My List of Wishes

[thefourthvine]

Do I really need to explain the meme that started this? I do? OK, you can find it here, along with a bunch of memoried wish lists from around fandom.



My List

1. Anything from my list of bunnies or involving my bullet-proof kinks.
   
   
2. Anything from my Amazon wish list.
   
   
3. A gift of graphics - a custom LJ layout, for example, or an icon, anything along those lines - from someone more visually talented than I am. Which is everyone. I especially wish for graphics things that aren't built around actors or faces. Some things I like that might make good graphics fodder: wombats, dogs, and fish. Astronomy, molecules, and fractals. Sex, smut, and erotica. Old prints, maps, and illustrated manuscripts. Books, words, and grammar. Shades of gray, earth tones, and dark, murky colors.
   
   
4. A donation to Labmed, to help rescued Labrador Retrievers get medical care so they can be adopted. You can make it in your name, in mine ("thefourthvine" is find), or - and this is what I would like best - on behalf of any dog you've loved, Lab or otherwise.
   
   
5. A donation to the Malibu Public Library or any other public library, specifically for the materials budget. This year especially, libraries are in desperate need of money for books, magazines, DVDs, and other materials, and MPL is no exception; MPL is in a wealthy area, but the library itself isn't wealthy. Even small donations translate into books that will be read many times, by all kinds of people.
   
   
6. An extension of my LJ paid user time or pictures.
   
   
7. Slash for the book I, Robot (Powell/Donovan), the movie The Sting (Hooker/Gondorff), the comic book Planetary (Elijah Snow/The Drummer), or the Nero Wolfe series (Panzer/Goodwin). Yes, I hope to be getting one of those for Yuletide, but these are my dream rare fandoms, so I thought I'd mention them again. Know of any stories that already exist for those pairings? Please, please tell me.
   
   
8. Socks. Because I love socks. I have two drawers full, and yet I covet more socks. I have a sock fixation.
   
   
9. Queen-sized sheets and standard pillowcases that are really, really soft. This may actually be an impossible wish - I never seem to be able to find sheets that are truly soft and inviting and comfy - but the whole point of this list is that dreams can come true, right? And I often dream of perfect sheets, so I'm putting it here.
   
   
10. A package sent to me in the mail. It could contain strange local items, mutant (meatless, because I have Meat Issues) foods, a random collection of crap you found around your house, a bunch of CDs you burned for me, stuff from your favorite fandom, wind-up penises and pornographic stationery, whatever. I just like opening packages. A lot.

If you want my address, comment or email me (deepbluesea at postmark dot net). I'll be putting it in a friends-locked post later, but I'm way behind in my friending, so lots of people won't be able to see it there.

Oh, and the list of bunnies and kinks? Is a post that LJ apparently ate, so it will be re-posted soon. It's back-dated, but I'll put a link here.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

child, i can send you the mutant-est meat-free food evar, if you alert me to your address.

and also, your amazon wish-list link is broken. i suspect that if it worked, it would take me to my own wish list. unfortunately, you can't copy the URL from when you're looking at your wish list and paste it to show other people; you have to e-mail yourself from the "share your wish list" link and then copy-and-paste that URL that it gives you, or else everyone who clicks will just be told what they've asked for for christmas. doesn't really work. :-)

[mosca.livejournal.com]

I just bought you 2 months of paid LJ time. Enjoy!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Nero Wolfe

I'm not in the fandom, but here's an archive that might have what you want: http://www.e-fic.com/~milkandorchids/index2.html

[spikess.livejournal.com]

Opening packages are fun ^_^ I emailed you for your address, 'cause I know I've got random stuff to send you ^_^

[zeelee-penguin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Well, burning cds I can do. What kind of music do you like?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Good catch. I think it's all better now, though.

And I will be sending you my address instanter - um, what's your email address? - because I wish to know the identity of the mutant-est meat-free food ever.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you. You are wonderful.

Is there anything I could do for you? (Besides paying it forward, which I will of course be doing my best to do.) You don't have a wish list, I don't think, but I can offer themed recs sets (eventually - they take time), or I can look into a fandom you love if you're into pimping, or...well, that's pretty much it, unless you have a suggestion.

Thank you again.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Thank you!

Wow. I had no clue there was so much in this fandom.

*says farewell to loved ones and plunges into fic*

[annavtree.livejournal.com]

I'd like your address.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I have a tragically plebian mp3 collection but very flexible tastes. I'd most like CDs of *your* favorite songs, but I know it can be really tough to put together a collection like that, especially when you know nothing about the person in question. So I'm going to think of some random things to tell you about my musical interests.

I prefer music with lyrics. Way prefer music with lyrics. I love thematically linked mixed CDs, from fandom soundtracks to songs about science and anything in between.

I enjoy pop, alternative, '80s retro, classic rock, indie music, folk, humor, punk, madrigals...you know, maybe it would be easier to specify what I don't like, which would be some rap and hiphop, most country, and almost all Christian "rock."

The ten songs most played on my media player right now: "The Wonder of Birds" by Innocence Mission, "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers, "The Mountain" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar, "Transparent" by Polychrome, "Are You Happy Now" by Richard Shindell, "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley, "Pretty When You Cry" by VAST, "We Are the Lucky Ones" by Bif Naked, "Mandelbrot Set" by Jonathan Coulton, and "American Tale" by Carbon Leaf.

The song I'm listening to right now: "Common People" by William Shatner and someone else but I forget who.

The song that comes up after that: "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello.

Any of that help?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I've emailed it to you. Thanks!

(And I am in love with your icon. I'm seriously considering asking for its hand in marriage.)

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

Ho hum. Not the best icon, but I shall see if I can come up with anything better.



(Also, is anything more in specific that you want? I'm not use to making icons that don't involve people, so this was more of a stab-in-the-dark attempt than anything. [grin])

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is *exactly* the kind of icon I meant. I love it.

So, really, no reason to get specific even if I could. I do have a couple of icon fantasies - like, icons that express "yay," "oh my god," "grr," "love," and "laugh" without relying on facial expressions even from cartoon characters - but I know they're essentially unfulfillable.

And this? Is an ideal icon.

*cuddles icon*

*cuddles silverakira

Thank you!

[rhyo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, Elijah and the Drummer. I'll have to rattle that one around in my head some. Pretty much Elijah spends 90% of the time he ever says anything to the Drummer insulting him or smacking him on the head...

... yeah, that could work.

I still have Apollo and the Midnighter on the brain, and Grifter is beginning to work his way in there, too, and Jack Marlow (Spartan)...

[bardicsidhe.livejournal.com]

I only found your journal a little while ago - but since then you've fed my need for Fraser/RayK (I also know the Due South fandom without knowing the canon...certainly not alone there). And everything you've fed me has been excellent. The least I can do is offer you something in gratitude. ^_^



The original image used for it is by BonsaiKitten from here (http://www.sphosting.com/bonsaikitten/fractals/), but the site's in German.

[mosca.livejournal.com]

No problem. It was almost a relief to find one that was so easy to fulfill, and I love reading your journal.

I just posted a wishlist here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mosca/137171.html), but we can talk about other options if nothing there seems feasible.

[ineke.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how tempted I am to send you a tiny package of a tiny packet of Vegemite *g*. No idea if it'd make customs, though-- the US is funny about food packages. Not that Vegemite really qualifies as 'food', per se. I mean, I'd never suggest that you eat it (god forbid)... it's more like decoration for your pantry, so people can ask, "What on earth is that black stuff in that lovely, colourful jar?" To which, if feeling evil, you could respond: "Here, why don't you try some?"

[nigeltde]

Well, I can't write you some Hooker/Gondorff (of which there should DEFINITELY BE LOTS, and I mean LOTS), but I would like your address as I have something else in mind.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

I have come to two conclusions about Vegemite.

1) It is the Earth equivelant of dwarf bread.

2) The US customs service just likes to very quietly set it aside and let it through without touching it at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Can't log in, as at work, but I'm not seeing the labmed link. I'd love to do that, both in thanks to you for the recs, and because my beloved, elderly Lab mix was from a shelter and she's given me 12 great years now.
Thanks!

[brynwulf]

As a CD burner who gets ridiculously tickled when I get to make a CD, I'd love to provide that. Also, a Labmed donation of $50 has been made in the name of Boo Bear, my beloved lab/pit bull mix who is going on 13 years old.

Can I have your address to mail CD? email it to meghan at mrks.org

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

Your icon is beautiful and if it wasn't a gift for thefourthvine I would totally steal it.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

The URL is http://www.labmed.org for the main page of the site or http://www.labmed.org/sup_donate.html for the donations page.

*pats your pooch*

Thank you so much.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

You are quite, quite right. There should so be lots of Hooker/Gondorff. It's one of the reigning confusions of my life that there is not, because - come on. They're like the Slashiest Thieves of All, and there is lots of competition in that arena.

Address sent to you via your email address. Let me know if you don't get it, please, as my server is notoriously squirrelly.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

OK. You're Australian, you'd know - what IS Vegemite? I mean, I know the cover story, yes, but...there's just no way Earth foods could combine to produce something that looks like that. None. So, is it like a secret Australian potion? A practical joke? Some kind of facial scrub? I've been a very good girl this year, relatively speaking, so couldn't I be let in on the secret?

And I would love a teeny package containing a teeny packet of Vegemite. It would be loads of fun. And I'd get mail from Australia!