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Fandom Stocking was so good to me this year! (My stocking is here.) I got a BUNCH of icons, so now I have a slew of Iron Fist ones (see post icon!) and I've already swapped out my sholiofic icon for one of the new Agent Carter ones that leesa_perrie made me.

And I got an embarrassment of riches for fic - seriously, I am SO LUCKY and you guys are SO great. ♥

FICS FOR ME!

Come Around by xparrot (Trollhunters, Barbara/Walt, 10K!!!)
Xparrot wrote me 10K of Trollhunters fic for my OTP and it is SO GOOOOOOD. (Canon) babies and slow relationship-building and cool alienness and Changeling angst!

One Shot Over the Line by chomiji (Hellburner, Ben/Dek + canon pairings, 1400 wds)
Not gonna lie, I ship it, and this is so sweet and prickly and funny, and so them; an absolute total delight.

First Aid by glorious_spoon (Stranger Things, Steve + Dustin, 1100 wds)
SO CUTE OMGGG. ♥ Steve is the best big brother.

you’re calling to me (i can’t hear what you’ve said) by maplemood (Punisher, Frank + Leo,
Lovely and heartbreaking in all the right ways, and perfectly in character.

We're heading for something by nanasekei (Stranger Things/Avengers, SteveH + Dustin + Tony + SteveR, 1700 wds)
Their lives continue to be The Actual Weirdest. ♥

Plus a sweet lil Punisher ficlet.

I'll be back in a minute with what I wrote/made!

The stockening begins: My Fandom Stocking is up! My eventual list of requested fandoms this year: Agent Carter, Iron Fist, Defenders, Punisher, Stranger Things, Trollhunters, Alliance-Union, Black Panther. Should you wish to treat me, you can leave treats in comments to that post (and can also submit to this year's AO3 collection).

You can still sign up 'til Dec. 15!

Another thing that seems to be going strong right now: commentfic memes! This is a DW thing that never really made the jump to Tumblr because the format just doesn't really support it (not that Tumblr doesn't have promptfic aplenty, and it's great, but this particular thing with a bunch of people leaving prompts for anyone to answer doesn't really translate format-wise). Here are the ones I'm currently participating in:

• Three Sentence Ficathon
• Middle-Aged Ships Comment Ficathon

Things I've written for the Three-Sentence Ficathon so far (yes, I failed at 3 sentences on the 2nd one, but the rules say that's okay XD):
Arrowverse, Oliver/Barry, stranded without powers
Thor & Loki, bodyswap

Go and leave prompts for any of my fandoms! :DDD (Or any fandom I'm not into, obviously. But I'd love to have more options to write!)

If there are any fandoms you particularly want prompts for at either of these, let me know and I'll leave you some if I'm familiar enough with it to come up with anything.

Also, prompt claiming is open at smallfandomfest (a no-pressure ficathon similar to the above except that the prompts are on a spreadsheet and must be explicitly claimed).

The stockings are live! Mine is here, and I'm completely delighted with everything I got, including the delightful icon I'm using on this post, a fantastic AU in which Peggy takes the SSR Chief job instead of Daniel by sheron, a darling GotG Christmas story by opalmatrix, and a snippet of a Fallen London/Agent Carter crossover by frith_in_thorns (in which Peggy has a mushroom hat and Jack is a Devil, because of course he is). Also book recs, pictures, greetings, and lots of lovely stuff. ♥

As usual, I didn't manage to treat everyone I wanted to, but I did sign up as a needy-stocking-filler, so I ended up writing quite a bit anyway! This year I wrote:

[Agent Carter] Ladyhawke AU [also on Tumblr]
[Stargate Atlantis] Rodney and Teyla are buried in an avalanche
[White Collar] Neal's first Christmas post-prison and Kate
[Ant-Man] Cassie and her giant pet ant

[Stranger Things] The kids give Steve a walkie-talkie of his own for Christmas
[Stranger Things] Kali has her own special Christmas ritual
[Stranger Things] Joyce/Hopper at Thanksgiving
[Stranger Things] The kids teach Steve to play D&D

[Dark Matter] Clothes-sharing for the win. Hey, it's a small ship. (Two/Three plus other pairings)
[Dark Matter] Two has a wardrobe malfunction (Two/Three)

All are gen unless other pairings are noted. Since they're all pretty short this year, I'll probably end up reposting them on Tumblr (and some are on AO3). I'll add the Tumblr links when they're up.

DECEMBER ALREADY, AAAAA.

It's fandom_stocking time again! Signup post here. I love f_s; I think it's my favorite winter fandom event. ♥

And there's a new Agent Carter fanworks exchange in town: Agent Carter Valentines. It's a relationship-based exchange (gen or ship) due on Valentine's Day. Tumblr comm here; the exchange itself is run through AO3.

The stockings are being posted, and mine is now up!

http://fandom-stocking.dreamwidth.org/627332.html

Please link to yours too, if you have one!

I really meant to do a post about this earlier; how has it been more than a week since the stockings went live already?

I was thoroughly delighted with my stocking this year; it was great and you are all invited over to check out my stuff. :D I got fic, art, wallpapers, icons, recs, and holiday greetings; it's all absolutely wonderful and I had so much fun going through it. THANK YOU! ♥

Here's what I wrote!

Longer fics:

Stars to Guide You Home (Star Wars Episode VII, Rey, gen, 3600 wds)
Rey gets migraines. Back in the desert she used to just put up with them.

Reap the Whirlwind (Jessica Jones, Jessica/Trish, 1200 wds)
Jessica's running, again. But this time Trish won't let her.

Typical Day at the Office (White Collar, Neal & Peter, gen, 1800 wds)
Neal gets thrown through a plate-glass window.

Midnight Visitor (White Collar; Peter & Elizabeth & Neal; 1900 wds)
Missing scene for 2x08, after Peter is poisoned.


Shorter ficlets:

Peggy and Jarvis - Jarvis fixing her up after a mission gone wrong (Agent Carter)
Peggy and Angie Christmas fic (Agent Carter)
Rodney taking apart Ronon's blaster (Stargate Atlantis)
Neal picking Peter's pocket (White Collar)
Steve, Bucky, and Natasha get a house together (MCU, set after AoU)

gaaahhhh, I'm sick AGAIN. My immune system is hereby on notice.

But in much better news, fandom_stocking stockings are still being hung, and mine is up now!

http://fandom-stocking.dreamwidth.org/581273.html

Requested fandoms: Agent Carter, White Collar, Shadows of the Apt (Adrian Tchaikovsky), Dark Matter, Rusalka series (CJ Cherryh), Alliance/Union (CJ Cherryh).

Of course now that it's too late to edit, THIS is when I think of other things I should have included. For example, I forgot to mention in my likes that I absolutely love AUs, of either the total-AU or "turn left at canon" variety. :D

If you have a stocking and would like to link it in the comments, please do! If you posted a holiday wishlist, as some people do (as I used to, once upon a time, but didn't this year), please feel free to link to that, as well.

The Fandom Stockings are revealed! Mine is here and I got lots of lovely stuff -- pictures and ficlets and recs and greetings. I'm delighted with it. :D

I did not manage to get to all the stockings I wanted to fill this year, but I ended up writing a fair amount of stuff, though it's mostly unfinished snippets. Here's what I wrote this year:

White Collar:
A scene from an AU in which Peter is a criminal and Neal is an agent for veleda_k
Post-finale reunion ficlet for leesa_perrie
A different post-finale reunion ficlet for pipilj
A little more of the Iceland fic I posted in comments awhile back for aqwt101 (here's the other piece)
A little more of the White Collar/October Daye fusion Frith and I share for frith_in_thorns (following on directly from the snippet she wrote for me last fandom stocking)
Snippets from a post-finale Christmas story for sheron
Werewolf Peter playing in the snow for kanarek13
Diana is afflicted with Theo's uncles for sheenianni
(the latter two written as snippets in my own comments as thank-yous to people who gave me something when I hadn't given them anything!)

MCU:
Scene from a fic in which Bucky never gets his memories back but becomes friends with Steve anyway for trobadora

btw, it is perfectly fine with me if people who aren't the recipient comment on these; I think it's perfectly fine, although you might wait 'til the recipient has a chance to comment first if they haven't yet. :D I would have posted some of them on AO3, but none are really finished enough to do that (and the only one which actually is a complete story, Veleda's story, has a major plot hole that needs to be fixed >_>).

- My fandom stocking is up! I love Fandom Stocking so much; it's such a delightful, no-pressure fest. (And they're still taking signups, if you're interested!) I've been having so much trouble writing lately that this is clearly not going to be one of those years when I try to put something in the stocking of everyone I know, but since I haven't really been doing holiday fic exchanges the last few years, this is where most of my fic-gifting efforts take place.

Books:

- Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith is really fun, especially if you're more into the community-building aspect of post-apocalypse scenarios than the destruction aspects (which I am). There's a large ensemble cast and an overall hopeful, "most people are basically good at heart" vibe. One of the things I liked about the book is that for the most part, even the really unpleasant people in the group (the bigots, the snobs) are still fundamentally decent and willing to come through in a crisis; it's not a case of ~everyone who doesn't get along with the main characters is EEEEEVIL~, which I really appreciated. There's also a general sense that, while the book (being YA) is primarily focused on the teenagers, the adults have a really interesting backstory that I want to know more about! I'm looking forward to the sequel.

- Dresden Files: War Cry - Graphic novel which came in my Amazon order yesterday, and turned out to be an unexpected delight because I somehow missed that it's written by Jim Butcher and is therefore actual canon (it takes place between Dead Beat and Proven Guilty). And as well as featuring the Wardens, so we get to see the comics versions of Luccio and Ramirez, it's FULL OF THOMAS. Thomas and Harry snarking at each other, saving each other's lives, etc ... in case that's, you know, an enticement for anyone. :> You get quite a lot of Thomas's POV in this, too, which is something that's lacking in the novels since they're all in Harry's viewpoint. The cover art for War Cry #5 (the graphic novel is a collection of 5 single issues) is also Relevant To My Interests. Sadly this is not an actual scene from the comic. But it is still nifty.

In general I kinda can't get over how much Butcher obviously loves writing Harry and Thomas, and how fanficcy his side stories with those two tend to be. (Still not over the birthday story. NEVER OVER THE BIRTHDAY STORY.) War Cry also includes a scene where ( Cut for spoiler, which is also span-texted out )

Something I was also thinking about, Dresden Files-related, is that the part of the series from approximately Blood Rites to just before Turn Coat is where my heart is anchored in that series. I don't know if it's just because that was the general time period when I started reading so I imprinted on it, and it's not that there haven't been plenty of things I've enjoyed in the books since then, but that's "my" Dresden Files, and it was really nice to have another story from that era.

I thought about trying to come up with a better title for this, but what else could so accurately capture its essence? This is White Collar ... IN SPAAAACE! Written for fandom_stocking, naturally.

Alternate universe, 2100 words, gen, no spoilers for anything canonical; also posted to AO3.

( White Collar IN SPACE! )