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Yuletide on ESPN2

2025-12-25T12:49:20Z

I got a Manningcast musical masterpiece for Yuletide this year!

All About the Game (4827 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peyton Manning, Eli Manning
Summary:

Peyton really wishes they could get Bill on the Manningcast this season. Eli wants to make his brother happy. Turns out there's more than one way to do that.

Peyton and Eli attempt to secure Belichick for a sequel to the original musical through his new management, but of course, Jordon Hudson is notoriously nearly impossible to work with. Fortunately, some of my favorite people pop up along the way to help. It's ridiculously funny and actually very sweet!

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Game Rec: The Booze of Monkey Island

2024-11-12T04:12:37Z

I was legitimately blown away by this new Monkey Island fan game, The Booze of Monkey Island.

It's a labor of love by actual indie game developers, so they do actually know what they're doing. They did it Curse of Monkey Island-style, with gorgeous digital watercolor backgrounds, animated sprites, point-and-click navigation, and the streamlined three-verb coin interface, which was the pinnacle of adventure game design. The music incorporates the classic themes from the original games, and it sounds great. The setup is that classic one where you need to convince three different people to do a thing, which in this case is come to a new bar, and you get to roam all over Booty Island until you've solved all the puzzles, which are appropriately convoluted. The dialogue feels slightly off-kilter, but it was originally written in Italian, and if you allow for the vagaries of multiple layers of translation from and to English, it's funny and in-character, and there's plenty of depth in the dialogue trees.

Definitely recommend this as a good way to pass a couple of hours for any Monkey Island fans.

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Yule haul!

2019-12-26T02:32:32Z

I got three amazing fics for the ClickHole article An Oral History of the 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase. Serendipitously, they all complement each other perfectly by covering different parts of history in pitch-perfect fashion.

The Extended 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (3406 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Randy Johnson, Willie Mays, Bud Selig, Santa Claus, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa
Summary:

Or, how Willie Mays and two horny dicks saved the world, baseball, and also Christmas

an oral history of the 2019 major league baseball juiced ball dingerfest (3020 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rob Manfred, Bud Selig, Joe Girardi, Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, Will Smith (Baseball b. 1995), Pete Alonso, Brodie van Wagenen
Summary:

Randy Johnson (photographer; member, Baseball Hall of Fame): Rob Manfred found me somehow. I don’t know how. I thought, 20 years ago, it had been enough. I was in my backyard taking some photos of birds and Rob stood on my deck and said, “Randy, you have to help us out with a project,” and I said, “I will only help you if it’s a photography project, Rob, I am retired now, you can go to my website to look at my photos,” and Rob said, “if you didn’t want to help us, you shouldn’t have given up that goddamn moonshot to McGwire.”

A Narrative History of the Home Run (1031 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds
Summary:

Willie Mays invented the home run.

I feel so fortunate that three people shared this ridiculousness with me this Yuletide. ♥

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Yuletide treasures

2018-12-25T15:53:36Z

I got two stories this Yuletide, both for The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr, and both exquisitely tailored to me!

The Lay of Sir Marroc (2026 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Kay - Character, Mordred
Additional Tags: casefic, Post-Canon, Ambiguous or Implied Relationships
Summary:

Since their return from Astolat, Mordred has plagued Kay with his opinions whenever they were least requested-- so why should this latest story of a Companion of a Round Table gone mysteriously missing prove any different?

In Reginensi atrio (1476 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Idylls of the Queen - Phyllis Ann Karr
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kay/Mordred (Arthurian)
Characters: Sir Kay (Idylls of the Queen), Mordred (Idylls of the Queen)
Summary:

I pray you, my masters, be merry

Happy Yuletide and/or merry Christmas to all!

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Happy Yuletide!

2015-12-25T03:25:57Z

I got Socrates/Alcibiades fic this year and it just nails the dynamic I love:

Xafniká (1140 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alcibiades/Socrates
Characters: Socrates (c. 469-399 BC), Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BC)
Summary:

Alcibiades reflects on the object of his affections, and resolves on a course of action.

I just checked and I've been requesting Socrates/Alcibiades since 2009 and this is the first year anyone's officially taken me up on it! I'm glad that I persisted.

Downloading approximately a zillion other things to read now.

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my Yuletide gifts: Trixie Belden and Frog and Toad

2014-12-26T04:13:10Z

My Yuletide gifts are completely amazing and everyone should read them and shower them with love.

Trixie Belden and the Sorrowful Sisters (9515 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: The Trixie Belden Mysteries - Julie Campbell Tatham & Kathryn Kenny
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Trixie Belden, Honey Wheeler
Additional Tags: Mystery, buried treasure, Wait for it, Setting: Pre-1960
Summary:

Trixie and Honey discover a mysterious message in the woods, referring to estranged sisters and a 'treasure' waiting for one of them. But all may not be as it seems... (This story intended to be accessible to readers new to the canon.)

Someone wrote me 10k of shippy Trixie Belden casefic! The best thing about it is that it is absolutely written in the style of the books, including all the information you need to read it if you haven't ever read the Trixie Belden books, but you do like vintage juvenile mystery series and best friends who are opposites.

Frog And Toad Write Fic (1113 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Toad (Frog and Toad), Frog (Frog and Toad)
Additional Tags: Characters Writing Fanfiction, Yuletide Is Awesome
Summary:

Frog and Toad do almost everything together, so why not Yuletide too?

It's Yuletide meta fic! Very meta, since Frog and Toad wrote this treat together while they were waiting for the archive to open, which was extremely thoughtful of them. ;)

Frog and Toad Forever (1148 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Frog/Toad
Characters: Frog (Frog and Toad), Toad (Frog and Toad)
Additional Tags: Non-Explicit Sex, negotiation, Begging, Easy Reader Diction, Friends to Lovers
Summary:

Or, Frog and Toad are Friends with Benefits.

This is an absolutely pitch-perfect mimicry of the Frog and Toad books that also includes anatomically-correct frog foreplay and frog sex. Honestly, I think that you need to read it to believe it And you should definitely read it, because it is amazing.

Fair Trade (100 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Trixie Belden Mysteries - Julie Campbell Tatham & Kathryn Kenny
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Trixie Belden, Honey Wheeler
Additional Tags: yumadrin, Drabble

And one perfect drabble in the Madness collection!

I haven't gotten to many stories that aren't mine just yet, but the ones I have read so far have been amazing.

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on the first day of Yuletide…

2013-12-26T04:21:19Z

I got two Cassel/Lila Curse Workers fics this year and they are both absolutely amazing. I am so, so, so lucky. ♥

our kiss is a secret handshake (1934 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Curse Workers Series - Holly Black
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassel Sharpe/Lila Zacharov
Characters: Cassel Sharpe, Lila Zacharov
Summary:

Even though Lila is undeniably, indisputably, unequivocally in control, she still looks at him with a faintly nervous expression, as if she’s afraid he’s going to change his mind.

Three Predicaments (3785 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Curse Workers Series - Holly Black
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: Cassel Sharpe/Lila Zacharov
Characters: Cassel Sharpe, Lila Zacharov
Additional Tags: BDSM, D/s, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Piercings, Predicament Scenes, Kink, Dream Work
Summary:

Lila made the amulet against dream work for me a few weeks back, but not for my protection. She made it so that when I take it off, we both know she can work me.

Everyone should read them. Unless you haven't read the Curse Workers books, in which case you should do that first. But I imagine that you wouldn't be able to get around to that for a while, the holidays being what they are, so I understand.

Today ended up being really busy, so I haven't gotten a chance to read or comment very widely beyond my own gifts. Looking forward to getting a start on that tomorrow. *falls over*

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birthday, birthdate

2013-01-11T03:45:44Z

I was hoping to have the Phèdre/Hyacinthe story I'm writing as a present to Bevy ready to post on my birthday, but between one thing and another, that … will not be happening today. Soon, though!

I think I'm finally completely over the crud I came down with on the 31st, as I managed to make it through my delightful birthday lunch without noisily rearranging any bodily secretions, which is not appreciated in public and especially not in intimate, classy restaurants. (I had the pheasant pot pie. Heaven.) Luckily, I was housesitting for a family friend until two days ago, so I was able to convalesce in peace with a nice fireplace, cozy dogs and vintage copies of the complete Swallows and Amazons books for lovely untaxing reading, but still.

Still have not made it to the Hobbit movie, or indeed through my re-read of The Hobbit. I literally do not understand what it is about The Hobbit that compels me to put it back down after maybe a chapter or two, whereas I find any of the LOTR books completely gripping. Maybe it would be working better for me if someone was reading it to me at bedtime? I'm well-past a third of the way through, though, so I suppose I'm fine for this installment of the movie regardless.

I have, however, seen the Les Misérables movie, and I am currently in a state of having far, far too many feelings about Javert/Valjean. I mean, I've sort of passively shipped it since I saw the show, which was also around the time I discovered slash fandom by googling LOTR things, and I've always enjoyed the music and can sing most of most of the songs and such, but lately I've been spending hours mooning about their doomed obsession (and also being annoyed by people who ship it wrong because Javert so clearly has a massively repressed desire to be dominated, argh).

I'm sure I haven't come close to plumbing the fandom's online presence, mostly because I'm pretty sure I don't know where most of it is, but I do have one insta-rec:

Three Days (or The One Where Javert and Valjean Take a Road Trip Through France and Raise a Child) (7184 words) by zamwessell
Chapters: 2/8
Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Miserables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables (2012)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean
Characters: Inspector Javert, Jean Valjean, Euphrasie "Cosette" Fauchelevant
Summary:

Javert calls what he thinks is Valjean's bluff about needing three days to find the child Cosette and intercede for her. The Inspector comes along for the ride -- and gets much more than he bargained for, in the process.

It's a WIP, but it's already updated twice in two days, like almost as soon as I hit the subscribe button. ♥

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