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Today I've been remembering Christmas songs we sang in my elementary school auditorium, long ago. "Nuttin' for Christmas" was a favorite, largely because the line "Climbed a tree and tore my pants" always made the kids laugh.

We did a full-on musical production of A Christmas Carol when I was maybe eight years old. I played a ragamuffin and learned a dance routine for it, but then got the flu and missed the evening performance. (I ended up giving my actress heroine Joanna Bergman this experience in Can't Find My Way Home.) I still remember some of the lyrics and melody for one of our Christmas Carol songs, but I can't find it anywhere online--and in the age of AI, it's even more difficult than the last time I looked. The lyric I remember is: "Bless the goose, poor bird, his day is done / Bless the cheery warmth of our old hearth (Oh Merry Christmas) / God bless us everyone." (We pronounced "hearth" to rhyme with "earth," and no one corrected us.) I did find a Christmas Carol song online called "God Bless Us Everyone," but it's not the song I remember.

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I didn't participate in Yuletide (again) this year, except for nominating and betaing in the usual fandom, but I got a Madness gift!

I wasn't expecting it, but I went and checked the Madness collection after it was open to see if there was any 18th century fiction, and there was!

And then I saw it was a gift for me! Hooray!

The Frederician ABC (199 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Hans Hermann von Katte, Henri Alexandre de Catt, Joseph II von Österreich | Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor, Maria Theresia von Österreich | Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780), Voltaire (Writer), Stanisław August Poniatowski, Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758), Jacob Paul von Gundling, Johann Joachim Quantz, Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm, Francesco Algarotti, Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Additional Tags: Silly, ABC Challenge, Yuletide Treat, Unconventionyule, Unconventional Format
Summary:

Need some help remembering who is who in 18th Century Prussia? Fear no more, the Frederician ABC is here.

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Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #989.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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I've updated my Kdrama list, and because I had such a wonderful year of dramas in 2025, I decided to invent a meme.
Note: I'm not counting Guardian for this; that lives in a category of its own. <3 And most of my answers are about the dramas that were new to me this year, though obviously I love and adore the shows I rewatched, too.

( Kdramas I watched this year )

The Meme

Total number of dramas watched: 22 Kdramas, 1 Kmovie, 1 Jdrama, and 1 Cdrama.

Number of rewatches: 7: Sell Your Haunted House (with Pru), Semantic Error, Tale of the Nine Tailed (with Andrew), Family by Choice (with Pru), Good Manager, Nothing But Love, While You Were Sleeping (ongoing)

Number of dramas watched with Andrew: 7 dramas and a movie: Undercover High School, Tale of the Nine Tailed, Aema, Low Life, Bon Appétit Your Majesty, Typhoon Family, Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born, Bogota: City of the Lost (movie).

Percentage of new-to-me dramas that were awesome: I watched 15 new-to-me dramas (and the movie, which was fine but not really my thing, so I'll set that aside). I loved 9 of them. That's 60% -- an amazingly high percentage! I had a really good drama year. (Of course, there were dozens that I started and didn't get beyond episode 1 or 2, and a few I watched more of but didn't finish; I'm only counting one of those.)

( The meme, continued. )

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19 recs in 16 fandoms (Mahou Sentai Magiranger, American Girl, A Christmas Carol, Dirty Dancing, The Great Mouse Detective, The Haunting, Home Alone, Home Improvement, The Last Unicorn, The Lottery, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mork & Mindy, The Odd Couple, The Secret Garden, Revolutionary Girl Utena)

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It's lovely, sweet domestic fluff featuring Dianda and her husbands, and it makes me smile so much.

Small Potatoes (503 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dianda Lorden/Patrick Lorden/Simon Lorden | Simon Torquill
Characters: Dianda Lorden, Patrick Lorden, Simon Lorden | Simon Torquill
Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Babies
Summary:

New babies mean new routines.

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all the works for this year's yuletide rare fandoms fic exchange are now up! here's a post to gather the kpop-related fandoms that appeared in the collections. happy to make edits if i missed something.

yuletide main collection:
ATEEZ
Bouncy (K-Hot Chilli Peppers) - ATEEZ (Music Video)
BTOB
IVE
Lemon drop - ATEEZ (Music Video)
NMIXX
TEMPEST
Virtual Angel - ARTMS (Music Video)
XLOV

yuletide madness collection:
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Current Music: vixx - shooting star

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At push of button, this year's Madness collection has 227 works in 183+ fandoms.

Madness collection

Main collection

AO3 wranglers have processed a lot of new fandoms; in the main collection, the 992 that appeared on the fandoms page at reveals have become 1065! Thanks to everyone who has helped make wranglers' jobs easier by using canonical tags, tags from the tag set, or other recommended tags, as appropriate in each case.

If you've written in a new fandom that isn't wrangled yet, we encourage you to use Unspecified Fandom as a tag to help people find your work; many works originally tagged this way now have wrangled fandoms, in which case, you can take the tag off if you wish.

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The Yuletide event concludes at 9pm UTC, 1 January 2026. At that time we will reveal creator names at both the main and Madness collection, and also open the new New Year's Resolution collection.