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Dear yuletide writer,

If you offered any of these fandoms, you are already amazing -- thank you very much for doing so!

As always: optional details are optional, and this letter even more so.

( But if you would like more details, here goes. )

Dear yuletide writer,

By offering to write for any of these fandoms, you are already awesome. Thanks so much for doing so!

As always: please remember that optional details are optional, and this letter even more so.

( But if you'd like more details, here goes. )

Dear yuletide writer,

By offering to write for any of these fandoms, you are already awesome. Thanks so much for doing so!

Just remember: optional details are optional, and this letter even more so.

( But here's a bit of elaboration, if you'd like it. )

Dear yuletide writer,

By offering to write for any of these fandoms, you are already awesome. Thanks so much for doing so!

( Elaboration, if you'd like it. )

Dear yuletide author,

By offering to write for one of these fandoms, you are already awesome, and I am already grateful. Thanks very much for doing so. :D

I don't want to make this a stressful experience for you, so just remember - you're only constrained by the fandoms and characters I've listed. You don't have to pay attention to the request details*, let alone this letter.

( That having been said -- )

Many thanks again!

*Okay, I lie. I do care strongly about the Academic Institutions (Anthropomorfic) request. But the manga requests are fair game.

i was a pinch-hit this year, but received two lovely (and quite different) fics:

Photo Real, which is a gorgeous Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fic. it's perhaps a little closer in tone to the movies than to the anime, the interaction between batou and the major a little less easy-going, but i love that. what actually goes on in the fic could be summed up very simply, but the execution is precise and effective.

Snowmen with Scarves, which is Kimi to Boku fic! ahhhh ♥ it's sweet, silly, and very true-to-canon; i found myself picturing corresponding manga panels as i read it. being the yuuki&yuuta fan i am, i especially enjoyed their appearances in this fic - but all the others are perfectly in character, too.

In an internet cafe in Aleppo now -- Syria blocks Facebook but neither Blogger nor Livejournal, apparently. Am only here to say that I had an amazing Yuletide, receiving two brilliant, brilliant pieces of fic:

and if they are not dead, which is everything I could have ever wanted in a post-series Monster fic. I think I can finally remove Monster from my Yuletide requests list, now, because this fic has fulfilled my craving for a good coda to the series. It's a breathtaking piece of writing, and I am madly in love with it, and plan to reread it at length once I have the time (which probably means... February).

The Persistence of Perspective. Natsume Yuujinchou fic. Lovely, gentle, insightful, amusing Natsume Yuujinchou fic, which made me smile and broke my heart and is basically incredibly squeeworthy. I am not worthy, v_voltaire, but thank you so, so much for this. ;_;

I still haven't read any other Yuletide fics but these, though I did note that there are other Monster and Natsume Yuujinchou ones out there..! Exciting times.

i received a really awesome Bartimaeus trilogy* fic for yuletide! it's first-person-POV and pitch-perfect -- Bartimaeus's narration was the main reason I liked the books, i won't lie -- and works so well and oh, Bartimaeus-Ptolemy interaction, be still my heart. :D :D :D

feliciter also wrote me awesome epistolary Mushishi fic. *_*

*the Bartimaeus trilogy is a YA fantasy series; possibly the first i have read since secondary school, picked it up after prompting from a friend. it isn't high literature by any measure, but it does have one of the best/most entertaining narrators (who is also an unreliable one, yay) since Kyon. also, alternate history 'verse with magic in!

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edit: now with aforementioned epistolary fic by feliciter!

( in the bleak midwinter )

project for the year: complete a list of twenty-six fics in twenty-six different fandoms, with one title for each letter of the alphabet, and pretentious prompts to work from. not giving myself a minimum word count, because i am lazy. starting the year with nine fics already written for fandoms which i do not wish to attempt again, indicated by the bolded numerals.

( fandoms i have known, if only briefly )

and the sad thing is, i've already compiled the prompts (quite a few are lines from Joseph Brodsky!) and come up with titles + fandoms for each. ahahaha um. also, i am cheating by counting weiss kreuz/weiss kreuz glühen/weiss side b as three separate fandoms. i miss writing wk fic, okay? >_.

edit, 31 Dec 2007: well, didn't quite get there, but the only missing fandoms are MaLoki and Mushishi, so. eventually (before the spring break, say) this will be a list of twenty-seven fics in twenty-seven different anime/manga fandoms, with only six written-before-2007 fics. >_.

edit, 7 Aug 2008: ahaha, well. i hope to finish the MaLoki fic by, er, this year. as for Mushishi, i'm waiting for the final volume to be released, which may not be until 2009. so there you go.