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Hello, Yuletide Writer!

First things first: whatever you write for me, in any of these fandoms, I will be utterly delighted. These are faves and I love them and I will love whatever I get to read. And thanks so much for writing a story in one of these fandoms. I will just be so glad to have any story for any of the requests.

Some of this letter has been duplicated from previous years, so if you've been here before, that is why things seem familiar. :)

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I hope that helped! And honestly, no pressure to fulfill any of the specific details! Anything you want to write in any of these fandoms will be great. I'm just happy to be getting a story from you.

Thanks again and have fun!

Big love,
Snax

The time has come to take off the mask!

But first, let me rec the three (3!!!) gifts I received this year.

dulce et decorum est (1116 words) by tinuviel_tinuviel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caspian & Peter Pevensie
Characters: Caspian (Narnia), Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary:

One night on watch at Aslan's How, Caspian talks to the High King.

A missing scene from the Prince Caspian movie! Okay, words cannot express how delighted I was to see this fic. My first Yuletide I got a Prince Caspian fic, so this closed the circle. More importantly, it was such a good look at Peter from Caspian's POV, with some interesting questions raised, that couldn't really be answered. ♥♥♥


if it's okay with you, it's okay with me (4253 words) by SuburbanSun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: evermore - Taylor Swift (Album)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Based on a Taylor Swift Song, Song: 'tis the damn season (Taylor Swift), Album: evermore (Taylor Swift), Yuletide 2023, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Aspiring actress Gwen is visiting her hometown for the first time after ten years in LA, and a run-in with her high school boyfriend at the coffee shop leads to something more.

The first of two evermore fics I received! So my request on this was "No character nominated here, so go wild with this one! Write me a story about any of the songs; write me a story about all of them!" This is a fic about one song, 'Tis The Damn Season, and it's amazing! SuburbanSun crafts some amazing characters from the lyrics, and puts them in a story with so much heart, so much history, and so much personality -- I loved it! ♥♥♥


to wander deeper (2867 words) by vialethe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: evermore - Taylor Swift (Album)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorothea (evermore - Taylor Swift)/Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Dorothea (evermore - Taylor Swift), Dorothea's Narrator (evermore - Taylor Swift), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: POV Second Person, Based on a Taylor Swift Song, all of them on this album in fact, Fairy Tale Elements, Vignette
Summary:

Maybe you're a witch in the woods. Or an old high school sweetheart. A fairytale princess, or a loving grandmother.

It's a deep wood, with many stories. The truth is what you make of it.

And this one hits the second part of the request, a story about ALL of the songs. This weaves all the songs together into vignettes, tied together with magic. vialethe (I KNEW IT!) takes the reader into each song, a quick but deep dive that feels even more intimate with the use of second person POV. Gorgeous language and gorgeous imagery, some heartbreak and some hope. ♥♥♥


And the one I wrote:

Applaud Aurora Seen (3600 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Northern Exposure
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Joel Fleischman, Maggie O'Connell, Chris Stevens, Marilyn Whirlwind, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Magical Realism, everything is better with a robot dog
Summary:

Did you know that January is a bad time to see the Northern Lights in Alaska, even though it’s near total darkness? Because the weather is so bad, the aurora is often hidden in the sky.

A rock band gets stranded in Cicely while looking for the Northern Lights. They have a robot dog, but he's not even the weirdest part of their story. Welcome to Cicely, Even the Odds.

for feroxargentea, who wanted early season Northern Exposure, featuring Maggie and Joel, and some magical realism. They mentioned a celebrity visiting Cicely, so I decided on a rock band (with a robot dog) getting lost on their way to see the Northern Lights. Weirdness ensues, as it always did in Cicely, but funny (I hope!), gentle weirdness, the kind that seems to happen on the daily with NE. I had a lot of fun writing it, and I was glad my recip liked it!

Today we have the clanging chimes of doom!

Hello, Yuletide Writer!

First things first: whatever you write for me, in any of these fandoms, I will be utterly delighted. These are faves and I love them and I will love whatever I get to read. And thanks so much for writing a story in one of these fandoms. I will just be so glad to have any story for any of the requests.

Some of this letter has been duplicated from previous years, so if you've been here before, that is why things seem familiar. :)

( General stuff... )

( Do Not Wants... )

( Likes... )


( Specific fandom details... )


I hope that helped! And honestly, no pressure to fulfill any of the specific details! Anything you want to write in any of these fandoms will be great. I'm just happy to be getting a story from you.

Thanks again and have fun!

Big love,
Snax

I got a lovely Narnia fic in the Candy Hearts Exchange!

Travel Broadens the Mind (1602 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Epistolary
Summary:

A series of letters exchanged by the Pevensies one Narnian summer.

I am a sucker for epistolary fics, and this one really delivered! Of course, I loved all the Pevensies and their individual letters and their points of view, but I especially loved Edmund and Susan's from the islands. And the voices of each character are so strong, always a bonus in epistolary fic with multiple character. I loved it! So much fun!

I also wrote a fic but nothing's revealed yet, so that is yet to be linked. :D

hi buddy i’m back

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oh buddy i needed this one

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I did not sign up for Yuletide this year as I am still in Yuletide jail (for the crime of defaulting after deadline some Yultides ago).

HOWEVER, I did write a treat, which I can now reveal to you!

There is a wedding. And you must attend. (1480 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winternight Series - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morozko/Vasilisa Petrovna
Characters: Morozko (Winternight Series), Vasilisa Petrovna
Additional Tags: Wedding Fluff, Family Reunions, Treat
Summary:

"What is it you want, Vasya?" He cannot imagine what it could be, what she cannot say to him, after all this time.

 

She clears her throat, and leans in close as she whispers, "A proper wedding. With my family."

 

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Vasilisa Petrovna and Morozko, the Winter King.

I read this trilogy this past year, and I'm kind of obsessed? Historical Russian fantasy, SIGN ME UP! Luckily my friend vialethe ALSO is kind of obsessed by these books, and made them one of her Yuletide requests, naming Vasya and Morozko! Among the things she asked for:

-A wedding between the two of them would be incredible - where would they hold it? In Midnight? At Morozko's house that is and isn't really there? At Baba Yaga's? Who would attend? Vasya's human family? All the horses? Medved?? The possibilities are endless and amazing. I can see anything from a rather human ceremony (if Olga got wind of it) to a quiet moment on the lake between just the two of them.

I figured I could pull that off! And I think I did? I wanted to get all the characters she loved into it, so I thought a wedding would be the best way for them all to show up. It's short, though, and it's mainly cameo appearances lol, but I loved thinking of all the ways they could attend the wedding.

I had a really crazy month of December and I wasn't sure I could actually finish and post it, but I did! Early in the morning of December 25th, because I am nothing if not last minute about things. :D So I wish it was a bit longer, but I had not time. And I think it worked quite well for a bit of wedding fluff. I did try to get the feel of the Winternight Trilogy in there -- they had to get married in the snow, of course, and the wedding felt like a dream, since so much of canon felt dreamlike to me.

Also, Medved wrote the wedding invites. :D

Anyway, vialethe was happy! And other people liked it as well, so it was a success by my measure of Yuletide.

AND now I am out of Yuletide jail! I think! We'll see if I can sign up next year, lol.

not bad buddy

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merry christmas buddy

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