Title: The World in a Jam Jar
Author: Jen (jazzfic)
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1,900
Summary: In which Fran is most certainly not a cliché. (Except for the part where she is.)
Notes: Written for the poetry_fiction challenge, prompt under the cut. Many thanks to ishie for the beta!

( Oh, the potential, the hope, always longed for, never sighted. )

Title: Now Hear This, By Katy Perry
Author: Jen (jazzfic)
Rating/Warnings: PG
Word Count: 2,865
Summary: After denying Wil Wheaton the chance to see the lost twenty-one seconds of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sheldon takes the battle to the last place his nemesis is likely to find him. Which is also the most obvious; but no matter, he’s got leadership and the courage of war on his side. And Bernadette has Nicholas Sparks.
Notes: Saturnalia fic for elffriend26. With many apologies for lateness. I hope you don’t mind that it sort of ended up being more gen with a side portion of Sheldon/Penny. Many thanks to muir_wolf for the beta ♥ Merry Saturnalia and Happy New Year!

( Wheaton, the lone wolf. Except he’s not alone. He’s fuelled by rage and the hunger for twenty-one seconds of a Spielberg classic. )

This is only the second time I've participated in Yuletide, but there have been a few years between this and the last, so it was kind of like the first time all over again, with me having to triple check the deadline dates because I was sure I'd get something wrong, or leaving things mostly to the last few weeks. I used the excuse of blurting out 11k for Saturnalia and then having about a sparrow's worth of energy and inspiration to tackle the bigger fandom exchange.

Okay, now my gift. Forgive me a rambling preface for a moment. You see, Yuletide is a small fandom exchange, but it's breadth is huge, there are so many users, it's really like a flutter of a butterfly or a raindrop falling as to the number of participants. But while everything was still anonymous there was this trend I was noticing others, like me, who had ended up writing and receiving the same fandom. I was predicting it would happen to me before assignments went out pretty much because of the absolute rarity of most of my requests except for one. Which I wrote. And which I received. And which I thought, hmmm, I wonder...there's a pronoun in this title. The writing is gorgeous, and:

It Isn't hard to Love Your Scars by Muir_Wolf
Jurassic Park (Alan Grant/Ellie Sattler/Ian Malcolm)

So Jurassic Park isn't the biggest of yuletide fandoms, it had a handful of stories. But I think Ian Malcolm would be chuffed at the odds that I would get someone I adore, someone I poke daily on twitter as my writer. I just. *hands* It is pretty awesome. So thank you muir_wolf, and thank you, Yuletide! And now I want to talk about the story, because it is SO, SO GOOD. Perfect interaction between the trio. Muir's Malcolm voice in particular makes me want to hug it and frame it, and if you love Jurassic Park, if you love the snark and banter and running from dinosaurs, then go read it. Now.

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Now onto me! I wrote one story:

You In the Dormant Past for mazily
Jurassic Park (Ellie Sattler, Ellie Sattler/Alan Grant)

And it was so hard to do. I just didn't feel it, didn't think any of it worked for the longest time. And then my beta came back and was so nice, and then my recipient really liked it, so. It's Ellie, and I love her character just so much. The little Jurassic Park I had written before had been all the boys, the Ian/Alan snark that I adore, and this had to be her story. So I thought about canon, about the quiet moments, and concentrated on that.

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When things have calmed down a bit (I am in the middle of a pinch hit which means a lot of typing today! And then back to work for the rest of the week, fun!) I will poke the archive again, revisit some things and stalk people so I can say, aha! You wrote that!)

Title: Europa Falls
Author: Jen (jazzfic)
Rating: PG for some language
Word Count: 11,380
Summary: Penny wins a contest to stay at the strangest hotel imaginable. In place of Swedish actors and Star Wars characters, she takes Sheldon.
Notes: Saturnalia gift for courtney_beth, who made it very hard to choose a prompt because they were all fantastic. But in the end I couldn’t go past this one (and once I started stalking the hotel’s website...yeah, the deal was done). This took up a huge part of my brain for some time and in my defence I will say that it’s summer here right now, and what I know of wintery landscapes basically comes from the back of a cocoa packet, so...I hope you like it. Lots of thanks to allthingsholy for the beta.

( PART ONE: 'So. You’re not from around here, huh?' )

Christmas isn't traditionally a big celebration for my family, considering we're pretty much scattered to all corners of this continent. (Hmm, d'you think I could've packed a few more C's into that sentence?) But as with every year I love to send out a Holiday/Christmas cards to people. So! If you would like something with my mostly intelligible handwriting, and maybe a doodle of a wombat in a santa hat playing beach cricket, please drop a comment to this post with your name and address. Comments are screened of course.

Now returning you to your regular Saturday/Friday :)

Dear yuletide writer,

Hello hello, and a big thank you for offering to write!

I am hugely easy to please, I will say that from the outset. Just receiving a gift is a buzz in itself!

My likes are pretty broad and all-encompassing. I love sap and friendship and banter, and domestic, quiet moments, just as much as I love radical AUs or edgy ideas that go into strange and dark places. The below you will have seen already in the optional details, but I will add that they are really just a starting point—if something leaps out at you, then absolutely, go for it :)

( Myst, Famous Five, Jurassic Park, and Two Guys and a Girl. )

Oh dear, I can't help thinking that I haven't left enough detail. I am sorry! If you need to see the sort of things I have written my fic tag is here. I hope I haven't burdened you with too much vagueness! Okay, I will stop with the apologies and exclamation marks, and just say I hope you have fun and that I can't wait to see what you come up with.

With thanks...

J.

Title: The Elephant in the Chair
Author: Jen (jazzfic)
Artist: muir_wolf
Pairing: Some Leonard/OC, but mostly gen.
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Brief language and drug references.
Word Count: 24,738
Summary: A cautionary tale of boys and robots, of siblings, dogs, and too much Sigmund Freud. For the Hofstadters, there's a wedding to be had; for Leonard, there's a home to come back to. And a whole lot of growing up in between.

Notes: Written for the 2011 bigbangbigbang. My first attempt at a big bang challenge, and glad I did as it was a huge lot of fun and great to be a part of. muir_wolf was tremendous and made the best art and a fantastic mix. And many, many thanks to weasleytook, not only for her invaluable beta and support, but for being an ocean of calm during moments of fun-fuelled panic when I forgot to breathe. No, really.

You can find the Art and Mix right HERE ♥

Part I :: Part II :: Part III — Or read it at AO3