I thought that each expensive gift you’d arranged was a totem of your esteem ;)
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~ it all seems a horrible dream! ~
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Here are 3 fabulous Guys & Dolls-related Inception things, fandom! And 1 that is just a thing, but still Guys & Dolls-related. 
1. bossymarmalade‘s FANTASTIC YUSUF/EAMES FIC, “Mine I’ll Leave To Chance.” omfg omfg Yusuf/Eames like I always want to read about them, hot and intimate and friendly and GUH. and YUSUF HERE, omfg, so insightful and casual and sardonic. I love him so much. YEAH, CHEMISTRY. : D: D:D
2. a few weeks ago i filled a prompt for the kink meme! and now i will repost it. the prompt was: DICE-SWALLOWING. YES. YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT.
The Music of the Night? Turned out to be Slow Jams.
Every now and again I make posts that I almost feel silly making bc the point is so obvious. Like making a post to say “eating soap is bad,” or “more queer characters and women is good,” or “falling for a psychotically violent guy is bad.” And yet! People keep creating these -things- that feel like the creative equivalent of ripping the audience’s collective mouth open and stuffing it full of lye.
And as Carlotta said, “These things do ‘appen,” which is why I am going to tell you all about LOVE NEVER DIES: the Sequel to Phantom of the Opera.
Phantom, as you might possibly be aware, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s epic blockbuster musical about a psychopath with half a face who builds a lair under an opera house and kills a few people to achieve what would seem a rather contradictory dual goal of turning Christine Daae into a diva and kidnapping her to live with him forever in the catacombs of Paris, which don’t actually exist. Like all good musical theatre nerd-children of the 90′s, I have 15 million pieces of Phantom memorabilia and I can still probably sing every word of the OBCR. I love Phantom the way I love all relics of my childhood, and I care about the Sequel to Phantom the way I care that someone is remaking She-Ra: Princess of Power into a live-action CGI-blockbuster directed by Michael Bay. Alas, if this post were only about She-Ra (though if it were they’d probably find someway to fuck her over, too!).
Love Never Dies, the thrilling sequel, is currently premiering to pans in London. There is a delightfully snarky review of it here at the Times Online, which also does us all the favor of revealing the entire plot. If you don’t want to read spoilers for the sequel to Phantom of the Opera, then something is very wrong with you, but in any case, you now have fair warning, because the relevant snippets of the review are
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you are my personal hero and the greatest composer in musical theatre history and ilu ilu ilu i hope you live forever, i love you <3
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oh, fine.
ALSO:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. You really should have stuck with Tim Rice, but you’re all right, man, you’re all right. <3
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IRONY:
Forward, Always Forward I Go: Lea Salonga
So, I thought to myself: Self, you should post about LEA SALONGA, because she is your hero and she makes you happy, and she is the best singer in the entire world!
==> LEA SALONGA < ==
(omg you guys, she wants us to know that we are ALWAYS WELCOME to come visit her website, she is the best best best.)
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Love is why (we tell the story). Yuletide 2009
signups are now open through Thursday the 12th. If you haven’t signed up, I strongly encourage you to do so. Yuletide has become the gift that I give to myself every year, as much as to other people. I love it so much.
This is my “Dear Santa” letter. It’s also a healthy dose of fandom pimping & introspection. I beg my flist to indulge me a little.
I nominated 6 fandoms for Yuletide (that list w/some notes on each fandom is here), and then promptly fell in love with a 7th Yuletide fandom just after nominations closed.
Narrowing down the list this year is extremely hard for me. Yuletide in the past, for me, has mostly been about my experience as a writer. (In fact if you skim my yuletide tag from years past you can kind of see me transform from this, like, casually snooty outsider (who defaulted her first year and then felt so guilty she has pinch-hit every year since to atone for it) into this over-eager fangirl who comments on every single admin post and spends hours making geeky spreadsheets of the requested fandoms. And flow charts. I’ve loved all the fics I’ve gotten, but I’ve done the challenge because of the amazing freedom I feel every year as a writer, and the fact that I always learn a new fandom in the process of pinch-hitting and going out on a limb and offering rare fandoms I’m not too familiar with.
This is my 5th year participating in Yuletide. I was thinking about what I’d like my nominations/requests to be about this year, and realized that more than anything I just want my gift-writer to have fun & stretch your limits a little, and feel like you’ve grown from the experience of writing the challenge, because that’s how I always feel.
I think I want my fandoms this year to feel very fluid. I want you, dear Santa, to feel that you could easily move from one of these request to another without losing much enjoyment, because ultimately it’s all about what you bring to the story, and the canon doesn’t matter so much. There’s no order of preference – I honestly will be thrilled to receive any of these. What I want most of all is for you to have fun and maybe experience something new.
So, with that in mind, these next posts are going to have tons of fandom promotional stuff, for everyone, and for you, dearest Santa, if you’re thinking about checking out any of the other fandoms on my list.
Yuletide 2009
