L'opera, mi amore!

Anything marked "post-film" can be assumed to have spoilers, but really, kids, why would you be reading the fic if you haven't seen the movie?

No Pairing:
Regret* Rotti, Carmela. Backstory, drabble.
I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth* Graverobber, Amber. Backstory. Amber meets Graverobber.
Wasted Youth Amber, Luigi. Sillyfic, drabble.
We're Only Love Pavi, Amber, Luigi. Shortly post-film, drabble.

LARGOCEST:
Amber/Luigi:
The Future Waits Without Us (The Future Waits Without Us, part 1) Shortly post-film.
Naked, We Are Suddenly Strange (The Future Waits Without Us, part 2) Shortly post-film.
I Shall Leave You In Ruins* (Luigi's POV) Pre-film.
But I Won't Do That* Backstory, Amber and Luigi's first time.
Desperation (NC-17) Shortly post-film.
Our Love's Confusing, But It Never Gets Dull* (Luigi's POV) Pre-film.
Standards Drabble, post-film.

Amber/Pavi:
Learning Backstory.

Luigi/Pavi:
Mixed Signals Also contains Bill/Ogre, during filming.

Luigi/Pavi/Amber:
Advantage. A drabble.

OTHER PAIRINGS:
Amber/Graverobber:
I Don't Care Just What You Think (The Future Waits Without Us, part 4) Years later.
Learning Backstory.
Zydrate Poem, around the film.
Miles to Go* Post-film.
Warning During, or maybe shortly after.
Out of Fashion Just before the film.

Pavi/Shilo:
Luring Post-film, AU.
Consequences Post-film, AU. These two pieces are related to each other but currently nothing else.

Luigi/Shilo:
Spontaneous Post-film, AU (and a different one from any of the others). Kink meme prompt.

Nathan/Shilo:
Appropriate Pre-film.

Mag/Shilo:
Awkward Slightly AU, during the film.

Amber/Mag:
Losing Backstory.

Graverobber/Nathan:
A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste AU backstory.

Rotti/Nathan:
Laughing. Backstory.

THE FUTURE WAITS WITHOUT US (Series)
The Future Waits Without Us (Lugi/Amber)
Naked, We Are Suddenly Strange (Luigi/Amber)
Thrice Lovelier Shine The Things That Last (Pavi, Amber, Luigi)
I Don't Care Just What You Think (Graverobber/Amber)

* This fic is unofficially included in the The Future Waits Without Us arc.

I knew it was a crazy idea when I signed up for it - on the heels of NaNo, a fic of over 1000 words in an obscure fandom, due right in the middle of finals. I offered a lot of fandoms, including a lot that I was generally familiar with but had never written. (I'm sort of considering as a challenge to myself, going down my offered list and writing something for all of them.)

Yuletide's a pretty awesome concept in general, but additionally thrilling was the week in between the story reveal and the author reveal, in which complete strangers recommended my fics.

Anyway, so this is what I did:

I was lucky enough to match two fandoms for my recipient, Daria and Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, both of which I'd never written for. I started tearing my hair out, but I went back and re-read (most of) Fire From Heaven, which I HIGHLY recommend. Getting it up to a thousand words was a major challenge, because it wanted to clock in at about 850, but I managed it and I'm pretty proud of "In Two Bodies.

Considering how close to the deadline I cut it to actually post the fic, I'm really proud of myself for managing it. (At one point finch said to me, "If you default, it's not the end of the world," and I snarled back, "YES IT IS." I'm sorry for being such a crabby bitch at the deadline; I love you for putting up with me. NaNoWriMo made me want to slit my wrists in the last week before the deadline as well; deadlines and I don't get along.)

Yuletide Madness meant an opportunity to get a crack at other people's request prompts. At one point I had probably a dozen prompts open, but when it came down to it, I wrote Finding Zihuatanejo, an ending to Stephen King's wonderful novella, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." That one actually got rec'd by several different people, which was totally thrilling and gratifying.

And of course since Repo! qualifies as a tiny fandom, I had to write a Madness fic for that, and the fact that I filled finch's prompt was sheer coincidence so I banged out the Luigi/Amber fic This Christmas in about an hour, posting in the last two minutes before the collection was locked down.

I just realized that I have a favorite embroidery stitch. (It's Lazy Daisies, if you're curious. I realized this because I hit the point of this pattern where there are a bunch of them and went, "Yay! My favorite embroidery stitch!") I cannot describe to you how much of a colossal nerd this makes me feel.

Am I alone, or do other people have favorite embroidery stitches, metaphorically speaking? (It doesn't have to specifically be an embroidery stitch, it could be a painting technique or a writing style or something.)

My gift for Yuletide was the most amazing, incredible thing. It made me cry, it was just that perfect. So if any of you are fans of Guy Gavriel Kay, and particularly Tigana and The Fionavar Tapestry, you need to do yourself a favor and GO READ IT.

Comment with a fandom and I'll tell you my:

One True Pairing Ship:

Canon Ship:

"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:

"You are one sick bastard" Ship:

"I dabble a little" Ship:

"It's like a car crash" Ship:

"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:

"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:

"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

"When all is said and done" Ship:

I just wrote a paper about this video.

I love my major.

Also and unrelated: I has made a LOLcat.

Also also and again unrelated: I ♥ my finch.

 50,126 words in 29 days.  I wrote 5,000 words TODAY.

And I ended the first draft.

Kind of dazed now.

Due to a scheduling conflict, we are having Thanksgiving dinner today. Which was nice, as I spent most of yesterday with a horrible headache. Also went and saw New Moon, which was a) much better than Twilight and b) much better than I expected, which considering I had basement-level expectations, wouldn't be terribly hard. My response to the movie is much the same as to the book - it's not deep but it's fun.

So, today:

TURKEY: In Out of the oven! Currently "resting," because apparently getting roasted is hard on a turkey. (I'm using the Alton Brown method of turkey-making, so my turkey spent the night in a Styrofoam cooler, which meant my first activity of the day was mopping up brine off the kitchen floor. Styrofoam cooler: fail.)

CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP: Complete. (finch is allergic to white button mushrooms, but loves green bean casserole, so I am gaining ultimate good-girlfriend points by making cream of mushroom soup using crimini mushrooms.)

MASHED POTATOES: Sitting on the back of the stove to let the butter melt. Otherwise, done.

CANDIED YAMS: Done!

GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE: Done! Looks like it worked, hopefully it will taste as good as it smells.

PUMPKIN PIE: In the oven.

GRAVY: Done.

Eating with guests: Done. Now we all slide into turkey comas.

Left to do:

Go to NaNo overnighter
Write approximately 1.5 million 10,000 words by Monday
Profit????

Online sprints FTW.

Somehow I wrote 1109 words in TWENTY MINUTES.

Current word count: 18,120. Almost done with chapter 8.

Going to bed now.