Happy Yuletide!

[rachelmanija]

The Yuletide Archive is open, with 2075 stories in 1181 fandoms! Good work, Yuletide writers!

I received two absolutely marvelous stories for Yuletide, and one for Happy Belated Treatmas. I'll rec them tomorrow, when I make up a longer rec list.

Reccing and rec lists is one of the most fun aspects of Yuletide - I always find great stories to read that I would have otherwise missed. I hope you'll rec your favorites too. Link to your lists at yuletide, so everyone can enjoy them.

I've only had time to read my own gift stories so far, but browsing through the fandom lists, I'm very intrigued to see three articles on hyena, tardigrade, orchid, and wasp literature and linguistics (The Author of the Acacia Seeds - Ursula K. Le Guin, six stories about four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence (4'33" - John Cage (Song)), and three stories in an old favorite book of mine which I've never read fic for, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia A. McKillip .

What looks intriguing so far? What have you enjoyed? Are you going to read and rec with me?

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Oh wow I am going to sign up for Merry Belated Treatmas 2020 if it happens.

So far I've only read my two gifts and an unofficial gift a friend made sure I saw. I am gobsmacked, undeserving, and deeply grateful.

[lemon_badgeress]

for some reason unknown to me, i decided to start with 18th century RPF, despite neither of yhose two things being of particular interest to me.

all three stories were fucking DELIGHTS.

[naomikritzer]

My gift was a TRULY AMAZING Good Place fic. I wanted a story about the reboot in which Tahani and Eleanor are soulmates. My story absolutely nails the voice and characterization of all the regulars, but ESPECIALLY Tahani. Like it makes me wish I had Jameela Jamil's e-mail address so I could send it to her with the subject line "YOU HAVE TO READ THIS, I COULD HEAR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE LINES IN YOUR VOICE."

It's here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2019/works/21839698

[kass]

I was surprised by the fact of six stories for 4'33", and they are all quite good, I think. I just posted some recs on my own journal.