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Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season.

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Assuming you read your own gifts first, where do you go from there?

I always start by reading any other fics people I've written for have received, then the other fics in the fandoms I asked for, then slowly go through the whole archive for fandoms I'm familiar with.

After my gift(s):

1) All the fics in the fandoms I requested
2) All the fics in the fandoms I offered
3) The fics whose characters and/or ships I enjoy in fandoms that appeal to me that day
4) Things recced by friends or on meme that sound up my alley

It usually ends up being a lot. Over 100 for sure, though the comments get shorter as the week goes on.

After my own gift, I scan through the whole fandom list and open a tab for every fandom I already read in or think I might like to read in (or that makes me think "WTF? I need to see this.") I then scan the actual list of fic and open a tab for the ones I want to read. After that, I'll usually take a look at the tag cloud to see if anything jumps out at me, and also browse all the E-rated fic in case there's anything in a fandom that didn't call to me but looks hot.

1. My gifts
2. Check out the fandoms of my gifts just to see if there’s anything under 5k I can read right away and comment on
3. Sort the collection by my relationship category of choice (I don’t read gen) + wordcount
4. Go to the last page and read in reverse. Clicking every fic with a ship I like that has tags or a summary that interests me
5. Once I have read everything and hit page 1, I go to the fandoms page and scroll to see if any fandoms I love are there. I click on them and 9 times out of 10 it’s a gen fic or a ship I don’t like. 1 time it’s something I missed during my initial screen and then I read it.

My gifts

Fic in fandoms I wrote in (not this year since I defaulted)

Fic my friends wrote (no one in my circle actually remains anon behind flock/in email/over text)

Fic in the fandoms I requested

Fic in the fandoms I offered

Fic in my favorite yuletide fandoms

My friends' gifts

Go to fandoms beginning with N and scroll down to see if anything interests me

Go back to fandoms beginning with M and scroll up to see if anything interests me

Then all works > sort by > bookmarks

Then all works > rating > explicit > f/f (then f/m, then m/m, then multi/other)

Finally all works sort by > comments/kudos to try to give some love to underloved works. surprise! 6 of your anonymous kudos might be from me

I check the fandoms I had marked as wanting to treat, first. Second, my favorites of the returning fandoms that pop up every year. Then I move down the list alphabetically scrolling for something I'd overlooked.

Dec 25th is going to be a quiet day for me, just dinner for two and no outside obligations, so I hope to have a lot to read and comment on.

I didn't sign up this year or last year, so I have no gifts to read and no fandoms-I-wrote-in to monitor.

I sort the entire archive by length, longest fics first, and start reading any story in any fandoms I'm familiar with. I comment on anything I even remotely liked or was interested in, because longfics don't get enough love. Once I start getting down to about 3000 word stories, I probably won't comment on all of them just because there are so many, but if I see one that's short of comments I'll comment.

1. Going alphabetically, open all the fandoms I'm interested in as new tabs until I hit the point of "okay, probably enough tabs for now".
2. Go through those fandoms opening everything that looks interesting, and arrange those fics by wordcount from shortest to longest.
3. Read through the fics I have open until I've cleared most of the tabs and anything I have left is a more substantial read of maybe 10k or above.
4. Return to the alphabetical list and add some more fandoms, repeat.

1) Read my own gifts

2) Open up the fandoms I wrote in, warily scan the other stories to see if I need to feel a) jealous or b) superior about my "competition"

3) Scroll down to "Z" and start reading fandoms in reverse alphabetical order (since I feel like "ABC" fandoms get all the frantic immediate Dec 25 love and "XYZ" fandoms languish sadly in comparison).

1) my gift(s)
2) go to the fandom lists, check all the fandoms I'm at least vaguely interested in, click all the fics that seem at least vaguely rtmi

It isn't that much; my fandoms are small and unpopular even by Yuletide standards. Aside from my own gift(s), if I have 1 hour's worth of reading material, that would be a stunning bounty of riches.

Go to the fandoms page. Open fandoms I'm interested in new tabs. Open the fics I'm interested in new tabs. Read.

1. My gift
2. The fandoms I requested - which might put me at 3 fics total if I'm lucky
3. Fandoms I've offered
4. A more particular delve through the fandoms I'm familiar with.

1) my fics, and fics in my requested fandoms
2) fics in fandoms I've written in
3) go through the archive opening anything that appeals in a new tab til chrome's about to crash. Read those fics, open more tabs, repeat until I get through all the fic.

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