sarashina | Yuletide Friending Meme!

The Magicians + Neverwhere = so friending you!

Also WOAH I am in awe of your DVD collection. Is there a story there?

I loved A Dance in Iron Shoes! Also your interests are awesome. Friends?

Please do!

The DVD collection is the result of my husband and myself both working for a video store for some years and grabbing things that were on sale/remotely interesting. A little over a year ago I looked around at the stacks and shelves of DVDs and said "This is ridiculous. Some of these were bought years ago and they've never been opened. I'm watching them. Why have them otherwise?"

308 days later and I've now seen some very good stuff, some very bad stuff and some bizarre things I can't believe we own. It's been interesting.

Name:

eponymous_rose
Fandoms: Star Trek (mostly DS9, with a side order of TOS, XI, TNG), Doctor Who, Stargate SG-1, Man from UNCLE, M*A*S*H, Sherlock Holmes/Sherlock. Just getting into Fringe, Castle, and Bones.
How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This was year number three!
Your fic: And When the Night Is New in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fandom
DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): Both! Under the same name.
Journaling habits: I post fic, picspams, and occasionally reviews of stuff I've been reading/watching/listening to. I also post a bunch about tornadoes and such. In the summer, there's a lot of stormchasing talk.
Other interests: Severe weather! Radar! Piano! Fencing! Exclamation points!
Anything else?: I love meeting new people. ♥

Thank you, and absolutely! (And I read your Yuletide Letter. I wish I'd had time to write a story for you!)

Awesome! I'd never considered that avenue before. I applied for the US Foreign Service recently and I'm still in the middle of that loooooong process.

I was a bit ehhhh about the new film, actually. TNG is my main love, but I also enjoyed TOS, DS9, and VOY (... in its own weird way :/).

Oooh, good luck! So you've taken the Foreign Service Exam?

I've friended you back! Thank you!

Yup, last October! I'm waiting for the results of the Qualifications Evaluation Panel right now.

Name: Erin

Fandoms: Doctor Who, Fringe, Sherlock, Star Trek, Wire in the Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Cabin Pressure, X-Files, and a number of others that I follow more casually.

How many years you've been doing Yuletide: two.

Your fic: This year I wrote for Boardwalk Empire and Wire in the Blood. Those fics and others are on my AO3 account: http://archiveofourown.org/users/Foxtoast (html links don't seem to work on DW :/)

DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): LJ only (clarice)

Journaling habits: some real life, some chatter about TV/movies, some fandom.

Other interests: books, sewing, history, radio, this and that.

Anything else?: Probably not?

Name: Amber/afullmargin/anemptymargin
Fandoms: Tons of them - mostly slash. I've written this year in Hot Fuzz,The IT Crowd, The Big Bang Theory, LOTR RPF, South Park RPF, Star Trek: TNG, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Imagination Movers, Fanboys, Boy Meets World, NetherBeast Incorporated (Which I may be the only fan for ever. Hah). Tend to flit around Pegg/Frost RPF (and all their related stuff, really), Whose Line, LOTR. Mostly small fandom stuff anymore, but sometimes something bigger takes my interest - I'm being told I'll be a fan of Sherlock before the month is out. I'll read just about anything that takes my fancy, though.
How many years you've been doing Yuletide: First time writer, long time reader.
Your fic: "Wild Drunken Sexy Time" (The IT Crowd, Explicit OT3) & "Lets Do It" (Boy Meets World, non-explicit shippy Cory/Shawn)
DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): Long term LJ user. afullmargin. I have a DW and other such things, but all I ever really use is my LJ.
Journaling habits: Random, bitchy, sometimes spammy. I have a separate fic only journal for those that don't enjoy my babbling but want a flist version of my fic.
Other interests: I'm pretty eclectic and random, I've been in fandom (usually slash side, but I do branch out from time to time) for almost 15 years now and have found enjoyment in most things fannish and non.
Anything else?: Always interested in new friends with rare fandom interests!

Name: Sineala

Fandoms: Oh. Um. Lots. My current major big fandoms are probably The Professionals, Star Trek (TOS and AOS, though I have a soft spot for TNG), and Sherlock Holmes (ACD canon is my favorite, but I like the reboot too). Other than that, if you name a Western media fandom I probably have been in it or at least have read all the good fic. I have a weakness for SF/F and/or slashy buddy-cops. TS, dS, B5, new BSG, a bit of HL, HP, S&H and the Whedonverse fandoms are the big ones. Also, lemme think, Young Wizards (and everything else Diane Duane has ever written ever ever ever, especially the Rihannsu-verse), Psych, Inspector Lewis, Donald Strachey, the Phoenix Wright games, Rome (where is the Rome fandom?) and probably many more I am forgetting. Just yesterday I read the Doctrine of Labyrinths series for the first time and wow, that really deserves a fandom. *obsesses quietly to self, rereads Monette's Shadow Unit stories instead*

How many years you've been doing Yuletide: Three!

Your fic: This year it's One Hundred Heads (Psion), One True Way (Valdemar), and Being an Account of a Journey to the strange new California Republic (and a most peculiar Hotel therein) (Hotel California/Echo Bazaar). Maybe I should have been a little more terse naming that one.

DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): Both! (Same username.) Friend me on either! I like friends! I also have a Twitter, but I use that mostly for Echo Bazaar, so I wouldn't recommend friending me there unless you just want EBZ spam.

Journaling habits: Some RL stuff, some fannish. The RL stuff is locked. The fannish stuff is blither about fandom, the occasional episode review, the occasional story, and so on.

Other interests: Languages and linguistics, about which I occasionally geek out. My girlfriend

lysimache is teaching me Latin, so there are posts where I mock Ovid and also plot fiendishly elaborate Ancient Rome AUs. Also video games! I don't have many friends who are into the fandoms, so I'm kind of a feral fan there, but I like Phoenix Wright and Final Fantasy and especially all the SMT and Persona games and every Vagrant Story fic I've ever read (but sadly VS the game is too hard for me). Also I am teaching myself to knit (badly) on knitting looms. And I love my e-book reader (a Kindle) more than is probably healthy, so if you want to friend someone who says "squee, look what you can read on Kindle now! The Catch Trap!" every so often that person is probably me.

Anything else?: I think that's about it. :)

Name: Kyra
Fandoms: Oh, man...I've mostly just written in Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and Tolkien fandoms, but I'm in dozens of others too, at varying levels. I don't know, just look at my LJ or Tumblr, I guess.
How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This is my first.
Your fic: what we have is enough, a Baldur's Gate fic with one real comment. :(
DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): I have an account here that I don't really use except for commenting sometimes; I'm

lady_moriel at LJ, 100_indecisions on Twitter, and visions-and-revisions at Tumblr. Also I have

theturningworld, my writing/fanmix journal on LJ.
Journaling habits: Well...I've got a paid subscription on LJ because SHINY ICONS but I rarely update...I post to Twitter pretty often, because duh, it's super short...I dunno.
Other interests: Reading, writing, photography, languages, folklore, meta...buying way too many things I don't need like awesome t-shirts and, uh, dolls and action figures (I am a giant geek and proud of it, okay)
Anything else?: I'm a grad student and TA, which means that this coming semester I'm going to be insanely busy with classes, thesis, and teaching. I also have not learned good time-management skillz in four years of college and 1.5 years of grad school.

ECHO BAZAAR FTW. The number of EBZ fics this Yuletide made me so, so happy.

Thank you. You are so kind, delicious friend. :)

I didn't even start playing it until #yuletide made me.

Name: Travis

Fandoms: Uh, I don't really have a main fandom in terms of writing/reading fic and other fannish activity. I'm more of a "fandom is my fandom" type of person and I write and read in a wide variety of fandoms (I also post about books, manga, and TV shows I am into).

In terms of Yuletide fandoms, I noticed a few years ago that all the Yuletide fics I'd written (assigned, pinch hits, treats, and NYRs) were all in different fandoms, and also were all fandoms I'd written for the first time in Yuletide, so now that's kind of my thing and I purposely avoid writing anything I've written before.

How many years you've been doing Yuletide: Uh... *looks at fics* Seven. Wow. My first Yuletide was 2004, which was the second-ever Yuletide.

Your fic: This year I wrote Halfway from Coal, Halfway to Diamond (HanaKimi), Not an Addict (Maybe That's a Lie) (K-On!), and You're My Best Friend (And I Love You) (Huge). All my fic is up on AO3 as well.

DW or LJ? I prefer DW, though I also mirror my journal on LJ (comments closed) and maintain a small flist there. I am also on Tumblr as nowisgreater, where I talk mostly about transgender stuff as well as other social justice stuff.

Journaling habits: I do "daily happiness" posts to try and focus on good things as well as a daily song rec. I also post a lot of linkspams lately, mostly social justice-related, but also random stuff and fanart, whatever. I also review all the fanfic, books, and manga I read. Occasional fanfic posts (less often than I'd like). Other random stuff. Oh, scanlations and stuff, too.

Other interests: Um, there's a list in my profile, but that doesn't really tell you much. Claymore is the most recent thing I've fallen in love with, though I also just started watching Battlestar Galactica and am really liking that.

Anything else?: I am always interested in new friends on DW, less so on LJ, because I am trying to move away from there and really only reading the few people still left on my flist who haven't moved to DW.

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Name: Jill
Fandoms: Lots! My loudest at the moment is Warehouse 13, though I still have ties to Good Omens, Sneakers, Iron Man (movieverse) and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I used to be in Daria fandom waaaaaay back in the day, I'm the one-woman Villains By Necessity fandom (feels like, anyway), and occasionally I dip my toes in the Potterverse (mostly to write epic crossovers that are actually be sorting out my Issues with canon). Also, I was sort of the go-to Percy Jackson beta-reader this year, but I haven't really been fannish with those as of yet.
How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This was my third.
Your fic: Illumination (HG Wells backstory) and Strange Attractors (Artifact hijinks where I went to college), both Warehouse 13.
DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): Mainly LJ, same name as this. I have both, but I never use the DW except for random comments.
Journaling habits: ahahaha sparse, lately. I'm trying to get better about that, but I don't feel like I have much to say lately. I rarely lock things, though, and when I do post it's mostly writing-based memes and fannish things.
Other interests: Writing (I have a novel in progress and a world in search of a plot), reading, music, RPing (mostly LJ, but I've done some tabletop before).
Anything else?: 42.

Name: lorax (on DW) | sullensiren (on LJ) | Dena
Fandoms: Too many to name! Here's a list, but it's probably pretty incomplete.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon), Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Burn Notice, Carnivale, Chronicles of Narnia (Book/Movies), Dark Angel, Dead Like Me, Dexter, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Fables (Comics), Friday Night Lights (TV), Gossip Girl (TV), Harry Potter, House MD, Jeremiah, Inception, Jossverses, Kings, Legend of the Seeker (TV), Leverage, Lucifer (Comic), Marvel Movieverses, Mirrormask, Neverwhere, Ocean's 11 Series, Pushing Daisies, Queer as Folk (US), Sandman (Comic), Scrubs, Skins, Sky High, Sports Night, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The History Boys, The Middleman, The United States of Tara, The Young Riders, The Young Riders, Torchwood, Vampire Diaries (TV), Veronica Mars, West Wing, White Collar, Wonderfalls, World of Warcraft
How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This was my seventh year. (HOLY CRAP, SEVEN YEARS!!)
Your fic: AO3
DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): DW | LJ
Journaling habits: I'm mostly a fandom journaler who natters about TV, occasionally posts things about family, fic, life, or other such things. Most of the more personal things are kept under a flock or a filter. Formerly very sporadic posting-wise, but I've been trying to post more often lately.
Other interests: Horses, moving (since I will be soon), gadets, writing, etc.
Anything else?: Nothing comes to mind!

Fandoms: Mainly Inception right now, but I sometimes read Merlin, HP, Sherlock Holmes, House, West Wing, White Collar, Leverage even though I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, and Glee even though the canon makes me want to throw things. I'll read a lot of things whose canons I don't really know, actually.

How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This was my second year. And I'm very much looking forward to the third!

Your fic: Steps and Stairs (All-of-a-Kind Family) http://archiveofourown.org/works/141983

DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): scissorphishe on both DW and LJ

Journaling habits: I have some of my fic on my LJ, just my Yuletide letter so far on my DW (it's new). If people friend me I'll probably post more, mainly about fannish things, maybe sometimes political things, but I'm not a prolific fic writer and so far am not in the habit of posting anything regularly. I really enjoy fannish community, though.

Other interests: Politics and social justice, especially queer- and gender-related, and languages and linguistics.

Anything else?: I have no friends yet! You can pop my DW cherry! (And then we can have rambling conversations about how virginity is a social construct and anyway what is the origin of the expression "to pop someone's cherry"?)

omg, does "Not an Addict (Maybe That's a Lie)" refer to the K's Choice song?

Yep. :D I like using lyrics for titles and as I was scanning the fic trying to come up with something, I saw the line "It was kind of addictive" and that song popped into my head and felt just perfect for the fic. (And as a totally coincidental bonus, my recipient loves K's Choice, too, which I didn't even know.)

the more fascinating part of it is: You know K's Choice! I mean....ehhhh.

I actually haven't heard a whole lot of their stuff, but that song is one of my favoritest favorite songs ever. :)

Name: Neveralarch

Fandoms: Um, lots. Doctor Who's the main one, but also The Thick of It, the Dresden Files books, Discworld, DS9 and a lot of other older sci-fi shows, a lot of webcomics. More books that I wish had giant fandoms (like Barry Hughart's Number Ten Ox and Master Li, or Journey to the West).

How many years you've been doing Yuletide: This was my first year!

Your fic: I wrote 11 fics for yuletide this year, for the Gallifrey audios, Hark! A Vagrant, Dinosaur Comics, Girl Genius, The Kingmaker audio, Tintin, Journey to the West, Lackadaisy, Brick, Late Late Show RPF, and The Thick of It. And because that list was already really long, I'm just linking you to my reveal letter at neveralarch.livejournal.com/12739.html for the titles etc.

DW or LJ? (Or Twitter, or Plurk, or...): Just LJ! But more because I haven't got around to tracking down a DW invite than because of any personal convictions.

Journaling habits: I mostly post fanwork (fics and some art), and talk some about writing. Sometimes I babble about shows or books, and (very rarely) I talk about life things.

Other interests: I'm at school currently for Psychology, Political Science, and German - I'm going to Germany in a couple months, so there'll probably be some talk about that. Otherwise, hm. History, philosophy, and fencing!

Anything else?: I dunno! I probably forgot some things, haha.

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