Croik's Yuletide 2024
ANNIVERSARY!! This was my 20th year doing Yuletide, and it was a fun one!
For my gift I got a flame through your fingers, a Darkest Dungeon Academic/Protégé fic! I've been asking for this for a while and finally a hit, and a great one! Perfectly dark and iddy. If only they'd fucked sooner they could have spared the world its apocalypse! ToT
Writing wise I did 3 this year:
A Single Grain of Rice, Akira (manga). This was a special assignment for me: the only Yuletide round I didn't contribute to was the very first, so this year I decided to challenge myself by writing in a fandom that was requested year one. And I got one as my main assignment! It was a lot of fun revisiting the canon, and I finally own all volumes of the manga.
A Game of Chess, Call of Cthulhu, Randolph Carter/Walter Gilman. This was written for a CoC mod that I got introduced to via the exchange, which was a lot of fun. Carter brings Walter's dreaming soul aboard a Dreamlands train in an attempt to save him Nyarlathotep.
The Title of this Fic has been Redacted for You Safety, Ghost Wax/Kane and Feels. Was very excited to spot a prompt encouraging this crossover - these canons really do fit together in such a fun way, both of them deserve a bigger audience.
Happy Yuletide!!