Yuletide author reveals!

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Authors have been revealed for Yuletide; it is now officially 2019. fandom_snowflake is up and running, though I'll participate only selectively. The intermittent power outages caused by snow crashing down on power lines have stopped (another New Year's Eve tradition), and I can start on my 2018 Fic Year in Review. (Also, I posted on 22 days out of 31, this past December! It is quite an achievement. I'll see if I can aim for at least twice a week this year.)

My wonderful gift, This Hour, This Night, was written by Ryuutchi! It is, of course, the only thing they've written for the fandom to date. Oh well!

I wrote four fics this year. My assigned recip was Untherius, and I wrote him 3.7k of Voynich Manuscript gen: If I Must Leave the Long River of Time.

Iau fingered the ceremonial knife hidden in her dress. It'd take Maria some time longer to return, so she quickly drew both it and the box. In the gloom of the small building, she made a small cut to the finger of her disguise. Blood welled from the wound, a deep blue in the lack of light.

This one went down much better than I expected – I seem to have forgotten the good reception Yuletide's 5-minute fandoms get. It has a bunch of comments and a decent amount of bookmarks! I'm satisfied with this one and how it went down.

Then I was stuck in a sort of rut of ennui, panic over things unrelated to Yuletide, and a lingering sense of bleh, so I did what we all do in such situations and went to browse the letters database for all the canons I recognized. From naye's postings I recalled that Guardian the TV show was a Thing, and had seen some gifsets with sleeping-on-a-shoulder, so I went and looked at the Yuletide prompts for it. kyrilu's were RTMI (time travel!!!), so I watched the entire damn show and wrote What a magnificent bed we lay in for them. It's 5k of E-rated Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei. Rereading, I don't quite think I hit the mark I aimed for, but ah well. One can't always win Yuletide with all of one's fics, and the fandom/ship got some very nice fics in the general Yuletide bounty.

I looked through the Guardian requests again to see if anyone had requested anything different (I have a big problem of not being able to write a pairing twice in a row), and saw naphyla prompt for Shen Wei/Ye Zun sibling incest, so I went and wrote some sibling incest: As I Return from Ten Thousand Years Away is T-rated and 3.5k long. This one was more niche, but succeeded better at what I wanted it to be, and I think I improved in characterization? I also got to wrap Ye Zun in a blanket.

On Christmas Eve, I was idle and thus idly browsing prompts, when I came across someone requesting switching (or, top Wei Wuxian) for Modao Zushi! Over the span of about 6 very interrupted hours, I wrote A Day in the Life, 1.8k of E-rated Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji for Findarato! It's mostly just porn, but it's very sweet porn in accordance to the recip's wishes.

All in all, I wrote over 12k for this Yuletide, as opposed to 11k last year and 10k the year before. Even my Yuletide wordcount is going up, albeit not as drastically as my total AO3 wordcount, which I doubled this year.