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Batter My Heart
fandom: The Exorcist (TV) but honestly I'd rec this to anyone whether they're familiar with the fandom or not
pairing: Marcus/Tomas
tags: begging, first time
8899 words

My review: if you like stories about urges and doubt, about the line between courage and recklessness, about yearning, about the word "no" making you want something more, not less, and about being so wildly, desperately deprived of intimacy that the idea of someone trusting you has become something distant and impossible, like the realization of your most intimate, no, your most indecent desires, then you will like this.

As some of you know, I've had some Yuletide drama.

On December 20th, I posted a 980-word story to the Yuletide collection, intending to complete it before reveal. This was my fifth Yuletide.

On December 21st, I got this from yuletide mods:

Dear emef

The story you have submitted to the Yuletide collection (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2805509) is too short. A story under 1k words in length is not a suitable gift for your recipient and does not meet the challenge requirements.

Please complete this story by 19:00 UTC December 22 and let us know when you have updated it.

If you do not complete this story promptly, you will be banned from further participation. We also require you to complete a story for the New Year's Resolution collection before signing up again.

Yuletide mods

On December 22nd, the story was complete, betaed, etc etc.

Eight months later, on August 5, Yuletide mods wrote that their earlier email was incorrect and that I would not have been banned if I had not completed the story. If I had left the incomplete story up, the penalty would have been to write a story for the New Year's Resolution collection.

( you may be thinking to yourself: ...wait )