love & light (the promised prompts post)

I get a little silly around Christmas. I end up in this state of mind where I bawl at Christmas songs, write very heartfelt messages for my family on all the presents, and just generally feel like there is an epically important point to the day that gets missed a lot. We mostly don't miss it; I don't have a perfect family by any means, but we do manage to celebrate Christmas in a way that is mostly not stressful and succeeds in being sweet and light and wonderful and nondenominational.

For the most part, anyway. (Let's not talk about the time last year when my dad was lying underneath the tree, trying to hold it up while my sister attempted some complicated feat of engineering that would allow the tree to keep standing up straight.)

But I'm thinking about meaningful moments, anyway. So that's the theme--give me a setting, a pairing or a friendship or two acquaintances, and a moment when things change. It could be a first kiss, a revelation (when so-and-so found out about x), a break-up, etc. Fandoms are bandom, BTVS, DCU, Veronica Mars, and anything else you've seen me write in. Crossovers are totally fine, rare pairings are encouraged, outlandish AUs are lots of fun, etc. You know how I roll. This time, though, I'm only doing twelve. One of those is airgiodslv's, the other eleven are open.

And I love you all. But you knew that.

yuletide!

So do we have any Umbrella Academy fans around here? Yeah, you know, I fucking thought so.

I woke up this morning with Through The Grapevine in my inbox, and oh my god, Allison Fucking Hargreeves. This is pitch-perfect Rumor, sharp and nasty and almost-sweet, this is a violent and wonderful and amazing and I just love it so much. So much. Go read, love, give whoever wrote it some feedback, because what they did with my prompt is above and fucking beyond (it basically boiled down to me saying "More Rumor! I love her!") and my comment was certainly too incoherent to do it any justice at all. GO READ. SO FUCKING GOOD.




PS. If one of you stumble over my story, you will most likely know it is mine. Seriously. My recipient loved it, which is A GIANT RELIEF.