Yuletide! and things!

[donutsweeper]

Yuletide is open! (and has been for a few days, I've been trying (yet mostly failing, why are there only 24 hours in a day?) to work my way through the collection. There are 1759 works in 1159 fandoms. So, so much to read. Here's the fandom page - go check it out. And if that's not enough to read there's also 350 works in 272 fandoms in the madness collection.

I got two lovely gifts, a madness treat (a combination of the webcomic, 'In which a Visitor proves a Nuisance' that I'd requested and the tumblr post 'Incompetent Time-Travelling Saxophone Haters') that can be read canon blind: In Which a Miscommunication Proves Infortuitous and a prequel/worldbuilding fic for Nightmare Cafe (no real canon knowledge necessary, it's explained in the fic really well) Last Orders.

Over the last few days I finished two craft projects, a bag rug

(made from 3-4 dozen bagel bags plus several strips of those plastic air pockets that are included in packages now that bubblewrap is less common) it's about 28"x16" I originally wanted it larger but I ran out of bags :)

and a big blanket! (which used up a good chunk of the yarn I bought at a huge discount during 2023's Black Friday sale)

it's about 55" x 64"

Now onto the next project. (And, somehow, despite using up a huge chunk of yarn, my yarnstash hasn't gone down much. Gee, wonder how that happened:D)

Forgot to mention that my Under the Skin fic, Gently Toward a New Bright Morn (Du Cheng saving Shen Yi s1e6 episode tag) was translated into Chinese and posted on lofter back in November, unfortunately a) despite studying Chinese for years now, I still don't read it and b) it requires a login to lofter to read. (A friend who has both found it and read it and said it was a good translation and properly credited to me which is very cool, UtS is so much more popular in Chinese speaking circles than English ones).

UtS s2 has also started airing, all the episodes are out in Chinese but we're still waiting for English subs for the last four. So far it's been a good season, maybe not quite on par with S1 but that'll depend on how it ends.

And (whoops) several weeks of recthething recs! 2 MDZS/Untamed fics and a ton of tumblr art (Doctor Who, MDZS/Untamed, Sherlock Holmes, and X-Files):

Doctor Who
- Who am I? "i became slightly obsessed with the regeneration scene in the movie and specifically the whole sequence with the 8 reflections and broken mirrors everywhere so i did all this abt it" (gorgeous)
- Some Spearhead from Space doodles (adorable Three and Unit doodles)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Happy wangxian everyone (peaceful and soft wwx/lwj moment)
- Wangxian Kiss (love how you can almost see the movement in this)

Sherlock Holmes
- “It was worth a wound–it was worth many wounds–” Comic version of that scene from The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Watson's Sketchbook (amazing)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles cover design (so good, this could be the cover for a real book)
- Peter Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) is something that can be so personal actually (excellent likeness)

X-Files
Lynn Buckham’s painting redrawn as Mulder and Scully featuring my favorite character, Scully’s lavender skirt suit (loved this)

MDZS/Untamed fic rec:
Darkness Before the Dawn by Selenay (64k)
Summary Snippet: In which Wei Ying is a necromancer in the middle of a zombie apocalpyse but that's only where he begins. Sometimes the darkest night brings the brightest dawn. (Really interesting modern-with-powers, although not true cultivation, AU)

An Old Cardboard Produce Box for a Cradle by julomaiboulomai, mischiefseven (25k)
Summary: "Wei Ying sits back from his labour and looks at the product of his work with satisfaction. She could use a face and some clothing, but her proportions aren’t too bad. All in all she’s a convincingly sweet doll. Mostly, anyway. He smiles, a little wry, down at the little figure resting on his worktable; she’s as uncanny as anything else that came out of the soil of the Burial Mounds, really. That just means she’ll fit right in." Wei Ying makes a meimei for A-Yuan. Things progress differently from there. (WWX means to only make A-Yuan a a doll, a little meimei, but accidentally end up with a baby daughter. Delightful fix-it)

Hope everyone's year is ending well and next year will be even better!

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

Thanks for the art recs! <3

[donutsweeper]

My pleasure! Hope you found something you liked :)

[trobadora]

The Hound of the Baskervilles cover design (so good, this could be the cover for a real book)

Wow, seriously, that is fantastic!

Thank you so much for the recs!

[donutsweeper]

Glad you liked them! :)

[awanderingbard]

That's such a cool rug! I would have never thought to use bagel bags or those plastic packing things, that's very clever. And the blanket is awesome, too! I admire anyone who has the patience for a really long project. I feel like I get bored so easily and want to do something else and never go back go it again, lol.

Happy New Year!

[donutsweeper]

Thanks! I really love this knotted rug technique because it's so easy to upcycle instead of tossing so many different things, not everything of course, but if it can be cut or made into strips or circles/ovals that can be then tied together, it can be turned into a rug.