Dear Benificent Yulebeing,

HI!  Thank you for writing for meeee!  Some things that might help you out, which you can disregard at will.

Resourcesssss

+ I have a Tumblr tag called fic I wish existed full of ideas and keymashing.
+ All my past Yuletide letters are here!
+ If you have questions about my taste, odds are annakovsky or blithers can help you out.

General Likes, Dislikes and Other Minutiae

+ THINGS I LIKE: Some things I love (obviously not all of which will be relevant to all of my requests!): Fic about women. Female friendships. Tropey or cracky fic which is committed to wholeheartedly and finds the cool or powerful or interesting angle of the crazy idea. Details. Unusual narrative styles. Fic that's wistful or funny or about something beyond just the relationship, or about the details of everyday life. I like fic about the feelings of things beginning. I like to know what the weather feels like. I like when those details can make me feel what the character is feeling.

+ THINGS I'M NOT INTO: character bashing, especially of women; fic that basically recounts a scene we've seen onscreen

+ POLICY RE: SEXY FIC: I AM PRO. Kink is awesome, go crazy. Very very much about dirty fic that stays in character and is creative about whatever's going down: that can mean the dialogue during sex, positions or sex acts outsie the fandom's usual norm, one character surprising the other with some kind of unguessed-at predilection...

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In conclusion, so looking forward to whatever you come up with!! 

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HELLO FRIEND,

Thanks so much for writing for me this year!  Here are some things that might be helpful which you can disregard at will!

General Likes, Dislikes and Other Minutiae

+ Some things I love (obviously not all of which will be relevant to all of my requests!): Fic about women.  Female friendships.  Tropey or cracky fic which is committed to wholeheartedly and finds the cool or powerful or interesting angle of the crazy idea.  Details.  Unusual narrative styles.  Fic that's wistful or funny or about something beyond just the relationship, or about the details of everyday life. I like fic about the feelings of things beginning. I like to know what the weather feels like.  I like when those details can make me feel what the character is feeling.

+ Totally all about dirty fic if you want to work that in there: kink is awesome, go crazy.  Very very much about dirty fic that stays in character and is creative about whatever's going down.

+ Dislike: character bashing, especially of women; fic that basically recounts a scene we've seen onscreen

+ All my past Yuletide letters are here!

+ Person most qualified on this planet to answer questions wrt my fic tastes: annakovsky and for additional New Girl support, blithers.

+ I run my mouth off way too much on Tumblr.

My actual requests, plus commentary:

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Oh hey, maybe now that it's LATE FEBRUARY I should do my Yuletide reveal post???

I wrote for The Left Hand of Darkness, part of the Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, aka possibly my favorite book series of all time. (Interestingly, it's actually one of my least favorite books in the series; not because I don't like it, but because most of the others are EVEN BETTER.)

Title: The Right Hand of Light
Fandom: The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle)
Details: Genly Ai/Therem Harth. What Genly did not tell.
Notes: Written for balder12 in Yuletide 2012. Thanks to care_says for help brainstorming! And many boundless thanks to Ursula K. Le Guin, for creating these worlds, for talking frankly about feminism and things she'd change in her own books, and for the interview which gave me the image of Estraven with his children.

What you need to know if you've never read the book: Genly's a human ambassador on a world where everyone is genderless except for a period once a month when they go into kemmer (think pon farr or heat: a Must Have Sex situation) and can become either male or female.

Mirrored on AO3

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Dear Benevolent Yuletide Being!

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Thank you again! Happy writing!!!

Hurrah hurrah for Yuletide to make sure I write at least one fic every year. This year I was lucky enough to get a recipient who wanted the story that's been buzzing around in my brain for ten years.

One Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty-Three Feet
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris/Cameron/Sloane
The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?"

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And I was lucky enough to get TWO stories of my own!

Extended Options in Twosomes by epshlan is perhaps the most delightful Troy/Abed/Annie fic ever written. Pop culture references! Roleplaying! An amazing Troy voice!

Duck, Duck, You by ladygray99 is a sweet Yuletide Madness ficlet about feelings and the inside of Abed's head.

HUZZAH YULETIDE.

Dear Yuletide Author! If you're even still looking for this letter! So sorry for the delay. Life, you know, am I right?

I hope this isn't too terribly gauche, but here are the relevant details from last year's letter! I like what I like and I'm so psyched for whatever you want to write me, so please have fun!

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For Yuletide this year I was super thrilled to see one of my favorite books of all time included, China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. You've probably never heard of it, but I beg you to go read it. It's amazingly interesting and well-written speculative fiction, with killer details and characterization. In the 22nd century, China is the major world power, the US is a communist backwater, and Zhang is a gay, multiracial New Yorker who needs a job. I wish all books were basically just like this.

AND THEN I got my assignment: 2,000 Yuletide participants and I got throughadoor, former coworker and awesome r/l friend, whose apartment I've been drunk in many times. (And this two years after my writer turned out to be my then-roommate annakovsky. Yuletide: A World of Coincidences.) Secretly trying to tailor fic to the taste of someone you actually know turns out to be super fun!


Title: get me away from here, I'm dying
Fandom: China Mountain Zhang (Maureen McHugh)
Author: kyrafic
Notes: For kel in Yuletide 2010. Mirrored here on AO3.
Summary: Zhang in Boston. No matter where you go, there you are.

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Dear Benevolent Yuletide Being,

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Et voila, my Yuletide fic.

Title: Older and Wiser
Fandom: The Sound of Music
Author: kyrafic

Notes: Written for Yuletide 2009; mirrored here.


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My Yuletide fic!

10 Ways to Prove You're Not Gay
The 40 Year Old Virgin

David/Cal. Hard R. Written for epshlan in Yuletide 2008. Thanks much to annakovsky for co-brainstorming. Also online at the Yuletide archive.

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