vulgarweed: (adam&pepperGOE)
vulgarweed ([personal profile] vulgarweed) wrote2009-10-19 12:54 pm

Exchange season tallys

Number of completed [livejournal.com profile] go_exchange gifts currently in the vault: 2. (YAAAYY!)

Number of hours left to finally nail down my [livejournal.com profile] yuletide nominations: about 30. (FLAILS!)

ETA: My Yuletide nominations are DONE! Here's what I went with:
John Crowley - Little Big
RPF - Beat Generation Writers
RPF - Famous Occultists
RPF - The Velvet Underground
Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell
Tom Spanbauer - The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon


Number of my 6 picks that had ever been nominated for Yuletide before: 2.

[identity profile] quantum-witch.livejournal.com 2009-10-19 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
At least now I think I have my GOE thingie nearly nailed down. Describing it aloud to you helped considerably :)

What the other thing is... I don't even know.

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2009-10-19 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] yuletide is the Big Time for very small fandoms. It's a ginormous gift exchange for fandoms that barely exist, are tiny, and/or get no love any other time of the year.

http://yuletidetreasure.org/

It's my second year participating (third if you count the New Year's Resolution after-fic I wrote in 2006). The fest has been going since 2003 or so...after so many years of seeing my friendslist EXPLODE with it every fall, I decided to jump in, and am glad I did!

There are about 3400 fandoms nominated already this year - I'm afraid I just added to the pile. :D

[identity profile] tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com 2009-10-20 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
WOW! Usually not a fan of RPF, but if someone writes you that Beat Generation story, please be letting me know!

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2009-10-20 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Nice icon!

I was really shocked that it didn't appear to have ever been nominated before--I mean, so much of what they wrote was RPF, after a fashion.

[identity profile] tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com 2009-10-20 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I'm on a bit of a Kerouac phase...again.

Right? I don't even know why most of those books are in the "fiction" section...memoirist all of them!

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2009-10-20 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Have you read Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas? That's my favorite piece of Beat RPF not by an actual Beat--it's a Kerouac/Lovecraft mashup that starts with Jack seeing the drowned city of R'lyeh rising out of the sea at Big Sur and just gets more twisted and brilliant from there. OK, it's a book, not a fic as we think of it, I suppose--but it TOTALLY is! And a crossover/AU at that.
Edited 2009-10-20 01:48 (UTC)

[identity profile] tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com 2009-10-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
*checks Amazon for summary*

WHA!??!?!?!?!?!

HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!?!?!?!?

*purchases*

Thanks!

[identity profile] argyleheir.livejournal.com 2009-10-21 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, Little Big!

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2009-10-21 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, and I'm willing to write it again! :D

(I'll get that Ariel Hawksquill-centric story I want one of these years, I swear!)