jamjar | Entries tagged with challenge: yuletide

Dear Yuletide,

Everything below is because it helps me when I have some idea of who I'm writing for, but really, the main thing is just to have fun writing it. That said, and beacuse it's helpful for me when I have a bit more to work with...

( What works for me. )

( What doesn't. )

( MarsCorp (podcast) )
( Wooden Overcoats )
( Sapphic Girls Stereotypes Alignment Chart - bedupolker )

( Samurai Champloo )

( The Marvelous Mrs Maisel )

Four Seasons (2670 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca Mac Cunoval, Uncle Aquila, Servius Placidus
Summary:

Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honour,
and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.

- Juvenal

Posting this a bit post-reveal, but this was my fic for Yuletide. Good for an excuse to re-watch the movie!

Rare Birds of the Southern Atlantic (4283 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: John Finnemore's Double Acts
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: George Bunning/Søndergaard (Double Acts)
Characters: George Bunning, Søndergaard (Double Acts)
Summary:

Puffins are not native to the southern atlantic, and neither are Danish penguin observers or British members of the foreign office. Still, home is what you make of it...

Honestly, this was just such a nice canon to revist (most John Finnemore stuff is). Anyone that hasn't listened to them, I very much recommend them.

I can also recommend the advantages of a fandom where all the canon is one half-hour episode of a radio show (well, and what the internet can tell me about the history of South Georgia and arctic research).

Dear Yuletide,

Everything below is because it helps me when I have some idea of who I'm writing for, but really, the main thing is just to have fun writing it for you. That said...

( What works for me. )
( What doesn't. )

( The Good Place )( Samurai Champloo )( Tom Holland/Zendaya )

Just realised I didn't do this last year, so below is my 2016 Yuletide entry.

Coffee-Pizza-Stacks-Light-Cake (3827 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wolf 359 (Radio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hera (Wolf 359), Renée Minkowski, Doug Eiffel, Alexander Hilbert, Alana Maxwell
Summary: #16: Make-do-and-mend: the key to managing with fixed resources is careful use and occasional reckless improvisation - Pryce and Carter's Deep Space Survival Procedure and Protocol Manual

Writing Notes: Don't pick fandoms with open canon, that's still being updated until pretty much the same day as your Yuletide is due. Seriously, I think the last episode of Season 3 was the 19th, and Yuletide was due in the same day? Something stupid like that.

( General stuff )

( Wolf 359 )

( Girl Genius )

( Wynonna Earp )

( Pitch )

Technically, one that I got in for Yuletide and one that I scraped into Yuletide madness-- as in, I literally posted it 2 minutes before the deadline.

I got matched on two Diana Wynne Jones books, Archer's Goon, which is one of my favourite books, ever.

Writing Notes: I sort of knew what I wanted to write, though not the exact details of the sections.

World Enough, and Time by jamjar

(5408 words)

Fandom: Archer's Goon - Diana Wynne Jones

Rating: Gen

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Erskine, Awful Sykes, Howard Sykes, Hathaway (Archer's Goon), Torquil (Archer's Goon)

Summary: The journey of a thousand miles (starts with sending your siblings to Alpha Centauri).

I also got matched on Fire And Hemlock, also by Diana Wynne Jones. One of the good things about yuletide is the excuse it gives you to go back and re-read something you haven't read in ages, remembering what you loved about it and finding whole new things to love (ask me about my new Polly headcanon!)

Writing Notes: Hah! One of those fic where you write bits -odd paragraphs, disconnected sections- but nothing that really links. Until, of course, it's past the deadline of the thing you intended. I just barely (literally 2 minutes before the deadline) managed to submit to the Yuletide Madness archive so the recipient could get it anon, but I didn't have time to get it beta-read (may try and do that and at least get any typos fixed later).

The Opposite of Nostalgia by jamjar

(4204 words)

Fandom: Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Thomas Lynn/Polly Whittacker

Summary: Polly afterwards.

You should write what gives you joy, so take all the things below as hopefully helpful ficprompts, rather than any hard and fast rules. It helps me writing to have a lot of stuff to work from, but if that's not true for you, go ahead and write what works.

( What works for me )

( What doesn't work for me )

( Fandom specifics )
Hope you have fun writing this and see you in December!

Home is where (9156 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Life (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dani Reese, Charlie Crews, Kevin Tidwell, Jane Seever
Summary:

Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Dani after the events of the last episode.

( Post-writing thoughts. )

Dear Yuletide,

( What I like )

( What doesn't work for me )

Individual fandoms

( Life )

( Polly and the Pirates )

( Some Girls )

( Girl Genius )

Yuletide reveal!

No more than reason (7420 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beatrice/Benedick, Claudio/Hero
Characters: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing), Hero (Much Ado About Nothing)
Additional Tags: newlyweds, Married Life, Wordplay is foreplay
Summary:

Newly-wedded bliss, Beatrice and Benedick style.

( Post-writing thoughts. )

I love this time of year...

( General )

( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy )

( Rivers of London )

( The Hollow Crown )

( Life )

( Orphan Black )

Helpmeet (2886 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lupe dy Cazaril/Betriz dy Ferrej, Iselle dy Chalion/Bergon dy Ibra
Characters: Lupe dy Cazaril, Betriz dy Ferrej, Bergon dy Ibra, Iselle dy Chalion
Summary:

A good wife's work is never done...

Correspondence (6062 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctrine of Labyrinths - Sarah Monette
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Felix Harrowgate, Mildmay Foxe
Additional Tags: epistolery, Post-Canon
Summary:

In conclusion, Grimglass (and the associated town of Grimglass Without) may be worth a visit, but only a brief one. The chief concern of the locals is the weather and the price of fish, not necessarily in that order.

Homo homini lupus (6097 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pet Shop of Horrors
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Rau Woo-Fei, Count D
Summary:

"To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see."
~ Aldo Leopold

Medicine for the soul (6579 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctrine of Labyrinths - Monette
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Felix Harrowgate, Mildmay Foxe, Kay Brightmore
Summary:

Settling in, post-Corambis.

"Medicine for the soul."
Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.—Diodorus Siculus: i. 49, 3

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
Samuel Johnson

One of one's own (4856 words) by jamjar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Here is Greenwood
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hasukawa Kazuya, Ikeda Mitsuru, Tezuka Shinobu
Additional Tags: Yuletide, recipient:Calliope, challenge:Yuletide 2008
Summary:

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith