Yuletide and MEFAs!

[sophinisba]

Yuletide authors' names were revealed yesterday and now I can tell you about my awesome first-year Yuletider experience. Of all the fandoms I offered, I got assigned to the one I most wanted to write, the movie Children of Men. Not only that, but my recipient, the lovely krabapple, requested a story I'd been thinking about for months, backstory for Theo and Julian. I did wrisomifu to get myself to work on it every day during November and then I kept going for half of December, so it turned into a bit of a monster with over 16,000 words and I was a little worried that people would find it boring and wouldn't bother to read it. But the comments I've gotten have been really great – they give me the feeling that it really was worth putting so much time into making it good. I was especially pleased that someone called it "devastating" because that is how I feel about the movie, so I know it's meant in a good way. The fic is Into That Good Night, PG-13 with canon character death and no happy ending. (Merry Christmas!)

Speaking of which, there's another Children of Men fic, not written for me but it could've been, that gives a wonderfully unsettling epilogue for the movie, Please Turn Out the Light (Four Things Kee Lost Onboard the Tomorrow) by violacoye.

I also got bit by Yuletide Madness and wrote a filk and two stories in the last few days before the fics went up. I'm sure they would have been better with more time and thought and betaing, but it felt good to make an extra gift for those recipients and it sure was exciting to write so much in so short a time.
*Extended Version of the Rick Springfield song "Jessie's Girl", with added threesome.
*Esperanza, an OC fic just barely related to the movie Saved!
*Homespun, one of many responses to a late request for fics about how Emerson from Pushing Daisies discovered knitting.

I'll go back soon to add authors' names to the recs I made the other day. Thanks again to stumbleglitter for Three-Part Disharmony, the great Homicide fic she wrote for me. I was really pleased to see that fic recced lots of places and to know lots of people were feeling the Bayliss and Pembleton love.

In other news, voting is finished for this year's Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards and four of my stories placed:
*He Came To Meet Me got third place in Genres: Romance: General.
*Thirst got Third Place in Races: Hobbits: Vignette.
*Lost in Translation and If I Keep You Beside Me got first and second places respectively in Races: Cross-Cultural: With Pippin.

Thanks and congratulations to everyone who participated in both these projects!

Comments

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

Look at you, girl, hogging that With Pippin category!

Just kidding :-) congrats!

I'm so glad your Yuletide experience was an excellent one. This was a great Yuletide year. I don't know about you but I'm already thinking of the fandoms I want to request next year!

[sophinisba]

Blame Dana omg! (And Slightly Tookish and Dreamflower and Rubynye!) It wasn't my idea! And congrats to you too!

I actually opened a doc and started writing out my requests for next year during Yuletide madness. The ones I have in mind are the movies Akeelah and the Bee and Y tu mam´a tambi´en and the Girlyman song "Young James Dean". I loved thefourthvine's idea of requesting fic based on a song! And I might request Pan's Labyrinth again but narrow it down to the character of Mercedes because she's the one I really would like to read more about at this point.

And today I saw the movie Atonement and started reading the book, and they're both incredible (and sexy!!) so that might push one of those off. :)

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

Ha. I'm going to memory this post so I can look at it next year.

I'm going to request E.F. Benson's Lucia and Mapp series and then I'm going to really hope that I get to write it!

And A Little Princess.

Oh crud, now I forget the other ones.

Ee! RPF--Punditslash ... Stephen Colbert and O'Reilly in a smack-down.

Oooh, by the time next year the fics go up, Barack Obama will have been elected!

[sophinisba]

Oh, look at that, I thought I remembered how to do html accents and I did not. Let's try again: Alfonso Cuarón, whoo! I would love to see more fic for A Little Princess too. We shall see. Two of my four requests this year were for movies I'd seen in 2007, so it's likely my list will change a whole lot by October too.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your MEFAs! \o/

[sophinisba]

Thank you, and happy birthday to you! *hugs*

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

congrats!

[sophinisba]

Thank you for your beta help with the hobbit fics and the crazy long Yuletide one! I don't know what I'd do without you.

[aprilkat.livejournal.com]

You rock the casbah! Congrats on all the awards - and you really rule with Pippin.

I promise to read your fics soon - this is just such a busy week for me in rl and on lj (all those promised delayed gift fics for Yule!). It's lovely to see people so inspired to write again.

[sophinisba]

Oh, no apologies necessary. These are random fandoms that I don't expect most people on my f-list to know, let alone read long fics for. :) I'm very behind myself, am not caught up on your recent fics or Claudia's, and I don't have any of the big stressors that you two do. But thank you. I felt bad about not writing a lot this year and these last two weeks have been really exciting for that (thought I still feel bad about not writing and reading more about hobbits). *hugs*

[aprilkat.livejournal.com]

Hey, once the creative juices start flowing, I bet the hobbits will come knockin' at your door! *hugs*

[sophinisba]

It would be nice! I could use their company!

[frolijah-fan-54.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! And well deserved!!

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[danae_b]

Whoo! Congrats on the MEFAs! I will say that I am pleased beyond words that you rocked so in the Cross Cultural: With Pippin category :) I will just blame that on myself! Really, I am very happy you started writing Pippin because I think your Pippin is fantastic. (yay hobbits!)

Also, yay for Yuletide! I think it is beyond neat that you wrote, not only! a giant story for your Yuletide recipient, but than dabbled in Yuletide Madness! The filk you did was especially awesome! I am going to have to find that music, and see if I can sing along ;D

*hugs hugs!*

[sophinisba]

You can go ahead and blame it on yourself because you are way responsible! I think it is a rockin' category to have placed in and that makes me feel really nice!

Omg Yuletide! I am glad you liked my filk! I haven't posted one of those before. You can watch the video here!

(((DanaDana)))

[shirebound]

Congratulations, Sophie! :)

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the MEFAS, Sophi! That's wonderful.

[sophinisba]

Oh, thank you! They were a really nice surprise.

[slightlytookish]

Congratulations! And wooohooo, Pippin! :D

[sophinisba]

What would we do without him? ♥

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the MEFAs!

[sophinisba]

Thanks!

[dreamflower]

Yay for Yuletide! It really was fun--I'm so glad Dana talked me into taking part!

And congrats on your MEFA wins! Those stories were all great, but I have to say "If I Keep You Beside Me" was flat made of awesome!!

[sophinisba]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm really glad we both had good experiences with Yuletide and MEFAs this year. I'm very behind right now but I do intend to read your Narnia fic too. :)

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to tell you congrats on the MEFAs!!!! Wow---what an honor!!!

[sophinisba]

Thank you very much! I certainly wasn't expecting them!