one wound-up punch of intuition

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 )

LET'S DO THIS

I'm going to shout about it in greater depth when I reach Unfit to Print in the back half of the Yuletide fandom alphabet, but just to put this out there up front: my gift is Brand New Chapter, Vikram Pandey/Gil Lawless from Unfit to Print by K.J. Charles, and it is absolutely fucking marvelous and you should read it!!!

( 18 recs in: 3 Will Be Free, 4th Man Out, The Addams Family, Among Us, Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery, Animal Crossing, Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien, The Baby-Sitters Club, Band Sinister by K.J. Charles, Birds of Prey, England series by K.J. Charles, Final Fantasy VI, Galaxy Quest, The Half of It, Hawkeye comics, In God's Country )

The Yuletidening, it is, sadly, finally over! See you next year!

( Recs in: Jessica Jones/Luke Cage crossover, Legally Blonde, The Lion in Winter, Love Simon, Master and Commander, The Mummy, The Nanny, The Road to El Dorado, Saving Face, Schitt's Creek, The Secret Garden, Selfie, Singin' in the Rain, Society of Gentlemen series, Spy, A Study in Emerald, Star Wars: X-Wing series, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Turner series, The Witcher )

Hello friends! It's January 3 and I bet you thought you had escaped this year's exhaustive list of wakeupnew Yuletide recs - NOPE, I just didn't have the days following Christmas off work this year, and it turns out that is extremely not conducive to reading the entire Yuletide archive in a week. Or really at all. But I'm here! I'm ready! I'm ... very late! Let's do this thing!

Before we start alphabetically by fandom, I want to direct your attention to my TWO DELIGHTFUL GIFTFICS, which we will discuss in greater detail once I reach H and S in the alphabet: With A Little Help by genarti (How to Be a Werewolf, Malaya and Vincent) and hold me tight, it's getting cold by savetomorrow (Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Jae-shin/Yong-ha). Read them!!!

( Recs in: Agatha Christie's Poirot, Aliens, American Gods, Anne of Green Gables, Anne with an E, Aubrey-Maturin series, Bend It Like Beckham, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Black Books, Blue Beetle, Bridgerton series, The Bright Sessions, Buzzfeed Worth It )

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 )

I spent a while trying to come up with a clever post title, and then in the end I just went with capslock and a number. If only I could do the same when trying to write titles for fics... ANYWAY: AND LO, IT WAS YULETIDE, and I once again spent my winter break devouring beautifully-crafted fan fiction! Somehow this is the tenth year in a row that I've participated in Yuletide and done these rec posts, which is fucking wild. Here's to another ten years. ♥

FIRST UP, you need to read my gift, which is the cutest thing in the goddamn world (and which I will screech about in greater detail when I reach the front half of the alphabet): Tidings of Raptor and Joy (Dumbing of Age, Dina/Becky).

( Recs in: Zootopia, the Whyborne and Griffin series by Jordan Hawk, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Star Wars: X-Wing, Singin' in the Rain, Shia LaBeouf by Rob Cantor, Romancing the Stone, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Mighty Ducks. )

Okay so, FIRST OF ALL, I'm gonna need you to read my three fabulous gifts: Evolution (Nimona, Blackheart/Goldenloin + Nimona), The Buttering Up (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Kevin/Holt), and that launch'd a thousand ships (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Kevin/Holt). I'll have more detailed recs in their respective fandom sections!

And now: early-alphabet recs!

( 31 recs in: Agent Carter/American Girls - Molly; Agatha Christie's Poirot; Aubrey Maturin series; Bad Blood - Taylor Swift; Baseball RPF/The Sandman; Black Books; Breakfast with Scot; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; But I'm a Cheerleader; Captain America RPF; Carry On - Rainbow Rowell; Check, Please!; The Fast and the Furious; Galavant; Hamilton; Hellboy; Hockey RPF; Independence Day; Inside Llewyn Davis )

It turns out that when you sleep all afternoon due to sudden onset fever and then your fever breaks when you wake up after it's dark out, it's a lot easier to write a Yuletide recs post than it is to sleep.

Which is to say: I was a little delirious when I wrote some of these. I have apologies.

( Recs in: The Fifth Element, Galaxy Quest, A Girl and Her Plesiosaur, Golden Girls, Gravity Falls, The Great Gatsby, Happy Endings, Hawkeye/Young Avengers, Haywire, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Jolene by Dolly Parton, Lilo and Stitch, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Maurice, Monkey Island, Mulan, The Mummy series, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Nomad/Young Allies, Parks and Recreation, The Princess Diaries, Princess Princess, The Proposal, The Rage of Jonathan Franzen )

I am sitting in front of the Christmas tree, wearing new fleece pants, fleece-lined socks, and a fleecy RED SOX WORLD SERIES CHAMPS sweatshirt. I could not be a happier camper.

You know why else I could not be a happier camper? My lovely Yuletide gift!

At the Veracity, by anonymous
"She Keeps Me Warm" music video, Mary Lambert

Great Expectations smells like ink and fresh paper, when she carefully cracks it open and traces the first lines. “So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.” The paper is a little coarse under her fingertips, just right. Naming and becoming yourself, she thinks, not bad. Carry on, mister Dickens.

When she looks up from the page, she catches the dark eyes of the barista behind the espresso machine and smiles instinctively. The words are out of focus when she looks back down, print blurred over with the impression of that dark tousled hair, the tilt of the eyebrows. May shakes herself minutely, taps her fingers on the book cover and returns to so I came to be called Pip.

I'm pretty sure I whisper-screamed "LESBIAAAAAANS" in delight for like five minutes straight when the archive opened, before then screaming "THIS IS SO GODDAMN CUTE" forever. This was exactly what I hoped for when I made this request!! The tone is so warm and sweet, I want to roll it in for days. The author does a marvelous job of capturing the frisson and excitement of a new crush and of a new relationship, I love it so much!!!

All is right and good in the world! Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate!