Wish list

[resonant]

Can't resist tartanshell's wishlist meme.

And by the way, plotbunnymuse is keeping a master list of wishlists here, so if you post one, go and add a comment.



How it works:

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Res's list:

1. A no-frills website redesign. By no-frills I mean no frames and minimal graphics and a super-quick download for those of us who are on dial-up. (I very much like Basingstoke's page, for example.) But I would like mine to be better organized than it is now, easier to make sense of; to separate smutlets from real stories; and possibly to include an art page with thumbnails of all the cool art people have made me. (thanks, silverakira)

2. Songs (mp3s) I haven't been able to find on iTunes.

- Escape Club: "Wild Wild West" (thanks, tzikeh)
- Van Morrison: "Moondance" and "Stoned Me" (thanks, tzikeh and supergrover24)
- Everything: "Hooch"(thanks, tzikeh)
- James Taylor: "Mona" (from "That's Why I'm Here")
- Danny Wilson, "Mary's Prayer"(thanks, thefourthvine
- Sam Cooke: "Summertime (And the Livin' is Easy)"(thanks, a_mews)

3. Charles Dickens books. Used paperbacks are fine, not-so-great condition is fine; I just need them for reference.

A Tale of Two Cities (thanks, nestra)
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House (thanks, dementordelta)
Christmas stories
David Copperfield
Dombey and Son
Great Expectations
Hard Times (thanks, dementordelta)
Little Dorrit (thanks, dementordelta)
Martin Chuzzlewit
Master Humphrey's Clock
Nicholas Nickelby (thanks, bluerose16)
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist (Thanks, nestra)
Our Mutual Friend
The Pickwick Papers (thanks, dementordelta)

Essays and sketches from ...
The Uncommercial Traveler
The Haunted House (1859)
Sketches by Boz

4. C.S. Forester's Hornblower books. Again, used is fine, not-so-great condition is fine.

The Happy Return (Thanks, June)
A Ship of the Line
Flying Colors (thanks, dementordelta)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (thanks, veronamay)
The Commodore (thanks, dementordelta)
Lord Hornblower (thanks, dementordelta)
Lieutenant Hornblower (thanks, zebra363)
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (thanks, dementordelta)
Hornblower and the Atropos (thanks, dementordelta)
Hornblower and the Hotspur (thanks, dementordelta)
Hornblower and the Crisis (thanks, dementordelta)

5. A Lands End Stadium Squall coat, black, women's XL or 1X. (OK, no harm in asking.)

6. Gift certs for iTunes or Amazon or eBay or Lands End.

7. Someone who understands Japanese to translate the yaoi manga "Nothing Without You" for me. I'd send it to you, if you could promise to send it back. Or, scanlations of manga by Naono Bohra (Boura?), Shiuko Kano, Kazusa Takashima, or Takakura Row. (I've already got some of these, so e-mail me if you've got some and I'll tell you if they're new to me or not.)

8. A KitchenAid food processor. A red one. (OK, no harm in asking.)

9. Some really excellent writer to write me the Harry/Snape story of my dreams: good characterization, lots and lots of really detailed sex, intimacy barriers high at the beginning and then falling with an appropriate level of difficulty, happy ending, no intentional-infliction-of-pain. Bonus points for the overcoming of believable aversions to ordinary touch, for believable virginity/lack of sexual experience, and for very verbal sex, if in character. (When I say believable, I mean staying away from "Don't touch me there! Uncle Vernon used to touch me there!")

10. LJ extra icon subscription. (thanks, sanj and anonymous!)

My e-mail address is resonant8(at)att(dot)net.

edited to add: I do have an Amazon wish list. And I actually prefer to get books and CDs used, rather than new. Seems like a waste otherwise, you know?

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I have moondance, hooch, and Wild Wild West. find me on AIM!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! You inspired me to finally get an iChat account so I can use my old AIM name. I'll look for you some evening.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

More userpics for you... enjoy! (And thanks for the smutlets!!)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're fast! Thanks so much!

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

[volunteers for the website design]

I can make a mock-up and email it to you for approval/redesigns, if you like.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! Thanks so much! I took a look at your own site, and it's more graphics-heavy than I like, but it's lovely.

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

I sent you an email with a very basic layout -- did you receive it? It's a lot less graphics-heavy than my own, and the structure's sort of based off Basingstoke's layout as well.

[trixiesfic.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're looking specifically for the Sam Cooke version, but I've got the Janis Joplin version of Summertime if you're interested. I can put it up for you tomorrow.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but it is specifically Sam Cooke that I'm looking for.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Man, if someone comes through on that Harry/Snape, for the love of everything, please tell me. I would try to come through for you, but a) I have no faith in my ability to do what you want and b) I'm up to my eyeballs in stories that have to be written for people in the next two months.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm beginning to gather that Christmas is not the best time to ask people to take on new story commitments. They just kind of growl at you.

Both Nym's "Shattered" and Aristide's "A Choriambic Progression" are very much like what I want, and I've enjoyed them both, but now i want more more more!

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Man, I've GOT to read ACP. People keep telling me, and I keep ignoring what's best for me.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to spread the joy of "Lieutenant Hornblower". That's one of my very favourite books. I'll email you.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! The library claims they have it, but it's lost -- and because it's still in the card catalog, they refuse to do interlibrary loan to get it from somewhere else!

[swtalmnd]

I'd love to do #9 for you, but I'm already up to my eyeballs in my own Snarry*cough/Twinscough* WIP, and as above mentioned, not sure if I'd be up to the task anyway. Still, if it does happen, please pimp it to the rest of us! *grin*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Everybody's too busy to write. Including me, actually. But if anybody does come through, you can bet you'll hear the panting from wherever you are.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I have "Mary's Prayer." Can I use yousendit to get it to you?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That would be perfect. Just e-mail me the URL. Thanks!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you're going to make me do the snarry thing, aren't you.

[buries head in sand]

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Can I make you do it? What sort of threats and intimidation incentive would it take?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you can make me do an awful lot, as you know.

it would take ... a setup, i think, 'cause i'm looking at the description in your list again, and thinking, sure, i can do that, but why would i be doing that, is the question. i mean. obviously i'm not saying Write It Yourself. :-) but i've never been the idea-maven; you know that. [ggg]

also, it would totally have to wait for the Remus/Bill to be finished.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I think Mairead Triste and Aristide's A Choriambic Progression (http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/21/achoriambic.html) admirably fulfils your #9, but maybe you've seen it already? It's been (justifiably) recommended all over the place.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's very lovely -- I was just selectively re-reading the sex part today. But now I want more more more!

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Would you like my used copies of Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities when my class is over in December? Oliver Twist I actually bought new, I think. A Tale of Two Cities was a copy obviously used by a high school student or a freshman - there's occasional highlighting in glitter pen and sometimes very funny notes written in the text. Perfectly readable, though.

If so, e-mail me at nestra1 at yahoo dot com.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

They're here! Thanks so much!

[(Anonymous)]

I should have read the comments first, but Oh Well! More User Pics for Res! Enjoy! Happy Winter!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

And many thanks!

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

I can provide "And It Stoned Me". I'll rip it in a few hours and do a You Send It thing, if that's okay.

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=9D1510CE1967267EE9A5141ECC55FC05

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Thanks!

Dickens Works

[(Anonymous)]

Project Gutenberg has many, many Dickens works availible for free download

http://www.gutenberg.net/

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, and then they'd be searchable, too -- that would be really useful. Thanks!

[aethereal-girl.livejournal.com]

Wait, is this for the purposes of slash? Are there Oliver/Fagin stories in our future?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know that someone who loves Harry/Snape as much as I do has no business being squeamish about Oliver/Fagin, but ... no.

Though I could probably write Sidney Carton/Charles Darnay without too much difficulty.

No, this is for a nonfannish writing project.

[brynwulf]

Res, what email do you want me to send you the Sam Cooke mp3 to?
Merry Christmas! :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You've got it! I was so afraid no one would have it!

You can send it to resonant8(at)att(dot)net.

Thanks!

[askmehow.livejournal.com]

Res, pleasepleaseplease send me 'Summertime'; I've been looking for that for a while now as well.

[dementordelta.livejournal.com]

I've got a bunch of the Hornblower books and the Dickens books (one of the things I do is run a used book store). I'll send you an email to see where to mail them.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you were a bookstore person! How I envy you. (It's probably not as much fun as it sounds like, huh? But I still envy you. Do you have a bookstore cat?)

[dementordelta.livejournal.com]

It is fun when I can get dump offer books to folks! And we get a lot of cool books in that I end up taking home. But alas, it leaves me little time to actually read the things! Our store is actually 3/4 comics and related stuff and 1/4 used books.

No bookstore cat--we're worried a cat would get out and the store is on a busy street. I've always wondered how other bookstores handle that one...

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

7. Someone who understands Japanese to translate the yaoi manga "Nothing Without You" for me. I'd send it to you, if you could promise to send it back.

I might be able to get that done. I have a good friend who is fluent, but there are two possibilities for error:

1. She might not do it ... ^^
2. Is it explicit? Because if so, she's kind of young, and I'm not sure I'd want to show it to her.

So don't *count* on it, but let me know if you can't possibly find anyone else. There isn't much else I can get for you on the list (the whole being broke thing, you know?)

P.S. If you get someone to write you that Snape/Harry, let me know. ^____~ Sounds great.

Res, I have a question for you. Have you read Civil War? I'm just curious, because I can't remember. If I've already asked you I apologize: I'm rather scatter-brained like that.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely wouldn't give "Nothing Without You" to someone who wasn't a hardcore yaoi fan. It's nothing but sex, really, plus I have a suspicion that it's incest, too. (Sometimes it's better not to know what's going on ...)

So thanks for the offer, but I wouldn't feel right about asking that of someone who wasn't already somewhat numbed to explicit m/m sex.

I'm broke, too, so I totally relate. I'm going from wishlist to wishlist in the vain hope that someone will need (1) something I already own and don't want any more or (2) some service that I can perform myself (tricky, as pretty much all I can do is write, type, and cook).

Civil War had some beautiful bits to it, but I read all the parts in one sitting, long after they were published, which is probably not the most enjoyable way to read it.

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

Ah ... alright, then, I don't think I'll scar the poor girl's eyes. I just introduced her to yaoi recently, and I don't want to scare her off. I'll ask around some of my more jaded friends, though. Maybe one of them speaks Japanese... (if only it were in Cantonese ... more than half of my friends would be jumping at the opportunity to do it, then. ><)

^^;; All ... in one ... sitting? Wow, you must not have moved for a LOOONG time! I suppose it is better enjoyed over a course of time. I was simply wondering because when I think of epic fanfics/authors who write epic fanfics, the first two names in my mind are Resonant and Sushi. I was just curious if you were familiar with her work.

::looks over the list again:: I could easily send you one of my copes of Nicholas Nickleby, that's by Charles Dickens. My girlfriend bought me a copy of it recently, but I already had one, so I've two just lying around.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That would be excellent! Thanks.

Epic? Heh. I only wrote the one epic. And if I'd known it was going to be an epic, I never would have begun it ...

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

One epic is better than none.

How am I to send the book to you? If you want to tell me privately, my email is beware.the.pamplemousse AT gmail DOT com.

[juonetar.livejournal.com]

I posted "The Happy Return" today. It should be there in a week.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[hugs you]

Yaoi doujinshi

[(Anonymous)]

Being a Japanese studies major (and also quite jaded), I might be able to help you with the yaoi. I've studied japanese on and off for some three years, and I have a little experience with translating. This would be a "creative" translation, though. I dunno, maybe you don't need help with that anymore.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oops -- didn't mean to ignore you! Your post got lost in the inbox. Sorry.

Someone's already working on the yaoi for me, though. but thanks so much for the offer!