Really? Will the holiday miracles never end!

Good Dark Angel GEN!!!!1! About ALEC!!!

Seriously, I'm still flailing.

Best. Yuletide. Ever.

The sheer quality of so much of this stuff. Wow.

I totally am teasing you in the near future about how there was good quality DA fic at Yuletide, because when I first saw it I turned to Fay and said, "I predict we will hear squee from the general direction of Seattle shortly."

I got the most perfect Dexter story ever. Like, *amazing.* It hit everything. There's also a very good Mirrormask story, which, yay, and some History Boys that are made of awesome. So much fic! Best present ever.

Oh, but dude. The Kiss Kiss Bang Bang fiction? Definitely the funniest shit in the archive. I recommend all the of the stories--there are like four or five, and they are just incredible.

Someone really needs to go through the archive at Yuletide and clean up the index. When I went to look at stories written in the Angel fandom, the first 4 or 5 stories listed were for Dark Angel. I'm not sure if the search is set to look for any "angel" in the fandom line, but it's not super accurate. Also, when I looked under the Buffy fandom, it only had four stories. I know of at least one that's missing (Eurydice's) and since you can't search on author, there's no way to find where the story actually ended up if you don't know the title of the story already. Still, I'm going to have fun looking through the archive.

There's a very good story based on the Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voight (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, etc) that I really recommend.

When I went to look at stories written in the Angel fandom, the first 4 or 5 stories listed were for Dark Angel.

I think the quicksearch function is a little bit broken, and that it's being worked on.

If you're dead set on finding those stories, they would have only been in the first year of Yuletide because it allowed rare pairings:

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they would have only been in the first year of Yuletide because it allowed rare pairings

Huh. They allowed rare pairings? I didn't know Buffy or Angel were ever a part of Yuletide challenge, since the whole point of the thing is to request and write stories for rare fandoms. Yuletide wouldn't be the first place I'd look if I'm jonesing for Jossverse fanfic.

Now, I *was* a little aghast that The Office US turned out to qualify, since it's quite a healthy-sized new fandom with its own newsletter and fanfic archive and so forth. I suppose it's not in the collective fannish radar yet. Not that I'm complaining, because the stories posted are lovely. (Dana, did you see someone wrote an adorable Pam/Toby?)

I didn't know Buffy or Angel were ever a part of Yuletide challenge, since the whole point of the thing is to request and write stories for rare fandoms.

The whole point of the thing the first year was rare pairings and/or rare fandoms. I got a Grissom/Sara story. There was also no policing of requests, so it was pretty much up to the requester what they considered "rare".

(Dana, did you see someone wrote an adorable Pam/Toby?)

I saw it recced, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. It's on the list.

I totally am teasing you in the near future about how there was good quality DA fic at Yuletide, because when I first saw it I turned to Fay and said, "I predict we will hear squee from the general direction of Seattle shortly."

Damn skippy! It was a Chrismakkah miracle! And DUDE, there was SLASH! It's like, the least slashy (in terms of output, not subtext) fandom I read. The lack of it was so sad-making, because there's only so many times one can be expected to read The One With the Alley Fucking.

Man, I feel like I'm never going to hit the end of Yuletide.

I was surprised to see Avatar fics on this year's Yuletide. There are over 6,000 fics for it on ff.net. Anyone know how that one got through? (I'm not complaining, simply curious.)