Dear Yuletide Writer,

I'm in for a treat, because you're awesome. Also, you're awesome because I'm in for a treat! Thank you in advance for offering one or more of the fandoms I requested, and thank you for writing for me!

I promise, I'm easy. I try to request fandoms that I'd be happy receiving almost anything for, whether you hold to the optional details and prompts or not. If you've got a story you've always wanted to tell, I'm thrilled to read it. Please have fun.

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Since two people guessed right (and I owe them fic now!) I'll do these in the same order.

BRONZE TIER
Fics 1 and 2: Only fics in their fandom. I wrote both. If you follow me on tumblr you probably know what the canon is.

Commander of the Vanguard
Sengoku Basara
Mitsunari is more valuable to the Toyotomi army than he knows.

Engaged in His Employment
Sengoku Basara
Toyotomi Hideyoshi has burned all affection, all attachment, all weakness from his life. He has no friends, only allies and subordinates. He has no family. He takes no women or boys to bed. He killed his wife to prove his strength.

He has not killed Hanbei.a


SILVER TIER
Fics 3 and 4: Also in the same fandom, with some character overlap. Also somewhat predictable given my recent fannish history.

A House of Dust and Darkness
Fate/Zero (and Fate/Stay Night)
After his brush with the Grail, Gilgamesh adjusts to life in the basement of the Fuyuki Church. The priest is not as accommodating as the King of Heroes deserves.

If Thy Hand Offend Thee
Fate/Zero (and Fate/Stay Night)
“Father,” the boy asks, “am I bad?”

“No,” Risei answers without missing a beat, and holds Kirei in his arms, pillow and all. “Never. You did something bad, but bad isn’t something you are. You’re beautiful and good and God loves you, and so do I.”


GOLD TIER
Fic 5: Not a fandom I have written in before, but one I have written about more than once. Nevertheless, the subject matter is something you would expect from me, if somewhat parodic.

Equus malus
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
He rides across the nation, the Thoroughbred of Sin.
He fights for subjugation, and of course he'll win.

(Of course.)


PLATINUM TIER
Fic 6: A fandom I have neither written in nor talked about before, and frankly one I don't think most people would immediately associate me with. But the canon is part of, well, the canon, of its source medium, by a creator universally respected, and deals with cultural themes and mythology that I'm really interested in.

The Age of Not-Believing
Spirited Away
Ten years after the bathhouse, Chihiro spends Golden Week vacationing with her real-world friends, but can't help keeping an eye out for some from the other side.

So I wrote six fics this year! But some are more predictable-to-me than others, so I thought it might be time for another guessing game. If you're the first to guess right, I'll write you something, complexity dependent on just which one you guess!

The following people are not allowed to play: Puel, Meg, and Gil, because each of them betaed at least one of these, nor Dry, because I told him pretty much everything.

BRONZE TIER

Fics 1 and 2: Only fics in their fandom. I wrote both. If you follow me on tumblr you probably know what the canon is.


SILVER TIER

Fics 3 and 4: Also in the same fandom, with some character overlap. Also somewhat predictable given my recent fannish history.


GOLD TIER

Fic 5: Not a fandom I have written in before, but one I have written about more than once. Nevertheless, the subject matter is something you would expect from me, if somewhat parodic.


PLATINUM TIER

Fic 6: A fandom I have neither written in nor talked about before, and frankly one I don't think most people would immediately associate me with. But the canon is part of, well, the canon, of its source medium, by a creator universally respected, and deals with cultural themes and mythology that I'm really interested in.

Have at it!

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This holiday has been busy as fuck (and also inclement), but neither rain nor sleet nor in-laws nor Megabus shall keep me from reccing the stories I enjoyed the most! A lot of the super-popular ones are absent from this list, and I'll admit that this year Puel and I have kind of an agenda for promoting anime and video-game fandoms, which have gone largely unrecced thus far, but this is a pretty comprehensive list of the things I have read and enjoyed so far! My gifts are asterixed, and mixed in with the recs because frankly they're so awesome I would rec them even if I hadn't received them!

Ten recs in the following fandoms: Erekos, Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night, Juuni Kokki (Twelve Kingdoms), Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Moses und Aron, The Muppet Show, Stick It.

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Also, if you want to rec me something (especially in a game or anime fandom I might have overlooked), feel free to do so in the comments! I might make a second post, or forward them on to Puel for hers if she'd like them too!

You kick ass. You are boss like a boss thing. Thanks in advance for offering one of the fandoms I requested, because let's face it, mine are all over the place, and just by virtue of sharing one of these with me enough to offer it for the challenge you rule.

I tried to request fandoms in which I'd be happy receiving stories starring the characters you want to write most. Feel free to take my detail requests as guidelines instead--the optional details are definitely optional! But there are some things I definitely love, and some I definitely don't.

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Sorry for the radio silence: I have had ridiculous(ly good) real world concerns for the past couple of weeks, and will continue to. But I thought the Suikoden fans on my flist would appreciate knowing about two new fics:

A Hasty Proposition, in which Flik names his sword and tells Odessa they're married now, with predictably awkward results.

And Grasping At Shadows by my beloved puella_nerdii, in which Jowy Atreides makes poor life choices.

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Ahahaha um. It's been a while since I've had enough other-people's bastards in the tank to get a party started. So! In the grand tradition of the three previous installments, let the fourth Bastard Tea Party begin!

Step One: Select one or two of the following characters:
Haymitch Abernathy -- The Hunger Games.
Kirei Kotomine -- Fate/Zero. (And requisite Archer, who I expect will get along with Yuber like peanut butter and chocolate.)
Tyrion Lannister -- A Game of Thrones. For GRRM-is-against-fanfic purposes, let this be considered TV-Tyrion.
Shu -- Suikoden II.
Albert Silverberg -- Suikoden III. (Yuber is in the hall, as usual.)
Vayne Solidor -- Final Fantasy XII. (Gabranth is in the hall, also as usual.)

Step Two: Provide a prompt. One-word, short sentence, "Haymitch and Tyrion have a pun war", all are good. It's also totally cool to ask for characters more than once as long as you change the prompt or the topic.

Step Three: I write a ficbit or scriptbit. (Because the Internet is rather sporadic these days, I may post the things I write in bulk, so prompt away but immediacy may not happen.)

LET THE PARTY BEGIN~

Also the "tea" part of "tea party" may have a loose definition this time around, given the company...

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Years ago, I wrote a Futch/Sasarai epistolary epic and basically crack-shipped it.

Now, Puel and I are mucking around with Futch/Luc instead.

GO FIGURE.

It's actually really cute and they have a lot to say to each other and and and.

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It's been about a year since I wrote this, I think it's totally safe to de-anon now. And considering I'm seeing the movie tomorrow, I kind of want to get this out there before the potential SQUEE.

Title: Willow Bark
Author: Mithrigil
Characters: The eventual Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen, Haymitch Abernathy, and others.
Rating: PG-13, aftereffects of violence.
Words: 2900
Spoilers: None, all backstory.

Summary: Garrett Everdeen has been coming to Ilona Teller’s house for years, selling herbs and flowers at her back door. But the day he finally makes it into her house, it’s not by his choice.

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So one day, Puel and I were tossing headcanon around, you know, like we do, and I made a comment about how Luca Blight probably has a fine-looking pair of hands. Like, classical-guitarist level of fine-looking hands, long fingers, strong fingernails. Puel misheard the "classical" part of classical guitarist and envisaged Luca Blight holding an axe up over his head and yelling THIS IS THE POWER OF ROCK!!!!!!! as he smashed the poor instrument down upon the nearest amplifier.

Then this happened, because apparently if you turn Suikoden II into a boyband AU, it kind of works.

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Once upon a time, in a recording industry near and dear to our hearts, there was a major company called Jowston Records. The recent financial crisis and differences of opinion as to the state of the industry fragmented Jowston Records into several genre-specific imprints. Highland Records, a rival company, has been exploiting these fissures in the hopes of taking Jowston Records down completely and dominating the scene. But Highland Records is involved in some pretty shady shit, and that corruption has spread down from the executives to the bands themselves.

One of the most popular bands on the Highland Records label, a power metal band (with a sizable mainstream following) called The White Wolves, is in the middle of its second North American tour. Two unfortunate roadies and amateur artists witness lead singer and guitarist Luca Blight involved in an incident of arson, possibly to cover up a drug-related murder, and flee before they’re caught at the scene. This incident is covered up in the press, and these boys are outraged. They run into an indie duo, Blue Lightning and the Bear, who bring them on board as they search for ways to save Jowston from what looks like an inevitable buyout from Highland.

But one boy decides to expose Highland Records’ corruption by promoting the Jowston label, and the other decides to take Highland down from the inside...

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SO YEAH. We want to poke around in this universe but don't want to write the whole thing, so we're more content to ramble and gossip and and make jokes about Fitcher giving Shu blowjobs under the desk and retell the time that Odessa Silverberg took Flik to the Rocky Horror Picture Show and and and and and. THROW PROMPTS. Backstory! Onstory! Ridiculous lyrics about getting knifed in the front! The perfect Shu latte!

And yes, he is also an expert at the pimpsmack in this universe.

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