*tumbleweeds roll past*

[lizardbeth]

Figures I come back just as most of the flist goes away.... *waves forlornly* To entertain myself, I was pondering my second-favorite fannish activity: yuletide

I've been keeping a bit of a mental list for what fandoms I might want to request for Yuletide this year. I'd have a hard time claiming Vampire Diaries is small with a straight face, even though there's not a lot of fic on LJ. But definite picks so far:

- The Fallen. This is the one I really want and nobody else will likely suggest it. This was a tv movie/miniseries that aired on abc family. It's sort of "The Prophecy" Lite, but much less ridiculous than I expected. Paul Wesley is quite good in it, and Rick Worthy adds some Cylon gravitas, to a story that's an interesting take on angels and the story of the Nephilim. I burned through all three hours in no time, which is no mean feat for me with my tendency to be easily distracted.

- New shows: Covert Affairs, Justified. Probably don't need my help to get in.
- Hawaii Five-O. I saw some of it filming when I was there, and I know I'll watch at least a few, given DDK, Grace Park, and "spot the location" game. So it's likely a gimme, unless it's really boring.
- Jeremiah. It's an annual Yuletide favorite of mine and each year I cross my fingersth...
- the video for Brandon Flowers "Crossfire" because that totally needs fic
- and something I know I'll remember right after I post. hmf.

Any fandom you desperately want for Yuletide, yuletide peeps who are home, too?

Off to work on my big bang, some more. And entertain kidlet who doesn't go back to school until next week... Which can't happen soon enough, for obvious reasons, but also because I need that time to get caught up on everything I missed.

Comments

[graycardinal]

The issue with Hawaii Five-O is that it's scheduled opposite Castle; I sincerely hope that the rivalry does not end up killing one of the two shows prematurely.

As for Yuletide hopes, I have been pimping the same handful of obscure -- and in some cases really< obscure -- lit-fandoms for three or four years now with little success (those who are curious may wander over to my journal and cilck the Yuletide tag; there aren't that many posts, you'll get the idea, and it will save some duplication of pixels [heh]). However, in the department of things not quite as obscure:

Diane Duane has a new book just out called Omnitopia Dawn (DAW hardcover); it's relatively low-tech near-future SF involving the mutant offspring of Second Life and every MMORPG ever invented, which has for once been implemented in a way that has NOT gone disastrously wrong. It's billed as first in a series, and there's no question in my mind that there'll be fanfic eventually, but I am not sure she's laid in quite enough of the right kind of background in this first book for folks to take full advantage of it yet.

Now that Charles Stross's "Merchant Princes" series has completed its current arc (or so he says in the sixth book, out earlier this year), I'd think the moment might have arrived for an ambitious fic-writer or two to tackle some of the loose threads and sidestream storylines.

And last year's YA book from Sharon Shinn (Gateway, about a girl who walks under the St. Louis Arch into a fascinating and dangerous alternate world that's partly Asian-intrigue and partly kind of Mark Twain-like) has a number of fascinating threads that seem ripe for reweaving via fanfic.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

it's sad, but I barely read at all anymore, so I have very few new lit fandoms I can offer for Yuletide.

Gateway sounds cool, though.