Dear Yuletide Writer 2013

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi, and thank you in advance for writing a story for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write a context-free sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get a fic in one of the fandoms I asked for. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)

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( General Information )

Okay. On to specific fandoms.

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( The Dispossessed )

( Lucifer )

( Macbeth )

( Villains by Necessity )

( Black Jewels )

And that is that. :-)

oh by the way, it's Christmas :-)

Stuff about stuff: I'm in New Jersey, the trip down from Ithaca went well, I got my Yuletide fic edited, I went to Xmas Eve service at my childhood church with my family, I wrote a little Madness treat at the last minute because why not, and now I am going to bed because the collections are not yet open and I have to get up at semi-reasonable hours in the morning to do breakfast and presents with family.

So Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and happy Random-Day-A-Little-Past-Solstice to everyone else. The sun is coming back! (Or going away, if you're in the southern hemisphere.) Yay for the solar system and its regular cycles!

Okay, sleep now. :-)

wherein Liz squees about her Yuletide gift!

One of the things I asked for this year was world-building for Eve Forward's Villains By Necessity, specifically about religion; here are a brief summary of the book and my prompt details if you're interested. And I got some!

Still To Witness: Azal and Hruul aren't necessarily evil, but the Light doesn't approve of them anyway. A priest of Azal and a priest of Hruul talk about how to start over after everything. (2,400 words) [ETA: written by Estirose!]

It's excellent at showing that gods can have many faces, and people have many ways of relating to them and living their faith. It also deals with the issues of free will and zealotry that are so important in canon, and offers hope for the future now that the crisis has passed.

Go read it and tell the writer they are wonderful!

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I have not had time to read much else in either archive, and very shortly Susan will come over to visit and exchange gifts (after which we may visit Cat's parents to bring cookies and catch up on news and such-like) so today is unlikely to see much progress on that front (not to mention I have my Ladystuck fic to write), but I will try to get some kind of recs post together by New Year's Day. *crosses fingers*