coprime

Hi, Yuletide Author!

I'm coprime over on AO3. (I'm also happy to receive treats and have my settings on AO3 set so I can receive them, if that's a question anyone had.)

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm so excited to see your story and I'm already sure I'll love it because it'll be a story in one of my beloved, tiny fandoms. I say every year that the best story is a story the writer is excited to write, so if you already have an idea you want to write, go for it! This letter is just for if you'd like a but more information.

( General Likes/Dislikes )

( Postcards in Braille )

( Hackers )

( The Turner Series - Cat Sebastian )

( Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout )

( TOEM (Video Game) )

( A Short Hike )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I love all my requested fandoms and characters, so I'm sure I'll love whatever you write. I promise I'm easy to please, so if you already have an idea, go for it! This letter is only for if you want a bit more information.


( General Likes/Dislikes )


( Final Fantasy IX )


( In Other Waters )


( Midnight Diner )


( My Next Life as a Villainess )


( Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright )

I received Mustache by Truth, which is fantastic Joaquín/Manolo/María from The Book of Life. It is sweet and funny and fun and absolutely everything I wanted for these three.

I wrote Weekend Getaway for MissHammer in Lupin III, which I really enjoyed writing.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hello! I am so excited you offered to write something for me in a fandom that I love! And I am sure I will love whatever you write. I've included some more information in this letter--some general likes/dislikes and some fandom-related babblings--if you want them, but don't feel obligated to use anything in this letter if you don't want to. I think the best stories are the ones the writer was excited about, so if already know what you want to write, go for it! I will love whatever you write, promise. Also, some sections are noticeably longer than others. I really truly am equally excited for all my requests otherwise I would not have requested them. That being said....

( Generalities )

( The Book of Life )

( Final Fantasy IV )

( Gunstar Heroes )

( Rosario + Vampire )

And having said all that, my very first paragraph still stands: the best story I could get is one you are excited to write, whatever that story is. I promise I will love it.

Whewww, that was close. But I did it!

And, if my writer is reading this, I always try to comment on the story written for me as soon as possible. Normally this is in the morning before family obligations demand my presence, but this year my family is doing things in the morning and then it will be off to the BF's family. So I may not get to it until the evening or later if other things come up. But I will read and comment as soon as I can.

I'm finally participating in Yuletide again after a two year hiatus. I am simultaneously excited and slightly terrified. (Excited because Yuletide is exciting, terrified because it's been a while since I've done this.) I finally finished my letter, which is waaay longer than any other letter I've written. I just had a lot of thoughts this year, I guess, haha. Here's hoping I don't scare off any potential writers with it.

...I can't believe I forgot to do this for nearly a year. Which is annoying because I got the most wonderful story last year for Yuletide.

There and back again by oxymoron is the Mighty Orinoco story I never thought I'd be lucky enough to get. Oxymoron read an entire Jules Verne novel for me! And then wrote a sublimely perfect Jeanne! I love her so much that she's my only icon here on DW, and I never thought I'd ever get anything about her because who else has ever read The Mighty Orinoco? I love it so much, and it makes me so sad that this story will never get the accolades it deserves because it is for a rarest-of-rare fandom.

I wrote Awry Plans for bribitribbit in the Lilo & Stitch fandom. I had fun writing it.

And, sadly, I made the decision not to participate in Yuletide this year. I just don't have the time and energy to do it this year.

I had two wonderful stories written for me. The Quicke and the Fed by Perri Smith is my original gift. It's about Kyle Quicke from Jennifer Estep's Bigtime series, and it's absolutely perfect. Perri captured all the things I love about the series -- it's got a fight, humor, wacky superheroes and ubervillains, cameos from a ton of canon characters, and even a bit of potential romance. I love Kyle's reasoning for trying to be in the spotlight so much and how important his restaurant is to him. It's one of the lesser read stories on Yuletide this year due to being fic for an almost unknown series of romance novels, and I wish it wasn't because I really do think that people unfamiliar with the canon but who like crazy superhero stuff would love this too.

I also had a treat written for me, Happy Owlidays by Ponderosa, which is a little holiday fic for the Owly comic books. And it too was perfect. I'm really pleased with the way she handled dialogue because the comics don't have words in the speech bubbles, just pictograms. But Owly and Wormy and Racoon sounded just like how I hear them, to the point where I sometimes mentally substituted in what I thought the pictogram would be if it were an actual comic. Sadly this is also one of the lesser read stories in the archive, even though it shouldn't be because it is heart-warming and adorable.

I wrote Old Friends for mesmiranda in the Up fandom. The story came out a bit more rushed (in one particular spot especially) than I would have liked because my holiday season was a bit more rushed than I thought it would be. But mesmiranda liked it and there are quite a few bits I enjoyed writing as well, so I think it was a success.

Huzzah, I like my assignment! I'm so excited, yay. And I shall refrain from saying anything else for fear of giving something away, haha.

Now that it's January 1st, I can say I wrote The Spring Thaw for jesidres, and jesidres wrote the lovely Symbiotic Nature for me. I'd wondered when I saw that there were all of three Mushishi stories this year if maybe my recipent and I had gotten assigned each other. And it turns out we were! It is a funny old world sometimes.

I really enjoyed writing The Spring Thaw, although it took me a while to write because I was worried that I wouldn't be up to the challenge of Mushishi and blending my typical writing voice with the feeling of the series. My idea for the kaihyouki actually came from an art piece by jesidres, and the rest of the story sort of formed itself around the fact that I wanted to use these mushi she drew in her story. I don't think it was very obvious that I borrowed them from her art though.

I have discovered that there are only so many times I can see people reccing Merlin stories that can be more or less summarized by "Arthur and Merlin act like morons" before I succumb and start reading them. Without having seen even a scrap of the actual show, mind you, which led to the interesting visualization of Uther being played by Patrick Stewart. And when I started watching the show, it was a bit funny because I already knew each episode's basic plot and resolution. But I've been enjoying them all the same, and Patrick Stewart no longer shows up when I read fic, so it's all good.