yuletide | New Year's Resolutions as of July 25

In the last four weeks, there have been three works added to the New Year's Resolution collection. Enjoy!

Prelude (1218 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pandemic Legacy: Season One
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, E-mail, Scientific Method
Summary: What happened the winter before.

A Connoisseur of Beauty (1450 words) by Alasse_Irena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Ladies' Guide to Collecting Mermaid Love Songs - Aimee Picchi
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miss Holst/Miss Mori
Characters: Miss Holst (Collecting Mermaid Love Songs), Miss Mori (Collecting Mermaid Love Songs)
Additional Tags: Pre-Slash
Summary: Miss Holst is interested in the classification of mermaid songs. Miss Mori is interested in the study of beauty.

Aliennaire (23312 words) by aliennaire
Chapters: 4/8
Fandom: Aliens (1986), Alien (1979), Alien Series
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dwayne Hicks/Ellen Ripley, Original Male Character/Original Female Character
Characters: Ellen Ripley, Dwayne Hicks, Irene Hudson, Mark Corrigan, Jonathan Thunders, Kathlyn Delaware, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Bishop (Aliens), Cheleska "Lee" Rushinska
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Science Fiction, Action/Adventure, Some theories on Alienverse, Gateway Station, Mysteries and explanations, New Blood, Angst with a Happy Ending, Teamwork, Alien 3 never happened, Space Jockeys, Canon divergence - past/present/future Alien series, Xenomorphs, Weyland-Yutani, Conspiracy, Violence against the underage, Sulaco, Body Horror
Summary:

What would the home-bound Sulaco crew's story be if they unhindered made it to the Earth-orbiting station? What will the once steadfast corporate warrant officer chose in the end, struck with the evil chance of battling her corporeal enemies and deep-seated fears again? Who was the elephantine creature frozen and forgotten in the Derelict ship long time ago?

This story takes place after Jim Cameron's 'Aliens' (1986) on the franchise's timeline and counts in the majority of Alienverse mythological attributes presented by the first two films.

There are some things you'd better not do, and other ones for you to stay unaware of.

Until assignments are sent out (approximately) for Yuletide 2017, the New Year's Resolution collection (2017 edition) is open for writers to submit fics based on prompts from previous Yuletides.

Writers are especially encouraged to write stories for prompts that were not filled during the main Yuletide run.

2016 prompts on AO3
Google spreadsheet of all prompts (thank you to Min)
Database of 2016's Dear Author letters (thank you to lsellersfic)
2016 prompts as a text file
Prompts from 2016's non-signed-up pinch hitters on LJ and on DW
Some Day My Fic Will Come mini-challenge - This challenge is for prompts that are posted year after year after year - see more info at the link!

Fics written for the purpose of re-qualifying for Yuletide must be posted before signing up to Yuletide 2017 (ie, before October 9 and ideally before October 1). They must also be over 1,000 words and written to a previous Yuletide prompt. The fandom in which they are written must still be small enough to qualify for Yuletide (in brief: there are fewer than 1,000 fics each (that are over 1,000 words, in English, and complete) when adding the total fics on AO3 and ff.net).