#yalc

[theliterarymess]

YALC ‘24

[chriscalledmesweetie]

Please Join Johnlock January!

The Johnlock January 2025 collection is live on AO3, just waiting for you to add your fic, art, poetry, podfic, or anything else you can dream up. If we show you ours, will you show us yours? 😉

Renewal by CopperBeech

Jolly Johnlock January by ChrisCalledMeSweetie

Happy Johnlock January Limericks by meet_me_in_samarra

January Jaunts by PatPrecieux

YALC (Yet Another Limerick Collection) for January!  by GhostOfNuggetsPast 

Always by notjustmom

Johnlock January by Friday411

Johnlock January 2025 by 5point2Atrocities

The Look of Love by auratum_corvum

[ghostofnuggetspast]

First Sentence Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me, @chriscalledmesweetie!

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

Martha’s Fluff Brew Remixed and Repoured: Magic, Mods, and Making Tea in the Face of Adversity

Martha, a Seer, knows fate / Is not just one line going straight.

YALC (Yet Another Limerick Collection) for January!

Sherlock and John find out why A pair of siblings, girl and guy, Keep a piece of fine land With a dark mansion and Sent a mental patient there to die.

2024 Comment Contrafacta (and Other Fun Things)

What piece is this of red and green, With questions two men are dealing?

A Lament for Your Stomach

Well, here I am again.

Suspensoria

I was simply doing the dishes, minding my own business.

An Ode to Your Orbicularis Oris

Sometimes in the evening, when you've completed your self-appointed tasks and intensely ignored mine, you seem to be napping or staring at the walls.

Ode to Your Hands Upon My Waking at 3AM to Hear the Violin

O slender digits of moonlight made -- Strong with sinew and drawn bone, What dichotomous feeling you bring me, your other Right Hand, Guardian of your Light, and Interpreter of your Hardness.

Penguin Pop-ups

Sherlock was hatched as a bird / Of the flightless sort.

No Key

Beautiful, sexy, loving, wonderful Bodies as maps - Bodies as journals Read by those closest Who know the meanings of each symbol The path taken through time and effort The marks, an index of identity.

Little Supermarket Bottles of Wine

Sherlock came home without a clue Of what his "magic" would do

Wow, I guess I'm ... a poet? Huh. This requires some self-reflection.

I have no idea who to tag. Nobody feel pressure to do this! @helloliriels @friday411 @naefelldaurk @keirgreeneyes @eardefenders @totallysilvergirl @peanitbear @raina-at @lonelylittleuser @crashingmeteorz @weeesi

[theaguanzon]

From Glasgow to Liverpool to London to Cardiff, last week was a whirlwind! Full house at all the events and sore wrist from all the signing, but I’m so so happy 🥰 Blessed by the tireless dedication of the Waterstones booksellers and YALC organizers who made these events possible, the brilliance and encouragement of my fellow authors who continue to inspire me, the passion and enthusiasm of the readers who made me feel so welcome and so loved, and the support of Harper Voyager who gave me these opportunities. Thank you all for making the UK tour of THE HURRICANE WARS a smashing success! 💖🌩️

[lesmiserabelles]

3, 4, 17, 21 for the book asks!!

thank you!!

3. What were your top five books of the year?

oooh hmmm let me think... not in any particular order:

the safekeep - yael van der wouden

sea of tranquility - emily st john mandel

doppelganger - naomi klein

mrs s - k patrick

my darling dreadful thing - johanna van veen

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

yes! alyson greaves (thanks to you) who i then got to meet at YALC - will definitely be reading more in her series

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

i was ready to get cross with the ministry of time by kaliane bradley due to my personal, strong franklin expedition opinions, but it was actually really fun

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

i do not participate but i sure do see it nevertheless 👀

[sezcpl]

Another www.GeorgesGazetteer.blog adventure yesterday when some of our members visited YALC and met Jonathan Stroud! He’s been a loyal supporter of our site, and it was lovely to say thank you in person for both the books and tolerating our enthusiasm for his worlds.

[georgesgazetteer]

The fourth Lockwood & Co fan casebook is now available at https://georgesgazetteer.blog/the-georges-gazetteer-yalc-casebook/

Last Thursday, Lockwood & Co fans (LockNation) were allocated cases by @officialDEPRAC on Twitter/X. They then used www.georgesgazetteer.blog to find the locations and write up the case reports.

Some serious fun was had!

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[ryttu3k]

If you're looking for new Pokémon fics, I recommend "Yet Another Legendary Chatfic" by SkyloftianGoddess_Hylia on Ao3. The premise is that Arceus created a series of Psionic Channels so that the various Legendaries can communicate and share information-and share memes and funny anecdotes. (AKA, he made a chatroom.)

That said, while the premise itself might not be original, YALC does try to set itself apart with its characterizations and some of the plotlines. Also, it draws a lot from stuff from the side-games like Gale of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. (PLA and ScVi are the only main-game stuff the fic uses.)

It's a fun read, with some funny moments, and I recommend it.

That does sound fun! I haven't really been into Pokemon for a while, but I suspect PLZ-A might get me back into it, so we'll see!

[gollancz]

Ohohoho the first panel details are dropping!

THE ROMANTASY PANEL

Sarah Hawley (A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon), Dhonielle Clayton (The Belles), Lauren Dedroog (A Curse of Crows) and Jennifer Delaney (Tales of a Monstrous Heart) will be talking all things horned heroes and darkened gazes in our swoon-worthy romantasy panel.

THE EPIC FANTASY PANEL

Joe Abercrombie, Rebecca Zahabi, Ed McDonald and Rogba Payne are the heroic team tackling monsters, world-building and all things fantastical.

(Yes, we did have a whole meeting coming up with song titles to use to name the sessions. Yes it took a lot longer than you would expect. Yes we're feeling very pleased with ourselves.)

Tickets are available now! 16th March 2024, Leonardo Royal Hotel London! A free bag of Gollanczy goodies worth £30!* A small but non-zero chance I will manage to attend and might hand you my baby because I've been a parent for a handful of weeks and don't want to do it any more!**

*The Gollancz tote bags made their debut at YALC this year and have been repeatedly lauded for their excellent gussets.

**This is a VERY small chance, and depends on my FOMO outweighing the fact that my due date is a fortnight before Gollanczfest, but small is not nothing.

That's right baybeeee - ten years after it first launched, Gollanczfest is back and it's bigger than ever!

WHEN?

16th March 2024

Leonardo Royal Hotel, London

Tickets go on sale Friday 6th October at 10am UK time!

Early presale for tickets available exclusively to our newsletter subscribers

WHO?

Our headliner? Only VICTORIA AVEYARD

Other confirmed authors: Joe Abercrombie, Natasha Pulley, Garth Nix, Dhonielle Clayton, Joe Hill, Ben Aaronovitch, @joannechocolat, Aliette de Bodard, Sarah Hawley, @jonnywaistcoat, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson . . . and MANY more

Plus: YOU

PLUS

All tickets come with a goodie bag full of Gollancz goodies work at least £30

VIP tickets are available with access to the green room, priority tickets to panels, and additional goodies

FREE SFF quiz run by the greatest quizmasters (allegedly, this may be a title they've claimed themselves and I cannot verify) Joe Abercrombie and Garth Nix!

We'll be announcing panels soon, but this is going to be a fun, friendly and festive day, full of nerdery, excitement and probably a lot of harried looking Gollancz staff stuffing their faces with sandwiches and trying to find where distracted authors have wandered off to.

PARTY TIME

[iloveheartlandx]

YALC 2023 Recap

Hi all! This is slightly later than I intended, I really did think that I’d have it up the week after YALC but I guess over a month later is better than never, I’ve just been busy with work and various other things and haven’t got around to sitting down and writing this until now! Anyway for anyone new here who doesn’t know what YALC is, YALC is the Young Adult Literature Convention, created by…

[theliterarymess]

I’ve moved all the money from my book savings to my main account for YALC tomorrow! Anyone else coming?

[mcguinessdaily]

Jay at YALC 2023 (12/11/23)

From oscarjansonsmith on Instagram

[ghostofnuggetspast]

GhostOfNuggetsPast's Index Page

Here are links to the Tumblr versions of the things I made. Limericks, other poetry, fic rec posts, podfics, the "Sherlock & Co Podsters" and "Limericks are Legit" communities, etc.

(Latest update June 14, 2025)

The Limericks

Random Limericks, Bereft of Homes

2024 The Other Side is … Fandom? - Left-Overs (Dec 15) - It's Not a Bluff (Nov 29) - Manipulations with Sugar (Nov 19) - Hat (Nov 14) - A Septic Affair (Nov 6) - Doctor Love Meets His Nemesis (Nov 5) - You Thought I Couldn't See (Nov 5) - Not His First Meathead (Oct 7) 2025 Jonk-Blocked (Jan 28) - Old Friend (Jan 4) - A Warm Place (Jan 13) - Untitled (Feb 9) - Anatomy (Feb 18) - Oops (Feb 19) - Halftime (Mar 2) - Beware the Ides (Mar 14) - Look Here, Earl (Apr 1) - Escapism isn't Just a Magic Trick (Apr 13) - Unhand Me, Fiend (May 17) - Parenthood (May 27) - It's Raining Men, Kinda (Jun 14)

Collections

2024 May Prompts 2024 - Pride Month Sherlock & Co Prompt Fest! - Little Supermarket Bottles of Wine - Holidaze 2024 2025 YALC (Yet Another Limerick Collection) for January! - Martha’s Fluff Brew Remixed and Repoured: Magic, Mods, and Making Tea in the Face of Adversity (April 2 - 16) WIP Penguin Pop-ups (Nov 15, 2024 - ) Origin of This Penguin Storytime

WIP Johnlock Week 2025 (May 31 - ) Fight or ... Hug (May 31) - Figuring It Out (Jun 1) - Needs Gentling (Jun 2) - Again, With Feeling (Jun3)

Other Poetry

Random Not-Limericks

2024 Everyday Love (Nov 13) - No Key (Sept 19) - Three Bus Haiku Poems (Jul 15) 2025 Coat's Burma Shave (Feb 27) - The Cashier AU Thread (Mar19)

Collections

WIP Suspensoria and Other Poems by John H. Watson (Nov 19, 2024 - ) Ode to Your Hands Upon My Waking at 3AM to Hear the Violin An Ode to Your Orbicularis Oris Suspensoria A Lament for Your Stomach

Filks/Parodies/Podfics

2024 A Johnlock Jingle (Oct 24) - London Vice [podfic] (Nov 5) -Nightmare at Christmas (Dec 3) - There are Five Rings, Golden (Dec 4) - John, There's a Crime Outside (Dec 8) - Ugly Christmas Jumper Contest (Dec 9) - I Saw Three Kits (Dec 10) - The First Wedding Dance (Dec 13) - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Chocolate (Dec 16) - Fated Encounters [podfic] (Dec 23) - Red Hat Man (Dec 26) 2025 Pants on Fire [podfic] (Feb 25) - [Podfic] The Murder of Major Sayer (May 1)

Community admin for

Sherlock & Co Podsters Limericks are Legit!

Gifts for me

2025 Birthday Card - Please Don't Text My Man (FTH) - I Dream of Sherlock (Summer Holmestice)

[theaguanzon]

Roughly one more week to go until THE HURRICANE WARS is on tour in the United Kingdom! Please bear in mind that my country’s average temperature is like 31 C, so I will be an awkward popsicle, but I am truly so excited to meet you all. At the signings I’ll have stickers and Alaric/Talasyn art prints for you guys, as well as Darth Pancakes’ paw print stamp 😼

Get your tickets here:

GLASGOW

LIVERPOOL

YALC

CARDIFF

Edit: Tumblr external links aren’t working rn but you can head on over to the Events section of the Waterstones website and search Thea Guanzon under the Authors tab, while YALC tickets are available from londoncomicconwinter.com 🙈

[bts-hyperfixation]

I'm getting such fomo from YALC i really wish I were in the UK right now