Merry Christmas and Happy Yuletide!

So, I did Yuletide. And it was awesome and it kicked my butt, and the only way I managed to survive was because I had approximately one-third of the workload at work and music-wise that I was expecting this year, and all of that extra time went into Yuletide. I... had an extremely good time, and I adored writing both my assignment (which was the best assignment EVER) and the random slightly-cracky treat that I started writing while waiting for assignments to go out, and I bow down to the complete awesomeness of my betas (both in how much they improved things and in how much time they were willing to put into it, in a devilishly busy month), and I adored seeing what everyone else had done, and I am loving getting comments. I am, however, rather amused that the humorous treat I knocked together in half the time of my serious assignment, and which caused me rather less than half the wordsmithing and storysmithing angst of my assignment, has gotten much more praise (not surprised, though, as the treat is in a much more popular fandom. Now, I did spend quite a lot of time thinking about that one as well, and I'm happy with how it turned out, but I really did spend a lot more time structuring and polishing the assignment, and I'm rather more proud of that one).

I have Things to Say about what I wrote on -- I had forgotten what an awesome book it was -- and I shall on reveal, but on the principle of in for a penny, in for a pound, I have posted some recs here.