a meme to end the year on

I'm not feeling as nostalgic and backward-looking as usual this New Year's -- not sure why. Anyway, as posts to end the year go, I could do worse than to mimic this meme from matociquala, commemorating the passing of the woman believed to have been the model for Rosie the Riveter.



I wore my dojo t-shirt for the shot; it seemed fitting. (No bandanna, though.)

May we all be mighty and do new things in the coming year.

anonymous Yuletiders are no longer anonymous

The big reveal has happened, and now I can tell you what I wrote for Yuletide.

Before I do that, though -- it's interesting, the ways in which this feels different than linking you to my stories on Beneath Ceaseless Skies or wherever. Those are written for a general audience; as a result, even when they're connected to a pre-existing text (like the Onyx Court novels), I do my best to make sure they stand alone, and can be read by anybody who's interested. In the case of Yuletide, though, they're fanfic, which tends to be heavily in dialogue with the source text, often in ways that bypass the kind of exposition an independent story would need.

Which is a long and overly intellectual way of saying, I have no idea whether any of these stories will mean anything to people who don't know the sources. Since two, possibly three, of them are on the obscure side, this is me throwing up my hands and going, "I dunno, people, read 'em if you want to." <g>

( And the four stories are . . . . )

I'll have more to say later about the experience of Yuletide, but I want to close out by thanking perryvic, my assigned writer, and meridian_rose, who wrote my treat, for giving me that pair of delightful presents. I'll be back to comment more on AO3 later -- but first, off to my New Year's party!