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I caught wind of smubbles-etc's Wanksgiving fest via a mutual on Tumblr last Wednesday night. Per the FAQ,

In November 2022 there was an idea circulating to yeet a bunch of short-form porn onto AO3 in a short time period, to offer up as a distraction for people facing fraught family interactions around the holiday season. We had so much fun creating random snippets of porn that we thought we’d make this a regular activity.

So they do more than Thanksgiving (you can find a bunch of other events if you look at their Tumblr), but this is the first time I've participated.

I wrote a set of 10 Monkey Island drabbles. I collected them in a series for organization purposes; there's no narrative connection between them. None were beta'd and they were all bashed out rather quickly in the spirit of the fest being pretty laid-back. I tried not to think about things too hard and instead just run with ideas as they occurred, so there's ships in there I don't actually ship and even femslash, which I have never written before.

In the spirit of the fest, they're all rated Mature or Explicit. Ships comprise Guybrush/Elaine, Guybrush/OFC, Iron Rose/Apple Bob, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey, Largo LaGrande/LeChuck, and something that isn't exactly Guybrush/LeChuck but they're both in there. They're mostly vanilla (one exception is maybe just a little on the unusal side, not major kink; and the other is more like darkfic than anything "kinky") and the Guybrush/Elaine ones tend to be rather sweet.

Fun fact: Between three authors, there were a total of 24 drabbles for Monkey Island, which was such a large percentage increase in the total number of Monkey Island fics that it took the #9 spot on fastest-growing fandoms that week.

Awww, neither Takin' Over the Asylum nor Monkey Island were nominated for Yuletide this year :(((

Dirigible Plum by mywitch
Pairing/Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Xenophilius Lovegood
Rating: G
Summary: It’s 1946, and the Wizarding world is emerging from the shadow of Prussia. For Xenophilius, there could be no more exciting time to study further at L’Académie de Beauxbatons - especially when his life is lit-up by one very special visitor.
My comment: "What lovely braids Albus has!"

The Headmaster's Closet by cabepfir
Pairing/Characters: Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Wispy the house-elf
Rating: G
Summary: Professor Snape owns everything he needs
My comment: "Aww, this is sweet! And I am living for his music T-shirts :D"

I looked over Yuletide requests to see if maybe I could squeeze out a drabble or two for the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, but alas, it doesn't look likely. sigh.

^ What it says on the tin. I think this was probably karios's doing, since I had a brief conversation with them in the brainstorming thread. Here's hoping it actually turns up some fic this year!

Woo! hoggywartyxmas is posting! This is the foremost fest I look forward to every year. fandom_stocking and Yuletide are fab, but both require a lot of digging to find stuff I am interested in reading. For effort vs. reward, hoggywartyxmas is always good value.

Oh my. Someone has nominated the Arrogant Worms song "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" as a fandom for Yuletide.