Greetings, O YuleScrivener, and welcome!

First of all, thank you! As a longtime requester of Seriously Obscure Fandoms™, I'm constantly amazed when the matching process succeeds in finding authors who have actually heard of and fallen in love with the canons I so persistently request. I am also invariably delighted on Christmas morning when wonderful and wondrous stories land in my AO3 gift-folder. In particular, I've gotten some truly excellent treats in recent years, as well as a stream of gorgeous gifts - it boggles my mind that the Yuletide community is as consistently productive - and as consistently talented - as it is, and the fact that some of those stories are written just for me never ceases to amaze me.

With the evolution in Yuletide customs over the last few years, my detailed fandom requests, prompts and all, are mirrored straight from the signup itself. Anyone needing further details regarding a specific request should email the Yuletide mods. (As far as I'm concerned, this goes both for assigned writers and prospective creators of treats - to which I remain very much open - unless and until the mods tell us otherwise.)

My AO3 dashboard is linked to your left; feel free to cruise it looking for fandoms of mutual interest (or just to see what all I've written for). Here on DW, all my fic-exchange letters are tagged "dear santa" as well as to the relevant exchanges, Yuletide included. For those of you willing and able to feed my endless desire for crossovers and fusions, let those listings be your guide to prospective combinations.

Now, then: here's what you need to know about my reading tastes:

Things I like:
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DNWs:
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Now for the specific requests:

Diana Winthrop series - Kate Chambers (any character)
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Enola Holmes series - Nancy Springer (Cecily Alistair)
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Jackie Chan Advantures (any character)
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Planet Builders - Robyn Tallis (any character)
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Power Rangers Dino Thunder (Tommy Oliver)
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Stealing the Elf-King's Roses - Diane Duane (any character)
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It is, it is a glorious Yuletide, and I am just now coming up for air after a surprisingly busy Christmas-midweek.

So far my contribution to Yuletide has been admired by its recipient and a couple of other readers, with a tiny scattering of hits.  This is perfectly cool, as the fandom is way out on the seriously obscure end of obscurity.

My gift-fic, meanwhile, is a thing of great loveliness in a slightly less obscure fandom:

Artifacts
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses - Diane Duane
G • gen • ~1500 words
Lee Enfield; Gelert

Some of the qualities of matter have changed now, sure, but a lot of investigating remains the same.

Our Heroes are consulting crime-scene investigators in one of the next universes over from ours, who use technical sorcery the way CSIs in our world use traditional science.  Also, Gelert is essentially a very large shaggy dog. 

This is a snapshot of a case that comes up after the events of the novel, but it's sufficiently self-contained that you don't strictly need the novel to understand the world.  And reading this should not spoil you for any of the major twists and turns in the novel proper, which is a definite bonus.  The author nails Duane's narrative voice and shows an excellent understanding of the magical system; I am very, very pleased indeed to have had this written for me, and if the scene you see here draws you in, I highly recommend the book, which is available in an author's preferred e-book edition direct from Diane Duane's Web site.

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This is a fanfic journal. I'm interested in a wide variety of fandoms as well as in meta- and theoretical discussions; see my interests list for specific fandom categories. Comments, critiques, recs, reviews, and the like are always welcome.

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