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Turned in my nominations for Yuletide. Someone else have nominated All About Eve and unfortunately The Mummy is no longer eligible. So I ended up with these:

fandom: Deadwood
character 1: Al Swearengen
character 2: Alma Garret
character 3:Trixie
character 4:Seth Bullock
notes: I’m happy to switch Trixie and Seth for any other character.

fandom:Ivanhoe
character 1:Rebecca of York
character 2:Brian de Bois-Guilbert
character 3:Wilfred of Ivanhoe
character 4: Rowena of Rotherwood
notes:I’m happy to switch Wilfred and Rebecca for any other character.

fandom:Elizabeth and the Garret Theatre
character 1:Alison Verney
character 2:Elizabeth Verney
character 3:Nigel Gifford
character 4:Nan Verney

After some dithering, I have been able to weed out The Historian for this year’s Yuletide. Now I only have three to boil down to one…

Deadwood Lots of for, as it is one of my all-time favourite TV shows. Even if I’m mostly into fic with Al/Alma, I’m happy with reading about just anyone from the show. My main against it that even if I love it, I also feel I can’t write it myself- my English isn’t up for the verbosity of Deadwood. And with the new movie, it’s not unlikely it will be nominated by someone else.

The Mummy (1999) Evy/Ardeth/Rick is my main O3P, and a fic about hem always make my day Also, it’s a fandom I feel capable of writing too, which is quite important- sometimes I have to stretch myself into finding enough fandoms to write for to fill up my sign-up. In fact, the only reason to not nominate this fandom is that it’s fairly popular and may be nominated by someone else.

Ivanhoe In a way this is really a Yuletide fandom- there are only a handful of fics, and it would be lovely to have more. Rebecca of York/Brian de Bois-Guilbert was probably my first OTP too. It’s also a fandom I can write about myself. The main con is that it's so small it’s not that likely anyone will write it, and with Elizabeth and the Garrett Theatre I already have a minuscule fandom among my nominations.

So, decisions, decisions. I may be a little sly and nominate late and hope someone else pick Deadwood and The Mummy

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/335532.html

At least for the two, I have decided on

FANDOM NAME: All About Eve A movie from 1950 which won several Oscars, starring Bettie Davies, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merill, Celeste Holm, and Marilyn Monroe.

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: This is the movie which re-started Bettie Davies career, and she’s great here as Margo, a brilliant but aging actress who takes an interest in a young woman, Eve, who little by little starts to outmaneuver her, both in her private life as well as an actress. The rest of the cast is great too- especially George Sanders who bagged himself an Oscar for the role of the powerful but unpleasant theatre critic Addison DeWitt. It’s one of my all-time favorite movies and one I wish there was more of a fandom for.

I find most of the characters in this movie interesting. I like that even the “good” characters have flaws, and there are some interesting themes about ambition, desire, and happiness. There is also a strong subtext (this is a movie made under the Hays Code, after all), that Eve is homosexual. Not all of that has aged well, but it’s still an interesting movie well worth watching! And writing fanfic about; the movie ends on a rather ambiguous note, and there is room for prequels, epilogues as well as missing scenes.

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): I don’t know if it’s streaming anywhere, but it has been released on DVD and Blu Ray. You can find the script here.

"All About Eve (1950) - trailer" (Watch on YouTube)

FANDOM NAME: Gwendoline Courtney: Elizabeth and the Garret Theatre. Alternative titles: Stepmother, Those Verney Girls

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A fandom for those who want something cozy and where everyone ends up happy. This book was released in 1948 as a “girls book” and have been my ultimate comfort read since I was ten. It's about four sisters aged 10-17 who has to deal with their father sudden re-marriage. Convinced stepmother is always awful they set out to make life difficult for the unwanted intruder but finds out Nan is actually a lovely person whom it is very hard to hate. The book is also about the sister’s love for theatre; their Garrett theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew is an important part of the book. As is delicious teas and the transformation of anything dull and boring in the sister’s home into something lovely and comfortable.

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Girls Gone By released it with it’s original title, Stepmother and illustrations last year. It can also be found in libraries and used-book stores.

Yuletide is coming and I have decided to sign up again. I missed it a lot last year, but I don’t think I would have bern able to go through it. But noe I do, and nominations will open soon, and I’m dithering on which to choose. Almost certainly All About Eve and Gwendoline Courtney’s Elizabeth and the Garrett Theatre. But then I have a soft spot for Ivanhoe, Deadwood, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and The Mummy. It’s not unlikely Deadwood and The Mummy will be nominated by others, but it still gives me two fandoms to chose from.

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/334717.html

I hope you all have had a good holiday, however you celebrate it. We spent Christmas Eve with at my parents, along with my sister and her family. We had a good time- I enjoy spending time with my family, but my nephew is an 19th month old bundle of happy energy. I was completely exhausted when we came home.

I had two lovely gifts for Yuletide, and I highly recommend them both to you.

Title: Cruel Alchemy
Fandom: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Rating: General Audience
Word Count: 1423
Characters: Eliza Tillinghast, Ezra Weeden
Warnings: None
Summary: After Joseph Curwen's death, his widow is visited by her old suitor for the last time.

Title: Four Weddings, No Funeral
Fandom: Deadwood
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 1231
Characters/pairing: Alma Garret/Al Swearengen, Sol Star/Trixie, Martha Bullock/Seth Bullock, Jane Cannary/Joanie Stubbs
Warnings: Explicit Language
Summary: Not four actual weddings, but four couples. Somehow "Four Relationships, No Funeral" just doesn't sound the same.

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/262312.html

Got properly flabbergasted for getting my Yuletide assignment so soon. I got a very good letter, but also a bit outside my comfort zone. But I have half an idea already, and hopefully I can make something good out of it. I’ve also noticed a letter with a request for a fandom I didn’t sign up to write, but got an idea for as soon as I saw it. So I think i can pretty safely say there will be at least one Treat. But I wonder when they will open up the Request summary at AO3. Some people only put there prompts on AO#, and some who do write letter doesn’t post about them in the letters post, so I always find the Request summary the best place to look Treat-ees. I also noticed that all my fandom request has got offers, which I didn’t expect- especially the pretty obscure offer of Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre. Weee!

And I’ve no less than two super nice comment on My Only Love, which completely made my day.

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/255226.html

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The Yuletide tagset is open! My nominations all got through, so now I have loads of fandoms to choose from.

Obviously my own nominations:
Gwendolyn Courtney - Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre
H. P. Lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

But then I have to narrow these five down to three:
4. The Mummy Series
5. The Borgias
6. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
7. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
8. Deadwood

The Mummy series is pretty given as I considered nomming those myself, but the rest will be tricky to decide on. Versailles was nominated, but not the characters I’m interested in, so that one falls away, at least.

There are also plenty of fandoms nominated I have written in; The Mummy, Penny Dreadful, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Peter Pan, even if I don’t know if I want to write in all those this year. There are also a few I haven’t written in, but can imagine doing so for, so I predict no problems in that area.

Apart from that I went down with autumn’s first case of bronchitis on Sunday, and feel very much under the weather. Tomorrow I need to get my act together when it comes to The Darkest Night-fic if I’m to have it done my the 30th. I have felt much too sick to sit in front of a computer up until today. Very annoying.

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/252175.html

And suddenly Yuletide is almost upon us. How did that happen? Last year I nominated H. P Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward with the characters Joseph Curwen, Eliza Tillinghast and Ezra Weeden. Because I have a hankering for knowing more about Eliza and her marriage to Curwen, and I think I’m going to nominate that one again.

And I’ll definitely nominate Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre by Gwendoline Courtney, with the characters Alison, Elizabeth, Nigel and Nan, again.

But then I don’t know. My third last year was Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe with the characters Brian de Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca of York, but I don’t really feel the love for that this year. I’ve been thinking of Versailles and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. The Mummy is also an option, though it is usually nominated anyway.

I need at least 100 words more on my Remix-fic, but I feel confident I will be able to add that tomorrow, when my brain has stopped being mush from writing on it today… And I have until september 10, so it shouldn’t be a problem to have it finished by then.

Crossposts: https://scripsi.livejournal.com/250040.html

Here are my lovely Yuletide gift and treat. Both well worth reading!

Title: Her Echoes, They Surround
Fandom: The Mummy
Rating: Explicit
Genre: PWP
Word Count: 3779
Characters/pairing: Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell
Warnings: Well, sex.
Summary: If he beat the monster from Hamunaptra only to go to hell for this instead, it'll still be worth it.

It may be PWP, but it’s very well-written PWP. And not without some seriousness- the beginning is a rather chilling description of how Imhotep and his curse must have affected the common man. And then we get some lovely Ardeth/Evy/Rick, told from Rick’s POV.

Title: Duty, Loyalty, Loneliness
Fandom: Versailles
Rating: Teen and up
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 3653
Characters/pairing: Fabien Marchal/Claudine Masson
Warnings: Quite a few dead bodies..
Summary:Claudine's most regular patient begins sending her the oddest gifts.

Fabien Marchal quickly became one of my favourites characters in Versailles. I also felt there were hints of a relationship in the making between him and Claudine, despite their differences. This fic explores their awkward personalities- neither of them has a very good idea of how to start a love story.

I’ve started on my Yuletide fic and have managed a couple of hundred words and a synopsis over the rest. And quite by chance I read a Yuletide letter about a fandom I know, but has never considered writing in. Suddenly I had a fully formed idea for a treat and a synopsis and 300 words down on that one too. Ooops.

So, with revising and writing and still wanting to update here, I have formed a PLAN. I will write 400 words on my main Yuletide fic ever day. And when I have done that, then I can write the same amount for a blog post. And after that, I can write 400 words on a Treat, and then circle back to my main Yuletide fic. Which means I will probably post less here, but on the other hand I will get a lot of other writing done. I hope to write at least two Treats, hopefully more and perhaps a couple of drabbles, so if I’m scarce here, you know what I’m doing. :D

So much for getting some WIP’s out of the way before Yuletide- the assignments are already out. At least I managed to finish my Versailles-fic. My assigment looks good and I feel confident I will be able to write something acceptable. All my nomination had offers, which surprised me a little, as at least one if extremely obscure. I know this doesn’t mean I will get fic, but it’s nice to know the possibility is there.

I’ve checked out the fandoms I’m interested in writing in, and I’m sure I will manage to write Treats too. Of course, some fandoms (I’m looking at you Versailles) has favourite characters/pairings I have no interest in writing at all. I never seem to be interested in the mainstream favourites in any fandom. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have someone to squee together with.

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The nominations for

yuletide has opened, and I have submitted mine.

H. P Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward with the characters Joseph Curwen, Eliza Tillinghast and Ezra Weeden. Because I have a hankering for knowing more about Eliza and her marriage to Curwen.

Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe with the characters Brian de Bois-Guilbert and Rebecca of York. Even at the tender age of five when I saw the 50’s version with George Sanders and Elizabeth Taylor as those characters, I pegged them as the two who interested me the most. Something I have held on to through reading the book, watching the 80’s movie version and the 90’s mini-series. I would enjoy a missing scene, but what I really crave is an AU where Bois-Guilbert survives and they meet again. It doesn’t have to be a love story, I just want to know what they would say to each other.

And I did nominate Elizabeth of the Garrett Theatre by Gwendoline Courtney, with the characters Alison, Elizabeth, Nigel and Nan. I want missing scenes and even more fic taking place a couple of years later.

I’m going to hope someone else nominates Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with the characters I want.

The Yuletide authors have been revealed and I can post my stories here. This is my main gift fic, written for redsnake05.

Title: A Place In the Shadows
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: All ages
Genre: Gen, friendship
Word Count: 1216
Characters: Vanessa Ives, Sembene
Warnings: None
Summary: Cold in both body and soul, Vanessa finds an unexpected comfort.
AN: One of the things I love about Penny Dreadful is how it manages to evoke such things as smell and sense, not just sounds and vision. I tried to capture some of that in this fic as well. I labeled this fic Gen, but there is a hint of Vanessa/Sembene. Thanks to LilacFree for beta-reading.

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