I could picture a cool-ass Halloween/Nightmare Before Christmas black tree.

We do have Drusilla and Gentlemen xmas ornaments.

I just wrote a letter to the IO9 editor

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ita, why don't you email Annalee directly

Am I missing something?

Isn't either Annalee or Charlie Jane the editor at io9?

I have to go over to my folks' place and set up their Christmas tree, and I really don't want to. But my sister has done a lot of heavy lifting today, so it's my turn.

Bah.

Off we go to be a Good Daughter (tm).

Yup, Hec. Annalee is the editor, and it's her I wrote. She's always been nice to me--we talked about Gus, and she even suggested I write pickup SPN recaps (although she should have asked someone to do that this week--the couple of paragraphs they substituted instead was annoying, considering Arrow and Vampire Diaries and EVERYTHING ELSE GENRE has a long review up inside of 24 hours, it seems. Doesn't have to be me, but it should be someone.)

The site is changing a lot--the new software has removed the trial period for new posters, so everyone who wants to piss in the pool can do so with a burner ID they never use again, and you can absolutely see the difference in the conversations. Reading articles is so much more irritating that I stay in the natter-equivalent most of the time (burners can't be assed to go back there, usually), but even so--their last two new hires have been...problematic.

One's an evo-psych advocate who wouldn't know the scientific method if it hypothesised his ass and reports on studies after reading nothing more than the abstract, displaying a disturbing lack of understanding of statistics, and Bricken who's snarkier than the usual tone, which is fine, but also spends thousands of words shitting on a piece of fanfic every week.

So stuff like debunking the North Korean unicorn story (translation issue, plus old news) and the feeling of a mainstream sff+science site that was sex positive and didn't belittle fangirl interests...fading in the rearview mirror. If that's either their motive or accepted collateral damage, well, I won't be the first commenter (by far) that they lose, but I don't want to be lost.

I could picture a cool-ass Halloween/Nightmare Before Christmas black tree.

Somewhere on my tumblr I reblogged a photo of someone's white tree that was decorated entirely with NMBC toys. It was fantastic, and I want to do the same thing one of these years. Because we have a white artificial tree, and lots and lots of Nightmare Before Christmas toys.

But I don't know if we're putting a tree up this year. We didn't last year, because of brand new kittens of chaos, and this year they're just LARGER kittens of chaos.

I'm thinking of three horror film theme weeks (7 celeb pics) to do on the provocateuse tumblr, and I'd love popular suggestions. They're all about horror flicks:

• The one who did it
• The one who got did (these are not actual titles)
• The one that got away

This is more than a oh-so-slick way to sneak in the SPN boys, honest. And Jamie Lee Curtis is already on the list. I was just looking at a list of hot women (chicks, really) in slasher flicks, and they were mostly from ones you've never heard of and don't feel any more inclined to see after reading their piece.

I just caught a Honda ad with an interracial couple, or at least what I thought was one (the discomfort at the suggestion of rash sold it for me), but at the end the very nagging mother (white) says that her son is single. WELL YES. Because you just ruined his date with the Asian chick. Good lord. I have written an entire fanfic piece based on this, and let's be clear--the mother does not come off well, and the son runs off with the Asian lady and lives happily ever after.

You want suggestions of people? Like Johnny Depp, who got it in A Nightmare on Elm Street?

I'm thinking of three horror film theme weeks (7 celeb pics) to do on the provocateuse tumblr, and I'd love popular suggestions.

It's harder to think of attractive people that did the killing. But Anthony Perkins (Psycho) was really quite handsome. And Janet Leigh, of course, was gorgeous.

Tony Perkins.

A young Janet Leigh.

Another pretty young Janet Leigh.

It's been awhile since I had a Christmas tree. Dean and Maddie were kittens and then I had Dean and Penny and Penny is still just a bigger kitten. Maybe next year.

I almost bought a cheap little tree but then I had visions of finding it under the bed or trashed in the kitchen.