one wound-up punch of intuition

Hello lovely Yuletide author! This is all just extra info if that's helpful for you - please feel free to work with only what I provided in my signup if that's your jam. This is somehow my 15th year doing Yuletide; what? is?? time??? Thank you very much for being here and participating -- I love Yuletide and these fandoms, and I'm so excited to read what you write!

Things that I love: Friendships and family (found family and blood-related family alike), teams coming together, romance, domesticity; people being concerned about, caring for, and protecting each other. I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort and people just really liking each other, and companionable/loving squabbling or insults! I love humor, competence, banter, and ridiculous fluffy tropes where appropriate (fake dating/fake married! cuddling for warmth! seasonal or holiday content where appropriate! fic with epistolary elements or that makes use of social media! ok those last few aren't tropes, but I appreciate them anyway). I realize this is a lot of fluffy stuff but I also really enjoy action and drama! I'm usually not a porn without plot person, but I'm absolutely here for sex scenes as long as they're part of the larger context of a story. Same goes for violence. I prefer a hopeful or happy ending but if you want to tug on my heartstrings getting there, I'm okay with that too!

Things that aren't my jam in a Yuletide fic: Incest, rape, infidelity, heavy focus on suicidal ideation (especially if it's not present in canon), killing off canon characters who didn't die in canon, romantic relationships with big age or power imbalances (ie: boss/employee, teacher/student, a/b/o), cancer or COVID-19, the gay-for-you trope. I actually love alternate-setting AU's, but the canons that I've requested have such tiny fandoms that I'd prefer to read straight-up canon fic for them.

In other places on the internet, I'm wakeupnew and wakeupnew.

( Big Eden; How to Be a Werewolf; Lilywhite Boys series/Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles; The Turner series by Cat Sebastian; Wanted, A Gentleman by KJ Charles )

You're going to read more about them under the cut, but I just want to tell you up front how fucking great my gifts are: Five Times Laliari Stayed Quiet, and One Time She Didn't, a stellar character study from Galaxy Quest, and Warm Hands and Lotion, warm cozy Vincent/Elias from How to Be A Werewolf.

( 16 recs in: The Addams Family, The Babysitters Club, A Charm of Magpies Series - KJ Charles, England Series and England Series/Will Darling Series - KJ Charles, Cherry Magic, Galaxy Quest, Grace and Frankie, Great British Bakeoff RPF, History3: Trapped, How to Be a Werewolf, Lovely Little Losers )

Dear Author,

Thank you for writing for me! I am the artist formerly known as Lexie on AO3, now wakeupnew. Sorry this was still a placeholder when assignments first went out; I thought I had more time than I did! BUT I'M BACK! And I'm psyched. I've been doing Yuletide for a long time now and it's one of the highlights of my year, every year. It's one of my favorite traditions. Thanks so much for being here! I'm so excited to read what you write.

( Fandoms: The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert, HIStory2-越界 | HIStory2: Crossing the Line (2018), How to Be a Werewolf, Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles, Unfit to Print by KJ Charles )

Hello Yuletide author!

I love Yuletide so much!!! I'm so glad you're here, and that you have very excellent taste in fandoms. :D I'm going to include some extra information below. If you're someone who finds that helpful, read on; if you're not, it's all good! Mostly I yell "love" over and over again. I JUST LOVE THINGS A LOT.

( Fandoms: สามเราต้องรอด | 3 Will Be Free, HIStory2-越界 | HIStory2: Crossing the Line (2018), How to Be a Werewolf, Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles )

I am still very slowly reading Yuletide fics! There's so much good stuff!!

( Recs in: Canadian ice dancing RPF, Captain Marvel, A Charm of Magpies, Clue, Deadpool, Fangirl, Fantastic 4 / Into the Spider-verse crossover, Genghis Khan music video, God's Own Country, The Golden Girls, The Great British Bake-Off, Green Men series, Guardian, Hawkeye, How to Be a Werewolf, Indiana Jones movies )

Hello Yuletide author!

Yuletide is a highlight of my year, every year. I'm so glad you're participating and you like some of the same stuff that I do! I'm going to include some extra information below. If you're someone who finds that helpful, read on; if you're not, it's all good! Mostly I yell "love" over and over again. I JUST LOVE THINGS A LOT.

( Fandoms: HIStory2-越界, How to Be a Werewolf, Sins of the Cities series by KJ Charles, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, The Turner series by Cat Sebastian )

I come bearing A GREAT MANY YULETIDE RECS.

To start off: my gifts! I will write more about each when I hit the M's in the alphabet, but for now, both Good with Their Hands and Brightness are Blitz/Hearth from Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard and are fabulous! Go forth and read!

( Recs in: American Gods, Anne of Green Gables, Bend It Like Beckham, Big Eden, Black Mirror, BuzzFeed RPF (Worth It), Captive Prince, A Charm of Magpies, The Chronicles of Prydain, Dream Daddy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Galavant, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, The Good Place, Goon, Grace and Frankie, Hellboy, Jessica Jones )

Every year, I'm like, THIS IS IT, THIS IS GONNA BE THE YEAR WHERE I'M NOT THAT ASSHOLE WHO RECS BUT TAKES FOREVER TO COMMENT, and every year, I write the recs first and comments second. Which is to say: I still owe comments for a number of these fics. But I really, really loved them, and I think you would love them too, so you should read them.

( Recs in: Hot Fuzz, Hail Caesar!, Ghostbusters, Gladiator by Dami Im, Fantastic Four, Dumbing of Age, Critical Role, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Black Books, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. )

Hello, Yuletide author!

Thank you so much for signing up and writing for me! You clearly have A+ excellent taste, so I can already tell: this is going to be fantastic. I'm so grateful that you're writing something for me!! I'm going to include some extra information below, because I'm a longwinded human being (I'm sorry). If you're someone who finds that helpful, read on; if you're not, it's all good! Mostly I yell the words "love" and "delight" and "magic" over and over again. I JUST LOVE THINGS A LOT.

( Fandoms: Dumbing of Age, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Star Wars: X-Wing series, Sungkyunkwan Scandal )