Jess's Journal

I've done Yuletide a few years now and I have two rules for myself: I only offer sources I straight-up love and I never offer fandoms I've written in before. This year I was assigned Bolt, super charming movie about a dog on a cross-country journey who thinks he's a superhero and along the way makes some friends, learns to be a real dog and has ADVENTURES - you can just watch this montage from the movie to get an idea of what it's like.

My recipient requested a story about the kitty sidekick in the movie, Mittens, who happened to be my favorite character in the movie. It was a lot of fun to write the story, even if it did lead me to do odd things like lie flat on the floor and stare at my two cats, asking, "What are you guys THINKING?" In mysterious (and quite typical) cat-like fashion, they were not very forthcoming.

Here is the story I finally came up with, no thanks to aforementioned housecats:

Belong to You (4901 words) by fearlessfan
Fandom: Bolt (2008)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mittens (Bolt), Bolt (Bolt), Rhino (Bolt), Penny (Bolt), Penny's Mom (Bolt)
Summary:

When Penny and Bolt are asked to participate in a reunion special back in Hollywood, Mittens worries about her place in their lives.

Another fun part of Yuletide this year was the fact that my good friend lavender_basil chose to participate in Yuletide for the first time! I was thrilled to beta her lovely Valentine's Day story, which was a sweet and satisfying expansion of the Sean and Holden love story we see in the movie. You should totally check it out! You can read it here:

You May Be the World (1636 words) by LavenderBasil
Fandom: Valentine's Day (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sean Jackson/Holden Wilson
Characters: Sean Jackson, Holden Wilson
Summary:

It starts at dinner and falls apart over Jell-O.

Happy New Year, all! the last quarter of 2011 was full of a variety of unfun craziness for me and many people close to me, and so I'm ready to turn the page. I hope 2012 is full of wonderful things for all of you.

Title: Flying Solo
Fandom/Pairing: Parks and Recreation, Ann/Leslie
Rating: PG
Summary: Ann figures out why things never worked out with Mark.
Spoilers: Takes place after the second season finale.
Length: 10,200 words
Notes: Thanks to lavender_basil for the awesome beta!


(  'Ann, what's up?' Andy says, and it's not what he says but how he says it. The tone of his voice, the set of his shoulders - all of it radiates the same disappointed wariness Ann felt every time he showed up unexpectedly after their breakup.  )

Title: Fundamentals of Chemistry
Fandom/Pairing: Community, Troy/Annie
Rating: PG
Summary: "What's up with Annie lately?" Troy asks. It's been on his mind for a few days now, this something-different-about-Annie, and it seems worth the risk of asking the group as a whole.
Length: 6,000 words.
Notes: Written for the Yuletide 2009 challenge.

( After Annie leaves the study group early, Troy looks around the room and taps his notebook with a pencil. )

Title: Bayside Revisited
Fandom/Pairing: Saved by the Bell
Rating: PG
Summary: Bayside High's Class of 1993 celebrates its 15 year reunion.
Length: 15,000 words.
Notes: Written for oldromantic in the Yuletide 2008 challenge.

( The only reason Zack agrees to it is because he doesn't know what he's agreeing to at the time. )

Title: Five Things Robin Scherbatsky Doesn’t Do
Fandom/Pairing: How I Met Your Mother, Robin/Barney
Spoilers: Up through season three, and some plot points from season four, although they play out differently in the story.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Robin doesn’t fall in love with Barney (except for how she totally does).
Length: 9700 words.
Notes: Written for E, only five months after her birthday!
Notes Part II: This isn't a traditional five things story with five mini-universes, it's one chronological story.

( .i. talk about her feelings )

Title: Jury Duty
Fandom: 30 Rock, Gen
Spoilers: None beyond the general premise of the show.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Tracy has jury duty, Jenna discovers a new source of fame, Jack is on the verge of losing his job, and Liz tries to hold it all together.
Length: 7437 words.
Notes: Written for likeadeuce for the Yuletide 2007 challenge.

( Liz has four messages when she gets in on Friday. )

Title: Piece by Piece
Fandom: Gilmore Girls, Lorelai
Spoilers: None beyond the general premise of the show.
Rating: PG
Summary: Lorelai picks up fragments of a future and hands them to her daughter piece by piece.
Length: 493 words.

( Piece by Piece )

Title: Feel That
Fandom: Friday Night Lights, Tyra/Jason
Spoilers: Up through Full Hearts; after that, all speculation.
Length: 3565 words.
Summary: Four times Tyra Collette kissed Jason Street.
Thanks: To E and Kaelie, for fab beta action! All shortcomings are mine and mine alone.

( They're playing spin the bottle and it's so stupid that Tyra almost can't believe it's happening, but then she remembers that it's Melissa Crandall's party, and Melissa has always been kind of lame, but in a sweet way, which is why Tyra put a ten instead of a five dollar bill into her birthday card. The reason she came had nothing to do with Melissa at all: it's Sunday, it's hot, and Melissa has a pool. )

The reveal has happened! I wrote:

Conflict Resolution - Psych - Why Carlton Lassiter punched Shawn Spencer, and how they got past it.

Thanks to E and Kaelie, as always, for fab beta action! The link above goes to the Yuletide site, but I'll put it up on my website eventually. Yuletide was fun, overall, and also interesting. I may talk about it later in another post. For now, I will just post the 2006-in-fic meme, which I know you have all been waiting on pins and needles for. Your wait is over!

( 2006 Fanfic Meme )

People, I live for the times when the "post snippets from your works in progress" meme comes around, because I post approximately 1 completed story every 4.3 years. I love it when I get to cheat. I am even cheating with the meme, which says to post three lines, but the thing is, I can't pick out three lines (not because they're all so awesome, but because they all seem kind of mediocre and bland, not that that stops me from sharing). I'm going to post the opening scene/section for each instead. I AM SUCH A REBEL.

Also, you know, they're kind of rough, the second one especially.

That said! Here goes.

( ocean's 11/12, untitled fic, eventually rusty/linus )


( keen eddie, untitled eddie/fiona fic )