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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.

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I finally managed to do Yuletide this year!

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 1868 works were posted in 1141 fandoms (1141).

(In 2020, I treated but didn’t sign up. In 2021, I signed up but defaulted.) In 2022, I wrote a fic for the New Year’s Resolution collection to make myself eligible to sign up again, I signed up, and I wrote one work. I received two works.

I didn’t find time to participate in all the activity surrounding the exchange, such as submitting my fic for various sub-collections, or writing treats or pinch hits. I also haven’t yet read much of the collection beyond my own gifts. (Where did my time go???)

But I’m happy with what I wrote because I managed to read a book for it! (Reading books, as opposed to listening, has been elusive for me since the panini started.) I read The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson and I wrote a fic about Baldr & Hel & Loki.

I received fics based on the fantasy series Carnival Row and the ethereal movie Only Lovers Left Alive.

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I defaulted on Yuletide (hangs head). But I got a gift in the main collection and a Yuletide Madness gift anyway. They are good and I invite you heartily to go read them.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35768323 “Wake Up” (2001: A Space Odyssey) (303 words, Gen)

V'amo di core teneramente (I love you from the heart tenderly) (1985 words) by Mary_West
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Amadeus (1984)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Antonio Salieri, Constanze Weber Mozart/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Antonio Salieri
Characters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Constanze Weber Mozart, Antonio Salieri
Additional Tags: Polyamory, No drama like Poly drama
Summary:
What started as an attempt to welcome young Mozart to Vienna became something much, much more.