Merlin's International House of Nuts Ltd

Dear Yulegoat,

You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this every year since 2003 (my 2004 entry was orphaned, sadly) and it's been a blast each time. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.

Likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges.

Do not want: original character as POV character or major character, noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O, mundane AUs, harm to children or animals, unrequested identity headcanons

I am deeply uninterested in worldbuilding. I prefer stories that focus on the characters I've requested.

My account is set to be open to treats.

( Teen Beach Movie(s) )

( Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous / Chaos Theory )

( Thundercats (1985) )

( Disenchantment (Cartoon 2018) )

( Piano Man - Billy Joel (Song) )

Dear Yulegoat,

You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.

Likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests, and my eyesight is getting too poor to appreciate fan art so no wrapping paper, please. I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.

Do not want: original character as POV character or major character, noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O, mundane AUs, harm to children or animals, unrequested identity headcanons, incest

I am deeply uninterested in worldbuilding. I prefer stories that focus on the characters I've requested.

My account is set to be open to treats.

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Dear Yulegoat,

You can check out my yuletide tag to see my requests and wants/do not wants from yuletides past. I've been doing this since 2003, and it's been a blast every year. I am mtgat/Merlin Missy on AO3.

Basic likes: bright stories for the dark of the year, feel-good apocalypse fics, 1000 words of my OTPs chatting over coffee, madcap casefic adventures with the whole ensemble, drabbles, longfics, poetry, filk, magic, romance, angst with a happy ending, non-traditional holidays, and/or food porn. (Regular porn always welcome.) Tropefic of all varieties makes me happy. In general, I'm happy if you want to take any of my prompts in the direction of one of the outside challenges. Crueltide is outside my interests, and my eyesight is getting too poor to appreciate fan art. I am open to any ship configuration unless I've specifically said otherwise.

Basic dislikes: noncon/dubcon, character/actor/writer bashing, A/B/O and mundane AUs, original characters, harm to children or animals

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Happy New Year! Welcome to the future, or as we will refer to it a year from now, the past! I've been quiet on the fandom front and taking everything in, but my two word non-spoiler review of everything I have been watching (Supergirl, Sleepy Hollow, Agents of SHIELD, Doctor Who, Star Wars and probably Sherlock later tonight) can be summed up by two words:

MY BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cough*

Anyway, yuletide has come and gone, and has left me multiple goodies under my virtual Winter Solar Holiday Plant. My main gift was written for my very favorite Disney Channel musical. you come along on summer days was written by annemari for ME! It is the fluffiest, most wonderful Teen Beach Movie gift I could imagine, all Lela and Mack being adorable together in every way. I also received two wonderful treats based on the Pina Colada Song. doreyg wrote Getting Caught in the Acid Rain, and rise_your_dead wrote c://dos/run/prog/iwastiredofmyoldlady, both takes on the seriously broken relationship at the center of the song, except updated and in space! :D

I wrote a bit this year. Amusingly enough, the two big treats I wrote this year were Lela Queen of the College Admissions Process which is more Lela/Mack for annemari and To Hear The Angels Sing for doreyg, which is JLU Clark/J'onn growing close over the years. This tickles me greatly. :D My main assignment was written for draytons, a prequel to the Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" called That Day and That Hour Knoweth None.

I wrote several other treats this year. The runaway hit (oh my GOD) was Accio Insurance, which was what I had originally intended to request about how the State Farm insurance agents are clearly wizards, which means so are the rest of the insurance mascots, including Flo, Mayhem, and the Gecko, and if they are insurance wizards, there's clearly an insurance wizarding school named Aflac.

I wrote two Last Unicorn fics, including a Molly and Amalthea friendship fic called Cleïs for bookishwench, and a short about the harpy called Cages. I wrote Gargoyles OT3 fluff, Hellboy Red&Abe&Liz fluff, Night at the Museum Tiny little OTP fluff, Gonzo the Great angsty fluff, Supergirl Alex/Kara fluff, and Pennsyltory which is a weird-ass afterlife fic for the song "The Weight" by The Band. Also, a few short Madness treats for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Hollow, Minions, and Stay by Shakespear's Sister.

I had a great time writing this year. 2016 has a lot of good things looming on the horizon, and I'm excited!

(A little late, but the second to last guest from New Years went home today, and I have no regrets about spending time with friends.)

Yay yuletide! I got not one but three lovely gifts: "The Five(ish) Doctors Christmas Special! (with hobbits)" by valderys (Fiveish Doctors Reboot), "Let Us Live and Love" by youjik33 (Night at the Museum, Jed/Octavius aka my Tiny Little OTP), and "The Close of Years Now Past" by Who Shot AR (The Mummy, Jonathan and Evy growing up together).

For my offerings this year, I wrote two fics for my recipient, kharamagic: "Meet Yourself Coming From the Other Direction" (Wreck-It-Ralph, Calhoun/Felix + alternate universes when you're a game character) and "Beso" (Girl Meets World/Boy Meets World, all the OT3s). I also wrote five treats in Justice League, Physics Anthropomorphic, The Princess Bride, and Asimov's Robots Series, as well as a full length Sleepy Hollow treat for Mithrigil, "Bustability," in which Ben Franklin is the worst boss ever.

As usual, I had a blast and I hope everyone else did, too.

So it was Yuletide and I did the thing. Yay?

I got three prezzies this year! taraljc who loves me lots wrote Hidden Heart, which is a Gargoyles fic with Princess Katharine (aka the character I would have named JT after had he been a girl instead). karrenia_rune wrote me a "Piano Man" treat called Nuts and Bolts about an original character (Davey's daughter). Then desert_vixen wrote a He-Man drabble called Darkest Hour which was exactly everything I have always wanted in post-apocalyptic He-Man fic. I am delighted and blessed, and you should go and read all three fics right now. I'll wait.

Still waiting.

Okay, back? Good.

As usual, I kind of went overboard. Hide your shock. My assignment was Carrefour, a Neverwhere fic, Richard/Door with slight hints of Richard/Door/marquis de Carabas ('cause eustacia_vye mentioning liking OT3s but not if this one was among that number). I picked up two pinch hints. First, I wrote Prehistoric Park Series Two for tetsubinatu, which is exactly what it says on the tin. (Prehistoric Park remains a delight forever.) I also wrote a tropealicious Transformers pinch hit for dellessa.

In the treats department, I wrote a full-sized Justice League/JLU treat for Kansas42 called Gifts, in which Shayera and Wally are bffs, also there are Barbies. I wrote On the Nature of Footnotes for Oddegg, a fun little Discworld fic about everyone's favorite literary aid. I wrote a Sarah Jane Adventures fic for recessivejean called Virgin Births which combines my favorite tropes of confused newcomers to traditions and built families. Then I wrote a lot of little ficlets and drabbles for Empire Records (Deb), Indiana Jones (OFC), Warm Bodies (R/Julie), Holes (Kate/Sam), The Last Unicorn (Molly/Schmendrick), Wreck it Ralph (ensemble), Mythbusters RPF (Grant/robot), and Slings & Arrows (Geoffrey/Ellen/art).

So happy yuletide, and here's to the New Year, may she be a damn sight better than old one (Potter, no, the other one).

It's the most wonderful time of the (new) year: yuletide reveals! My ZOMG fantabulous prezzie this year was written by Cinaed, and I cannot rec this fic enough. Diana/Audrey is my guilty pleasure femslash OTP in JL/JLU, and "The Head That Wears a Crown" is just a perfect moment with them in an established relationship, which is my favorite kind of fic. I am over the damn moon, people. :D :D

Beta brag: of you haven't already, go read Lay Across the World and Explode Everything which amilyn wrote to fill in the gaps between the first two Terminator films. It is SARAH and she is AMAZING and READ IT!

*cough*

This year, I wrote seven fics, four full-sized fics and three Madness treats. My assignment fic was Godma, or, the Seven Tages of Grace (Dogma) for dhampyresa. I'm a huge fan of Kevin Smith's movies, and this fic let me play more with the characters. It was hard writing, because I am such a dork, and frankly I could not figure out how to make something worthy of the original, and I never did nail Bethany's voice (sorry), but I was pleased with how the rest of the characters' parts turned out.

I picked up a Candle Cove prompt that I missed catching as a pinch hit, and wrote On the Good Ship Laughingstock for sailorhathor as a treat. This one completely wrote itself, so that was kind of creepy given the source material. I did like the idea, given the original format of the creepypasta, that the characters were basically us. I enjoyed all the fics written for Candle Cove this year, so if you want to take the less than five minutes to read the original here, you may want to give the other fics a read. Assuming you like horror and don't mind not sleeping ever again.

While I was looking through the full prompts listing, I happened to see sotto_voice's prompts, and wrote Fire and Water and the Car That Went Zoom (Hellboy) to celebrate our mutual adoration of Liz Sherman. She also prompted Static fic, and as a matter of fact, so had fresne when I read her prompts, and that idea ended up becoming with the roses of the may (Static Shock), a story about Virgil Hawkins approaching forty.

Birthday Bash (He-Man & She-Ra) was inspired by foxy11814's prompt, with a dollop of my old head canon thrown in. Adora is home for a shared birthday party with her twin, but birthdays aren't the same for her. Fortunately, she finds a friend who understands.

Arktos (Brave) was written for birgitriddle to answer the question of why the witch was so fixated on bears. I am tremendously pleased on how it turned out.

Finally, Still As Sweet (The Incredibles) is a drabble about Violet picking her Super name, written for wizefics.

Yay Yuletide! I hope the New Year is going well for you and yours. I have been ringing in 2013 with good friends and a job I like, and it's all good.

It's time for yuletide reveals, and I got not one but four stories this year. :D :D :D

I requested fic about Vanessa from Phineas and Ferb, and received two lovely stories featuring her: A Good Nemesis is Hard to Find (2071 words) by Chibifukurou and My Big Fat Doofenshmirtz Wedding (2301 words) by Kariszma83

I also got a Vanessa-based Madness treat that is delightfully cackle-worthy: One for the scrapbook (631 words) by thenewradical

I had nominated and requested the song 99 Love Balloons due to the interesting world-building behind the story told in the song, and I was given this awesome femslash fic: Falling in Love on Free Day (2342 words) which was also by Kariszma83

So, thank you writers, these were a joy to read. :D

For my part, I only wrote three fics this year. Bedtime Stories was a new Thundercats fic I had SO MUCH FUN writing for hokuton_punch. Thundercats is really the One True Fandom of my heart, which tells you everything you ever needed to know about where my standards are set. AND I DON'T CARE. GIMME FIC. *cough*

I picked up a pinch hit for girl_called_sun in American Gods, and wrote The Man in the Gaberdine Suit, which turned out a lot more surreal than I had planned, but I like how it worked. Then I saw stefy_coool's requests go by on the pinch hit list, and found out she was also all about watching people be eaten by dinosaurs, so I wrote a short treat for her called RAR!, in which Velociraptor has an advice column.

In the real world, dream_scaper managed to track down a River Song dolly FOR ME so I am astoundingly happy. :D I want to set up a diorama where River and Hawkgirl and Lorder Hawkgirl and Lady Jaye go beating up bad guys together.

I hope everyone had as much fun as I did this year.

Hi! I am so excited that you're going to be writing for me! Thanks so much!

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1. I have disabled IP logging for all the accounts I have control over. Creepy, invasive feature is creepy and invasive.

2. Is anyone going to the Discworld con in Madison? I want to go, but I'd rather know that I'll see someone (anyone) that I already know.

Because this is also my Baby Book.

( If it is remotely possible to still spoil Charlotte's Web or the Potter books for you, don't click this. )

*raises her glass*

Two tickets here, if you're in the area and not, say, going to Indiana for the weekend. :)

More info here but tix are at the first link.