So instead, since I've been saving them for this, I'll talk about the fics I got:

everywhere you're leaving something (4308 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Spooks
Characters: Erin Watts, Dimitri Levendis, Beth Bailey, Tariq Masood
Summary: Erin comes to terms with the workings of Section D.

This is a great story about Erin joining the team and getting to know Dimitri. It's just the story I wanted about the time between series 9 & 10.

Star Wars on Bannerman Road (772 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Characters: Luke Smith, Sky Smith, Rani Chandra, Clyde Langer
Summary: Luke is home for the holidays, so it's time to work on Sky's pop culture education.

A bonus Madness story! It has lovely friendship stuff between all four and sibling stuff between Luke and Sky.

I am rubbish about saying why I liked these things, but I did. The best bit is I put both these fandoms on my list because they just had their last ever episodes this autumn and I got fic for them both!

(And why does A03's share button create some lovely html, then randomly put paragraph tags around the summary so it appears two lines below the bit that says 'Summary:'?)

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Next I have six fandom_stockings to write. And I've signed up to write a 2000-5000 word Five Things fic for fivetimesbb. That's 400 words a thing it can't be too hard, can it? (famous last words). The current working summary for it is Five songs Johnny Chess wrote based on the stories his parents told him of their adventures with the Doctor in the TARDIS.

Along the same lines, but not involving actual writing, I am reccing for calufrax the first week in January. I know there were fics I wanted to rec last time but had to narrow it down. If only I'd written them down...

Of course, there's still Yuletide Treats. I haven't decided if I'm going to write any of those yet.

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Thank you for writing a story for me. The optional details are optional. I've just tried to give you some ideas of what I might like to see, but if none of them are your thing feel free to disregard them. I am sure I will love anything you write with the character(s) I've requested. Feel free to us any other characters you'd like - there are none that I dislike in any of these fandoms.

What I like:
- Stories that explore the relationships between characters
- Stories that explore characters
- Scenes/fic that is like it could be (part of) an episode

What I dislike:
- Sex scenes, so nothing over PG-13 please
- British people using Americanisms and American people using Briticisms
- Relationships other than those in canon (and the exceptions noted in my optional details) - but you can never go wrong with gen

I know there are two Sarah Jane-related fandoms on this list. Don't think that I'd like one of those more than the other two - I want each of these requests equally.

Below are my prompts:

Sarah Jane Smith (Big Finish Audio) (Will Sullivan)
Will's an interesting character, partly because of his connection to Harry, but also because of what we find out about him as the series goes on. I'd love to see some fic focusing on him or his relationship with Sarah. I ship them, but I'm equally happy with gen. I'd like something either exploring the relationship between Sarah and Will, whatever that may be. Or something about how he feels, given his Crimson Chapter instructions conflict with his feelings for her. Or something about how their first meeting comes about - we were told that he was told to befriend her, but how much did he want to meet her off his own bat? Did he ever think about meeting her before that time? Given his reasons for joining the Crimson Chapter in the first place, did he always feel that he was in Harry's shadow and did he feel that Sarah thought that way about him?

House of Anubis (Amber Millington)
Amber becomes the most interesting character over the course of the series. She starts off as a dumb blonde stereotype, but then it turns out that there's more to her than that. Given that the series was mostly about the mystery, I'd like to see some ordinary boarding school stuff - and not just about who's going out with Mick. Something that shows what Amber's really like would be good too. Was she hiding her real intelligence all the time? How much of the stereotype is left by the end of the series?

Sarah Jane Adventures (Sky Smith, Luke Smith)
The best thing about The Man Who Never Was was seeing Luke and Sky interact. So I'd really love some fic with the two of them together. Either them saving the world together (again) or just them being a normal brother and sister - or working out how that works. Or Sky visiting Luke at Oxford. I'd really like whatever fic you write to be happy.

Spooks | MI-5 (Dimitri Levendis, Erin Watts)
What interested me in series 10 was the relationship between Dimitri and Erin. There was obviously a gap between the end of series 9 and the start of series 10 where they got to know each other and they seemed to be quite close to me. So I'd love to see more of the friendship between them. Maybe time spent together outside of work, or an instance when they're working well together. Or how they got to know and work with each other when Erin first started on the Grid. I do ship them, so something shippy would be nice, but just friendship is equally good.

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In Need (Doctor Who/Sarah Jane Adventures/Sarah Jane Smith audios) for luthien. I've written a lot of Sarah Jane Smith, but given that this Yuletide had such a short writing period, that was just as well. And it's hardly as if I don't enjoy writing her. Luthien asked for something showing the difference between Sarah in School Reunion and SJA or with past companions in. So I sort of did both in one by using Jo to show how much she's changed. I also got to put Jo's character tag in as Jo Jones, as that's how she's credited in SJA.

Since I managed to get this off to beta with a week to spare, I went through my friends list to see who had asked for something I could write without a lot of research. So I ended up writing three Treats, none of which made it to 1000 words:

Making Up (Make it or Break it) for jedinic. I had really wanted to write something for this, but Nic wanted Payson/Sasha and I just couldn't bring myself to write it. But she suggested something from Lauren's POV, which I could do. And then I found that I really liked writing Lauren. The scary part came when I had to ask a stranger to beta because Nic is the only other person I know who watches Make it or Break it. But thenewradical was lovely and did a great job.

Rumours (Blake's 7) for lost_spook. Lost_spook suggested something from the POV of a Federation guard and I thought that would be a really interesting POV to look at. Although given that my first draft came out at 150 words (including the biggest plot hole in the world ever), I thought a double drabble would be the best thing to do.

Just Visiting (Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who) for luthien. I kept thinking about the other companions Sarah talked about at the end of Death of the Doctor and about the people online who decided that Sarah saying that she'd come across a rumour online must be true, and I wondered how a rumour like that could come about. This niggled at me for a while and I only had the time on 23rd, so I just wrote a double drabble for this.

Now I just have to upload these to all sorts of archives...

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Here are my recs (in alphabetical order of fandom):

Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridged) Like many of you, the Reduced Children's Classics Publishing group has recently heard a lot of stories in the news about how kids don't like reading the classics anymore. And that's just wrong. Because the classics of children's literature are cornerstones of our education, bastions of our culture, the pinnacles of imagination, and, more importantly, free of royalties to some stupid author. So we have decided to try to win back today's young people with our fresh, hip, modern take on the beloved stories of yesteryear.
This is great crack - it's a parody of various styles with the Alice in Wonderland story. It's funny.

Black Hole High/Sarah Jane Smith audios
The Path Ahead Professor Z reflects on what brought him to Blake Holsey and where that path will take him.
I am biased with this because it's a Treat for me (and others) and it's Black Hole High. And it involves time travel. What more do you need?

Discworld
Carrying a Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.
Spike and Sybil are great together and I love the parallels with what's happening with students in the news at the moment.

Discworld
Heartache and Nicotine The von Lipwig Guide for Easy Romance, Lesson 1: Don't hire a golem for it.
A funny look at Moist's love life and how the golems 'help'.

Father Ted/True Blood
http://archiveofourown.org/works/139191">Excitement on Craggy Island After the Great Reveal, Eric and Pam are sent to Craggy Island on a public outreach mission.
Although this is a crossover with True Blood, you don't need to have seen it to enjoy this - I only made it as far as the first set of adverts in the first episode. The Father Ted characters are great and it's interesting to see the effect of vampires on them.

Hyperbole and a Half
The Alot, The Tuit, Mrs. Gradgrind, Sophie and Me, Allie Allie's mom, teacher and best friend all insist that Alots are not real animals. Allie's friend the Alot is determined to prove that "imaginary" doesn't mean "unreal."
This is just perfectly in the voice of the blog and reads exactly like one of the Hyperbole and a Half posts.

Quantum Leap
What DO you get a hologram for Christmas? (When he already has a comb?) Sometimes, doing a good deed really takes a particular kind of Special.
A lovely sweet story showing the close relationship between Sam and Al.

Sarah Jane Adventures
Pour, Rinse, Repeat Or, five ways Carla Langer and Sarah Jane Smith didn’t have tea – and one way they did. Carla watches Clyde grow up, and tries to have a cuppa with the person she reckons is responsible. Without much success.
I am biased because this is my Yuletide fic, but it's such a great look at Carla Langer and how awesome she is. And how she sees Sarah Jane and thinks about Clyde.

Settlers of Catan
Lonely Hearted It gets boring being ignored.
Every year I come across a brilliant story in a fandom I'd never thought of reading. This one is yet. I never even imagined it was possible to have a board game fandom. The story personifies the hexagons and what they're thinking of during a game and it's exactly what you can imagine they'd be thinking.

The Thick of It/Harry Potter
Malcolm Tucker: Wizard A moment in the life of Malcolm Tucker: Wizard
It's typical Malcolm Tucker, just in the Harry Potter universe. Where everything's exactly the same and his swearing even encompasses magic.

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• Read a couple of books, one on my Dad's ebook reader. I discovered that wearing gloves indoors makes your hands sweat after a while, but by that time the ebook reader has generally warmed up enough to touch it
• PC World had the latest Sony ebook reader and it is much better than the old one. I want one! But since one of the things I was going to read on it was Sherlock Holmes (I haven't read any and they are out of copyright) and my parents bought me a book with all the stories in, I have even less reason to buy one now
• Also because I bought a new netbook... I've wrecked the old one, and it did have a crap operating system to start with (Linux Linpus). The new one is red and I'll be putting Ubuntu on it at Christmas.
• I've played with my sister's iPad. For half an hour and that was enough. I don't feel the need to spend any more time on it at all. So I definitely don't want one of those.
• The cat is just as mad and sweet as ever. And likes sleeping on the printer...
• I have finished my Yuletide fic! For some reason I only managed to get anything written on this on Mondays, but it has gone off for a beta, so I can get started on some fandom stocking stuff. And by started I mean I have a list of names with links. At some point I'll have to decide what to do for them...

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First of all, feel free to ignore anything I've said in the prompts. If you can write any of those then that'll be great, but they're mostly just some ideas of what I'd like and something to give you ideas if you'd like them. At the end of the day I'd far rather get something you're proud of than something you're less happy with but fits in with what I’ve put down. I put in a few different prompts so hopefully there will be something in there to suit you. I'm not in any way expecting all of them - and some of them are mutually exclusive. Feel free to add in any other characters you like - as long as the one(s) I've requested are in there, you can bring in to the story whoever else you like. There aren’t any characters in these fandoms that I dislike.

Generally speaking, I love stories that have an emotional punch in some way. Whether it makes me laugh, cry, be happy, be all gooey inside, be shocked etc. What particularly fascinates me are parent-child relationships, particularly when they're not related. If you can write something that has that in, that would be amazing, but don't feel that you have to. I also like stories that explore the relationships between characters, whatever that relationship might be. I don’t mind whether you write something shippy or gen for any of the prompts, so long as you stick to canonical ships. I’d just rather not have any sex above a PG-13 rating.

If you're writing for one of the British TV show prompts and you're not British, then please get your fic Brit-picked. There's nothing likely to annoy me more than characters being out of character because they’re speaking American English when they should be speaking British English. If you're writing for one of the American TV show prompts and you're not American, then please get your fic American-picked, although I am less likely to notice this.

If you want to do more research then my fic recs can be found on this site. There are recs from a few people on there, mine are the ones that say they are recced by Paranoidangel.

For reference, here are my prompts:

Strange Days at Blake Holsey High | Black Hole High (Josie Trent)
I only just watched this show this year and there's so little decent fic for this that pretty much anything would be great. Josie's my favourite character, so I'd like something with her in it. If you'd like some prompts then I'd like something that shows the sort of parent/child relationship between Professor Z and the science club. Or something showing how doomed Josie and Vaughn's relationship is due to their lack of trust. Or conversely, a time when it was good. Or just something that shows how everyone gets on after the last episode.

Make it or Break it (Payson Keeler)
I only just discovered this show in the past couple of months and there's so little decent fic for this that I'd love anything that isn't Payson/Sasha. Payson and Sasha are my favourite characters, so I'd love something that shows the father-daughter relationship between them. And maybe how her crush affects it. Or, for something completely different, it bugged me how her High School friends were completely forgotten once she went back to gymnastics. Did she ever see Heather again? Or think of her? Did Heather ever call round to see how Payson was doing, or come and watch her do gymnastics?

The Sarah Jane Adventures (Carla Langer)
Carla is so under used in the series, so I'd love something with her as the main character. If you'd like some prompts, then I'd like to see her first meeting with Sarah Jane or Luke. Or maybe a time when Sarah Jane actually manages to come in for coffee. Or just something that shows the relationship between her and Clyde and how it's changed since they came to Ealing and Clyde started saving the world. Or, given that we know that Carla likes Luke, what does she think of Rani?

The Bill (Jack Meadows, Mickey Webb)
I love the father-son relationship these two have. And their friendship. So if you write something with them being friends in it, I'll be happy. If you'd like some prompts I'd love something that shows how complicated it is being good friends with someone higher/lower ranked than you are. Perhaps something where Mickey wants to tell Jack some trouble he's having at work as a friend, but can't as Jack his boss and would be forced to take action. Or maybe them knowing each other so well helps them solve a crime.

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selenay936

Although I didn't mean to, I managed to read everything I wanted to in the archive on 30th December and therefore two days before the author reveal (as that was quite late yesterday). In the past couple of years I've done a recs list of everything I've read and enjoyed (and therefore commented on) but it was just never going to happen this year. But I have already reviewed nine (I think it was nine) stories for Sel's site.

And on a completely different subject, I took some photos of the cat (the first three of these). He is very sweet and a complete idiot.

I think there were other things I've been meaning to blog about, but I'm buggered if I can remember what they might have been.

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But now I know what it's like, I won't be driving in the snow again. But I'd only ever seen it snow and settle during the day once before, so I assumed it was a freak event and it would just go back to snowing in the night again. But I also live further North than I grew up, and there it snows every year, which I find utterly ridiculous weather, but moving back South would mean I was living far from anywhere, so I supposed I'm stuck with it. If the Gulf Stream ever goes away, we're seriously buggered.

On the plus side, I have a week off work and it is now Boxing Day, which is miles better than Christmas Day. Except that for some strange reason all the good TV is on on New Years Day.

And I have a Yuletide fic! The site's really slow, so it's best visited in the mornings before the Americans get up, but it's a Quantum Leap fic: Returning Home and Meeting Memories for the First Time. Reading through the rest of the archive is taking time, not just because of the slowness, but also because I find the contrast between the text and the background gives me a headache. But fortunately, the other week I came across a site called Readability, where you can decide what you want the page to look like, then create a bookmarklet. So all I have to do, once the fic is loaded, is press on the bookmark, then hey, presto, I can read it! And to think that when I found it I never thought it would be useful...

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At Chanukah there's a song that Dad 'sings' and I play along on the organ. Although it's more of a race to see who can finish first. His speed of counting us in certainly bears no relation to the speed we go at any other point. My grandmother came round last Sunday, so we had me playing at one speed, and each of them singing at two completely different speeds. And much laughing from me and Dad. The cat was less impressed.

I actually finished my Yuletide fic a week last Friday, it's in beta at the moment. Although I suppose at some point I ought to think of a title... I have set up an A03 account and tried to import my fic from my website, but it couldn't cope with that. So I put a link to it in my profile, which very quickly solved that problem. I don't intend to do anything with that archive since I don't have a need for it, and because there's something not right with the fonts so although the fic is easy enough to read, everything else requires a bit more effort and I can't be doing with that.

Wednesday I had a swine flu jab. My arm is only just recovering - it hurt, swelled up and was hot to the touch. Although given how badly my dizziness and asthma was set off by what was technically just a cold, I really don't need flu.

I decided that not being able to use my left arm much wasn't going to help driving so I got the bus on Thursday. Then on Friday there was some snow about, so that decided me. So I'm going to have to listen to Terry Wogan's last breakfast show on the internet. I really want the snow to go away and no more to come because the buses make me so cold. There's no heating in them and they're always late, so by the time you've spent twenty minutes waiting in the cold, then sat on a cold bus for twenty minutes it takes a long time to get warm.

I do hate having electric heating in my flat. It would be alright if there was a decent sized heater in every room. I've been keeping the lounge door closed so it's warm enough not to even need a jumper. But the kitchen, which is definitely the coldest room, and the only one with a thermometer (it's on the clock) said 12.6C this morning. The bedroom has a little heater, but it was too cold in there to read this morning, so it might as well have not been there. I was intending to clean the house this weekend, but I'm not doing it in the freezing cold. But I do have plenty of DVDs to watch...

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I'm still catching up with stuff I need to do at home after spending my week off ill. I got really anxious about Yuletide and wrote the first draft while I had a really bad cold and felt awful. Which is something I've learnt to do from being ill for so long, it's just something I'd rather not do until I have to. And then I had to work hard to get it into something vaguely readable. Tonight I managed v3 - of 5500 words! I should just have to read it through a couple more times, then it can go to beta. Which is good because I need to get it out of the way so I can do betaing, treats and my TR secret santa. And maybe catch up on my viewing.

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In Yuletide news I am currently reviewing the source material in the hopes that I might manage a plot at the end of it. I'm quite excited about what I'm writing and it helps that my recipient likes a lot of the same things that I do. I'm hoping that writing that will help remind me about the whole doing something constructive thing.

It's Children in Need tomorrow, so it's guaranteed to rain, since it's not that cold. Normally I'd be running around in the road with a bucket before work, but I'm not well enough to do that, so I am counting money after work instead. I don't think I can quite cope with the idea of not doing something for Children in Need any more.

I'm having a week off work next week, which I will mostly be spending listening to the tennis, since the BBC aren't showing much. I was very excited by a twitter post of Andy Murray's today because he revealed that he's playing Sunday afternoon and that's when I'm going. We're further back than we were for the gymnastics, so expect pictures of ant-sized people.

I am most distressed my today's paper when they announced they are discontinuing the Technology section in the Guardian. I liked it best when it was the Online section with the Science section inside, but it's still been worth buying the paper once a week for it. Without it there'll be no reason to buy the paper any more - and I don't like reading the paper online, it's not the same. These days I tend to get my news from Radio 5 on the way home from work.

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First of all, feel free to ignore anything I’ve said in the prompts. If you can write any of those then that’ll be great, but they’re mostly just what I’d most prefer to get. At the end of the day I’d far rather get something you're proud of than something you’re less happy with but fits in with what I’ve put down. Feel free to add in any other characters you like to these prompts - as long as the one(s) I've requested are in there, you can bring in to the story whoever else you like. There aren't any characters in these fandoms that I dislike.

Generally speaking, I love stories that have an emotional punch in some way. Whether it makes me laugh, cry, be happy, be all gooey inside, be shocked etc. What particularly fascinates me, as you might have gathered from my prompts, are relationships between characters, whether they’re romantic or not. I don't mind whether you write something shippy or gen for any of the prompts, so long as you stick to canonical ships. I’d just rather not have any sex above a PG-13 rating.

If you're writing for one of the British TV show prompts and you're not British, then please get your fic Brit-picked. There's nothing likely to annoy me more than characters being out of character because they're speaking American English when they should be speaking British English.

If you want to do more research then my fic recs can be found at this site. There are recs from a few people on there, mine are the ones that say they are recced by Paranoidangel.

Just a few notes about the prompts:

Spooks (Harry)
I'd love to see something about the relationship between Harry and Wes. Wes calls Harry 'Uncle Harry' at least once, so I'd love to know more about how well they knew each other. Or after Adam dies how much contact does Harry have with Wes? Given that Harry has pretty much no contact with his son, that could also be an interesting area to explore. Also, what does Harry's relationship with Wes suggest about his (non-slash) relationship with Adam?

I'll also add that I am up-to-date with BBC1 episodes, so feel free to set this any time you like. Write me some Harry and I'll be happy. Write me something about the relationship between Harry and Wes and I'll be happier. The rest of the above are just ideas for areas to explore - I don't imagine for a minute that you could get all of them into one story and if you find a different aspect to explore that'll be great too.

Quantum Leap (Sam & Al)
I love the relationship between Sam and Al, so I'd love to see something that explores that, as long as it's not slash. Either during a leap or before Sam's first leap would be good, since I hate the idea that Sam never returned home. I'd love to see them working together to solve a problem, each doing what they're best at. If you'd like an idea for a leap, then I'd love to see something you know about - one of the great things about Quantum Leap has been how much I've learnt about cultures, places and recent history.

In the reverse of the third paragraph above, if you're not American, please get this American-picked. I'm less likely to notice if there's anything non-American, but I feel hypocritical for asking non-British writers to write British English and not the reverse. For this prompt, just give me some Sam and Al and that'll be great (as long as it's not slash).

Teachers (Simon & Susan)
I love the friendship between Simon and Susan, so I'd love to see something exploring that. Simon comes back to the school after he's been 'travelling' and we get to see the reactions from Brian and Kurt and other teachers, but I'd love to know what Susan thinks of it. Does she hate him for leaving so suddenly? Does she know that he didn't really go? Does their relationship change at all in the light of what happens?

Feel free to ignore the above idea if you want - if you write Simon and Susan I'll be happy.

Press Gang (Lynda & Spike)
I love Lynda and her bossiness. And the banter between her and Spike - I think I prefer them arguing to doing anything else. So I'd love to see some of both of those things. Maybe something with Lynda bossing people outside of the Junior Gazette staff (and her friends and people at school). Maybe Spike has to pull her back a little - whether or not she'd listen to him.

It's impossible to think of Press Gang and not think of Spike and Lynda. I do like UST, although in their case it tends to consist of arguing, so I'd prefer something set relatively early on, but that's merely a preference. I'll be equally happy whenever you write them as long as they're in character really.

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Everyone who signed up for the Sarah & Harry ficathon got a story in, which I am glad about. I wrote Not Just a Pretty Face. There was quite a bit of time between me putting everything into the posting box and actually coming up with a title...

I got all excited looking at fandoms for Yuletide. How I'm going to narrow it down to four, I don't know.

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I recognised the name Christian Kane before it started, although I couldn't work out why. Once he was on screen, though, it was obvious - he was Lindsay in Angel. But there's another character in it - Sophie Devereux - and I spent the whole of the first two episodes wondering where I recognised her from. Her flambouyancy seemed familiar too and it drove me mad, until I remembered to look it up on the imdb. It turns out she was Jane in Coupling.

Apart from that I have no broadband at home until Monday But tonight is my only night in this week until Sunday, so I'm probably not going to notice too much. I have a whole load of things on my PVR to watch too, and a Star Trek DVD from lovefilm - when I've watched that one I'll have seen every episode of every Star Trek series. Including the animated ones.

I did get hold of Band of Brothers to try, since so many people on my friends list think it's the best thing since sliced bread, but I didn't even make it all the way through the first episode. Which wasn't that much of a surprise because it's not really my sort of thing.

Also, I might have a soya intolerance. Or a stomach bug, but I'll wait till Christmas to find out where I can be ill in comfort. I finally managed to upload my Yuletide fic. It was typical - I got it done before I moved, but then the uploads went wonky if you or your recipient's name began with P-Z and that includes me since my name starts with P. Once it was back, then I had no internet.

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I've been watching Lost in Austen courtesy of Lovefilm. I didn't watch it when it was on TV, I think it was because it clashed with something else. I liked the idea of modern girl in Pride and Prejudice, I'm just not that excited about the book. I've never actually read it, but I've seen a couple of adaptations. I think. I have a feeling the only part of the Colin Firth one I've seen is the bit where he comes out of the water. But I am liking Lost in Austen, it's interesting. But only half of it was on one DVD, so it'll be a little while before I get the next part, depending on what Lovefilm decide to give me - you never can be sure with them.

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I also finished the book I started while I was away and it felt never-ending. I'm now a third of the way through The Graveyard book. I have two piles of books from the ones I bought in Canada and the Pratchett I finished just before I went. They're just the right size to fit my laptop on in front of the TV, so I can plug the TV into it. Now I've changed the books the two piles are more level too.

I made the mistake, when I got back, of watching all four Spooks episodes, which included the one from BBC3. So although I put it on last Monday because I was too tired to take it in much the first time, it's not the same as watching it new. So now I am back on watching them on Mondays because Monday needs something to look forward to, since I only watch SJA every other week. Suffice to say I enjoyed tonight's, even if I spent most of it wondering where I knew the bad guy from. Turns out it was one of the recent Poirots.

And just to make all the other people doing Yuletide jealous: I have a first draft of mine. At 1200 words I'm doing better than last year where I managed 1006 (but any padding to that one would have been just that, padding). I'm aiming to get it finished by the end of the week and hopefully writing every night will get me back into it and who knows, I might even get round to the requests I asked for back in June that are sitting in my inbox...

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Dear Yuletide Writer

First of all, feel free to ignore anything I've said in the prompts. If you can write any of those then that'll be great, but they're mostly just what I'd most prefer to get. At the end of the day I’d far rather get something well-written than something you’re less happy with but fits in with what I’ve put.

I don't have anything to add specifically about the fandoms I requsted. Generally speaking, I love stories that have an emotional punch in some way. Whether it makes me laugh, cry, be happy, be all gooey inside, be shocked etc. What particularly fascinates me, as you might have gathered from my prompts, are relationships between characters, whether they're romantic or not. I'm quite happy to read about canonical ships, but you can't go wrong with gen. I'd just rather not have any sex above a PG-13 rating.

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I also wrote a fic! Well, actually I wrote it just before I went to Canada. It's Jo and the Eighth Doctor getting the goodbye they should have had in the Eighth Doctor book, Genocide. I put up a poll ages ago about whether I should crosspost my fanfic blog to LJ. The results came out even, so I decided I'd go with the answer that involved the least amount of work. But, the other day I've temporarily got a paid account to see if I'd use any of the extra features that it has (so far I have, but it has required extra effort, which isn't quite the point). With that I was able to set up an LJ for the RSS Feed for the fanfic blog. Sadly, though, LJ has decided it doesn't like it and won't update. So you can read the fic here instead.

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And then I finished the two Sarah/Harry fics I've been battling with for a bit, and sent them to beta. So now I have no excuse for not working on the TARDIS Big Bang story.

Except that I need to do things with the Rotaract website. And update mine. And play with the blog some more (not least sort out re-tagging quite a bit of it).

It's a strange combination of things I've been watching and reading that led me to thinking that given that Harry Sullivan (Doctor Who) was in MI5, wouldn't it be cool if his boss was Harry Pearce (Spooks)? If only because they're both called Harry.

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