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Oct. 23rd, 2025 09:29 am

Community Recs Post!

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanart/fics/fanvids/fancrafts/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here
Oct. 23rd, 2025 12:31 am

Dear Yuletide Writer!

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My dear writer, hello! Thank you for writing for me, and for having a bang-up taste in canons. I'm listing a mix of likes and prompts for my requests, but honestly, mostly I'm looking forward to your delight in the story you want to tell - go wild, and happy tide <3

For the reference, I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] egelantier and [tumblr.com profile] egelantier. Also for the reference: I'm definitely open to treats!

Likes

  • hurt/comfort! all kinds, all flavors, physical, emotional, both, go for it. i prefer the whippings and crucifixions and dungeon rescues more then light colds and mild mishaps end of spectrum, but that's about it.
  • loyalty, from formal (oaths, queens and knights, kneeling, bonds) to informal (family ties, friend ties, us-against-the-world, i-will-do-anything-for-you stuff)
  • hope in the end of the tunnel, hope found in people and ties and doing the work together
  • delicate glass canon characters showing off their cores of steel in extremis
  • devoted caretaking without infantilization, bodyguards and carers and loyal retainers and so on
  • weirdos banging together
  • rebuilding the world-city-hamlet-house from scratch after the catastrophe
  • characters stoically reflecting on how they're needed but not loved and it's absolutely okay, while actually being so loved
  • nature as a living part of the story
  • religious characters actually practicing their religion in a way that impacts their lives (this is mostly geared at fantasy religious, but if you know what you're talking about in terms of real world religion, go nuts)
  • peaceful post-apocalyptic cities overtaken by grass and dandelions
  • picaresques set in canons with colorful worldbuilding
  • grounded, highly specific descriptions of doing things: if A&B are running that coffeehouse, do tell me where they buy their coffee and who chose their coffee machine and why and what went into their design decisions
  • competence porn
  • high concept AUs (fantasy, pirates, monks and nuns, space opera, history, and so on.)
  • arranged marriages! or old-fashioned slavefics

Do Not Wants

  • non-canon major character death (canon is fine unless i'm actively specifying I want a fix-it; presumed dead or died but came back are OK)
  • rape/non-con
  • PWP (I enjoy porny parts of the fics, especially if it's bdsm-flavored, but i'd rather it not be the main drive of the story)
  • grimdark of there's no hope and there was no point even in trying and being kind is stupid and pointless variety
  • unhappy endings
  • infidelity and/or partner betrayal of any kind
  • omegaverse, hanahaki, assigned soulmates
  • modern gender/identity/neurodiversity terms when it's ahistorical or goes against worldbuilding (a character can be an autistic aromantic genderqueer bisexual in a polycule just fine, gimme, they'd just most likely not be called that)

requests and prompts

Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly

Abishag Shaw, Livia Levesque

I deeply enjoy Shaw and his aw-shucks schtick and his deadly competence and his understated but deep loyalty to Ben and his family, and how carefully and mindfully and wholeheartedly he's ready to step over the racial divide between them. He's an unutterably lonely character, without roots or family of community of his own, and while he can't quite join Ben's, it's pretty obvious that they're one of the main sources of light in his life. Also he hurts very prettily and I love it for him.

And on the other side there's Livia, a deeply horrible woman who also was so deeply horribly done by you can't help but see where she's coming from - and I imagine she's lonely, too, after a lifetime of one selfish choice after another, all taken in the search of that elusive safety... She keeps shoring her walls up, and I think she nevertheless knows very well that's she might be building on the time. She fascinates me! And one got to admit, if you don't have to, like, deal with her, mama Levesque just slaps as a character, and her wit and her memory are sharp and awesome.

So. Those two probably won't be caught dead in one room together in a normal situation... but there's got to be something that will get them working as a team - most likely really bad danger to Ben, or maybe a mystery so tasty to Livia that she can't pass up the chance to get into it. (Ben can be an entirely offscreen character if needed, or play a vital part). Or something else! They're going to be the worst team ever, but also they're going to be an absolutely terrifying unstoppable force if they work in tandem. Yes please.

Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell

Kiem Tegnar

Look, I just really like Kiem. He reminds me of Freddy from Heyer's Cotillion - not necessarily the smartest person in any room, but his EQ is par excellence and his kindness is all the charts. I love that he's kind despite pretty much nothing in his upbringing or surroundings wants him to be kind, I love that he's Determined and Brave and Decent without getting on a high horse about it, I love that he's so invested into treating people around him like people, and that it never occurs to him to use or abuse. I love that he's been exiled to a monastery, and that he's a world-class meditator! And I sense that underneath all that healthy altruism his self-esteem issues run as deep and as complicated as Jainan's are, if maybe in a different direction.

So! Give me post-canon Kiem please, give me him finding his legs, or Jainan learning more about him as their marriage grows, or Jainan and Bel teaming up for some Kiem-centric issue. Or just some good old whump. Or Kiem dealing with his job or his charities or with politics, and slowly learning to be consciously unstoppable about it. Give him a chance to discover himself competent and complicated, and let me revel in it.

The Foundling - Georgette Heyer

Gideon Ware, Adolphus "Gilly" Ware

Your honor, those guys are in love! I love that Foundling is essentially a bildungsroman instead of a standard romance, and I love that Gilly goes on to have his big adventure, and Gideon has the faith in him to let him handle it - up to a point where Gilly does need his help, and then he drops everything and rushes to his rescue. I love the undercurrent of tension relating to titles/inheritance issues, and how Gideon's own father shortly suspects him of killing Gilly for the title... and how much it makes Gideon angry. I love how Gideon is slow and methodical and Gilly is kind and bright and yet surprisingly competent, and I imagine they share a pretty wicked sense of humor between them.

So... give me more! Post-canon, getting together, figuring it out, more Shenanigans, mutual rescues; fantasy AU (Gilly as a prince in trouble and Gideon as his heir apparent? fleeing from the coup? hm); all kinds of AUs, actually, i think it's interesting how this tension might play out in a different setting. Or, yes, some good fashioned whump. For one of them or for both of them! Let Gilly see how much Gideon cares, let Gideon has a front row seats to how unhinged Gilly can be when he's putting his back into it. Let them have some high-stakes fun.

역대급 영지 설계사 | The Greatest Estate Developer (Webcomic)

Kim Suho | Lloyd Frontera, Javier Asrahan, Alicia Magentano

Okay, so I adore how off the wall insane Kim Suho is, and yet how competent, and how both Javier and Alicia are so so so into it, at this point without reserve or holding back - all the while being open to how ridiculous his antics are. I love the complete lack of hinges in this trio, on all sides, and I love the tension between all that devotion and excitement flying in all directions... All the while Kim Suho keeps laughably underestimating how important he is to both Javier and Alicia, how much they're willing to do for him, and how much they love him. He's still stuck in his self-image of an impostor, and I think he's on some level pretty sure his value is solely in his use, for all his bluster and self-aggrandizement, and that's like catnip to me.

So! I'm caught up to the current state of canon and while canon-wise it's interesting, I just want like... see Alicia put a ring on it, and of course get Javier on board, and then see how poor Kim Suho manages to be a king-consort and how much insanity it will wrought and whether or not Alicia and Javier combined can hammer into his head that no, he IS loved and appreciated and seen. Even when he's not trying to work himself to death trying to fix yet another Situation (on a more serious note, I'm super intrigued by the idea of him laid low and unable to do shit - we know from canon that he self-isolates when depressive, and self-isolates in general, but what if they won't let him?).

Anyway. Yes. Whump is a plus, construction nerdery is a plus, administrivia is a plus, Alicia imparting some of the relationship wisdom with a healthy dose of BDSM is beyond a plus.

The Rising World Series - Martha Wells

Bashasa Calis, Kaiisteron

This pairing (romantic or platonic) essentially contains everything I love in a nice fictional relationship in a single package: overcompetence, utter devotion, mutual protectiveness and care, Kai imprinting on Bashasa for that first real spark of hope and then just never ever letting go, Bashasa taking constant and personal care of Kai - both his well-being and his dignity (I think the moment when Kai went from 'oh cool' to 'oh no I'm done for' was when he realized Bashasa made sure to take Enna's body from the Summer Halls.)

And on the other hand there's this undercurrent of tension with Bashasa's alcoholic coping strategies, and constant inability to truly protect each other - either from the war they're waging or from the complexities of establishing the peace afterward; and, of course, Kai having to see Bashasa grow old and die...

Anyway yes. Canon is tantalizing but there's just not enough of those two! Gimme skirmishes, gimme politicking and cultural shock, gimme epistolary bewilderment and outside POV of their contemporaries, gimme mutual hurt/comfort, gimme on-the-run-together, give me them giving some bodily, worshipful care to each other, just really dig into it. Any other character is welcome in the mix (aside from Zeide and Tehren I'm tickled pink by Kai's cadre and the sheer concept of it, I love them, give me them). I'm still finishing the Witch King but it's definitely going to be finished before Yule rolls around, so post-canon, mid-canon, sideways from the canon, all is good for me. Divergence or fusion AUs are fun too (they would do really well in a nice old-school slavefic or an arranged marriage fic, you know?)

And that's it! Thank you for writing for me, and I hope you enjoy yourself; I can't wait.

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  1. Thriller by Transporter Incident. Wonderfully vidded seasonal look at ST: TOS and all its creepy moments.

  2. [VID] People I Don't Like by colls. The song is such a great match for Mon Mothma's life as we saw it on Andor. They're such subtle battles she has to fight, and I'm so glad this vid (and the show) put a spotlight on it. The restrictions and desire to unfold just a bit come out so clearly.

  3. Wake Up by periru3 and tafadhali. Part of their Alanis Morrisette "Jagged Little Slayer" series of vids for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this one focuses on the Troika across the seasons. A good look at their decisions and the damage done.

  4. The Body Politic by aadler. Given his background, how did Rupert Giles become Buffy's Watcher? A conversation with Quentin Travers reveals a lot.

  5. The Hero With Three Faces: October 21, 2025 by scarfman. Reading this talk between Dr. Who and La'An made me laugh.
Oct. 22nd, 2025 11:38 am

Stranded, by Melissa Braun

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From the blurb:

One fellow camper will do whatever it takes to make it out of the Boundary Waters alive. Even if he's the only one.

A psychological thriller mixed with intense action.


Nah, just kidding! It's not a psychological thriller, it's a survival story. One of the teenage campers is a racist, a sexual harasser, and an attempted rapist, but he never tries to kill any of the others or abandons them to die or anything like that.

Yep! It's another disappointing survival book with a misleading blurb and gratuitous grossness towards teenage girls!

Teenage Emma is traumatized after failing to save her younger sister from drowning, so she gets her parents to book her into a teen wilderness survival course to take her mind off things. In a portentous scene, her father gives her a Swiss army knife. She's confused and concerned that he's giving her a weapon to take on a camping trip - does he expect her to be attacked? I was confused why she would think of a Swiss army knife as a weapon rather than a tool. If you don't even know what a Swiss army knife is, then you can't tell that it's a knife at all when it's folded. If you recognize it when folded, then you know that it is a multitool.

The early part of the book jumps around confusingly in time, to the point where I flipped back pages repeatedly to see if I'd missed something. No, it was just the author's pointless decision to start with them pitching their tents after the first day's walk, then jump back to them packing their supplies.

We get very little characterization, but that's okay: three of the seven are about to die! Two days in, a strange storm hits their camp. It's described in such a portentous way that I thought it was supernatural or man-made, but nothing ever comes of this so I guess not. Two of the campers and the guide are squashed by falling trees, then a wildfire starts. Instead of jumping in the lake, they run for their lives and get very lost.

At this point, we get some characterization. Chloe is the girl who isn't Emma. Her race is coyly not mentioned until Isaac, the creepy boy, gets racist at her about being black. Oscar is the boy who isn't creepy, so Emma naturally falls in love with him. Isaac constantly sexually harasses Emma, once tries to rape her, and is sadistic to animals. This goes on for the entire book.

Late in the book, Oscar and Isaac both fall over a cliff. Isaac dangles from a rock stub by one hand, and holds Oscar, who is suspended in mid-air, by one backpack strap. Emma and Chloe make a rope of clothing, with a key part being her bra. Isaac somehow grabs the clothes rope without falling. He's clinging to a rock stub with one hand and a backpack strap supporting another person. How does he get one hand free to grab the bra rope without falling? This is not described as it's not thought through. He grabs the rope - again, anchored by A BRA tied to a tree - and, it's not clearly described, but it seems like Emma single-handed pulls him and Oscar up. Is the bra made of bungee cord?

Emma ponders that Isaac was very brave and unselfish. People are complicated, she realizes. This is as close as the book comes to any resolution on Isaac sexually harassing and threatening her for the entire book, oh and also TRYING TO RAPE HER.

This book sucked.
Oct. 23rd, 2025 01:35 am

SGA: When the City Wakes by esteefee

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth Weir, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Carson Beckett, Evan Lorne, Aiden Ford, Bates, Laura Cadman, Jack O'Neill, Harry Maybourne, Jeannie Miller, Original Non-Human Characters, Imaginary Creatures from Story and Song, Atlantis.
Rating: Mature
Length: 30,758
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply. The author warns for kidnapping and children in peril. "They aren't injured, and they are rescued. One of their kidnappers is kidnapped in the process and then returned to her friends." There's also a warning for passages with creepy clowns - see the endnote.
Creator Links: esteefee on AO3
Themes: Uncommon settings, Worldbuilding, AU: apocalypse/dystopia, AU: fantasy/magic, Friends to lovers, First time, Humor, Action/adventure

Summary: Major John Sheppard was starving, delirious, chased by monsters to the edge of the world, when he raised the City from the sea.

Ten years later, Dr. Rodney McKay comes to the peaceful City, bringing war in his back pocket.

Reccer's Notes:
This fits the "unusual settings" category as the world depicted in this fic is extremely strange, surreal, and quirky. I've reccd it before but in a different category, and it's a story that's well worth re-reading. Despite the tags for fantasy and dystopia, it isn't traditional fantasy/magic at all, and it mostly isn't a straightforward dystopia. Yes, it's post-apocalyptic and the rest of the world's very dystopic, but Atlantis herself is a solarpunk refuge in the chaos. The story is set after the detonation of a quantum unreality bomb which plunged Earth into fantastical chaos where very few laws apply consistently - certainly not those of physics, or normality. Weird monsters, fantasy creatures, and dangerous improbabilities now abound, although much reduced in Atlantis. The worldbuilding's terrific, and woven into this new world is a story where John and Rodney meet and become friends, and more. There's also plenty of plot, including a daring rescue. It's an excellent read, and highly recommended!

Fanwork Links: When the City Wakes
Oct. 21st, 2025 05:09 pm

Fradrian Week 2025

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Fradrian Week 2025

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Fradrian Week is a fan-led event celebrating the femslash ship of Franziska von Karma x Adrian Andrews from Ace Attorney! This prompt event runs from December 8 - December 14, 2025. We're so excited to see what everyone will create 🩵💛

Prompts and How to Submit

Main Prompts (SFW)

Day 1: Work / Relaxation

Day 2: Wounds / Healing

Day 3: First Dates / Mishaps

Day 4: Facade / Showbusiness

Day 5: Trust / Reliance

Day 6: Future / Celebrations

Day 7: AU / Free Day 

NSFW Prompts (18+)

Day 1: Lingerie / Clothing Kink

Day 2: Whip / Glasses

Dat 3: First Time / New Discoveries

Day 4: Roleplay / Fantasy 

Day 5: Submission / Bondage

Day 6: Semi-Public Sex / Long Distance Sex

Day 7: AU / Free Day

To submit your work, post to the #fradrianweek2025 (for SFW creations) or #fradrianweek2025nsfw (for NSFW creations) on tumblr or bsky and/or submit to our AO3 Collection. We will be sharing creations throughout the week! 

Late submissions will be accepted up to 1 week after the event. 

General Guidelines

  • You can submit fanfiction, drabbles, podfic, poetry, sketches, a mixtape—whatever medium you feel passionate about! There is no minimum word count.

  • This event is meant to be for fun—don't feel like you have to create something perfectly polished in order to participate (although if you want to, you can!) 

  • We encourage you to cheerlead others' work by commenting and sharing. A kind comment or tag can go a long way! 

  • The main (SFW) prompts are open to all ages, but you must be 18+ to create NSFW works. 

  • SFW works can be up to T-rated. They can contain swearing, light substance use (alcohol, smoking), mild suggestive language, "fade-to-black" or implied sex, but can't contain explicit sex or graphic violence. 

  • NSFW works can be M- or E-rated, and must be properly tagged with kinks and relevant content warnings. Please take care to warn for topics like suicidal ideation and suicide, especially if you are exploring them more graphically than they are shown in the text of the game.

  • We do not allow the use of generative AI for this event. 

FAQs

  • Can I combine days or prompts? Yes, you can do that if you wish. You can also combine SFW and NSFW prompts. 

  • Can I include other pairings? Yes, OT3s and polycules are fine, as long as there is a focus on the Fran/Adrian dynamic. 

  • Can I interpret the prompts broadly/loosely? The prompts are meant as inspiration, and you're welcome to interpret them how you want to! We've tried to make them open ended to give creators the option to make them their own. 

  • Can I combine the Fradrian Week prompts with prompts from other fan events (like AA bingo)? As long as it's okay with the organizers of the other event(s), we're fine with that! 

Have fun, and happy creating! 

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Pinch hits are assignments currently in need of a creator. To volunteer for one, please comment to this post (comments are screened) with the number of the pinch hit you would like and your AO3 name.

These pinch hits will be due at the same time as regular assignments, November 16 at 9pm Pacific time. Assignment minimums are 500 words for fic or a clean sketch not on lined paper for art. Freeforms "sweet," "sour," and "spicy" are guidelines for general mood: light/fluffy, dark/angsty, and sex/kink-focused.

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Crossover Fandom (Good Omens/Babette's Feast), A Wizard (TowerWizard bluesky account)

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Depois do Universo | Beyond the Universe, Teen Titans (Animated Series), The World Ends With You, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Pokemon Main Video Game Series, Scribblenauts, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Original Work

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镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) (x2), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest (x2)

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9-1-1 (TV), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Star Trek: Discovery, Stargate Atlantis
CLAIMED!

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A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin (x2), Don Giovanni - Mozart/Da Ponte, Le nozze di Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart/Da Ponte, House of the Dragon (TV), Original Work
Oct. 21st, 2025 01:31 pm

TV Tuesday: Disparities

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Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk



Which shows seem to you to have had the biggest tonal difference between pilot episode and series finale? Was that a good or a bad thing?
Oct. 20th, 2025 08:57 pm

books

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The Secret of Chimneys (1925) by Agatha Christie. An adventurous fellow arrives in England set on delivering a manuscript and a batch of illicit love letters and ends up in a wild plot involving a murder, a stolen jewel, and a Ruritanian country in Eastern Europe.

This is one of Christie's light-hearted romps. I definitely read this at some point 25+ years ago but had forgotten basically everything, including how much fun Christie is when she's in this mode. (Aside from the ambiant xenophobia, classism, antisemitism, and some unexpectedly central pro-monarchial sentiments.) I had a great time.

--

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer. A collection of essays spanning a wide range of topics at least tangentially related to climbing. As the title suggests, not many women in this book. Overall a mixed bag, as an essay collection is liable to be, and sometimes Krakauer's voice wears a bit thin, especially when he's trying to be funny. OTOH, in the midst of "Tentbound," an otherwise tediously humorous essay on being stuck in your tent for days at a time, we get this passage, the end of which delights me more than I can even articulate:

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious, peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington Post: "Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound . . . Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredome, lest his tail grow scaly.


My favorites out of the bunch are probably "Valdez Ice," about climbing frozen waterfalls; "Club Denali," about people attempting to climb Denali; and "Devil's Thumb," about him randomly deciding at the age of 23 to go to Alaska and solo climb a particular peak. You will notice all of these are about difficult, hazardous climbing in very cold temperatures, aka sort of similar to his Everest book.

In addition, usually Krakauer gives kind of mixed messages about his own climbing, on one hand saying it's an addiction and the only thing he's good at, and on the other hand only talking about how uncomfortable it is and how much he would rather be doing something else, So Devil's Thumb in particular was nice for a story of him actually doing some major climbing and only making a little bit of fun of himself over it.
Oct. 20th, 2025 01:31 pm

Pinch Hits & Mid Sign-Ups Notes

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Sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 24 October. We're more than halfway through sign-ups - if you haven't signed up, get in quick! If you have signed up, we're glad to have you. Please check all your details are correct.

If your sign-up includes a letter link, please make sure that link works for all viewers! In particular, if your letter is on tumblr, please set it up to be viewable for people who do NOT have tumblr. If you're using Google docs, we recommend linking a web-published version of your letter.

Pinch hits

Pinch hits are a major part of Yuletide. Pinch hits are writing assignments that need to be claimed by volunteers, and pinch hitters are the writers who claim and fulfil them. Currently, we publish pinch hit details on [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits, but we also send out notifications of new pinch hits to members of the Yuletide Discord server who have taken on the "yulephs" role, and to anyone subscribed to the Google Group for Yuletide pinch hits.

If you're interested in helping out by taking on extra assignments, please check that you're signed up to receive notifications by one of these methods! We'll send a test message out soon.

Sign-ups

We've introduced some new features this year! You can now request up to 8 fandoms, and you may fill out a form (linked from the sign-up form) if there are people you would prefer not to match to. Beginning in 2023 we have also included an additional tag checkbox where you can specify whether you want all of your requested characters to appear, or if you’d be happy with particular combinations you specify, or any combination your writer chooses.

If you have questions about any of these, please email us at yuletideadmin@gmail.com! We'd like to make sure things go smoothly for you.

Requesting characters can be a tricky aspect of Yuletide, so just in case, here's a refresher:

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Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am

AWS outage

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Oct. 19th, 2025 07:43 pm

Dear Yuletide author, happy Yuletide!

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It's been two years since I signed up for Yuletide, but I'm looking forward to it this year!

Thank you so much for writing for me, and I hope you also have a fantastic Yuletide exchange, whatever that looks like for you. I've included both what I particularly like about each canon and a couple of prompt ideas, but I'm up for anything that doesn't hit my DNWs and includes the characters.

General notes, things I love, my do not wants )
All Of Us Murderers - K.J. Charles )
Greta Helsing Series - Vivian Shaw )
England Series - K. J. Charles )
The Odyssey - Homer )
Oct. 19th, 2025 06:33 pm

Dear Yuletide Writer

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Hello, Yuletide Writer!

First things first: whatever you write for me, in any of these fandoms, I will be utterly delighted. These are faves and I love them and I will love whatever I get to read. And thanks so much for writing a story in one of these fandoms. I will just be so glad to have any story for any of the requests.

Some of this letter has been duplicated from previous years, so if you've been here before, that is why things seem familiar. :)

I am open to treats!

General stuff... )

Likes... )

Do Not Wants... )

Specific fandom details... )


I hope that helped! And honestly, no pressure to fulfill any of the specific details! Anything you want to write in any of these fandoms will be great. I'm just happy to be getting a story from you.

Thanks again and have fun!

Big love,
Snax
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