I don't even know where to start

[gwyn]

OK, first things first: I was wrong, but most importantly, YOU were right. It's true that pinch-hits don't mean Christmas blues. I got not one, but FOUR freaking stories, and apparently there are more Madness stories still to come. I'M NOT WORTHY. And it sounds like possibly the person who defaulted still put the story up, and it sounds like something terrible happened (so of course now don't I feel like a shitheel). And they are all great.

My pressies, let me show you them!!!

So, I get these two wonderful Christmas cakes of Buckaroo Banzai.
Saddle Up is a wonderful post-movie depiction of Buckaroo's intentions of bringing Rawhide back to life. And just about anyone at the Institute in the movie makes an appearance, and there's this wonderful little pun of Johns who come to help.
and then
The Adventures of Rawhide: Navigating An End and a Beginning (With Bloody Feet) is a look at the post-Peggy Buckaroo, with glimpses back to how Rawhide met him and some adorable case-file names and nemeses. It's beautifully written and I'm thrilled.

And more cake! MORE CAKE, PEOPLE! White Collar cake, to be precise.
The Great God-Daughter Caper has Neal and Peter chasing around looking for Peter's missing 16-year-old god-daughter and being Neal and Peter together. Aaaaaaahhhh.

So there's the cake and then I get this SURPRISE FROSTING. My little fandom that there are hardly any others who have even seen it, the fandom where I was the only one who mentioned it this year (last year I bullied someone else into offering it, but this year it was just my lone request, no offers), MDs, and someone wrote me a Bruce/Robert story with smut! I AM SO HAPPY. Happy happy frosting. It's called What's Worth Keeping and you know what? THIS STORY is worth keeping!

And then there was a cherry! A little Chuck ficlet called Reverse Surveillance where Chuck might just turn the tables on Casey watching him all the time. EEEEEEEE. Chuck and Casey.

I am going to be sitting on that horrible plane and in the horrible airports just thinking about these stories and being happy, so watch out air travel, you can't get me down now! I dare you! I HAZ BUCKAROO, WHITE COLLAR, MDs, AND CHUCK STORIEZ!

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad for you!

Happy Yuletide!

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Told you you'd make out like a bandit! And Yuletide Madness isn't even open.

I'm praying for good flying for you.

[keiko-kirin.livejournal.com]

Yay! You got many shiny gifties!!!

Hope you had a merry Christmas!

[yakbites.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked The Adventures of Rawhide! My brother has promised not to get hit by any more drunk drivers so I'll never be late posting again.

I'm just happy you got to read it, and look at all the good that came out of my lateness! You got a billion great stories! Even one for MDs! Have a grand, grand New Year and a fabulous 2010!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I totally did love it, and I really do feel like crap for assuming it was because of apathy, rather than something horrible happening (and thank god your brother is all right enough to make promises; my BFF was hit as a pedestrian by a drunk driver a number of years ago, at Christmas, and it was a litany of misery, so you have my deepest sympathy). You know what they say about assume... oh, so true in my case. Fortunately a lot of people turned me around on that.

I am really grateful, and so sorry for my peevishness.