Misc +++

[yuuago]

+ Survived another formal dinner. Did not accidentally poison anyone with my green beans. Hooray.

+ The tag set for this year's Yuletide Exchange is up (Voila). Looking forward to letters going up. I'm curious about what the Subwoolfer nominator had in mind, and I hope they'll request it; looks like they're going for something strictly song-based rather than band lore, for lack of a better term. Not that I'm going to be writing anything for Yuletide this year, but it sure is fun to browse the requests.

+ I think I'm going to need to give myself a Strict Limit on library borrows; I keep taking stuff out and then not getting around to it for ages. One thing at a time, self! My eyes are bigger than my stomach. ...Metaphorically.

+ Watched Friday the 13th yesterday. First time seeing this one. Was kind of surprised; the film was very different from what I expected - or rather, everything related to Jason was completely different from what I had absorbed via pop culture osmosis. So, I'm assuming all that must be from one of the later films. Whether I'll get around to any of those is debatable. As for Friday the 13th itself - I found it slow-paced, kind of tedious, and not good at building tension. In comparison to something like Halloween, which I think holds up very well and is legitimately good at what it sets out to do, the original Friday the 13th doesn't even rate.

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

Hooray for surviving the dinner! \o/ ... and #mood on the library borrowing. /o\

[yuuago]

I'm glad someone understands my pain. xD There's just so much stuff out there that looks FASCINATING, I just... need to get around to reading it!

[kiraly]

I am also in no way doing Yuletide this year, but I've really been enjoying the bits I've seen of the tagset. We've been chatting about it a lot in the Queen's Thief discord and some of the stuff in there is so bonkers? Like, there's a 133-page corporate vision pdf, which, after a friend dug it up, I can absolutely see why it was nominated, but I have SO many new questions now haha.

Yuletide has always been a very intimidating exchange for me, and my current level of writer's block will not allow me to commit to it, but it sure is fun to observe from a distance.

[yuuago]

Haa! Yeah, some of the stuff that gets nommed is pretty creative. I remember there was one year that someone nominated a Latin textbook (and it even got fic, IIRC).

Yuletide was my first exchange, and I never really found it intimidating, but the sheer amount of stuff related to it (requests, noms, people doing it) can get overwhelming.

Too bad about the writer's block! <3