm-blind.

What are your fandoms? Mostly active in Guardian (drama) right now, but I'm by nature multifannish. Other fandoms I enjoy are Sha Po Lang, Nan Chan (Carp Gong), and Thousand Autumns on the cnovel side, and Machineries of Empire and A Memory Called Empire on the science fiction novels side, and I'm still waiting for someone to talk about Uplift with. Currently watching The Untamed, but I expect that'll be more casual.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? Any of the above fandoms, science fiction novels, cnovels that have more going on than just an OTP getting together. In-depth panfandom-type discussion of e.g. what makes an AU or whatnot. Though my tastes are somewhat ecletic and kinda broad, so.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? I plan on nominating Uplift again! Other than that, Sha Po Lang, and maybe I'll finally get around to reading The Luminous Dead before everyone else bores of it?

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) Letter discussion and prompt ranking and 3T1L! In a non-exchange sense, answering people's questions on Ask Meme when I had answers to give, and lurking. (Mostly lurking, tbh.)

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? Honk! (Please see my letter for further geese.)

What do you go by/where can you be found? fucktheg0ds, or Alexandria on AO3

What did you write this Yuletide? I wrote Always Blow on the Pie (Wellington Paranormal) and Dance with Me in the Sunlit Pools (Shadowscapes Tarot).

What are your fandoms? Click on my journal and find out ;) I have lots of fandoms but in the last year I've especially written lots for Xena and Roswell, New Mexico.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? Apart from my TV fandoms, I adore books (especially historical fiction, sci-fi, and F/F). I'm also interested in queer and feminist stuff.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? I assume this means this year? But no, there aren't.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) Exchange-related: Having the recipient of my dreams! Meme-related: Lurking, lol.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I'm Spartacus.

What do you go by/where can you be found? Hello! I'm

ictus,

ictus, and

scansionictus! Not very fandom-y on tumblr, although I happily follow fandom blogs. I'm also fairly active on discord, my handle is ictus#9826; you can find me mostly on EAD.

What did you write this Yuletide? I wrote the fulcrum, a Dick Grayson/Jason Todd enemies to lovers story set in an alternate universe where the Joker is the hero and Batman is the villain (sorta).

What are your fandoms? DCU (Comics), The Umbrella Academy, Killing Eve, Star Trek (TOS/AOS), Voltron: Legendary Defender. I also flit in and out of movie and Netflix fandoms as they take my interest.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? Pretty much the above fandoms, but I'm also up for following multifandom/panfandom blogs, so our venn diagram of fandom overlap doesn't have to be a perfect circle. I'm especially into femslash, particularly dark femslash, so if you're that way inclined then let me know, and I'll probably end up picking up your fandoms.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) All of the writing support threads on FFA/coal, plus word sprints on EAD (sometimes I feel as though I wouldn't get any writing done at all if it weren't for those).

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I'm always up for writing buddies, so even if we don't have any fandom overlap and you're just looking for someone to brainstorm with, then feel free to hit me up! Sometimes I find checking in with someone is the only way to keep myself on track, so I find it really useful. Fair warning though, I tend to read f/f and m/m pretty much exclusively, so if you write a lot of m/f I'm not sure how helpful I'll be.

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

jenett around these parts, and

jenettsilver occasionally.

What did you write this Yuletide?
Before, During, After in the K.J. Charles England series (aka Proper English and Think of England. It's my longest Yuletide work at a bit over 7000 words, and I'm very pleased that my Pat read right to a number of commenters.

What are your fandoms?
I'm mostly lightly fannish during the year (see next question), so there isn't a ton of fannish content much of the time.

These days, I'm reading a number of period mysteries (both 'written in' and 'set in') and romances, focusing on the 1920s, and my usual reading is a mix of fantasy, mystery, and non-fiction. I watch a lot of British mystery shows as background when doing certain tasks, but don't watch a lot of TV otherwise (especially since The Good Place is coming to an end...)

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?
My own journal is a mix of daily life stuff with a side of me ranting about bad research (what my friends have come to refer to as 'librarian smash' posts) which happen at irregular intervals when I'm motivated. My writing energy goes other places, both my own original writing and pagan/witchy non-fiction. (My profile has more about that, for the curious.)

I like reading other people talking about stuff they're passionate about, whatever that is - I learn a lot from reading how other people look at the world or what they care about, whether that's fic, a particular topic, or something else. I enjoy reading other people's fic if I know the canon (and occasionally if not), and I particularly enjoy worldbuilding/meta/analysis posts.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?
More K.J. Charles! There were a bunch of great stories this year, may there be many more. I'm also hoping Rivers of London gets at least one more year.

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

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?
I am not yet awake enough to have a lot of opinions about things (thanks, cat, for waking me up early.)

What do you go by/where can you be found? I'm htbthomas everywhere, but most active at the moment on Tumblr and AO3.

What did you write this Yuletide? I wrote 6 things:
*(Really/Not/So) Okay (Dead to Me), a Judy/Jen fic about how Judy always automatically says "It's okay" whenever someone hurts her, and why that might be.
*The Natural and The Divine (Fleabag), a Fleabag/Priest fic with matchmaker!God POV.
*Top 5 New York City Spots for Superhero Sightings (The Defenders), a gen fic where Helen from Ohio somehow runs into all the Defenders during her trip to NYC.
*It's the only way to live (Stumptown), a gen fic about Dex and her beloved quirky well-ticketed car, with a slice of Dex/OFC.
*The Next Someday (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), a Midge/Lenny fic where they pretend to be strangers in a bar who hook up.
*No Sleep in Brooklyn (Into the Spider-Verse), a gen Miles & Ganke developing friendship fic.

What are your fandoms? I watch A LOT of TV. I'm really into sitcom fandoms, especially quirky/shippy ones. And of course, I'm perennially in superhero fandoms of all kinds, though mostly TV/movies these days.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? I love gifsets that introduce me to new fandoms and memes and cat pics/videos.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? No. I rarely plan this far in advance. But if it's a quirky sitcom or a new superhero fandom I'll probably read/request/write it.

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) I don't participate in the wank, but I like to read it. And like many neurotic coalies, I hope for/worry about mentions of my name/fics.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I would love to make new friends who like to talk about my fandoms and ships and such! It's been over two years since I was really active in any fandom and I miss it.

Following on Tumblr! Thanks again for your help on the Fleabag fic! ♥

What do you go by/where can you be found? I'm theoldgods on AO3/tumblr, theoldgods#0354 on Discord, and minebyrights on twitter (I'm still very active on both tumblr and twitter and tend to flit in and out of Discord depending on what exchanges are going on and if I'm participating, but at some point I'd like to get more into fandom stuff on Discord)

What did you write this Yuletide?
3 things--a new personal record?!
Hop Aboard the Turntable, Elton John/John Reid, Rocketman (2019), M, a glimpse at their soured relationship through one Christmas and a set of black pearl jewelry
This Aching Metal Ring, Elton John/John Reid, Rocketman (2019), explicit/Yuleporn/deterioration of an unhealthy relationship through sex over the years
Seized My Body Whole, Gheorghe Ionescu/Johnny Saxby, God's Own Country (2017), explicit/Yuleporn/building a healthy relationship and developing Johnny's character through sex

What are your fandoms?
Rocketman and Richard Madden/Taron Egerton RPF has been my surprise big fandom of the year, but my tumblr is an accurate slice of what I'm into. Current sample: HDM, Mr. Robot, Killing Eve, recent canonically gay movies either m/m or f/f, casually into Star Wars and Marvel but not enough to get more than casually shippy about a few random things. ASOIAF is on deep background but still there in case TWOW is ever actually released, as is Sherlock Holmes.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?
I'm up for whatever--shared fandoms, LGBT shit, music, writing if people are interested, etc! My twitter is mostly random shitpost viral tweets and some US nd occasionally world politics (fairly far left but ultimately I'm a harm reductionist), but I do most of my talking there also.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?
I had such fun with Rocketman this year, especially writing Elton/John and receiving the most glorious Bernie/John hatesex, and got some amazing comments; I know movie fandoms die off quickly, but I kind of hope there are still some fics next year! This year my theme was mostly "queer period drama" and I suspect I'll be looking for similar things for next year, but you can never tell. (Last year I never would have guessed I'd actually like the Elton John musical biopic, so...)

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)
On and off, since it's hard to keep up with big ones like FFA, but I'm generally around to read wank reports/see what sort of general panfandom shit is going on/see if anyone is talking about my fics in exchanges/yell extra excitedly about my gifts. I also was part of FFA's Rocketman threads over the summer and they were a great way to keep engaged while bedbound from a broken ankle.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? I hadn't done any exchanges at all this year, but Yuletide was so much fun for me personally, and my GOC fic did shockingly well. (I've never had an exchange fic get over 500 hits in the anon period before, my god.) I'm considering Chocolate Box and especially Smut Swap this winter/spring, but I guess we'll see.

What do you go by/where can you be found?
angelsaves, basically everywhere

What did you write this Yuletide?
succession x 2, the cutting edge, and bon appétit test kitchen RPF!

What are your fandoms?
succession, buzzfeed unsolved, and BA test kitchen RPF, but i like to bounce around, too

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?
idk, interesting stuff

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?
i'm always excited to see things i hadn't even thought of!

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)
yes, from days of yore. primarily lurking o___o

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?
i have an orange cat named yolo

What do you go by/where can you be found?
I'm

snickfic,

snickfic, and

Snickfic, and I go by snick on discord, specifically on EAD and Yulechat. I'm not on Tumblr much anymore, though, so DW and discord are your best bets.

What did you write this Yuletide?
The Swing of the Planets in Orbit - Oasis RPF a/b/o.

What are your fandoms?
Primarily MCU lately, but I'll probably write some more Oasis fic. I'm also mildly fannish about and read fic in The Magnus Archives, Black Spot, The Terror, a variety of horror movies (especially if there's f/f fic), a bunch of newer and older literary SFF.

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed?
Horror! SFF lit in general. Would also love to connect with any other Gallaghercest folks out there.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year?
A variety of horror canons, especially books and movies. All my old literary standbys, like Le Guin and Gaiman and Mieville (especially Bas-Lag). Next year I might even actually sign up, after just treating this year. *fingers crossed*

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!)
I hung out a lot on coal and ffa this year. Really happy with nu!coal! The last couple of years on old!coal were a drag. RIP the underscore, though. ;__;

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else?
lol I have nothing.

+100 to nu!coal; I almost bailed after 2018...

Followed back! It was truly my pleasure, definitely a standout fic for me this year!

Aaah, it was you who wrote me the gorgeous God's Own Country fic! Thank you so much ♥ I've followed you on twitter, because you'd better believe I'm all about those viral shitposts.

What do you go by/where can you be found? I am karanguni everywhere; K is the short form of it. I'm on AO3, DW, Tumblr, and Discord, but I rarely check Tumblr anymore. A Discord PM or DW comment/DM is the easiest way to get to me!

What did you write this Yuletide? Hoo boy. A whole bunch of weird esoteric Japanese history/RPF, and then some other things:

Arcadia - Stoppard - 4.66920[..], a fix-it for the play's ending
Discworld/The Culture - Picking Bodies, a crossover for hangingfire's 2F1 prompt in tribute to Sir PTerry and his desire to die in dignity
John Wick - MGMT, John learning management from Winston, a little
The Bedlam Stacks - Downstream, Merrick and Raphael fall into a time loop
Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Interweave, in which Thaniel accidentally encounters rope bondage through art
Go Player RPF - Only the Stones, in which modern Japanese Go players summon historical ones to try and beat AlphaGo, the AI that wins it all
Heian Era RPF - Follow, using ushiwakamaru's amazing prompt to turn Yoshitsune/Benkei into Yoshitsune/Soujoubou. Monsterlicking. I almost succeeded.

I also wrote some code.

What are your fandoms? I muddle along - I am not really in fannish space until Yuletide these days, though I'd love to be. The Culture (SOBS WHY WAS I ALONE THIS YEAR), Vorkosigan Saga, anything Japanese history, Natasha Pulley's books, Discworld, &c. I'm looking forward to picking canons up from other people, really!

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? I'd love to be more social in general! Hit me up if you want someone to brainstorm/beta/convert to your fandom cult, because I don't read or watch media as much as I would like. I hover around the SFF space a bit, and cheer on everyone doing exchanges and such. GRAB ME BY THE LAPELS AND MAKE ME TAKE UP YOUR FANDOM!!! I can be easily converted with fic recs, screenshots, and screaming manifestos.

I'm also in search of just general social-ness! I've been knitting a whole bunch, and have begun running this year. Next year I plan on planting a dyers' garden, and to slowly turn into Monty Don. I'll also happily trade memes.

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? Hm! The Culture folks, I hope to see y'all again. Any new Japanese history RPF folk. And hopefully Pulley's sequel to Watchmaker!

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

I enjoyed the nu!coal revival; I'm always there for the fun stuff and not really there for the wank, and 2018 was a wanky year. I prefer DW/thread style commenting above Discord conversations because of the pace of life and the ability to keep conversations going over hours instead of seconds! So thank you all for the inventive new memes. I enjoyed coalie catchups over the threads quite a bit.

Things I Would Admit Unanon: JE nonny, I am anonfailing here to say our rant/rave descent from MOONCHILD into Johnny the Creep was one of the highlights of my coal participation this year. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

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

If anyone has poetry recommendations, I'm in search of them!

Edited 2020-01-01 21:40 (UTC)

Is God's Own Country farmer boys in the middle of nowhere? I need to get off my butt and watch that...

One day, ONE DAY I will spaceex...

Is there a good primer on K.J Charles anywhere? Asking for a friend...

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

bond_girl and

elllementary

What did you write this Yuletide? -- This year I wrote for Doom Patrol [time travel fix-it, m/m, explicit] and Breakfast with Scot [backstory, m/m, mature]

What are your fandoms? -- Sci-fi, especially AI or in space + real history fandoms/mythology + literary detectives + the gothic genre + superhero movie universes

What are you interested in/what would you be interested in reading on your feed? -- I'm into cinema and I watch an embarrassing LOT of movies, from Scorsese to MCU, and a lot of genre TV. I'm a multifannish multishipper and as long as there's chemistry and an interesting conflict, I could be into it! I want to get into more book fandoms though!

Any fandoms you're looking forward to seeing in Yuletide next year? -- Imperial Radch because I have ~regrets! The Bone Key because I fell in love with Booth & friends too late in the year!

Anon memer? If so, what did you have fun with this year? (Non-anon memers... this is still a valid question!) -- Writing discussions - so helpful. Any fun threads that made me laugh like capslock title or choice games. Anything as long as it's not mean or tedious. I still haven't had time to read your weird porn, coalies, but I'll get there in January! Yuletide is a sort of an umbrella fandom for me and I hang around the past collections all year.

Optional details are optional... but fun to read. Anything else? -- I'm just here to have a good time and maybe write something in the process :)

Hi, hello! Thank you for leaving me a nice comment the other day - and I was so hoping someone would write Cliff & Jane for you! I'll follow you on tumblr because I also watch a WHOLE LOT of TV and it'd be great to find out more great shows to flail about.

Hello again :) I definitely want to be DW friends :) I'm social! And I scream manifestos!

Also, it looks like you wrote that Japanese folklore fic that ate my brain with the idea of a god wearing an ill-fitting human suit and the subtle sexiness (if that's what it was and if not, I'm sorry I have a dirty mind). It looked intriguing and so I wikied up for it a little, and whoa.

I don't know of a fannish one (maybe someone else here does?) but her website gives a pretty decent rundown. This reading order page does a good summary.

My favourites are the England series, the Lilywhite Boys (which are among the newest), and Spectered Isle, but I love her in particular for playing with trope expectations in a meaningfully historically rooted world.

(She also confirmed in Gilded Cage which is now out that the Ricardian books and the Lilywhite Boys books share a timeline.)

I did indeed! All credit to the requester's prompt, though; I just wrote it out. I tried so hard to get it to monsterfucking, but alas, it wanted to be literary instead of porny. Them's the waters!

I have a feeling my 12 book 2020 reading goal might just get a lot easier to accomplish...

Thank you for all your wonderful app work :D

I haven't read much new-to-me poetry recently but I wrote a couple of blog posts about some I liked some time ago: https://poetree.dreamwidth.org/tag/themed+week:+digital+found+poetry and https://poetree.dreamwidth.org/tag/themed+week:+ars+poetica

Thank you for all the work you put into the app! This isn't a specific rec, but I have found a lot of great new (to me) poetry through lunchboxpoems.

YAAAS bless you! Followed back. <3

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