the yearly Yuletide reveals post 2021

Unlike last year, I actually want to talk about writing my fics. Don't ask why; I don't even know why myself.

On a slightly different tangent, I'm glad I got this in before I have to shift gears for Who Daily tonight. 😬

This year I wrote the (Netflix) GLOW fic for armadillo1976:

Words Get in the Way (2505 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: GLOW (TV 2017)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Debbie Eagan/Ruth Wilder
Characters: Debbie Eagan, Ruth Wilder
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, 1980s, 5 Times, New Year's Eve, Sitcom, Angst, Season's Treatings, Holidays
Summary: Five doors standing in Debbie’s path to Ruth.

( me explaining how I wrote this fic )

I wrote one of the 17776 (really, it's more a part of 20020) fics for woodironbone:

County of San Diego, California. The Mountain Empire. 19304. (1297 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Jon Bois
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Manuel "Manny" Baez/Nick Navarro
Characters: Manuel "Manny" Baez, Nick Navarro, Juice (17776)
Additional Tags: Racing, Desert, Mountains, California, Embedded Images
Summary: Manny and Nick’s run to the Boise State field in 19304, with Juice on commentary.

Me: I picked up this pinch hit and worked on it for a week, using woodironbone's suggestion of writing about Manny and Nick's run. The fic was inspired in equal parts by me being lonely watching sports at times, by how Bois tends to tweet on Twitter—lower caps and sarcastic jokes, and, of course, by 20020 itself. And I had it formatted initially like this paragraph, thinking I was going to remix this fic and actually make it look somewhat like 17776 and its sequels after Yuletide.

Then I found this 17776 skin tutorial for AO3. I spent a few days before Yuletide doing some basic photoshop work, figuring out hex code colors, and tweaking the skin slightly from the original tutorial alongside some other HTML work.

My gift was from boasamishipper.