Dear Yuletide Writer

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you, first of all, for signing up to write for this! I can't speak for any of the other fifty bajillion people in Yuletide, but I've gotten to the point where all I want for Christmas is to be able to pay my bills and fic is always a wonderful surprise Christmas morning.

Overall, please, no non-canon slash. I am not a slash fan, with a few specific exceptions (most of which you can tell from what I write, follow the fanfic tag!), and it does not excite me. Canon slash is canon; if I didn't enjoy the story and characters the canon gave me I definitely wouldn't request it on Yuletide, so, for example, Silhouette is definitely outed as a lesbian and you want to write femmeslash, yay! For that matter, I'm less interested in a story where romantic relationships at all are the focus, at least partly because there are so so many of them out there.

Mostly what I do like reading is good characterisation, good story. Vivid detail, a well-told tale, characters that yank your heartstrings or make you want to slap them or both. I write and read a lot of character-based fiction, also a lot of sensual fiction. (Not erotica, just fiction that describes things in sensory detail.)

That's my preferences: as far as specifics for each fandom, go nuts. I have a terrible crush on Jackie Earle Haley (Guerrero) but I also just love the action fun of Human Target. Tin Man was a wonderful fantasy jaunt for me, and I'd love to read anything from that world. And Watchmen is much the same, only less with the wonderful fantasy jaunt and more with the ow, ow, that was my heart you just ripped out of my chest and stepped on, those were my idealistic dreams you just ground under your boot.

I hope that wasn't too confusing and/or demanding! I've left anonymous comments on so you can ask if you have a question, or you can go through my fanfic or my original fiction to see what I write, which is probably a good measure of what I read. Or at least a starting place. I hope you have fun with it!

Thank you,

Jag

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( Русский язык )

Yuletide signup achieved, go me. With a minimum of lagging, too! I think I managed to convert/conjugate/decline most of my Russian correctly. Conjugation of ALL THE NEW VERBS OMG needs to happen stat, but hopefully I managed not to bungle that too terribly. Scent applied, face and heels moisturized, teeth brushed. The awesome continues. Seriously, I need mornings like this, because today I think is going to end up being a little insane.

Tonight is also the night of ALL THE EDITS because my posting date for PolyBigBang is, evidently, tomorrow. Which is not the fault of the mods (and my not being fully edited is my own damn fault) but I do wish my mixer had been on the ball and actually, I don't know, done something. So that I could get a posting date that wasn't two days ahead. Grrr. Ah well.

Managed to get in to work on time. Managed not to screw up Russian quite so much as I thought I had, go me! One careless slip, two ambiguous exercises, and one misspelling. Work doesn't seem to be as heavy, again, as it might otherwise be, except that a lot of the orders are big. But still. I'll take several very large orders over an endless stream of smaller ones, I think. Ideally, both. But I want to get editing done today, so if it can stay a few big orders, so much the better.

Other things I want to get done in the future, in no particular order:
Beat up the interwebs for bento snack (fruit/veggie mostly) ideas.
Copy over Russian vocab from all the chapters thus far studied to iSis (ongoing, maybe a chapter a day)
Finish knitting a pair of arm warmers. Completely, this time.

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( 日本語 )

I'm watching NCIS and all I can say is, this is not going to end well. I knew it wasn't going to end well when I saw the trailer last week and now it's going to end even worse.

viridian! Happy Birthday! This text will become diamonds a link as soon as it finishes uploading. It's mostly Amy Acker with random men at various points because my capping reflexes are sucky tonight. And there are almost a thousand of them because I just clicked and clicked and clicked. So, um. Enjoy? :)

Elton John is playing downtown tonight. Surprisingly, it didn't make getting out of downtown as hellish as I expected, but ugh. I'm kind of glad I don't work much later than I do. By the time I got out of the town people were pretty much blocking roads lining up trying to get into parking garages. We took a slightly roundabout route home. It worked well enough. And now I'm tired enough that I'm thinking in short, clipped sentences and not connecting them well. Probably this is a sign that it's time to start the editing so I can go to bed.

Oof. Um. There were other things I was thinking. I may need to start makign organizational posts. I was going to edit, though. Right. Editing. Then making bento for tomorrow, then brushing teeth and going to bed. Yes. And maybe getting to sleep past 5.30 in the morning, dammit, cat.