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Dear Yuletide Writer

2024-10-15T20:23:46Z

Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm very much looking forward to reading whatever you write :D

Temeraire, Laurence & Temeraire
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Spinning Silver, Miryem and/or Irina and/or Wanda and/or Mirnatius
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Scholomance, Aadhya
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The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, Robert Caldwell, Simon Feximal
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Think of England, Archie Curtis & Daniel da Silva
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August Reading

2024-10-06T01:42:45Z

Not much reading this month--and a month late! but here it is.

**Finished**

Lady of Quality, Georgette Heyer
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Bath Tangle, Georgette Heyer
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Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer
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Chaos on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer
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**Percentage Reads**

The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness, by Andi Puddicombe, 40%->63%
The Iliad, Caroline Alextander translation, 52%->83%
The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition, Edward Pettit translsation, 3%->7%
Best of Poetry: Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn, 1%->49%
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, editor Zong-Qi Cai, 12%->15%
Programming In Scala, Fourth Edition, 28%->40%

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July Reads, 2024

2024-08-18T01:45:27Z

Finished

Early Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay (editor Holly Peppe)
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The Duke At Hazard, The Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, KJ Charles
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The Sharing Knife

Beguilement, The Sharing Knife #1, Lois McMaster Bujold
Legacy, The Sharing Knife #2, Lois McMaster Bujold
Passage, The Sharing Knife #3, Lois McMaster Bujold
Horizon, The Sharing Knife #4, Lois McMaster Bujold
Knife Children, The Sharing Knife #4.5, Lois McMaster Bujold
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The Heyers

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Wimsey

The Five Red Herrings, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
Have His Carcase, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder Must Advertise, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nine Tailors, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon, Lord Peter Wimsey #6, Dorothy L. Sayers
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June Reads, 2024

2024-07-05T04:22:25Z

Full Reads

Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu, translated by Keith Holyoak

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Whose Body?, Lord Peter Wimsey #1, by Dorothy Sayers

(This review also contains spoilers for the Julian Kestrel series, in particular the third book.)

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Clouds of Witness, Lord Peter Wimsey #2, by Dorothy Sayers

The Duke of Denver, Peter's older brother, has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of their sister Mary's fiance. Peter's sure he didn't do it, but there's certainly something he's keeping secret. And what is their sister Mary hiding...?

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Unnatural Death, Lord Peter Wimsey #3, by Dorothy Sayers

Peter hears a tale of something that may have been a totally natural death--or may have been murder. But the more he starts to investigate, the more he wonders if investigating was worth it...

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Lord Peter Wimsey #4, by Dorothy Sayers

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Strong Poison, Lord Peter Wimsey #5, by Dorothy Sayers

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Pro Git, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

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Percentage Reads

How to Read Chinese Poetry, A Guided Anthology 0 -> 7%

Early Poems, by Edna St Vincent Millay, 0 -> 21%

Thinking In Systems: A Primer, 0 -> 11%

Programming in Scala, Fourth Edition 0 -> 15%

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May Reads, 2024

2024-06-15T20:45:49Z

Finished Books

The Wizard's Butler, by Nathan Lowell. I believe it's self-published. ( Read more... )

Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Hilary Tamar #1, by Sarah Caudwell ( Read more... )

The Game of Kings, Lymond Chronicles #1, by Dorothy Dunnett ( Read more... )

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sunlit_stone @ 2022-11-19T17:13:00

2022-11-19T22:14:53Z

I was looking at the scene of LXC and LWJ and the bunnies over on twitter—it's a memory in a dream, in the second incense burner chapter, so I suppose you could reject it but I think the most natural interpretation is that it's just how it happened. And it's really interesting!

( scene from the ER translation, ch 119... )

( So some thoughts: )

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Yuletide Letter

2022-10-19T22:33:56Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you for writing for me! I'm very much looking forward to reading what you write :)

Likes in general: more than anything I tend to like focusing in on canon closely; missing scenes or post-canon scenes or point-of-divergence AUs over setting AUs. (By 'canon' here I really mean canon characters, but I think the world they're in often pretty heavily informs those characters and is an important part of them.) I love poetry, if you want to do poetry I'd love to receive it! I'm also happy if you want to do something weird formally; knock your heart out. I like mysteries and bittersweet endings and, hmmm, genuine relationships between people, and people who actually have to live in and deal with an imperfect world.

DNWs: In general, no noncon or serious threats thereof (with some canon-specific modulation, I'm not asking that you not refer to previous noncon threats in Spinning Silver, e.g.), addiction narratives, setting AUs, character bashing, or breaking up canon relationships. I've got more specific details under each canon section!

I do want to note that I'm not DNW-ing character death: if you want to kill a character you're welcome to do so if that's what you think the story needs.

Spinning Silver

Characters: Miryem, Irina, Mirnatius

I picked the characters for this one but honestly I'd be happy for scenarios involving any two of them, or for that matter any one of them and Wanda! Honestly I can't actually imagine how you'd get a fic centering on Wanda and Mirnatius but if you want to do something with it I'm 100% there. I'd love to see how Irina and Mirnatius' relationship develops immediately post-canon; Magreta's not a nominated character but if you wanted to do something from her perspective I'd love that too! I'd also love to see missing scenes in canon (or another POV on scenes we do see happen) or Irina and Miryem talking again post-canon, or a scene focusing on Miryem and Wanda post-canon... If you do want to write a fic focusing on Miryem and Irina and Mirnatius that would also be fascinating and I'm 100% here for it!! Basically anything looking at the characters.

DNWs: in addition to the general DNWs I'm adding explicit sex for this fandom! And when it comes to the noncon and threats of noncon I want to add some nuance for this fandom: noncon/threats of noncon is a basic background fact in this world, and also feature pretty heavily in the background of like every character. I don't want new noncon or serious threats of noncon happening to the main characters; but it can happen to side characters if that's necessary for the story, and I'm not expecting the characters' in-universe approach to/understanding of consent to change so if you need to have, I don't know, someone tell Irina that it's not so bad if you just lie down and let him get it over with that kind of thing is fine too.

Think of England

Characters: Archie, Daniel

I think Archie and Daniel are my favourite of KJ Charles's couples; I love Daniel's surprise at and appreciation for Archie's appreciation of poetry, Daniel's horror of violence, Archie's tendency towards it, Daniel's bravery, Archie's desire to do the right thing, Archie's trust in Daniel, etc. I'd love any kind of post-canon fic for these two: casefic, they're out having a lovely picnic, they're dealing with nasty rumours and gossip, they're shuffling about together in their old age. Whatever you like! Just go for it :D

DNWs: I don't have anything special here! Just my general DNWs

Eagle of the Ninth

Characters: Marcus, Esca

I really like their relationship and I would love to see more of it. I love the ease and the depth of their connection. Once again I'm suggesting a picnic (I'm always suggesting characters having picnics!)—well, probably them eating out in the woods on a journey given the circumstances—, or actually this is something where I really would love to see them twenty, thirty years down the road. (I'm not sure how you'd work this in but I absolutely loved Marcus doing his the Demetrius of Alexandria routine and if you wanted to include that I'd love it.) I'd be happy if you wanted to include Cottia or Cub or Uncle Aquila or really any of the other characters, but if you just want Marcus and Esca I'll be happy too 🙂 I'll add that I appreciate that Marcus is disabled and I'd appreciate it if the fic remembers that too.

DNW: I DNW'd movie narrative and characterization—obviously this is very subjective and it's not like there's no overlap! But I do think there's a fairly significant difference between them, and I'm just asking for a good-faith effort that it come from the novel rather than the movie. Basically I requested the novel and I do want novel fic!

The Fall of Ile-Rien

Characters: Ilias and Tremaine

ILIAS AND TREMAINE. God I love them—Tremaine is probably one of my favourite characters in, honestly, anything. Here's something where I:d really love post-canon shenanigans, Ilias and Tremaine having to once more deal with something together; or I'd love to see them travelling together across more of the world. If you wanted to do something during canon, I'd love to see even more of Ilias' view of his relationship with Tremaine. If you want to include Giliead in there too (in whatever capacity, ahem) I'd be very happy to see him too, but I'd also be happy to just focus on Ilias and Tremaine.

DNWs: Just my regular DNWs, nothing special!

Thank you again for writing for me 😃

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I love Jin Ling

2022-04-26T19:55:05Z

Jin Ling, “You’re making congee?”

Wei WuXian, “Uh-huh.”

Jin Ling hurled the cleaning rag onto the ground. Wei WuXian commented, “You see how you get mad after working for just a bit? Look at SiZhui. He worked the hardest and didn’t even say anything yet. What’s wrong with congee?”

Jin Ling, “What’s not wrong with congee? It’s so watery and tasteless! Wait… I’m not mad because there’s something wrong with congee!”

Wei WuXian, “It’s not for you anyways.”

Jin Ling was even more angered, “What did you say? I worked for so long, and I don’t even get any?!”

- Exiled Rebels translation, ch 35

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Yuletide Rec Post

2020-01-01T08:47:32Z

Before the author reveals, God help me. I've still got another ~5 fandoms to get through, but this is what I've got so far. I'll try to add comments later, but for now you're just getting the AO3 info:

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Yuletide Letter

2019-11-04T01:52:18Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I very much look forward to seeing what you write :)

My general likes:
-Fealty/loyalty stuff! Especially when this conflicts with honour/doing the right thing, or conversely when the character's been serving someone who wasn't doing the right thing/wasn't deserving of their loyalty and now can serve someone who does and is...
-Fantasy AUs, both in the sense of 'it's set in a fantasy world' and 'it's set in the canon world, which in this AU also has magic'
-Mysteries!
-Bittersweet endings

My general dislikes:
-Endings where the suffering the character(s) undergo is made meaningless and everything is horrible
-Character bashing
-Addiction narratives
-Mundane AUs
-I don't mind noncanon pairings in /addition/ to the canon pairings, but I don't want the canon pairings to be undone/overwritten/gotten rid of.

Mistborn Series/Wax and Wayne

Characters: Steris Harms
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Queen's Thief

Characters: Eugenides
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Zenda Novels/Prisoner of Zenda

Characters: Rudolf Rassendyll
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The Squire's Tales - Gerald Morris

Characters: Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot
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Introduction

2019-07-03T03:49:30Z

Hey, I'm Sun or Sunny or sunlit-stone, as you like :) Currently entirely obsessed with Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen from MDZS.

My transformative works policy is as follows:
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Dear Not Prime Time writer

2019-04-28T00:02:10Z

Thank you so much for writing for me! I love all of these fandoms and relationships, and I'm really looking forward to reading what you write. I've written some prompts below, but you should feel free to follow your inspiration :)

General likes:
-Loyalty/fealty stuff
-~Identity Porn~
-Fantasy AUs, mysteries, time travel
-Some ridiculous tropes I love: bodyswap (especially if disability or gender presentation is in play), someone is cursed to only tell the truth, mutual pining (!!!), fake relationship AUs (!!!!) and/or marriage of convenience AUs
DNWs: Mundane AUs, character bashing, addiction narratives, unhappy endings where everyone's suffering is made meaningless, unrequested noncanon romantic relationships (except for Vorkosigan Saga, where you can have at), noncon between requested pairings, noncanon major character death, crossovers.

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Belated Yuletide Reveal Post

2019-01-07T01:20:53Z

The Christmas Present (5090 words) by SunlitStone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Iskierka & Temeraire, John Granby & Iskierka, William Laurence & Temeraire, Temeraire & Tenzing Tharkay
Characters: Temeraire (Temeraire), William Laurence, John Granby, Tenzing Tharkay, Iskierka (Temeraire)
Additional Tags: copious application of dragon logic
Summary:

"A present," Temeraire repeated. "The white stag. To...show our appreciation of him as our host."

"That seems very foolish."

Temeraire sniffed. "I would not want people to think my host did not have enough things, or sufficiently fine ones."

"Oh, very well," grumbled Iskierka, sounding disgruntled in her turn. "I suppose you are right. I will have to join you."

"No you will not!"

"I will; you are right; there is nothing else for it."

Or: Temeraire and Iskierka discover (something adjacent to) the true meaning of Christmas.

So I wrote this fic! It is not, to my knowledge, even slightly historically accurate--or at least, I made no attempts to have it so--but I did try to make it funny and in-character, and that seems to have largely gone through :)

One of these days maybe I'll manage to write more than one fic for Yuletide...but so far (close to the time limit though I've been) both of my recipients have enjoyed their gifts, so for now I think I'll call it a win.

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Snowflake Challenge, Day Two

2019-01-03T06:26:18Z

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create

At least three, they say. Ho boy :P

( 7 recs in Vorkosigan Saga, Thor: Ragnarok, Doctor Who, Ancient Rome RPF, Rivers of London, and Person of Interest )

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Happy New Year! Plus three Mulan recs

2019-01-02T03:34:32Z

Happy New Year, everyone! May you continue to grow in whatever directions you choose, and find rest and comfort when you need it.

Secondly, I somehow managed to forget to put my gifts in my Yuletide recs post! Like a very silly person--not to mention a tired one, and one working off a list of links that didn't include my gifts since "it's not like I'm going to lose track of them"--oops. :/

But they should certainly be recced, so here we go.

( three recs in Mulan/Shang )

Anyway--obviously, I love this, as I love all three of my gifts, and all of them made for very wonderful presents :) And contributed to the supply of Mulan/Shang in the world, which is obviously a great utilitarian good :P If they sound like something you'd like, check them out!

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Yuletide recs!

2018-12-31T05:23:05Z

Squeaking in just under the wire, here :P But what's the traditional Yuletide experience, if not that? :P

( 8 recs, across 7 fandoms: Arthurian Mythology, Chalion Saga/WotFG, Death of the Necromancer, From Eroica With Love, Emelan, Macbeth, and Queen's Thief )

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Dear Yuletide Author

2018-10-21T04:27:31Z

Thank you for offering one of these fandoms! I hope you have fun with it :)

My general likes:
-Fealty/loyalty stuff, in general. I love stories where characters are fundamentally loyal to someone who returns that loyalty...in a few different ways. For example, I love stories where loyalty conflicts with honour, with doing the right thing--even though the person you're loyal to isn't false to you, going against them is still what's right. However that conflict turns out, I am all over it in a story <3 Or conversely, the sheer joy of finding someone to be loyal to who won't ask you to do something wrong.
-Fantasy AUs, both of the full-blown there are lords and ladies and mages variety, and of the 'it's canon, but canon now involves magic' variety.
-Mysteries!
-Bittersweet endings--even when the endings are more bitter than sweet. But /not/ endings where the suffering is made meaningless.

My general dislikes:
-Endings where the suffering the character(s) undergo is made meaningless :P
-Character bashing.
-Addiction narratives
-Mundane AUs

Mulan

Characters: Fa Mulan, Li Shang
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Girl Genius

Characters: Agatha, Klaus, Tarvek, Gil

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Temeraire

Characters: Laurence, Napoleon

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Queen's Thief

Characters: Eugenides

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Thank you again for writing for me :) Have a great Yuletide!

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Snowflake Challenge, Day Twelve

2018-01-13T04:30:35Z

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay.

I thought about doing meta! I'm good at meta, I like meta. But the main meta post I have in mind right now is Kylo Ren redemption meta, and 1) I wanted to do something totally new for this challenge and 2) that is way too much work for me at this time of night and I am tired. So....

( In a postulated future for that Temeraire/Vorkosigan fusion from the other day... )

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Snowflake Challenge, Day Ten

2018-01-11T05:00:34Z

I keep wanting to go through and rec things to people, but I think that's going to have to wait--I want to go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight.

Okay, so.

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples!

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Snowflake Challenge, Day Five

2018-01-06T03:26:58Z

Recommend a fannish or creative resource.

( This was not precisely obvious to me, but... )

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Snowflake Challenge, Day Three

2018-01-04T04:36:58Z

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

( Three recs, coming right up... )

...okay, so it turned out to be four recs, so sue me.

(I did Yuletide recs here, too, if you're interested.)

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Yuletide Recs

2017-12-30T20:26:04Z

Recs for the Vorkosigan Saga, Temeraire, Nirvana in Fire, Monstrous Regiment, Hot Fuzz, Jeeves & Wooster and Asimov's Robot Series below the cut.

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Dear Yuletide Writer

2017-10-08T20:41:17Z

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you for offering one of these fandoms. (Clearly, you have excellent taste! :P)

ETA: Writer, if you see this: oops, and I'm sorry. I've managed to Learn Some Yuletide Letter Etiquette--I'm not going to change the text of the letter, because that seems like more of a dick move, but I've added some prompts in the QT and Temeraire sections.

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sunlit_stone @ 2017-07-30T20:41:00

2017-07-31T00:52:04Z

Also, when I was reading this I couldn't help but think 'hello, Antonin Dolohov:'

On th' other side up rose
BELIAL, in act more graceful and humane;
A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seemd
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow; though his Tongue
Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest Counsels.

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Bwahaha

2017-06-18T01:50:35Z

I am be-iconed! (As you can see, if you look at my icons page.) I still can't decide between the fox and the PoI icon for my default--I'll play around a bit, see how I feel. They're both beautiful.

I did end up taking one of the illuminated letters for poetry &c., but not one of the S's--a D, as it turns out (I mean, I think it's a D. I'm pretty sure?)

I think that's enough to be getting on with for now. We'll see how it goes from here!

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