D20 Advent Calendar

G | M/M | Dimension 20

thistlecaster christmas (yulenear) fluff, 9.9k, 4+1 things, kissing under the mistletoe, stupid gay people

wrote this for the @d20advent event and had so much fun writing it!! merry late christmas

So follow along for the next week as a Ranger in The Unsleeping City has a very rough Channukkah

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75757306/chapters/198148136

read on ao3

summary:

“Buddy?” And Buddy knows that voice. All caution he had vanishes as he spins around and sure enough, Bricker and Cork Applebees are standing there. Like angels, he wants to say, their red hair glowing in the sliver of golden light that isn’t smothered behind thick floral curtains. “Hi,” Buddy says, because he doesn’t know what else to say. - The totally for sure universal experience of getting home after a journey through Hell & two little boys are in your house. Let's all eat granola bars on the living room floor and cry.

Your name is PETE CONLAN, and you're starting to really dislike Christmas.

It's an annoying little idiosyncrasy that's formed over the last couple of years. Before, the holiday season was a mild inconvenience more than anything, a stale reminder of your not-so-happy family and the way the pantomime of a Good American Family always seemed to stretch a little thinner around December.

Now, it's become a hallmark (hah) of the season that you get attacked, brutalized, or otherwise maimed. It started with the mutant feral Santa and has only gotten worse from there, escalating and evolving into something that's deeply disturbing and feels a little bit like a curse. A hex placed on your bloodline, or some other bullshit like that. You'd asked Iga about it once, and she'd laughed so hard you were afraid the little old lady was going to hack up a lung at your expense.

Luckily, there's not a lot of people actually expecting you to do things around Christmastime. You'd asked Charlie about it the year she had moved to New York— if there was any in-laws that would be expecting your presence come December, and she'd gotten a pinched look around her eyes before saying no, definitely not. Which was more than fine, in your book— the two of you'd gotten Chinese take out and watched Die Hard all sprawled out on the couch together, and that had been more than enough Christmas for you both.

(The next morning you'd gotten a hole ripped in your leg by a otyugh that had crawled out of the sewer outside of the MOMA. You win some, you lose some.)

With all that being said, you'd been hoping for a Christmas that was understated and calm. Nothing fancy, no tempting fate, no monsters crawling out of sewers to take a bite. You've made it all the way to the twenty-fourth without grievous bodily harm, feral Santas, or sewer monsters. It helps, admittedly, that Charlie has been on bed-rest for most of the month after a separate incident with a rogue wizard attempting Lichdom, and you've been able to tap out of a decent amount of Dream Team activities by making sure she actually stays in bed.

So it's 11:24 PM on Christmas Eve when there's a knock on your door and a little voice in the back of your mind says hey, don't you think that might be a bad omen?

You, being an idiot, tell that voice to shut the fuck up.

That's how it starts.

Summary:

Right now, Ludmila watches as Marya leans against the jamb, crossing her arms as she smiles. The contentment radiates off of her like sunlight. Ludmila's gaze traces the faint wrinkles etching the corners of Marya's eyes and is reminded, with a pang, of how much older Marya has grown in their decades and centuries apart. "Your shoes," she finally says. She arches a finger at Ludmila's boots, strewn about. "Take one of them, the better one. Polish it and leave it out, alright?" She blinks. "You want me to... what?"

An attempt to celebrate the Scrapsylvanian tradition of Shoe Saint's Day.

Hello, and welcome to the Dimension 20 Advent Calendar, a Dimension 20 fan event! This is a fanfiction writing event where participants can sign up to post fics from 1-24 Dec, with a different person posting their fic each day! FAQ below:

How many fics can one person write? One to start! It's going to be a different person posting their fic each day of the Advent Calendar. This will be coordinated via Discord (link below).

Can I write more than one fic if I want to? Double-ups will only open after every slot has been filled. Unless there aren't enough people signed up by a certain point, in which case yes.

What sign-up slots are available? Earlier days of the event will have shorter word count min/maxes, and later days of the event will have longer word count min/maxes. People will be able to pick and choose which day they'd like to write for.

Are there any guidelines for what I can/can't write? All fics MUST be SFW (if you wouldn't talk about it with your boss, don't turn it in!) and about Dimension 20. Your fic MUST also include the word "Christmas" in it. However, Christmas does not need to be the focus of the fic — it can be extremely relevant or incredibly tangential. :)

Can I submit fanart instead? Not as part of the event, but of course feel free to make fanart of your favourite fics that get posted :)

Hello, and welcome to the Dimension 20 Advent Calendar, a Dimension 20 fan event! This is a fanfiction writing event where participants can sign up to post fics from 1-24 Dec, with a different person posting their fic each day! FAQ below:

How many fics can one person write? One to start! It's going to be a different person posting their fic each day of the Advent Calendar. This will be coordinated via Discord (link below).

Can I write more than one fic if I want to? Double-ups will only open after every slot has been filled. Unless there aren't enough people signed up by a certain point, in which case yes.

What sign-up slots are available? Earlier days of the event will have shorter word count min/maxes, and later days of the event will have longer word count min/maxes. People will be able to pick and choose which day they'd like to write for.

Are there any guidelines for what I can/can't write? All fics MUST be SFW (if you wouldn't talk about it with your boss, don't turn it in!) and about Dimension 20. Your fic MUST also include the word "Christmas" in it. However, Christmas does not need to be the focus of the fic — it can be extremely relevant or incredibly tangential. :)

Can I submit fanart instead? Not as part of the event, but of course feel free to make fanart of your favourite fics that get posted :)