I've done two rec posts so far on my DW:
Norse mythology, Tigana, Boondock Saints, Calvin & Hobbes, Cable & Deadpool, Young Wizards, Repo! & Dr Horrible
More Repo!, more Calvin & Hobbes, American Psycho, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Babylon 5, Grecoroman myth and more Young Wizards

Over at my DW journal. (DW will warn you that my journal is NSFW, but I assure you this entry is.)

Fandoms:

Animorphs, Dead Poets Society, Dragonriders of Pern, Glee, Juno, Lackadaisy, True Blood, Young Wizards

Fire Dancer, Spirited Away, Momo, Inda, Flowers in the Attic, Madeleine L'Engle, Dragonriders of Pern.

I've had almost no internet access the past few days, so I'm very very slow starting. But here we go!

Friday Night Lights, Fast and Furious, Grease 2, St Trinian's, Rome, Law & Order:UK, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sanctuary, History Boys

Linked back to my journal. Includes Yuletide Madness recs. :)

Californication, Kal Ho Naa Ho, As The World Turns RPF, The Big Bang Theory, Dhoom 2, Futurama, How I Met Your Mother, Last Exile, Modern Family, Spirited Away, RPF #Yuletide, Slumdog Millionaire, The Ramayana

Enjoy!

Yay! the Yuletide Madness collection is open! There's more incredible stories to read and comment on!

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2009/fandoms

I'm falling in love with the bookmarks/recs function over at AO3 today! It's making me very, very happy. :)

I'm skipping around a lot in my reading, so may catch up on more stories in some of these fandoms later. But for now:

Vorkosigan, Band of Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Dracula, Lord Peter Wimsey, Spy Game, Rio Bravo, Leverage, White Collar, Adventure Inc., Sports Night, Gunmen, Anne of Green Gables, and Aliens.

(Link goes to my recs at AO3)

I'll be adding to these over the next few days, and will update. Yay yuletide!

Yay madness open!

Over here is the first rec compilation, you're on the second part.


( And now... more indexed recs! )

Just a few recs, including a couple fandoms I haven't seen anyone mention yet! All rated teen or lower.

( Recs for Castle, Lie To Me, and In Plain Sight )

• 14:58 Decision Made! mikepas.org/main/2009/12/26/decision-made.html #

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Another round of recs, that I can't help but list even though there aren't that many so far.

Fandoms: Brideshead Revisited, Cambridge Latin Course, Child Ballads, Gone With the Wind, His Dark Materials, Shakespeare - Henry IV plays, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

( Details recs below the cut. )

Hamlet, Little Red Riding Hood, Matilda (book-canon), My Fair Lady, National Treasure, Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (album), Oxford Time Travel 'verse, and varying degrees of Paul Simon (Graceland and Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard) here.

I just posted a few recs at my journal. The fandoms are Monty Python's Life of Brian, Harold and Kumar, Leverage, Anthropomorfic, Saving Face, Northern Exposure, Rapunzel (fairy tale) and The Handmaid's Tale.

Fandoms include Rome, White Collar, Torchwood RPF, Child Ballads, and Sherlock Holmes

( Rec list )

Fandoms include: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Amanda Palmer - The Astronaut, Kill Bill, Hunger Games, Like Water for Chocolate, Oregon Trail, The Dark Tower, Inuit mythology, fairy tales, the Silmarillion, Sandman, Slings & Arrows, Peep Show

Kimono Dreams - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (album)
This was my request - it was my long-shot why the hell not request and i'm so glad it happened. I didn't give much, if any, direction; I figured if someone was going to offer this they'd have their own vision. The story is dark and Ziggy is frightening and beautiful. The language is very immediate and full of brilliant imagery. I am so pleased to have received this, it really is an amazing gift. The words run together like magic, take flight, sound drum beat chords through skin too young to have learned all that glitters is not gold.

( the rest are behind the cut )

Below the cut be: Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes, Jim Butcher - Dresden Files, Monster, Mythology - Near Eastern, Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley, and Tanya Huff - Smoke Series.

( Now Chock-Full of Reccy Goodness! )

I was wondering if there were any naming customs among women of the samurai class, like the male naming custom of getting one kanji from fathers/grandfathers. My Google-fu (keyword combinations of samurai/bushi women names/naming customs) has turned up nothing, but I'm a bit nitpicky.

Edit: I'm referring particularly to the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, but anything from any era can't hurt. :) I'm so sorry I forgot to specify that. *is ashamed*.

Oh, LJ.

So. I am still at my parents' house, where I have been since Thursday noon. We had our Snowmergency!Christmas Eve lunch and presentpalooza, went to Mass, and as we came out, were nearly eaten by the wind. That's what it felt like; the wind was driving snow pellets right through my jeans, and it felt like a cold monster chewing at my skin.

My brothers and sisters took their kids home and I stayed with my parents, as originally planned. And the snow came down and the wind blew, and by Christmas morning, it was a full-fledged blizzard, right out of The Long Winter. There were bare patches on the driveway, and a drift 6 feet high between the driveway and the front door. The neighbor's house has a drift that's at least 8 feet high up against the side of the house. The snow's carved bowls around the grove of pine trees in the nature preserve that backs up to the house. It's weirdly beautiful.

No one came over; no one in their right minds was leaving their house. So we had a quiet Christmas, which was fine. This storm is humungous; it's closed interstates everywhere, including I-29 from the Canadian border down into Iowa. Most churches around here (except for the Catholic ones, of course) cancelled services.

As did the synagogues, being as it was Friday and all. There was a closing notice that ran as part of the bottom-of-the-screen scroll on one tv station yesterday: "Temple Isreal: No Christmas Day Services".

I looked at my dad. "Um. Did you see that?"

"Yeah, that's not...right...is it?"

About ten minutes later, they changed it to: "Temple Isreal: No Friday Services". Geez.

It snowed and blew all through yesterday and last night, until sometime this afternoon. My brother, who is a freaking SAINT, has told me he'll go over to my house and try to snowblow a path from the street to my garage (I have a wide driveway that slopes up, and my house is at the top of a hill so I always get crazy drifting, even in a small amount of wind; my house also sits on a curve and there is little good street parking. I was thinking I'd have to park a few blocks away at the library and walk in so that I could shovel the driveway.) Of course, it took all day for him to get to a point where he could get out of his own neighborhood (they live on a circle) and then he has to work tonight and tomorrow, so it could be tomorrow evening sometime that I can actually get home. Or Monday.

It's...not as bad as it could be. I have my laptop, which has all my writing on it, so I've been editing a lot the past couple of days. There are Yuletide fics to read, when I can get into the archive, and I cooked dinner tonight just for something to do. Had a nice chat with amilyn this morning, and it was great to do some Yuletide squeeing with a fannish friend. And, unlike my brother, I don't *have* to get to work, or anywhere, really, as the week between the holidays is slow at both my jobs this year. There are Christmas cookies, and we are warm and safe, and things could be so, so much worse.

I am trying to be positive, here. Do you see me being positive and not bouncing off the walls (yet)? I am very proud of myself! (Also, I have not had any caffeine today, so I am probably mellower than I would otherwise be.) But if anyone wants to stop by and say hi or entertain me or anything? I would love that very, very muchly. :) It's just. It just kept snowing. For forty-eight hours.

And it's only been 'official' winter for, what? Five or six days? Things could get desperate if this keeps up. I'm just sayin'.

Okay, back to editing. I've plowed through 40 pages so far this afternoon. Rock on, me.

One Leverage and one White Collar story recced here: http://melodyunity.livejournal.com/75851.html.

Recs for Miracles, Chuck, Leverage, and Big Bang Theory are here: http://melodyunity.livejournal.com/76163.html

I haven't been reading in any sort of order, but here are some Yuletide fics that have struck my fancy (and managed to bookmark when the archive wasn't being cranky):

To begin with, my brilliant, wonderful gifts:

Bridgerton series - Quinn

Chase the Glowing Hours - Five dances between Colin and Penelope, from their early friendship to their marriage. This reads like something straight out of Romancing Mister Bridgerton; the voices are fantastic.

Mendol

My love, she is nothing (she's only everything) - It's a shame that more people haven't read this fic. It doesn't have the kinky crack of the series, but makes Nami and Ray real, and warm, and human.

And onto other people's gifts!

( Legally Blonde, Leverage, Nodame Cantabile (TV), I Am Maru, Inspector Chen series - Williams, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan )

Calvin and Hobbes, Discworld, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Beauty and the Beast (fairy tale, rather than Disney) and Cinderella here.

5 more recs. Outsiders, The Last Unicorn, LOLCats, Voltron and Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening.

Oh man, Yuletide is making my life SO AMAZING RIGHT NOW. I can't stop reading and gleeing and squeeing all over the place. So I am sharing some of that squee in a producive way! Here, have some recs for the Graveyard Book, Anastasia, Zombieland, World War Z, the Breakfast Club, A Study In Emerald, James Bond, Calvin and Hobbes, the Gentlemen Bastards series, #yuletide, and the Agent Pendergast series.

Erm, I ramble a lot, so, uh. BE READY FOR THAT.

*draws hearts all over yuletide*

In this post: Recs for Psyren, Aliens, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, Hot Fuzz, Paradise Kiss, Jurassic Park, Dead Like Me, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Dracula (book and movie), Zombieland, The Iron Giant, Young Wizards/Doctor Who, Castle, Web 2.0, His Dark Materials, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Anyband, Cthulhu Mythos, Sen to Chihiro no Kimikakushi (Spirited Away), Top Ten, Dar Williams' The Honesty Room, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (TV 1969), AND Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Recs here for the following fandoms: Alan Mendelsohn Boy From Mars - Pinkwater, Alien vs Predator, Casino Royale (2006), Sesame Street, Real Genius, Hot Fuzz, & The Breakfast Club.

Eleventy billion inches of snow in Chicago today.  A perfectly good excuse to lay in bed and read Yuletide stories :)

NCIS: LA, LOLCat, Sherlock Holmes, Sports Night (x2) and Royal Pains
Not necessarily in that order...

First batch of recs:

A Place of Greater Safety, Amanda Palmer, Anastasia, Arcadia, Battlestar Galactica/WALL-E, Being Human, Black Books, Community, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Green Wing, I Capture The Castle, Imagine Me & You, Merlin RPF, Peep Show

Fandoms: American Psycho, Another Country, Brimstone, Center Stage, Classical Composers RPF, Elisabeth, Formula 1 RPF, Fast & Furious, Generation Kill, The History Boys, Jurassic Park, Kings, Letter Days, Merlin RPF, Moonlight, Party Animals, Profit, Rome, Sanctuary, Spy Game, Trust Me, Whitechapel.

Rec list over here.