it's that time of the year!

Dear Yuletide person,

Hi!

Here's the thing: I am the sort of person who gets really, really, REALLY excited just seeing my name float around my friends list. Having a story written for me is like that, only times one hundred. The fact that you are writing something for me and it is all mine and eeeeeeee -- well. Seriously, I'm pretty much going to love whatever you do, just because of that, so you should not be feeling pressure at all.

If you're good with just what I have on the request form, AWESOME.

( Otherwise, here is some very vague nattering about what I like )

i was a teenage fangirl

So earlier I was reading a post on my friends list, and even though it was on a completely different subject, some of the comments made me realize that I have some totally deep assumptions about fandom that maybe I'm not really basing on anything.

Here's the thing: I think of fandom as age-blind. Like, woo! It is a magical society of woman of all sorts to commingle together! I have women on my flist who are thirty years older than me; I have women on my flist who are teenagers still.

But, you know, I was 17 when I got into fandom, and I'm not quite 21 now. There's a pretty good possibility I see fandom that way -- as equally respecting and interested in all levels, there -- because I needed to. "I may be underage, but I am so brilliant and wonderful and blahblahblah that I will be appreciated nonetheless! Woot!"

Which, really, is not quite it: I think it's really easy (and justified, in a lot of cases) to assume that relative youth is also a sign of relative immaturity, inexperience, naivete, etc, etc, etc. Which means it's not that age is irrelevent; it's more that youth is a strike against you, but one that can be overcome by your other qualities. An extra element to go to prove you're interesting and intelligent and deserve to be a part of the community.

And of course, it's not like most of us don't de-emphasize our age in most contexts, anyway. (The main exception being when we want to play the gifted prodigy card. Not that fox1013 and I ever do that. *cough*)

thirteen

( Rome, 1x11 )

livia's a warm woolen mitten (oh, BURN)

So earlier, liviapenn posted her letter-to-yuletide-santa thing, and I admired her beautiful list of things she likes in stories. And then she quoted Johnny Cash, and then I started thinking about lists of beloved things in general, and then I ended up looking up the lyrics to various musicals, and it was all very strange.

But! Hi! Look! Lists of crazy cool things!

( From Livia )

( From Johnny Cash )

( From Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds )

( From Julie Andrews )

All of which is to say, uh. You should be writing me fic RIGHT NOW. Seriously, you can't tell me NONE of that is inspiring to you, right? RIGHT?

Also, I don't think Maria Von Trapp and Johnny Cash would have gotten along very well.

gip, yo

Inspired by dsudis, who was inspired by commodorified here. I made the base and fox1013 put in the text for me.

It might look like I'm staring thoughtfully into space, but really? I'm crushing the patriarchy with MY MIND POWERS.