I got two gifts this year, one in Yuletide proper and one in Madness. They are both in The Adventure Zone - Amnesty and both delightful.


Aubrey Little's Day Off (2540 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aubrey Little, Jake Coolice, Dani (The Adventure Zone)
Additional Tags: Summer, waterparks
Summary: Jake Coolice cashes in on his certified "Best Friend Day™" coupon.

I literally gasped when I saw the format: it's written like an episode transcript and full of perfect little digressions and meta-conversational moments.

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Knots in a Tangled Web (2259 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund "Ned" Chicane & Aubrey Little & Duck Newton, Background Aubrey Little/Dani - Relationship
Characters: Duck Newton
Additional Tags: Friendship, Canon-Typical Violence, Snark, Hijinks & Shenanigans, 5+1 Things
Summary: Five lies Duck told with mixed success, and one that wasn’t worth rolling.

And this was a wonderful five things fic, a kind of zany slice of life that gets at the warmth and humor of the world. It was also a huge surprise--I had definitely checked to see if I had any extra gifts waiting for me, but this must have been uploaded after whenever I'd checked. Sneaky, in the best way!

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Here are a few others I've enjoyed so far:


Air Show (2213 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Golden Girls
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rose Nylund, Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, Jack O'Neill
Additional Tags: Fluff, Yuletide
Summary: The girls decide to go to the air show. The usual shenanigans ensue.

Very funny Golden Girls fic with great voices

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The Problem of the Cryptic Clue (1907 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mathnet
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kate Monday, George Frankly
Additional Tags: casefic, Humor, Mathematics, Mathematicians
Summary: The story you are about to hear is a fib, but it's short. The names are made up but the problems are real.

The first joke in this made me laugh a LOT.

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Sophomoric (4853 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cath Avery/Levi
Characters: Cath Avery, Reagan (Fangirl), Levi (Fangirl), Wren Avery
Additional Tags: Metafiction, Epistolary
Summary:

Magicath! So exciting that you’re here! Are you going to do Yuletide this year? You really should. Signups close in a few days!
-AO3 comment, October 2012

Or: Cath signs up for Yuletide


This made me clutch my heart with FEELINGS several times. It's really great.

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I feel like I've only scratched the surface of Yuletide so far. What have you read that's good?