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The Sterek Secret Santa 2024 Reveal Post 

Ho Ho Ho!

Thus concludes the twelfth edition of the Sterek Secret Santa!

I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that you’ve enjoyed all the Sterek-y goodness created by all the lovely secret santas!

If you’d like, you can still add your works to the AO3 Collection! You can also repost your gift(s) to your own Tumblrs now, of course! Just poke me and I’ll also add the link to the Tumblr gift post.

Sadly I'd like to announce that this has been the last Sterek Secret Santa. RL doesn't allow me much time to spend on hosting gift exchanges anymore.

It's been an amazing twelve year run, and I'd like to thank each and everyone of you that's participated over the years. Sterek is and always will be eternal <3

-x- Leonie (leetje)

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Now it's time to find out who your secret santa was!

@1989dreamer made a gift for heavensenthale - gift here

@alaidiem made a gift for negativenorth - gift here

@always-mimits made a gift for sivan325 - gift here

@comedicdrama made a gift for in-over-my-head - gift here

@eevylynn made a gift for sugareey-makes-stuff - gift here

@geekmom13 made a gift for wolfspurr - gift here

@goddess47 made a gift for nightlight9 - gift here

@greenleaf1316 made a gift for theydraggedmein - gift here

@heavensenthale made a gift for mintonarel - gift here

@in-over-my-head made a gift for serenelystrange - gift here

@mintonarel made a gift for alaidiem - gift here

@myulalie made a gift for comedicdrama - gift here

@negativenorth made a gift for 1989dreamer - gift here

@nightlight9 made a gift for always-mimiTs - gift here

@quackquackcey made a gift for greenleaf1316 - gift here

@renmackree made a gift for thotpuppy - gift here

@serenelystrange made a gift for geekmom13 - gift here

@silverloveless made a gift for stacinadia - gift here

@sivan325 made a gift for eevylynn - gift here

@stacinadia made a gift for goddess47 - gift here

@sugareey-makes-stuff made a gift for renmackree - gift here

@thefrailtyofgenius made a gift for violetfairydust - gift here

@theydraggedmein made a gift for thefrailtyofgenius - gift here

@thotpuppy made a gift for myulalie - gift here

@violetfairydust made a gift for quackquackcey - gift here

@wolfspurr made a gift for silverloveless - gift here

That’s it! Go and shower your no-longer-secret-santa with love and virtual tackle hugs!

[quackquackcey]

⟡ like the sun and stars ⟡

Rated E | sterek | 6.4k | playlist! ♫

My @stereksecretsanta gift fic for @greenleaf1316! (Thank you so much to the mod leonie for all your hard work in organizing this event for so long!! 🙏🥰)

✨ canon div, seasons 1 - post 4, hurt/comfort ✨ 5 + 1 things, confessions, mates, & feels 🤍

Tags: Canon Divergence | Starts from Season 1, Ends Post-Season 4 | Songfic | Evolved Derek Hale | Pack Alpha Derek Hale | Spark Stiles Stilinski | Brief Mention of Chris Argent/Peter Hale | Anchors | Stiles Stilinski Is Bad at Feelings | Getting Together | Top Derek Hale/Bottom Stiles Stilinski | Emotional Hurt/Comfort | Sterek Deserve Nice Things | POV Derek Hale | Falling In Love | Mates Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski | Fluff and Smut | Knotting | Marriage Proposal | Confessions | 5+1 Things | Season 4 events don't happen | Gift Giving

Summary:

Five times Stiles tried to confess, and the one two times Derek beat him to it. or A journey of finding and shining a light in the darkness—of realizing what it truly means to see and be seen.~ 𖤓⟡

Read here on AO3!!

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The Sterek Secret Santa 2024 Posting Schedule :) 

It’s Christmas Eve!! \o/

Hope everyone is excited to see lots of Sterek-themed gifts? I KNOW I AM :D

The gifts will be tagged with #stereksanta24 and the #username of whomever the gift is meant for! This way everyone hopefully should be able to “find” their gift(s) quite easily :) I added the @ username thing too, but it didn’t work for everyone who’s participating.

The gift-posting is scheduled to commence at 9 PM GMT (three hours from now ;) and should automatically go on until it runs out some time around Christmas Day morning, with new gifts posted every 30 minutes :D

Everyone is getting gifts again! *throws confetti* And for the first time ever, no pinch-hitting was required!!!

HO HO HO!!

P.S. the AO3 Archive will be published around 9PM! I’ve set an alarm to remind myself 8-)

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HO HO HO The Original Sterek Secret Santa is back, back, back again! 

Twelve years and still up and running! Sterek is Eternal ;)

How it works

You MUST have a Tumblr

Sign up with what you want to make ( e.g. fic or fanmix)

Also list what you’d like to receive (e.g. gifsets, drawings)

Sign ups are done via a form

»» Sign Up here! ««

SIGN UP DEADLINE: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2ND (Midnight Pacific Time)

After that assignments will be send out to everyone by email on November 3rd, and then you’ll have six weeks to make gifts for the person assigned to you :)

Gift Giving Guidelines

Just in case it isn’t clear to anyone, all the gifts have to be STEREK-related! NSFW content is allowed!

>> Read the full guidelines here << (or via Google Doc here)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 14TH (Midnight Pacific Time)

On Christmas Eve/Day all the gifts will be posted for everyone! On Christmas Day it will be revealed who made gifts for whom, then after that you're of course free to post the gifts you made to your own Tumblr :)

If you still have questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now! Don’t miss out on the most festively fandom fun time of the year!

And feel free to signal boost this post, I'd appreciate it <3

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Merry Christmas, @geekmom13!

Hope you like it <3

*****

Amoeba

Derek Hale knows he’s never going to have a soulmate. He accepted it nearly twenty years ago when the first girl he loved died in his arms, and he felt a part of his soul die along with her. His mother, however, disagrees.

“I’m just saying, sweetheart,” Talia drawls, ignoring Derek’s annoyed eye roll. “You can’t rule it out, it’s a big world out there, and you’re still so young.”

“I’m thirty years old,” Derek huffs.

“In human years,” Talia agrees, before humming. “For our kind though, you’re barely more than a pup.”

“You’re just trying to make me feel better about being the only single one over twenty left in the family,” Derek says, accepting the mug of hot cider his mother presses into his hands and settling on one of the high stools at her kitchen counter.

Read on AO3

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Merry Christmas, @eevylynn!

Have a great Christmas, hope you love the fic.

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Family

Derek lay atop of his mother’s grave, near the Nemeton. He felt he needed to share of what had happened lately. The omega missed his mother, but was glad to have a pack and caring alpha.

“Hey, mom, it’s been awhile since our last talk,” Derek said. He sighed and then he continued to share with his mom, “I want to share with you the last events.”

“I’m part of Hale-Stilinski, and Stiles is my true alpha, Stiles is keeping us human, unlike the McCall’s pack who lost any sense of morality, I bet some of them doesn’t know how to shift to human again, can you believe it, mom?”

“Stiles is not like us, werewolves, but he got something unique, he is a spark, mom, I know that he is not perfect, but he is also dealing with demons, just like the rest of us, and he is all mine.” Derek said, feeling his cheeks burn, sheepishly chuckled.

Read on AO3

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Merry Christmas, @thotpuppy!

A merry Christmas and a happy new year, may this bring you joy and happiness the same way your story does for me!

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Merry Christmas, @silverloveless!

Hope you like it <3

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Merry Christmas, @comedicdrama!

 I hope you enjoy the fic ♥

*****

Better Half

Stiles squares his shoulders and walks around the pool in the cold glow of the waning crescent, expecting the worst. He breathes in deeply and knocks on the front door. The sight that awaits him is a troubling one. Lydia, her mascara ruined from an array of shiny silver tears, hiccups curse words unlike anything he’s heard before. Her lipstick is smudged from the unladylike yelling and her hair stands out on either side of her head like she pulled at it while it was still in a braid. A pin balances precariously on the crown of her head.

“He broke up with me. And he did it in front of… in front of the entire amphitheater!” Stiles grasps among the mangled words.

No wonder she’s losing it, Lydia always liked to keep up appearances and Jackson dumped her in front of their entire forensics class. Even if she kept her cool back then, it must have been mortifying. Stiles missed it, but it’s probably for the best.

“Ouch.”

Read on AO3

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That’s all the gifts Santa has for you today!  

Hope you all enjoy your Sterek-y gifts! Merry Christmas <3

Thank you to everyone who’ve participated, again I'd like to celebrate that we didn't need any pinchhitters this year whooo!! But also thank you to the amazing darlings that still reached out and offer their last minute help, even though it wasn't needed. You’re all wonderful! :) This Fandom is truly a gift still and always will be <333

If I’ve made any errors, then please let me know and I’ll fix it asap!

Check back later today, for the Big Reveal! :D

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Merry Christmas, @sugareey-makes-stuff!

I've been wanting to do my own Neckz 'n' Throats AU, so I was so excited to get the opportunity to try it out. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Holidays! <3

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Behind the Cover

Derek sat hunched at his desk, a mug of coffee growing cold beside his laptop. The cursor blinked unendingly, mocking him with the lack of words.He sighed, rubbing a hand across his face. Some days, the words flowed effortlessly.

Today wasn't one of those days.

Pushing his chair back, he stretched, feeling the satisfying crack of his spine as he stood. Grabbing his mug, he walked across the open loft to the kitchen. The sound of the microwave echoed across the quiet loft. The only other sounds were the faint hum of the refrigerator and the occasional creak of old pipes. The quiet usually helped him focus, but today it only seemed to amplify his writer's block.

Read on AO3

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Merry Christmas, @renmackree!

Hi!!! This was initially supposed to be a wee little thing for you. Something inspired by a really gorgeous Moulin Rouge art piece I recently saw. My muse kind of leaned into those vibes and decided to spit out a Beast of a fic instead.

Since you asked for soulmates, the Red String of Fate, angst with a happy ending, fluff and Pack Feels, that's what I ran with. I hope you're cool with what I have so far (since the build up will take us to Part 2, which will be posted up just after Christmas). Hang tight, and you'll get to punch and then hug our two favorite idiots afterward.

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Red is Pretty (But So Is Blue)

This is a story about love. My soulmate didn’t know We were destined to be together.

Then again, neither did I.

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Stiles is a romantic. He always has been. Love is what runs through his very veins. Or at least the pure idea of it does.

He’d pined for Lydia Martin until she finally gave him the time of day. That was when they both realized they work so much better as friends.

Caitlin will always be the exception, as someone Stiles knew since they were in diapers. What could have been—well, he tries not to dwell on that too much after things tragically ended.

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Merry Christmas, @greenleaf1316!

Happy Holidays! 🎁 I hope you enjoy this fic—I know you like fantasy & AUs, but I couldn't for the life of me come up with a fantasy/AU plot that wouldn't end up being a longfic..... I’m sorry 😭🙇‍♀️ But I wrote this fic inspired from 4 songs by your favorite artists that you've been listening to recently (or at the time of my ask lmao), so I do hope you like this! 🥰

Spotify playlist for this fic: like the sun and stars playlist~

(I tend to take things too literally when it comes to songfics, which is probs why I struggle with them LOL but here we are: the fic is divided into 2 parts, with 2 songs per part ahaha 💛 I'll link the individual songs (with english subs if applicable) at the beginning of each part!) 🐥

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like the sun and stars

Derek didn't know the last time he'd been himself.

He didn't know if he even knew how to be himself anymore.

"The bite is a gift," he'd told Scott, but the words had felt wooden, sharp—a barbed stake impaling his chest.

Perhaps he'd said it because he'd grown up hearing that, perhaps he'd said it to convince himself, or perhaps he'd said it because saying it was a curse wouldn't help a panicking, newly-bitten teenager one bit.

Was it a curse?

Or was he himself the curse?

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Merry Christmas, @stacinadia!

I hope you like your present this year. Some Christmas fluff, magic stiles, and a nice holiday fic. Hope you enjoy.

*****

Hiding presents for a Werewolf is Tough

Never say that Stiles Stilinski didn't have his work cut out for him. When he first started dating Derek Hale he struggle with figuring out what to get him for Christmas. What do you get someone who has enough money to buy whatever they needed when they needed it.

Plus to add insult to injury, Derek's Birthday is also Christmas Day. When Stiles first learned of his real birthday, not the date that was listed on his fake ID, he tried to make sure and separate his birthday from Christmas day.

For a regular human that would make gift giving hard but to add being a werewolf to the equation made it impossible to keep the identity of the gift a secret. The first year they moved in together Stiles found Derek sniffing at his gift under the tree.

"Hey come on Derek," Stiles had called out. His hands full of groceries as he walked into the house, "you can't cheat at presents."

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Merry Christmas, @serenelystrange!

I hope you enjoy your story! It was super fun to write!

The title is the name of my current favorite song by Girlfriends because punk is life and inspires pretty much everything I do.

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He hated the holidays. His mom had been gone for years, but those stupid Christmas songs still made him think of her dancing around the kitchen making cookies. He couldn’t even smell sugar cookie dough without getting angry. Usually, he and his dad ran from Beacon Hills and all the small-town traditions there, but this year, they couldn’t.

Pulling into the station parking lot right as Parrish was running out, Stiles rolled his window down, lifting an eyebrow at the deputy. “Where’s the fire?”

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