Yuletide assignments are out. If you are my author, you can find my letter here, I wrote it last week.

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There have been some yuletide icons floating around that people have made, and recently there has been a lot of discussion of assumed knowledge and of 'cultural norms,' some of it related to yuletide and some of it not. chomji posted some icons here earlier in the month, and I recall there was some concern that some people might be upset over the Hanukah icon. The thing is, whilst the whole secret santa concept stems from the Christian/Christmas thing, everyone's yuletide experience is different. During the yuletide kerfuffle, someone commented that they always explicitly ask for no Christmas stories when requesting their stories. It had never occurred to me that people might ask for Christmas stories during yuletide.

My December 25th: I wake up and sulk that the stories don't come out until at least GMT -5, and since I'm at GMT +8 that's a long wait. Usually my partner and I meander out, blinking in the bright, early morning light. We sit under the patio at his parents' house, coughing as my partner's father burns stuff on the barbie and contemplating a morning swim. We go up to visit my parents, who love giving presents for a million reasons, and use Christmas as a reason to spend a ridiculous amount of money (second only to the amount of money they spend at Chinese New Year). We meander home. Sometimes we sms friends, see if anyone is up for a visit to the beach.

Then I get to read the yuletide stories.

The point of this is that when people post their yuletide icons, I'm kind of like, stars and snow, that's great, whatever. I've blogged previously about this dissonance, people talking of snow all the while I'm sweating like mad. So, like a dork, I rummaged through some of my photos from last year, and have made some yuletide icons that are far more relevant to me than those usually are. I would love it if anyone wanted to use these (if you do, please comment to let me know), but I understand if they're not really your thing.

Also, I don't want to encourage the stereotype of Australians and bright sunny days and beaches and things, but this is what I do December through January, I'm not going to lie, so.

I'm not cutting, because there's only eight of them.

I know I'm going to regret it, but I just signed up for Multiverse 2007. YOU SHOULD TOO. The sign up post is here. How could I resist when the fandoms included Roswell, BSG and Dune? I COULD NOT RESIST.

Sign up right now, if you're going to. I believe sign ups close today.

We Can Start Over (the Warm By the Fire Remix) by Pen
Narnia, Edmund and Lucy, G.

a remix of We Can Start Over Again by An Unstoppable Army of Lizzens. originally posted here. meta to follow.


( Lucy thought of the languid, painted eyes of Susan's suitors and the childish gifts they brought Lucy )

Just a reminder that signups for remixredux are open over here. If you don't know what a remix is, or how the remixredux works, you can learn all about it in that post.

I don't know if I'll get my XMM fic finished before the end of signups, so I might not make quota for that, but that's not important. If you write The Pretender (and can make quota), PLEASE sign up for remix. I would love to write Pretender, but cannot if no one else signs up for it.

I would love to write Dune also, but let us be honest, I don't think anyone else has written 5+ Dune fics. :o( Oh my poor fandom.

OMFG WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

This is a listing of fics for the (mini) Pretender ficathon! There are a few missing, but I guess they'll sort of trickle in, so be sure to check back to see if the list has been updated!

anr wrote for permissionslip: Child's Play. Prompt: porn, sunrise, and red pumps.

bantha_fodder wrote for mandysbitch: Palindrome. Prompt: Miss Parker/ Jarod - with an appearance by Mr Lyle, some kind of intervention from him. Twincest is awesome if you feel like going down that road...*g* and no happy endings.

blademistress wrote for daygloparker: Some Disassembly Required. Prompt: Miss Parker/Jarod, clicking, opposites, no torture, no post-IotH, no mushy

familyarchives wrote for juliefortune: Waffles in Idaho. Prompt: Jarod saves Ms. P from a fate worse than...

juliefortune wrote for familyarchives: Rain Runs Cold. Prompt not specified.

mandysbitch wrote for blademistress: The Home Fires Are Burning

daygloparker wrote for anr: If Strangers Meet. Prompt not specified.


zeplum didn't write for anyone, but she DID write all the same: The Lonliest Valentine, a post ep for Gigolo Jarod.


In other Pretender related news, you should all know that medie has made some FABULOUS icons that you can find here.

In other Pretender fic news, you should all read five things: cinq mots que mlle parker a appris dans sa lycée, which is five words Miss Parker remembers from high school French, by quasiradiant, and it is awesome! Tahlia especially will appreciate this one.

This is a list of fics from the BSG/crossover ficathon! The list is very small, and as you may or may not recall it was a recipient-less ficathon, which I think impacted on participation and pike-rate. But if you still want to write something, it is not too late! Because BSG is the most awesome show to crossover.

I will be updating this list as people link me to their fics.


By ana_grrl, Cylon Detection Made Charming and Easy (Doctor Who)
By bantha_fodder, Acknowledge No Frontier (Stealth)
By nyuszi, Intersect (ST: DS9)
By thesocialnorm, A Ray of Light, (ST: Voyager)
By zeplum, The Purcell Dialectic (Stealth)
Also by zeplum, Chained to Fate (Highlander)

ETA:

By ladyjanus, Flying Colours (ST: Voyager) (a WIP)
By sheepfairy, The Descent of Man (X-Men)
By little_murmurs, Fate Creeps In (Alias)

oh oops!

The BSG/crossover ficathon is now open for signups! To sign up, read the list below, select the prompt you would like to write, and then post a comment in the following format:

Name:
Prompt:


That's it! Stories are due August 24th. No word count minimum.

Because you're not writing for a specific person, once you've claimed a prompt, feel free to modify it slightly if you need to. You know. This is a pretty laid back ficathon. OR, if you really want to write a crossover, but none of the ones here take your fancy, write a crossover anyway not based on these prompts and I'll include it in the masterlist at the end of it all anyway. Because the point of all this is to get more crossovers written in BSG, not to write gifts for other participants (unlike many ficathons, is what I mean) (not that I'm bagging those sorts of ficathons! They're great, too!).


( the list of prompts )

BSG/Crossover Ficathon: part one, or the giving of the prompts.

Okay! I guess we may as well get started. In this post, please leave fic suggestions/prompts for crossover pairings or situations that you would like to see. This is a no obligation opportunity - you may leave a prompt (or two or three, but don't get carried away with stupidity), and you are under no obligation to then pick a prompt at a later date.

When I say crossover pairings, I don't mean that you have to suggest a BSG character/crossover character or anything. You can suggest, for example, Sarah/Heather from Big Love in the BSG universe. Or, you could suggest Kara/Batman. Or you can just leave a lyric prompt, or a situation prompt. Whatever you'd like to see. This is a list of crossovers that I know about (current last year), and this is a list of BSG/crossover recs that I made recently.

I'll accept prompts until June 30th, and when I say June 30th what I mean is June 30th in Western Australia. On July 1st I'll post the list of prompts, and THEN people can claim the one(s) that they would like to write. After that, people can post their fics whenever, but the final due date will be the 24th of August, because this is a low pressure ficathon.

But please pimp it, because everyone loves a good crossover. Right? RIGHT.

Any questions should also be asked in this post.