Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi! It's my third year doing Yuletide, and while I'm terrified that I didn't volunteer to write enough things myself, I'm still really excited to be going forward!

I know I was very babble-y in my original request, but I think the general gist was pushed through-- ie, I really, really love me some American mythos, specifically in crime. I'm writing my senior thesis on the evolution of the American outlaw-bandit myth through popular media. This, well, it can sort of take the fun out of my favorite guys and girls of American history, and I'm hoping for a Yuletide story that can stick that back in there for me!

My request for The Assassination of Jesse James... really says all I need to it say :-) I love thinking about what Jesse was like with his wife and children, and even though I've read the book and the bios and I "know", nothing does it like some awesome fic!

Public Enemies and Historical Criminals sort of cross over in a way, I guess. With PE, I guess I sort of just want a day-in-the-life story post-Billie's arrest. Like I said in my request, any mention of his Cubs and Baseball love would really make me grin.

With Historical Criminals, I'm interested in seeing what they all have to say to one another. Some sort of meeting in the afterlife, whatever that might be for them. I feel like that could be a fascinating conversation. I don't care as to the subject, but just having them all the in the same room... Also, there are some criminals that weren't added to the character list who you could feel free to include! HH Holmes and Lizzie Borden spring to mind. Any American you'd like to add, feel free! I'll read about anyone.

The only thing I'm not too fond of in these fandoms is slash (which isn't an anti-slash thing on my part, but more a combination for semi-historicalness and the fact that I have slight crushes on Jesse and John XD!), but run with whatever Gen or Het ideas you have!

I'm really excited to read what you come up with! These are ideas I've poked over for ages and ages but have never had time to write and have never been able to find. I hope something I've said will provide you with some inspiration, and whatever it is you choose to write, I hope you have a good time doing it!

Thank you!
Piper

I am really spamming the hell out of this latest picspam challenge. This is going to be the last one though, and it's different than other spams I've done, a) because I've actually tried to put caps in order (fancy that), and b) because I've run them through photoshop this time (good golly!). ie, I've not been lazy this time around! And it's because this one is a topic very near and dear to my heart: Eight Favorite Characters of Color. It's no secret that I love me my minority characters, and this spam celebrates that from childhood through now. It was always really important to me to see people who looked like me on screen and, not going to lie, I tended to favor them, especially when it came to fanfic. And fashion. And my hair. What, I'm easily swayed!

It's a bit of a diverse mix (fandom-wise), but they are my favorites and the only one I didn't include was already spammed. That's alright though, she's not number one XD! Often times I feel like these characters are either obscure or just don't get the attention they deserve.

So, without further ado...


( Picspam under the cut! )

Awhile back I played Calvin and Hobbes at an RP game over on IJ. I'd aged Calvin up to his mid twenties and turned his childhood fantasies into a manifestation of powers of sorts. Hobbes was turned into a sort of Daemon, His Dark Materials style. I was having a really hard time with the app, though I can't really remember why at this point. Creating a history for a character who you only know up till the age of seven is pretty difficult. I basically did this picspam before I finished up the app because visiualising everything helped me in the writing. I also, obviously, just love Calvin and Hobbes and I really, really love these PB choices, even though I wasn't able to play the character for very long.

I've never picspammed an RP casting before, because obviously choices can be so subjective to opinion. Hopefully you'll enjoy it! And don't think I'm raping your childhood XD!


( G.R.O.S.S. )

Sometimes I get bored and do things. Silly things. Like make soundtracks and cover art for things that don't actually need soundtracks and cover art.

Like Outlaws.

Oh well. Free music!



( The Death of the American Outlaw )

Title: The Long Way Down
Author(s): cajun_chick411 (aka, wrigleyfield)
Fandoms: Reaper/Supernatural
Disclaimer: I don't own SPN and I don't own Reaper!
Type: Gen
Word Count: 15,600~
Characters/Pairings: Sam Oliver/Crossroads Demon (briefly)
Warnings: As a rating, I would say PG-13
Spoilers: Season 1 of Reaper and Seasons 1-3 of SPN
Summary: When Sam Oliver is killed on the job, his journey through hell introduces him to several interesting characters as he tries to figure out whether or not he really belongs. A series of vignettes that connect towards a common end.
Author’s Notes: This was written for the sncross_bigbang, a huge Supernatural crossover ficathon! First, I'd like to thank davincis_girl for the wonderful artwork for this story, and ittykat for helping me beta this story (even if I wasn't able to implement more than the most basic of suggestions, thank you mono and finals). I'm generally a oneshot writer, 2,000-5,000 words at the most, so this was a challenge for me, but a good one! I really enjoyed writing this, and I hope that someone out there enjoys it :)

PART ONE. PART TWO.

Title: The Long Way Down
Author(s): cajun_chick411 (aka, wrigleyfield)
Fandoms: Reaper/Supernatural
Disclaimer: I don't own SPN and I don't own Reaper!
Type: Gen
Word Count: 15,600~
Characters/Pairings: Sam Oliver/Crossroads Demon (briefly)
Warnings: As a rating, I would say PG-13
Spoilers: Season 1 of Reaper and Seasons 1-3 of SPN
Summary: When Sam Oliver is killed on the job, his journey through hell introduces him to several interesting characters as he tries to figure out whether or not he really belongs. A series of vignettes that connect towards a common end.
Author’s Notes: This was written for the sncross_bigbang, a huge Supernatural crossover ficathon! First, I'd like to thank davincis_girl for the wonderful artwork for this story, and ittykat for helping me beta this story (even if I wasn't able to implement more than the most basic of suggestions, thank you mono and finals). I'm generally a oneshot writer, 2,000-5,000 words at the most, so this was a challenge for me, but a good one! I really enjoyed writing this, and I hope that someone out there enjoys it :)



PART ONE. PART TWO.

Sometimes it's hard to believe that I'm twenty-one. Especially when one considers my obsession with cartoon characters from past decades. At first I was going to do a picspam of my favourite Characters of Colour. Then I realised that people like Benjamin Sisko deserve their own posts. Then I was going to do my two favourite Bat-females, but I realised Babs and Max both needed their own posts. I've been obsessed with Max since 1999. Which is... sad. But here's the thing, she's awesome. She's pretty much like Terry's version of Oracle, except she's never been out in the field. And she's Black, has pink hair, was a genius with computers, and got a perfect score on their version of the SATs, which when I was in middle school? was totally fucking amazing.

Picspamming a cartoon character is kind of hard, because while Timm style cartoons are genius, they have about as much facial expression as the next 2D image. So I've also included pictures of the PB I used (singer, Monica Arnold) back when I was RPing Max, just to flesh things out a bit.

So yes, in conclusion? Batman Beyond was great, Max is awesome, enjoy picspam!


( Call me Robin and I'm outta here: A Maxine Gibson picspam )

Most of my energy this year went towards 'Betty and the Bat', which was about a 30-40k endeavour, so while I was going on with that, I didn't have time for a lot else. Then, of course, RP was taking up a lot of my time at the beginning of the year. Not so much any more. I have some half finished stuff sitting around, and I assure, I intend to write more in the new year.

Anyway, this is all I produced. Not including my Yuletide fic, or the Reaper fic I'm working on now. I seriously do not pump it out like I used to, and I completely kicked drabble writing month to the curb.

( Year end writing round up. )

Leftover Idea Prompts

Mode Photoshoot	Danny + Carmen + airport frustration	......	......
Fables + X-Factor/any Marvel	Five Times Josie Dumped Sock	......	......
Indy, Evie, Rick + Yale = meeting	......	......	......
Seven people you meet in hell (Reaper/SPN)	......	......	......

ittykat requested that I upload music, but she wasn't specific as to what sort. She just said, "No Beyonce" which I ignored :DDDDD I usually just upload whatever I'm listening to at the moment, but right now that list would be kind of limited, because I've been listening to nothing but my SPN playlist, and an entire upload session of 70s hair-rock would probably be repetative. So I have limited my SPN recs to a section which will be entitled, "What SPN and the West Wing Hath Wrought."

Anyway. Music.

Do be dears and comment if you download?

( MUSIC TIME! )

And that's the last of them. I may do more later, and come to think of it? I could probably do an entire post on True Blood music, but I'd have to download it all first. Perhaps that is a project for the next few days.

Speaking of True Blood though? What the HELL is going on in this episode? Oh my God.