Yuletide

[very_improbable]

So, I wrote Wag the Duck--a Milo-centric Bloom County romp of muckraking, fourth-wall-breaking and avian bellyaching--during a multi-city trip on the East Coast and in Chicago. While I worked pretty hard on it, I also was not sure how well it was going to hold together by the time I was through, and I was pleased that folks were entertained by it and enjoyed my weird jokes. Also, someone who knows me in real life recced it without knowing it was me, which is always fun. ;)

Man, what a year for Yuletide! Lots of fantastic work, some of which (like the M*A*S*H story everyone is reccing and the Dorothy Sayers stuff) I haven't even gotten to yet because I want to take the time to sit down with a nice cup of tea or something and savor them properly. And am I the only one who had to take the comm off my friendslist because of the incredible volume of posts? (And am I the only party-pooper who's been tempted to gently remind folks that you're not actually required to post to the comm revealing what story you, personally, wrote, as not everyone necessarily needs to see that announcement from every single one of the like 5,296 people who participated this year?)

Also, what the fuck? People asked for their stories to be taken down after the reveal? What kind of rude motherfucker pulled that crap? Can anyone explain? Or do I just not want to know?

Well, anyway, happy new year, everybody. I think some cool stuff is going to happen in 2007. I'm looking forward to it.

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*poke* *poke*

It seems that this whole quite sad affair could have been solved by talking with the mods. While it sucks to have a bad yuletide writing experience, that seems kinda, uh, er, overkill.