Fannish glee.

[sarren]

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Last night, after Dragonfly and I watched the last two episodes of season one Regenesis, and I shooed her off to finish her assignment due today, clearly it was too late for me to start studying for exams ::koff:: so I read through the list of 2500 fandoms offered for Yuletide this year and made a list of which fandoms I was going to read first when the archive opens on Christmas day, in categories of
- Group 1 - Must read before sleep.
- Group 2 – Can possibly wait til I’ve eaten and slept.
- Group 3 – No urgency, can wait til all family stuff and Christmas stuff is over.

Just as well I got my Yuletide assignment today, otherwise I might have had to keep myself occupied by actually listing the fandoms in actual order of reading. It’s amazing how much time you can kill debating whether to read Hancock or The Middleman first.




To be read asap...

The fic that was written for me!!!!
Hancock
Bedrooms and Hallways
Being Human
The Middleman
Hot Fuzz
Keen Eddie
Big Wolf on Campus
Blades of Glory
Moonlight
Bronski und Bernstein
The Breakfast Club
Verboten Liebe
Dead Zone
Drake and Josh
Eureka
Gordon Korman - MacDonald Hall series
Gordon Korman - I Want to Go Home
Independance Day
The Man From Uncle
Maurice
Jeeves and Wooster
The Persuaders
Primeval
Special Unit 2
Master and Commander
Entourage
Chuck
Psych
DARYL
Naomi Novik - Temeraire series
War of the Worlds (tv)


After I've slept and eaten and said hello to the family...

Fics that have been recced, esp in fandoms I haven't considered.
Clue (movie)
Wiseguy
The Fixer
Jurassic Park Movies
Hogans Heroes
Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey series
From Eroica With Love
all the Georgette Heyer ones!
Space Above and Beyond
Dr Horribles Singalong Blog
Bend it Like Beckham
Bring it On
Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Blade Runner
Blakes 7
Bound
Black Books
Boston Legal
The Devil Wears Prada
Enid Blyton - The Famous Five
Invisible Man (tv)
James Bond - Casino Royale
La Confidential
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Live Free or Die Hard
Night at the Museum
Fics that have been recced in the time it's taken me to read the rest of this list


At some point...later on..when family and Christmas stuff is over...

Ladyhawke
Young Americans
Scrubs
Shaun of the Dead
Some Like it Hot
Love Actually
A Knight's Tale
Cabaret
MASH
Frances Hodgsen Burnett - The Secret Garden
Constantine
Coupling UK
Dark City
Dead Like Me
David Eddings Belgariad Mallorean series
The Dresden Files
Aeon Flux
Zoolander
Alien vs Predator
Spaced
Threesome
Thoughtcrimes
Where Eagles Dare
Bridget Jones Diary
Alien Nation
The American President
Another Country
Ben Hur
Brideshead Revisited
Billy Elliot
Brimstone
The Brittas Empire
Bill and Ted
Enemy Mine
Equilibrium
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Frasier
Forever Knight
Galaxy Quest
Lawrence of Arabia
Odyssey 5
Red Dwarf
Reign of Fire
Quantum Leap
Satan's Alley
Sharpe

One Day When I've seen all the eps...

ReGenesis
Rome
Dexter
Fringe
Inspector Rex
The Mentalist
Poltergeist the Legacy




*earnestly* I really am being reasonably productive at work. I had this list Already Prepared!

Comments

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Hee! All my references to my assignment being OMG!CHALLENGE didn't give it away that I'm not writing The Persuaders?

Which fandoms did you request? I promise if you come up on the pinch list again I will try to grab it - if I know the fandom!

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

All my references to my assignment being OMG!CHALLENGE didn't give it away that I'm not writing The Persuaders?

That was the post! Yes, I remember now. You were all, "OMG!CHALLENGE" and I was like, "Gosh, I don't think my requests were that weird or detaile-- waaaaaait." That was when I realized the back of my head had some things filed wrong.

Daw, but you don't have to support my delusions! I will tell you anyway though. I asked for Cleopatra 2525, Mike/Psmith, and Persuaders. Apparently I accidentally committed a terrible sin by making plot suggestions that mentioned the names of characters I hadn't requested. I thought it was obvious that I was only expecting to get the ones I signed up for, since those are the rules, but fic often has other characters in it as well and I was just brainstorming and trying to be helpful, you know? Garrr, yuletide requests, so difficult. But maybe that means my writer will default and I'll score a bunch of sympathy fic again!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I have also included characters who weren't requested, as options if the writer wants to. I figure that gives them MORE room to move. You said you saw people complaining about this? Weird.

I didn't want to write a Dear Santa letter at all - I'd given enough suggestions and ideas in my prompt. I get that this evolved because some people just put no prompt at all (I've seen one of those over the pinch hit list already) but the EXPECTATION now is that everyone does it - hence my note telling my writer to feel free NOT to read mine.

Yeah, I don't know the other fandoms, so if my chance you do get me as a pinch hit it'll be Persuaders *g*

I think I saw an ep of Cleopatra 2525 once - a bunch of hot scantily clad warrior women? Chick who played Zoe in Firefly?

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

You said you saw people complaining about this? Weird.

I gather some people are interpreting some people's requests as "I will be upset if I don't get this very specific thing that I didn't, in fact, sign up for." I just hope my writer can tell that's not where I was coming from. Hopefully, anyone who likes goofy fandoms like I chose is a little more of a relaxed personality.

I didn't want to write a Dear Santa letter at all

Yeah, me neither -- they baffle me! It's like you're supposed to simultaneously expand on your preferences and swear that you don't have any. My head gets trapped in the circles of politeness. But I realized that if I didn't at least make a placeholder post, the writer would have to keep checking to see if I'd put one up! And I do like reading the letter people write for me -- it's this fun connection to the person, I get all excited about making them a present.

I think I saw an ep of Cleopatra 2525 once - a bunch of hot scantily clad warrior women? Chick who played Zoe in Firefly?

That would be the one. It's silly and exploitative, but at the same time, very likeable and warm and female-friendship-based, and I love the Barbarella costumes.