see you in two-sixteen

[sailor]

YULETIDE ROUND-UP & REC POST!!!!

this was my third year doing yuletide and MY FAVORITE SO FAR, even though various life happenings made it simultaneously the most difficult. i received two goddamn incredible gifts, got to write the fic of my heart for somebody i got to know through football this year, and read a ton of amazing fic. so on with the show!!


I RECEIVED:

TITLE: they'll say we're in love
AUTHOR: psikeval
FANDOM: Hamilton RPF
RELATIONSHIPS: Jonathan Groff/Lin-Manuel Miranda
RATING: Explicit
WORDS: 6,380
SUMMARY: Nobody's coming out of this with a lot of pride intact.

FAVORITE BIT: The truth is, sometimes when he’s not performing, when the post-show rush has faded and Jon’s just a tired guy who could really use a sandwich or something before he passes out—it can be a little much to see Lin back in street clothes, humming quietly, trying to gather his hair enough to tie it, the soft way he smiles if his eyes catch Jon’s in the mirror.

He’s got so much energy most of the time, and that’s what Jon is used to. But this, the tired curve of Lin’s back as he stretches, his sleepy-eyed grin, the way his fingers fan out when he gestures or reaches for something—it’s a lot to deal with, some nights.

Before they leave for the night Lin hugs him one last time, or he hugs Lin, and they linger a little, too worn-out to be anything but easy with affection, exhilarated and totally fucking exhausted.

TITLE: THANK YOU MARIO BUT OUR CINNAMON ROLL IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE
AUTHOR: screamlet
FANDOM: Hamilton RPF
CHARACTERS: Jonathan Groff, Lin-Manuel Miranda
RELATIONSHIPS: Jonathan Groff/Lin-Manuel Miranda
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 6,379
SUMMARY: FACE FIVE TROPES TO WIN THE HEART OF YOUR BEST BELOVED

FAVORITE BIT: Down at concessions, he was surrounded by the octogenarian set that made Broadway great as they ordered their mid-afternoon theater cocktails and then he realized that he had kissed Jonathan Groff. He had kissed Jonathan Groff on the forehead? Jon had cried at the Gloria Estefan musical and it was one of the fucking sweetest things Lin had seen on Jon's face in like, a week or two, at least. He had kissed Jonathan Groff because there weren't words anymore, no phonetic languageish sounds that could sum up the hilarious genuine emotional lump in his throat, the way everything inside him wanted to laugh and cry and explode and die, all at once, when he looked at Jon.

All these tremendously bisexual revelations and more, thanks to THE THEATRE!

THESE ARE BOTH LITERALLY EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WANTED FROM THIS PAIRING AND I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO RECEIVE BOTH OF THEM. please please read them, even if you don't know the hamilton cast — they're gorgeous and hilarious and heart-warming and PERFECT.

screamlet & psikeval, if you read this: you made my yuletide beyond perfect. ♥ ♥ ♥ you RUINED ME with these slices of heaven. thank you so so so much, so many more thank yous than i have words for. I'M SO HAPPY WE'RE ALL IN THIS TRASH PIT TOGETHER!!


in turn, i wrote for myconstant:

TITLE: i cherish with fondness the day (before) i met you
FANDOM: Club de Cuervos
CHARACTERS: Potro, Aitor Cardoné, Moisés Suárez, Salvador "Chava" Iglesias Jr., Hugo Sánchez, Tony Álvarez
RELATIONSHIPS: Aitor Cardoné/Potro
RATING: Mature
WORDS: 5,662
SUMMARY: He’s seen Aitor Cardoné on enough billboards, spread across enough magazines, writhing around his television screen in enough commercials, but it doesn’t hit until he sees him in person. He’s beautiful. Inhumanely, otherworldly beautiful. The kind of beauty that’s too perfect, that’s intimidating and frightening and draws you in like quicksand. Even with his hair is stupid little braids, even when he looks bored to death with all of them, even — god, fuck, especially when he’s got an all-over sheen of sweat after training.

Aitor is beautiful, and as with everything else Potro finds beautiful, he’s immediately obsessed.

FAVORITE BIT: Did you ever dream this would happen to you?

(Which part? Playing for sold out stadiums? The international attention, hearing his team's name on the lips of reporters in every language? How he keeps catching himself staring at the way Aitor's thin training shirt clings to the sweat on his back, the fine divot of his hips when he pulls his jersey over his face in frustration, the outline of his dick in his too-tight designer briefs as he traipses around the locker room?)

"No, mi amor," he purrs, leaning into the reporter's microphone and fixing her with his most intense bedroom eyes. "I only dream of you."

i'm just..... so happy i got to write this. i'd kind of written yuletide off as a wash writing-wise due to aforementioned life stuff and was incredibly bummed i had to default because of it, but then i saw issa's pinch hit go out and every alarm bell in my head went off at once. I'M SO HAPPY I GOT TO WRITE IT!! i can't say that enough. it was so much damn fun to write, and also my first time writing for a fandom where literally no fic exists, so it was weirdly freeing. i enjoyed myself thoroughly! please watch club de cuervos if you haven't, and then please help me fill up its ao3 tag.


and now, unsolicited recs for your viewing pleasure!

TITLE: Hail, Hail
AUTHOR: Corinna
FANDOM: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats
CHARACTERS: Cyrus (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton), Jeff (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton)
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 3,095
SUMMARY: The best ever death metal band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you.

FAVORITE BIT: At some point, memory and repetition start to click and the song comes together. They make it through the chorus and into the second verse. Jeff looks over at Cyrus and sees him caught up in the music, biting his lip with his eyes half-closed. Jeff had forgotten that look. It makes him happy, and it makes him angry, all at once.

“Death march!” they sing together. “Death march!” They sound loud. They keep going.

TITLE: Pops Real Nice
AUTHOR: brainwane
FANDOM: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton - The Mountain Goats, Beat the Champ - The Mountain Goats
CHARACTERS:
Animal Mask, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Cyrus (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton), Jeff (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton)
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 2,194
SUMMARY: After the events of "Animal Mask." Before, during, and after the events of "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton".

FAVORITE BIT: Wide shot: Guests assemble around the dance floor, giving Roy and Omar a respectful distance. The Hospital Bombers fuzz the air with a blast of distortion, then clear it with a percussive clack of one drumstick on another, one-two-three-four. The couple smiles, hands and eyes on each other as the Bombers hit the downbeat.

TITLE: The niche
AUTHOR: Roadstergal
FANDOM: Better Call Saul
CHARACTERS: Saul Goodman | Jimmy McGill, Mike Ehrmantraut
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 1,143
SUMMARY: Vignettes between Jimmy and Mike.

FAVORITE BIT: "So what would you die for?" Jimmy asked, putting the picture away carefully in his wallet.

"Nothing, right now," Mike noted, standing and dusting off his jeans. "I'm a lot more use alive, typically." Kaylee - who else could he trust to look after her? He had to stay alive, for her. Her future. She was far too important to trust to anybody else.

"That's not what I expected." Jimmy opened the door of his ostentatious Cadillac. "I wouldn't die for anything, myself, but I'm a coward."

TITLE: Review
AUTHOR: Melody_Jade
FANDOM: Black Mirror
RATING: Mature
WORDS: 3,187
SUMMARY: Thank you for visiting White Bear Justice Park! We hope you had a great time here with us, and will love to hear from you about your experience in our park. Upload your photos and videos, leave us a review, and spread the word for justice!

FAVORITE BIT: First off, let me just say this right from the start: I do not condone what Victoria Skillane did, and believe that she is completely guilty and should be punished.

TITLE: four times leo messi surprised cristiano and one time he didn't
AUTHOR: stickmarionette
FANDOM: Football RPF, Samsung Galaxy 11 "Football Will Save The Planet" Commercial
CHARACTERS: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Jorge Mendez, Wayne Rooney, Franz Beceknbauer, Gerard Piqué, Neymar, James Rodríguez, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr., Dolores Aveiro
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 12,780
SUMMARY: As long as he lives, Cristiano will never forget that horrible screech. It tears through him in the seconds before the landing ships take over the horizon and echoes between his ears for the entire week after that, getting louder every time he closes his eyes.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi have to team up to save the planet.

FAVORITE BIT: "You nervous?" he says into the silence. It comes out shockingly loud.

Fuck it. Just let Beckenbauer try to tell them to be quiet. He's spoiling for a fight.

"Nah. It's just football," Leo whispers back, like "just football" hasn't shaped their entire lives and been responsible for everything they have.

TITLE: Interlude (Rise Up)
AUTHOR: Fahye
FANDOM: Hamilton
RELATIONSHIPS: Alexander Hamilton/Angelica Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton/Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton/George Washington, Alexander Hamilton/Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton/King George, Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton/Everyone
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 3,509
SUMMARY: BURR
Secretary Hamilton, belay that shouting!
You protest too much, there's certainly no doubting
the other figments of your own brain would agree,
and so far there's been seven, plus me--but who's counting?

FAVORITE BIT: BURR
The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton's increasingly convoluted attempts to deny that his own imagination eagerly embraces the prospect of having sex with every significant figure in his life, and especially his adversaries. Secretary Jefferson, the floor is yours.

JEFFERSON
It should come as no surprise to anybody who knows him
that Hamilton's got eyes for anybody who throws him
a volley, a mention, a point of contention.
You want this tomcat's attention?
All you gotta do is oppose him.

TITLE: We all defend the role we play
AUTHOR: holograms
FANDOM: Hamilton
CHARACTERS: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
RELATIONSHIPS: Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton
RATING: Explicit
WORDS: 8,413
SUMMARY: The first time Hamilton appears, it's only a little over a month since he's died.

au where Hamilton is a ghost and haunts Burr after the duel

FAVORITE BIT: Burr disregards him. “Are you a ghost?” He feels ridiculous asking such a thing, however, what else could Hamilton be if not a delusion?

Hamilton smirks. “Boo.”

And of course he is. Hamilton is stubborn and irksome enough to bother him from beyond the grave — Hamilton was an irritation for over thirty years, so why stop in death? It is Burr’s penance.

TITLE: A Good Dog's Guide to Brooklyn
AUTHOR: formerlydf
FANDOM: Hawkeye
CHARACTERS: Lucky, Clint Barton, Kate Bishop
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 3,549
SUMMARY: It's a big city, but Lucky — otherwise known as Pizza Dog, formerly known as Arrow, "hey you," or псина — is a pretty smart dog.

FAVORITE BIT:Captain America
mobile, currently Brooklyn, NY
3.5 paws
Good thighs for jumping up. Nice head scritches, good pressure, varies location to include neck and back. Smells like sweat (ok), paint (ugh), no crumbs hidden in clothes. Does not taste like justice.

TITLE: on the same ground
AUTHOR: rubiconjane
FANDOM: Northendgirls' Champions League Art
CHARACTERS: Arsenal FC, Chelsea FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 1,386
SUMMARY: The matter, however, is that North London has two noble Henrys: Hal of Lancaster, and "Hotspur" Harry of House Percy.

FAVORITE BIT: Here is a secret: a whisper can be as deadly as a cannonball. Direct it at the right ear, and it will topple an empire.

She appeals to the mortal agent who strayed abroad before defecting to her kinswoman-- Hal seeks out he whose heart is still tender to her influence, for he is an Arsenal prodigal. Hal is well-versed in the music of lyre-song, so this is not so different-- it is an easy thing to pluck at his heartstrings, to make the player yearn.

How quickly the world forgets-- she is imprinted in his soul; she was the one who blooded him on the Big Stage when he was naught but a youngster snatched from the bosom of Catalonia; even as he has donned another's garb and sworn allegiance to her enemy's crest, this prodigal bleeds Hal's colours, now and for always.

Soon, the whole of London will be red.

TITLE: cambiando
AUTHOR: callievalpoli
FANDOM: Plan B
CHARACTERS: Ana, Bruno, Pablo
RELATIONSHIPS: Bruno/Pablo, Ana + Bruno
RATING: Mature
WORDS: 1,058
SUMMARY: Ana knows Bruno.

FAVORITE BIT: "Bruno," she says, and she means, "what's wrong."

And he gets it. He gets her. They know each other. "It's fine," he says.

"Bruno," she says, and she means, "tell me, you fuck."

And he says, "Did I ever tell you about Neverland?"

"Enough with fucking Neverland," she says, and she means, "enough with fucking Neverland."

TITLE: don't need to be saved
AUTHOR: gdgdbaby
FANDOM: Saga
CHARACTERS: The Will, The Stalk, The Brand, Sophie, Lying Cat
RELATIONSHIPS: The Stalk/The Will, The Will & The Brand
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 1,300
SUMMARY: Billy drifts.

FAVORITE BIT: Billy drifts, and drifts, and drifts. He thinks about Lying Cat, rescuing her from the jaws of her own mother, dead set on eliminating the runt of the litter. He always was a sucker for the little ones.

TITLE: y a lo exterior regresan las cosas en ti ocultas
AUTHOR: Poetry
FANDOM: Sense8
CHARACTERS: Lito Rodriguez, Capheus, Daniela Velasquez, Shiro, Jela, Hernando, Kala Dandekar, Nomi Marks
RELATIONSHIPS: Capheus & Lito, Hernando/Lito Rodriguez
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 5,581
SUMMARY: Capheus and Lito help each other bring to light the secrets they’ve kept from their families.

FAVORITE BIT: Capheus raised his eyebrows at Lito. “Who is she to you?”

Lito had to stop and think about that. He had gotten into a fight for Daniela, put his career on the line for her. She lived in his apartment, sometimes even shared his bed. But he didn’t have sex with her, and he wasn’t in love with her. He didn’t think there was a word for what Daniela was to him and Hernando. But he decided to say, “She’s my best friend.”

Capheus smiled. “My best friend’s name is Jela. He works for me on my bus.” Lito got a sense-memory of Jela coming to Capheus's little house when he and his mother first moved in, carrying steaming tea in tin mugs, talking in a rush about Capheus's new neighborhood and all the people he could meet there.

TITLE: Best Man
AUTHOR: larissabernstein
FANDOM: Singin' in the Rain
CHARACTERS: Don Lockwood, Kathy Selden, Cosmo Brown
RELATIONSHIPS: Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden, Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood, Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
RATING: Teen & Up
WORDS: 1,706
SUMMARY: All in all, the whole fuss could have been outright amusing if it weren’t for the fact that this is supposed to be the wedding of his two best friends and he is supposed to play - no, be - their best man tomorrow.

FAVORITE BIT:“You… you can’t do that! I mean - we are getting married tomorrow and you are my best friend and… I've never been married before! I need you!”

TITLE: Gray, blue and the winter sea
AUTHOR: laughingpineapple
FANDOM: Twin Peaks
CHARACTERS: Dale Cooper, Albert Rosenfield
RELATIONSHIPS: Dale Cooper/Albert Rosenfield
RATING: General Audiences
WORDS: 1,203
SUMMARY: They live, after all, in the best of all possible worlds. Albert has tried to convince himself of this fact for a long time – Dale sees that it is true.

FAVORITE BIT: “You fell into radio silence for all of twenty seconds.”

“It felt longer.”

Of course it did, Dale Cooper and linear time haven't been on friendly terms for a while. Albert offers him his open hand, they have their methods by now, touch grounds him, words ground him, Albert's very presence grounds him, leaving Albert to wonder, on bad days when nothing reaches him, if that's all the reason Dale has to tag along. Today's not too bad, as his hand gets snatched up quick and placed close to Dale's heart. There is a strained little smile, too. Not too bad.

TITLE: built a wooden nest
AUTHOR: spock
FANDOM: Wet Hot American Summer
CHARACTERS: McKinley Dozen, Ben
RELATIONSHIPS: Ben/McKinley
RATING: Explicit
WORDS: 5,251
SUMMARY: It's exciting, discovering things about one another at the same time that they learn about it themselves. McKinley really, really hopes that what he's feeling never goes away. He also really, really only wants to discover things about himself with Ben, but he's not sure how to say that without sounding like a psychopath when they've only been dating for three days.

FAVORITE BIT: Ben drops to one knee. "I love you and you're the best thing that's ever happened to me." He clears his throat. "My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire —"

"No," McKinley says, shaking his head. “I hate Austen. You can't ruin this moment with Austen. Try again." He smiles when Ben runs a hand through his hair, something he only does when he’s nervous.

"I ask you to pass through life at my side," he tries. "To be my second self, and best earthly companion."

"That's not too bad." McKinley's impressed. "What's it from?"

Ben's shoulders sag and McKinley can tell that he's already trying to come up with another line. "Jane Eyre," he says.

"What the fuck, Ben, no. Do another one. I'm not going to tell our future kid that you quoted that fucked up book."

AND THAT'S A WRAP!! goddamn, what a year. see you on the other side of space, kids. ♥