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PLEASE ENJOY THIS SLOTH VIDEO WHILE I HASTILY PEN THE REST OF THIS LETTER i should hopefully be done by Monday because I am also trying to get swaps out the door!

eta: no still not done yet please enjoy some lightning bolts while you wait?

HEY PARALLELS PERSON

Have a cookie and my apologies: I am in the midst of creating your letter but I am also creating a video team for a 4th of July event. Sit tight, my goal is to have a proper letter up as soon as possible within this week.

You can check out some of my other challenge letters, which are scattered here and there: two of the prompts I am using are new, but two aren't quite.

- the most sheepish of love and apologies,
sleeps

Happy new year! I am writing this from the bosom of the usual birthday party aftermath. Posting, rather, as I wrote this up so I don't have to try to write this through the normal chaos of the party. Ingenuity!

This year, for Yuletide, I wrote one thing and received two perfectly lovely giftfics.

Respectively, my gifts are When There's A Shadow, You Reach For The Sun, Radient Historia Aht-centric fic, written by Measured, which is absolutely everything I love about the character in one spoliery package. Also The Changling, by Koromantic which is about how Hanna might go about fitting into a family, post movie, and which I adore for weaving in the story like they did.

(Also, while I am mentioning gifts, lassarina wrote me a wee fic, Fitting on the Embryon learning about Halloween, which I also love. Really, I am quite fortunate in fics.)

I wrote Training Maunvers for grey_sw, a sort of canon-update of Patlabor. I am, it seems, doomed to meddle with the basic worldbuilding of a thing in fics. It is also kind of a gigantic love letter to some characters that I like, I guess! Also I bet you cannot spot my favorite paring in the series. (Okay, you probably can, but my second favorite paring is NoaXLabors 4eva, because this is a girl who is dedicated to gigantic robots, I'm just saying.) I should probably do a few follow up pieces, because I have one in mind for Clancy, and another to do with ghosts. Also possibly one to deal with a certain transferring Lieutenant.

Fuck if I know what all I'm doing next year, but I signed up for Yuri Challenge and got halfway through lettering before a cold hit me in the face. I should probably finish that off and then PM the mods to let my poor writer know (if they're not stalking me) that the thing is done. (If you are reading this, mystery writer, I'm sorry I got sick and distracted from saying all the things about awesome ladies!) So I will end this by linking my pictures of #lastsunset2011 and #firstsunrise2012, as nearly as I was able to render them with transport/sleeping/everything else. May the new year spread a bit of light for you, and yours.

Hi! Greetings, o mysterious lightbulb/ yuletide writer.

Thank you for reading further, and I appreciate you already! No, seriously. I love it.

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Requests (in no particular order: spoilers ahead!)

( Hanna (2011) - Hanna Heller, Sophie. )

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( Dragara - Steven Brust: Vlad Northar, Vlad Taltos, Devera, Aliera e'Kieron )

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(  Radiant Historia: Aht, Stocke, Gafka )

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( Liaden Universe - Sharon Lee et al.: Ren Zel dea'Judan, Anthora yos'Galan )

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That's it! Now, remember, the above is just there for guidance and inspiration, and is part of the optional details. Have fun writing, keep your caffeine strong and temperature appropriate, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do!

- sleeps!

So I have a friend, eisen, who is undergoing a Cash Flow Situation, in which she had had to move out of a unhealthy space to a place quickly where she thought she could stay for $indefinitetime until she got back unto her feet, and onto the lease, etc. Unfortunately, that space is now being closed off to her for remodeling sometime in the near future by the normally absentee landlord, and she's having to move again, and in the sticky situation of having not enough money and all sorts of costs of replacing things lost or expired in time since the first move. She has a space to get to, but many miles to go, if you catch my drift.

So! I would kind of love it if you could donate here--and I understand, cash is tight and there are many needs at the moment--but if you have the money, I can vouch for her. Every little bit helps.

In that vein, I don't have as much as I want to give, but I also can make you a simple carved woodblock for anything over 5 dollars (we're talking a 3in/1.5in sort of deal, so REAL SIMPLE, like your initials or an small iconic image. for 10+ i could do something fancier.) or a bracelet or a necklace or something for above a dollar if you forward me the proof to cookiepirate at gmail. Examples of stuff can be provided this evening if you want to see what you'd be getting. I can probably ship overseas if you talk to me about it.

Also, I am not the only one offering here! :|d

So--birthday, plans, mine. I know that not everyone is going to make it, but there's going to be dinner or lunch, maybe in Temescal in Oakland on the 15th, at Mana or one of dem Korean BBQ places, since everyone seems to eat that.

Also I will, on reflection, probably go see this on the 18th, the day of, to top off my wandering in SF, if people are interested in meeting me there.

Thirdly, on the 20th, if that is a day that is okay to all, I want to do TasteSF with people for lunch (and yes, this does involve basilmemories and clothes, too, so downtown is probably where you want to aim at.) Restaurant choices, I am open to any suggestion that's not too difficult for us all to find a hub to get there. The list is here. I would push it back to the 21rst, but, uh, no, that's a day that's reserved for a family shitshow, and the 19th is probably for Westerns, so. I could go for the 22nd, though.

Let me know, either here (openID login)or via cookiepirate at gmail.

This year, for Yuletide, I wrote hold on to the end, which is a thing that kind of climbed out of the cracks of about three other stories, and wanted to be epic. I did a lot of research and crying over this story.

First of all, the personal notes. One of the main reasons I wrote this AU like it was is that in some ways the Inspector Chen series makes me uncomfortable as it stands, with what seems to me to be either a sadly ignorant cant, or the author ignoring the culture of Singapore as a whole to get her desired results. This is a pretty good post detailing some of the ways that it's maybe not as true as it may look on the surface. (Linked with permission of the author, thanks tevere.)

My feelings are that in researching the location of Singapore itself, I became increasingly uncomfortable with the disconnect, but I still am incredibly fond of the characters, so when I saw the name on the needy fandoms list, I jumped at it. I'm not sure how much justice I did to it for a number of reasons, including the fact that this really wanted to be like a novel, not a short story, and the fact that I had to do so much research to get to the level of accuracy even close, and I think I still fell short of that. But.

Underneath the cut is some more meta stuff, based on what I found out in the process of writing this, and some stuff on two of the books I liked. I spent pretty much the entire month in a constant low level of "look into stuff", including finding the folktale of Kucinita from a book of Malay folktales, which is here, because I couldn't find the complete version on the internet anywhere, and as a folktale, I thought it was pretty awesome.

(Also, now all the credits for who helped are properly cited. Way to be, self.)

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I may seriously have to write more of this, because I have so many story ideas and building that I'd love to do here. Two enough are short enough that I will probably do them, and we'll see about the big ones.

OH MY GOD YES

(so there isn't a single one of these games except for maybe threads of fate that I don't at least conceptually enjoy excessively and I uh, might have a mad on for Legend of Mana. maybe.)

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Oh, right. I have made a thing! About keeping resolutions! It is called resolving. It may or may not be your cup of tea, but I am leaving a pointer here anyway, because I think more people should check it out.

HAPPY SATURDAY AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.

Yuletide is open! I got me a Exalted fic, which is to say, I got me a Scarlet Empress fic. It is AWESOME. It is everything I love about the Scarlet Empress: motherhood, the whole Ebon Dragon thing, diplomacy and war.

Queen and Pawn Engames : The Scarlet Empress returns to Creation, and she has plans of her own.

I think I may end up doing an actual recs set this year: AO3 is being pretty sturdy and I have 200ish fandoms of interest to go through. There's bound to be something awesome in there.