Yuletide

Okay, first of all, my gifts.

A Brother's Promise by malachibi, which is A Brother's Price fic with genderswapped Polly Oliver (so, exactly what I asked for) and huddling for warmth and a happy ending for a gay man which is still entirely in line with his society's norms and restrictions.

And Mending Fences and/or Femurs by VampirePaladin, which was very last minute so I had no idea it was coming which was great, and everyone needs more Cindy Moon.

Okay. Fics by me:

My assignment, for hlae:
Title: Marooned
Rating: T
Universe: Little Red Riding Hood
Character(s): Little Red Riding Hood, Big Bad Wolf, Woodcutter
Summary: On a routine supply run to a research station in the Grandmother Nebula, a courier finds the aftermath of a pirate attack, and discovers she's trapped there with the lone researcher until they can be rescued.
Warnings/Enticements: Alternate Universe - Space, Huddling For Warmth, Stranded, Pre-Femslash, Identity Porn, Space Pirates
Word Count: 3633
Author's Note: Three different people wrote LRRH science fiction AUs this year. I'm not sure how I feel about mine, but at least the title is awesome.

And a treat for vass, which was so much fun to write and made me feel so clever:

Title: Strike the Harp and Join the Chorus
Rating: T
Universe: The Hidden Almanac (Podcast) - If you don't know the Hidden Almanac, I highly recommend fixing that. It is a weird little four minute podcast, three times weekly, basically This Day in Alternate History with gardening tips and occasional incursions of Plot. It is great.
Character(s): Reverend Mord, Pastor Drom, George the Crow
Summary: It was on this day that the gifts in a holiday fanfiction exchange were revealed. It is the Feast Day of Yuletide, and in the garden, there are stories.
Be Safe, and Remember: You Are Not Alone.
Warnings/Enticements: Episode Style, History, Canon-Typical Weirdness, Mentions of Human Sacrifice, Mentions of RPF (Real Poultry Fiction), Characters Participating in Yuletide, Holiday Fic
Word Count: 3400

If there's one thing I can definitely do, it's pastiche.

2018 Various

We are back from the Giant Family Christmas Week of Doom (it wasn't bad, there was just ... a lot of it) and I have slept for nine hours and started the laundry and paid bills and done various other back-home things (and, halfway through this post, eaten lunch) and am therefore free to spam your reading page.

Not sure how much I wrote in 2018 in terms of numbers, but I wrote more than 300 words on 1/3 of the days. And probably over 60 000 words total.

Hit 150 000 hits and 1000 comment threads on AO3, and posted my longest single work to date.

Read 120 books (including novel- and novella-length fanfics, which this year made up about 2/3 of the total. Which I am okay with - this is because I have been reading on my laptop while knitting, which is great). And more than doubled the percentage of works by authors of colour from last year, mostly because of Silk, though the hard numbers are still kind of embarrassing.

Speaking of which:
I would like to read more works by authors of colour. I have been reading a lot of fanfic. Putting these together, I am soliciting recs for fanfic authors of colour (who, obviously, are comfortable with the internet knowing that), preferably but not necessarily Marvel.

To start, gsparkle writes great detective AUs and Natasha!fic.

In other news, the Three Sentence Ficathon is still going on, and I have written some things and may write more; I'm not quite sure what to do with them after, though. I'm fine with posting drabbles on AO3 but some of these are shorter than drabbles and also very casually tossed off. So your thoughts appreciated.

Honestly I'm just posting this because otherwise my private-locked posts are in a weird order

So james_davis_nicoll has a list of 100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in 2019 which is now a meme.

Italic = read it. Underlined = not this, but something by the same author. Strikethrough = did not finish.

My total: 13/100

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