Dear Yuletide Author,

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Stolen from sephystabbity and reynardine and hamsterwoman:

Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and you shall be rewarded :) Treats can be anything I choose to bestow upon thee, oh merry trick-or-treater (little drawings, graphics, gifs, maybe tiny fics, or little writeups about you, and so on.) The more "houses" to visit the merrier, so go ahead and open up your journal as well, if you please :)

Dear Yuletide Author,

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An incomplete list of tropes/character archetypes/narrative elements that I like. This list is by no means comprehensive, and will probably never be complete. Mostly for my own benefit, but I'll happily take recs for fics or canons if you have them :)

I freely acknowledge that many of these tropes are cheesy as hell - I never said it was a list of good tropes that I like ;D


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Been really tired this week, and consequently doing nothing particularly interesting. And I totally failed to nominate anyone for the westerosorting Character Meme - sorry about that everyone :(

I did manage to get some nominations, though, and more than I deserve since I didn't do anything in return...

Tommen Baratheon
Beric Dondarrion
Wylla Manderly
Wynafryd Manderly
Trystane Martell
Septon Meribald
Septa Mordane
Arya Stark - for sticking them with the pointy end and only pretending to be no one
Brienne of Tarth - for tireless participation in ToH
Ros - because she won the quotes one, and thus is the polar opposite of Ros stealing time away from actually having book matter in the series?

And finally, five (!) nominations for Lyanna Stark O_O

I have no idea who to campaign for. I tried for Lyanna last time and didn't get her, so maybe I should keep trying until I win? And that's a lot of nominations...

I kind of adore Wylla Manderly, so I'm tempted to go for her, but I'm not sure I'm much like her. Although I do have pink hair...

But then Septa Mordane is basically awesome, especially in the show, and I'm almost tempted to do a cracky one for Ros...

Lol, I have no idea what I'm doing. I shall have to ponder. But it's awesome to have so many options! westerosorting = ♥

Oh my gosh, you guys, it's been weeks since I did anything useful on LJ. Like, weeks and weeks :(

I'm not really going to go into it, because it's mostly just more of the usual - I haven't been well, or when I have been well I've been struggling to find a balance between Doing All The Things and crashing and burning. Also, my sister came to visit, which was absolutely awesome, but left me with a cold I still haven't managed to shake off two weeks later. So yeah, boring.

Lol, I feel like 90% of my entries these days are 'I haven't been posting/commenting for a while, but I'm going to do better', but yeah, I'm back. Going to maybe try to post a bit more often, and definitely going to get back into commenting and participating more. I've missed you guys <3

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In support of the movement against PIPA and SOPA, I will be going on strike on for 12 hours (8am EST to 8pm EST) tomorrow and abstain from all activity involving the internet.

For more information on SOPA, PIPA, and which companies are blacking out, go here and here.

Obviously this doesn't directly affect NZ, but it will almost certainly have indirect effects, especially since our government isn't shy about trying to block internet access, or about asking 'how high?' when the US says 'jump!'.

And it does have a potentially huge effect on people in the US (i.e. most of you guys), and therefore on people and friendships that I greatly value. I don't know what effect, if any, protesting like this might have, but I'm not prepared to just stand idly by.

Join me.


Veeka//quiescent is keeping a list of participants here, so go sign up!

Whoops, lost track of things a bit there. Sorry everyone!

I'm back at home, and currently procrastinating at everything. People have been making comments recently about how I seem to be improving health-wise, and maybe this year I can really start making progress in getting on with my life. So of course, my natural reaction to that is to totally freak out and spend all my time doing nothing and avoiding everyone. Maybe this year will be the year that I get my act together, but it's too scary right now, so I'll just procrastinate take things slowly a bit longer.

2011 was definitely the best year I've had health-wise since I got sick, though, so that's encouraging. Also an awesome year because of you guys: you're all amazing, and I'm so privileged to have you as my friends. And I came home to find holiday cards from both deeplyunhip and c_hrista, which was so exciting - thank you so much!

So yeah, I'm off to read my flist, so at least I'm not a totally hopeless LJ friend. I'd like to try to post more frequently this year, but we'll see how that goes. Hope this year is an amazing one for all of you ♥