MultiLingYule 2025

Oct. 21st, 2025 08:48 pm
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The MultiLingYule mini-challenge is for works in languages other than English.

Maybe there are very few fanworks in your first, second, etc language, and you'd love to connect with a fellow speaker who's also a fellow fan.

Maybe you're learning a new language and getting a gift in it would be a delightful way to improve your fluency.

Maybe you just want to talk about how much you love conlangs and invite someone to incorporate conlangs into your gift.

The possibilities are multi-ple!

MultiLingYule is an opt-in challenge similar to Crueltide and Interactive Fiction. Comment here to let people know

-if you are interested in receiving gifts in languages other than English
-what languages those are
-what you're prompting (link your letter; if you don't have a letter, you can link your prompts on the app after requests are revealed)
-any other useful notes.


With a Mod Hat On

On the requesting side: if you would be happy if a gift in a different language were your only gift, please also note this in the optional details of your sign-up form. This prevents mod panic when we go to check assignments and need to figure out if someone can actually read their gift!

On the creation side: unless someone has clearly indicated that a non-English work would suit as their only gift, gifts of that kind need be posted in Yuletide Madness, regardless of length. Works can only go in the main collection if they fulfil all the same requirements as an assigned gift.

Similarly, someone may be delighted to get a gift in a language you've just started to learn, and connect with you over enthusiasm for that language, but if you're posting a gift in the Main rather than the Madness collection, it should probably either be in a language you're fluent in or in a language you can call on fluent help for.

On the (tangential) beta side, people who can check text snippets, lines of dialogue, etc, in multiple languages are extremely valuable and appreciated, and if you can offer this service, please consider doing so when the beta post goes up.
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Dignity Left to Lose
Summary: In 1994, during the AIDS epidemic Booster Gold’s superhero career goes down in the flames of scandal, and he loses everything. It's as he's plummeting to rock bottom that he meets an aging trophy widow who’s been there before. Part one of the Houseboy Booster/Gladys fic.
Series: Marriage of Convenience, part 1 (Justice League International/Superbuddies fanfiction)
Word Count: 7000
Notes: This one has enough of a story behind it that I'm putting it in the comments! Houseboy kink dynamics, trophy widows, '90s homophobia, and the fine art of selling out behind the cut!

Booster Gold has just been asked to leave, and he obeys, even though they’re likely not friends anymore, so obedience is no longer a requirement. He doesn’t want to make a scene. He doesn’t want to stay.

Booster knows his career’s out the window the moment the paper comes out tomorrow, but there’s a charity ball tonight, full of people looking to schmooze and spend, and if he can just get something tonight…

He reaches the charity ball late, but fashionably so, and when he arrives, his hair has been combed, his dirty clothes have been changed, cologne covers up the sweat, and his smile is pasted on.

He feels terrible, but he looks good, and that’s when he meets Gladys Thatcher.

 


Xenogals and more are for sale!

Oct. 20th, 2025 07:08 pm
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Hey! We have new stuff up for sale! MULTIPLE things for sale, in fact!

See, at cons for years now, we've been selling paper-only zines of some of our essay compilations. They've proved surprisingly popular, so now that my blog is unviewable in Mississippi, I figured what the hell, put them up for sale online as paper books and digital downloads! Mississippi lawmakers cannot stop you (yet)!

First: Xenogals! ($3 Ebook with transcript here; $5 paper comic here).

Rawlin spent 20 years eaten by a parasite god and 4 years coming back from it. But what does it mean to be a person again, to begin again? Who even is Rawlin now?

Mori, the resident godslaying monster dyke, doesn't know any more than Rawlin does... but she looks forward to finding out together. Herein:
  • Selves (re)discovery!
  • Smooching
  • Anatomy lessons!
  • FEELINGS!
32 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", black and white. Text-only transcript included for ebook.

Second: Quick'N'Dirty Plural History! ($10 ebook and subtitled vid here; $5 paper zine here) In 2020, an organizer for the Plural Positivity World Conference came up and said something along the lines of, “Hey, LB, wanna do something about plural history for our conference?” They said, “Sure, why not, how hard can that be?” and immediately learned the folly of their arrogance.

The paper listing is the zine only; Payhip (and itch.io) have both the hour-and-a-half long video (subtitled) made in 2020 and the 48-page zine. All of the content can be found for free elsewhere; this is just if you want to throw us some bucks for it. It’s intended as a brief, incomplete, inglorious history of just some of the people under the many-selved umbrella in America over the centuries: double/dual consciousness, multiple personality, dissociative identity disorder, soulbonders, empowered multiples, natural multiples, the genic slapfight, etc. It’s also meant to be a decent vaccination against bullshit and lies peddled by jerks!

I suppose if people really want the vid on DVD, I can make that happen? If you want that, let me know, and I can adapt things.
 
Third: Crisis Planning ($3 ebook here; $5 paper zine here). This is a compilation of all LB's crisis planning essays, intended for psychological crisis but also good for general purpose. You can read some of them free on the web, but this has them all in one place:
  • How to measure your level of distress (aka: how bad shit is)
  • How to ask for help (and who to ask)
  • How to make a pocket crisis plan zine
  • How to make a plan in case you get hit by a bus, put in a coma, and need your loved ones to manage your life affairs and make healthcare decisions without you
  • Medical and legal stuff, wills, and body donation stuff
  • How to pack a go-bag (and get the fuck out of there!)
Fourth: Headspace Essays ($3 ebook here; $5 paper zine here). Have you ever been enchanted by stories that focused on psychological or imaginative geography, such as American McGee’s Alice, Ib, Inception, Mentopolis, or Psychonauts? Have you ever wanted such a place for yourself, or just a bullet-proof means of entertaining yourself while waiting for the bus? Well, in this handy dandy zine, you can learn! Contains all our posted headspace essays... and Anatomy of a Dance, the final essay which has yet to be posted online! Ooh-la-la! 32 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", black and white.

Whew! Doing all this has made me realize that having to cover itch.io AND Payhip is really annoying, guys! Adding another store page really increases the work load. I may end up closing down the BigCartel page because Payhip has opened up to physical goods, but that is a problem for Future LB!
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So, the cats apparently adopt various roommates and their rooms so as to maintain somewhat separate territories. We (and our room) have been adopted by Tiptoe, a sixteen-year-old lady who meows like she smoked a pack every day of her nine lives.

a picture of said cat, and a story of her terrible catstomer service experience )

Pinch Hits & Mid Sign-Ups Notes

Oct. 20th, 2025 01:31 pm
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Pinch hits

Pinch hits are a major part of Yuletide. Pinch hits are writing assignments that need to be claimed by volunteers, and pinch hitters are the writers who claim and fulfil them. Currently, we publish pinch hit details on [community profile] yuletide_pinch_hits, but we also send out notifications of new pinch hits to members of the Yuletide Discord server who have taken on the "yulephs" role, and to anyone subscribed to the Google Group for Yuletide pinch hits.

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AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
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Back in August 2024, Tyler James on ComixLaunch did a podcast episode about a rash of spam AI projects on Kickstarter. Campaigns with almost-identical templates, and an eerie lack of substance, where all the images look like Midjourney and all the text sounds like ChatGPT.

You can see him browsing them on-screen in the Youtube version. They don’t show up in Kickstarter’s own search results anymore, but I tracked down at least half of them.

(Here’s one of the project images. Fun game: guess which spam project title it goes with.)

Project image with text The Mountum Metropolils: A Fabtilch Vivibitie

These have almost exactly the same story sections, in the same order. (The last one screwed up their copy-pasting — they have the same headings in the text, they just pasted it all into a single section.) None of them have any actual comic pages, just 4-6 standalone illustrations, and most of them are clearly “six different responses Stable Diffusion/Midjourney came up with for the same prompt.”

Hilariously, “The Forgotten Realm” actually left a prompt in their campaign text: “An illustration featuring the archaeologist at the entrance to the hidden realm, surrounded by mythical creatures and ancient ruins, with a dark shadow looming in the background.”

They don’t even come up with their own image prompts! It’s just another point on the list of Things They Ask ChatGPT For!

Bot-generated image for that prompt

Tyler admits in the episode that he’s baffled about the point of the spam campaigns. Most of them have five-figure funding goals. If the idea is to swindle backers out of money, you have to make a campaign that can realistically get funded! Otherwise you’ll never get the money in the first place.

(Note, when I looked at the ones that are set to $5K — that’s The Enchanted Artifacts and Quantum Detective — I realized, the “Fundraising Goal” story section has a five-figure goal written. Whoever posted them, they changed the goal in one place, and didn’t proofread the rest.)

Here’s what I think he’s missing:

The goal is to swindle creators.

Somebody wants to do the crowdfunding equivalent of the “publishing startup” Spines. They want to post ads that say “Do you have a great comic idea that you want to sell on Kickstarter, but don’t know where to start? Hire ScamFunderCo! For just $4,000, we will use the power of AI to make the whole campaign for you!” They don’t actually care whether the project succeeds or not. All their profit comes from would-be creators, up front, a few grand at a time.

I’m guessing ScamFunderCo never got that far, because if ads like this were going around, the online comics community would definitely have been talking about it. Which suggests the spam campaigns were a proof-of-concept thing. ScamFunderCo was testing the waters, finding out if Kickstarter would clock them as spam upfront, or if their ChatGPT templates could get approved.

That explains the unreasonable funding goals, too. ScamFunderCo doesn’t actually want these to fund. That would obligate them to produce something! They just want a track record of “see, here’s our proof that we make real KS campaigns.”

A track record with a 100% failure rate won’t necessarily hurt them, either. For comparison, multi-level marketing companies are legally required to share income disclosure statements, which show 99% of their members lose money — then they go “but if you just work really hard, you could totally be one of the 1%! Aren’t you willing to work hard? Don’t you believe in yourself?” And some people still get conned into signing up.

ScamFunderCo could get awfully far by claiming “if your idea is better than these, your campaign could totally fund. Don’t you believe in your idea? Good, now hand over that $4K.”

In the ComixLaunch episode, Tyler reveals that he reported the spam projects he saw, and according to later episodes, he got encouraging responses. First, the campaigns were still up, but they started adding “AI usage disclosures”…which were clearly still fraudulent, and also ChatGPT-produced. (The Time Traveler’s Diary has an example.) Eventually, all of them got suspended by Kickstarter.

So I’m feeling hopeful about ScamFunderCo never getting off the ground.

“Here are the projects we’ve made, 100% of them flopped” could be explained to potential marks as Those Creators Just Weren’t Good Enough, You’re Different, You’re Special. “Here are the projects we’ve made, 100% of them got booted off the platform” is a lot harder to handwave.

Even if the scammers behind that first round of projects have given up, I’m sure new enterprising con artists will keep trying. I’m sure it’s taking some extra behind-the-scenes filtering effort from the staff at Kickstarter (and BackerKit, which has been more restrictive about bot-generated content from the start) to keep them at bay.

I appreciate the effort, and I hope they keep it up.

(I stand with Kickstarter United.)


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Oct. 19th, 2025 09:41 pm
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Today I went to the Renaissance faire!

Yes, this means MD faire, _obviously_. I should maybe try out King Richard's again sometime, since I'm running on decade+ old memories, but honestly, nothing I've heard about it since has implied that I actually should try it out. So if I want to go to a rennfaire it means I pack a bag and get on the train and head down to Maryland!

I went with my mom, and my partner Tuesday, and also Tuesday's mom and sibling and sibling's-partner. We saw some shows! We ate some food off of sticks! I bought some pretty shiny things! It was a good time!

I have forgotten that I pretty deeply hate attending jousts, which is a shame. I enjoy the part where there are impressive feats of horsemanship. I really _really_ do not like the part where we are baying for the death of the competitors. Stage combat is neat and fun to watch from a technical and talent perspective! It feels...it feels pretty uncomfortable to be in the stands surrounded by people who do not seem to be appreciating this aspect of it and instead just want violence.

Also very loud and overstimulating. I would enjoy more being much further onto the edges of the crowd.

I was very happy to get a new coin necklace, and was excited by more designs than would fit on one coin, which feels hopeful for the future. I own five of them now! And also one of the new designs this year was _spider_ which feels amazing prescient for a year in which I'm increasingly using these as The One Official Jewelry I Wear Like From A Spellcraft And Ritual Perspective. Good to have a spider included!

I also bought matching fidget rings for me and Tuesday, because they're quite lovely. And two pairs of hairsticks! One set from Kathleen (although she herself wasn't present) at least in part as a reminder to go buy a bunch more from her through the internet. The other set is really nice maile flowers that I quite liked and obtained from a place near the jousting field. It's possible I shouldn't be left unsupervised for too long at faire, or I will find nice things to use to put up my hair :3

And the weather was perfect to wander around! Sitting was good, standing was good, there was nice breeze so I wasn't ever overdressed but I also wasn't chilly -I brought my gloves and didn't need them, and decided at the last minute to leave the midlevel cloak in the car (I wore the lightlevel and didn't even consider the heavy one)

We watched the Skum perform Othello, which was especially interesting because I don't actually know that one --got a much better idea now though! And later we watched Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy, who Tuesday and I saw when we came to faire together two years ago. He remains _extremely_ funny. I also saw a few swords get swallowed, and quite enjoyed some Piper Jones from afar.

And I stopped and had a nice conversation with Miss Nancy, and we saw Pepto in passing (with an amazing viking ship wagon for her kids), and I chatted a bit with the Beef Jerky Guy.

So it was overall very good! I am pleased to be home now though, which is to say, at Cameron and Jake's place in Bal'mer. Tonight I need to finish some sub plan stuff, so that tomorrow I get to stress-free ride a train back home. (I do like riding a train, except when they have two hour delays that start late enough that mom already kicked her friends out and started driving to the station to pick me up. Looking at you, way down.)

I hope your life is also good.

~Sor
MOOP!
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Over the course of the last year, I read a bunch of stuff that was adjacent to our assigned reading for Humanities 110 book group. Some fiction, some non-fiction:

Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze
- Vol. 1: A Thousand Ships (2001)
- Vol. 2: Sacrifice (2004)
- Vol. 3, Parts 1 and 2: Betrayal (2008, 2013)


Epic graphic novel series aiming to tell the complete and coherent story of the Trojan War, weaving together sources from Homer to Shakespeare, as well as contemporary archaeological research.

an epic project )


Michelle Ruiz Keil, Summer in the City of Roses (2021)

A very loose retelling of the Iphigenia story set in 1990s Portland. With respect to "loose retelling", I spent most of the book mildly confused as to whether this Iphigenia and Orestes were meant to be those Iphigenia and Orestes. HOWEVER. I didn't really care about that, because I absolutely adored this portrait of 1990s Portland, and particularly of the feminist counterculture scene in and around SE Division and Hawthorne. (Remember when SE Division was working class and lesbian? I do.) Yes, those were the books we were reading that year, and yes, that was when Cinemagic played nothing but The Secret of Roan Inish for, like, a year. (Was it a money laundering scheme? [personal profile] grrlpup and I were never sure.) Our protagonist, Iphigenia, is five-to-ten years younger than we were (she in her last year of high school, us fresh out of college), but I remember that scene vividly. I only caught one anachronism: during the 1990s that wasn't the "Portland" sign yet; it was either still the White Stag sign, or (during the closing years of the decade), the Made in Oregon sign.

As a love letter to a particular time and place and social scene, it was amazing. Re the Iphigenia retelling, the heavy slide into magical realism at the end didn't really work for me, mostly in that it seemed to take narrative agency out of the hands of the characters. And for some reason
(spoiler)it's Orestes who gets sacrificed and turned into a deer? Because, um, feminism, I guess? Hm.
But whatever, that wasn't what I was here for. Loved the characters, loved the setting, loved their adventures, I hardly cared that it didn't stick the landing.


Charles Freeman, Egypt, Greece, & Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, 3rd ed. (1st ed 1996, 3rd ed 2014)

Veritable doorstop of a book at 700+ pages. I read the first half, at 360 pages: Egpyt and Greece, which also includes chapters about ancient Mesopotamia and the rest of the fertile crescent before we begin in on Egypt. In fact, this book almost perfectly mapped to our progress through the first year of our Hum 100 book group: every month we'd be assigned new primary sources in bookgroup, and every month I'd read the next two-to-three chapters in here to get the historical context.

Engaging and clear high-level overview of what we know about these societies, built from a combination of the literary and archaeological records. Some chapters are about the rise and fall of empires; other chapters are about the cultural goings-ons within and between those empires. There is a generous supply of maps, plus two sections of full-color plates of art. Plus lots and lots of in-text pointers to more in-depth discussions of this or that topic, should you want to dive deeper about anything. I know there's a ton of detail that didn't make it into this volume, but if you want an accessible high-level overview of these societies, their major figures, and what we know about what they did and made, this is superb. I enjoyed it immensely, and the only reason I didn't finish it is I lost my library access to it. (And also I just don't have the bandwidth to spend the next year reading about the Romans in depth on my own while simultaneously reading about Mesoamerica in book group.)

*sorrowfully removes my seven bookmarks so I can return it to the library*


John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy (2009)

So, at some point along the way my Hum 110 bookgroup figured out that I was a maritime nerd (shocking, I know!), and decided that made me the in-group expert on triremes. (Spoiler: I knew jack shit about triremes.) But hey, classical Athens had a maritime empire, and its navy (and the sea battles it fought) was super-important in both Herodotus and Thucydides, and I'm game: I said I'd see what I could find out.

Lords of the Sea pulls from multiple sources to build a coherent and continuous history of the Athenian navy from Themistocles and his first advocacy for a navy (ca. 494 BCE), through Athens' defeat in the Lamian War and the death of Demosthenes (322 BCE, post-Alexander the Great). Includes diagrams and maps of the ships, the campaigns, and the battles, plus useful additional context for things that Herodotus, Thucydides, et al. did not feel a need to explain because they would have been obvious to Athenian audiences.

maritime nerdery )


Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2011)

Explicitly queer novelization of the Achilles-and-Patroclus story. This was wildly popular (and apparently still is -- even though it's over a decade old, at my local library there are perpetually 80-100 holds on the hardcopy and 100+ holds on the ebook).

Reader, I hated it.

woobify those gays! )
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Title: Until We Go Down
Fandom: 유령 | Phantom (2023)
Music: Until We Go Down by Ruelle
Summary: 'I need that fire just to know that I'm awake'
Notes: Premiered at Virtual [community profile] confabcon 2025!
Warnings: quick cuts and flashing lights, blood, violence, lots of smoking

AO3 | bsky | DW | tumblr | YouTube

Understanding Without Believing

Oct. 19th, 2025 12:54 pm
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(inspired by chatting with [personal profile] frameacloud)

Rogan: So, those cursed tapes. I'm positive some of you are like, "Rogan, why are you doing this to yourself?" Well, for years, I've wanted to do a big thing on the whole ritual abuse/RAMCOA/OEA culture/identity and multi, because it's still relevant and important (and frankly scary). There were at least two plurals I considered friends once who went down that rabbit hole, with awful consequences, so it's personal. I want to understand what happened to them and why... and because I'd prefer to do it without rabbitholing myself, I turn to older records from the past.

Babytide 2025

Oct. 19th, 2025 08:22 am
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A mini challenge for people interested in fics regarding characters being pregnant, having babies, and raising children. Can be for a single character or a ship, fluffy or angst, good or bad parents! The sky’s the limit.

To enter, copy/paste and fill out the following form:

AO3 Username:
Letter Link:
Fandoms:
DNWs (if any):
Prompts:

Signs from today's protest

Oct. 18th, 2025 11:54 pm
[personal profile] chanter1944
15,000+, probably closer to 20, on the square at Madison, WI today. 0 arrests, and the only police presence was a cluster of officers there just in case someone got lost, tripped over a curb, or got a little too rowdy in an unsafe way (which no one that we saw did).

Amusing/thought-provoking signage back here. )

I'm a little hoarse. Comes of chanting and cheering up a storm. And now, I'm going the heck to bed.
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Geez, I really do need to get going on this bingo card before it's time for the next round. So, fine. Here's a fluffy little bit of fluff to get the ball rolling

Title:
Shooting Stars Break the Mold
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Characters/Relationships: Ford & Mabel
Rating: General Audiences. No warnings for anything. Well, maybe spoilers for Shrek.
Summary: Mabel keeps making Ford sweaters. Why does he keep not wearing them?
Tags: Mabel & Ford bonding, Sweaters, Ford's embarrassing neck tattoo, Family, Shrek, Fluff
Length: ~1500 words
Author's Notes: Written for Gen Prompt Bingo, for the prompt "Jumper/Sweater/Cardigan." Because how could I not write something featuring Mabel for that? I sort of want to apologize for the title, but I don't see how I could have done anything else for that, either.

Shooting Stars Break the Mold
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Back from the con! It went well! We are very tired but want to upload the notes of Tape #2: "Treatment of Adult RA Survivors," from the 3rd Annual Orange County Conference on Multiple Personality and Dissociation, Hypnosis, and other Strategies, 1990. Hope y'all got your shit-wading boots!

Short-Form Fiction and Poetry 2025

Oct. 18th, 2025 04:40 pm
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Thank you to donutsweeper for finding many of these! Feel free to ask me to add canons that would fit. 


Ballad of the Mari Lwyd - Vernon Watkins 

Benlian - Oliver Onions 

Casting the Runes - M. R. James

The Changeling - psychomachia 

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid | Gold Tree and Silver Tree (Fairy Tale)

The Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin 


Den lille Havfrue | The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen

Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad

FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns

For Sale: Baby Shoes Never Worn - Anonymous 

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti 

The Green Hills of Earth - Robert Heinlein (Short Story)

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers - Alyssa Wong 

Jorinde und Joringel | Jorinde and Joringel (Fairy Tale)

La Barbe bleue | Bluebeard - Charles Perrault 

Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke (short story collection)

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges 

Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)

Lucifer's Wife - Eleanor M. Ingram

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace 

Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad - M. R. James 

Sandkings - George R. R. Martin

Seventy-Two Letters - Ted Chiang

Solitude - Ursula K. Le Guin

Sonata for Harp and Bicycle - Joan Aiken

A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman

There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm

Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas (Poem)

The Very Pulse of the Machine - Michael Swanwick 

Wind Will Rove - Sarah Pinsker 

Wulf and Eadwacer (
old English, modern English)

Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow (
one, two, three)

Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Fairy Tale)

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Your match email contains information about submission, but we will also post as we get close to the deadline. In the next few days we'll also put up posts asking for beta and pinch-hit volunteers -- please keep an eye out.

If you have any questions, for us or your recipient, please email us. Happy baking!

Wrapping Paper 2025

Oct. 18th, 2025 02:45 pm
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The Wrapping Paper art challenge for Yuletide is an opportunity for those who love art to opt-in to giving and receiving art treats! Comment here to request art, and/or read the comments to find someone to treat.

Please be sure to post your treats to the Madness Collection; art is not permitted in the main collection. Please respect your recipient's wishes as to whether they'd like art as a treat. Tag your treats with "Wrapping Paper" to help them be found!

If you want to receive art, please provide this info in the comments:

Happy treating!

(If you're here from the future in 2026 and want to post Wrapping Paper yourself because it's taken a while to go up: feel free!)

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Hello, everyone! I had just switched laptops, as mine had rather dramatically died, and I do not have email access to the mod account on the new device.
Rest assured the matches are complete and checked. I just can’t get them out to you quite yet and my co-Mods are not available at the moment due to scheduled activities (also known as “having a life”).
This is just an update to let you all know you haven’t missed them in a mysterious inbox folder and they are on the way as soon as possible (within a few hours for sure)
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This is a roundup of IF in the tagset, with links and nominated characters. There aren't many, but they're spread over a few categories, so can be hard to find. There are a few things I weren't sure if they counted or not, so this is just the ones I was certain of. Let me know if I've missed something and I'll add it.

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds

1. Claire (16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds)
2. Lucy (16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds)

Changeling Charade on Choice of Games website or Steam

1. Alistair Farrington
2. Rowan Forester
3. Valentine Dupont
4. Worldbuilding (Changeling Charade)

Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets Choice of Games website or Steam

1. Alistair (Freshman Magic)
2. Halim (Freshman Magic)
3. Main Character (Freshman Magic)
4. Worldbuilding (Freshman Magic)

Keeper Series - Brynn Chernosky (tumblr link, but it has links to places to play in the sidebar)

1. Astrid Adtaz (Keeper Series)
2. Cressida Monroe (Keeper Series)
3. Female Main Character (Keeper Series)

Lady Thalia series (interactive fiction)

1. Margaret "Mel" Williams (Lady Thalia series)
2. Matthew "Yorkie" Barker (Lady Thalia series)
3. Oscar Knight (Lady Thalia series)
4. Theodora "Thalia" Knight (Lady Thalia series)

Stay? - E. Jade Lomax

1. Esteban
2. Myka
3. Jo
4. Worldbuilding

Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives - Jeffrey Dean Choice of Games website or Steam

1. Arundel
2. Qui
3. Robert Ward

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