So this wraps up the first year of hp_yule_balls, and we can honestly say that it went better than we could have ever imagined. We received exactly 100 pieces of wonderful pieces of fic and art and felt like the luckiest girls in the world that we got to squee over them first. You're all amazing!

We have lots of people to thank, particularly our pinch hitters, who stepped up at the last minute to help us out. Thank you to redsnake05, furiosity, bookofjude, curia_regis, gryffindorj, gm_weasley, miss_morland, tristesses, venturous1, and violetion. We couldn't have done any of this without you.

Thank you also to all of our original participants, who supported us just by signing up. There are some of you to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude for your incredible patience and understanding. We appreciate you all more than we can say! ♥

And now we'll stop yammering on before we get weepy, and get on with the reveals already. Please check your links and make sure that everything is all right – that we spelled your username correctly, that we have the right link and pairing and title, etc. If you notice any problems, with yours or someone else's please comment and let us know. We'll fix it as soon as possible.

Also, we will not go back and fill in beta names unless you specifically ask us to (and if you would like us to, just leave us a comment; we don't mind). We will definitely not change anything in the body of the fic itself unless you send us chocolate and/or tell us how beautiful we are. (Please send any of these requests, along with the flattery, via email at yuleballsmod@gmail.com.)

( The 2008 Master List )

Also, pleasepleaseplease go comment on the fic or art that was created for you! It doesn't matter that it's not anonymous anymore; it's better late than never! We are resisting the urge to ban all non-gift-commenters for life, and are settling on pleading with you instead. Be kind and spread some belated holiday cheer to the people who worked so hard. ♥

Thank you all for such a wonderful year! We'll see you again in August! :*

Love, Midnight and Trubble

Artist: r0sivan
Recipient: gm_weasley
Title: Kiss Under the Mistletoe
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Remus/Sirius
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Photoshop
Warnings: Bits, mistletoe, NWS
Artist's Notes: Remus should know better than to think mistletoe will prompt Sirius to chaste kisses. ;D


( Happy holidays, gm_weasley! )

Artist: wallflowergirl
Recipient: qurinas
Title: Beautiful Collision
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Photoshop, tablet
Warnings: Naked females, sexual situations, school uniform
Artist's Notes: Qurinas, I hope this works for you. This is the first femslash I've drawn in years so I hope I got everything in the right place *g* A huge thanks to the mods and to R for looking this over.

( Happy holidays, qurinas! )

Artist: snoringolder
Recipient: littleblackbrow
Title: Dawn
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Remus/Sirius
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: PSP and tablet
Warnings: Snuggling, fluff.
Artist's Notes: I imagine that some full moons would be worse than others, that they have no choice but to tough it out and wait for the dawn. There is hope in the sunrise. I hope I got the "story" that you were looking for! :)


( Happy holidays, chibitoaster! )

Artist: venturous1
Recipient: rickey_a
Title: A Good Time was Had by All
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Neville/Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: pastel
Warnings: Highlight to read: fellatio, hand job, naked guys
Artist's Notes: RickeyA, I had fun drawing this for you. Thanks to patient mods for allowing me more time due to family situation. and Blessed Yule to all!

( Happy holidays, rickey_a! )

Artist: plotting_pen
Recipient: iamshadow
Title: Possession
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: pen, photoshop
Warnings: light bondage, signs of light spankage, lack of penises
Artist's Notes: iamshadow, I tried to include as many of your kinks as possible, but it was the jealousy/possessiveness/protectiveness that provoked the idea for this image. Happy holidays!


( Happy holidays iamshadow! )

Artist: dirty_darella
Recipient: lavillanueva
Title: Playtime
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Photoshop CS + Tablet
Warnings: Bondage, dub-con
Artist's Notes: Have a great Holiday!


( Happy holidays, lavillanueva! )

Artist: sugareey
Recipient: wook77
Title: Playing Hard to Get
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Dean/Seamus
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Permanent marker and colored markers, Photoshop
Warnings: These silly boys cannot make up their minds. But when they do, they stick to it and veer off into deep dirty fantasies. It starts off gentle with kissing and it seems like that's it. But don't forget about the wanking and happy explosion. Wait, what?
Artist's Notes: wook77, I hope you like this! I tried really hard to think of all the porn I could make but all I could really come up with were these set of images. They're in denial as usual, but if you could use a little bit of Legilimency, I'm sure you know what they are really thinking about. Words are from the song "Newborn" by the Muse. Happy holidays, dear!

( Happy holidays, wook! )

Artist: heathen_ursidae
Recipient: the community
Title: All Apologies... and Blowjobs
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: pencil, ink, watercolor, some photoshop
Warnings: man!sex and bad language
Artist's Notes: A humble Malfoy is painful to behold. Thankfully, Draco can't manage to make his apologies humble.

( Happy holidays, Yule Balls Community! )

Artist: ships_harry
Recipient: atdelphi
Title: Absolution
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Photoshop
Warnings: None. Really! Unless you count evidence of alcohol consumption.
Artist's Notes:This is NOT non-con - it's complicated, slightly rough sex, between the man who killed Albus Dumbledore and the man who may have hated him the most. Still, they both loved him in their own fucked up ways. Also, as you might guess from the angle, this is intercrural.


( Happy holidays, atdelphi! )

Artist: __hibiscus
Recipient: bribitribbit
Title: Campfire
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Pansy/Ginny
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Pencil/Photoshop
Warnings: None
Artist's Notes: A huge thanks to the wonderful mods of hp_yule_balls for all their hard work. I hope you like it! I tried to put in as much of your prompts as I could. <3!

( Happy holidays, bribitribbit! )

Artist: foxestacado
Recipient: centaury_squill
Title: Whorls in Wood
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Snape/Harry
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Corel Painter X, Photoshop 7
Warnings: Frontal nudity, implied fondling and/or sex.
Artist's Notes: I am truly pleased to work on an artwork for one of my favorite Snarry fanfic authors. I hope you enjoy this piece! Working on this took me out of my comfort zone, but now having explored the possibilities of visualizing the Snape/Harry relationship, I definitely see myself doing more Snarry illustrations in the future. Thanks to the Mods for tirelessly organizing this exchange, and I am excited to see/read everyone else's gifts. Thanks especially to K for putting up with me when I was obsessing over this.


( Happy holidays, centaury_squill! )

Artist: ericahpfa
Recipient: triomakesmehot
Title: Trio
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Harry/Hermione/Ron
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Pen, Pencil, reference
Warnings: Slight nudity, NWS
Artist's Notes: This is take two for me, the original was taken from the story, as requested, but sadly was declined by the mods as being too tame. So here is another, with Hermione added, and hopefully it will still be liked. Happy Holidays!

( Happy holidays, triomakesmehot! )

Artist: xxaphaniax
Recipient: knic26
Title: All I Really Want
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Teddy/James
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Pencils, Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
Warnings: Sex? Slash? The obvious stuff.
Artist's Notes: I wasn’t too sure what to draw, but in the end I went with Teddy/James, anal sex and wall!sex. I threw in snow for a seasonal feeling, and a Quidditch-changing-room as well, because in my head James + wall!sex = Quidditch-changing-room.

( Happy holidays, knic26! )

Artist: parseltonguepen
Recipient: melfinatheblue
Title: Not Quite Dignified
Rating: R/NC-17
Pairing(s): Severus/Lucius
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Digital, in PS CS2
Warnings: Nudity. Misuse of Lucius' cane - no, not THAT kind of misuse!
Artist's Notes: I wibbled over and discarded well over a dozen ideas before I settled on this. I hope I managed to hit some of your kinks - I really tried to add Draco, but he just didn't want to work with me! However, Snape seemed quite willing to take over...


( Happy holidays, melfinatheblue! )

Artist: may_g
Recipient: kath_ballantyne
Title: Let's Fly Away
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Fred Weasley/George Weasley
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Photoshop
Warnings: none
Artist's Notes: Fred decided to take George for a flight after a Quidditch game just as George was about to have a shower...



( Happy holidays, kath_ballantyne! )

Artist: nefyr
Recipient: hollycomb
Title: Goal
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Harry/Ron
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: PS2/OC
Warnings: n/a
Artist's Notes: I don't usually draw Ron as a bottom, but I got this pose stuck in my head and Harry just decided to screw him. I hope you like it! &hearts



( Happy holidays, hollycomb! )

Artist: nk_aoede
Recipient: riot_grrrl_ria
Title: Parts of a Whole
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Remus/Sirius
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Mechanical pencil, Photoshop
Warnings: Light bondage
Artist's Notes: This was a bit of an experiment, but I hope you like it! I managed to include several of your kinks. :D


( Happy holidays, riot_grrrl_ria! )

Artist: itsbeenvery
Recipient: woldy
Title: NB
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Pansy/Ginny
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Pen
Warnings: Boobs may cause NSFWality
Artist's Notes: Out in the working world, Ginny learns no matter what they ask it's generally a good idea to do what your boss asks you to. Unless not doing what they ask results in you both doing something you both very much want to do. To woldy's, this is more bdsm-lite than bdsm, but I hope it pleases you. I had lots of fun creating it for you. :) Post-DH, pre-babies.

( Happy holidays, woldy! )

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Artist: karasu_hime
Recipient: gryffindorj
Title: Sweet Holidays
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Teddy/James Jr.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters engaging in sexual activity are 16 years or older.
Medium: Tablet, Photoshop
Warnings: None
Artist's Notes: I went for a slightly edgier Teddy. I figure he'd have some of his mum's personality and being raised by Andromeda....I hope you enjoy it! Happy Holidays!!

( Happy holidays, gryffindor_j! )

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