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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).

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.

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.

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. )

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...

( General Notes )
( Rivers of London )

( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy )

( Push )

( Henry IV )

Mostly, I just want to say that I hope you have fun writing your Yuletide.

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.

Wow, I haven't updated in so long. I didn't even post last year's Yuletide fic!

( General notes )

( Fandom-specific )

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

Dear Yuletide,

( here is my probably unhelpful letter )

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

And honestly, I'm kind of surprised. I have whole days to spare!

See!

Yuletide!

On a related note, this is also my post to say that I'll be away and internetless when the archive goes live, probably until New Year's Eve(ish), so my deepest thanks to whoever has written for me and I'll read it as soon as I get back.

I'm not sure what more I can say that's not in the sign-up post, but ( here goes: )

That's all I can think of to say except have fun writing. Write something that makes you happy and that'll make me happy too.

When you were sweet

Band(s): Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is, Gym Class Heroes
Pairing(s): William Beckett/Patrick Stump (mostly)
Word Count: 30,892
Rating/Warnings: Teenage romance, post-teenage romance bitterness, sex and genderswitch.
Author Notes: How William Beckett spent his summer vacation that time he turned into a girl (or why teenage romantic stupidity transcends gender and doesn't stop even when you're no longer a teenager).

Thanks to

calathea and

ficbyzee for beta-reading and american checking, and everyone else who listened to me flail about this. Also, thanks to

blondiusmaximus and

lucentvictrola for the fanart and

sansets and

abraxas_life for the mixes. I wish I'd had them when I was writing, it would have made the whole thing so much easier!

Any flavour of feedback appreciated

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Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four

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Fanart:

Snapshot, by

blondiusmaximus
Image, by

lucentvictrola

Fanmixes

sansets's fanmix:
Different

abraxas_life's fanmix:
Soundtrack

( Tracklisting )

Current Location: Kitchen
Current Music: Lili Marlene, by Marlene Dietrich

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Part three
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Bonus content

Current Location: Kitchen
Current Music: Lili Marlene, by Marlene Dietrich

Header and Bonus Content
Part one
( Part two )
Part three
Part four
Headers and bonus content

Current Music: Lili Marlene, by Marlene Dietrich

Headers and Bonus Content
Part one
Part two
( Part three )
Part four

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