The Post of Revelation 2010!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

And so closes the Sixth Annual Good Omens Holiday Exchange. A huge thank you from the mods for all your hard work this year.

This is the post where you see if your guesses were right, thank your gifters and betas by name if you wish, and raise one last giant squee of the season!




1. For atomais: The Walls, The Wainscot, and the Mouse (FIC, NC-17), by irisbleufic

2. For hallieface: Bonfire of the Vanities (ART, PG), by chayaasi

3. For prestissima: Chance a New Beginning (FIC, G), by _silverfox

4. For migratory: Guide Omens (COMIC, G), by sailorptah

5. For steadfast: Within a Shadowed Forest (FIC, PG-13), by possibly_thrice

6. For irisbleufic: Crowley Takes a Holiday (COMIC, G), by pastelmice

7. For vulgarweed: How Did We End Up Here? (FIC, R), by inkstainedarm

8. For alexwhitewell: Handel's Water Music, As Heard in the Company of A.J. Crowley (ART, G), by migratory

9. For kaoro: Entirely Human (FIC, PG), by aviss

10. For hsavinien: A Memory That Wasn't Ours to Claim (FIC, PG-13), by cinaed

11. For waxbean: Easy As Pie (COMIC, PG-13), by sarahsan

12. For quantum_witch: Forgive Those Who Trespass (FIC, PG-13), by steadfast

13. For refche: What a World (FIC, NC-17), by slowsunrise

14. For paddyabroad: Distracting JFK (ART, R), by alexwhitewell

15. For pseudo_geek: Serpent and Fowl (FIC, G), by lune_and_asters

16. For sailorptah: Heaven Enough (FIC, PG), by hsavinien

17. For cinaed: Crowley and Aziraphale in Prohibition America (ART, PG) by eldanis

18. For nimmenstjer: Late Summer Dreams, Serpents, and Adam's Favourite Food (FIC, G), by pseudo_geek

19. For nomnomnim: Opportunity Cost (FIC, G), by paddyabroad

20. For inkstainedarm: Bulletproof (FIC, G), by atomais

21. For unravels: Interesting Times (FIC, PG-13), by googlebrat

22. For possibly_thrice: Imagination (Comic, G), by ormery

23. For littlewolfstar: Where No Them Has Gone Before (FIC, PG), by malicehaughton

24. For chayaasi: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Angel (Drowned in a Tub of White Wine) (FIC, PG13), by inabathrobe

25. For slowsunrise: Rule Britannia (FIC, PG-13), by prestissima

26. For aviss: My Fluffy Nemesis, We Meet Again (FIC, PG-13), by emerald_embers

27. For lemonfruitpie: Of Blessings and Wishes (FIC, PG), by kaoro

28. For villainny: Long Time Coming (FIC, PG), by meredydd

29. For googlebrat: Flash (FIC, G), by hallieface

30. For pastelmice: Every Damn Year (COMIC, G), by nomnomnim

31. For sarahsan: But The Ending Doesn't Change (FIC, NC-17), by waxbean

32. For ormery: Comme des enfants (ART, G), by littlewolfstar

33. For bethbethbeth: Our Angels Are Different (COMIC, PG), by quantum_witch

34. For meredydd: Untitled Art and Ficlet (PG), by nimmenstjer

35. For malicehaughton: Etiquette (FIC, PG-13), by unravels

36. For lune_and_asters: We Don't Need Innards Anyways (ART, PG), by lemonfruitpie

37. For _silverfox: Scouting (FIC, G), by villainny

38. For inabathrobe: Messrs. A. Fell & A.J. Crowley (ART, G), by refche

39. For emerald_embers: The Case of the Missing... (FIC, PG), by bethbethbeth

40. For danny_sama: The Speck in the London Eye (FIC, R), by vulgarweed




Have a sublime 2011 and starting saving up those ideas for next year!

And for Someone's sake, please tell us if there are any mistakes!

Yr 2010 Mods,
Musegaarid, Vulgarweed, and Waxbean

Comments

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord! I cracking up laughing now, seeing that it was Jen who wrote my story! You guys did that to screw with my head, didn't you, since I would never expect it to come from someone whose work I know intimately. XD Meanies!

Jen, you did a fabulous job and gave me a completely awesome gift, I love it to bits! My love for you just grew to astronomical proportions. <3 <3 <3

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

We tried to get people to choose their prompts this year, remember? In the case of very popular, highly-contested prompts (as yours were), we went with those who made the strongest case of REALLY REALLY wanting THAT ONE badly, because obviously the muse had already bitten. She won. :)

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm teasing ;) I think it was an awesome idea for us to choose. Made it so much easier for me, I know that. :D

My prompts were that popular? I'm a better muse than an actual creator lately. XD

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Hah,I would have probably, if I'd been at all thinking like myself for the last couple months. :p

Those prompts just jumped into my head from somewhere, in like five seconds. I'd love to see anyone tackle the Newt/Anathema one someday.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

I'm also amused looking at everything together... it seems we've had a decided downturn in the amount of mature rated work this year. Not saying it's bad, just kind of surprised me.

And am I seeing this correctly, or did we really have no dropouts or pinch-hits this year?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, there's been a numerical dropoff overall. We had 63 gifts last year and 40 this year. That's very significant, and I don't know why yet.

This year we only had ONE dropout -- who let us know in good time that zie couldn't finish, so we could integrate a pinch-hitter pretty seamlessly, so no harm done. Dropout, if you're reading this: THANK YOU for your honesty early on. We don't resent you. You are totally welcome to try again next year. So it's our best year ever in that regard, by far! \o/

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

Fandoms ebb and flow, I suppose. I also don't recall quite as many crossover prompts before. I think we're being assimilated into more well-known fandoms (which may or may not be good).

That's awesome though, for things to go so smoothly this year, esp. with last year being such a trial.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I still miss the days when we'd have 20 different people commenting on the reveal post in the first hour. :(

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

I didn't even comment most of the time this year, being so ill and in pain for two months. Now I just feel guilty.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Don't feel guilty, please. I know it's been REALLY hard for you. :(

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

And speaking of crossovers...

I just wanted to thank you again, quantum_witch, for a really fantastic gift. You struck just the right [funny] tone with all four fandoms.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

You are so very welcome! I had an absolute blast with it :D

[littlewolfstar.livejournal.com]

I think we're being assimilated into more well-known fandoms
Well, Good Omens IS such an incredibly crossover-able fandom!

I can see how new shiny fandoms are very appealing and one can only do soo many holiday exchanges at a time... :O This exchange has become somewhat of a tradition for pseudo_geek and I tho... It is always my first priority <3

[pseudo-geek.livejournal.com]

Despite this being a tradition for us, I've only officially participated twice: once in 2007 and once this year :| I might need an alarm clock for this.

Speaking of alarm clock, can invitations be sent to past participants every year so people will remember that there is such an exchange? Maybe the number will climb up again this way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

Well, I know of one person who wanted to participate, but couldn't because of lack of time - and one person mentioned she didn't like the change.

[(Anonymous)]

I had several friends tell me that they'd wanted to take part in the exchange but didn't like the new prompt type as it was too detailed and didn't offer enough flexibility.

I'm not a writer myself, so I wouldn't know, and I really enjoyed the stories posted but as you mentioned the decline in numbers I thought I'd pass it on.

Again, thanks to everyone who contributed.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

inkstainedarm I want to thank you again for my awesome fic! <3

waxbean, once again, you are not only the best co-mod in the world, but the best last-minute beta in the world. THANK YOU!

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

V, you are BEYOND welcome. I love co-moding with you. And I RELISH working with you on fic.

Furthermore, a huge thanks to you for beta'ng for me!

xoxoxoxooxoxM

[sarahsan]

AHAhahahahaha, did we really get assigned to each other, waxbean?? That's never happened to me before! :DDD Oh my god, I couldn't possibly be MORE delighted with my story, you just don't know. It really hit so many of my buttons - it was atmospheric, had strong characterizations and amazing imagery. I was blown away by what you did with my prompt; you so ENTIRELY exceeded any expectations I could have fathomed. Thank you so, so much!! *HUG!*

To the mods, once again, your job is a selfless, thankless one, and you do it flawlessly every year. Thank you thank you THANK YOU for all your hard work. Already looking forward to next year's!

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

You are soooooo very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I LOVE and ADORE the portrait of Anathema and Lafayette! It's fabulous. What a great choice for a crossover character, too. He's my favorite, as well.

[nomnomnim.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much paddyabroad for the lovely story.

Personally speaking this is a very busy time of year but as soon as I have finished up my work (end of January) I will be going back over everyone's hard work and commenting on it.

[meredydd.livejournal.com]

hee! Thanks for posting this! Now, I need to go back and read all the fics I missed!

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Thanks again, cinaed! That was brilliant!

[littlewolfstar.livejournal.com]

First of all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK ONCE AGAIN, DEAR MODLY ONES!
This exchange is always soo well organized and high-quality, it's my favorite!

malicehaughton, thank you again for your amazing fic! I really enjoyed it. It was truly a treat!

And thanks also to ormery for the amazing prompt! It was soo fun to draw (although a bit intimidating seeing as you are such an incredible artist and I admire your work immensely m._.m)

[malicehaughton.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[malicehaughton.livejournal.com]

Thank you unravels for the lovely fic you wrote. I loved it. Especially the way you ended it (and what the secret was to begin with.)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for organising this again mods <3. And thank you bethbethbeth for my lovely fic!

[hallieface.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the lovely and amusing art, chayaasi! And thanks, too, to the mods for everything they did this year.