Yuletide!

[thisbluespirit]

Yuletide assignments went out while I was sleeping yesterday, so I woke up to see everyone being pleased with their on my flist. I went off to see mine with much trepidation, but, yay, I can also join the happy chorus, for I matched on not one but two fandoms, both of which are things I could write - one even has optional details mentioning minor characters I like quite a lot, so at the moment, I'm planning on that one. So: \o/

And my Dear Author, if you see this: I am sorry about my letter. It was honestly meant to be shorter and more straight-forward this year. It wasn't, especially not the Chalet School bit, which I meant to go back and edit, but... speedy assignments are speedy!

Also, irrelevantly, I have been having one of my intermittent spurts of going back through Teaspoon (alphabetically by author) and trying to actually find and bookmark the things I read five years ago that I thought were really good. I do end up trying to Read All The Things, though sometimes, which is not helpful, especially when most of the time I can barely read anything. (Although definitely better this time!) Anyway, I'd just like to say that Teaspoon's profiles being at the top of the author's pages are very helpful. Everytime I find a misspelt one, one that's longer than the list of fics, or one that gushes on and on* solely about one ship or actor, I can backbutton swiftly. Helps such a lot. ;-p

That said... fan fiction really can be fun, can't it? And pretty marvellous. I had better stop with the bookmarking temporarily. It's taken me from 2010 to get to K. I'm not going to reach Z by tomorrow even if I get really silly about it.

Anyway, incidentally, going through stuff made something click about two possible stories - I might, might just be able to get my two bingos done, who knows? (It's fic_rush next weekend, so...)

* "gushing on and on in your Teaspoon profile" being the key here, before anyone takes offence. Everybody loves a ship and/or an actor/character sometimes. I should know. :-)

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Reading this, I realized that I could not for the life of me remember what my Teaspoon profile said. So I want and looked, and it's pithy, but rather dated. I really should edit it. :)

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Sorry, I hadn't meant to make anyone feel they needed to go and check! The kind of summaries I mean are... not committed by anyone on my flist or anyone who's written a half-decent fic, really. That's why they're so useful. Titles in capslock are also a bad sign. :-)

Yours would make me want to bookmark you even if I didn't know you or any of your fic. (I had to go and look, too, then. You like all the Who! ♥)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Heh, no, wasn't checking to make sure it met your standards or anything -- I have slightly more self-confidence than that -- but because I was suddenly curious as to what it said! And, oh, yeah, I know all about the kind of profiles that save you the bother of ever, ever reading the fic. Heck, I ought to make use of that tool more, myself.

I do love all the Who! I did delete the bit in mine that said I'd just caught up on copying my fic from LJ to the archive, because that was, uh, several years ago now. But I left that part. I'm rather pleased with that part. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Good! I just have a habit of writing things in the assumption that no one is taking much notice of me, and then it turns out they were... ;-)

Teaspoon is handy like that, if you're going through by author, because it's right there, before you even see any fic. I do sometimes feel it might be kind to leave a comment: i.e. dear 14 year old, I really don't think you should leave all your email addresses there.

I should probably look at mine, too. I'm not sure it's safe for all ages any more, the blue moon happens more often than it used to. (And that now sounds weirdly dodgy.) And, heh, it's especially where you say you like the bad Who because = ♥ (I've just been watching The Dalek Invasion of Earth. One of my DW episode guide books says the Dalek saucer is terrible. Me: What? But it is so cute!!! That was one of the best bits! Classic Who fanboys, they just have no fun. I don't know what they're watching it for sometimes. :lol:)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

If you're going to really love Who, I think you kind of have to love the bad along with the good, dodgy special FX and all. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Well, quite! It doesn't seem to work like that for many fans, though. I suppose it's the traumatic childhood memories of trying to persuade your Mum that it's a great show, and then she walks in just as the Myrka appears and never lets you forget it.

Still, people should get over it by now, I think.

*thinks happily that I still have the Slyther, the baby crocodile and Barbara running Daleks over yet to come today*

:-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Somehow, that never seemed to happen with my mother. She'd sit in the living room doing needlepoint or whatever while my sister and I were watching, and not seem interested at all, except to make occasional disparaging comments about how "goofy" the show was and how she didn't know how we could watch it... But then, every once in a while, she'd make some comment or ask some question that demonstrated she actually was paying rather a lot of attention. (E.g: "I liked the first Romana better." or "Why is his granddaughter named Susan if she's an alien?") Then there was that one time we weren't home and she watched it anyway... :)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that's very sweet! :-) My Mum didn't ever actually walk in on DW, either, because I didn't watch it till I was 11, so me and my sister watched it by ourselves. (Well, I watched most of S25 by myself because my sister ran out of the room when the Cybermen appeared in Silver Nemesis and refused to come back for a year, even when I told her they'd been defeated.) My Dad used to come in from work and stand in the doorway Not Watching several of our children's shows, though. :-)

And I did once have to try and watch the last episode of Battlefield with everyone in the room. (Dad, going on about how William Hartnell was the best Doctor and none of the others were as good and Mum and Granny looking at it and agreeing that they put such rubbish on the TV these days. It's very distracting when you've been holding your breath all week to see how the cliff-hanger was going to be resolved.)

:-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

because I didn't watch it till I was 11, so me and my sister watched it by ourselves.

Heck, I was considerably older than that! But the big TV was in the living room, and my mother always wanted to sit in there doing her sewing stuff.

my sister ran out of the room when the Cybermen appeared in Silver Nemesis and refused to come back for a year, even when I told her they'd been defeated.

That is adorable. :)

It's very distracting when you've been holding your breath all week to see how the cliff-hanger was going to be resolved.

Oh, argh, yes, that sort of thing is highly annoying when you really just want to immerse yourself in what you're watching. My family used to do that too often while I was trying to watch Star Trek, as I recall.

[eve11]

I can pull a list of stories you left comments on from my database if that would help you out.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! It would be very interesting, but it would spoil my brave questing completist fun, and also miss the ones I unaccountably never reviewed, of which there are quite a few. :-D

[eve11]

No problem. It definitely would not be complete. Though I can send it after the fact, if you want to cross-check your bookmarks against it when you have finished the big perusal of Teaspoon. :)

PS: I finally got my act together and drew a graph using my GraphViz software! It was for a different data set but it has also rekindled my desire to represent all of Teaspoon authors in one big pretty SVG file.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, well it definitely would be cool... :-D I am finding some new and unexpected things, too, though that's not the main point.

And, ooh!! *looks forward to pretty graph*

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Glad to know you're happy - it's good that *someone* is since I am so very not...

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it's always nice when I find I'm capable of enjoying things again, instead of just sort of vaguely existing through them, so I make the most of it.

Sorry things are not so good for you, though! *sends hugs* ♥

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

And so you should! Honestly, that wasn't a criticism - I'm really glad that you've got an assignment that will give you pleasure to write...

Yeah it's been a bad week both at work and personally.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! :-) I am relieved - you never quite know what you will get in an exchange, and hopefully this one should be good. ♥

Aww. *hugs again* I hope you do have tomorrow and Monday off, at least? :-/

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*nods*

*hugs back* I do - though given how very bad my knee is today, I've no idea how much it'll help. Idiot Features made me do 3 hours of pressing yesterday - the absolute worst thing for my knee - and today my knee's too stiff to bend properly, my left hip is aching, and my left foot is cramping... I hardly slept last night because the pain was so bad.

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs gently*

Stupid boss!

*hugs again*

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*clings* He really is a complete and utter idiot.

My knee's a bit less stiff today - and I slept a bit better last night, thank gods.

[thisbluespirit]

♥ *hugs again*

[john_amend_all]

Ah, that explains those reviews the other day :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I reached J. :-D