I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year, for fandoms and pairings I love, and I had a blast, as always. A panicky blast, but a blast. I love Yuletide.

Hearthstone
Dead Zone, Johnny/Walt.
NC-17, 36k, 5,500 words
Summary: Light in the darkness.
(Yuletide archive version)


Rx
MASH, Hawkeye/Trapper
PG, 11k, 1,450 words
Summary: This is what he'd been waiting for.
(Yuletide archive version)


And since I don't quite have my recs ready to go yet, I have to take this opportunity to pimp the story I received, which I've been very happy to see has been getting a lot of positive response, because it *rocks*:

Strange Bedfellows, by Lyrastar.
It's also MASH, and also Hawkeye/Trapper, and it made me incredibly happy. She nailed the show and the characters perfectly. Go, read, comment, praise!

And, er, about those Yuletide recs...

I was hoping to have a recs post ready for today, but I was reading right up to the reveal last night, and I still have something like 15 entire fandoms bookmarked to read, never mind fandoms I don't know as well that I was hoping to get to eventually. OMG, 1,057 stories. So I'll either put up a recs-so-far listing sometime in the next few days, or will hold off and do a final version in a week or two.

In the meantime, I've been bookmarking Yuletide 2006 stories I particularly like here on del.icio.us, if anyone's desperate for links in this vast wasteland of no Yuletide recs anywhere. *g* I know it's tough to find things to read! I haven't pulled these out into astolat's nifty script on my website, so they're not all pretty, but they're functional.

I just added a Halloween story written for sga_flashfic:

Title: Booty
Author: Arduinna
Rating: G, gen
Word count: ~925
Summary: It's a custom.

on my website

on sga_flashfic

Title: Signals
Author: Arduinna
Fandom: I Spy (TV)
Pairing: Scotty/Kelly, explicit
Challenge: Cliche (sharing one hotel bed)
Word count: 3,173

This was my entry for the Blast From the Past challenge.

Signals on challenges_past.

Or if you prefer reading on a website, it's here.

Feedback is always welcome!

Title: Candygram
Author: Arduinna
Illustrator: cynicatlantis
Rating: G, preslash (McKay/Sheppard)
Summary: "Do you think it ate Colonel Sheppard?" Crackfic.
Spoilers: None.
Roughly 1,800 words

So, I posted a story in merrymakings about a month ago to cheer merryish up while she was recovering from surgery, inspired by a drawing cynicatlantis had done. After she read the story, to my absolute delight, cynicatlantis made several fabulous illos specifically for it, including the perfect cover. So, just in time for merryish's birthday:

Candygram, broadband version (~400k, image-heavy)

Candygram, dialup version (~20k, linked images)

Happy birthday, Merry!

I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year -- my assignment and a pinch hit. I'd never written anything in either fandom before, so Yuletide continues its tradition of making me try new things.

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Jolly Roger
Boston Legal, written for Yochan
10k, gen (...ish), Alan and Denny

"I always thought I'd make a good pirate," Denny said idly.

my site

Yuletide archive

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I Coulda Been a Defendant
Night Court, written for pepperlandgirl
10k, PG, Harry/Dan

Harry sees Dan in a whole new way.

my site

Yuletide archive

First off, thank you so much for writing this! I'll be happy with anything you do; just knowing that someone is writing a story in one of these fandoms has me beaming.

If you already have an idea of what you want to write, or you prefer having as little info as possible, ignore the rest of this -- write what makes you happy! ( But if you're looking for a bit more info... )

I just posted a story for the Worst-Case Scenario challenge:

Restorative

It's Peacemakers, Stone/Finch. I had to rush this a bit to meet the deadline, so I may wind up tweaking it some more over the next few days; fair warning.

I also redid the look of the site and put up a few bits and pieces I meant to put up a while back, including:

Interrogation
a Dead Zone crossover drabble with Law & Order: Criminal Intent. (no, really.)

and

One Degree of Separation
an Alias PWP (Will/Vaughn) that I wrote years ago and never did anything with.

I just added a recs page to my site. The first (huge) batch of recs covers more than 90 stories, in more than 50 fandoms -- the number of fandoms is thanks to the Yuletide archive, which is where a good many of these stories live.

Beyond Yuletide, a lot of these are older stories from older fandoms. Obviously, despite the numbers, I've barely scratched the surface; there are entire fandoms still missing, and lots of stories in the fandoms I've started in on that I didn't get around to adding. I'll be adding more eventually, but I don't know how often or extensively.

Recs page

Written for therienne's birthday and posted in the First Contact challenge on sga_flashfic.

Bailey's 7: SGA, h/c, McKay/Sheppard.

It'll go up on my website next week, after it's released from challenge posting restrictions.

This is a late entry for slodwick's A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words challenge. It was due on Feb. 28, but I spaced and didn't get it done on time.

The idea was that you'd be assigned a picture, and have to write a story of exactly 1,000 words based on it -- literally, metaphorically, whatever.

( my assignment picture )

The story I came up with was Playing Hooky, a slash Invisible Man story. Many thanks to marycrawford for the beta!

I went with I-Man for a very specific reason -- that being therienne. In case you're interested, it's better to read the story before reading this explanation (no, really *g*), so I'm putting this under tons of space in a cut.

( The story behind the story )