reflectedeve | make the words look like pictures

Hey, so, I'm home. My laptop's still squirreled away in a drawer at the office, but one of my roomies was nice enough to lend me his.

The trip was pretty fabulous, and I'll have photos and stories later if everyone wants. I have to catch up on holiday exchange comments (and responses), various posted things, ninety kajillion

yuletide fic, etc . . . and work is likely to descend into madness almost immediately (I'm back tomorrow). So I should probably go to bed, but first!

Holiday exchanges were lovely this year, though I was sad to be away for much of the posting & anonymity. Now that the reveals are all done, however, I figured I'd share.

For

go_exchange, the holidays with Newt and Anathema:

After two straight years of Crowley/Aziraphale, I thought I really ought to try some different characters this time, and these two don't get nearly enough love. In trying to imagine their future, I figured that Anathema would probably thrive as a writer and/or professor (she has some pretty fascinating and unique experience to bring in either direction, I think). And the thought of Newt in an apron holding a baby was just appealing. (Maybe domesticity is the thing he's actually good at? Though I couldn't resist adding the comedy element, so IDK.) I'm pretty happy with the thing, even though my perspective continues to be wonky.

For

yuletart, Pete goes down on his knees for Patrick. No, not like that, sorry.

In the middle of what is probably a high school AU, Pete attempts to make up for some sort of terrible blunder by serenading Patrick under his windowsill (using Joe's acoustic guitar, I expect). He can't sing, he can't really play, and he certainly can't write music, but . . . his heart's in the right place. Am mostly thrilled with this one, in spite of likeness difficulties (and I thought Gerard was hard to capture). Everyone seemed to love the flamingo, for some reason. *g*

For

yuletide, I wrote a little story based on the comic series Hopeless Savages, which is far and away the most obscure fandom I've tried yet. any taste that you feel is right describes a day in which young Twitch Strummer Hopeless-Savage feels a little off-balance, but the usual familial antics help to put things right. I'm a little shaky on this one, it feels like . . . it could have been longer? Or possibly just worked better as a comic. Prose is kind of awkward and difficult for me these days. Need to work on that.

I also received some lovely gifts. :) From

mandyvonblandy, a cute little Good Omens comic in which Crowley's Christmas card upsets Aziraphale's sense of propriety. From

derawr, a classic (flying) moonlight kiss, starring Karolina & Nico from Runaways. And from

hikaru, Nothing Is Innocent Now, a sensual coda to Sarah Waters' Fingersmith. Much appreciated. ♥

I've been trying not to crash for hours, but I really should go do that already. I hope you guys enjoy the art. Happy New Year, I missed you all!