the holiday wish-list meme

[rm]

So there's an LJ meme about your holiday wishlist.

The wishes can be anything from small and with no obvious monetary value to unlikely and/or extravagant. The idea is that I post mine and you post yours, and if people are inclined some of those wishes may just come true. For example, if you have a leather jacket you don’t want or a gift certificate you’re never going to use, that might just be the thing that could make someone else's holiday.

Anyway this is an entirely guilt/obligation-free/why-not sort of thing. We all get that, right? It's a bit of whimsy.

If you have already or do post one of these in the future, please comment with a link.



1. Pledges for Dogboy & Justine so we can actually make that happen.

2. Blu-ray player.

3. New to us TV (ours is from 1993). We need to get something that makes having a Blu-ray worth it.

4. A paid/published home for something related to my mourning for fictional characters project, academic or not.

5. Y'all know how much I want in on Gatsby at even the tiniest level (something a la my little role in Revolutionary Road would be a dream come true). 'Tis early days yet, but got a connection?

6. Plane ticket vouchers/miles. Seriously, we travel a lot. Anything that makes that less onerous on our wallets is good.

7. If we decide to get a new place when this lease is up, as un-onerous a process as possible. 2 bedrooms (one can be small, it's an office), Manhattan or Brooklyn, under 2K/month. Or, you know, winning the lottery and something in Soho. I'm just saying.

8. Despite my many issues about couples dancing and the modern world -- dance lessons for stuff 1900-1950, where in I actually learn to follow.

9. Final Draft

10. The thing I have no idea I want and need that I totally apparently do. In the past this has included things like socks with dinosaurs on them and dirty, dirty Ianto/Owen fic. Yeah, I'm still surprised by that second one too.

Comments

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

http://ayoub.livejournal.com/2199906.html

I see things on your list I might be able to do :)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I have A list

I'm without connections or money to help with any of your wishes. Unless by number 10, you would like a gender-bent, mostly politically accurate Robin Hood novel.

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

I don't know about rm, but I'd certainly be keen on the gender-bending Robin Hood novel. You have no idea how just the idea of it warms my heart. Where can I buy it and what's it called?

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

It's called Heart of a Forest and is available only as an e-book.

The premise is that Maid Marion is King Richard's illegitmate son. She has been raised as a lady in order to protect her, right down to an arranged marriage.

We hit all the usual Robin Hood tropes, and a few that don't make it into the movies.

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Just bought it. Thanks for the inadvertent tip. :-)

[maryling.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me that I want to get my parents a Blu-Ray player! Not sure what I can help with here, as I've already contributed to D&J. Hopefully good thoughts are also accepted!

[rm.livejournal.com]

V. V. gladly and thank you!

I feel sort of guilty for my Blu-Ray desire (and realistically it and a new TV are what I'm buying for the house in the post holiday sales), but considering the age of our stuff, it's time!

[marcmagus]

If it helps any, should we find ourselves in the same couple dance class, I promise to be willing to dance with you and not make an issue about gender. Which is totally duh, but I know it's not for everybody.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no, that's awesome. It does help. Part of the angst of all this is Dealing With Strangers.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

FWIW then, I'll offer the same, but I'm a *much* weaker lead than Magus is, and very plausibly a weaker lead than you, in a lot of dance. So...yeah.

~Sor

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I think I could manage a dirty Ianto/Owen fic as long as you don't mind angst....

Hmm... I also have a TV that I could part with, but I wouldn't have a way to get it to you.

I have a list here.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I love angst as long as there's some sort of making peace with things even if it doesn't work out in the end.

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

What I have in mind takes place between season one and two so the angst would be related to that. I'll let you know what I come up with.

And if you ever get to the DC area, I have a TV if you want.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Oh, I made one! Yay, it is here!

~Sor

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

someday I'll introduce you to my genderless professional tango dancing friend. it's so interesting to me that someone with such complicated feelings about gender would end up doing tango.

personally, irl, my feelings about gender are fairly straightforward (I'm a robot); i just cannot follow because I cannot follow. i explain it thusly: i have a strong sense of rhythm and music; so I generally have to choose between following my partner OR following the music. the music ALWAYS wins. i can follow my brother, but only because we listen to music the same way. i'm not sure that counts as following. still, i wish i could do it.

[anivyl.livejournal.com]

here's mine

It's quite a long list, and some of the things are in the thousands - but you know, it's more like a list for me to work through over the next year to get myself :) I never really thought of people buying anything on the list for me.

yours however, is quite doable! even "partially". so, how do I grab a sort of address/gifting site that will lead gifts to you, should I choose to do so?

[natf.livejournal.com]

mine

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

This year's, which mostly just links to last year's with an amendment...

(This year I actually saw something on somebody's that I can do, for once, I have to remember to mail that soon...)

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

I've a question about a pledge... ...and I hate to ask it here, but...
(and I know you're busy/traveling, so no big hurry on an answer)....

If I pledge at a level that gets tickets, can I "donate" them to someone else? I'm not local, but know people who are...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes, you totally can!

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Finally finally FINALLY contributed to #1! And hopefully folks reading my wishlist will help, too.

Mine.

[firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wish I could do more for Dogboy and Justine right now, but happy wishness!:)

My list if anyone wants:
http://firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com/1385220.html

[crewgrrl.livejournal.com]

Here is mine. It's under a general friend's lock, pm me if you want to see it.

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

Here's mine...

http://tanyad.livejournal.com/1491348.html