Here I Am

Dear wonderful yuletide author:

Hi! How are you? I hope all is well and you aren't freaking out about yuletide because of my requests. Because I'm pretty easy to please and already so appreciative that you signed up to write in any of the fandoms I've requested. there is a serious lack of fic in some of them and just knowing there will be another story out there makes me happy.

I'm so grateful that you're doing this, and below are some ideas to help you. Please realize that my details on the sign-up were just ideas to help you get your muses flowing. If you go off in a completely different direction? I will still love and adore the story.

I'm pretty much a character and relationship-oriented girl, not necessarily romantic relationships either, just how friends/family/etc interact with another. I love emotional journeys and coming out the better for it. My favorite thing is banter. I love the back-and-forth between two characters. It's not to say I don't love a good plot to my story, but I'm just as happy with a story that moves characters a & b to the next level.

I'm a huge fan of happy endings, or at least not dark & depressing ends. There can be angst and hurt/comfort and whatever else, so long as I know my characters are still standing and okay at the end.

The requests themselves:

1. Rob Thurman - Nightlife: I have a huge love of siblings who are close and put each other first. A lot of my favorite fandoms have close siblings, so why should this be any different? Since the books are all from Cal's point of view, I would love something from Niko's perspective, especially after Darkling takes over Cal. But really anything that's about the brothers and how much they love one another would be fine with me. I'd prefer gen, but if you want there to be more to Cal/Niko, I wouldn't be against it (Supernatural broke me of that taboo awhile ago). Also, I've read the first three books, so no worries about spoilers through what's been published.

2. Privileged - So here's the thing. I have a huge best friend love. I love best friends who grow into a romantic relationship even more. And there is such potential between Megan and Charlie. So that was my request. I especially love the idea of Rose seeing it before Megan and getting Sage to help her move things along. That said, if you just don't feel the Megan/Charlie, a lovely gen piece about their friendship would be great. My only request is no Megan/Will - I don't really care for Will much.

3. Samantha Who - I love Samantha and Todd together. I love how they can't seem to get it quite right and keep pushing-and-pulling. I'd love them as a pairing that end up together, but if you want to do something that explores them in a different light, that's fine too. And I love every character on the show, so feel to feature as many or as few in the story as you want.

4. Veritas the Quest - Again, I'm a sucker for familial relationships and I would love to see something that has Nikko dealing with his newfound abilities and working on his relationship with his dad. I'd also love to see Nikko and Calvin interacting because, whether it's in a brotherly-way or in a meant-to-end-up-together way (I'd read either), they have a fun dynamic. Basically, if it focused on Nikko and left Juliet out of the story, you can't go wrong.

Again, I hope the above helped. And I really would love to see any of these requests - I didn't make them in any specific order - and appreciate your willingness to attempt it. When all else fails, follow your heart and your ideas because I will love whatever you write for me.

If it helps, feel free to look through my journal here at the type of stuff I write. Or, I share a reccing journal (polyfandomrecs) with a friend, so that should give you ideas of the stuff I love to read. I linked to my website, but it's not completely up-to-date at the moment.

Thanks again and happy writing!

Tommygirl

yuletide is open for nominations. I pondered long and hard on my nominations and came up with the following: Samantha Who, Privileged (I want Megan/Charlie fic, my friends), Road to Avonlea, The Outsiders, Blade movies, and Thunderbirds. I was going to nominate The Class, but I'm hoping someone else will take care of that. I mean, there should always be the option of writing Ethan/Kat.

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Have not watched Heroes from last night yet, but I did see Chuck. ( Spoilers... )

I think there is a new episode of Fringe on tonight. I quite enjoy this show. I don't think it's brilliant, but it's definitely entertaining (when it's not grossing me out). And it has the added bonus of characters I like, especially one played by Josh Jackson. It's Pacey all grown up with scruff and a genius IQ.

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For those that missed it, I highly recommend checking out the Treasure Hunt Booty from win_non_con. Miss Piggy's past relationship with Dean Winchester is a personal favorite.

1. Happy Supernatural Day! In eight hours, I will have more Sam and Dean on my television.

2. Other TV: I'm playing catch-up at the moment except for Supernatural and Heroes. I've loved the first two parts of Lost in Austen! And Gossip Girl holds my attention because of Chuck Bass. I love Chuck.

3. Politics: Just have the freaking debate. And don't pretend it's not the Republicans holding up the bail out plan at the moment. If you can't get your own party to fall in line, that's not Obama (or America's) fault. And Obama is right. If you're actually needed in DC, that's one thing, but this whole thing seems like a political play to avoid dealing with the fact that McCain never supported regulating the economy and now we're in a mess.

4. EW: On that end, PETA really needs to get off my side. They're *insane*. I don't want Ben & Jerry's ice cream made with human milk. That's gross.

5. Yuletide: I've been thinking quite a bit about what I want to nominate and then request as far as fic goes. So many things I'm currently considering. I love this time of year.

6. Prompts: Give me some first lines (you guys know my fandoms, I think), and I'll try to do some writing. I'm blocked, but last first line Jen gave me turned out pretty well...so please. Help a sister out.

This was my main story for yuletide. I loved my prompt, but I had a hard time at first thinking of how to handle it and then the last two episodes of B&S aired before winter hiatus and the story just came out. Unfortunately, I never got emailed some of the feedback so I couldn't respond, but I'm so glad that soobunny liked the fic. And thank you to everyone else who left wonderful feedback as well.

Title: Breathe In, Breathe Out
Author: Tommygirl/storydivagirl
Rating: PG
Fandom: Brothers & Sisters
Written For: soobunny during yuletide
Summary: Rebecca tries to figure out who she is and come to terms with her relationship with Justin.

( Onto the story... )

Now it's time to begin my yuletide freak out. I have ideas on what to write, but getting it out is a pain in my butt. I really want to write something that my person will love and I'm currently struggling to do it. It will come though. Just need to ponder. Just need to figure out how to get it started.

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This weekend was supposed to be about catching up on fannish endeavors and such, but my sinuses decided to go crazy again. I spent a large portion of my time sleeping. And then watching cheesy holiday movies.

And then that got me to thinking about running an informal multifandom challenge based around taking a fandom/pairing and putting them into one of the cheesy holiday movies. For example, Dean gets sucked into a Snowglobe and has to deal with a perfect little holiday village. Or Sam sees what his life would be like in a perfect world...or...

Damn me and my random ideas.

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I really hope all this sleeping won't mess me up tonight. Because that leads to being extremely tired at work and that will annoy me.

Merry Christmas to everyone that celebrates! To those that don't, I hope it was just a fabulous day!

I've spent the majority of my day being quite lazy, hanging with the family, eating too much, and playing Guitar Hero (one of my gifts for Christmas!). And now I'm about to settle in to read as many yuletide fics as I can. I've read mine, Apologies, which is Earth 2, True fic, and it's amazing. I'm highly attached to True Danizger and there isn't nearly enough fic about her character and this piece is such a wonderful look at her life in the future. I love it a whole lot. So if my yuletide santa is reading this: you totally rock! I knew I would love whatever was written and this doesn't disappoint in the least.

I've also got about five Supernatural stories bookmarked for reading and I haven't even touched undermistletoe yet.

I love the holiday fandom writing!

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I want to thank y'all for the cards (both snail mail and e-mail), the icons, the lovely notes, and just the good wishes. You are all so amazing and I'm so grateful to have you guys in my life. Fandom makes life fun and it's a great place just to forget stress and other real life things. ::huggles her list::

I'm hoping to use some of my time off on vacation to try to fulfill some more wish list pieces, but this is me we're talking about. I run about three years behind on almost everything.

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I am in 24 heaven! I got season five on dvd, the calendar, and the dvd board game. It's as though my family thinks I'm obsessed with Jack Bauer or something. Heh. Also, TWO coach bags, baby. One from the mother (was not expecting at all) and one from the boy (totally picked this one out!). Woo-hoo. I have a purse addiction and I love that my family spoils me with it.

And luckily everyone loved their gifts thus far. My sister and I nearly killed our mother on Wednesday of this week...we were all at Borders and she suddendly notices the complete series of Homicide on dvd, which we had already bought FOR HER for christmas. And she was seriously about to buy it FOR HERSELF. It's like she is incapable of waiting for the holidays! But luckily, she decided against it and I didn't have to kill her...

And then my sister liked her stuff: I picked her up season two of Slings & Arrows, Volume three of Family Guy, and then I got her a Heroes teeshirt.

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Tomorrow I see the little bit and Nancy. Little Bit wants to see Night at the Museum, but I think we'll probably do that later in the week. Tomorrow we just might watch rented movies and such...and let her and Nancy open their gifts and such. Her gift from me is to Borders and from my mother it's Build-A-Bear...guess who will have to take her there? Yeah, me. I'm always the one who gets suckered into these things because she has had me wrapped around her finger since she was only a few months old.

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Alrighty, off to read, read, read!

Love y'all! Ciao darlings!

Dear yuletide fic:

Please write yourself now. It would be lovely to at least get a first draft done so I'm not completely crying over my lack of productivity.

Love,

Tommygirl

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Tomorrow night is the season finale of Dexter and I'm very excited. This is one of those shows that is good from start to finish, no annoying moments of wishing it would get back to the point. And I love Dexter Morgan. I feel weird saying I love a sociopathic serial killer, but I do. I'm apparently taking my love of the "bad boy" to a whole new extreme.

Here's to also hoping that Michael C. Hall wins the Golden Globe. I love Keifer as Jack Bauer so much, but he won last year (right? Or was that the Emmy he won?). Let's spread the love around.

And why don't I have any Dexter icons? That's a sad thing.

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I am finished my holiday shopping. Now I have to wrap it all and mail a few things out to people, but it's done. I'm currently in between holiday parties, but I've almost made it through my social butterfly requirements for the year. That really just leaves a ton of writing and beta work to be done.

In the meantime, quickly catching up on friends list before I must attend a carolling party. The little bit told me that I will hang out with her all night, so who can resist the cutest seven-year-old to walk the planet? Not me, even though I don't carol.

Ciao darlings!

Dear yuletide Santa:

Thank you so much for taking on this endeavor. You are one of my favorite people ever because you offered to write in one of the four fandoms I'm aching for fic in. So thank you so much and just know that I will appreciate all your hard work. I'm a huge fan of banter and strong character relationships and I like angst with happy endings. Character pieces are more than welcome, but so are plotty fics if that's what you prefer. Honestly, there isn't much in fic from these fandoms that I wouldn't enjoy - the only thing I'm really not into is violence/rape used as a way to get people together - and just knowing that there will be fic for me on Christmas will make my day.

Thunderbirds - Wow, if you actuallly offered to write this fic, you are my HERO. Seriously, I crave good Thunderbirds fic like whoa. I have a huge love of brotherly relationships, so if you can work in the Tracy brothers being all brotherly and protective of one another, that would be great. I put that I'd like Post movie fic in the details, but really, I have no cares about the timeline - so move it forward, take it to the past, or set it in the present. Whatever you want, you have my attention.

Earth 2 - I love True. I love True's interactions with her father and always felt like there wasn't enough of it on the show. I think it would be interesting to see a future fic where True and Uly move to a romantic place, but seriously, I'll love anything that deals with True handling her new life (and coming to accept it) on the planet.

The Class - This is one of my new favorite shows and aside from one wonderful person on my friends list, I have not been able to track down fic for it. The four characters in my details are the four characters that I love on the show. I'm partial to the chemistry between Kat and Ethan especially...and the banter and the fun.

Blade Trinity - I love the relationship between Hannibal and Abigail. In the details, I listed it as a romantic relationship in the aftermath of the movie, however, any exploration of their relationship (whether romantic or platonic) would be adored.

oh Santa, you totally rock for daring to undertake one of these four choices and I know that I will love whatever you write me. Please realize that my details are just to give you some ideas if you're stuck. I know that some writers like to have more to work with than just a character and a fandom, but if inspiration takes you in another direction than the details, don't worry. If you'd like further examples of the types of fics that I love, feel free to peruse polyfandomrecs for a bunch of my recs. But trust me on this santa, I'm an easy girl to please.

Take care!

Tommygirl

To get things started, for those that were either at the real winchestercon (welcome back my darlings!) and/or doing other things this weekend that didn't involve win_non_con, make sure to check out the the treasure hunt booty haul and see many brilliant & hilarious things, like the many ways that Sam & Dean Winchester *accidentally* killed Fozzie Bear. Y'all will love it. So check it out.

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So I'm strangely attached to Brothers and Sisters on Sunday nights. It's one of three shows that I watch while it's on - Supernatural and Veronica Mars are the others - no matter what. Everything else ends up on my Tivo if I don't have time. I can't even put a finger on what it is about this show that I enjoy so much. Maybe it's simply because I was expecting to hate it and ended up really enjoying the first few episodes.

I'm also enjoying The Nine, but it's one of those things I'm not sure how long they can drag out. However, it has fueled creative juices that I will explain at a later time. But is it sad to get a small smile at the fact that Wednesdays on ABC is like Party of Five reunion night - Matthew on Lost and Scott on The Nine.

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I decided on my six fandoms for yuletide. I know that iamtheenemy ended up nominating a few that I had originally planned on such as Megan McCafferty's books, Entourage, and Twilight...so I nominated Queer As Folk UK for her.

Then my other five were: Earth 2, Blade Trinity, Young Riders, The Class, and Thunderbirds.

And okay, I nominated Thunderbirds, but I'm not sure it's obscure so much as "all the fic that exists is, for the most part, really, really bad - but I couldn't think of anything else while I was signing up. I had nomination anxiety.

So yeah, those are my six. Five of which I would totally write it they were choices...well, depending on what else makes the list. Because like I said, I love some of the ones that Steph nominated and I know aliaspiral put in the nomination for Road to Avonlea and there needs to be more Gus Pike fic!

Of course though I think me and zeplum are the only ones who will appreciate fic for The Class - and until she gives into the muse to write them, people, I figure yuletide was a good place to start.

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So mel_b_angel created the Tuesday Ten today...so I figured I would give it a go...

( Ten answers to ten questions... )

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Some pimpage:

-Again go check out the treasure hunt booty if you love Supernatural. there is a ton of amazing, hysterical, clever things up for your enjoyment.

-The Het Fic Friending Meme - a way for others who enjoy the hetfic to find one another. Personally, I'm a girl who loves both slash & het, depending on the fandom/characters, but that works too.

-SPN Santa for Supernatural is taking sign-ups until October 22nd!

-moviefanfiction is always open for all your movie fanfiction needs. If you have any movie fic, feel free to post it. If you're looking for movie fic, check out the memories to see if we have what you want. And, as always, feel free to pimp this to anyone you know that loves fanfiction for movies. Because really, I'd love for this to become a sort of easy-to-access archive.

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alrighty, fifty minutes left to this horrendously long day.

Ciao!

A lot of these have been recced already, but I finally compiled my first set of Yuletide 2005 Recs over at polyfandomrecs. There may be more down the line when I go back and read some of the other fandoms that I know. Basically I went through the ones that I love first and then will go back and read the ones that I tend to stay on the periphery for, or didn't even think of fic about before it was written.

Cannot bring myself to think about the Care Bears' Story. It scarred me for life. Slave Bear will be in my nightmares for years to come.

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Finished my Pretty Lights Story just in the nick of time once it was edited. Gotta love my betas for consistently ripping my stuff apart, especially Steph who is very good about calling me on my redundancy problem. I think I suffer from short term amnesia while writing first drafts of stories.

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Watched the pilot of Supernatural this evening. Loving seeing all the episodes again, but is it two weeks from now yet? Yes, I realize my vacation will be over and I'll be back at work - but lordy...I miss new Dean and Sam adventures.

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Okay, off to read and sleep. I had the little bit this afternoon and that can be exhausting. She's such a sarcastic, evil six-year-old and somehow I get blamed for this. (I also get blamed for her undying devotion to Nsync that started when she was five months old. hee)

Ciao my friends.