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12:33 am: omg yuletide
Nominations for Yuletide open next week.

OMG yuletide.

(Yuletide brainstorming post at the NotSixApartPlace: look at all the fans squeeing!)



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10:06 pm: Nooo
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Noooooooooooooooooooooo.

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11:56 am: Yuletide WOE
Help. I need inspiration.

Give me a word and I'll write flashfic on it. Theme optional. Looking for flirting, dancing, guilt, love, desire, more guilt.

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09:34 am: Okay, stuff...
My sister rang me. She is on her way to a Landmark Forum Saturday and wanted to check in about Christmas/December.

We settled on the weekend of the 12th, which is best for me, best for nephew, and fine for her, and my parents are likely to be good for it (they had hoped for the 19th, but recognised this was not that likely because you're into Christmas travel time then).

We talked about the US elections and I explained about the awfulness of Proposition 8. I do not think she would have quite understood had I just been wonky about it, but I clarified it for her by pointing out that I knew people who had got married in California in the last six months, and she made sympathetic noises.

Then she invited me to Landmark Forum once again, and I said that I had looked stuff about it up on the Internet and did not believe it was my kind of thing. She was impressed that I had, and said no, it wasn't, but it would still be good for me. I swear, the next time she says this I want to say "Yes, I know that's what you are supposed to tell me because I looked it up." Still, she has not yet ended a phone call to me with "I love you" which is a mandated Landmark Forum thing... so not quite lost to decency or common sense, yes?"

Anyway. I must sign up to Yuletide this weekend. (I started this week and realised that I didn't have a chance of thinking sensibly about it.)

Also, I am nanoing, and have written 11192 words, which is 1308 words less than my target but I'm still feeling pretty good about it.

However. This morning, I am determined to go to the gym, and to a Close Guantanamo Bay demo at 1pm which is being organised by kids from my old school. Yay.

Tags: bloody bloody bloody, family stuff, landmark forum, yuletide

12:03 pm: What kind of Christmas did you have?
( A long day )

But this morning I did a yuletide recs post, and read the comments on my yuletide story, and squee'd a bit, and opened my presents, and had a healthy breakfast of fruit. Banana, apple, clementine, kiwi fruit, and a dozen lychees. My mum gave my dad a whole box of lychees for Christmas, bought while they were shopping for fruit'n'veg: it is quite mad, but I got a largish bag of lychees out of it, so, well. (My mum concealed from my dad that she was buying a whole box of lychees by sending him to another part of the shop to pick up some parsley: he thought she was quite mad at the time, and from the look on his face, was not sure she was less insane when he discovered why. Erho. Also, I was sent home with a stollen. Great: more cake.

I have a book to read! Two. Three, including my dad's memoir. Also it is broad daylight and I should go out. Though I also have four flashfic stories to write.

Tags: family stuff, yuletide

09:20 am: I ATEN'T DED
I have been reading my friends-list. I even keep thinking comments. I just keep not writing them down.

Today is my last day at work till 7th January.

Tomorrow I could go to the German market in the Winterfair and have breakfast there. Perhaps do some Christmas shopping, whee. (Cautiously. I do not get my December money till 21st Dec, and that has to last me till 24th January. Still.)

In accordance with a long-standing tradition, comment here if you would like a flashfiction story written for you as an online Christmas present. Give me a fandom, a word, and, optionally, a theme. First ten commenters only.

Tags: christmas day stories, flashfic, write write write, yuletide

11:25 pm: 10 flash fiction stories
As requested, following a longstanding tradition:

( Spacefall, Blake's 7 )

( Foreverdirt, West Wing/Star Trek/Drop the Dead Donkey )

( Nerdcakes, Star Trek )

( Shoshanna, Highlander/Next Gen )

( Derryderrydown, Professionals )

( Whatho, M*A*S*H )

( Angelofthenorth, Harry Potter )

( Melata_fic, Discworld )

( Thette, Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

( Coyotegoth, Harry Potter )

( Bugshaw, hamster )

Tags: bible, blake's 7, christmas day stories, discworld, flashfic, harry potter, m*a*s*h, professionals, star trek, west wing, write write write, yuletide

11:24 pm: 10 flash fiction stories
As requested. A very different range from last year.

( Sinsense, Harry Potter )

( PhoenixW, Harry Potter )

( Daegaer, Good Omens )

( CoyoteGoth, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen )

( Kickair8p, Due South )

( RedStarRobot, Blake's 7 )

( DarkLily, Sherlock Holmes )

( AngeloftheNorth, Merchant of Venice )

( HFNuala, Earthsea )

Tags: bible, blake's 7, christmas day stories, due south, films, flashfic, harry potter, leguin, shakespeare, write write write, yuletide

11:00 pm: Late, sorry - 10 flash fiction stories
Ten flash fiction stories, as requested.

( Green Amber, Spike/Aragorn )

( Valarltd, Princess Bride )

( Sneerpout, Union/Alliance )

( Ambitious Wench, Discworld )

( Destina, Stargate )

( Plaid Adder, Sherlock Holmes )

( Scarlatti, M*A*S*H )

( Disc Sophist, Good Omens )

( morgan32, Highlander )

( Lnr, The Sandman )

( Crazysoph, Babylon 5 )

( Update - notes )

Tags: christmas day stories, flashfic, write write write, yuletide