Roundup: Yuletide exchange 2023

[firecat]

Yuletide is a long-running, very popular exchange for small-ish fandoms (with fewer than 1,000 works). The DW community is yuletide_admin, but that’s just a starting point. This year almost 1,800 works were posted in 1,141 fandoms.

A lot of the fun of Yuletide is the sheer number of fandoms nominated. The tag set is enormous and very likely to include an obscure favorite of yours! There’s also a great big fandom promo post every year, in case you are at a loss for entertainment to consume. (Fandom promo post for 2023: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html)

I had many requests to choose from but one stood out and I got it — The Maltese Falcon, 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet.

I received a really creative origin story fic based on Only Lovers Left Alive, a luscious 2013 Jim Jarmush film starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as the sort of creatures who need to consume blood to survive, but don’t use the V-word.

What I wrote:

A reasonable amount of trouble (4033 words) by firecat
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joel Cairo/Sam Spade, Wilmer Cook/Sam Spade, Joel Cairo/Wilmer Cook/Sam Spade
Characters: Joel Cairo, Wilmer Cook, Sam Spade (Maltese Falcon)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Enemies to Lovers, Porn With Plot, Porn with Feelings, Intoxication, Threats, Bargaining, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, MacGuffins, Restraints, Teasing, Large Cock, Impact Play, Anal Sex, Sexual Frustration, Anachronistic Language, Yuleporn

Summary:

Spade slowly and painfully moved his head. Cairo was crouched over Wilmer and his pistol was jammed into the younger man’s forehead. But Wilmer’s pistol was jammed against Cairo’s belly. Standoff.

“Don’t be that way, boys. There’s plenty of me to go around.”

What I received:

A tale as old as time (4070 words) by Ritas_Alvarez
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam/Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Characters: Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive), Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Additional Tags: Existential Angst, Canon-Typical Suicidal Thoughts, Pre-Canon, Flirting, Kissing
Summary:

“Once upon a time, in the distant, mythical years that scholars of modernity insist on counting backward, the world was still young, death still had an iron grip on them, lurking around each and every corner, and Adam was still hopeful for the future.”

OR

Even the endless stories had to begin somewhere.

Comments

[greghousesgf]

The Maltese Falcon is one of my favorite movies but I never thought I'd be reading slash of it! Excellent! I left kudos!

[firecat]

Awesome, thanks for reading! glad you liked it!