This year I wrote The Seasons of Your Heart , a Gankutsuou fic that follows Albert's feeling for the Count throughout the series.

For a while there was a very real fear that this wasn't going to get written. School nearly killed me this semester, and I never could find the time and peace of mind to actually write. I was actually writing my very last paper on the day that Yuletide stories were due. I finished the paper, watched a few important moments in the series, and wrote like mad. And I did this on no sleep. Thank god for caffeine pills.

I knew when I signed up to write Gankutsuou that there was very good chance that I'd be assigned to write Albert/the Count, as it's the most popular pairing. Unfortunately, I don't ship it. And what looks like an interesting challenge during sign-ups becomes a terrifying impossibility once assignments are out. But I managed and my recipient liked it, which is all that matters.

Random comment: I finished downloading Gankutsuou a short time ago, and I just clicked on episode six. The opening song has English subtitles. This wouldn't be weird, except that the opening song is in English. All the way through. And the guy singing has no Japanese accent. It makes no sense