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thefourthvine) wrote2006-10-28 10:59 pm
thefourthvine) wrote2006-10-28 10:59 pm
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Poll: Yuletide! Yay!
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yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)
Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)
But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.
And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)
Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!
[Poll #855532]
yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)
But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.
And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)
Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!
[Poll #855532]
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You're totally right, of course -- my recipent even said in her comment something about how 'it's not what I was expecting' but she was really gracious about it; I just feel like I kind of got left to figure out what she wanted without much help. Which, hello, I am a writer, I am NOT PSYCHIC.
AHEM.
I'm actually starting to think about that SGA story now. And it -- it could work. In Pirates, I actually have more trouble, because I have such trouble with pure Jack/Will (I adore Elizabeth and refuse to write her out without a very good explanation), and it just doesn't work for my reading of Will Turner -- don't get me strated on this, I can go on for hours about my fandom. I don't know SG1 at all, so can't speak to that (except that if something like this explains some part of canon? Awesome), but the Aubrey/Maturin story...yeah. That's basically the books, minus frustration because they're Jack and Stephen and they love each other and sexual attraction isn't even part of the equation.
I would be really curious to see that comparison, too, actually. Let me think:
Ocean's 11:
"Danny and Rusty really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Rusty's not attracted to Danny at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
...who in their right mind is not attracted to Danny Ocean, pease?
Classical myth:
"Achilles and Patroculus really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Achilles is not attracted to Patroculus at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
Um. No comment.
The Dark is Rising
"Will and Bran really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Will is not attracted to Bran at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
That? Could work.
I'd also be terribly interested in what...commonalities? trends? you've picked up on in requests, because I never know what to ask for. I know what I can write, and I know what I won't write, but I feel horrible asking for a specific plot, and yet I've seen people say 'I don't know she waaaaants' to many times.