well, uphill battle is definitely possible. i still don't even has as many participants as i did last year. but i think all will be well nonetheless. i'm feeling optimistic. :D

i know i didn't comment on nearly as many fics as i've done for previous fests. i simply didn't have the time to read very much this year! it felt like there were a zillion fests to follow, and i felt painfully overwhelmed. so i occasionally looked at the fests themseles and read something if it looked interesting from the sumamry. otherwise i pretty much relied on recs. i missed a LOT of fic.

as for aydd, it technically has an ambiguous ending, but most readers assume the worst, it seems to me. which is interesting.

and yay for pimpage! thanks for telling me. :)