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

Author: gryffindorj
Recipient: loony4lupin
Title: The Fall
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.
Summary: "You may go now. I don't want to see you back in detention again." James mutely picked up his bag, heeding Teddy's instructions. "Walk back to Gryffindor Tower, no stopping anywhere. I want to imagine you with come dripping down your legs."
Warnings: None, other than the rating indicates.
Word Count:~29,900
Author's Notes: Thank you so much to everyone who helped me so much. You all know who you are and I adore all of you. loony4lupin, I kept a list of your preferred kinks and ticked them off as I used them, so hopefully you will find many of them here.

( Part four )

Author: gryffindorj
Recipient: loony4lupin
Title: The Fall
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.
Summary: "You may go now. I don't want to see you back in detention again." James mutely picked up his bag, heeding Teddy's instructions. "Walk back to Gryffindor Tower, no stopping anywhere. I want to imagine you with come dripping down your legs."
Warnings: None, other than the rating indicates.
Word Count:~29,900
Author's Notes: Thank you so much to everyone who helped me so much. You all know who you are and I adore all of you. loony4lupin, I kept a list of your preferred kinks and ticked them off as I used them, so hopefully you will find many of them here.

( Happy holidays, loony4lupin! )

Author: shes_gone
Recipient: jadzialove
Title: 59 Days
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: 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.
Summary: It's been fifty-nine days, and they're still not talking about it.
Word Count: 4,500
Author's Notes: Merry Yule Balls, jadzialove! I do hope you enjoy this. I took your first-time request rather excruciatingly literally, I'm afraid. :) Many thanks to my betas and to the mods – all of whom are far better to me than I deserve. ♥.

( Happy holidays, jadzialove! )

Author: gryffindorj
Recipient: cacklesthewitch
Title: Curious
Rating: R
Pairing(s): James/Regulus, with mentions of a side pairing.
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.
Summary: A chance meeting with Regulus in the Prefects' Bathroom helps James fulfill his curiosity.
Warnings: None, other than the rating indicates.
Word Count: ~2300
Author's Notes: Thanks to the mods for all of their help and to cacklesthewitch for giving me a chance to write such a delicious pairing.

( Happy holidays, cacklesthewitch! )

Author: derryere
Recipient: heathen_ursidae
Title: My Old Ways
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. Also, Nick Hornby's How To Be Good has inspired so much of this it needs to be credited/praised to a sickening degree.
Summary: In trying to become a better person, Harry seeks the help of a certain professional.
Warnings: *deep breath* plot-induced OOCness, AU for serious muggle lifestyle, language, boysex, hetsex, crack, feelings, flangst, canon-pairings, first-person, a lot of words, and the weird. Loads of weird.
Word Count: 54K
Author's Notes: Hellooo, heathen_ursidae! One of your prompts mentioned 'an awkward moment escaping an orgy gone wrong', and that's where I started. Originally. Where I ended up is—Well, the orgy somehow disappeared while the awkward and the things going wrong stayed put. Despite the lack of that main element, I hope very, very, very very very much that you might still enjoy some of it :) I'd like to thank the mods for giving me more time than anyone should get, and my beta, J, who did this at a superhuman speed. Any remaining mistakes are the product of own stoopid.


( Happy holidays, heathen_ursidae! )

Author: redsnake05
Recipient: r0sivan
Title: Fire and Water (a dream of forever)
Rating: R
Pairing: Salazar Slytherin/Godric Gryffindor
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.
Summary: Making magic together is the headiest form of partnership. Godric and Salazar know what they have, what they want, where they're going.
Warnings: Badly translated Latin (rough translations at the end)
Word Count: 1700
Author's Notes: r0sivan, I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it for you. I took your pairing and kind of ran with it, and I hope I hit enough of your kinks to make this something that pleases you. This is set, obviously, before Salazar's split with the other founders. Uh, and my sincerest apologies to anyone who reads Latin. I'm sure I have mangled the phrases terribly, but none of the languages I do know were right for the story. Many thanks to my darling beta reader.
 

( Happy holidays, rosivan! )