#yuletide 2024

[forthegothicheroine]

I got SUCH a good Yuletide gift fic, you all have to read it! You know those Jozef Szekeres drawings of what a Don Bluth Dracula movie might have looked like?

My gift author wrote a lost media youtuber's video on it! Everyone is Jonathan! Lucy has Plucky Orphan Girl magic powers! Dom DeLuise is a talking mouse! Read it now!

[guzhuangheaven]

The most wonderful time of the year is here - Yuletide Fic Exchange is open for nominations until 9am UTC 20 September!

Yuletide is an annual fic (1000+ words) exchange for rare and obscure fandoms run through this community and through the Archive of Our Own. Many Chinese dramas are eligible to be nominated for Yuletide, so go forth and start by nominating your favourite dramas for Yuletide. Who knows...someone might write a fic for it!

[croik]

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!!

[foolishmortal]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:Every day is April 1st, and that's the least of Doumeki's problems.

Happy Yuletide to violet-strange, who requested a story that explores the time loop from the xxxHolic 2022 film. (DM me for a link if you haven't seen it yet!). Violet, I hope you enjoyed reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing it!

[theres-a-goldensky]

Wandering Until Morning (Kiseki: Dear To Me, Chen Yi / Ai Di) - Explicit

Name: Wandering Until Morning Fandom: Kiseki: Dear To Me Pairing: Chen Yi / Ai Di Rating: Explicit Length: ~12,000 words Here's the fic I wrote for Yuletide this year!

“You look so tired,” Chen Yi said.

Ai Di straightened up to his full height and sneered. “It’s none of your fucking business.”

Chen Yi frowned, his handsome face darkening. Without warning, he reached out and pulled Ai Di in close, tightening his hold when Ai Di tried to move away.

“Your life is always my business,” he growled. “Why do you keep forgetting that?”

Ai Di couldn’t help it. He shivered, the intensity of Chen Yi’s words and his fierce expression sending pleasant little electrical shocks sliding down his spine. At his reaction, Chen Yi’s big hands tightened around his waist and pulled him even closer.

“Let me go,” Ai Di said, but even he could tell that his heart wasn’t in it.

Chen Yi didn’t listen, of course. After all, when, even once, in the nearly 15 years that they’ve known each other, had he? Instead he dragged Ai Di closer and used the thumb of his free right hand to lightly trace the delicate skin beneath Ai Di’s eye.

“Chen Yi…” Ai Di warned, twisting his face away and bracing his hands against Chen Yi's chest for leverage.

“Are you having trouble sleeping?” he asked.

Ai Di glared at him. “I sleep just fine,” he lied. “Let me go.”

He gave an embarrassing wiggle and pushed hard to free himself before he once again ended up tossed over Chen Yi’s shoulder like a sack of rice.

Wandering Until Morning

[thespacebetweenworlds]

Spotlight Yuletide 2024 - NASA "Visions of the Future" Posters - Fic Rec

This fandom is what is lovingly referred to as a "5 Minute Fandom" - it means that the source material, the canon that all transformative fanwork is based upon, is learnable in ~5 minutes. For the fandom and AO3 tag NASA "Visions of the Future" Posters that is true. If you google it, you will find an official NASA website that shows 19 fictional illustrations published in 2020. They are presented as posters advertising space tourism. True to NASA's PR campaign of the 21st century, the eye-catching red centerpiece is a minimalist depiction of Mars, with words talking about "historic sites", "robotic pioneers", "arts & culture", and "architecture & agriculture". These illustrations are speculative fiction, and due to the nature of the Yuletide Fic Exchange, the 19 "posters" become an attractive fandom to request as a gift and offer to write, toeing the line to become original fiction.

There are 3 works tagged with the fandom in the main collection, and all of them have a lot in common.

Easy as Breathing by Anonymous, 6.3k, complete, rated G.

an epistolary narrative, satirical comment and a critique of capitalism, the commercialisation of space travel, and of class. The narrative turns serious and terrifying before it ends on a gentle and hopeful note.

A to Z (of the Universe) by Anonymous, 8.7k, complete, rated G.

an epistolary narrative of letters, postcards, transmissions and more, social criticism and also a critique of capitalism, AI, space travel, and class structures. There are serious undertones from the start, and a F/F romance that sneaks up on the reader. The ending is romantic, in a very sweet and hopeful way.

I know places by Anonymous, 5.3k, complete, rated T.

this one is not epistolary, it's prose from the pov of an agent (compared to James Bond in the text). The love interest is a con woman who operates outside of the law. The underlying social issues and critiques are more hinted at than explicitly said, but the ending is as the two works above: a sense of love, of gentleness, of change and most importantly: hope.

Science fiction is despite its name and many famous works implying otherwise, in no way a prediction of the future. Science fiction is a depiction, a critique, a lament, and a celebration of the present.

All 3 of these Yuletide works work within the fandom of NASA "Visions of the Future" Posters, and as such contain references to the illustrations and the text on them. All 3 of them are works of speculative fiction that challenge the norms of what a reader expects a short story to be, or what a reader expects a fanfiction to be.

All three were written near the end of the year 2024 in ignorance of each other, yet intertextual connections appear in the way they get serious, in the way corruption and class issues come up in all three of these works. And all 3 of these works have characters that take action, who choose to act in kindness, who embrace change, and who live on in hope.

Happy Yuletide.

[diana-fortyseven]

Yuletide Reading Bingo

The 2024 Yuletide collection is about to be revealed, 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 2024 (permanent link to the 2024 version) Yuletide Reading Bingo 2023 (permanent link to the 2023 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.

Details and screenshot of the mobile version under the cut!

Have a lovely Yuletide and a happy Hanukkah or merry Christmas if you celebrate. <3

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)

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; Madness tags to be added)

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 2024 main collection. Around 270 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 2024 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 last year. 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 last year. 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 Simon Berger on Unsplash.

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

[lunarriviera]

which could mean nothing by lunarriviera (12k, E) fandom: 死亡万花筒 - 西子绪 | Kaleidoscope of Death - Xī Zǐxù, 致命游戏 | The Spirealm warnings: no archive warnings apply relationships: Lin Qiushi/Ruan Nanzhu tags: Fake Relationship, Fake Marriage, Crossdressing, Genderfluid Character, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence, Battle Couple, Misunderstandings, Door Sex, Loss of Virginity, Ruan Baijie Is A Handful, Lin Qiushi Is Oblivious, Idiots to Lovers, Canon Compliant

summary:

Sometimes Lin Qiushi wonders if Ruan Nanzhu has eye problems. He makes a gesture that encompasses his whole being, not just the faded jeans and sneakers but the messy hair, the circles under his eyes from staying up late coding and playing video games, and the overall disastrous nature of his entire personality. What does Ruan Nanzhu imagine someone like Lin Qiushi could bring to a relationship? He can cook and do his own laundry, and that’s about it. He can’t talk about feelings and he isn’t even completely sure what you’re supposed to do with breasts. “Have you seen me? Who in their right mind would want to marry this?”