2017!

Happy 2017, everyone!!!

We've made it here! I hope everyone had fun celebrating, or not celebrating if you didn't!

Yuletide reveals now, too! I'll post about it once I've had breakfast!

Yuletide reveals time! (and yet another gift for me!)

Yuletide authors have been revealed and the New Year's Resolution collection has opened! First off, before I link to my story, I want to enthuse that with the opening of NYR, I got yet another beautiful ficlet for Skuggserien, the book series of my heart I just enthused about in detail while squeeing about my Madness gift. This one is after book 3, and I'd always wanted to know more about Rosilda, Arild and Lydia after the events that pass there, and this one beautifully explores the communication between them all, especially the siblings.

Here it is:

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Author: mayachain
Fandom: Skuggserien | The Shadow Series - Maria Gripe
Category: Gen
Words: 303
Characters: Rosilda Falck af Stenstierna, Arild Falck af Stenstierna, Lydia Stenstierna
Additional Tags: Triple Drabble, Post-Canon, Family Issues, Recovery

Also, I noticed that the author has posted a story this autumn (after the last time I checked the fandom tag) that deals with exactly the thing I always wish the books had dealt with because damn it that needed more exploration so um, reading's going to be in order.


Anyway... Now that Yuletide authors are revealed, here is the story I wrote. It's on the Wayfarers series / The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, and for paperclipbitch.

Complications of Interspecies Relations
Fandom: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Words: 6655
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, Gen
Relationships: Ashby Santoso/Pei (Wayfarers Series)Ashby Santoso & Sissix (Wayfarers Series)
Characters: Ashby Santoso, Pei (Wayfarers Series), Sissix (Wayfarers Series), Kizzy (Wayfarers Series), Dr. Chef (Wayfarers Series)
Additional Tags: Cultural Differences, Interspecies Relationship(s), Friendship, Interspecies Romance, Pre-Canon, minor appearance by Jenks

Summary: It's complicated enough for a Human to find himself having an affair with an Aeluon. It's even more complicated when he isn't sure how to tell his crew about it, in particular his best friend.


The story takes place a couple of years before canon, and is focused on Ashby's early feelings about the relationship with Pei on the one hand, and how it might have been sorted out in his friendship with Sissix and his relationship with some of the crew.

I'm awfully thankful for _profiterole_ for beta-reading this in the busy pre-Christmas days as the only person I knew who knew the canon, and for reassuring me as well as giving some helpful comments to make it better! Also, from the Yuletide beta spreadsheet I helpfully got Bookwyrm as a native speaker to beta my English into shape despite not being familiar with the canon. For a fic this long, when I haven't done much creative writing in English for years, I had all sorts of weird things there and it's good to know most of them have been caught out. If any language mistakes remain, it's my fault - I did fix some story-related things after the beta and may have created new mistakes.

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Write Every Day: December final tally

All right, so from today on Write Every Day will continue at trobadora's journal! Head over there if you want to continue/start the challenge this month! Thanks to everyone who participated in December, I had fun hosting and would be glad to do so again at some point. I wonder if I'm going to miss everyone checking in at my journal. *g* It was also great to get new friends from it! Anyway, here is the final tally for the whole month - don't know if everyone's gotten around to checking in for the end of the month yet, but if anyone's missing from the tally, just let me know and I'll add you.


Tally

Day #1: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #2: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #3: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #4: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #5: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #6: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, trobadora, ysilme
Day #7: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #8: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #9: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #10: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #11: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #12: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #13: auroracloud,avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #14: auroracloud,cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #15: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #16: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #17: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #18: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #19: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland trobadora, ysilme
Day #20: auroracloud, avon,cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland trobadora, ysilme
Day #21: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #22: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #23: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, miss_morland, trobadora, ysilme
Day #24: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #25: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #26: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #27: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #28: auroracloud, cornerofmadness, doctor_jehane, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #29: auroracloud, avon, cornerofmadness, esteliel, trobadora, ysilme
Day #30: afrozenflowerr, auroracloud, avon, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme
Day #31: auroracloud, avon, doctor_jehane, trobadora, ysilme



As the tally now stands, out of December's participants trobadora, ysilme (who joined the challenge this month, glad to have you along!) and I held onto writing every single day of the month, and almost everyone who participated in December wrote on the vast majority of the days. Yay!

Congratulations, everyone!