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Yuletide! I am having a wonderful Yuletide! I got treats, and everything I received was completely and utterly wonderful.

Ghost of a Problem (Defenders, Danny & Jessica gen, 1100 wds)
Jessica is being haunted by a ghost kitten and needs Danny's help. This fic is quite simply the world's cutest thing. It is glorious.

Nobody Ever Made You a Monster (Wiseguy, gen, 5700 wds)
I asked for the Wiseguy characters having to deal with supernatural shenanigans, and this is SO GOOD; it's perfectly and exactly what I wanted, very true to their gritty 1980s mafia world with the supernatural elements seamlessly woven in. LOVE. ♥

Paz (Wiseguy, gen, 2K wds)
It's the season 4 fixit I've been craving since I was 14 and massively blindsided by the catastrophe that was canonical S4! This is how it should have gone instead. PERSONAL HEADCANON AHOY.

I also got something for Happy Belated Treatmas:

Kiss and Tell (Agent Carter, OT3, 2600 wds)
Get-together fic for my OT3! Absolutely lovely.


I haven't read much in Yuletide yet that wasn't for me, but I loved this one:

convalescent (Ben January, canon pairings, 3100 wds)
Shaw gets shot and has to recuperate at Ben and Rose's (mad)house. This is everything you might want from that particular premise and then some. I feel as if a representative quote would convey the general tone better than anything else could:

[Shaw] had nothing to do but sleep and think all the day, such that when Ben returned home, late in the afternoon, to inspect his wound, he told him, "I'm going to teach your boys to shoot."

His proposal was, of course, strictly illegal, but neither of them gave that any more consideration than it deserved, which was to say, none.

Benjamin did say, however, "They're a bit young for it."

"Well, you've got to start 'em young, if you want 'em to be any good at it." Shaw considered the general size of the January children, who had spent part of the afternoon playing on the floor under the watchful eye of Zizi-Marie, who had been multitasking mending laundry, babysitting, and being Shaw's jailer, and he conceded, "Maybe not quite that young." They had to get big enough to hold the gun, at least. Maybe he should start them with knives first.

The full Yuletide archive by fandom is here.