Entries tagged with yuletide

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Yuletide recs

I haven't been much in the mood for fanfic for a while, but Yuletide's different. This is merely a skimming from the surface, but I thought I'd get in there before the reveal. Sorry if my descriptions make no sense, it's been a long day.

Invicta - Greek Mythology - Aphrodite and human beauty. Those gods, you know -- they're not like us.
1918 - Sherlock Holmes - Crossover... may have made the old lip wobble a bit. Gaah, oh how I love them all!
A Land So Wild and Savage - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Charles and his wanderlust. This is deceptively simple -- it takes the material from the books, turns it a fraction to the left and gives it back to us subtly changed.
Little Settlement on the Moon - Laura Ingalls Wilder - This one's fun too -- steampunk!
Hunting High and Low - Take On Me (music video) - Wow! So clever -- you only get stuff like this at Yuletide.
to hell with anything unrefined - archy and mehitabel - Wonderful, and illustrated.
Running Commentary - The IT Crowd - Sweet. :)
Out of the Dark - Dr Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish... - How to make Dr Suess really scary...
I Am Not Clark, My Name Is Pete - Dr Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish... - ... and how to make him really sad. :(
In Which Worlds Collide and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime - Winnie the Pooh - Crossed with Discworld. Illustrated. And I don't even really know Discworld.
And Baby Makes Two - Arrested Development - This is short and funny, and captures the tone of the show really well.

In other news I am cold, and they made us all sit at work till 6 even thought there was nothing to do. Grumble. And I'm working on New Year's Day. Grumble. Grumblegrumble. But I booked next week off, so it's not that bad really, s'pose.

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Late night ramblage

After much angst I decided not to sign up for Yuletide this year because I don't have time. I mean, I haven't even had time to look through the fandoms properly -- that hardly bodes well for the fic, does it?

So, that being the case... I'm doing NaNoWriMo instead.

Head, meet desk. I hope you're very happy together.

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First post of 2007

Happy New Year everyone. Welcome, 2007. May you be good.

Well, the fisherman turned up at 11.30, on schedule, but sadly he left almost immediately, as I had no custard to give him. So I've no spooky stories to tell you. Let that be a lesson to me in the future.

Yuletide authors have been revealed! Thank you so much my two Shaun of the Dead writers: Empy for Night of the Apple Schnapps, and Aimeek for Victory from Defeat. Both my stories made me laugh, and I really needed it at the time, so that was a nice thing. :)

I wrote In a Dark Wood for Deepa D. and I'm very, very pleased she seemed to like it. :)

I feel I must post a small disclaimer though, at this point. I have never actually read anything by Robin McKinley. Um, and I fully realise most people who said that meant it as a compliment, but I did see one recs post in which the poster seemed a bit worried about the whole thing, so. Just thought I'd say that. *shuffles off*

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Where the hell is everybody?

You'd think it was some kind of international holiday or something.

Oh all right, Merry Crimpleen everyone. That's if you celebrate Crimpleen, and I know I do. Mmm, synthetic fabrics are so delicious.

Well, I'd better go and peel some potatoes, I suppose. May the gods of Crimpleen not come down and smite you, today at least.

This post brought to you by AN ATTEMPT TO STAVE OFF ENSUING MADNESS OMG!

ps. I got TWO whole and glittering Shaun of the Dead fics for Yuletide, so HA! Take that, ensuing madness!

Yes.

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Ok, the story's done, now I'm just sort of hovering over the 'submit' button. I've only read it 238 times, what if I missed something omg? It's scary, man!

ps. do you like this SCARY icon? It's the Mari Llwyd, as seen in The Dark is Rising.

ETA: not quite sure how I accidentally disabled comments there, but never mind.

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My letter to the Yuletide Santa

( Dear Santa )

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How things stand at about midnight

NaNoWriMo -- I have written the grand total of 20 words. GO ME!!!

I have still not answered all the comments I meant to answer -- sorry, everyone. *smacks self in head*

I've got to go back to work tomorrow. I want more holiday! :(

I signed up for Yuletide. Um.

The Two Lines fic -- is going to go on forever, but at least it's going on. I think.

Inspired by some of the requests on Yuletide, I went searching and found, you know, one of them bad 'n' wrong fandom places (well, it was for me anyway) and am still trying to scrub myself clean.

dandywalker and I went to see The Divine Comedy last night and it was purely magic and wonderful and fab. :) And it made me very happy. (Apart from the two most annoying people in the world, who stood in front of us). And the support were the great Duke Special, who make very effective use of the cheese grater and whisk, and should be checked out most immediately.

I spent three hours looking for boots that would zip up over my calves. It made me want to cry. In the end I caved and bought ankle boots.

20 words... Oh, I do suck. Still, at least I know what it's going to be about now. It's the story of a cat who lives in a cage and plays the blues on his saxophone and tells creepy stories to his visitors.

Current Mood: idiotic

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Help!

Please save me from signing up to Yuletide. Because IT IS AN INCREDIBLY BAD IDEA!

I haven't anywhere near finished my Two Lines fic, and I've also signed up for Nanowrimo. God, I can't even answer my comments in a timely manner! I can't even put my laundry away on time! WHAT AM I THINKING?

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LiveJournal as the magic 8-ball

Dear friends list:

1. I have a slight stomach ache, probably due to eating two three-course meals yesterday. I have a driving lesson in about half an hour, and my Christmas shopping isn't quite as finished as I thought it was. I may have the beginnings of a cold, although this is so far inconclusive. I am also feeling kind of ... fat. And my bedroom needs cleaning. Bearing all this in mind, and the fact that I don't really feel like it, should I go out dancing tonight?

2. Do you think I should try salsa dancing in January? I'm not sure it's really me, but my mother once told me I should say yes to everything, and think about it later.

I think I should fast today. Perhaps consume nothing but hot water with lemon.

I was feeling a bit sad about not being involved in

yuletide this year. But as deadline loomed and my friends list grew more hysterical, I realised: hey - I get to read all the stories and not have to tear any of my hair out!

The radio is on and I can't hear what I'm typing in my head, so if it doesn't make sense, that's why.

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Yuletide etc.

I would like to offer great and heartfelt thanks to

boniblithe, who wrote Enough To Go By and

zeldaophelia, who wrote Good Girl, for making my yuletide such a nice one. :)

My story was this Narnia fic: Growing Up. I feel I should probably apologise to my recipient, because I do have a feeling it wasn't quite what she was after (although of course she left a very kind and gracious comment). I started off writing quite a different story, but I wasn't feeling very good about it and in the end writing what I wanted to write was the only way this was going to get done at all. I do hope she got something out of it. Possibly I'm being paranoid, as usual. Anyway, I have to say that the whole experience ended up being a very positive one for me, despite a bit of a rocky start, and the hackers and that.

I've also been rooting around in the archive and found some excellent stuff, but I feel I've only just scraped the surface. I'll try and gather up a few recs - I knew I should have taken notes...

All the Earthsea fics are good, but this is my favourite: Seasons in the Archipelago. Ged and Tenar. I've actually only read the Earthsea books quite recently, and this is really lovely.

This is a lovely Good Omens fic: A Precise and Accurate History of Monday, Eleven Years Later.

Just Between Us. Ab Fab fic! And it's perfect.

Regrets and Reminiscences. Mansfield Park. This was the only one whose author I guessed correctly (in fact I think it was the only one I guessed at all). Because she's been Jane Austen before, and she's frighteningly good at it.

The Lives of the Really Really Ridiculously Good Looking. Heeee! Zoolander.

A Different Road. A rather lovely Little Women story.

I have read some other good stuff, but these are the ones that made most impression on me. There will be more, I've no doubt.

I've just noticed that I say 'lovely' far too much. Limited vocabulary, tut tut.

ETA ETA!!!

Damn, I knew I'd forget something. I meant to credit

lazlet with her invaluable beta-ing skills. I was having real problems with it at one point and she basically pointed me in the right direction, so yay for Laz!

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the usual

First, lookee look at my icon from

shanalle! How cool is she? How pointy!

Second, do you like art? If you like art, put up your hand. Now put it down again and go and join

novanumbernine's new

artalert community. Go on, do it. It's going to be fabulous.

jcsynthetics, I'm looking at you here. And you,

galactic_jack. Come on now, you know you want to.

Third:

Answers to the lyrics quiz

1. I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts. You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks
Magnetic Fields - Swinging London

2. Capp Street is an underwater cave filled with crutches and canes
American Music Club - Over & Done

3. The smell of leaf-mould and the sweetness of decay are the incense in your funeral procession here today
Pulp - Trees

4. See this watch you gave me - well it still ticks away
Eels - The Medication Is Wearing Off

5. I'm not a hostess waiting to fuck you. I'm not a waiter - I wanna be served
Six by Seven - My Life is an Accident

6. Every tongue will wag if you want it. Every lung has a shadow on it
The Divine Comedy - Mastermind

7. Heard voices in dial tones. Last traces of her zones
The Paradise Motel - Derwent River Star

8. She puts the weights into my little heart, and she gets in my room and she takes it apart.
Interpol - Obstacle 1

9. Hand over hand up the lifeline, luckily the knots stay tight.
Morphine - Rope on Fire

10. Regret that you fell or be damned to hell, one more chance
The Real Tuesday Weld - One More Chance

Well, that's random for you.

Now for the Yuletide bastard. Anyone who sees me online, give me a slap.

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Bizarreness

Whilst doing research for my Yuletide fic (which comes along somewhat haltingly) I came across a reference to my grandfather, who died several decades before I was born and has absolutely nothing to do with the fandom concerned (mind you, neither did the research, really). The sheer oddness of this incident has conveniently allowed me to procrastinate for another few hours, as my research goes ever more alarmingly off course.

I am having a baked potato for lunch, yesyes.

S'pose I'd better write something, eh?

I'm thinking of buying a breadmaker. For making bread in, you know.

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Frankly, I don't think you can ever rec something too much, so here I am reccing Recall by

sophrosyne31. Very absorbing, fascinating Lotrips AU, not to mention sexier than sex on sexy toast. I'd recommend it even if you don't read Lotrips, actually.

I had the best idea for my Yuletide story last night. I lay awake for hours thinking it through and fizzing with delight at how wonderful it was going to be and how clever I am, although I couldn't be bothered to put the light on and write any of it down. When I woke up, of course, it turned out to be a fairly mediocre idea after all, which was rather disappointing. But I should be able to drag some sort of fic out of it, with luck and a good kick up the arse.

Here's a disturbing thought I had the other night: Rupert Bear slash. Anyone? No? Ok.

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Letter to my Yuletide Writey Person

Dear Yuletide Writey Person,

Hello! Please ensure that, during the writing of the story, you remember to have fun. Other than that ... ermmm, well. Just write whatever you want really. You know, with the fandom and the characters and all that. Sorry, that's not very helpful, is it? Anyway, I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with. Er, yes. Bye now. And thank 'ee kindly.

Ooh, isn't it weird, talking to an invisible person?

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Well

I spent Boxing Day revelling in the heady delights of

slashababy and

yuletide and now I feel as though I've eaten two large boxes of quality (not Quality Street) chocolates. So much good stuff, but I will just say this: if you're only going to read one Hitch Hiker's fic in your life, make it this one. Like, best story ever. Anyway, I feel I must do something constructive today.

I stayed up till 2.30 last night watching a very strange film about Japanese schoolkids killing each other on an island. It was kind of hypnotic.

The sun is shining. I am pleased about this. I will go to the shop and buy some food that is not in any way Christmassy.