Okay, kids. Not dead yet. Here is your pre-Christmas update, with a veritable flood of fic, including the first batch of Mix'n'Match Slash Challenge stories.

"Echoes" and "Velvet", by Madame Bahorel; "Study Partners", by Jeni Baron; "A High Tolerance for Falsity", by Echo; "Sophia Meets Eponine" by Eponine_in_love; "Song of Angry Men", "Excuses", and "Cure For Loneliness", by Erin; "Sun and Moon", by Fannore; "Plain Civility" and "If Anything", by Ivy; "An Enigma Of Some Few Weeks, Abruptly Ended By Death", "They Went On Their Way", and "To Fly In Vain", by Jenelin; "The Statue and the Fan-Maker", by Katharine; "Sketches" and "Behind Her Heart", by Mlle. LaBourde; "Anticipated", "Faint Heart", "Knight Errant", and "Quintette" by Catherine Lafontaine; "Freedom Calls", "The Effect of Absinthe on Police Inspectors", "Romance Languages", "The Poet Under the Influence", and "Rain and Hypochondriacs" by Elen Laurelin; "Charming", "Just Causes", "May", "Five Things That Never Happened To Jean Prouvaire", "Liberté", "Relaxation and Rest" and "Doggerel", by Petronelle Lemaitre; "The Order of Mirrors" by A. V. Meren; "Inequality" and "Who Waits Forever, Anyway?", by Mage O'Dell; "Gold", "I Wasn't Born to Walk on Water", "One Hundred Years", "With Rosemary and Sage, and Oranges", "Yanwase men Si-iyen" and "And I Can Live Inside My Head...", by Soujin Prouvaire; "Faux Pas de Deux" and "Harmony", by Quiara; "Distractions", by SarahMc; "Reinvention", by K. Telfer.

Happy holidays, Joyeux Noel, etc.