Dear Yuletide Writer:

( rambling about my requests! )

Again, thank you, yuletide author, and if there's anything at all you want to ask or need clarification on, feel free to pass a message along via the mods and I'll ramble at you some more!

Argh, yuletide. I finished my story and uploaded it about fifteen minutes before deadline. :-/ I actually considered writing two stories for my recipient anyway, and then schneestern got out her porn-fu while I was like, four hours away from deadline and I suddenly thought I should start another story for my recipient. THANKS JULES. Anyway, the porn story is not the story I uploaded, but I may very well finish it just in case my other one sucks. I can distract from the crappiness with PORN. Works every time.

So now I have like seven bajillion other stories I want to finish before Christmas, and pinch hits are going out tonight. Cue me, huddling in a blanket with seven half-drunk cups of coffee sitting around me and my fingers bleeding.

Um. Hmm. I watched 30 Days Of Night twice the other day, once by myself and once with my siblings, and I am definitely crushing a little on ( Melissa George. )

Josh Hartnett was not too shabby himself. Ben Foster was, unfortunately, quite shabby and I would really like to see him in a role soon where he doesn't look like a total skeev/creep/psycho. And it was a pretty creepy movie, despite some fairly large plotholes/flaws.

I'm fairly sure I'm just going to go through a phase for every single person on Alias. I may have had a five-second fling with Michael Vartan the day before yesterday.

( see the results )

That last one reminds me so much of this one of ( Jensen: )

Or a mix of that one and ( this one: )

There is a very good chance, however, that that's only because there is only so many ways to dress/pose pretty boys. HINT HINT MORE NAKED WOULD WORK.

Michael Vartan is one of those people that looks way better on camera than he does in pictures, I have to admit. He always looks really wooden/uncomfortable/awkward in pictures. :-/ Hence the not having very many I like.

Ok, yeah, I'll own up. I think Bradley Cooper is pretty freaking hot, too.

( see the evidence )

And I realize that I'm made of fail and missed both angel_kathryn's and psychotic_scam's birthdays. :( I hope you both had wonderful ones, and if there's anything I can do belatedly to make them better, let me know!

Also! I got cards from vagrancy (eee! glittery penguins SO CUTE), crazydelicious0 (French! and your handwriting is so PRETTY I am jealous!), _onebreath (OMFG MICE IN MITTENS AND CAPS *DIES FROM THE CUTE*), semirhage527 (GLITTER GLITTER GLITTER IT MAKES MY LIFE), and pink_faerie81 (MORE GLITTER AND PINK AND REINDEER AND ROAD TRIP HOMG!) Seriously, so much glitter on my desk right now and I really couldn't be happier. :D Thank you, lovelies!

Oh, but as cool as your cards were, they don't match up to the TWO nearly identical cards I got from the John Edwards campaign. Sorry. (I KEED I KEED! Obvs.)

yuletide assignments are going out tonight! I cannot believe how excited I am for this. I am seriously bouncing in my chair, thinking about rubbing my hands together, and repressing a squeal. Is it a little sad that I'm more excited about this Christmas gift exchange than I am for my family gift exchange? I don't like my family much, so I guess it's not too sad.

As for that special someone who gets my wishlist, here is my open letter about my likes and dislikes, in case I didn't cover them in my requests.

Dear yuletide Secret Santa,

In general, I love the angst and the darkness. The angstier and darker, the better. Violence, kink, unhappiness, death!fic, non-con, abuse, BDSM (in a sexual or non-sexual setting), sad endings? Totally ok by me. In fact, awesome by me. The only things I really wouldn't be ok with are scat, golden showers, Roman showers, and bestiality.

But if you don't like to go that dark, angst in general is great. Most of my requests have incest options, so any UST or angsting over general 'wrongness' is fantastic.

As for relationships, I think I specified pretty clearly in the requests which relationships I'd like to see, but again, if relationships in general or the relationships I want aren't your thing, gen is cool too. I'm not down with het for the most part, so if it comes down to choosing between writing a gen story or a het story, I'd prefer gen. I don't think I specified any female characters in my requests, though, so it shouldn't be a problem.

I'm not a big fan of schmoop, fluff, romance, happy endings, etc. If that's what you do best and you can't see your way clear to writing anything else, though, I will love it and cherish it. At this point, any kind of story in any of the fandoms I requested is going to be the best present ever. :)

Thank you kindly, Secret Santa. :)

ETA: Forgot to mention, porn/smut/whatever you call it is totally ok by me, too, but definitely not required.

ETA 2: Reading over other people's SS letters, it made me realize I might want to specify a couple of other things. I am usually reeeeally open-minded about whatever kinks or twists people throw into a story, and I have even RPed my fair share of mpregs. But unless you're really good at making mpreg believable, I'd prefer not to have it in any of the fandoms I specified. Also, good grammar and spelling will make me love a fic ten times as much as I normally would. :)

ETA 3: I could ramble ad nauseum about my particular fandom likes and dislikes, but I don't want to cramp your style. Like I said, basically anything from any of the fandoms I requested is going to keep me squeeing through next Yuletide. :D But if you really want more specifics, feel free to mail the Yuletide mods and I will get up some in depth ramblings for you to peruse ASAP.