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Where IS everyone?

Cross-posted at femme_asylum.

Really really did not like "Coco Before Chanel." Audrey Tautou is gorgeous and I could have looked at her all day, but I found her character's motivations unfathomable, and I had no sense at all where Chanel's great talent and style came from, nor was there any sense of the force in design she would one day become.

This was nothing but an overblown romance that somehow reduced everything she did to being about some guy. Nauseating. I HATED it.

Beautiful, yes. But blech.

I wish someone would make the Chanel film that is in my head. Because this is DEFINITELY not it.

I can't handle the crowds on Black Friday, and besides, my holiday shopping, such as it is, is done. (We're buying for the kids only this year, due to the financial problems of one of my brothers).

So my sisters in law and I are going to see "Coco Before Chanel," while my brothers and their sons do their manly, boy-ly thing without us. And then this evening, not_yet_defined is doing a marathon of 101-102 and 512-513 over at qaf_marathons, so that's what I'll be doing when I get home!

See you then!

First, Happy Thanksgiving to all!

A couple of new fandom friends don't know the origin of the name of the current celebration in qaf_drabbles , "Gusmas," so I thought I'd explain.

Once upon a time, four fangirls wrote a story together, and the unbelievable url_girl illustrated it. (Well, we didn't write it, exactly -- it was divinely inspired, so it might be better said we channeled it.)

It was the story of Assbaby!Jesus (Gus for short), and of course, it's his birth we celebrate during the Solstikwanzanukkamas Season, which runs from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day.

Be warned if you choose to read this fic; you're sure to end up on the bus to the hot place if you do.

Assbaby!Jesus: A Brian/Justin Christmas story

So I finally succumbed to..... well, boredom I guess - and watched both Twilight movies.

( You a fan? Think twice before clicking this cut..... )

So, I've been working on Directions today.... it's so good to feel the fic flowing again. :)

I am going to try to finish it this weekend and send it for beta, although I may need next weekend to get it done. I should probably wait until after the Thanksgiving weekend to post it, shouldn't I?

In other news, I have bunnies for a Xena/Gabrielle fic, a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer fic, and a Michael/Ben fic, and NO ONE but me really wants to read any of those things. It makes me sad, yo.

Although I also have a Drew/Emmett bunny and I know at least Travis likes to read those!

How is it possible I have no QAF Thanksgiving icons? I have every other freaking holiday!

Anyone help a fangirl out? Are there any Thanksgiving icons floating around you feel like sharing?

Love,

Xie

Never, ever go on vacation, especially a really good one.

The crash when you get back to real life is a bitch.

Oh how I love thee, Stephen Colbert...

Gay Zombies want our Braaaaaaains....

Although I've made a small amount of peace with them, I don't like the headers so common in fan fiction. I despise ratings and I really hate warnings. I don't mind author's notes if they're more or less the kind of thing that might be on a book jacket, and I love acknowledgments, which are also commonly found on books.

There are lots of things I won't read, like death!fic, and many things that make me want to gouge out my eyes with a spoon, like MPREG, and yet, I hate warnings. If a book has difficult themes, no one puts a warning on it. It's either hinted at on the book jacket, revealed in reviews, or someone who read it tells you.

It feels like infantilism and spoon-feeding. And I'm a hugely triggered person on some issues, particularly rape, child abuse, and anything even remotely scary or dealing with the supernatural, particularly vampires.

Then again, I'm not really a fandom person. Queer as Folk is the only fandom I've ever played in online, and many of these conventions have arisen out of a collective fandom consciousness I'm only on the most outer faded-out fringes of.

But I simply don't want to categorize or tag or annotate my fiction with anything different than what might appear on the cover of a book. I've lost my shit when my fic, entered in festivals/carnivals/etc has been tagged by the mods with things like "femmeslash" or "slash" or "m/m" or "f/f" or whatever. They're stories. Shit happens in them. They're more or less about this, and it's thanks to so and so it was written.

I just don't care for all this WARNING and EXPLAINING and TAGGING and CATEGORIZING.

Grrrrr.

This is a fic I wrote for qaf_giftxchnge last year, a gift for my lovely qafmaniac . I tweaked it just a very tiny little bit from the original version, so let's consider this, rather than the one posted last year, as definitive!

The request was post-513 Brian and Justin, and it's the story of the first holiday season after Justin moves to New York, set during Thanksgiving, the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. Beta'd by testdog65  with the kind assistance of vamphile  . Banner by roc_abs  .

( A Holiday in Five Parts, by Xie... )