Well, it's after reveals, but here's the recs I've already written on little scraps of paper

Going Home Again by Fox
Golden Girls
The conceit here is that now that Sophia is the oldest person living in FL, a news station wants to film the girls in Blanche's old house. The dialogue is absolutely perfect, with touches of humor and pathos. Really, really nice.

The Story of Meow by BridgetMcKennitt
Fifth Element
Korben, Korben my man, he has a kitty. *dies of the precious*

Fuck You and Your Can Opener Privilege by Kaesa
Failfandomanon
Y'all, this is pretty much the best send up of meme ever. Really, really funny and chock full of meme references and inside jokes. Another of my top picks for Yuletide this year.

The Machinery of Night by shealynn88
The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel and Isaac in the aftermath. Reads very true to canon. Makes me simultaneously sad and hopeful.

Unemployed in Greenland by miss_pryss
Princess Bride
Fezzik/Inigo
This is the story of how Fezzik and Inigo meet, and Inigo'ss affection for Fezzik is so joyful and wonderful to read.

The Pirate Bachelorette by Scribe
Princess Bride
I hate to be that kind of reccer, but I normally don't care for genderbending stories. This one is an exception. Inigo becomes Ines and the first female Dread Pirate Roberts. As you might suspect from the fandom, this story is funny but also heartwarming. I really like it.

The Last Challenge by shewhoguards and Brother my heart is an open wound by yuuhy
Prince of Egypt
Both these fics are focused on the relationship between Moses and Rameses, both from Rameses's point of view. They are both deeply angsty, and I think what hurts the most is how much the two truly love each other and how irreconcilable their worldviews become.

Donation by merriman
Libraries [anthropomorphic]
This had me sniffling over a misshelved book. :)

Collection Development by Jennett
Libraries [anthropomorphic]
And this one is a lovely bit of meta from an actual librarian about the collection development of a library.

your hands protect the flames from the wild winds around you by icannnotlivewithoutmysoul
Little Women
How Josephine becomes Jo and the disillusionment that brings her there.

Words by innie
Little Women
Jo/Laurie AU
Gotta say, the first time I read this book, I thought Jo/Laurie was endgame, and a part of me will always ship it.

Leviathan by the_alchemist
Moby Dick
An alternate perspective on Ahab. This is another of my top picks of what I've read so far. The narrative voice is fantastic.

once you get the feeling it wants you back for more by spock
Men in Black
Jay/Kay (definite consent issues)
From IT to Blake's Seven, Yuletide's been pretty heavy on the memory wiping this year. This story is dark and disturbing and gives me shivers.

Whatever Blows Up Your Skirt by musesfool
M*A*S*H
This reads like an episode. Very funny. And, of course, Hawkeye fully embraces dressing in gold lame. Of course.

Last bit of 2014 round-up

1. I received cards from talitha78, devon (+ bat stickers, yay!), kaleecat, zulu (and bell and the blob!), lyr, and crazydiamondsue (and Caza and Jonah!). Thanks, y'all.

2. For Yuletide, I wrote Happily Ever After, a Shaun/Georgia post-canon fic for Mira Grant's Newsflesh series. Once again, I was gifted with the most amazing prompt and the option to choose between fandoms to write for. I had a lot of fun writing this story, and I hope my recipient had half as much fun reading it. :)

3. I feel like the overall quality in the archive is super high this Yuletide. I have liked almost everything I've clicked on this year. Only several hundred more fics to go in 46 fandoms. (One of these days, I must abandon my scraps of paper approach to Yuletide and just bookmark them to read on AO3 like any sensible person *cough* Executrix *cough*).

4. We had a hella good Christmas haul this year. Our big item was a stand mixer. Whoooo! Emma got several DS9 action figures which has put her over the moon. :) Fiona has a baby doll. A baby doll WITH A PACY JUST LIKE HER PACY OMG IT IS A REVELATION!

5. I just finished writing my online class for the spring. Lord, that's a lot of work on the front end. It's not dissimilar to writing a textbook.

6. So, the ovarian failure test came back negative. Doesn't mean I'm not perimenopausal; just means that because I'm on birth control we don't know what the results mean. In more definitive diagnosis news, apparently I have Hashimoto's Disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid. We're still in the observing stage, so nothing to do for it now, but TAKE THAT, BODY! I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. HA! Urine test is still pending because I didn't have time to sit around here all day and refrigerate each pee before we left for the holidays.

7. In sad news, one of my students was murdered this past spring by another student, and the newspaper just printed an article about the circumstances of his murder, and it was really fucked up and horrible (as you might imagine) and now I feel disturbed and sad. :(