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It's another Yuletide, and I could not be more excited that you're going to write a story for me. If you already have an idea, feel free to run with it. I'm sure I'll love it. But if you'd like, here is some guidance about the things I like.

( Things That Make Me Happy )

( DNWs )

And here, again, are the details about my requested fandoms:

( Talk of the Town ) https://youtu.be/_ju6Z2v9TnI

( Political Animals )

( Push )

( Sunshine )

In the end, I hope you have fun with whatever you write!

It's another Yuletide, and I could not be more excited that you're going to write a story in one of my fandoms. If you already have an idea, I'm sure I'll love it. But if you'd like some guidance about the things I like, here it is.

( Things That Make Me Happy )

( Things I Can Do Without )

And here, again, are the details about my requested fandoms:

( Political Animals )

( Push )

( Magnificent Seven (2016) )

( West Coast Avengers )

( Stumptown )

In the end, I hope you write something that gives you joy. That's sure to bring me joy as well.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/377032.html

This Yuletide, I matched on a recipient who requested The Nice Guys. If you haven't seen it (and not many people did, alas) the movie stars Ryan Gosling as an alcoholic mess of a private eye, and Russell Crowe as a thug-for-hire he accidentally starts working with. It is a glorious thing, and possibly my very favourite Gosling performance ever. (I'm not a huge fan of broody!Gosling, but here he's a drunken goofball who occasionally has flashes of brilliance, and he is glorious.)

So, here's the story, in which Gosling's wise-beyond-her-years daughter plays matchmaker:
Holly March's Dad Dating Service (4,581 words)

I also managed to write one treat, for the lovely

dorinda. She requested Trapeze, a circus story with Burt Lancaster and (a very pretty) Tony Curtis as trapeze artists pining after each other. I've been wanting to see the movie for ages, and it does not disappoint. Except the ending. Which this story fixes:
Fight or Flight ( 2,640 words)

Beyond Yuletide, it's been another crazy year, and I haven't posted here much. Partly it's RL competing with time for fannish pursuits. (Along with the usual work, kid, house stuff, Ros is back playing hockey again. And after two years doing learn-to-play classes, I'm now playing in a real league! And I was stupid excited that I got a picture day in my hockey gear. I will totally be posting that as soon as I get it.) With Tumblr imploding, my hope is to post here more often. And to start there, here's my annual writing round up.

I'm still in Marvel fandom, but I've burned through that first flush of being in a new fandom when the words come quickly and easily. Still love the characters, though. Especially these two idiots:

I wrote a lot fewer stories this year than last, four, but one of those stories is the second longest thing I've ever written. I wrote two stories for the Cap Reverse Big Bang, both OT3s. (OT3s seem to be a thing for me. Huh.) The long fic I wrote was for the FTH auction, and took most of the year.

So, here it is, ( the list o' fic: )

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/368770.html

I was fortunate to get not just a regular Yuletide gift this year, but also a treat, both in Marvel adjacent fandoms, and both are wonderful.

My main gift is a genius crossover of Push (a Chris Evans movie) and Political Animals (a Sebastian Stan TV series). Evan's character, Nick, is a telekinetic on the run from a shady government organization, Division. He approaches Stan's T.J., whose mother is about to be elected President, for help facing down Division, and of course they fall in love.

This Much Is True (14650 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Political Animals, Push (2009)
Relationships: Thomas "T. J." Hammond/Nick Gant
Characters: Thomas "T. J." Hammond, Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes, Douglas Hammond, Elaine Barrish
Additional Tags: Crossover Pairings, References to Suicide Attempt, References to Addiction, Deception, It Wasn't All a Lie, soft boys in love, TJ gets his shit together
Summary: He’d always hated the soft needy creature that lived inside him, that wanted to matter more than politics or a public image. That craved nothing more than to be the center of someone’s world.

The treat occurs just in the world of Push, and shows a slide of how Nick ended up in Hong Kong.

Midnight Boxcars (1150 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Push (2009)
Characters: Nick Gant
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary: He doesn’t know where he picks up the set of cheap, red plastic dice. Probably from one of shelters. Two sixes are boxcars, Nate tells him, breath sour with whiskey and meds. Midnight, Dory disagrees. They go back to arguing over their chess game; he never sees them again.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/368158.html

I actually have a complete first draft of my Yuletide story done! It even has a title!

Now I have time to let it sit for a few days before giving it a once over to make sure it doesn't suck.

And I'm hoping I may be able to write a Treat or two this year. Fingers crossed!

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/367907.html

It's another Yuletide, and I could not be more excited that you're going to write a story in one of my fandoms. If you already have an idea, I'm sure I'll love it. But if you'd like some guidance about the things I like, here it is.

( Things That Make Me Happy )

( Things I Can Do Without )

And here, again, are the details about my requested fandoms:

( Political Animals )

( Push )

( Magnificent Seven (2016) )

In the end, I hope you write something that gives you joy. That's sure to bring me joy as well.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/367806.html

Continuing the general Marvel/Chris Evans obsession of the past year, the story I wrote for this year's Yuletide (for

gwyn, waves!) was for Gifted, a really charming little Evans movie.

Goodnight Moon and Red Balloons (5401 words)
Fandom: Gifted (2017)
Summary: How Roberta Taylor adopted a lost white boy and his baby niece.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/366546.html

Happy New Year, everyone! I've had a decent year personally this year. I've got my fingers crossed it's a better year for the world in general.

Getting under the wire before reveals, thought I'd rec the Yuletide treat I got, another stunningly good What's Your Number story from Colin's POV.

Things You Can Count On (3490 words)
Fandom: What's Your Number? (2011)
Relationships: Ally Darling/Colin Shea, Ally Darling/Jake Adams
Characters: Ally Darling, Colin Shea, Jake Adams, Daisy Darling, Ava Darling
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Canon Universe, Post-Canon
Summary:
Colin's POV from the movie and post-movie possibilities.

For the SteveBucky Secret Santa, I got this funny, charming take on Twas The Night Before Christmas:

Twas The Night Before Christmas, Stucky Edition. (674 words) by Lasenby_Heathcote
Fandom: Captain America - All Media Types
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: poem, Pre-War, Christmas Eve, Fist Fights, Unreliable Narrator
Series: Part 3 of Fandom Poetry
Summary:
Bucky tells the story of the time Steve got into a fight on Christmas Eve. Steve disagrees with most of it. (A poem)

Finally, I managed to finish a Sam/Steve/Bucky story I've been working on for months. (The next time my muse suggests writing a polyamorous relationship almost entirely through phone conversations with one of the participant's moms, I'm firing my muse. Even though this turned out okay in the end.)

Mrs. Wilson's Boys (12105 words)
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Darlene Wilson
Summary:
How Darlene Wilson ended up adopting a couple of stray super soldiers.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/366302.html

Christmas and Yuletide are here, and I've gotten a lovely story for the Chris Evans movie, What's Your Number

Confidence Man (6368 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: What's Your Number? (2011)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Ally Darling/Colin Shea
Characters: Colin Shea, Ally Darling
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary: Colin Shea is a fucking gift. Or: five times Colin reminds Ally how awesome she is just by being himself, and one time Ally reminds Colin that that's exactly what love is.

This story manages to be both funny and sweet and proves just how perfect Colin and Ally are for each other. If you've ever seen the movie, you should totally read this story!

I also wrote a story for this year's SteveBucky Secret Santa. It's a cabin fic! And a sharing a bed fic! And a sharing warmth fic! And it somehow ended up being over 11K words.

A Goddamn Winter Wonderland (11122 words) by PR Zed
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Artist Steve Rogers, Cabin Fic, Snowed In, Sharing a Bed, Sharing Body Heat, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson Friendship
Summary: Steve really shouldn't have even attempted the drive. Not with a major snowstorm on the way. Not when his thirteen-year-old car had broken down three times this month and his snow tires should have been replaced two years ago. But when he'd moved to Buffalo, he'd promised his mom he'd make it back to New York for Christmas at least.

Driving home for the holidays, Steve runs into a blizzard and another stranded traveller. But what starts off as a good deed could end up being so much more.

Otherwise, Christmas has been pleasantly uneventful. I think I managed to cook my best turkey thus far, the Sweetie got me the gigantic (no, seriously GIGANTIC) Captain America Omnibus of all of Mark Waid's Cap stories, and Ros has been demolishing all of the graphic novels we got here. (Ros hasn't ever been much of a reader, but she's getting into graphic novels, so Yay!)

Hope all of you who celebrate it are having a lovely Christmas, and that the rest of you are having an equally pleasant 25th of December!

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/366068.html

Yuletide is here, and I could not be more excited that you're going to write a story in one of my fandoms! If you already have an idea, I'm sure I'll love it. But if you'd like some guidance about the things I like, here it is.

( Things That Make Me Happy )

( Things I Can Do Without )

And here are the details about my requested fandoms:

( Political Animals )

( Push )

( What's Your Number )

( Magnificent Seven (2016) )

In the end, I hope whatever you write, you have fun with it. If it gives you joy, it's sure to bring me joy as well.

Crossposts: https://przed.livejournal.com/364921.html

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted here.

I wasn't on the computer or online much during the holidays, so I didn't post about the lovely stories I got for Yuletide. There were two (two!) both for Velvet Goldmine, a movie I love past reason.

The first one is the pairing of my heart, Arthur/Curt, and shows them a few years older and in Berlin. It's beautifully written and a perfect take on the two of them:

Sound and Vision (2272 words) by yeats
Fandom: Velvet Goldmine
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Arthur Stuart/Curt Wild
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Christmas, Oral Sex, Yuleporn
Summary: Arthur and Curt in Berlin, December 1989.

The second story is a much more melancholy take on what might have happened to Arthur if he'd failed entirely to achieve his dreams and his night with Curt had never gone further.

Not-Returning Time (3035 words) by thegirlwiththemouseyhair
Fandom: Velvet Goldmine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Arthur Stuart/Curt Wild, Arthur Stuart/Original Character, Ray/Arthur Stuart
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Unrequited Love, Loneliness, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Awkward Flirting, Self-Esteem Issues
Summary: Shop boy Arthur Stuart tries to make a proper life for himself, in between surviving and reminiscing about Curt Wild and the dead glam rock scene.

My Yuletide assignment was for Spy, a fun movie I love and think is a lot of fun. My recipient asked for Susan's back story, so my muse decided it would turn a wacky comedy into a meditation on self-esteem and fighting sexism. With some female ass-kicking thrown in.

A (Not So) Well-Behaved Woman (1982 words)
Fandom: Spy (2015)
Summary: Susan's mother raises her to be a nice, neat, well-behaved girl... Or how Susan Cooper learned how to be the spy she was always meant to be.

One of my favourite Yuletide stories was this Spy story that's much more in keeping with the wacky tone of the movie. It's funny and filthy and just a little bit touching.

Every Single Holiday (4043 words) by rsadelle
Fandom: Spy (2015)
Relationships: Susan Cooper/Rick Ford
Additional Tags: Dick in a Box, 5+1 Things
Summary: When it comes to gift-giving, Ford's repertoire is somewhat limited.

My writing wrap up is going to be dead easy this year. The first part of the year was all martial arts all the time, and then there were months of relaxing because I was knackered. Then in the fall, the Cap Stucky fandom hit me like a truck. So apart from Yuletide, the only other fic I finished was the Stucky one from the end of the year. (I've got two half-finished stories on the hard drive, one Pros and one Take That, but the whole Stucky thing hit me hard in the fall and shorted out all other writing.)

The Altar Boy Act (1411 words)
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Summary: Stark thinks Steve is a prude. Bucky knows better.

My total word count for the year was a paltry 3393. But that's okay. I've already got that more than beat for the new year. I'm awaiting a beta on 23,000 words of the first two stories in a Stucky series, and have already started the final story. That one looks like it's going to hit at least 10,000 words.

A belated Happy New Year, everyone!

I'm about to do something horribly impulsive.

Namely, offering two fandoms for Yuletide where I've seen only limited clips of the source, simply because they star, respectively, Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans.

MCU fandom, you have a lot to answer for.

It's awesome that you want to write a story in one of my fandoms! And if you already have a story idea for any of them, I'm sure to love it. But if you'd like to know about some of the things I like, and don't, here you go:

( Yuletide details, ahoy )

This year for Yuletide I matched on a recipient who requested Edge of Tomorrow and Only Lovers Left Alive, both of which I'd offered. After briefly toying with doing a demented crossover of both fandoms (and brainstorming with the Sweetie; vampires who can remember the time loops and are really miffed about it, yay!) I settled on just doing an Edge of Tomorrow story.

It was a movie I'd already loved in the theatre and had been telling people to go see it. But now I've watched it a bunch more times and I am here to tell you that it is an awesome film, probably my favourite film of the summer (yes, more than Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America) and you should totally go see it. No, it doesn't matter if you hate Tom Cruise. In fact, it might help, because the start of the film plays on that smarmy asshole-ness that Cruise so frequently presents. His character starts off as a coward and a jerk and has to learn to do better. And then it has Emily Blunt as the badass soldier who needs to train him to become a hero. But the film doesn't handle this in a way that negates her contributions. Right until the end, if Blunt's Rita Vrataski hadn't been with Cruise's character, he would have been sunk.

So, yeah, totally check out Edge of Tomorrow.

And here's my story:

The First Time 'Round (3198 words)
Fandom: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Relationships: William Cage/Rita Vrataski
Summary: The first time you meet Private Cage, you think Christ, not another one.

Besides Yuletide, I wrote seven stories this year. It was a lower story count and a much lower word count than the last few years when I was setting personal records. I haven't been around much online, either. There have been a few contributing factors to that, I think. One big part of it was organizing BistoCon with FJ Bryan. Even though it was a small con, getting it all put together took a significant amount of the time and energy I had for fannish activity for the first two thirds of the year, and after it was all over I felt knackered for longer than I would have thought. It took the amazing SHareCon to rejuvenate my fannish ambitions.

Another big part is Ros getting older. She's doing activities every day but one, and gets to bed just that little bit later, giving me less time to work on anything at night.

The last thing that's taking my time is Taekwando, which is rapidly becoming as consuming as fandom. I tested for my red belt just before Christmas (I broke three boards!), two away from black. I'm aiming to test black in spring of 2016, and that's going to require three classes a week, a two hour training session on Saturday mornings, and regular volunteering in other classes. The black belt test requires a whole weekend spent at the dojo in March where they keep you going for most of 60 hours and push you to your limit, and then there's another couple of months of rehearsing performance routines for the June Black Belt Spectacular. Oh, and 2016 is also when we've promised to hold the next edition of BistoCon. I have a feeling there will not be much fic written in 2016.

Anyway, here's a list of the fic I did manage to write. ( List o' fic this way )

I've got fifteen minutes before I've promised to take Ros and one of her friends skating, so I thought I'd just pop online and wish everyone a happy new year.

We've had a relaxed and yet packed holiday season. Were up at my mom's for Christmas. I cooked the turkey (my third one ever, and the one that finally turned out well; I wish I'd taken a picture) and the Sweetie baked a pumpkin pie. Ros got a new American Girl, I got Star Trek Catan and there were lots of board games played and skating done. (I am amused that my kid is going to know Star Trek first because of the board game. Shall have to watch The Trouble with Tribbles with her one of these days.)

Since we've gotten back to Toronto I've been off work and hanging out with Ros. We went to a figure skating show one of the big theatres put on for the holidays on Monday. I went to a uni friend's 60th birthday party. (She's ten years older than the rest of us. Which means we're all hitting 50 next year!) And there's been playdates for Ros, giving me a few hours at a time which I've been using to work on the neverending task of decluttering the house. (A friend who's starting her own speech therapy practice, having just gotten laid off from working for the city program, has just picked up boxes and boxes of Ros' old toys for her work. Win win for us both!)

And to add some fannish content, I got a fab Strike Back story for Yuletide:

What a Lovely Way to Burn (5653 words)
Fandom: Strike Back
Relationships: Damien Scott/Michael Stonebridge
Summary: There was going to be one hell of a debrief when they got out of here. Locke had sent them back into South America knowing it was going to be a goat rodeo, but nobody had expected this level of colossal cluster fuck.

Lots of hurt/comforty goodness, and perfect Damien Scott voice.

msmoat you must give it a read!

Tonight is going to be the usual low key new year for us. We were going to try and get Ros to watch A Hard Day's Night on TCM with us (the house rule is if she's going to stay up until midnight on new year she has to watch a movie with mommy and daddy) but she's discovered that there's also a Leafs hockey game on. I suspect hockey will win, though I'm going to push for recording the Beatles so we can watch after the game is over, leading up to midnight.

Best new year wishes to you all!

So, the good news is that I've finished my Yuletide story.

The bad news is that I don't have a freaking clue what to call the sucker.

::sigh::

I suppose struggling with titles makes me appreciate the few that come easily all the more.

I have actually finished fic! I haven't managed to finish anything since July, and not much before that, so even though this is a short piece, it's a finished short piece.

It's for the Starsky & Hutch Advent Calendar, so it won't be up until some time in December, but IT'S DONE!

Next, I really have to get started on my Yuletide fic. I finally sat down with the Sweetie and watched the source material again (and once the reveal has happened I will definitely be pimping the source because it's fantastic) and I have the vaguest of ideas and one line. But I'm not sure who the line belongs to which, not surprisingly, is a huge problem. But I'm sure it'll start sorting itself out soon. I hope.

In other news, I'd mentioned to the Sweetie that I might try to do a demented crossover of the two fandoms I matched with my recipient on, so he started riffing on the possibilities and came up with a really fun idea. I don't think it's quite substantial enough for the main story, but if I have enough time, I might do it as a treat.

In non-fannish news, I'm going for my next Taekwando belt on Dec. 18, so today I did both the 6 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. classes. The plan is to keep that up every Tuesday for the next month. Both classes are tough in different ways, but I have to say I came out of the second one feeling mostly energetic.

A little more than a month ago Take That broke my heart a little when Jason Orange left the band. They've just helped make up for that a bit with their first video as a threesome, which starts with Howard, Gary and Mark in bed together. No, really! See!

tt-thesedays01

There follows a series of wacky situations, including Howard getting a spray tan.
vid-thesedays02

God bless Howard Donald and his willingness to get nearly naked. Or, you know, actually naked.

In other news, I've managed to write 440 words of a Starsky & Hutch Christmas story. That's 440 more words than I've had the time or energy to write in months. Yay!

And while I have no concrete ideas for my Yuletide story, I offered two of the fandoms my recipient asked for and am currently mulling over whether I want to do a crazy crossover of said fandoms. (It wouldn't be the craziest crossover I've ever done, but it would be...odd.)

It's awesome that you're going to write a story in one of the fandoms I requested. Basically, I hope you write a story that you can have fun with, because Yuletide should be fun. But to give you an idea of the sort of story I enjoy, what follows are some of my likes and dislikes, as well as my original prompts.

( Read more... )

I wrote one story for Yuletide this year.

The Case of the Visiting Spies (4074 words) by PR Zed
Fandom: A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Wild Wild West (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sebastian Moran/James Moriarty, Artemus Gordon/James West
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary: The New Worlders were not what I expected of God Killers.

I always hope to manage a fun crossover for Yuletide, and when I matched on a recipient who asked for both A Study in Emerald and Wild Wild West, I couldn't resist merging the two worlds.

Besides the Yuletide story, I wrote 11 other stories, mostly TT (yeah, that's not a surprise), with a couple of Pros and one Tennis RPF to round things out. ( This way to the details )

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