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8 December: for littlerhymes: Dick Francis thoughts pls. :)

I HAVE MANY DICK FRANCIS THOUGHTS, LET ME TELL YOU THEM!

1. The Men. The stoic, frequently beaten up, stubborn men. *happy sigh* BUT! They aren't all the same either! Like, some of them are rolling stones, some of them have a pile of kids, some of them cheat on their wives and best friends, some of them manipulative bastards and some are too honest for their own good.

2. The Women. Like, on occasion I STRONGLY sideeye some of them and some of the narrative choices, but it's a rare Dick Francis that doesn't have at least three prominent female characters who are all different from one another. They're not all good, they're not all bad, they're not all super interested in the main character, they're not all young, they're not all old.

3. The Horses. Okay, sometimes the horses are only VAGUELY related to anything else going on in the book, but you can bet there will be a horse somewhere in the narrative. I find it kind of impressive.

4. Kinkshaming. This might be because I ended up reading a three-four books in a row where the antagonists were into BDSM, but, uh. It was very noticable.

5. Slashiness. SO MANY main characters get hit on by dudes and/or asked if they're gay. None of them are, but reading some of them as bi takes absolutely no effort. I mean, if characters in the actual book does it, I cannot be blamed for doing the same.

6. Professions. Or very skillful infodumping. I enjoy it.

7. Not Favorites.
The Sid Halley books. Never been able to get into them.
10 lb penalty. I find it skeevy and unsatisfying.
Smokescreen. Possibly somebody not me will like it, because it's not actively offensive or anything, I just found it a bit. Eh.

8. Favorites.
For Kicks (1965), Daniel Roke. <3
Bonecrack (1971), Neil Griffon.
Knockdown (1974), Jonah Dereham.
Twice Shy (1981), Jonathan Derry, William Derry.
Proof (1984), Tony Beach.
Wild Horses (1994), Thomas Lyon.
To the Hilt (1996), Alexander Kinloch. <3
Field of 13 (1998). A short story collection.

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If you want me to babble about something, I have many, many dates open here: December Talky Meme

So apparently there is going to be a Shadowhunters tv show. I know this because of tumblr. And judging by the website it is aimed straight at 14 year olds. Which is fine! 14 year olds should definitely have crappy supernatural tv shows to watch and swoon over the main characters!

(Actually upon second glance, it's like a website created about 15 years ago, which is slightly weird, but ok.)

The problem however is that constant exposure to the actors being cute eroded my resistance to Cassie Clare. (also if they are aged 16-19 I'm going to be very surprised)

And then it turned out that the library has the first 4 books in Mortal Instruments + the Bane Chronicles in ebook rental. To sum up: I have read half of the Bane Chronicles, read/skimmed book 1, skimmed most of book 2, read most of book 3 and currently stalled half way through book 4.

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talky meme snagged from musesfool:

Pick a date in December and give me something to talk about. TV, books, movies, music, poetry, fandom, writing, food, travel, fictional characters (&/or pairings) and all of their feelings, stuff about my life, whatever.

- You don't have to be following me or ever have commented to request a topic.
- If you're doing the meme, I'll leave topics for you, too! Feel free to link me at any time if you want one.
- Feel free to suggest multiple topics/dates.
- Feel free to just leave a topic and no date. I'll fill it in.

Feel free to suggest a topic whenever you see this in December. And I'll try to do all of them this time, since I have very little else to do through most of December...

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c&p from last year:
In general, I'm pretty easy going, but I prefer something that at least ends happily (or happy-ish) for my Yuletide story. My Pinboard is here and my tumblr is here, if you want to see what else I like.

I am open to most genres, and I like crack and crossovers, so feel free to go with that if you want! (Though crossing over with fandoms I actually know would be most appreciated)

I have a huge competency kink, so I love reading about characters being really fucking good at something. I also like characters who haven't quite figured out how social interaction works, but who try anyway. I like found families! And real families. And characters who trusts nobody except...

What I don't like: Deathfic, fics featuring aphasia while clearly having no clue what it is, most of what goes under the darkfic umbrella.

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In general, I'm pretty easy going, but I prefer something that at least ends happily (or happy-ish) for my Yuletide story. My Pinboard is here, if you want to see what else I like. It's mostly Captain America fic right now, but I swear I read other things as well!

I am open to most genres, and I like crack and crossovers, so feel free to go with that if you want! (Though crossing over with fandoms I actually know would be most appreciated)

I have a huge competency kink, so I love reading about characters being really fucking good at something. I also like characters who haven't quite figured out how social interaction works, but who try anyway. I like found families! And real families. And characters who trusts nobody except...

What I don't like: Deathfic, fics featuring aphasia while clearly having no clue what it is, most of what goes under the darkfic umbrella.

Invisible ficathon

Madcap Myrtle - Rosie M. Banks PG Wodehouse
Myrtle! and her madcap adventures! Tell me more about her adventures! And it's not like getting married means that she can't have any more adventures. Or tell me what Edward was thinking as he stumbled behind Myrtle on her Quest (besides "Oh my god, we're going to die" which I'm assuming was what he was thinking at least 90% of the time).

The Affair of the Second Goldfish (fictional book) - Ariadne Oliver Agatha Christie
Obviously things didn't end up so well for the group of Bohemian friends, but I'd like to know more about how they met, and what they were doing before all the murdering happened. Or just tell me a story about Sven Hjersen! Maybe on a visit home to Finland! Or cooking a meal for himself (if you can call it that), or writing letters to Anastasia the Charming Poisoner?

Recollections of a Long Life (fictional book) - Sir Willoughby PG Wodehouse
Okay, you know Sir Willoughby didn't reveal everything in his memoirs. There's a lot of random references throughout the book to things he never elaborates on, so if you'd want to think up scenarios for those, that'd be awesome. The jam jar, the duck and the gloves, anybody?

Under the Fig Tree - Salome Otterbourne Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Porn. Obviously. But maybe the kind of porn we don't get in the book? That is, not straight? I always thought Maximillian and Charlie seemed very close. Or Letta, Hildy and Thelma, who at least have conversations beyond "oh yes".

La Triviata (Fictional Opera) Discworld
Maybe something from the point of view of the door? If not, I'm also a huge fan of Iodine so anything with her would be great! If you want to make it something about gender exploration (it IS an opera after all), that's be excellent. But if you want to write a coffee shop AU or a high school AU or a werewolf au, that would also be excellent!

Smile Time (fictional TV show) Angel the series
Anything.


General preferences: I like racebending, and genderbending, and explorations (deep or lightly handled) into sexual- and gender identity. Slash, het, femslash, gen - it's all good. Happy endings, but can be angsty until that point. Silly fics, serious fics, action, pwps, AUs...

Huge competency kink, and opposites attract (as you can see from my Pinboard bookmarks). I like characters who are really, really good at something, but kind of fail at social interaction or being a proper grown up. And also characters who are secretly good at things/a good person, but refuse to acknowledge this.

Ladies being awesome! Coffeeshop AUs! Mutant/Powers AUs! Kidfic! Fake dating! Ridiculous misunderstandings! Hijinks!

ETA: And, of course, write what you feel like! I'll be delighted by anything, honestly!

Hi awesome yuletide person!

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In general, I'm pretty easy going, but I prefer something that at least ends happily (or happy-ish) for my Yuletide story. My Pinboard is here, if you want to see what else I like.

I am open to most genres, and I like crack and crossovers, so feel free to go with that if you want! (Though crossing over with fandoms I actually know would be most appreciated) And, you know, if you felt like doing a Craig-James Bond crossover with any of these fandoms, that would be so very okay. (Yes, all of them)

I have a huge competency kink, so I love reading about characters being really fucking good at something. I also like characters who haven't quite figured out how social interaction works, but who try anyway. I like found families! And real families. And characters who trusts nobody except...

What I don't like: Deathfic, fics featuring aphasia while clearly having no clue what it is, most of what goes under the darkfic umbrella.

This year I'm all about the comics, it seems like. Not necessarily because that's all I'd want to read, but a lot of the fandoms I'm interested in this year already have a lot of requests (Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Community) so hopefully someone will write that...

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General likes and dislikes:
(I read almost everything, so this is a very "when it comes to a yuletide story" specific list)
Likes: Gen stories, stories about family, winter holidays, AUs, crossovers, cracky fun times, happy endings.
Dislikes: Trauma, incest, terribly depressing things.

ETA: To say I'll be happy with whatver you come up with, dear writer!

And to say that re: Morning Glories where trauma and depressing things come built in... If it's anything like canon, I'll be satisfied. It's mostly the wallowing in teen angst I object to. :)

My pinboard is here if you want an idea of the kind of stories I read.

Because the season finale is next week, but you can totally catch up before then, because there're only only 12 episodes in this season!

(and it's already been renewed!)



First of all:



So this is probably somewhat biased...

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FANWORKS

Fics: There isn't any to speak of. IT IS VERY SAD. Please watch this show and write stuff! Pretty please?
AO3: Teen Wolf - 15 stories as of 12.08.11
Teenwolfkink - Kinkmeme.

Vids:
Lydia/Stiles/Derek: The Waiting Time
Allison/Scott: Crazier - a compilation of adorable moments.
Derek/Caroline Forbes: an x-over vid!
Derek: Grenade - This one can be summed up as: Derek is hot.
Derek/Kate: Love the way you lie - Kate tazers Derek a lot. It's disturbingly hot.

OTHER STUFF


Image credits: All images/graphics/gifs come from searching the Teen Wolf tag on tumblr

MTV Teen Wolf offical youtube channel

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Fandoms featured: Tomorrow When The War Began, Fringe, Sanctuary, Inception, Killjoys, Leverage, Misfits, Castle, Lie to Me, The Vampire Diaries, Terminator, Die Hard, the Empire trilogy, Battlestar Galactica, possibly more. Probably more in future installments.

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In general:
* Happy endings
* I love winter holidays (they make me all warm and fuzzy inside)
* I read gen, het and slash of all ratings so whatever you're comfortable with is fine with me
* Banter
* I'm fine with crack/AUs, but I'd love something in the style of canon for these requests


My journals are locked, but you can find my tumblr here and my del.ico.us over here if you want an idea of things I like.