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school and work have been eating up all my time lately and that is why I haven't been posting! though it never seems like it's been all that long to me, and then I realize I haven't updated in over a month. so yeah. still ticking along, just quiet on the livejournal front!

YULETIDE. it's almost time for the best season of the year to start! what is everybody nominating? I have predictably started trying to organize the sports people, because that is what I do. I'm going for Olympics RPF, She's The Man and am wavering between Bend It Like Beckham (HOW AM I THE ONLY PERSON THINKING OF NOMINATING THIS? SERIOUSLY???) and Tennis RPF because I really want that Chrissie/Martina fic. but if nobody nominates Bend It Like Beckham I may have to abandon classic tennis for this year. :(

Amanda Palmer and Mumford & Sons both have new albums out! they're pretty ace, you should check them out.

missmollyetc filled a Baby Dream Team prompt for me over on

touchline and it's awesome! go read: The Same Last Dream Again.

anybody want to play with memes? late to the party, I know. (seen this from a bunch of people but most recently

aramley.)

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination!

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

PS: PIQUE AND SHAKIRA ARE HAVING A BABY!!!

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have not got to you yet as far as meme responses go but:

yuletide! it is a rare fandom fic exchange with a very large participant pool. right now is the brainstorming stage, where everybody gets excited about their fandoms and tries to lure new people into them. next is nominations, when anybody who is going to participate can nominate up to four characters in each of up to three fandoms. the resulting list of fandoms will be weeded for not-actually-rare interlopers (a process that causes much wank and stress) and then the remaining list, and all characters that were nominated for them, are the pool that is used for requests/offers. each participant asks for up to four characters in four fandoms from the list and offers some number of characters in some number of fandoms (I honestly can't remember exactly) as well. each person is then matched to a request that falls within what they offered to write, writes a fic of at least 1000 words and uploads it before deadline! (and then, optional, proceeds to write fic for other requests.) on Christmas Day, everybody gets their gift fic(s) and there is an orgy of reading, commenting and reccing! it's the best season of the year. :)