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- So, Happy New Year, I guess! I think my fannish New Year resolution is to WRITE MOAR, although we'll see how it goes. There are a few things I have vague ideas for, but I'm so bad at actually getting round to writing them.

- About a million years after everyone else, I saw Harry Potter! (Actually the cinema was really surprisingly full, so I guess lots of other people hadn't got round to seeing it yet.) Needless to say, it was awesome; I'd forgotten just how much I love these characters, and I spent a large part of it just squeeing over the trio. ALSO, totally shipping Harry/Hermione, which came as a surprise. (DANCING, OMG. ♥) And then at the end I totally shipped Bellatrix/Hermione, just for how wrong it was.

- I'm more excited than I should be about Pretty Little Liars starting up again tomorrow, although I can't really remember what happened in the last episode. I think I need to rewatch, although all my TV watching time at the moment is taken up with rewatching Downton Abbey. I LOVE THAT SHOW SO MUCH. I actually think I might write fic for it, because Sybil/Gwen needs to happen.

- There's a bunch of Yuletide fic that I still need to read, but for some reason I always find myself less likely to read Yuletide stuff post-reveal. Am I just weird, or are other people like this too? It's like between Christmas and New Year there's all this mad Yuletide excitement and it just evaporates on New Year's Day.

- I can't believe Gaga's new album isn't going to be out until fucking MAY. How am I supposed to survive?! D:

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Really? I had the opposite Yuletide experience, namely: I made a list between Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and then today I sat down and read ten or so things from it. I don't think the reveals make much of a difference to me, though; I couldn't tell you who'd written one of those fics, even though I commented on a couple of them.

I don't think the actual reveals have much of an impact on me - I don't really care who wrote which fics, because chances are the names don't mean anything to me anyway - but I guess maybe seeing Yuletide rec posts fall off my flist makes me less excited about it, or something. IDK, I'm probably just being weird!

*flail flail flail* Downton Abbey is a brand new discovery to me, and my love for it KNOWS NO BOUNDS. It's gorgeous and funny and sad and full of wonderfully real characters, and I am SO EXCITED someone else on my flist likes it. I can't wait to vid it, and am ~eagerly awaiting the possibility of fic (have you seen any floating around before?). I actually like most of the canon pairings, but also ship Sybil/Gwen like woah, and possibly a bit of Mary/Anna.

Also embarrassingly excited about PLL. Happy New Year, dude, hope you had a great one. <3

There's a bunch of good Downton Abbey fic up at Yuletide! My gift was In Translation, which is Matthew/Mary and absolutely brilliant; I'd be reccing the hell out of it even if it wasn't written for me. I also enjoyed Patience is a Virtue, which is gen with a bit of Anna/Bates and Sybil/Gwen. Plus there are some other ones, and I've just realised I haven't yet poked around Yuletide Madness to see if there are any there!

Happy New Year! :D