AHHHHHHH YULETIDE

[wakeupnew]

It is, like, 2 in the fucking morning and I have to get up in four hours and the server is taking such a pounding that I can't leave comments for the life of me but I DO NOT CARE, I DO NOT CARE, I DO NOT CARE, I AM SO HAPPY

BOTH OF MY FICS ARE FOR MY CRACKED OUT 'MAKE SCOOBY DOO DARK' REQUEST, THE ONE I WAS SURE I WOULD NEVER GET, AND I AM BEYOND DELIGHTED.

The Mystery of Life
aslkf;dlkdkg. Shaggy is a stoner. Daphne and Fred live in creepy uber-perfect suburbia. Velma has a ladyfriend and is moving past her high school days as a geek. I LOVE THIS. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I can't quote from it because I was an idiot and closed the tab and now the server is taking such a beating that I can't get it open again, but the part where they were reading what they had written in each others' yearbooks. The awkwardness, the beautifully self-referential jokes (Fred's ascot! all the 'groovy' references and dated slang!!!).

Haunting Things (Real and Fake)
This beautiful human being read my letter, saw that I had referenced adoring Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (made-for-TV 1990s movie), and wrote me fic for it. Fic where Velma has a totally unrequited love for Daphne, and it is like I said in chat: I didn't know I needed unrequited Velma/Daphne in my life until I read it and now I am like HOLY SHIT HOW DID I NEVER SHIP THIS BEFORE?! And the author uses Zombie Island and creepy mccreeperson catlady Lena and it references the "ghost is here and it's always a fake" song that I love and it lets the kids grow up while retaining their personalities and it is written beautifully, and Velma's troubles ping me on such a ridiculously personal level (I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE TEARED UP) and in conclusion, I have decided that both of my authors have somehow crawled inside my brain without my noticing and picked out the things that would make me wiggle with glee the most. One of many favorite quotes from this one:

Even when everyone else is sloppy and relaxed, Daphne looks elegant. How she manages that out in the middle of the woods when they’ve been camping together for days, Velma will never know. How she manages that when she’s just woken up, Velma wishes she knew.

Velma herself has tossed and turned for hours. She can feel the mess of her hair and knows her clothes are wrinkled and dirty and displaced. She grabs her glasses and shoves them on, then sits up.

I NEED TO SLEEP NOW. BUT I AM SO EXCITED. I WISH I COULD LEAVE COMMENTS.

Comments

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite things about Yuletide, seriously, is the way this always seems to happen - you request something, and you get something even more perfect than that, because it includes something you didn't even expect but that fits you so precisely it's like it was laser-targeted straight to your soul.

[wakeupnew]

I'm still so astounded by both of my stories, and how both authors somehow totally got aspects of my 'love these things' about the fandom without me actually saying that I loved them.

ARE YOU ON MY F-LIST, AUTHORS? I suspect that one may be! I still can't believe that somebody wrote a Zombie Island fic for me. I didn't ask for one because I thought I'd never get it.

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Yeah, totally - I'm so amazed my author got exactly everything I wanted, omg.

MY AUTHOR WAS DEFINITELY ON MY FLIST because I didn't even have the conversation about how awesome making a character trans in any of the fandoms I'd requested would've been outside of f-lock except on another friend's journal, not even connected to Yuletide for the most part! And I'm sorry to fandom, but I totally don't have enough faith to believe that someone put my saying I'm trans and my requests together and came up with that all on their own, I just don't.

ON THE OTHER HAND, IF I'M WRONG, I AM ABSOLUTELY FUCKING READY TO BE SURPRISED.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I AM NOW HAHAHAHA AND I THINK ZOMBIE ISLAND MAY BE MY NEW FANDOM OMG.

Thank you so much for this awesome rec. It literally made my day. I almost cried, it was so sweet.