Wish list meme
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fpbMy wish list
nicked from everybody!
♥ Step One:
Make a post (Public, Friendslocked, Filtered... Whatever you're comfortable with!) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes; the wishes can be anything at all, from simple & fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me",) to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD"), to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want. If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (Or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
♥ Step Two:
Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part: If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free, do it...
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not; it's your call! There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just... Wish & it might come true. Give & you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special...
1)- First, every member of my f-list who has already published this meme must link me to theirs. Else I will not even know whether there is something I can do for you.
2)- I would like all members of my f-list to read as many fics by me on FA (as Fabio P.Barbieri) and fanfiction.net (as FPB) as possible, and review them. Even if you hate them. I just want lots of reviews.
3)- The Christians or those who believe in any religion that allows prayer, please send up one prayer to the powers that be to please end this particular stretch of bad things.
4)- Romantic fics, especially on canon ships.
5)- Music! Personal favourites include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Katie Mellua, Leonard Cohen, good old rock and roll, and most anything classical or early music.
6)- Go somewhere and have a pint to my health. The total abstainers can have an ice cream or a creme caramel instead. If you can neither drink alcohol nor eat sweets, let me know what I can do for you - you are more in need than I am.
7)- Everyone say nice things abouttheregoesyamum and get her embarrassed. She is pretty when she blushes.
8)- Everyone say nice things aboutkikei, because she deserves all of it.
9)- Everyone say nice things aboutprivatemaladict, because you are not very perceptive if you do not have good things to say about her. And everybody say nice things about anyone you can think of, whether or not they are on my f-list, just because.
10)- Debbie Wallace. But there is not much any of you can do about that.
nicked from everybody!
♥ Step One:
Make a post (Public, Friendslocked, Filtered... Whatever you're comfortable with!) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes; the wishes can be anything at all, from simple & fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me",) to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD"), to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want. If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (Or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.
♥ Step Two:
Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part: If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free, do it...
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not; it's your call! There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just... Wish & it might come true. Give & you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special...
1)- First, every member of my f-list who has already published this meme must link me to theirs. Else I will not even know whether there is something I can do for you.
2)- I would like all members of my f-list to read as many fics by me on FA (as Fabio P.Barbieri) and fanfiction.net (as FPB) as possible, and review them. Even if you hate them. I just want lots of reviews.
3)- The Christians or those who believe in any religion that allows prayer, please send up one prayer to the powers that be to please end this particular stretch of bad things.
4)- Romantic fics, especially on canon ships.
5)- Music! Personal favourites include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Katie Mellua, Leonard Cohen, good old rock and roll, and most anything classical or early music.
6)- Go somewhere and have a pint to my health. The total abstainers can have an ice cream or a creme caramel instead. If you can neither drink alcohol nor eat sweets, let me know what I can do for you - you are more in need than I am.
7)- Everyone say nice things about
theregoesyamum and get her embarrassed. She is pretty when she blushes.8)- Everyone say nice things about
kikei, because she deserves all of it.9)- Everyone say nice things about
privatemaladict, because you are not very perceptive if you do not have good things to say about her. And everybody say nice things about anyone you can think of, whether or not they are on my f-list, just because.10)- Debbie Wallace. But there is not much any of you can do about that.
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-01 10:00 pm (UTC)ETA: I didn't know she posted before me, so I mean it.
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Date: 2005-12-02 10:18 am (UTC)Umm, but of course what the surprise be if I told you what I am going to pick? :o) (this is a mysterious smile!)
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Date: 2005-12-02 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 04:52 pm (UTC)The review board is a pain, but here's one anyway before I lose it.
Date: 2005-12-03 04:35 pm (UTC)The images in this were really wonderful, although it was a battle to wrap my head around the philosophy. The metaphors unwound like Hieronymus Bosch paintings, and this may be the only Wizarding Court I'll ever approve of. Canon legal systems are full of more holes than a seive, and I can't imagine even an underclass of non-purebloods tolerating a government like that long. (But then, apartheid was going strong for a long time, so anything is possible.)
The Catholic-bashing arc was a little weak. The nun and cardinal felt like staw men. Since you're making up the world, you could have had the trial's wonderful magic without the lighter-weight-nastiness. Germans could have caught the bias if you needed to bring non-magical ugliness into the story. (Nuremburg would have been a nice shadow.) Having upper-class British wizards hate catholic ones but not French catholic ones was an interesting wrinkle, but otherwise trying to pull me into that particular head-space fell flat. I couldn't identify with any threat to the nun or the priest until the blood-purity discussion at the end, and even then the mob victims don't compare to the war dead.
So the strength of this story for me was the discussion of how Grinelwald killed himself. I don't agree with it, but the images were powerful and the idea of dying to sin was fresh for this fandom. The setting was also vivid and compelling - the "scene of the crime" as it were, very gritty and depressing, contrasted against the Eternal City coming back to life and the fantastic magical images. The weakness was the fragmentation of the two arguments - Grindewald was evil, but you didn't show him as anti-Catholic, and the story only supported one arc. I would have started with the "You can't judge me" part and the ghosts.
Re: The review board is a pain, but here's one anyway before I lose it.
Date: 2005-12-03 04:44 pm (UTC)Well, obviously I do not agree with you that the religious elements do not fit in. They are put there to give a social background to the whole story, to show that there is a wizarding society in which this is all happening, with its own issues and problems. I was also having a go at somebody, but that would not be an excuse if it meant that the story was incoherent. I do not think it was, but I can see why you would feel otherwise.
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Date: 2005-12-03 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-03 05:32 pm (UTC)