Awesome Holiday Recs.
And by "awesome" I mean "campy and terribly, terribly funny. Cuz' that they're terrible."
I'm generally a Failosaurus when it comes to Christmastime. I don't ever have my act together enough to do cards for the masses, and I'm usually cutting it close to even get gifts for my immediate family. But I like to try and be generous and show my appreciation for all you great people now and again, even though I'm not in much of a Christmas-y mood (never am, but am ESPECIALLY not after spending four hours roaming WalMart in the dead of night). I realized I had a few links lying around to some interesting holiday diversions, so I thought I'd share them.
Speaking of "dead," since it is nearly Xmas, I was reminded of this little gem I discovered on ffn a couple years ago. It's called "Santa Claus VS The Zombies," and is pretty much exactly, hilariously, that. It's short, sweet and made of awesome. Go read and enjoy.
Also from ffn is a fluffy Power Rangers fic called "Christmas Woes." It's Jason/Billy, and yeah, it's more or less badfic. But reading this thing got me through my senior project in college, and for that, I'm reccing it because it made me laugh so hard I cried. But no kidding, it's a pretty pathetic fic.
In audiovisual holiday entertainment, I give you "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," a rather infamous, yet mostly harmless bit of sci-fi holiday dreck from the '60s. If you haven't seen it yet, you should. (The link will send you to hulu, but if hulu isn't your cuppa for any reason, here it is on youtube. It's been MST3K'd, as well.)
For some truly classic fannish Holiday awesomesauce, there is always the Star Wars Holiday Special (on google video). Say what you want about it, but it's upbeat, it's canon, and I have a soft spot for it, okay?
So, there you go. Enough Christmas cheese to make your brain dribble out your ears, and the perfect recipe for de-stressing during this overblown ritual/festival thing that used to be a fusion of winter solstice with a religious figure's birthday, and has since morphed in something huge, generalized and unrelated to the point that a song like "Christmas Shoes" is considered an acceptable anthem. (Sorry to anyone who happens to like that song. I just find it cruelly manipulative and not having anything to do with the REAL meaning of Christmas:
)
I'm generally a Failosaurus when it comes to Christmastime. I don't ever have my act together enough to do cards for the masses, and I'm usually cutting it close to even get gifts for my immediate family. But I like to try and be generous and show my appreciation for all you great people now and again, even though I'm not in much of a Christmas-y mood (never am, but am ESPECIALLY not after spending four hours roaming WalMart in the dead of night). I realized I had a few links lying around to some interesting holiday diversions, so I thought I'd share them.
Speaking of "dead," since it is nearly Xmas, I was reminded of this little gem I discovered on ffn a couple years ago. It's called "Santa Claus VS The Zombies," and is pretty much exactly, hilariously, that. It's short, sweet and made of awesome. Go read and enjoy.
Also from ffn is a fluffy Power Rangers fic called "Christmas Woes." It's Jason/Billy, and yeah, it's more or less badfic. But reading this thing got me through my senior project in college, and for that, I'm reccing it because it made me laugh so hard I cried. But no kidding, it's a pretty pathetic fic.
In audiovisual holiday entertainment, I give you "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," a rather infamous, yet mostly harmless bit of sci-fi holiday dreck from the '60s. If you haven't seen it yet, you should. (The link will send you to hulu, but if hulu isn't your cuppa for any reason, here it is on youtube. It's been MST3K'd, as well.)
For some truly classic fannish Holiday awesomesauce, there is always the Star Wars Holiday Special (on google video). Say what you want about it, but it's upbeat, it's canon, and I have a soft spot for it, okay?
So, there you go. Enough Christmas cheese to make your brain dribble out your ears, and the perfect recipe for de-stressing during this overblown ritual/festival thing that used to be a fusion of winter solstice with a religious figure's birthday, and has since morphed in something huge, generalized and unrelated to the point that a song like "Christmas Shoes" is considered an acceptable anthem. (Sorry to anyone who happens to like that song. I just find it cruelly manipulative and not having anything to do with the REAL meaning of Christmas:
)
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