12 Days of Fanfic: "Neon Genesis Evangelion" -- "Winter Wine Cups"

At long last, I return to the infamous Neon Enoch Evangelion series with today's offering. I had every intention of posting this just after midnight on December 31st, 2009, since this is a New Year's fic, but I had to turn in early due to work the next morning. Let's hope I can catch up later today, since I'm now behind a fic or two.

EDITED due to a hiccup in either LJ or my 'Net connection...

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On the Seventh Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"Winter Wine-Cup"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion, it's characters, concepts or other indicia, which are the property of Hideaki Anno, Project Eva-Gainax/khara, et al.

Author's Note: Inspired in part by a hysterical discussion on (yep!) the EvaGeeks forum, in which some of us speculated what Professor Fuyutsuki would be like on a gaudy night, up to and including him getting into a drunken argument with Gendo -- over Yui, of course. This is set in my ambitious and infamous Neon Enoch Evangelion series in which I speculated that the Grigori, a race of Angels in human form, might be hiding behind the scenes, pulling the strings of SEELE; one of these Grigori, Penemue, who knew herself only as Sabia Valiant, was sent to NERV headquarters to serve as an interpreter, in the process crossing paths with NERV's vice Commander Kozou Fuyutsuki. The two begin a somewhat at-arms-length relationship, neither one really sure what to make of each other or their growing fondness for each other, until after Third Impact and the failure of Instrumentality. On emerging from Instrumentality, along with several other NERV employees, they manage to slowly start to rebuild the world.

Considering that Third Impact went down on New Year's Eve (what a time for the apocalypse to take place and so much for the world ending in 2012...), no one was in any state to celebrate, but that doesn't stop them, a week after the date, from gathering in the bar of an abandoned hotel, with what scraps they can pull together, to celebrate new beginnings...

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( The candles along the shelf behind the bar now seemed to have fuzzy halos about them.... )

The Long-Promised Teal Deer About Slash Fiction

Or, How, with the Help of a Green-Eyed Love Machine, a Messianic Figure and His Opposite, and Some Handsome Death Gods, and Those Who Like to Write about Them, Along with a Writer whose Name is Pronounced Somewhat Like "Gay Man", I Learned to Stop Being a Rules Lawyer and Start Appreciating Some Pairings and/or the Writers Therof

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Vampire Author Auction to Support Stacie

Found this the other night on trueblood_tv and I'm giving it a go. Of course I'll be writing Dresden Files and Yami no Matsuei fic (yeah, Big Damn Irony Bomb there...); I imagine they'll be getting plenty from other fandoms:

http://supportstacie.net/?p=371

Vampire Author Auction

Dec 27th, 2009 by Gioia

We’re delighted to announce a new auction coming January 15-18, 2010: The Vampire Author Auction!

The Vampire Author Auction is open to fanfic authors in any fandom which includes vampires. This includes (but is not limited to) fandoms such as Twilight, Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood, Angel/Buffy, Van Hellsing, Hellsing, Blade, Vampire Knight, Interview With A Vampire, Bram Stoker and more!

Not a part of a vampire fandom but still want to participate? No problem! First, keep in mind that we will still be holding the April Author Auction for members of any and all fandoms (though it may be taking place the last weekend of March, due to some procedures Stacie is scheduled to have in April. More on this at a later date.). Second, if you’d like to participate in the Vampire Author Auction and you are able to incorporate vampires into your auction fic, you’re welcome to join us! Whether you write a Harry Potter/Twilight crossover or write a Doctor Who fic which features Plasmavores, so long as vampires or vampirism is a part of your story, you are welcome to participate in this auction.

The author application form can be obtained HERE.

The auction dates are as follows:
Monday, January 11, 2010: Deadline for author registration forms
Friday, January 15, 2010, 11:59pm: Auction opens
Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:00pm: Auction closes
All times are Central Daylight Time (-6 GMT)

Auction payments are due no later than February 8, 2010. Within 30 days of the winning bidder’s payment, authors must produce their one-part story or the first chapter of a multi-chapter story, unless other arrangements are made in advance.

For those of you who are new to our auctions, this will be the 5th Author Auction held on behalf of Stacie Holeman (truelovepooh on LJ and in fandom). Stacie has been battling Stage III ovarian and breast cancer since March 2007 without the benefit of medical insurance. Because of her lack of insurance and over $400,000.00 in medical bills she has no access to hospital treatment and is receiving only the bare-minimum of chemotherapy. Stacie has some procedures taking place this spring which we are particularly hoping to pay for with this auction.

Thanks to the $81,048.80 raised by Support Stacie to date, Stacie has been able to pay for life-saving medication and medical care as well as pay for a few necessary surgical procedures. As a direct result of the treatment paid for by these auctions, her breast cancer appears to be improving. We have a long road ahead, though, particularly with the ovarian cancer. The need is great but we know the generosity and kindness of our online supporters is even greater.

The Author Auction serves as a writing challenge to the authors who sign up. Should you decide to join us, you would be auctioned off to write a fic on demand, within the boundaries you dictate. So, for example, you might commit to writing a 2,500-word story that sticks to your OTP. The winning bidder would then be able to send you a fic challenge and you would have 30 days to write the fic (or to write the first chapter, if it is over 2,500 words).

We are not selling fanfic. We are asking authors to continue to do what they have been doing – write public domain fanfic with all rights continuing to belong to the original copyright holders. The only difference is that in this case, the winning bidder is able to stipulate a writing challenge for their favorite author. As with all fanfiction, Support Stacie does not make any legal claims regarding the ownership of any fanfiction which results from these auctions.

Addendum to the Teal Deer: Other ships that I like to see on the seas of fandom

I figured since I posted a big ol' post about my views on slash, that I'd add in a bit about other pairings (ie. things not really touched on in the Teal Deer that I can see happening based on evidence in the canon/mythos (I've started to get away from using the word "canon", since it smacks of religious overtones, and it's personally bothersome, especially when you get some fans who are as wacky about some things in fandom as religious fanatics are about their interpretation of the tenets of their faith. I like the word "mythos": hey, it worked for H.P. Lovecraft). Bear in mind, though, I tend to shy away from graphic sex scenes, depending on the mood I'm in. But with me, the key in everything is *GOOD WRITING*.

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