Drive-by reccing!
Hi all! Long time no talk. I've been flirting with the idea of coming back here lately.
I actually did Yuletide under a different name this year. I wanted to try the total anonymity, and I mostly enjoyed it, but I also missed the atmosphere of going through Yuletide with my whole flist and felt a bit like I was writing into a void...
I don't know that I would have posted here about it, except that THE GIFT STORY I GOT WAS SO AMAZING OMG.
AND I got a treat. An AWESOME treat, in the same fandom. SO! Please, if you saw and enjoyed the film Young Adult as much as I did, do yourself a favour and read these stories:
Spoonbridge and Cherry, Young Adult (2011), Matt Freehauf/Mavis Gary, 4993 words.
In which Matt tries to get used to being Mavis Gary's rock bottom.
Missing (What You Never Really Had), Young Adult (2011), Matt & Mavis, 1527 words.
They talk on the phone sometimes.
I sort of hate the story I wrote, even though people other than me seem to be enjoying it. But as much as I was relishing my anonymity when I wrote it, I find I don't really mind the idea of linking to it anyway. Maybe my era of enhanced self-consciousness on the internet is coming to a close. One can only hope!
(As a warning, if I do return to LJ and start posting on the regular, it's going to be about 70/30 cosmetics talk/fandom. Oh and probably steal 10% of the fandom talk for pictures of my adorable hairless dog ;)
I actually did Yuletide under a different name this year. I wanted to try the total anonymity, and I mostly enjoyed it, but I also missed the atmosphere of going through Yuletide with my whole flist and felt a bit like I was writing into a void...
I don't know that I would have posted here about it, except that THE GIFT STORY I GOT WAS SO AMAZING OMG.
AND I got a treat. An AWESOME treat, in the same fandom. SO! Please, if you saw and enjoyed the film Young Adult as much as I did, do yourself a favour and read these stories:
Spoonbridge and Cherry, Young Adult (2011), Matt Freehauf/Mavis Gary, 4993 words.
In which Matt tries to get used to being Mavis Gary's rock bottom.
Missing (What You Never Really Had), Young Adult (2011), Matt & Mavis, 1527 words.
They talk on the phone sometimes.
I sort of hate the story I wrote, even though people other than me seem to be enjoying it. But as much as I was relishing my anonymity when I wrote it, I find I don't really mind the idea of linking to it anyway. Maybe my era of enhanced self-consciousness on the internet is coming to a close. One can only hope!
(As a warning, if I do return to LJ and start posting on the regular, it's going to be about 70/30 cosmetics talk/fandom. Oh and probably steal 10% of the fandom talk for pictures of my adorable hairless dog ;)