yuletide and crafting and recs and whatnot

Yuletide nominations close tomorrow (give or take just shy of 17 hours from when I post this). Don't forget to get yours in, if that is something that interests you.

There's already a lot of interesting things on the promo post. This year I posted a promo for one of the fandoms I'll be requesting, a four panel webcomic by David Malki! (the exclamation point is part of his name) In which a Visitor proves a Nuisance. What I posted over there was

What is it, in summary?: A vaguely old-timey looking man is saved from a time-traveling assassin by Sully the Time Cop, something that is apparently a frequent occurrence.

What do you love about it?: It's so random and weird. The contrast between the "present" and the time travelers is great along with the implication that it is something that happens over and over again.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: The time travelers wear diving helmets and one uses a sickle while the other has an energy weapon. Why? How does the time assassination/assassination prevention attempts even work. Are they from different centuries or the same one? I am planning on nominating Sully, Time Traveling Assassin and Worldbuilding. (I also wound up nominated the muttonchopped man since someone said they were interested.)

I also (mostly) repeated last year's noms for All Souls and Nightmare Cafe and The Vampires (but since I already got an amazing worldbuilding fic for The Vampires I switched out the worldbuilding slot for another character. I haven't decided if I'll request it again but since it's likely I'm the only one who'll think of nominating it, I figured better safe than sorry.)

I crocheted some more bunny friends (here's pics of the one from earlier plus three others)

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The small ones are very small, each about the size of the heads of the others.

And, last but not least, two weeks of recthething recs (2 MDZS/Untamed fic recs and from tumblr The Magic Schoolbus, MDZS, and Sherlock Holmes art and a DS9 vid)

Art:
The Magic Schoolbus
- you think you’re going to have a normal field trip and she shows up (gorgeous Ms Frizzle and Liz art)

MDZS/The Untamed
- "Wei Ying, come back to Gusu with me" Summary: Lan Wangji embroidery because I love to make myself sad (this is *embroidery*!! Incredible)
- 残された。。。||Left behind (Three panel comic of the Nie brothers, oh my heart)
- great news! wei wuxian has died! (powerful two panel animation)
- Fraught sunshot kisses, because that’s what I’m feeling today and every day (desperate but gorgrous wwx/lwj kiss)
- Pretending these little freaks are in a wholesome ghibli film. (various characters reimagined, wonderfully done!)

Sherlock Holmes
- Hearth and home (gorgeous Granada Holmes take on that particular RDJ/Jude law bts photo)
- Sherlock and Watson, dancing request. Sherlock needs to study this new dance (for reasons of solving the murder in the ballroom, of course) so the doctor is helping ♥ (so sweet)
- "Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age." (lovely illustration of a novel quote)

Vid:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- I’m in a little bit of trouble. And I’m in real deep… (wonderful Gashir vid)

the MDZS/Untamed fics:
solid ground by notsofluffyunicorn (2.7k)
Summary: “I never felt like I had… like I had solid ground to land on.” Wei Wuxian said softly. “It always just felt like if I messed up even once that everything I had would be taken from me.” He takes in a deep breath, tears stinging in his eyes. “But you… oh, my love. You have given me everything. You, A-Yuan. A life traveling with just the three of us. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted. I can never thank you for that. You are my solid ground.” (soft and sweet canon-era no-war AU)

Gentians on Doorways by gentil-minou (Flyingsuits) (34k)
Summary: After a decade of living abroad, Lan Zhan returns to China. But Lan Zhan is out of his depth in a land that was once his home. After all, there's no step-by-step guide for when your mother dies. As he sorts through her affairs and grapples with his grief, he meets Wei Ying, his mother's friend and the artist she'd commissioned to illustrate a book of nursery rhymes. And as he and Wei Ying strike a partnership of their own, Lan Zhan wonders if he ever knew his mother at all. (This story is slow and sad and and wonderful look at grief and moving on. Written for the MDZS Reverse Big Bang there is gorgeous art for the mentioned children's book included.)

Summer weather returned with a vengeance over the weekend, but thankfully it looks like it'll finally break soon. I am so ready for fall.