Yuletide Reading Bingo 2025

Dec. 25th, 2025 03:04 am
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The 2025 Yuletide collection is revealed (and I managed to finish this with a slight delay), and many of us love to read more than just our own gifts and treats. If gamification is your thing, why not enhance your Yuletide reading experience with a fun challenge?
Yuletide Reading Bingo
Yuletide Reading Bingo 2025 (Permanent link to the 2025 version)

Yuletide Reading Bingo 2023 (Permanent link to the 2023 version)
Yuletide Reading Bingo 2024 (Permanent link to the 2024 version)

With this bingo card generator, you can generate your own Yuletide Reading Bingo Card and try to finish it over a timespan of your choice. If you like, you can challenge yourself to not only reading the fics, but also commenting on them. Last year, I saw people making reclists based on their bingo cards, which is such a cool idea to keep track of the fics they read for each square.

There are no fanfic/fandom/Yuletide-negative or bashing items in the lists. This bingo card is meant to be a positive experience and celebrate fanfiction and fanworks in general and Yuletide in specific.

Screenshot of the Desktop Version
example screenshot of the desktop version bingo card

Screenshot of the Mobile Version
example screenshot of the mobile version bingo card

How to Play
Generate a new bingo card until you're (mostly) happy with the results. If some fields are duplicates or contain items you don't want to have in your card, you can then re-roll every single bingo field separately by clicking/tapping on it.
Once you have a card that fits your reading habits (or that takes you out of your comfort zone, if you want to challenge yourself), take a screenshot of the card to keep it.

Closing the page and reloading it will reset the card.

Cross off the bingo fields on your screenshot as you read (or read and comment on) fics that you think count for a field.

Items like "Fandom with over 500 works" mean works in the fandom tag, not in the collection. There are specific versions for the number of works in the collection.
Items like "Fandom with over 1,000 works" doesn't mean qualifying works. There are specific versions for the number of qualifying works.
Items like "Highest number of hits in fandom" or similar however mean in this collection, not in the fandom tag.

If a work you read has a tag that's similar but not identical to a tag on your card, let it count. There were some almost-duplicates that I trimmed.

The Lists
  • Canon (options like canon released this year, book fandom, etc)
  • Category (the AO3 categories and their platonic versions: F/F, F & F Gen, etc)
  • Challenge (the unofficial mini-challenges like Yuleporn, Crueltide, Wrapping Paper, etc)
  • Creator (only if you checked the "After Reveals" box; options like favourite author, mutuals, etc)
  • Discovery (various ways you could've found a fic)
  • Fandom (options like previously ineligible fandom, uncategorised fandom)
  • Length (wordcounts from drabble to 30k)
  • Meta (a fic's front-end and stats, also "citrus scale for rating" xD)
  • Protagonist (and side-characters, and POV; new list in 2025 that adds items like "female/non-binary/gender-neutral/male protagonist", various POVs and such)
  • Reader (your relationship with the fic; is it your comfort fic, or your first fic in a fandom?)
  • Style (chatfic, iambic pentameter, custom workskin, stuff like that)
  • Tag (roughly 1,800 tags from the 2024 main collection; more than 100 additional tags Madness)
  • Trope (roughly 100 tropes)


What do the Checkboxes Mean?
  • NSFW is basically what it says on the tin. If you tick this box, the NSFW tropes will be added to the mix. If you also ticked the Tags box, NSFW tags will be added.
  • Tags is also what it says on the tin. It's a list with currently roughly 1,800 tags from the Yuletide 2025 main collection. Around 300 of them are currently marked NSFW and can only be generated if you ticked both the NSFW box and the Tags box.
  • After Reveals includes items that only make sense after creator reveals, such as "work by last year's recipient" or "creator is your Tumblr mutual".
Leaving the NSFW checkbox unchecked should remove all NSFW tags and tropes, but you could still come across content you find objectionable. Leaving the Tags checkbox unchecked removes all tags, but you could still come across tropes you find objectionable.

This bingo generator can be used to generate totally safe-for-work or family-friendly bingo cards, but it was created by an adult with an adult audience in mind.

If you run into any issues or come across any bugs, please let me know.
If you find something that should be in the NSFW category, but isn't, please also let me know. It's possible that I missed a few tags when I worked through the list of over 2,000 tags in the 2025 main collection. Please don't ask me to remove content you find objectionable.
If there's anything unclear, feel free to ask! I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible, but please understand if it takes a while; it's a busy time for all of us. :D

Just FYI, the platform I'm using, Perchance, added AI options for their generators two years ago. This is a regrettable decision that I don't condone, and I'd like to emphasise that this generator is 100% handcrafted chaos.

This generator is based on my Fanfiction Reading Bingo I made as a little practice piece. It's responsive, which means it should work on desktop and mobile. The mobile layout isn't ideal yet; I'm trying my best to make it better (but I'd also still consider myself a newbie and I'm learning by doing).

The background image is an edited version of this photo by Stijn Verplancke on Unsplash.

I hope you'll find as much fun in using this generator as I found in making it! <3

Have a lovely Yuletide!
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The Talk Show: ‘A Naughty Citizen’

Dec. 25th, 2025 01:31 am
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Posted by John Gruber

https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/24/ep-437

Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple’s executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO.

Sponsored by:

  • Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.
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https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/24/ep-437

Under the Christmas Tree

Dec. 25th, 2025 01:25 am
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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76367706

by Anonymous

I told you I had more up my sleeve. There are some other short fics to go into this series, and I'm afraid I'm not posting in order, (hopefully I can figure out how to rearrange the parts later) but I wanted to post the Christmas one for Christmas. Anyway!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

This series is less AU, but it's very much still FICTION

Some works are heavy smut, some are light, some are emotional, some a happy.

Anyway. Thank you and I hope you enjoy!

Words: 445, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Moments in Time

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76367706

Sauropods

Dec. 24th, 2025 05:00 am

Yuletide 2025 Anonymous Period

Dec. 24th, 2025 04:14 pm
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Hello, Yuletiders–as you may have noticed, the anonymous setting on the Yuletide collection, which should hide all author names until reveals on January 1st, does not seem to be working as expected, and shortly after our planned works reveals, we had an unplanned reveal of author names. We’re very sorry for this unexpected breaking of anonymity!

We’re reaching out to AO3 to help us resolve the problem. In the meantime, we have updated all works manually, and author names should now be hidden again. If you notice we have missed any, please reach out to us privately at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

Again, our apologies–and we hope you enjoy the collection!

Yuletide Madness is scheduled to reveal at 9 PM UTC on 25 December, but this may be delayed if necessary to ensure author anonymity.

ETA: We know many of you have received email notifications to say, "The collection maintainers of Yuletide 2025 have changed the status of your work [work] to anonymous..." This is a result of us updating them manually to hide author names, in order to achieve the same effect you would expect from reveals in an ordinary Yuletide. Sorry for the confusion! You can safely ignore these notifications; we will reveal author names on January 1st, manually if we have to.

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All About the Game

Dec. 16th, 2025 08:06 pm
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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75882696

by Anonymous

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.

Words: 4827, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75882696

Uno Reverse

Dec. 18th, 2025 09:00 pm
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Posted by Anonymous

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75991736

by Anonymous

Bruno's a man with a matchmaking plan - but he can't see what's right in front of his eyes.

Words: 2579, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75991736

Contrapunctus Inversus

Dec. 13th, 2025 02:31 am
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Posted by mayhap

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75673781

by

invertible counterpoint: counterpoint in which the voices, while retaining their original form, may be interchanged above or below one another in any order

Words: 2470, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75673781

[admin post] Admin Post: Snap, Reccle, Pop! Rec Index Post 2025

Dec. 25th, 2025 10:01 am
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Recs: in general

The main Yuletide collection has just opened, with Yuletide Madness to follow shortly, so it's time to think about recs (recommendations)! It's traditional to kudos or comment on works and tell their anonymous creators that you liked them. It's also traditional to tell other people about the Yuletide stuff you like. There are many different ways to share your recommendations for works.

On AO3 itself
You can bookmark a story and add the bookmark and its notes to the Yuletide Recs collection. (Note: This is not the same as the main Yuletide collection.) Detailed tutorials can be found here and here.

In Discord
At the Yuletide Discord, you can post recs with very brief comments in the #yuletide-recs channel.

Here at Dreamwidth
You are welcome to post recs to this community Please follow the guidelines:
  • Any individual post to the community must contain recs for at least 3 separate works.

  • You can put the full text of your recs post in a post to the community, OR you can post your recs on some other platform, then put the link in a post on the community or in a comment to this post.

  • If your post is long, consider cut text code (DW) or details code to compress your text.



Recs: central/index post


THIS POST can also serve as a hub for recs. You're welcome to reply with your recs (especially useful if you don't have a Dreamwidth account). Or you can ask for recs that follow a theme, or just make a comment linking to a recs post elsewhere. Collect Your Recs Here!
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Yuletide 2025 is live!

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:59 pm
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[personal profile] yuletidemods posting in [community profile] yuletide_admin
Yuletide 2025 Collection Is Live Here!


Enjoy 1539 works in 992 fandoms! (The number will go up as wranglers canonize fandoms - this will take a little time, though.)

The reveals process takes a little while to work in a collection of this size; if a story in the collection is still a mystery work an hour after opening, please let us know.


Finding works
You can find your own gifts on your AO3 gifts page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-NAME-HERE/gifts, or by searching the box at the top of the collection works page for the full name you signed up with, or by checking your email if you get email notifications from AO3. Note: your email notifications may bundle together, and it might look like you only got one gift, when in fact you got more.

You can browse the collection by tags or by fandoms. Some fandoms are new and may not show up immediately (wranglers are working on this) or where you expect them; please check labels such as Original Work, 19th Century Historical RPF, Object and Concept Anthropomorphism, and Unspecified Fandom. More info about Unspecified Fandom here.


Anonymity
Yuletide is an anonymous exchange until creator reveals January 1. Please don't give away what you've written. When logged in, you can, if you want, reply to comments on your own works, and you will show up as Anonymous Creator until the authors of the collection are revealed.


Commenting!
Please comment on your gift(s) to let your writer(s) know you appreciate them. We also recommend commenting far and wide to spread the comment joy around! You may enjoy the challenge of a comment bingo card.

AO3 changed default comment settings last year. If you want to make sure people can comment on your gifts when they aren't logged in, you may need to change a setting on your work. More information here, under 'Your comment settings'.


Recs
Making work recommendations is a tradition. Please see more information at the participant community ([community profile] yuletide) about where you can post your recs.


Madness
For those still writing, the 2025 Yuletide Madness collection will stay open for new stories to be posted for 24 hours. It will close for posting, and open for reading, at 9pm UTC 25 December. If you're looking for prompts, there's a roundup of links here.


Problems
If there is something wrong with your gift or you have another concern, please contact the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.


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Wednesday Reading Meme

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:00 pm
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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Working on it.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( 1776 #2, Marvel Winter Break Special 2025 #1, Will of Doom #1, X-Vengers #3 )

What I'm Reading Next

I woke up this morning to find that [personal profile] lysimache had gifted me an ebook entitled Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts, by Eric Poulin, so I guess that's what we'll be doing dramatic readings of aloud for Christmas Eve. While eating pizza.

The title is a reference to this extremely classic Red Sox broadcast moment. Here comes the pizza.

(We usually read the Christmas story in Greek, Latin, or Old English for Christmas Eve but we can probably make some time for this.)
  • Current Mood: okay
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Quinn Nelson on Apple’s Executive Shuffling

Dec. 24th, 2025 04:51 pm
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Posted by John Gruber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1E-yfcKdUw

Another great video from Quinn Nelson. If your dumb cousin who knows you’re an Apple nerd approaches you on Christmas and says “Hey what’s going on at Apple, Bloomberg says it’s rats leaving a sinking ship over there?” and you don’t feel like explaining, just tell him to watch this video. Just the perfect explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1E-yfcKdUw

‘The iPad’s Software Problem Is Permanent’

Dec. 24th, 2025 04:45 pm
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Posted by John Gruber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYLpA5kAbo

Smart, fair video from Quinn Nelson on the gap that remains between iPadOS 26 and desktop OSes. I think it’s right that there is a gap there. Apple has the Macintosh, the best desktop/workstation platform in the industry. So whatever the ideal is for iPadOS, it ought to fall short of MacOS in terms of technical capabilities, and instead offer a degree of simplicity and can’t-screw-it-up-edness that the Mac can’t match. But, some of the limitations that remain in iPadOS are just frustrating. iPadOS 26 is a huge leap forward, and I think sets the stage for Apple to address those limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYLpA5kAbo

Recent reads (12.24.25)

Dec. 24th, 2025 03:08 pm

A Very Merry Mayfield Christmas

Dec. 24th, 2025 03:32 pm
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Posted by KawaiiRamune224

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76334231

by

Amongst the various busy streets of Tampa Florida, there stood a Bakery which wasn’t all that flashy or notable outside of the sign sitting above it. In faded gold lettering it read “Mayfield’s: Cakes, Pastries, and Fresh brewed coffee!” On top of said bakery was an apartment where the owner and coincidentally named Baker Mayfield lived. There he makes freshly baked breads and delicious pastries alongside his friends and partner Justin, Join them on their most busiest day of the year!

*Note: This fic is best enjoyed while drinking a warm beverage and baked good of your choice.

Words: 5241, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76334231

Frosted grass, being a hater, sleeves

Dec. 24th, 2025 04:50 pm
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[personal profile] cimorene
We got a cold snap last night and a few millimeters of snow. It looks like the grass is coated in powdered sugar. Downstairs is still quite warm - 17° in the kitchen at lunchtime - but after I fed the cats at 7:00 am I went back to bed with a wool sweater on and I never got hot enough to take it off.

It's so nice to see Wax enjoying her fandom so much. She's had two objectively bad TV shows that she was super fannish about since the last time I had a fandom. I do like IWTV enough to get that excited about, but it still wouldn't be like her fandoms (911 and Roswell before that) because I can't get that into reading it (I have read some, but I didn't settle in) and wouldn't be able to write it.

The last fandom I was able to get into reading was Stranger Things 4 Steve/Eddie a couple of years ago, but that was also not quite the full fannish experience, because I wasn't as into the canon. I look over at her and see her chatting with people and reading furiously, and I remember that, and feel happy for her... but sad for myself.

She's even excited about Heated Rivalry - and I am too! But not nearly as much. I guess it feels more like I'm enjoying it as a member of slash fandom, and I'm keeping abreast of what's happening and getting the references, but, as I said once before... I am enjoying the show, which is good and well made, without really liking the characters very much, or the plot.

I was talking to Wax about this, and the absence of uncritical joy that I used to engage with in my 20s, and she diagnosed that I need to "open up my hating heart". I'm hating a lot more than I did when I was younger, it's true. The thing is that I don't know how to do that.

Anyway... I'm working on the second of the three triplet sweaters now, after Wax knitted most of the body of it. I finished the first sweater, after having to knit the first sleeve entirely twice - or rather knitting to the cuff beffore starting over - and now the same thing has happened with the second sweater. It's boring stockinette though, unlike the first sweater, and with very black yarn, so in order to count stitches and decreases I have to have a lamp pointing at it. Sigh.
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Magazine Madness And/Or Mania: Making Holiday Treats With Winona Ryder (Seventeen, December 1990)

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:00 pm
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Posted by mondomolly

https://mondomolly.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/magazine-madness-and-or-mania-making-holiday-treats-with-winona-ryder-seventeen-december-1990/

http://mondomolly.wordpress.com/?p=6476

Still have a few names on on your Christmas list? Well, get out your Wilson Phillips Cassingle, Hold On For One More Day and join our Gen X Queen, Winona Ryder in making some holiday treats. 

Ok, like last year, Winona is not actually going to demonstrate her favorite holiday recipes. That honor goes to designer Betsey Johnson and her daughter Lulu, who are featured in a longer article with directions for holiday crafts, decorations, and party ideas. 

While it was founded right after World War II, I (am biased and) think Seventeen hit its peak in the 1980s and 90s, when it embraced it’s NYC location, and (like its spiritual cousin, MTV) wasn’t afraid to be a little weird, a little gritty, and a little funky. So get out your creepy dolls, put on your puff-paint baseball cap and  journey with me to 1990 and a loft in Tribeca…

Let’s start with dessert apps! 

Next up, the Johnson family’s ancestral fave: 

And finally, are you feeling ambitious? This Yule Log-like cake serves 12, enough to serve all of your club kid friends after dancing the night away at Limelight! 

Happy Holidays and all the best in the New Year!
We shall return in January, 2026! 

https://mondomolly.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/magazine-madness-and-or-mania-making-holiday-treats-with-winona-ryder-seventeen-december-1990/

http://mondomolly.wordpress.com/?p=6476

Merry Jagsmas

Dec. 24th, 2025 08:01 am
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Posted by DrawPlayDave

https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/merry-jagsmas/

https://www.thedrawplay.com/?post_type=comic&p=11653

There will be no further comics this week for the holiday. Have a great time with your friends and family everyone!

The post Merry Jagsmas appeared first on The Draw Play.

https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/merry-jagsmas/

https://www.thedrawplay.com/?post_type=comic&p=11653

smooth and steady, it’s all that i need

Dec. 24th, 2025 06:49 am
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Posted by sophomoreslumped

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76312281

by

In which Josh is totally normal about the loss of his wide receiver, with whom he had a totally normal relationship.

Words: 1011, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76312281

Backyard Promises (Joe Burrow)

Dec. 24th, 2025 02:36 am
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Posted by supersillylionsfan14

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76298916

by

Eriquahni-Coco “Eric” Youngblood is one of the best active Running Backs and Linebacker the NFL has to offer, he is also the only active openly queer player in the league.

Eric Youngblood and Joe Burrow have been best friends since they were kids. From dumb fights about middle school football, to comforting each other through hard times in the NFL, it's hard for people to forget their relationship.

When Eric Youngblood gets traded to the Cincinnati Bengals, the past has a way of resurfacing.

Old Childhood memories, old promises, and years of their relationship come flooding back to him, colliding with the present. They’re forced to confront what their friendship has always been, and what it’s been quietly asking of them all along.

Words: 3111, Chapters: 3/64, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76298916

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