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Partially thanks to spotting this post at fandom_stocking, I realized that I hadn’t mentioned my own stocking outside of a locked post. I believe it was probably back in early December.

So outside of that locked post, I’m saying that you can find my stocking over here. The reveal date for stockings is January 19th.

Fandom Stocking reveals have been pushed back to (presumably, for right now) Monday. If you would like to volunteer and help them to fill the stockings that have received either nothing or very little, here’s their post for that.

I just realized that I hadn’t linked to my entry over at Fandom Stocking since the 11th. So if anyone ever feels like putting anything in my stocking, it’s located over this way. I might link to it one final time before comments are unscreened for everyone in January.

I am truly beyond thrilled with all that I received for fandom_stocking this year.

To sum up, I received:

-Two beautiful banners/book covers from lost_spook, for the Yuletide story I wrote for her, as well as two icons (and two others to share because they’re fantastic) for Dracula (1968). I’ll see if I can put the second banner in without wrecking anything on Ao3 once I figure out the coding and upload it elsewhere. I'm not sure about creating a third chapter over there just to show them off, but it's an option.

-17 Supergirl icons from medie, and 2 Supergirl related icons from tarlanx.
-3 Dark Shadows icons from liadt.
-A great Methos centered Highlander drabble from misbegotten.
-A book recommendation (which I’ll track down soon) from john_amend_all.
-A massive helping of book recommendations from rebecca_selene. I will be tracking down a large amount of them, if not all of them, in all likelihood.
-Links to Halloween focused stuff from valarltd
-Happy New Year from falcon_hours, bererjs and twinsarein.

I’m uploading as many icons as I can to Dreamwidth, and saving others so I can switch them out at another date if I want. To all that are on my circle/friends list and provided something, thank you again.

I’ll look through the collection further on Ao3 in a little while.

The reveal day for stockings over at fandom_stocking should be January 6th, so I felt I should give one final post about it. (Things have been hectic, so I didn’t post about it other than when it was first posted, and likely won’t post about it again until reveals) So if anyone ever feels like putting anything in my stocking, it’s located over this way.

Also, last call for guessing what story I wrote for Yuletide. Reveals are tonight. I can do a drabble (at least) in that particular fandom, with a prompt of your choosing, if you guess correctly.

This year, I received the following in my Fandom Stocking:

-Seven Happy Holiday Wishes/Holiday Cards
-A double drabble involving Sleeping Beauty in the Doctor Who universe (which I love)
-Another drabble from Doctor Who (a rather lovely one).
-A Doctor Who icon, of angry Capaldi (which I love)
-Six icons of John Watson from Sherlock (a wonderful surprise)

So thank you to everyone on my friends list that left something for me! It was greatly appreciated.

If anyone wishes to leave anything in it, my stocking is hung here. I couldn’t think of very many fandoms that I would want anything from this year, but it’s there.

For anyone interested, my Fandom Stocking is hanging here. I forgot to mention this more than once during the course of the month.

Meanwhile, I’ve decided that once the authors are revealed for Yuletide, I will do a separate post about the process for the long story I wrote. It’s already written up. I suspect the story itself is too long for LJ, but it might not be too long for Dreamwidth. I’ll figure that out later.

I considered having people guess which story was mine, since that meme's going around again this year--but it would be too easy, given that I've mentioned both the length before, as well as (while searching for a beta, possibly in a locked entry) the fandom in earlier posts. There are too few stories in the fandom in question this year, meaning it would be relatively easy to guess. So I'll sit that out.

David R. Ellis has passed away unexpectedly, at the age of 60. He had been at work on his next film, Kite. May he rest in peace. He was a director who worked on Snakes On A Plane, Final Destination 2, and many others. He was also stunt coordinator for The Addams Family, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Ghost Dad, Warlock (1989), Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, The Beastmaster, and many other tv shows and movies.

Fandom Stockings are live. And another thank you to those that left well wishes, fanfic, or fanfic IOU’s.

Happy 66th Birthday, David Bowie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been cast in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

Josh Brolin joins Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

10 Awesome Female Engineers From Science Fiction.

Fan Art: Ghostbusters 3 poster starring Andrew Garfield.

Amy Pond, The Girl Who Waited Under A Van Gogh Sky T-Shirt.

Guillermo del Toro Confirms DC Comics Project Dark Universe

100 Quotations Every Geek Should Know.

Comics You Should Own—Sandman.

Television Critics Association Winter Tour Part 1: 'Hannibal,' 'Bates Motel,' 'Mockingbird Lane', ‘Dracula.’

Honest Trailers: Inception.

Rachel Weisz Reveals Oz: The Great And Powerful Character Details.

The Ultimate Guide To 2013’s Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

Bones Renewed For Ninth Season.

Adapt And Die: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1988)

Mark Romanek’s live action Cinderella movie is too dark for Disney.

Watch out: Someone is trying to scam science fiction authors.

An interview with Steven Moffat, conducted by his son Josh.

An interview with Tobe Hooper.

More DC Writer Changes To Come - Was Gail Simone Just The Beginning?

Zombie attack sheet set.

James Mangold Explains The Wolverine's Placement in the X-Men Film Universe

Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 92: The Raven (2012).

Now Playing Podcast: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2012)

As a passing note as to how cluttered Nellie’s house was? Her daughter hired a cleaning crew. They’ve brought the back of a semi truck to cart things off, with extra dumpsters. They’ve been working almost non-stop (they took a break on Sunday afternoon) since Friday. They’ve hauled that thing away six times to the dump and back, and they’ve only made it into the living room. They get here at 7 AM every morning, and they don’t stop until 6 PM.

Mike Hopkins has passed away, at the age of 53, due to drowning after falling out of a raft while on a river. May he rest in peace. He won an Academy Award for his work on Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He worked on Return To Oz, Blade Runner, Heavenly Creatures, Time Bandits, the 2005 remake of King Kong, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (AKA Braindead) and The Frighteners, and much more.

Peter David suffered a stroke while on vacation. There is an update on his current condition here. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.

Jonathan Frid remembered.

SearchFreak’s Top 12 File-Sharing And Copyright Events of 2012.

Fandom Stocking: Volunteer Time.

What Counts As ‘Horror’?

Editorial: A Note On The Current State Of Horror Television.

27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012.

Most Overlooked Movies of 2012: Cabin In The Woods, Bernie and More.

Your Last Injection Of Great Cosplay For 2012.

The Hellboy Memorial Awards: Comics Alliance’s Best Comics of 2012, Part 4.

The best superhero and mainstream comics of 2012.

The best graphic novels and art comics of 2012.

The Coolest And Wrongest Spoilers Of 2012.

The Most Baffling Pop Culture Moments of 2012.

A New MegaSpider Image To Close Out 2012.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 365: Starman #80.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 366: Doom Patrol #63.

When We First Met—The Cast Of Sandman.

Handmade Silver TARDIS Necklace.

Superman on TV: December 31st-January 6th.

From Cracked: 4 Insane New Year’s Celebrations From Around The World.

Lost Girl—Season 3—New Poster.

Man stuffs Denny’s entire Hobbit menu down his Hobbit-hole.

A Massive, Interactive Chart Of All Of Zeus’ Offspring and Affairs.

First Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters TV Spot.

Atop The Fourth Wall: The Next 15 Screw-Ups Of Atop The Fourth Wall

Skyfall Passes $1 Billion Worldwide.

Marvel Readies Amazing Spider-Man #700 2nd Printing.

10 Science Fiction TV Characters We Hope Will Die In 2013.

Sonequa Martin-Green is joining the cast of Once Upon A Time.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 73: Ghostbusters II (1989) Commentary.

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 145: Predators (2010)

Now Playing Podcast: New Year’s Evil (1980)

Tumblr has been hacked.

Over at Fandom Stocking, stockings are being posted—here’s mine.

iFanboy’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics For Kids.

Krampus: The Devil of Christmas greeting cards.

Top 51 Sci-Fi Spaceships.

DeLorean taxi takes you to your appointment across town and half an hour ago.

Superman on TV: December 3rd-9th.

The New Man of Steel Poster Is Here.

Chronicle Star Dane DeHaan is Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Star Trek: Into Darkness Poster Revealed.

Beautiful Mucha Style Tenth Doctor T-Shirt.

Little Bilby Goes For A Walk T-Shirt.

Middle Earth Map Dress.

P:R Redesign: Ben Hatke’s Justice League

Superheroes With Mustaches.

Commodore 64 Cake With Cake Monitor.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Superman’s Christmas Adventure.

Awesome Storyboards From 15 of Your Favorite Films.

Cinemassacre: The Terror (1963) Commentary.

Colin Morgan: Merlin movie could leave fans unsatisfied.

J.J. Abrams And The Cast of Fringe Celebrate 100 Episodes.

Batman—Bad Days—Episode 9.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): December 3rd.

Jason Voorhees: Personal Trainer.

Top Ten Rules of Space Opera.

Mission Log—A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast: Supplemental 1—The One With Rod Roddenberry.

Film Sack Podcast #142: Starship Troopers (1997).

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Phantom of the Opera. This is the 1943 version with Claude Rains.

Five goofiest moments in Uncanny X-Men #’s 103-107.

From The AV Club: 15 comics that inspired forgotten tv adaptations. I remember watching Cathy, even if it was dull.

Images from season 4 (the UK version) of Being Human.

rarewomen is taking nominations for the upcoming challenge.

SFX interviews Kris Holden-Ried, from Lost Girl.

The preview trailer for Sherlock’s The Reichenbach Fall.

Adding to the fandom_stocking gifts: not_from_stars gave me a fic coupon—I can’t think of anything I would want to ask for, so I might not use that. medie has added an assortment of Highlander and Doctor Who icons.

fandom_stocking comments are now unscreened.

In my fandom_stocking, I received:

-Well wishes from icepixie, noveltea, chokolattejedi, twinsarein, and ariestess.
-A Ghostbusters drabble with a possessed Egon, from omorka.
-A Tenth Doctor and Donna drabble from yamx.
-5 Dark Shadows related icons from stormylullabye.

Richard Alf has passed away, at the age of 59, due to pancreatic cancer. May he rest in peace. He was one of the co-founders of the San Diego Comic Con.

Lily Collins has been cast in the remake of The Evil Dead—the character of Mia is basically a female version of Ash.

They’re remaking Carrie…again.

Noel Clarke is joining Star Trek 2. Meanwhile, Benedict Cumberbatch has reportedly been cast as the villain.

Batman characters, Dr. Seuss style.

From Cracked: 10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else).

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Cake.

Amazon is taking pre-orders for the first Ghostbusters trade paperback for the ongoing IDW series.

Gateways To Geekery: Dystopian science fiction films of the 1970’s.

The live action Akira is is no longer happening, after the studio decided to rethink the budget.

A parody trailer for a Doctor Who/Back to the Future crossover.

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over.

Tomorrow is the day comments are unscreened at fandom_stocking.

Syfy’s promo for Lost Girl.

Livejournal is offering paid account refunds for accounts paid in December. This is due to the billing/autopay bug.

Last time I’ll be posting this one, since unscreening is right around the corner—my fandom_stocking is located here.

Dreamwidth now allows community imports from users with paid accounts, in addition to regular journal imports.

Pop Culture Resolutions For 2012.

Sir Christopher Lee discusses The Hobbit and (briefly at the end) Dark Shadows in his Christmas message.

Micha Hershman leaves Dark Horse.

Bryan Hitch is leaving Marvel, after ten years.

This may be the first real look at The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Dark And Obscure Gems of the Disney Vault. Includes a mention of The Watcher In The Woods, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Black Cauldron, The Devil And Max Devlin, and several others. I would have included Return to Oz, Mr. Boogedy/Bride of Boogedy, and The Child of Glass.

For seven days, you can download (for free—it’s their Pick of the Week) BBC Radio’s The Pied Piper of Hamlin, as read by David Tennant.

From Cracked: 10 Real Survival Guides For One Very Fake Apocalypse.

Erica Durance wears the costume from the failed Wonder Woman pilot (the corset portion looks slightly better on her since she’s not spilling out, even if the whole emsemble looks awful) in an episode of Harry’s Law.

Watch the unaired pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s 17th Precinct.

Marvel’s lawyers are trying to prove that mutants aren’t human, in order for Marvel to get cheaper tax rates for certain toys.

Find out Krypto’s fate and Superman’s new origin story in issue #5 of Action Comics.

Yesterday, for me at least, Youtube switched back to the old layout (while I was in IE) and the x button to remove videos from the subscription was restored. Today, the glitch must have resolved, since it’s back to the newer, horribly done one, minus the x. So it’s back to watching videos there through Firefox, where Greasemonkey’s code can allow me to use the original layout.

Side note: For all those interested, Ghostbusters Blu-Ray has been marked down from $19.99, to $7.99 for a very limited time on Amazon. If I happened to have a Blu-Ray player, I would purchase that immediately--in lieu of that, for those that do have one, I'm just spreading the word on the deal. Thanks to yendi for spotting it first.

The local news says that for the year, we've had a grand total of 74.85 inches of rain. I'm not surprised by that. Most of that hit us in April, accompanied by tornadoes--which triggered flooding for the region.