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Happy

hlh_shortcuts reveal day! It was actually yesterday but I was out of the house and away from my phone the entire day.

This year, I wrote for

raine, which was a delight but also a challenge because Raine_Wynd has betaed for me for the last several years. :D

Follow The Gleam (21043 words) by hafital
Chapters: 12/12
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ceirdwyn (Highlander) & Matthew McCormick
Characters: Ceirdwyn (Highlander), Matthew McCormick, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Weird Immortal Happenings, Canon-Typical Violence, Historical Inaccuracy, K'Immie of the week, Literary References & Allusions
Summary:

"You are Matthew of Salisbury, and you are an Immortal."

* * *

The story of how Matthew and Ceirdwyn met.

( Some story writing notes below the cut )

violsva

Everyone misses the book memes, I see. From various:

Grab the nearest book.
Turn to page 126
The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.

When I first saw this I was in the bathroom with no books ... but with my phone. Here is the sixth sentence from the 126th page of the ebook edition of The Horse and His Boy (which is at the top of the list because I've finished it) as displayed on my particular phone with those particular Libby settings:

This seemed to last for hours.

That is ... not what I wanted, as divination goes...

violsva

So I saw a few people talking about their favourite books of 2025, and I decided to see if I could actually come up with a (short) list since I generally don’t even try to name favourites.

This excludes rereads and fanfiction, which would about double the list. * indicates books published within the last two years, ~ indicates the last of a trilogy where I also recommend the rest. Listed in order of reading.

~Blood and Ember by Isabel Cooper
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin (comic)
Dionysos by Richard Seaford (nonfiction)
~*Viscounts & Villainy by Allie Therin
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Adventures of Harlequin by Francis Bickley
*Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy (comments here)

hafital

This year, I completely spaced on signing up for Yuletide. The month of October is a blur. Call it premenopausal brain or hiker brain or work-being-a-pain brain! Perhaps I left my brain in the Grand Canyon (and I've forgotten to write up about my GC trip! Guys, it was so hard hiking and amazing!) All those things. I want to say it's been hectic and busy, and it has! Anyway, I was hyper aware of HLH Shortcuts and my assignment and when December rolled around and I'd started writing my HL story and was like waaiiiiiit a second what about yule.... oh whoops. 🫠 :D Hey, at least I remembered to sign up for HLH Shortcuts!

BUT, I did manage to squeeze out a very quick Yuletide Treat in the literal last 4 hours before the Yuletide archive went live. Started it at like 8am and had it in the archive at 12:40pm before it went live at 1pm my time. \o/ Went with Spy Game because a) I know it well, and b) I could tell there were no other stories in the archive for it this year.

And so here it is, now with fixed typos:

Four Things (1646 words) by hafital
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spy Game (2001)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom Bishop & Nathan Muir
Characters: Tom Bishop, Nathan Muir
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

“Four things,” said Tom, raising his hand, showing four fingers, folding one finger for each thing. “Fifteen minutes, a secret, something stolen, and something of value willingly given, starting…” he looked at the clock over the bar. “Now.”

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

hafital

Quick post to say that stories are being posted at

hlh_shortcuts! go check them out! So many good stories, with more being posted through the 31st, I think. Reveals go live on Jan 5. I bet everyone can guess which story I wrote haha.

This year, I got a very fun post-Bordeaux double-quickening story, with lots of pining and humor.

Destinations (18378 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duncan MacLeod/Methos (Highlander), Connor MacLeod & Methos (Highlander)
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos (Highlander), Connor MacLeod, Joe Dawson, Amanda, Richie Ryan, Hugh Fitzcairn, Rebecca Horne, Darius (Highlander)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slow Romance, Friendship, Explicit Language, During Canon
Summary:

The double quickening at Bordeaux has unexpected side effects. It take years for Duncan and Methos to come to terms with what it means for their relationship. It take years for them to understand all the implications. Connor and Methos hang out. They listen to music and talk a lot.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
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Reading is fundamental.

Reading

New Story: Follow the Gleam (Highlander, Gen, Matthew McCormick & Ceirdwyn)

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2025 Reading

New Story: Four Things (Spy Game, Nathan Muir & Tom Bishop)

Happy New Year!

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