Yuletide 2025 Wrap-Up
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yuletide_adminEnd of Event
We have revealed creator names at the main 2025 collection and the 2025 Madness collection. (Reveals seems to be working as intended - fingers crossed!) The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection will shortly open for posting. The structured parts of this year's event are over - but you can keep posting recs atyuletide and commenting on works to let their creators know you enjoyed them.
Thank you from mods and team
Thank you to everyone who took part in Yuletide 2025: writers, requesters, betas, pinch hitters, community coordinators, chatters, hippos and the hippo pool.
Thank you from mods to the tagmod team: these are the assistants who research and process tags, proofread announcements, brainstorm author questions, contribute specific fandom knowledge, check stories, and discuss how to solve problems.
We look forward to running Yuletide again in 2026!
And now
There's a reveals post up at the participant community, if you want to chat about your writing process now that you can.
New stories can be posted to the New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection.
Feedback
As always, general feedback is welcome!
This year, we increased the nominations allowance from 4 fandoms to 5 fandoms. Since that worked okay, we anticipate continuing that next year.
We introduced a limited Do-Not-Match system. That was manageable so we're interested in repeating the same process next year - though it's possible it could grow beyond our capacity, so we don't want to guarantee it indefinitely.
We changed the deadline time and the reveals times. Those changes were based on mod availability, and it was really helpful to us to have multiple mods awake at the point of deadline and reveals. We'll need to base future deadline and reveals times on that priority, but since that isn't the only factor making deadlines and reveal times effective, we're interested to hear feedback too.
Next Yuletide, we may review franchise rules to make sure we're being consistent and fair. We may also specifically review rules for music videos.
As requested by a participant, we will also be adding a section to our rules on AO3 listing what you can expect from the mod team’s communications and conduct. We have had an internal Code of Conduct for several years but agree it would be helpful to share a public version.
Again, feedback on these or other topics is also welcome.
Thank you for helping to make Yuletide 2025 a wonderful event.
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We have revealed creator names at the main 2025 collection and the 2025 Madness collection. (Reveals seems to be working as intended - fingers crossed!) The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection will shortly open for posting. The structured parts of this year's event are over - but you can keep posting recs at
yuletide and commenting on works to let their creators know you enjoyed them.Please comment!
Please check that you have commented on any gifts you received - you can search on your username at the Yuletide 2025 collection, or the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection, or check your own personal AO3 gifts page. We understand not everyone can comment immediately due to late-December commitments or unforeseen events, but please comment when you can to acknowledge the gifts you requested. Comments and kudos on other Yuletide works are also very welcome.Thank you from mods and team
Thank you to everyone who took part in Yuletide 2025: writers, requesters, betas, pinch hitters, community coordinators, chatters, hippos and the hippo pool.
Thank you from mods to the tagmod team: these are the assistants who research and process tags, proofread announcements, brainstorm author questions, contribute specific fandom knowledge, check stories, and discuss how to solve problems.
We look forward to running Yuletide again in 2026!
And now
There's a reveals post up at the participant community, if you want to chat about your writing process now that you can.
New stories can be posted to the New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection.
Feedback
As always, general feedback is welcome!
This year, we increased the nominations allowance from 4 fandoms to 5 fandoms. Since that worked okay, we anticipate continuing that next year.
We introduced a limited Do-Not-Match system. That was manageable so we're interested in repeating the same process next year - though it's possible it could grow beyond our capacity, so we don't want to guarantee it indefinitely.
We changed the deadline time and the reveals times. Those changes were based on mod availability, and it was really helpful to us to have multiple mods awake at the point of deadline and reveals. We'll need to base future deadline and reveals times on that priority, but since that isn't the only factor making deadlines and reveal times effective, we're interested to hear feedback too.
Next Yuletide, we may review franchise rules to make sure we're being consistent and fair. We may also specifically review rules for music videos.
As requested by a participant, we will also be adding a section to our rules on AO3 listing what you can expect from the mod team’s communications and conduct. We have had an internal Code of Conduct for several years but agree it would be helpful to share a public version.
Again, feedback on these or other topics is also welcome.
Thank you for helping to make Yuletide 2025 a wonderful event.
Please either comment logged-in or sign a name. Unsigned anonymous comments will be left screened.
Fic: From Graves Forgotten Stretch Their Dusty Hands
Jan. 1st, 2026 03:14 pmcalliopes_penThe fic commentary post will be up shortly, but for now, here's the reveal!
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Nosferatu (2024)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Thomas Hutter/Orlok, Friedrich Harding/Thomas Hutter, Ellen Hutter/Thomas Hutter
Characters: Thomas Hutter, Friedrich Harding, Albin Eberhart von Franz, Wilhelm Sievers, Orlok (Nosferatu), Greta the Cat (Nosferatu)
Additional Tags: Crueltide, Nightmares, Mind Control, Brainwashing, Demonic Possession, Post-Possession, Vague mention of canon necrophilia, Offscreen Cannibalism, Necromancy, Comes Back Wrong, Evil Detecting Animals, Found Family, No Animals Are Harmed, Fog, Tons of research, Fainting, Unholy mental connection, Bittersweet Ending, Decapitation, Thomas has been used horribly by the great beyond, Von Franz is in research mode, Von Franz adores his cats, Grief/Mourning, Post-Canon
From Graves Forgotten Stretch Their Dusty Hands (42124 words) by calliopes_pen
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Nosferatu (2024)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Thomas Hutter/Orlok, Friedrich Harding/Thomas Hutter, Ellen Hutter/Thomas Hutter
Characters: Thomas Hutter, Friedrich Harding, Albin Eberhart von Franz, Wilhelm Sievers, Orlok (Nosferatu), Greta the Cat (Nosferatu)
Additional Tags: Crueltide, Nightmares, Mind Control, Brainwashing, Demonic Possession, Post-Possession, Vague mention of canon necrophilia, Offscreen Cannibalism, Necromancy, Comes Back Wrong, Evil Detecting Animals, Found Family, No Animals Are Harmed, Fog, Tons of research, Fainting, Unholy mental connection, Bittersweet Ending, Decapitation, Thomas has been used horribly by the great beyond, Von Franz is in research mode, Von Franz adores his cats, Grief/Mourning, Post-Canon
Summary: Three months after his presumed final destruction, Orlok’s essence comes forth to seize control of Thomas, and bid him to perform an act of necromancy as revenge. What comes back is Friedrich Harding...and yet not. It is a man transformed into a Nachzehrer, a being hungry for the life and soul and flesh of the only one left of those it once loved: Thomas.
New Year's Resolutions 2026
Jan. 1st, 2026 01:07 pmaunt_zeldaWhat a year 2025 was. Horrible politics. Money stress. My mother broke her leg. My cat got sick. My grandmother died. My cat died. I got full-time employment again. I tried to treat my mysterious skin issues. I ran D&D at conventions for total strangers and had a great time. I had a health scare and got on new meds to treat it, and it worked. I adopted two kittens. I helped my mother move halfway across the country to live in the same city as me. I got better at communicating with my girlfriend.
My resolutions for 2025 were:
1) Restart therapy
2) Cooking lessons so I can cook dinner for my girlfriend more often
3) Go to the park/somewhere in nature alone regularly
4) Work on scripts, finish 2 by end of year
5) Find a hobby separate from my girlfriend
6) Connect with friends more often
1) I did for a while, and that was especially helpful through the first half of the year
2) This fell apart, due to a combination of things outside our control, me realizing the friend I'd hoped could teach me wasn't clicking as a teacher personally, and my own anxieties and avoidance. I did get pretty good at cooking twice a week for my girlfriend most weeks.
3) This didn't happen. I got out to kayak but not enough, and not alone.
4) This didn't happen.
5) This didn't happen.
6) This did happen, I watched tv shows with friends online, played more games in person and online, and put myself out there more. I didn't keep up with some friends as much as I would have liked to.
My 2026 Resolutions Are:
1) Learn to cook 20 recipes.
2) Find some kind of regular movement thing I can do consistently (swimming, dancing, swordfighting, martial art, generic exercise, walking in the park) once a week ideally.
3) Attend at least 3 conventions.
4) Get into making mocktails and cocktails (get supplies, make list, learn to make 10 different ones.)
5) Establish regular painting hangouts with friends to work on my Warhammer miniatures.
6) Watch at least 52 movies.
My resolutions for 2025 were:
1) Restart therapy
2) Cooking lessons so I can cook dinner for my girlfriend more often
3) Go to the park/somewhere in nature alone regularly
4) Work on scripts, finish 2 by end of year
5) Find a hobby separate from my girlfriend
6) Connect with friends more often
1) I did for a while, and that was especially helpful through the first half of the year
2) This fell apart, due to a combination of things outside our control, me realizing the friend I'd hoped could teach me wasn't clicking as a teacher personally, and my own anxieties and avoidance. I did get pretty good at cooking twice a week for my girlfriend most weeks.
3) This didn't happen. I got out to kayak but not enough, and not alone.
4) This didn't happen.
5) This didn't happen.
6) This did happen, I watched tv shows with friends online, played more games in person and online, and put myself out there more. I didn't keep up with some friends as much as I would have liked to.
My 2026 Resolutions Are:
1) Learn to cook 20 recipes.
2) Find some kind of regular movement thing I can do consistently (swimming, dancing, swordfighting, martial art, generic exercise, walking in the park) once a week ideally.
3) Attend at least 3 conventions.
4) Get into making mocktails and cocktails (get supplies, make list, learn to make 10 different ones.)
5) Establish regular painting hangouts with friends to work on my Warhammer miniatures.
6) Watch at least 52 movies.
Привет! LiveJournal imports may be slow
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dw_maintenanceПривет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)
Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.
I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!
С Новым Годом, and welcome home!
EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!
Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️
Yuletide Madness Is Live
Dec. 26th, 2025 10:05 amyuletidemods posting in yuletide_adminAt push of button, this year's Madness collection has 227 works in 183+ fandoms.
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.
As in the last post:
Commenting
Please comment on your gift(s) to let your writer know you appreciate them. Please also comment on anything else you enjoy!
Recs
Making work recommendations is a tradition. Please see more information at the participant community about where you can post your recs.
Problems
If there is something wrong with your gift or you have another concern, please contact the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.
Anonymity
Yuletide is designed to be an anonymous exchange until January 1. Please don't give away what you've written. When logged in, you can, if you want, reply to comments on your own works, and you will show up as Anonymous Creator until the authors of the collection are revealed.
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.
Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
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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.
As in the last post:
Commenting
Please comment on your gift(s) to let your writer know you appreciate them. Please also comment on anything else you enjoy!
Recs
Making work recommendations is a tradition. Please see more information at the participant community about where you can post your recs.
Problems
If there is something wrong with your gift or you have another concern, please contact the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.
Anonymity
Yuletide is designed to be an anonymous exchange until January 1. Please don't give away what you've written. When logged in, you can, if you want, reply to comments on your own works, and you will show up as Anonymous Creator until the authors of the collection are revealed.
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.
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