I think I might have no convictions.

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 personal wishlist under the cut. )

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.

I'm trying to catch up on all my shit today, so in the memetime have at this, stolen from perdiccas and etoile_dunord:

If you had me under your command and could make me write whatever you wanted - anything at all! - what would you make me write?

Yeah. I know I got some prompts from way back when to work on (the one that sticks out is aurilly's Mohinder/Niki prompt, which really intrigued me but I'm a little scared to write Niki for some reason). But like, imagine you could make me write a drabble, or an epic, or whatever.

Also as long as I'm making a post anyway, did y'all realize there's a new community for threesomes? heroes3somes looks like it's going to be fun. Sylar/Mohinder/Elle, anyone?

theGOODthings

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ETA business.

Anyone want to recommend a good comm for discussions and funtimes? I've been having fun with fanficrants lately and I'm wondering if there's anything else like that out there, whether it's about writing or ranting or what have you.

Before I start my day of not-awesome, something I ganked again from superkappa, because I'm a follower and not a leader.

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

Side note to superkappa: I didn't respond to yours yet because if I respond and gank at the same time then you'll know it was me! I'm gonna be a feedback ninja and comment later.

also I'm suddenly in love with the word "gank." That and Handel's ice cream.

Vote for the sylaire_awards you guys! It's your right.

Right now I'm coding the nominees post for the Heroes Het Awards. While it's a lot of work, it makes me irrationally giddy. I'm amazed at the array of nominees we've gotten so far - and actually, there's far fewer double noms than I thought at first (although there are one or two triple noms). The Best of Pairing/Characterization categories are still languishing from lack of nominations, but most of the Best Overall categories are booming.

Except crossovers. Perhaps Heroes does not lend itself well to het crossovers.

And now, to distract me from the endless coding I have to do yet, a meme:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me (word prompts are good too). In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (You don't have to. You totally have to.)

Keeping up with tags at heroes_het_fic has eaten my life. Still working on the rules for the awards, psycho_llama. I'm just so anal-retentive it might take me forever.

And now, some meme-age:

THE "HAAAAAAAVE YOU MET ____!" MEME.
MY THREAD HERE!

First of all, can I just tell you that I looked in my email and found a Mylar fic exchange assignment. I mean, I remember aurilly leaving me a comment about it, and I remember checking the link and looking at it like "Cool beans, as soon as I think of some prompts I think I'll try this" because I want to try and stretch my fic-writing legs a little bit. And then I remember seeing an update (via mylar_fic, I think) about the assignments being late, and I was like "Hot dog, I missed the deadline!"

But dude. There's an assignment in my inbox. This means I must have signed up - I just have no memory whatsoever of doing so. I must have signed up in my sleep, or while drunk, or while totally kinked out or something. I don't even know what I possibly could have prompted. I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

So if you got me, basically, you can totally screw around with the prompts and be like "no you totally wanted these giraffes in here, and mpreg, too," because I BLACKED OUT SIGNING UP FOR A FICATHON.

Well then. Moving on. ( Interview meme! )