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[bossymarmalade]

I know I may have missed thanking people individually, but thank you all so much for the happy birthday wishes! I really needed them this year due to having a huge and stressful fight with the parents on my birthday, which turned out best in the long run but was still pretty draining to have on Christmas Eve, as you can imagine.

I hope you're all having a lovely time with however you're spending it! I have played a lot of Beatles Rock Band, eaten and drunk with abandon, tasted a princess cake for the first time, and finally seen the Twilight movie. Y'know, I expected to be uninterested in the story (I was stupid in love with Anne Rice's vampires as a teenager, and once I stopped giving a shit about them that was it for me and vampire love stories), but I didn't expect the actual movie -- like, script and filming and atrocious sound -- to be so unrelentingly awful as well! WOW.

Anyway. Have some popslash MTYG recs!

. will you be - nick escapes from his ugly childhood life by doodling a superhero, and doesn't quite grow out of it. The story starts off well-written but rather familiar, and then it turns out that you didn't see that ending coming at all, which I quite like.

. to love, to grow, to hide, to show - I confess I like older!Briahna in a story rather than baby "adorable" versions. And this one includes her in a well-chosen way, which makes sense because it's a nice gently rollicking yarn about reconnecting.

. mistletoe man - the only thing I don't care for in this story is the title. *g* Seriously, this is the year for mild romantic stories that slyly become something a little different, and I'm really enjoying it! This one is written with just the dashes of intriguing character backstory that I like, not to mention the flawless dialogue.

. hold up, cowboy. - JC is working on his thesis, and AJ is working on the rodeo. Very nice character interaction, with just enough pepper to make things really interesting. I know shit all about rodeos, but I know a wee bit about academia and JC needs to read some more Fran Markowitz and put his mind at ease, poor boo. *g*


Yuletide recs soon. But for now, go check out operation 80, a super-awesome challenge wherein we re-write classic Star Trek episodes with the Rebootverse characters. I am doing The Changeling!! Although really I should have chosen Gamesters of Triskelion, and written that green-haired Shahna chick as Lady Gaga.

Comments

[nextian]

Beatles Rock Band is so classic. My little brother got it for Hanukah and we've been doing nothing but rocking out to Back in the USSR and Helter Skelter.

[bossymarmalade]

What instrument are you playing?!? My sister plays guitar and I play bass! I'm decent at drums, but I tried playing the guitar part and was total fail at it, ahahahah!

[nextian]

Oh, I'm singing, which is basically like cheating but is SO MUCH FUN omfg. Sometimes I do drums in which case I never get better than 80%. I'm with you on guitar, it's just brutal and the clicking noise means you feel like you're behind and then your sibling laughs at your pain!

[applegnat]

Oh, happy birthday! Belatedly, and I'm sorry it involved Family Drama. I hope the rest of the year is lovely.

[bossymarmalade]

Thank you!! It was honestly better that it all got out in the open and we had a nicer holiday for it, but man -- the *timing*, y'know?

[applegnat]

Very poor timing. I think all families have this internal clockwork mechanism that builds up to explode specifically at inconvenient o'clock. But hey, cleared-air, and also cake (which I Googled, and was confronted with a zillion pictures of bright pink cakes with Barbie dolls on them. I am guessing that this is not in fact the princess cake that you ate)!

[bossymarmalade]

ahahah, inconvenient o'clock! That's *perfect*.

The princess cake was not a Barbie cake, you're right. *g* It was the green one on this page, which is a blanket of high-quality marzipan over vanilla genoise layered with raspberry jam, pastry cream and a cloud of whipped cream. It was not as sweet as it sounds, which was surprising and made the entire thing UNBELIEVABLY good!

[applegnat]

* is speechless in a cake-worshipping way *

[gloss]

That cake is GORGEOUS! Happy 2010, soon enough. <3

[ex_uphill596]

Maggie Maggie, I was ttly waiting for your Yuletide recs this year! This is so exciting when you actually (sort of) participate! Wheeee!

...ahem.

Also, happy belated birthday, whups whups. I hope family things have settled down. *hugs!*

[bossymarmalade]

They have settled down indeed, and hopefully for the better, thank you, schatz! *snug*

I love making Yuletide/sesa recs every year, and I need to get back on Yuletart as well, come to think of it! Plus I am at work this week and nothing at all is going on, so it's a nice time to read fic and be paid for it, hee.

[ex_uphill596]

Oh, I'm glad to hear that. ♥ Looking forward to your recs, hon!

[duraflame]

I don't know anything about that episode but YES to writing that lady as Gaga. :B

I'm sorry you had a fight with your parents, though I'm glad it turned out okay! *snug*

[frangipani]

My boss and colleague tried to make me watch New Moon with them, because this is how they torture me for their amusement. :( I watched Storm Warriors instead with my friends. It was also unrelentingly awful, but at least it was (unintentionally) hilarious, kind of like watching a robot trying its earnest best to dance the Argentinian tango.

Happy belated birthday!

[katemonkey]

Oh holy smokes, I didn't know about Operation 80 at all.

I HAVE THE WAY TO EDEN. OH FUCK YEAH.

[withdiamonds]

I played a lot of Beatles Rock Band over the holidays, too. Most fun thing ever. I sang, mostly, because I know every word and note of every Beatles song, but then I decided bass was for me.

Operation 80 sounds completely awesome. I've been watching TOS lately, because I bought some DVDs when I realized, after we saw the Reboot, that Ashley had never seen any of it. So much fun.