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This show is so much fun. An arrogant male chef who basically falls through time to wake up in the Josean era in the body of a woman who's about to be married to the king. Hijinks ensue. The king is pretending to be an idiot for Reasons and there is serious plotty stuff as well, which was good but I was there for the queer love story of course.



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It's from a BL novel which I did try to read but didn't get through more than a couple of pages, don't know if it was the translation but I didn't like the writing style. Apparently though, the premise is that the chef was the queen reincarnated, so the same soul, and somehow they switch and so you get the queen in modern day hitting up the gay clubs. And the chef and the king live happily ever after and have three kids. None of this is in the show.

I requested Mr. Queen for Yuletide because I wanted more relationship stuff and I got an absolutely awesome fic. You know that fic where the author has clearly taken on board your likes and and your prompts and also come up with their own twist and writes the perfect fic for you? Yeah, that happened, I am so happy!

This Episode Brought To You by ryfkah
Cheoljong of Joseon/Jang Bong Hwan, Queen Cheorin (1837-1878)/Original Male Character

Summary: Theoretically he knows it’s possible to bake bread using nuruk as the yeast starter, and he’s sure he’ll figure it out eventually, but making the bread is just the first step! Then he’s got to somehow recreate Italian seasoning from scratch, and that’s not even getting into the cheese—

In the past, in the future, Bong-hwan and So-yon navigate their appetites.

Firstly of course, my own gift, which was freaking awesome and just what I asked for, yay!!!

The Champions (TV) - Fabrications

2309k, Gen, Summary: Tremayne just has a few more questions.

And I also got a lovely little Madness Treat, which makes me so happy!!!

Fyra år till | Four More Years (2010) En route

337k, G (David Holst/Martin Kovac) Summary: Martin wonders why exactly he is driving David to Katrineholm. It's not even as if he'll get any political benefit from it.


As I'm using my Bookmarks more in AO3 I made a point of bookmarking most of the fics that I really liked this year instead of just the top few faves, and ended up with 22 bookmarks, nice. So for a comprehensive rec list, you could just check those. I've put links to a handful of standout ones below, huh, bit surprised they're mostly movies. But there's also recs to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Roman Holiday, From Eroica With Love, The Servant, Uprooted, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Brideshead Revisited, The Princess Bride, iZombie and Frederica.

I had the feeling that I hadn't read nearly as much this year, but when I looked at my history I've read about 80 fics. I wonder how many I usually read!

( Recs in Sesame Street, Deadpool, Blackadder, The Fugitive, Clue, Black Mirror, What We Do in the Shadows, Indiana Jones, Alien vs Predator, The Breakfast Club, Singing in the Rain )

Yuletide this year is super easy for this tech-useless person.

Finding a beta - I always have to wander into IRC come mid December to find betas, and I've really been super confident of how that works, but this year they're on Discord as well, yay, which is super easy to use - plus has the benefit of being the platform my teenager uses with her mates, so I have in house tech support *g* Ha, her FACE when I announced I was on Discord now. I was like 'relax, I'm not stalking you, this is not about you!'

The full list of prompts - each year they've been finding a easier way to provide this, but this year they've outdone themselves, this platform is amazing. Super easy to search, including just being able to pull up a fandom and click open all the prompts for that one fandom. Love it.

Pinch hitting - I haven't bothered trying to claim a pinch hit as the emails flood in for years, I figured they had like a thousand pinch hitters, things always get claimed quickly, I may as well just write treats, that way the more fics the merrier. This year they've shifted to a google group, and you can just go and look! and see the list online! and do a sort on unclaimed! It's awesome. I think they lost most of their existing list when this happened, I was in the discord yuletide chatroom last night and they were talking about how they are super keen for more pinch hitters, and pinch hits are NOT getting snapped up like they used to. There are still several unclaimed from the batch they sent out hours before I went to bed last night. If anyone's interested, I'm pretty sure anyone can be a pinch hitter, you don't have to be signed up. (more instructions here)

I received a lovely gift for Yuletide! I am so very grateful my writer took on the challenge of writing Deacon/Stu, yay! and it was awesome.

animating every night by tillunwish
What We Do in the Shadows (Deacon/Stu) 1.7k
Stu takes Deacon on a date to the movies. It goes about as disastrously as you might expect.



( Fics I wrote for Yuletide in Call the Midwife, Sense8, Lucifer, Judex and Independence Day )

Last day for Yuletide sign ups. I signed up nice and early, to get my super rare fandoms up on the Sign up Summary sheet - and Yay! someone has volunteered to write The Champions, so I'm hopeful.

I've spent an enjoyable week watching the numbers and fandoms grow and tweaking my sign up - in my initial enthusiasm I both offered and requested Lucifer, my current fave show, but after a few days removed them both, since of course that fandom has ended up plenty of both of them already.

I have just done my final sign up revision offering only rare fandoms with more requests than offers, including a few that had no other offers and if I get matched on will have to do some intense revision of the text *G* I like it when I am able to give someone a fic in that tiny fandom of their heart. I have also perused the letters up so far and have bookmarked a few requests in fandoms I'm more comfortable writing in, for treats later on.

Also, everyone should know that The Champions episodes are now up on youtube! The first episode is not the best *cough* but it's their origin story so all I can say is, don't judge the rest of the series by it? They get their powers and become adorably attuned to each other and codependent. Also, maybe skip episode 3.

It's a fun 60s show about three international crimefighting agents who get given random enhanced abilities and the odd bit of mind reading between the three of them.

If you haven't already watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, I highly, highly recommend this lovely show. I suggest reading this a lovely, detailed pimp post someone else prepared earlier because I am lazy no point reinventing the wheel, right *cough*

The characters are adorable and the chemistry between Jack and Phryne lights up the screen.


( a bit of MFMM yuletide ramble )

My absolute highlight for Yuletide (after my own gifts of course) was this fic set after the series finale -

A Series of Optical Illusions
Phryne/Jack, Case Fic, M. 20k.

This is bait, but the best bait is the truth; there is no lie in Jack's arm around her waist, in his fingers tangled through hers.
Miss Phryne Fisher sets a trap, throws a party, and reconciles her differences.

Okay, first go through the archive, taking a breather. Have not yet even got to the two major fandoms I'm excited for however (Man from Uncle and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries). I have a feeling I will lose days once I start. oh, plus I have just started reading The Martian (got it for xmas, not seen movie yet, will afterwards) and there are heaps of fic for both movie and book, so that to look forward to too.

I was going do my recs so far yesterday but family inexplicably wanted me to spend NYE with them, and then when I tried to stay up after midnight Bunny complained bitterly about the light from the computer screen (we're staying in the same room and she's lost her eye mask).

So, how I do Yuletide is I avoid looking at rec posts before the reveal, I like to find fics myself and the deluge of rec posts skews people's reading towards the most popular ones with a snowball effect that's unfair on everyone else. IMO. Having said that, I don't read all fics in a fandom, I look at the synopses and the tags and choose whatever appeals. I'm not consistent, either.

This year, with all the time in the world and a no-longer-nearly-dead lj, instead of just posting list I have amused myself adding stuff about why I like the fandoms. I am having FUN.

( Killjoys )


( Sense8 )


( Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers )


( Temeraire - Naomi Novik )


( iZombie )


( Whitechapel )


( Rope )


( Various Georgette Heyer omg )


( Weekend Update (SNL) )


( Stargate Universe )

LIFE is conspiring against me for writing Treats this year, last night Bunny was up to early season 5 Leverage which has some of the best eps of the show. so of course I had to stay and watch with her - the one about the 1970s hijacker where they all get to play 70s characters, the one which his pretty much all Parker with a gammy leg foiling a crime while stuck in the office on top of the bar and my FAVOURITE episode ever, where Hardison, Parker and Eliot foil a terrorist plot cos that ep is all about loyalty and trust and love. I posted a few screencaps a couple of years ago when LJ still used to let me upload pics (the first half dozen here

Ha, during the best scene where Eliot has hold of the back of Hardison's neck and is intently telling him that he is the smartest man he has ever met etc, there was a mozzie or something and Dragonfly and Bunny got distracted and were talking and I was completely reasonable and only shouted at them a little bit to shut up and now we have to rewatch the whole scene, SHHHH.



And then my bestie who reads all my fics for characterisation even when she doesn't know the fandom told me that my ending on my Sense8 fic needed a lot of work so I ended up staying up stupidly late and have had four hours sleep and i really don't want to cycle to the station today (it's only 5kms) but i piked the last couple of days because after our mild and windy weekend Monday and Tuesday were 39 degrees each, and now it's fallen back to the 20s, so no excuse. Haven't even walked the dog cos she's been limping - Dfly is taking her to the vet today.

I am tired enough that I nearly didn't bother trying to find a last minute characterisation/plot beta but I really like to try to make my fics as good as they can be so I have emailed the few people on the yuletide beta list who offered Sense8, see if any of them have nothing better to do on Christmas - if not, I tried :)

off to work now. on my bike. *cries*

Thank you, thank you, thank you for volunteering to write my little fandom, I already love you :)

I have been doing Yuletide from nearly the beginning and absolutely none of the excitement has worn off for me. I LOVE YULETIDE, WHEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a note - yes, I recycle most of my Yuletide letter, except for the new fandoms, the ones I don't hopefully request year after year, but that's because I've spent years getting my letter how I like it.


Also, if detailed letters stress you out and/or you already know what you want to write, feel free to not even read below. Truly :)


( General notes and likes/dislikes )

( On recurring vs new fandom requests )

( Actual Yuletide letter with individual fandom prompts and ideas )

Nearly every fic I've read this year has been well written, interesting, often lyrical, great plots where applicable, and many are quite lengthy. I do think Yuletide has become a thing where most people really stretch themselves and I read these and think of all those ignorant comments and articles that claim that fanfic is pathetic and I feel sorry for those people.

( Lots of recs in Slash, Other, Het and Gen )