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I'm pretty pleased with my Yuletide assignment. It's a lovely open-ended prompt in a fandom where I desperately needed the prompt to be open-ended.

Now I just need to resist the urge to do something unspeakable like write a thousand words in verse, dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter or something. No, Ferret. Just because Homer did it doesn't mean you can do it. You're a mediocre poet at best. And there is absolutely no reason for this fandom in particular to get that treatment. My brain... it is a dangerous place.

Seriously, though, the fandom I got is a great, wide open world begging for further worldbuilding. It's a fandom that covers so many of my favorite narrative tropes. I expect in some ways there will be similarities to last year's Yuletide story; even though the fandoms are not from the same era, are in different media, and use very different tropes, there's a lot in common.

I think the most fruitful and frustrating part may be that this is definitely a fandom where a certain imperialism joke I made in my Hitchhiker's Guide/Galactus crossover story has unfortunate resonance. Pushing the story outside the boundaries of its own parochialism will be the hardest challenge for me, but it should be the most satisfying. Alai has given me a good piece of guidance toward that end. I may need to lean on him.


P.S. Especially stay away from trochaic tetrameter, Ferret. That experiment... was a failure.