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It's lovely, sweet domestic fluff featuring Dianda and her husbands, and it makes me smile so much.

Small Potatoes (503 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dianda Lorden/Patrick Lorden/Simon Lorden | Simon Torquill
Characters: Dianda Lorden, Patrick Lorden, Simon Lorden | Simon Torquill
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Babies
Summary:

New babies mean new routines.

Found via laurashapiro, this is so worth one minute of your time. The last couplet in this clip is just -- ::chef's kiss!::

Hot Hanukkah

Dear Yulewriter,

Thank you so much for writing me a story. Write something that makes you happy, and it will make me happy.

In general I am a big fan of chosen family, happy endings, people being good at things, people helping each other be better together than they were apart, theology of all kinds, wit and banter, and kindness. I'm happy with anything (any situation, any rating) that feels right to you given the characters at hand. I'm open to AUs or to going deeper into the worldbuilding of any of these canons.

Please, no betrayal or unquenchable grief or people being awful to each other or despair. There's enough of that in RL (especially these last few years.) On Yuletide morning I want something that makes me smile. Thank you kindly.

Most of this note is my standard Dear Yulewriter letter -- these are the things I've been saying year after year, and I've been doing Yuletide since... 2003 I think? but this year I am really struck by the extent to which I want to see these characters get to experience joy. Maybe because the world has been difficult, in a variety of ways, for the last several years in a row? Anyway: this is just to say, thank you for figuring out how to bring these characters some sweetness.

In closing: yay Yuletide! Yay you! Thank you so much!

There's nothing below the cut that wasn't also in my Yuletide sign-up, but I include my requests here for anyone who's curious or maybe wants to write an extra treat.

Kass

( The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn; the Toby Daye series by Seanan McGuire; Murderbot / tv show. )

Are any of you watching Pantheon (on Netflix?)

For those who aren't: S1 trailer; S2 trailer.

My teen and I have been watching it (and rewatching it with his Aunt sanj) and holy wow is it good.

Anyway: are any of y'all watching it?

Dear Purimgifts Author,

Thank you so much for writing me a story! I love all of these things and I know that whatever you write for me, I will love it too.

In general I am a big fan of: chosen family, happy endings, competence, characters being awesome, theology, snark and banter, kindness. I'm happy with anything that feels right to you given the characters at hand. If you want to cross a given fandom over with Megillat Esther, or with Tanakh in general, that is always my jam. (But you don't have to if you don't want to.)

Write something that makes you happy, and it will make me happy.

Please, no betrayal or unquenchable angst or people being awful to each other or grisly death or anything like that. There's enough of that in RL. Thank you kindly.

In closing: yay Purim! Yay you! Thank you so much!

Kass

( My requests: Sisters of the Winter Wood, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Good Place, Voltron: Legendary Defender )

...but I couldn't resist sharing this one. For anyone who enjoyed Mary Robinette Kowal's "Rude Litterbox Space."


Stars, Friends, and Kibbles (1290 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 13/13
Fandom: Rude Litterbox Space - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elsie the Cat (Rude Litterbox Space), Original Characters, Elsie's Valet
Additional Tags: Neurodiversity, Disabled Character, Drabble Collection, POV Animal, Bechdel Test Pass
Summary:

Professor Elsie's solitary nature is put to the test when her university department forces her to take on a teacher's assistant.

Important: This story is hard to read on a dark background, as some words are black png-symbols (image descriptions have been added if you have visual impairments).

For reasons that don't bear exploration at this juncture, I fell into reading a Scar / Grian story that's a zombie AU, slow burn, full of pining and excellent worldbuilding, rooted in the Third Life / Last Life series. There are thirty-nine chapters to date, and I devoured all of them. And then, seeing that the authors seem to dig fanfic or fanart of their story, I wrote a fix-it scene.

In order for this to make sense, you have to read the, um, 39 existing chapters of There Are Monsters Nearby by Key and Lock. So I can't really imagine that any of you are going to read this. But I'm posting it here anyway, with amused chagrin, because did I intend to stay up last night writing? Reader, I did not. And yet here we are.


Plan Z (1701 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles | Grian/Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar
Characters: Charles | Grian, Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar
Additional Tags: TAMN, Alternate Universe - Zombies, Pining, Unreliable Narrator, fanfic of a fanfic, post-chapter-39, I just want them to be happy
Summary:

“I thought I heard hammering, what are you–” Scar’s voice caught. Grian could see in his eyes that he understood.

His own Cask of Amontillado. Grian was locking himself in the closet to protect everyone else. Back in the closet, he thought, with a note of hysteria. Bet nobody saw that coming.

I wanted to watch Lim's "I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You" (SGA vid, from ... some years ago) [ETA: 17 years ago?! what is time?!] but I can't find it on YouTube. And I can't find it on AO3 either.

Does anyone have a link?

ETA: I found it! Thank you Fanlore! "My Brilliant Idea."

purimgifts has started and I haven't had a chance to read other fic yet, but the person who is writing for me is awesome and they made me this:

Spanish Jackie’s Purim Festival (543 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spanish Jackie/The Swede (Our Flag Means Death)
Characters: Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death), Spanish Jackie (Our Flag Means Death), The Swede (Our Flag Means Death), Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Summary:

Are you saying that Spanish Jackie doesn’t look Jewish? Because she mother fucking looks Jewish. Nah, I’m just kidding you. But her husband Sephardic Joshua is. Welcome to Spanish Jackie’s. Nose treats for everyone.

So here is the Yuletide story I wrote this year! Shared with deep gratitude to laurashapiro for beta.


Known (2657 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Little Ash/Uriel
Characters: Little Ash (When the Angels Left the Old Country), Uriel (When the Angels Left the Old Country)
Additional Tags: Jewish geekery, Love, Feels, Canon Jewish Characters, glossary included at the end
Summary:

"...Before, the angel’s identity and mission had always been simple. For that matter, its identity and its mission had always been one and the same. It had been Study, or it had been Mincha, or it had been Comfort. Whatever it was, it was, wholly. In every moment it had known that it was exactly what it was meant to be. Like a single pure note sounding.

Lately it felt like a whole chord – maybe several instruments at once, some of which might be dissonant – and it couldn’t be sure which way the chord would resolve. Every moment seemed to bring a new revelation of who and what it had become..."