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Oct. 16th, 2007 07:55 pmSo. I redid my Yuletide sign-up. I changed my requests and my offers. I'm offering 13 fandoms, which is more than I expected to -- I cut some out this time, but added a few on the "well, that would be really cool to write" principle. I have offered to write a couple of things that will result in massive panic, but it will be panic mixed with significant amounts of joy and excitement; the fandoms I cut were fandoms I was pretty sure I could write, but was not feeling much excitement about. And I cut one of my requests and changed it to an offer, because I had far too clear an idea of what I wanted. I mean, I kept it out of the request, but still, no one wants to be that person: "and then they had a fight, and it was raining, and he bought her ice-cream!"
I feel that I offered more random stuff and more random collections of characters, this time around. I love reading the sign-up email, when it sends you character-groupings in the form of pairings which defy time and space.
By the way, there are two things I regularly do in Yuletide, and have always wondered if other people do them as well. One is to only offer one character in a fandom, if I feel very limited about what I can do. The other is not to offer what I request: even if I do offer the same fandom, I try not to offer the characters I've requested. Am I weird and anal about this?
In other fannish news, I really enjoyed last night's Heroes. I realize, though, that among the many things that keep me out-of-step with the fandom is that I find Peter Petrelli really uninteresting. ( spoilers, in a small way )
I'm also watching both Reaper and Chuck, but find them a little too similar in their premises -- the whole slacker forced to excel his expectations of himself notion leaves me kind of cold. I think I may have a similar problem with Bionic Woman, actually, despite la Sackhoff. The stilted writing and acting on the last of these doesn't help. I just can't shake the feeling that I ought to dump either Reaper or Chuck, although it's kind of a moot point, since I managed to miss Chuck for the past two weeks, anyway. But in principle, I am still watching it.
On the non-fannish but thoroughly enjoyable side, I have Cane, Dirty Sexy Money, and Women's Murder Club. Oh, and NCIS and Numb3rs. What do these shows all have in common? Protagonists who are not in their early 20s. I think I'm moving out of the right age demographic for shows like Reaper; I keep thinking, "do your homework!" at the characters. But honestly, this is far too much TV for me, and that's without SPN and Pushing Daisies and FNL.
I feel that I offered more random stuff and more random collections of characters, this time around. I love reading the sign-up email, when it sends you character-groupings in the form of pairings which defy time and space.
By the way, there are two things I regularly do in Yuletide, and have always wondered if other people do them as well. One is to only offer one character in a fandom, if I feel very limited about what I can do. The other is not to offer what I request: even if I do offer the same fandom, I try not to offer the characters I've requested. Am I weird and anal about this?
In other fannish news, I really enjoyed last night's Heroes. I realize, though, that among the many things that keep me out-of-step with the fandom is that I find Peter Petrelli really uninteresting. ( spoilers, in a small way )
I'm also watching both Reaper and Chuck, but find them a little too similar in their premises -- the whole slacker forced to excel his expectations of himself notion leaves me kind of cold. I think I may have a similar problem with Bionic Woman, actually, despite la Sackhoff. The stilted writing and acting on the last of these doesn't help. I just can't shake the feeling that I ought to dump either Reaper or Chuck, although it's kind of a moot point, since I managed to miss Chuck for the past two weeks, anyway. But in principle, I am still watching it.
On the non-fannish but thoroughly enjoyable side, I have Cane, Dirty Sexy Money, and Women's Murder Club. Oh, and NCIS and Numb3rs. What do these shows all have in common? Protagonists who are not in their early 20s. I think I'm moving out of the right age demographic for shows like Reaper; I keep thinking, "do your homework!" at the characters. But honestly, this is far too much TV for me, and that's without SPN and Pushing Daisies and FNL.
