Yuletide uploaded with time to spare! I did it very backwards this year, by feeling confident enough of the canon to write the fic, and in the course of the writing reminding myself how much I loved the canon, and going back to it after I'd finished the fic. In any event, I pretty much always enjoy writing Yuletide but I extra enjoyed it this year, not least because I did it in a focused and disciplined enough way that I've tricked myself (yet again, as I always do when I successfully finish something) into feeling like I might be a bit good at writing, actually.
Boston winter is staying stubbornly warm, but writing Yuletide is making it feel festive regardless. My little fake tree is up in the living room, slowly accumulating presents for our house gift exchange in early January. I lost track of days at the beginning of the month and accidentally performed the Hanukkah miracle of making Hanukkah last nine nights;![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thewrongkindofpc and filia_belialis and I made a huge batch of delicious latkes last Sunday, and ate them while starting to catch up on season two of Riverdale. (What! a! bonkers show!!) Holiday retail at the bookstore is v busy but not any worse than a slammed weekend day at the cafe was, except instead of making an endless line of drinks, I'm getting good at quickly wrapping books for presents.
I got a holiday-season catch-up letter from one of my aunts, and it's just bonkers how normal the family is -- like, all their news was about them going retirement golfing, and how my cousin and his wife are fixing up their house (because they can afford one?? the Midwest is WILD), and how my other cousin's boyfriend is so successful at his job. I thought about what I would end up sending in a holiday catch-up letter, and it would be, like ... this year I got top surgery and came out at work! my D&D groups are lovely! my household is fantastic, and me and several of my friends are embarking on new career trajectories now! All of which is, I guess, also normal, but good goddamn am I the queer cousin in the family.
Now I'm going to ... do things that are not working on my Yuletide?? Sounds fake, honestly.
Boston winter is staying stubbornly warm, but writing Yuletide is making it feel festive regardless. My little fake tree is up in the living room, slowly accumulating presents for our house gift exchange in early January. I lost track of days at the beginning of the month and accidentally performed the Hanukkah miracle of making Hanukkah last nine nights;
thewrongkindofpc and filia_belialis and I made a huge batch of delicious latkes last Sunday, and ate them while starting to catch up on season two of Riverdale. (What! a! bonkers show!!) Holiday retail at the bookstore is v busy but not any worse than a slammed weekend day at the cafe was, except instead of making an endless line of drinks, I'm getting good at quickly wrapping books for presents.I got a holiday-season catch-up letter from one of my aunts, and it's just bonkers how normal the family is -- like, all their news was about them going retirement golfing, and how my cousin and his wife are fixing up their house (because they can afford one?? the Midwest is WILD), and how my other cousin's boyfriend is so successful at his job. I thought about what I would end up sending in a holiday catch-up letter, and it would be, like ... this year I got top surgery and came out at work! my D&D groups are lovely! my household is fantastic, and me and several of my friends are embarking on new career trajectories now! All of which is, I guess, also normal, but good goddamn am I the queer cousin in the family.
Now I'm going to ... do things that are not working on my Yuletide?? Sounds fake, honestly.
