Things I realized (at least partly) because of Yuletide this year.

Thing one:

I really hate the couch in the basement.

I happened to be awake when Yuletide signups went live, around 5am this morning. I wasn't really staying up on purpose for Yuletide, but it was a contributing factor. I had given up on watching Mythbusters and curled up on the wholly inadequate couch downstairs (seriously, that couch is so, so awful, and I can't conceive of why I thought it was a good purchase) with the hood of my sweatshirt pulled up because it is cold down there, and I have a head cold that will not die. Walking up two flights of stairs seemed like far too much effort.

Thing two:

I decided at some point that Out of Sight and In Plain Sight were the same sort of thing, because I had combined my vague notion of the short-lived Karen Sisco with In Plain Sight that pops up on my rare-fandom radar from time to time.

Thing three:

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yuuuuuletiiiiiide!

Dear beloved Yuleperson,

(Last year's letter is here, and all that still holds true, except of course for the fandoms I didn't request this year.)

I actually toyed with the idea of doing an all John Hughes request this year, but I would have had to nominate Home Alone for a story about Harry and Marv... and actually, maybe I'll do that next year.

I can't guarantee that I've said anything useful and/or informative in the past about the fandoms I've requested this year, but if I have, you're welcome to use the handy-dandy journal search to look for whatever you want. Also possibly useful: my Yuletide and fic rec tags. And you're also totally welcome to chuck it all and write a story that calls to you to be told.

( but this year, it's Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, The History Boys, and Tin Man )

Dear self:

Next year, remember that you wanted to nominate Kicking and Screaming. Noah Baumbach is even sort-of-famous now, so maybe someone will have heard of it and be excited, instead of mistakenly wondering why I want fic for that kids' soccer movie with Will Ferrell.

Okay, children of the 80s, help me out here.

Does anyone else remember the end of The Secret of Nimh being really, really sad? Because I sort of want to watch it for nostalgia, but to this day I have still not rewatched E.T. because I cried so much when I was a kid, and my memory puts The Secret of Nimh in the same box.

I just went to the Hulu.com homepage, and discovered that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is streaming there. I really, really, really don't remember the opening credits. I guess I was young? She-Ra Princess of Power, also drawing a total blank. I am assuming that's because there was no theme song. However, it is possible that I never actually watched either of the shows, and just dressed up as She-Ra for Halloween one year because everyone else was.

(speaking of theme songs: Gummie Beeeaaaaaars! Bouncing here and there and everywhere!)

Also, on Hulu, Inspector Gadget, Danger Mouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids - and wow, was Bill Cosby young in the early 70s.