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Happy New Year! May 2017 bring good things.

I celebrated today by finishing up a Remus/Tonks ficlet for this year's Twelfth Night Tales at rt_morelove: just a fluffy short piece, but it was fun to get back into the swing of fic-writing, even if just a little bit. (And in case anyone out there still wants to join the event, it's open until Jan 6; info is here and sign-ups are here.)

Only a Heartbeat Away (2010 words | PG | DH)
It’s the night before the second full moon after Remus married Tonks, and they are still navigating uncertain terrain.

Finally, here's a New Year's "card" I made for an event at the good old pulped_fictions comm back in 2010, because it popped into my head today and I wanted to be sure I could find it again. ;)

( Happy New Year! )
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mrstater has suggested that it would be fun if people posted links to the fics they've written that have a winter holiday theme. I've only got a few, and they're all Potter (largely because most of the other fandoms I write for have completely different gods!), but here goes:

• The Things We Remember (OotP | 4725 words | PG/mild profanity and Father Christmas spoilers)
  Remus and Tonks navigate the minefield that is Christmas and discover that sometimes the difficult part is not the giving, but the receiving.
  
  
• Messages (DH | 3835 words | PG/mild profanity)
  Tonks has a lot to worry about as Christmas approaches: her decreasing usefulness as an undercover agent, her father's fate as a Muggle-born wizard on the run, and the fact that her parents and her husband still don't seem to understand each other.
  
  
• Morning Snow (AU | 100 words | G)
  On Christmas Eve, Remus is trying to recover from the full moon, but something wakes him up.
  
  
• To Dream, To Wake (AU | 385 words | PG)
  One cold night, Remus has a vivid dream.
  
  
• ETA: I forgot one!
  Playing Hippogriff (1364 words | G)
  On Christmas Eve of 1981, someone unexpected turns up at a play park in Little Whinging. Does Harry remember who used to "play hippogriff" with him at Godric's Hollow? And what will Petunia do about this intrusion into her well-ordered life?

(Next year, I should have another one to add, because my current project for the Winter Hallows Advent at metamorfic_moon is set at HBP Christmas. ;) )

And if you're looking for more to read, here is mrstater's holiday fic list, which is a lot longer than mine. :)

Hope everyone is having a good weekend, and good luck to people running up against the deadline at chalion_ibra!
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