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Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Still the year I fell in love with a book after nominations and thought it wasn’t in the tagset. Then I got my assignment, matching on something totally different, and there was the fandom! Just under a different name. And the absolute perfect request, too. I worked down to the wire that year and turned in something I and the recip both loved. In other years, I’ve gotten absolutely wonderful gifts, but the magic serendipity of that year really made it for me.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Most memorable for me was trying to finish a 10k+ fic I had been racing to get to the end of, on Xmas Eve, at my parents' house with siblings present. All I had left was the porn, and in an Xmas Miracle, everyone decided to take a long walk while I stayed back. Got the porn finished without anyone looking over my shoulder and posted in time for the main collection! Recip really seemed to love it and it's still one of my favorite fics.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
If this was a very long prequel fic, rest assured your recip still thinks of it as magical, too! ♥

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I could add that meeting my recip, who continues to be awesome in many ways, was the cherry on top. <3

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Writing for someone with a perfect prompt that made writing 100% effortless (which had never happened before and hasn't happened since then) and getting an amazing comment from them that was almost a Yuletide fic (1000 words). It made my whole year.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
That’s such a good feeling!

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
The year I got assigned my obscure OTP-of-all-time I thought nobody shipped and had no idea was being requested (didn’t even game for it!), and wrote a fic that was also extremely self indulgent because our ids matched

The recip later said in passing that it was their dream fic and I’m just so glad I was able to write for my OTP and actually make someone happy at the same time!

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
It really is! I still reread that comment whenever I need a little pick me up, and hope I'll get to write for this recip again one day.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
- Fulfilling a recipient's Didn't Think Anyone Would Write This request and getting an amazing comment
- Getting to do that again a few years later!
- Listening to audiobooks every year around this time to do canon reviews; it's become a weird October-December only habit
- That time I accidentally got beta'd by my recip. Horrible in the moment, but they were awesome about it and continue to request things I just always want to write somehow
- Jamming as a beta for someone who likes my beta style and just going crazy in chat for a few hours with them

Re: Canon Recs - Canon m/m books

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
I too treasure my trips out to the Starbucks by the library to escape the family and get some quiet writing time in. Also memorable was saying up late the night of Christmas Eve while everyone else is asleep, writing by the multi-colored lights of the tree to squeeze in one last treat.

Re: Recs from past Yuletides

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
That one Oxenfree fic that was like, a complete game of its own.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, every Yuletide is a good memory for me. My depression is always at its worst during the holidays, and Yuletide helps me to keep it together. Even when I'm too depressed to write something myself, there is always something there for me to read. G-d bless everyone who takes part: writers, readers, commenters, betas, mods & etc. - every single one of you! ! At the risk of sounding super corny, you are all more important and essential to me! Please keep on being awesome! ♥

Your dream writer

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Let's name names and spread some love! All gifts are awesome, but is there someone in particular you want as your writer this Yuletide? Or maybe you've had your dream writer already - if so - who was it?

Personally, I would die happy if Selden or embraidery ever wrote for me ^-^

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
same coalie-
I forgot to thank the awesome coadie, who definitely makes Yuletide season a joy. Your app is magical and so are you.

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
OP here. yes this, all of this, I wanted to say it but didn't want to sound too cheesy. GOSH i love yuletide so much

Re: Recs from past Yuletides

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Link? I'm intrigued...

Re: Recs from past Yuletides

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Have no idea how it still holds up, because I haven't played/read it since it got posted - https://archiveofourown.org/works/16999725/ here you go

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
I was too intimidated to sign up, but I found a request I liked and visited my local Pain Quotidien multiple times just to write it. Sipping from a bowl of coffee and typing away while it snowed outside... A really fond memory for me!

Re: Rabbit?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
NC

OMG I remember that song! Feeling so old now! :P

Place your bets

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
How many Yuletide sign-ups this year?

Re: Place your bets

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Last year it was 1476, a small uptick vs the overall trend where it gradually went down from 1882 to 1449 over the previous six years. I'm guessing it will be up again this year, but not dramatically, so I'm gonna say 1501.

Re: Place your bets

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
agreed. also, is it just me or does it seem like there's a lot more newbies than usual in the discord this year?

Re: Best Yuletide Memories?

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
For several years now (maybe the last 3 years? maybe even 4?) I have inadvertently started a tradition of beginning and finishing a last-minute treat while drinking wine on Christmas Eve after my parents go to bed, so not even starting writing it until 10 or later. In at least two of these cases, the fic in question has been the best one I wrote for that year's YT, and very well-received. It's kind of fun to see what comes of the last minute scramble! We'll see if it happens again this year.

Re: Place your bets

(Anonymous) 2021-10-16 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe? i didn't pay enough attention in previous years
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