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Yay Christmas! Wishlist meme.

There is nothing like Christmas to make me realize what a greedy greedy bitch I truly am at heart. Here's the meme to prove it!

The Rules

Step One

Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love an icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

My wishlist:

Totally cribbing this from speccygeekgrrl, but I too would like feedback on any of my fic. Concrit is totally acceptable; you don't have to be nice.
Someone to start reccing Glee fic at crack_van. I would sign up myself, but I'm far too lazy to do the fandom overview.
I'd really like a personalized layout, if anyone's talented like that! Header, a semi-friends-only banner, so on and so forth...
If a layout's too much to ask for, I'd like a personalized icon that I could use as a new default. I love Angela Petrelli and her badassness, but I'm looking for something more personal I could use in more fandoms now that Heroes is no longer my one and only. If it could say something appropriately bitchy, that'd be awesome!
Speaking of graphics, I could use a tutorial on how to color in GIMP. I like to draw with my tablet but coloring is beyond me.
Book recs! I've been reading a ton lately. Any fiction or nonfiction, especially short stories and essays, would be great!
Music recs, mixes, fanmixes - anything like that!
Non-shippy Glee recs or fics, especially those that could feature characters like Mercedes and Tina, who don't get much love in fic as far as I can tell.
Anyone want to be an email penpal? My address is cruiscin_lan@yahoo.com. It's my S/N too, but I'm not signed on all that often.
Paid account time is always appreciated, as are any add-ons!

Anyone on my flist who posts a wishlist, I am going to try my damndest to get at least one of your wishes to come true.

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I don't know if this is what you were after but feel free to use them, I won't post them anywhere else. Merry Christmas!

Edited 2009-11-15 21:44 (UTC)

Ooooooh these are super sexy! Thanks!

I don't know if these will be helpful since I don't use GIMP but they look pretty detailed to me.
Coloring a B/W Sketch
GIMP Coloring Tutorial

Short Story/Book Recs:
D.H. Lawrence - The Rocking Horse Winner (short story)
Nikolai Gogol - The Overcoat (short story)
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Alain de Botton - On Love: A Novel
Jon Krakauer - Under the Banner of Heaven (nonfiction)
Ben Mezrich - Bringing Down the House (the true story that the movie 21 is based on)
Amy Tan - Saving Fish From Drowning (fiction)

I'm teaching "The Rocking Horse Winner" this week!

I remember having to read that for an English class in HS and the story is just one of the ones that stayed in my mind long after the class was over. Probably because I remember reading Snodgrass' idea that there was a Freudian interpretation of the story and some Oedipal complex thrown in there.

Do you have any pictures you'd like used for a layout, or a general idea of what you want it to look like?

I would like something simple and easy to navigate that also incorporates baby animals, particularly elephants and giraffes.

Why, yes, hello random. :P

Thank you for an excuse to go fishing through ZooBorns! :D

I LOVE ZOOBORNS HOORAY

So what exactly do you want your semi-friends-only banner to say? cause this is what I came up with, but it's eminently changeable if you don't like it.

THIS IS THE GODDAMN CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER FUCKING SEEN

Can you make it a little smaller, though? I think it might be a little wide.

750px okay?

When I grow up, I'm not even kidding, I want to be a baby elephant.

When you figure out how to do that, you have to share the secret before you have to relearn how to type with a trunk.

Feel free to be my email penpal - you've already got my address :)

Also, what sort of fanmixes are you interested in? Glee, Heroes, an odd mix of the two, death metal, country, rap, big band? Inquiring minds and all that jazz...

Funny you should ask. Since I moved to Ohio, I have been desperately desperately desperately trying to like country music, and I just can't. If you could make a mix of great country songs to convince me, that'd be great. :P

How did you feel about the country song they did on Glee (ep 5, "The Rhodes Not Taken" - Carrie Underwood's "Last Name")?

TBH, I probably would have liked it better had the Cheno not been the one singing it. It's blasphemy, I know, but I can only take her voice in small doses.

So I was wondering if you would be opposed to my writing Glee fic for you to replace the Sweet Charity Heroes story I am failing at writing. Got an idea for a Mercedes-centric story.

And a book rec:
Stiff: The Secret Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Already read Stiff - my copy has been lent so around so much that it actually came mailed back to me from California when it started in NY.

As for the fic, go for it! That sounds great!

That's excellent about Stiff. My copy has been read so much (by me and others) that its spine is completely broken and flappy.

You don't have to use them, but I made them after reading your post and thought I'd drop them by. I won't post them anywhere else.

Happy Festivus!

Thank you thank you thank you!

Book recs:
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricial C. Wrede (Okay, kid/young adult books, but they're awesome, funny, and like comfort food to me)
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I would rec you A Perfect Day For Banana Fish by J.D. Sallinger for a short story, but as you said part of Franny and Zoey inspired my Sweet Charity fic, I'll assume you've read it. That leaves me with a couple of other short story recs:

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

I think I bought Sabriel at a garage sale recently. Hmm...

I love that whole trilogy alot. Some of his stand alone novels like Shade's Children and The Ragwitch are pretty great too.

Just jumping in here to say that I love these things! I love your list.
*pokes around for something I can do* I'm kind of graphics challenged but I may have a trick or two in mind :)

Hooray! Where's your list?

I haven't put one up yet. But I will...because I'm a greedy whore like that. :D

btw, icon love!

You've likely already read it, but I'll still rec Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels.

Also, since you seem interested in meta and English-type stuff, I'll recommend this book, a collection of essays which I've read and quite liked (and this book, which I haven't read, but covet).

Man, yeah, those fanfiction-y books seem interesting. I've heard bad things about them, too, though, and they aren't exactly easy to find in my local library. I'm waffling, can you tell?

I saw this list as I was lurking around and in the interests of attempting to be helpful here are a few books which I loved/ found interesting.

Fiction
Matthew Reilly - Always easy to read and lots of fun - Basically an action/adventure movie in written form. Titles include
Hell Island- Shortest of his books so probably a good starting point
Hovercar Racer
Ice Station
Scarecrow
Area 7
Contest
Temple
Seven Ancient Wonders
Six Sacred Stones
Five Greatest Warriors

The Shadow Kingdom by Cory Daniells

Anything by Sara Douglas

Non-Fiction
I didn't do it for you, How the world betrayed a small African Nation - By Michela Wong
Nobel Lectures From the Literature Laureates 1986 to 2005 - Published by Melbourne University Press
Bury the Chains The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery - By Adam Hochschild

I've never heard of these authors or their books. This will be exciting! Thanks for the recs!

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