Fandom: Yuletide and December Drabbles

ETA Some of my fannish joy returned by this delightful Kaylee and Inara Firefly vid by purplefringe. It is delightful.

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I am having weird feelings about Yuletide this year. I hope I find the joy in it again soon, because it is normally my favorite fannish time of the year, and I don't want to lose it. But I did make my nominations today, and I hope everyone who wants to nominate fandoms has the opportunity to do so despite the wicked short nomination period. (If I see one more person say, if they really cared about Yuletide, they'd be fine with a short nomination period because they'd be frantically checking back every day until nominations open, I may have to start stabbing people. There is more than one way to be a fan, goddamnit.)

But anyway, I nominated Jurassic Park (Kelly Curtis Malcom, Sarah Harding, Lex Murphy, Nick Van Owen), Roseanne (Roseanne, Dan, Becky, and Darlene Conner) (approved), and Lilo & Stitch (Nani and Lilo Pelekai, David Kawena, Myrtle Edmonds) (all approved so far but Myrtle). I've given up on Never Cry Werewolf for the moment; I can only find my fic online and then one other author, who writes Loren/Jared, and so I just do not think it is likely that I will find anyone interested. I'll try again next year, maybe.

Also, I am still taking drabble requests for December Drabbles, so if you want one, leave a comment here. (If you already requested one at the last post, you don't have to repeat it here, but you can absolutely request more.)

I'll just be over here, trying to get my fannish joy back. I blame Glee, to be honest. Ever since season 3 began, I lost all my fannish joy, even though I preemptively broke up with it. Well that and there has already been a lot of drama around Yuletide. Do not want.

Fandom: Joy In Bits And Pieces

Because I do want to recapture my fannish joy -- and right now, just joy in general, it's been a stressful few months -- I thought I would actively look for things that bring me joy right now and share them, sometimes with commentary.

While trying to find the video to "Total Eclipse of the Heart" to see if I wanted to add it to my potential Yuletide fandoms to offer to write, I stumbled over the fact that Reba McEntire covered Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy," a song that I love despite the gender roles and heteronormativity of the lyrics. I still prefer Beyonce's version, but the video for Reba McEntire's is gorgeous.

It makes me want to write a story about the magic and monsters in that house, particularly the long train on the dress as the monsterous magic following her, the things moving in the pictures and the mirrors, and that gorgeous room with the columns and the wall of windows and the giant mirror and the fireplace -- oh yeah, there are stories about monsters in this video.

Which led me to watching Meat Loaf's cover of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now."

I need to write a music video crossover that involves ghosts and monsters and magic.


AND THEN, FUUUUUUUCK, AND THEN, a link led me to my first moment of Glee joy since season 3 began:

( Spoilers for Song and Singer(s) )

This awesome discussion of J.Harvey at selenak's blog, which has me really eager to watch the movie, amazing considering I had zero interest in it before.

Also at selenak's blog, a discussion of the five scariest villains that thrilled me.

If I vidded, I would be all over this suggestion for a multi-fandom celebration to Rihanna's "Cheers (I'll Drink to That)" by zvi, because hell yes, I want that too!

Cookie Jar, a prompt meme associated with I Saw Three Ships. So basically, threesome prompts. I've never done I Saw Three Ships, though I love threesomes (and foursomes and moresomes), but I might try this prompt challenge.