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fandom_stocking is taking signups! I'm signing up this year for the first time -- last year I had a lot of fun going around stuffing stockings, so I wanted to play too this year!

Other linkage ... this is -- well, I honestly can't figure out if it's the most awesome thing I've ever seen, or the silliest thing I've ever seen. Maybe a little of both? These women made an Elfquest fan trailer with really astonishingly good costumes and mind-blowing resemblances between the actresses and the elves. Not only can I tell exactly who everyone is at first glance, but they've even captured the way they stand and move from the comics, and their facial expressions. I didn't know it was possible to simulate the Elfquest elves that closely with real live actors. At the same time ... let's just say that some things which look just fine in a comic become LOLarious when played out by actual human beings. >_>

I have been reading the most awesome book on writing, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I'm pretty sure someone on my flist recommended this to me awhile back, and it is alternately interesting, hilarious and inspiring. As well as just being a fun book to read, there are a number of useful tidbits on writing, although it's hard to sit down and condense it into how-to-write bullet points -- a lot of it resonates with me, but it's as much how she says it as what she says. She has a way of describing the creative process, especially the messier parts of it, that makes me go "Oh thank goodness it's not just me". Highly recommended.