sarren

I saw there's another post-Yuletide friending post, I plan to have a browse through.

I did one for the first time a year or two ago (could be three, have no sense of time), and I have made some good DW/LJ friends but I think also a few where maybe our interests just didn't gel?

So at some point in a month or so I plan to unfriend people who never comment on my posts. If you happen to enjoy reading my posts but don't ever comment for any of a thousand reasons, feel free to DM me and we're all good. Not that I think my random fandom burbling or rambling about surf lifesaving and whatnot are fascinating.

Yuletide this year is super easy for this tech-useless person.

Finding a beta - I always have to wander into IRC come mid December to find betas, and I've really been super confident of how that works, but this year they're on Discord as well, yay, which is super easy to use - plus has the benefit of being the platform my teenager uses with her mates, so I have in house tech support *g* Ha, her FACE when I announced I was on Discord now. I was like 'relax, I'm not stalking you, this is not about you!'

The full list of prompts - each year they've been finding a easier way to provide this, but this year they've outdone themselves, this platform is amazing. Super easy to search, including just being able to pull up a fandom and click open all the prompts for that one fandom. Love it.

Pinch hitting - I haven't bothered trying to claim a pinch hit as the emails flood in for years, I figured they had like a thousand pinch hitters, things always get claimed quickly, I may as well just write treats, that way the more fics the merrier. This year they've shifted to a google group, and you can just go and look! and see the list online! and do a sort on unclaimed! It's awesome. I think they lost most of their existing list when this happened, I was in the discord yuletide chatroom last night and they were talking about how they are super keen for more pinch hitters, and pinch hits are NOT getting snapped up like they used to. There are still several unclaimed from the batch they sent out hours before I went to bed last night. If anyone's interested, I'm pretty sure anyone can be a pinch hitter, you don't have to be signed up. (more instructions here)

*Draft because I may add a fandom or two if I get inspired before sign ups close

Thank you for volunteering to write my little fandom, I already love you. I have been doing Yuletide from nearly the beginning and absolutely none of the excitement has worn off for me. I LOVE YULETIDE.

Also, if detailed letters stress you out and/or you already know what you want to write, feel free to not even read below. Truly :)

( General notes and likes/dislikes )

( Regulars Guys )

( The Champions )

( Forever Knight )

I'm tired just following it from afar, I can't imagine how tired you guys are whose lives and those of your loved ones are on the line. *hugs*

For confused non-Americans like myself, best explanation of their shitshow system that I've found - A Zero B.S. Guide To American Healthcare

( A couple of links re the failure of the Amendment to pass )

The kid's away and it's school holidays so no sport or club or association meetings or other responsibilities. I am of course using the time wisely to do housework and sort out paperwork.

Hahahahaha just kidding, am watching telly. We're currently watching the Hornblower movies, Ioan Gruffodd and Jamie Bamber are such adorable pink cheeked youths.
(or possibly I got old, its been many years since I watched it, and 16 years since they made it, wow).

Am currently watching the Mutiny/Retribution plot, which also has Phil Glennister, Paul McGann, David Warner and the dude who plays Jacques in Versailles. Excellent quality show, stands up well 16 years later, no reason a period piece wouldn't, I guess. I wonder if they would still have the leisurely scenery shots if they remade it today, everything seems speeded up nowadays, or that could be just be me getting middle-aged again *G*

I adored the Hornblower books in my teens, I reread them a lot, along with Georgette Heyer's entire oeuvre and Dennis Wheatley's Roge Brook series

Oh, ha, I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed Hornblower/Pellew. So many long meaningful looks, Pellow being all awkwardly supportive when Hornblower was in tears after the doomed French village. And all the intense silences.

And just now Pellew has just said to another captain, "I will not see a man hanged out of hand that is as dear to me as... *pained and self conscious look* As dear to me as one of my own."

Random 10 mins from the episode. At the 4 minute mark Hornblower is naked and being sprayed with water in front of the entire crew for some reason. I guess they made their own entertainment on those ships :)

Those twitter links about how to call Congress have been condensed into a handy pdf HERE

Guys, here's a way to screw the ACHA, call them - Reconciliation

This guy points out it can be shut down, but the Dems should damn well try everything.

<a href="https://www.trumpcaretoolkit.org/">This site has the Senators numbers, links to tweet to them and FB links as well. </a>

Posted about my surprise love for a medical show when I was mostly through S1. Found out that some people had been put off by plot development, so was a bit apprehensive. A couple of characters I liked disappeared with no explanation (but characters in this show do tend to appear and disappear, so). And some new characters were introduced, including....

I WAS disappointed by the introduction of two generic heroic white guy characters, Rob Lowe's character, Ethan, and Angus's perfect brother, Mike, but in fact they both turned out to be great and fitted in well and didn't overshadow the other characters.

Angus and Mario's relationship became even more bromancey, yay, sadly they kept falling in love with women *G*

But in a surprise turn of events I found me an intriguing pairing in Ethan/Will. From butting heads to growing respect for each other and bonding, yay. They gave Will's character some character development, finally, turns out he's more than just an arrogant surgeon, so that's nice :)
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S2 continues to bring the emotional highs and lows. I cried a lot, and they don't shy away from killing off their regular characters.

Season finale double episode they dealt with an actual plague and it was edge of the seat viewing, omg.

So I finally got a great beta for the 7k Lucifer sex pollen fic by asking one of the Yuletide betas. Yay! I didn't want to ask the flist to beta porn. But....

*cough* I have a 2k Hannibal fic that I've gone over eleventy billion times, but if anyone has the time and inclination to give it a SPaG, that would be awesome? It's G rated Hannigram, brief description of murdered people (it IS Hannibal fandom!)