This is a somewhat belated post, since Yuletide was already declassified on Sunday. But I really think I should be excused on account of being somewhat sick and still recovering from not-so-great holidays. (Not as bad as that maybe sounds, but not cheerful either.) One of the good parts of them was Yuletide.

I received a Warehouse 13 fic centered around Claudia. The author works with a really clever idea of a Warehouse feature and gave me Claudia just as I like her: brilliant and funny with a dash of kinda-crazy: Seventeen by justhuman.

I was assigned Haven, a fandom I hadn't written before, with a request for the OT3, which I haven't really done before either. It was an example of great Yuletide matchmaking. I enjoyed writing this so much. It reminded me how much I liked this season of Haven and how much I love the characters. And watching the Christmas episode along the way just poured oil into the flames. I have templemarker to thank for the great prompt that inspired me to write this for her:

Proverbial Trees
Rated adult, Audrey/Duke/Nathan, just shy of 10k words.
It didn't seem real before. Not until Duke got a third set of dishes for his boat.

*sighs* I do love Yuletide and the excitement and the gifts (giving and receiving) that come with it. Until next year.

I've been sitting on this post for a while now, but somehow the list was never complete. It still isn't. There will possibly be updates in the future.

Again, because I'm lazy, I'm not changing the running (McKay/Sheppard and Dean/Castiel kind of) system:

This collection of recs is sorted by category. Several categories may apply for one fic, and the one I chose for it should already tell you a lot about the reasons I like it. Because all the fics on this list are very well-written and with great characterization I'm going to mention it here and get it out of the way. The individual recs include merely quotes, which are indicated by italics. Call me lazy (again), but I'd hate to spoil anyone with too much detail.

Should you encounter any mistakes or broken links, please let me know!

( The List )

I am all signed up for Yuletide. Yay! I signed up the day before yesterday, actually. And today I edited the hell out of the prompts again. They're more extensive than they've ever been before.

So, Dear Yuletide Author, I'm sorry, but there will not be a Yuletide letter this year. I feel like I've said it all in my prompts. If you wish, come in, have a seat, take a look around. Most of the time it turns out that I write what I would want to read myself, so maybe you'll find some more inspiration here.

I'm so very much looking forward to reading on Christmas Day what you have written for me! Last year, the Yuletide Gift was my most favorite present. (And I'm not exaggerating here.)

I just filled out the nominations form for Yuletide at the AO3. It was kind of anticlimactic. No long deliberations because I thought about what fandoms and characters to nominate beforehand. And no biting my nails whether the form would get through this time or if I'd have to refresh once again. Which admittedly, wasn't the nominations last year, but the sign-ups. Plus, the form is easy to use and pretty self-explanatory. In short, I was done in less than three minutes. Great work, you people behind the scenes!

( And I still have this one thing to say about the recent H5-0 (somewhat spoilery) )

Dear flist,

Are any of you on Twitter? If so, who are you, and would you like to be mutual followers? I only started familiarizing myself with Twitter (didn't see the appeal before, especially not before getting a smartphone). I started to follow a few fellow podfic-loving people on a friending meme yesterday, and I want to expand.

Also, hi, all you new LJ friends!

For Day 4 at pod_aware, which is dedicated to accents, I recorded three short and light-hearted and funny fics in three fandoms.

Because:
Every podficcer has an accent; sometimes that accent matches that of the canon character, sometimes it doesn't. Every accent is special and brings something to the podfic, it represents the podficcer and reminds us just how diverse fandom can be. Come celebrate accents and learn more about them in podfic at pod_aware.

More specifically, I recorded in the name of foreign accents. The reason for that should become obvious as soon as you start listening.

Short Hawaii Five-0, Psych and Stargate Atlantis podfics, this way. And for more things on accents in podfic, seek out pod_aware.

That's why I avoid spoilers. It's awesome to be surprised by these kinds of things.
( Spoilers for Sanctuary: Monsoon )

I used to be deltacephei. Now I'm unadrift.

It started to annoy the hell out of me that there were so many other people around on the net who called themselves deltacephei. (Beauty blogs? Nails? Really?)
I know it's going to be a nightmare updating everything (probably more than I'm aware of now), but it needed to be done.

So. Just to let you know who this strange new person on your flist is.