This came up in the course of Hippo-ing, so I'll just throw this out as a sign-up post. If the Beta post, the Hippo route, or other avenues of research are not quite what an author needs... sometimes they'll want to post to a journal community.

If you absolutely cannot disguise your fandom and/or Yuletide assignment in a research-based community, here (hopefully) are volunteers who can help you preserve anonymity.

(Here are some resource examples from last year.)

VOLUNTEERS: Please put your Yuletide sign-in name in the subject and any communities where you can proxy-post. Plus other contact and availability information, as with the Beta post. If applicable, remember to pass the link to the author so they can monitor it.

AUTHORS: A quick reminder not to comment directly to the query (at least not till after Reveal). If you are on LJ, you can use the Tracking button and watch your Message Center for notices.

Keep in mind that each community has its rules and procedures. Most of them, including little_details, require that you've made a good faith effort to find answers on your own.

Thank you!!

( Lulzy, completely SFW (boo!) video under the cut. )

( Also, here are some ~delicious~ quotes from a recent Levi article: )
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Second source has another video of the ~eloquent, historic award speech~. And also has this gem of a quote:

The photo spread, a tribute to "hockey moms," [LMAO] features the 19-year old posing with a hockey stick.

(...but probably the most hilarious thing of all is that Palin tells ~Oprah~ that she might be open to inviting Levi over for Thanksgiving. Have Tank taste all your food before you eat anything, Levi!)

P.S. ~~~"A lot of famous people have done Playgirl: Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Mario Lopez."~~~

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So, I've noticed that apparently no one owns a single Happy Anniversary Negg or Snow Kabobs.

And this made me think, do any of you guys have either of these? If you do, are they worth more to keep rather than to feed to a kadoatie? You can't find these things ANYWHERE at all.

If you have either of them, how in the heck did you get it anyway? :P

You know, I'm not quite sure how you'd phrase it, but I think you need to warn in some way for the main character of a series eating one of the other characters (the one who most of the fandom, you included, ship him with) alive. Even if it's just a nightmare. I'd say warning for cannibalism might give the right impression even though it's not strictly correct.

Especially since it was marked as a humour story and the previous nightmares had been light, funny, and mostly standard Mpreg shorts.


Also, Smallville fandom, how is it possible that over half of all your rec links are broken? Is Google just giving me really old results? Has the fandom been dead for years (it doesn't seem to be)? It's not just the links leading to smallville.slashdom.com, either, because I've figure out how to fix that. Oh no. I've never seen such a wide array of 404 errors, domain-name-for-sale pages, and random apparently unrelated Japanese websites.

If you want to list the reasons why X would never call his lover honey/sweetie/babe/baby/dearest/lover, go for it. On most characters, you're probably 100% right. And if you want to explain why a certain pet name really rubs you the wrong way personally and how you would disembowel anyone who ever considered using it on you, go for it.

However, reasonable, rational, sane people use pet names. It may be joking, it may be completely serious, but pet names like honey, baby, sugar, sweetie, kitten, lover, etc come up in fan fic because they are used in real life. It's entirely possible for an educated, enlightened, nonsexist person to call a significant other by a pet name (or vice versa) and it's entirely possible for an educated, enlightened S.O. to actually like being called by a pet name (or, again, vice versa).

So, while it's okay to rant about how you don't like a certain pet name and how a certain character would never use that pet name, please refrain from making judgement calls about people who actually use those names.

okay i have been a bit frivolous with my neopoints recently and today.... shock horror i am down to 100k.... im not quite sure how!
but anyway. i REALLY need to sell these couple of things!

Vira Usuki Doll
r98
TP: 2mil
Will sell to anyone here for 1.2mil. may go even lower, just mail me.

&

Halloween Paint Brush
Asking 1.1mil.

please mail me at mechanicalcabaret :)

On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod responded to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's criticism of the president. Romney expressed incredulity that President Obama had not made up his mind on Afghanistan.

"Why is it taking so long?" host John King asked.

"Governor Romney has to choose one argument of another," Axelrod responded. "Either he has to say he is not paying attention or he has to say he is taking too long because he has been involved in a rigorous review ... You know, I know that Governor Romney has never had responsibility for any decision akin to this, so he just may not be familiar with all that it entails."



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Texas accounts for half of executions in US but now has doubts over death row
Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishment

by Chris McGreal, The Guardian

Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by overturned convictions, judicial scandals and growing evidence that at least one innocent man has been executed.

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What do ontd_p Texans think? Have you detected a change in mood towards the death penalty? Do you think it will ever be banned in the state?

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[5] Alvin & The Chipmunks
[9] Play It Again, Charlie Brown
[9] Thanksgiving (stock)

SAMPLE:

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http://www.neopets.com/pirates/buriedtreasure/buriedtreasure.phtml?333,350
500nps!

good luck. (:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/Y96OBUBFbSw/018908.html

Gabby Sidibe on Conan, being awesome.

What's the best way to equip Afghan women with info on contraception?

Support Scarleteen, an awesome sex-positive sex-ed site for teens!

On a new approach to education about women's rights from some awesome activists in Lebanon.

The FBI received an advance warning that Scott Roeder was a threat to Dr. George Tiller. And ignored it.

A 29-year-old trans woman was murdered in London. Two men have been arrested in connection. Reminder: The Transgender Day of Remembrance is Nov. 20.

Two critiques of Glee's approach to disability.

When it comes to being considered for a job, race is a more significant factor than criminal record. Wow.

A toolkit for ensuring that green-jobs initiatives benefit women and people of color.

Wendi Muse asks the big questions.

A big ol' middle finger to you, too, Klondike. And you, too, Reebok.

On Packaging Boyhood, the follow-up to Packaging Girlhood. Also read Rachel on social constructs of masculinity.

Kay has some great resources for understanding the implications of the Stupak Amendment.

After googling Michelle Obama, writes Aminah Hanan at Michelle Obama Watch, "you've come a long way, baby" is not the first thing that pops into her mind.

A former Ikea executive alleges that the company is pretty openly racist.

Shark-Fu reviews the latest On the Issues, about race and feminism.

Challenging the stereotype that all gay men are fey.

The GOP: Not faring so well with the ladies.

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse is cancelled.

A trans woman fights for marriage rights in Hong Kong.

Slut-shaming on Twitter? Not cool.

Announcing the launch of Candy, the first transversal style mag.

Getting serious about rapists who don't think they're rapists.

An Arkansas evangelist was sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking child "brides".

Veronica reviews the controversial new "abortion-addiction" book, and finds that abortion isn't really at the heart of the memoir.

On gender inequity in the theater.

What have you been reading and writing this week?

Hello all! I'm doing National Novel Writing Month, and I have a question for my project. Let's just say that someone's house was haunted, and it was freaking that person out. If that person wanted to get rid of the ghost or to quiet it down, what advice would you give them?

⌈ Secret Post #1045 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

101.

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Notes:

THIS goes into effect starting with Submissions Post 151, as secrets were posted before the poll went up last week.

Secrets Left to Post: 18 pages, 443 secrets from Secret Submission Post #150.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - what i dont even ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

What are your favorite online shops?

I'm asking in here, because all of you have great taste. I swear I've posted this topic before, long ago, but...here it is again.

(I know many of you will say Etsy!)