Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Next year, I really want to try to remember to nominate something dance-ish for yuletide. There was an LXD nomination this year, but since I never watched past season 1, I have no idea who those people are. I still have Bourne's Swan Lake on DVD waiting to be watched. Still. But neither of those are quite what I'm on about, because I really am craving something a little more world-buildy.

I have had a very posting-in-communities evening. For me, at least.

a poll about Yuletide at yuletide and a post anticipating Live to Dance at dance_on_tv, which you should join, if you haven't yet.

I am really glad, though I feel guilty about this, that the wave of recs from yuletide are over with, because I could barely look at my LJ flist without my eyes glazing over, but didn't want to move yuletide off my default view in case something non-rec and interesting was posted. I feel like I missed some legit entries in there this week.

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In an occurrence that I doubt will ever happen again, Frank Iero's tweets summed up my New Years Eve...

#1: Whoa new kids on the block, the back street boys, kesha and ryan seacrest all on one stage!? What a fuckin loser convention. Happy new year!

#2: Jeez nivea is all over this holiday like stink on farts.

I was home with TV rather than in Times Square, but I could have been in Times Square if I'd really wanted to be.

Carson Daly, looking eerily like Dick Clarke, definitely won the evening in terms of quality of show on the broadcast networks, but I recorded Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper, and it was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in a looong time. It was a solid hour of Kathy being inappropriate and Anderson saying "no, no, that's not true," and chuckling nervously. So awesome.

I know I've been living under a rock re: MCR, but I was very surprised to see them show up on my network television, and really need to buy that album before a few years pass by, as is my habit.

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Also, as I don't think I've mentioned, I fixed my old computer like a total grownup and with significant input from google, and suddenly I have bookmarks and saved vids and whatnot from like three years ago. My love for Counting Crows pretty much knows no bounds, and there was a time when synecdochic's Recovering the Satellites Sam/Cam stories were my favorite thing in the world (they're still way up there, but my fannish world is so bewilderingly large now...) and anyway, I found her Satellites vid, and it made me happy to remember that she had created it.

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And now off to keep up with day two of New Year's resolutions, which were to do the push-ups and sit-ups which are well within my physical ability but not my will-power, and to Write Something OMG.

I uploaded my Yuletide story, in the server peace and quiet of the early morning east coast US, and then like magic, there was fabulous GK fic where they're all angels, sort of to reward me.

Also, yesterday, Sometimes ice cream is just ice cream, Tunny/Will and Johnny.

There were other things that were awesome this week, like random old Sports Night fic, some of which I was rereading and some of which was new to me, but wow am I about to be late for work.

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.

I wouldn't say I'm done reading for Yuletide, precisely. There's a bunch of stuff that I put off for now because my canon memory is hazy at best and I want to get the most out of shorter fic. And other stuff that I knew I wasn't going to get through before the reveal anyway, and I sort of want to read the cap_ironman fics today, so.
I'm pretty sure anyone who's so inclined has already read these, but just in case!
(in hindsight, I just should have linked my bookmark page at AO3. Oh well)
( Yuletide - 10 Things I hate About You (movie), Cable and Deadpool, Eddie Izzard, Ever After, Fanboys, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Generation Kill, Gross Pointe Blank, Love Actually, Tin Man, and Young Guns )

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I wrote The Parade (The Unusuals), and then December 14th (The Unusuals) and There are more things in heaven and earth, Harry, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons) as treats.
I seem to be very much stuck in gen mode, in fiction as in life. It's not particularly emotionally satisfying, because I don't think I'm doing a great job of it, and it's much quieter writing, and it doesn't have the built-in audience that 'ship fic does. Yeah. Whatever.