Repost: Twas the Night Before Ficmas

Originally posted at http://teddywolf.livejournal.com/326247.html
Reposted by request, with minor updates

A Small Yuletide Poem To My Wife and Our Roommate

Twas the night before Ficmas and all through the house
Not a reader was blogging, not even to grouse
The writers were set with a sleep-deprived stare
In hopes that their fic requests soon would be there
The kiddies were sleeping all snug in their beds
While genfic and slashfic went through writers heads
My wife in her nightgown and I in my sweats
Were waiting for midnight to settle some bets
When up on her screen there arose such a clutter
That I sprang to her side, then I started to mutter
In every window I looked in a flash
And saw quite compendious volumes of slash
Then, loud in the night came a sound to my ear
Of the womenfolk whooping and laughing with cheer
I hoped for distractions in good old tee vee
But it was outvolumed by laughs one through three
I returned to my screen which had gone rather queer
With a picture of eight tiny mooses in fear
Of a jolly old elf with a glint in his eye
That I do not think I could explain if I tried.
Then I turned yet again to my wife as she sniggered
At all the fic written and what it had triggered
"Look, Haven! Eureka! Colbert and John Stewart!
S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and Castle and flibbertygibbert!"
So I shrugged as they read at their screens shining bright.
Merry Ficmas to all, and to all a good night.