it's a new dawn, it's a new day
Dec. 31st, 2007 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostinapapercupBetween spending Christmas with Mike's family and shamelessly spending my free time writing rather than reading, I haven't even made it halfway through the Yuletide archive reading I intend to do.
Fortunately, I don't care a lick about the reveal. Well, I mean, I do care about the reveal. I'm curious as to who wrote my story, of course, and would love to thank them personally, but as I've never done Yuletide before I'm looking at it all like I'm a newborn. I have no idea what writers tend to write what or who's been writing Yuletide stories for years and who's just started this year, and I'm fine with that.
I think that at its best Yuletide is a truly lovely thing. I'm a cynic and a pessimist, but I still think so. It honestly warmed my heart to get a little piece of fiction that someone had worked on with my request in mind, just as I had volunteered to do for someone else. I remember waking up on the day I was to have my story betaed and taking another glance over the more in-depth note my recipient had in their journal, having a sudden moment of oh, crap, what if this is a little too angsty? what if there's not enough hope?, and hurrying to rework it a little bit -- as in-character as I felt I could, under the circumstances of the story -- to make it feel a little less futile.
And as far as comments go, I'm just glad the recipients of the things I wrote seemed to enjoy them. Or at least didn't seem to be disappointed, which is probably what most people are afraid of. I can't imagine many scenarios where anyone with common courtesy would comment to say they are disappointed, of course. We're all just volunteers, after all. Sure, we all wanted to get fic, but we also wanted to write it for someone else. To me, any comments beyond the ones made by my recipients seemed like icing, and I was flattered to get any.
I need to get some more sleep, but I started this post with the intention of giving my writer a last little public thank you before the reveal. Grace was written for me, and I was so pleased to read it. It's a Y: The Last Man fic featuring Hero and Beth II, two of my very favorites in a comic full of characters I love so much. I've always been fascinated by them individually, and together they make a hell of a pair. Their friendship is something I dearly adore, and I really enjoyed the slice of it that Grace provides.
I'll also take the opportunity to plug a few of the small number of stories I've read so far. Save the Queen is a lovely little unexpected gem, a Final Fantasy Tactics piece centered on Agrias and Ovelia. Tomorrow is a short but bittersweet transition from Peter Pan to Hook. Castles on the Ground is a Little Women story that just made me so content, probably because I've always loved Jo so much.
And now bed seems like a fine place to be.
Fortunately, I don't care a lick about the reveal. Well, I mean, I do care about the reveal. I'm curious as to who wrote my story, of course, and would love to thank them personally, but as I've never done Yuletide before I'm looking at it all like I'm a newborn. I have no idea what writers tend to write what or who's been writing Yuletide stories for years and who's just started this year, and I'm fine with that.
I think that at its best Yuletide is a truly lovely thing. I'm a cynic and a pessimist, but I still think so. It honestly warmed my heart to get a little piece of fiction that someone had worked on with my request in mind, just as I had volunteered to do for someone else. I remember waking up on the day I was to have my story betaed and taking another glance over the more in-depth note my recipient had in their journal, having a sudden moment of oh, crap, what if this is a little too angsty? what if there's not enough hope?, and hurrying to rework it a little bit -- as in-character as I felt I could, under the circumstances of the story -- to make it feel a little less futile.
And as far as comments go, I'm just glad the recipients of the things I wrote seemed to enjoy them. Or at least didn't seem to be disappointed, which is probably what most people are afraid of. I can't imagine many scenarios where anyone with common courtesy would comment to say they are disappointed, of course. We're all just volunteers, after all. Sure, we all wanted to get fic, but we also wanted to write it for someone else. To me, any comments beyond the ones made by my recipients seemed like icing, and I was flattered to get any.
I need to get some more sleep, but I started this post with the intention of giving my writer a last little public thank you before the reveal. Grace was written for me, and I was so pleased to read it. It's a Y: The Last Man fic featuring Hero and Beth II, two of my very favorites in a comic full of characters I love so much. I've always been fascinated by them individually, and together they make a hell of a pair. Their friendship is something I dearly adore, and I really enjoyed the slice of it that Grace provides.
I'll also take the opportunity to plug a few of the small number of stories I've read so far. Save the Queen is a lovely little unexpected gem, a Final Fantasy Tactics piece centered on Agrias and Ovelia. Tomorrow is a short but bittersweet transition from Peter Pan to Hook. Castles on the Ground is a Little Women story that just made me so content, probably because I've always loved Jo so much.
And now bed seems like a fine place to be.
