The Musings of the Midnight Fox

Dear Devilbunnies:

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:29:21 GMT

Your Frithmas Card Info is here!

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Dear Yuletide Creator 2025

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 05:44:30 GMT

( Dear Amazing Yuletide Creator )

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I am so far behind ...

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:29:26 GMT

And for most of it there is no excuse.

Anyway -

1) My Yuletide piece is written, edited and submitted. I'm quite happy with it, and especially that I was given a prompt that matched a story I have wanted to write for years! I just hope my recipient likes it as much.

2) I've just received 4 very important letters that I've known about for years: ADHD. Yup, diagnosis confirmed. I don't have any great hope for the drugs - me and psych drugs just don't get on. Mind you, a lot of "don't get on" is probably due to the abovementioned ADHD, so ... Anyway, that makes me AuDHD now, so NeuroSpicy Plus. Yay!

Now to get on with the rest of stuff.

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Yuletide Yuletide all sing praise to Yuletide!

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:16:17 GMT

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If you read Livejournal through Optus

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:47:24 GMT

You will notice that you haven't been able to lately.

This is because Optus have blocked Livejournal.

You need to use another connection, or a VPN.

Optus will not say why. Just that they have.

FYI

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Unsent Letters Exchange - Dear Author

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:36:31 GMT

( You are magnificent - did you know that? Love your work, love that you're doing this for me. )

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Gnight, Dad.

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:05:41 GMT

Yesterday morning, my father George Richards died about 5 years after his massive stroke. We are sad, but not sorry.

There's an article about him on the Sydney Morning Herald site. (I may have annoyed the journalist a little - it's taken three edits for me to appear in as more than an afterthought :-) )

Hug your loved ones, tell them how much they mean to you, and as my mother is currently taking out her frustrations on me in games of Settlers, for that you may send me some sympathy.

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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:25:38 GMT

Amazing artist mywitch is sweet enough to draw special Harry-Potter themed gifts for some lucky lucky people each year. This year I asked for Severus Snape babysitting young Weasleys or Potters in the style of the 1960s Hanna Barbera cartoons.

I got one in the style of Top Cat.

Please, go look, send love.

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I ficced again

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:39:39 GMT

Were you aware that, in the plethora of various daily quizzes like Wordle and Numble and Flagle, that there's a quiz based on using logic to solve a murder mystery? It's called Murdle. It's rather fun.

My Yuletide request this year matched on my willingness to help the greater good (the greater good) and write a Hot Fuzz fic.

And then I saw they liked Murdle.

So I asked if I might write a crossover. And they said Yes.

It Takes a Village tells of the chaos that occurs at Sandford when the Rainbow Retirement Home of Former Murderers starts up.

Enjoy.

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How to choose between two lovely men.

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:52:32 GMT

My Yuletide gift has landed. Oh, has it ever.

Imagine, if you would, in Sense and Sensibility, that the ending was different. Marianne succumbed to her horrid fever, and despite the Palmers leaving in great haste, Mrs Palmer and the baby also fell victim to the foul disease.

And Edward married Lucy.

So Elinor carries on, as one must. But there are two men in her circle who both regard her as intelligent and practical and a suitable wife.

So how does one decide between Colonel Brandon and Mr Palmer? Then Stirs the Feeling Infinite will tell you how.

(I have literally been hoping for this fic for 8 years. I am so blessed to receive such a beautiful answer to the question.)

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Yuletide Letter - 2023

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 04:27:19 GMT

Is it really that time again? I'm shocked!

( Hello my lovely writer. Do you know how magnificent you are? )

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This is an excellent way to get the writing muscles up. Be the first

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:40:27 GMT

Be the First - Where you write the Very First Fanfic for a fandom on Ao3.

I'm going to feed a particular hard-biting plot-bunny that's been irritating me for too long. Let's see how it goes.

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This is why we march.

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:54:11 GMT

This is Why We March:
The ugly reality of anti-trans hate in Australia. Because hate and non-acceptance and prejudice and intolerance lead to dark, dark places. By the lovely Maz, who posted on DW as crazyjane (not really active here any more), also known as Beanieflower on Twitter.

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Time for Unsent Letters

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:11:21 GMT

Hello, my lovely Unsent Letters Writer. I'm repeating the prompts down below, and trust in your abilities to turn them into magic.
( Cut so as not to clog up your pages. )

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So I ficced. Yuletide 2022.

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:50:28 GMT

Three times.

Scene on a Balcony. Lord Peter Wimsey and Miss Harriet Vane have just married, and the reception is getting a little ... heated. So Eiluned Price slips out to the balcony for some fresh air, and makes a new friend.

Not My Assassination. An Assassination Bureau fic set some years after the film, where Ivan is lamenting the return of amateur assassins plying their business in Sarajevo.

A Changed World The Walker family from Swallows and Amazons are facing the beginning of World War II, and they all want to do their part - even Roger who is yet too young.

And all have been appreciated by their recipients so I am content.

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What an amazing Yuletide fic!

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:57:44 GMT

Oh.

My.

Goodness.

Using this card from the game Paperback as their prompt, my AMAZING Mystery Author wrote me "Dead Planet".

In the Bermuda Triangle of space, things aren't always what they seem.
Or: An archaeologist, a smuggler, and a model meet on a seemingly dead planet and become part of the resistance against the Galactic Federation.

Read it. It's amazing.

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About Yuletide ...

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 06:22:44 GMT

2 and a half hours before deadline is still "on time", yes?

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Yuletide 2022 signups - my letter to my awesome and amazing writer who is lovely.

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:55:23 GMT

( (Hello my lovely writer. Do you know how magnificent you are?) )

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A late treat.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:49:08 GMT

Someone has sweetly written me a story from a prompt from last year's Yuletide. It's a POV piece from a little bridge that's feeling somewhat inferior when it compares itself to the bigger, more famous ones.

Highly recommended. It's sweet, it's adorable, it's filled with pathos. And it's a bridge.

Some Bridges Have Names, Some Make Them.

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Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:58:46 GMT

Grab stock for salmon risotto.
Add special extra-flavour stock
Grab spinach
Weigh rice
Dice pumpkin
Juice and zest lemon
Go to fridge for salmon.
Go through entire fridge for salmon
Double check shopping bags to make sure salmon didn't get left out
Check fridge a third time.
Check benchtops.
Curse.
Grab keys.
Check back of car.
Curse again.
Throw packet of salmon that's been all day in the boot into the rubbish (It's cold, but not that cold)
Head back inside and be grateful one had defrosted some pork steaks for something else.
Start preparing pork risotto.

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Complaining time

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:00:17 GMT

Hello there! Covid kicked my butt, but luckily I had it at my Mum's place, and was able to isolate without too much trouble. It's the cold I caught straight afterwards that sucked. However, the lovely lederhosen flew up to help me drive back, because there's no way I could have otherwise.

Now. The complaint. I just got the latest Spotlight catalogue, and I am not happy. So here's the email I just sent them. ( Below the cut, for your sanity's sake )
TL:DR stop putting girls and women in princess and female-dominated role costumes, and give the guys a chance to wear something different too, and, speaking of different, where's our cultural diversity in the representation of the models?

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I have not sufficently squeed.

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 03:38:37 GMT

Worthy of a post all by itself, the magnificent mywitch drew me Severus with fill in your favourite pairing here.

It's not work safe. It's not hot-flush-my-oh-my safe either. And it's sublime.

It's here.

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Time for wordiness.

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:28:24 GMT

Digress like a 19th-Century Novelist: a Fest for the detail-oriented -- I'm going on a tangent. Come with me!

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An extra bonus

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:06:38 GMT

I signed up for Yuletide, and wrote my gift-fic (which I'll tell you all about in January). And because the plot-bunnies WOULD NOT SHUT UP, I wrote a treat and two pinch-hits (I have a second treat simmering but it's not behaving so it might end up being a New Year's treat instead).

I saw the gift to me hitting the Gift list back in October.

Today I noticed I have another Yuletide gift there.

Someone has decided to treat me, and I couldn't be happier! In these ghastly times of plague, someone decided they'd take the extra effort and make me something special that they hadn't even signed up for.

So whoever you are, yay. Love your work. No matter what it is.

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Frithmas 2021!

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:36:58 GMT

( Details under here. )

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