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I Could Find My Way Back (4185 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Florence + the Machine
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

A heartbeat, a sense of direction, the moon sparkling off the fresh snow caught in the pine trees.

Finding appropriate words to feedback this with was such a struggle. I have no words. This author took them all. It's gorgeous. I'd said in my letter that "Cosmic Love" always seems femslashy to me and "Howl" could be too, and I complained some about depictions of werewolves, and my mystery author took all that and mixed it into this awesomeness.

Abstract Pleasures (2831 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fallen London|Echo Bazaar
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Player/Quiet Deviless, Player/Affectionate Devil, Affectionate Devil/Player/Quiet Deviless
Characters: Player, Affectionate Devil, Quiet Deviless, Struggling Artist
Summary:

To whom will you give your soul?

EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED OMG

And my recip has three fics which all postdate my defaulting, so I'm thinking they're not gonna be too sad about being defaulted on. Phew.

And I have...forty more tabs of Yuletide open. Of which several are fandom tabs, not story tabs, because the fandom had more than two fics listed. Um.

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Scorch (2525 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fallen London|Echo Bazaar
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Quiet Deviless/Player (Echo Bazaar)
Characters: The Quiet Deviless, Player (Echo Bazaar)
Summary:

The Quiet Deviless is extremely quiet on most occasions.

Dunno why this is rated Mature--it needs an Explicit. The whole sensuous experience is rendered in loving detail.

Wake Up and Find (25653 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: You Belong With Me - University of Rochester Yellowjackets (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Glasses Guy/Jock Guy
Characters: Glasses Guy (You Belong With Me), Jock Guy (You Belong With Me)
Summary:

By the third time that Danny wound up with a window or door directly across from Eli Gronkowski's, he had to wonder if the universe was trying to tell him something.

This is just canon writ large, and I love the canon, so. And the ex-girlfriend is not badly treated by the narrative at all, which is a pleasant contrast to canon.

Three Shades of Steele (11321 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 50 Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Anastasia Steele, Anastasia's Subconscious, Anastasia's Inner Goddess, Carla Adams, Kate Kavanagh, Christian Grey
Summary:

A jinn transforms Ana Steele's subconscious and inner goddess into living people. Permanently. That's the good news.

Haven't read Fifty Shades, but I've heard more than enough about them, and this fixes everything I've heard.