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I have been out almost every night in the past week. Suicide Commando, Assemblage 23, Angels on Acid, End the DJ, the vampire ball, Star Wars night. Over and over and over. I should probably take a break. I woke up with excrutiating leg cramps this morning, after dancing in my vaguely Hana solo outfit in the muggy, thick air for hours. I came home with someone's glowsticks. (What do you even do with spent glowsticks?)

Time maybe to stay home and read Czech novels about love and loss. (Ivan Klima, right now.) Or to finally get cracking on Dishonored.

my Yuletide letter 2012

Dear Yuletide author,

It is nice to see you again! I always look forward to writing this letter to you because it means one of the best parts of the year is about to begin. We get to share our stories and be a little bit of wonder for each other. I hope Yuletide 2012 finds you well, Yuletide author.

The most important thing to me is that the feel of the world is there, or the voice of the character. Everything else is just icing on the cake. (I love icing by the way.) As ever, optional things are optional but I know I like to have some idea of what the person enjoys. (My previous yuletide letters can be found under the tag for fic requests.)

My requests might not make it terribly obvious, but I'm a goth kid at heart. Sex and death and longing and all that jazz. I enjoy stories about the future, about technology and transition and change and regret. Bittersweet stories are my favorites. If you feel the urge to write your way into the outer darkness, then go for it. I'll follow you there. I'm glad of all levels of sex and violence so write to whatever rating strikes your fancy. If you want to write sex or relationships, go for it - I like all intersections of sex and gender. There's very little I find unpleasant to read aside from traumatic eye injuries and excessive ruminations on shit.

I enjoy stories set around holidays, though it is not a requirement by any means. Holidays always feel like the concentrated burst of a season, whatever they are.

Supremely optional extra bonus details are things I like - candy and sweets, snappy dialogue, BDSM, blood, Christmas lights, stars, cold weather, good coats, androids, vampires, intense emotional relationships that may or may not be physical, moral ambiguity, cities at night, dancing, shiny objects, cigarettes and alcohol.

Young Adult (2011)
This movie is such a dark, amazing thing. I was floored by the rage and the crazy lurking under Mavis' skin. Matt feels like her opposite on the same coin, wearing his damage a bit more visibly. I don't have any specific sort of requests except that someone explore the incredibly fucked up world happening here. I want to know the details of their lives, the hidden moments that happened before the movie or off screen. I want to feel everything they feel.

Absolut Vodka Greyhound Commercial
When I saw this, the very first thing I said was "I am going to request this for Yuletide." Because why not? This is a crazy colorful little bit of madness. Anything in this world would be amazing. Why are they here? What is at stake with this race? Who are these people? Why does the woman with the blue lipstick appear to loathe the woman with the gold mane? WHAT IS GOING ON? WHO WINS?

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
I recently got to see this in the theater again, and relieve the glorious feeling I had when I first saw it. I was pretty young when this came out and looking back twenty years later I can see how much all this sex and death and blood had an influence on me. Give me blood, give me pain, give me hundreds of years of grief and loneliness and longing. Give me eternity. Give me Oldman's yearning, hungry Dracula.

The Bridge Trilogy - William Gibson
I find Rei Toei the most fascinating part of this particular series of novels, even though she doesn't get a lot of time directly in front of the reader. The idea of developing artificial intelligence and the rise of consciousness from machines is one that fascinates me. I wonder what Rei Toei thinks about. Any sort of story about the search for self, or how Rei Toei stands between the physical and virtual worlds would be amazing.

So, hopefully there's something in here that you'll find helpful for writing. Good luck Yuletide author. Thanks for being part of the best time of the year.
-Pear