desert_vixen's lair

 My Dear Yuletide Writer letter is updated, but I need to post it.

 Lions won yesterday, but they were not the game on at MWR.

 Homework is still not done.

 Can't load more than one page at a time, so no FB chat with desert_sdwndr before work.  Sadness.

 It's also time for intoabar signups, until the 27th of the month.

 ... I have been a good girl this year.

General things: Stories don’t need to be super sappy and sugary , but please don’t get all grim and dark.  Bittersweet can work, as long as there are hopeful tinges.  Holiday-themed is fine if that’s where the story takes you.  I prefer het or gen on the fandoms listed.  I am deployed to Afghanistan this year, so very much looking forward to Yuletide as pretty much the only part of my Christmas-time celebration that's not getting messed up.

Have fun writing whichever one we match on, and I know I'll have fun reading it!

( Nancy Drew, Miss Marple, Miss Scarlet, and Patience Chartley walk into Yuletide... )

 Still pondering YT noms.

 And not getting up early enough to write anything insightful on here.

Happy, because I went to the gym.
Annoyed, because I forgot about something I had wanted to attend.

Yuletide signups are OPEN!  There's a week, so I plan to dither for a day or two, then look at the list of signups and make final decisions.

DV

 Not sure what the final stats on fandoms and characters is, but there is a pretty good mix of stuff.  There's also an error with the tag set that has caused some entertaining moments.

 BOOKS:
( Yuletide is the only place Heyer, Baby-Sitters Club, Nancy Drew, Juniper Mackenzie, Miss Marple, and the Rihannsu come together, except on my bookshelf... )

CARTOONS

 For me, cartoons and Yuletide mean it's time for a trip to the 1980s.  Fandoms in this year include Lion Voltron, Thundercats (original and reboot), He-Man and She-Ra, Jem (not a full enough character set for my taste), and Dungeons and Dragons.  Jonny Quest is also in (without the main character), and the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc, which I still have not seen.

MOVIES

 There is a good assortment of movies, mostly stuff that I think I'll be interested in reading, not so much writing or offering.  But when it comes up it will be fun!

 Clue has a pretty good character set (everyone except the bodies) and there's a request I'm sort of flirting with making.  I don't know if I could write for it, but this might be the year we see.  It's one of the movies I brought with me, so I can always reference it.

 The Eagle (movie, not book) is in, as well as A League of Their Own, The Cutting Edge, The Mummy, Murder by Death (exciting! not enough characters!), The Thin Man, and Tangled (where, by a rather amusing error, Tiphaine Rutherton from Emberverse shows up...).

TV

There's an interesting assortment of things that I might enjoy reading in here, but not so much with the writing.  MASH, Brisco County, 1957 Zorro, Murder She Wrote, a lot of the mystery/detective stuff, including Columbo.  Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew TV series was nominated, but apparently by a Hardy Boys fan because Nancy does not appear.  Glad I didn't nominate them.

OTHERS

 Disney Princesses is a perennial favorite, and Hell's Kitchen RPF might be fun to read.  Maybe write depending on the prompt...

I am really looking forward to Yuletide this year!

 DV

Friday.  Anxiously awaiting the opening of the Yuletide tagset. ETA: It's OPEN! Squeeing will commence tomorrow.

I posted on lkh_lashouts for a change.  I couldn't resist reading and flogging just a little...especially since Amazon will let you return Kindle titles within 7 days.

I tried reading 2 other books from this month's 3.99 or less deals, both disappointing.

There is apparently a limit to the amount of highlights that can be stored on your Kindle.  I know because I hit it.

I haven't said much about the shutdown, since I'm not being affected as much as some.  We're getting our pay.

DV

Trying to do the whole "blog every day of the month" challenge for October.  We will see how it goes.

Yuletide tagset is still having glitches, apparently.  Hopefully they can get things resolved quickly because I am really looking forward to it this year.

I bought a truly horrible $.99 Regency for the Kindle that is not only being returned (I truly love the policy where you can return it within 7 days) but getting a bad review.  It's not just stupid, it's also poorly edited and anachronistic. It's called Lord Tristan's True Love by Kymber Lee.  Avoid it.

And it's flu shot time, yay!  I have to head into work early to get mine out of the way.

DV

 The usual last-minute pondering of changing Yuletide noms is upon us... don't think I'm going to, but for some reason the idea of fic about Lady Fanny Marling (These Old Shades) is in my head.  Nothing distinct, as for the others I'm thinking about.

 I really wish tag-sets were viewable during nominations.  I would dither less if I could see what was on the table.

 DV

It's still the 15th, but when I wake up tomorrow after shift, it will be far enough into the 16th that nominations should be open.

Unfortunately, this year, they will not be reviewing nominations throughout, but at the end...meaning we can't see what's already been nommed.

So there's no point in really waiting to nominate.  I have one request out in the nomination planning post, because suddenly I need more characters!

DV

 Football season has started with the Lions 1-0.  This makes me happy.  There were a lot of good games yesterday.

 I also introduced desert_sdwndr to the "Football on your Phone" commercial by the Manning boys.  Good times.

 The actual nomination planning post is up in yuletide, so I'm going to read that tomorrow.  No time today because I slept too late (due to not being able to fall asleep, grrr)

 First week of class with assignments turned in, so we will see how the grading went.  A little nervous.  One, since it's Women's Studies, they want APA format and that gives me a headache.  Even using the Purdue OWL site, it's still painful.  Chicago/Turabian may be complicated, but I a) am used to it and b) have citation types saved.  However, definitely enjoying the conversations in class.

 Also: has anyone seen any Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon) icons about anywhere on LJ?  I need one.

 DV