sisabet | Wishlist Meme

I pretty much cut-n-pasted this from

taraljc's LJ, but it is cropping up everywhere and... I have issues. I *love* seeing this on my fList, I absolutely adore wishlists for other people and even when they are outrageous, I think it is fun to see other people's hopes and dreams ("Dear Santa, I want an ELECTRIC PONY!!!")

My issues come in, possibly because I am a G.R.I.T.S. (thanks Lum) and it is bad manners to ask for something. Even if asked by others "What would you like for so and so?" you are not supposed to tell them. You are supposed to say "Oh, nevermind me. Get yourself something nice and I will be happy."

Which can really warp not only you - but also the poor shlub trying to give you a present. I mean - I'm pretty average, I think. In the more extreme Martyr Forms, someone could concievably be bleeding out on the floor and refuse any help at all because she doesn't want to be a "bother."

I wish I were joking, but some small part of me does equate adequate healthcare and taking time to take care of your body with selfishness. I reject that immediately, but then I see so many older women in my own family who I just have to constantly nag for them to take time to take care of themselves, so I know that it is ultimately *more* selfish and defeatist and just generally a shitty thing to do to loved ones - so I'm good there.

But...

I still freeze up when asked what I want - it took me 3 years to actually get an Amazon wishlist but now that I have one, there is no stopping me from adding to it. I can't link to it -or really tell people about it much, because of that guilt/GRITS thing, but hey! Maybe next year? At this point my mother has access to it and I am perfectly nonguilty and happy about that. You have no idea what kind of monumental step this is as every year when we go Christmas shopping I actually am unable to tell her what I really want and generally pick out something I don't like that much, because I am messed up. If what I really wanted is on the counter - I'll take the thing to the left of it. Somehow it feels less "Gimmee, gimmee, gimmmee" that way.

So here is my wishlist - what I am able to state:

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

MY LIST:

Dearest Santa:

You pissed me off when I was six and you liked Dawn better. I have since come to realize that you are a fictional character and that Dawn was lying. So all is forgiven, or will be if you bribe me with the good stuff.

1. I want an icon from WWW. Specifically I want an Icon of Artie as Lightin' McCoy. More Specifically, I want Artie to move down the steps in his slow slow quick quick quick cadence.

I understand if this cannot be demonstrated in icon form. In my head he walks down the stairs in a loop to You want a man with a slllooooowww hand. You want a lover with that easy touch. Normally, I try to protect the world from most of what goes on in my head, but it is Christmas.

2. I want a multi-media Christmas vid to the Coca Cola song. Specifically, I want it to be a Scorpius vid where he discovers the meaning of Christmas and really does want to buy the world a Coke and keep it company. Bo Duke must smile. Bonus points for Emmet Otter and his Jug Band Christmas footage seamlessly incorporated, because Santa, I know how you love bonus points.

3. There is not enough Invisible Man fic. Seriously. Specifically - there is not enough later canon fic. Where are my post-Season 2 stories? Not everything is fixed, people! Things can still go wrong - like right now - in my head - it is four years later and shit is hitting the fan. I want late season 2, early season 3 (Cause in my head there was one) fic. If at all possible.

4. Rec's to any and all cave-in fics would be nice.

5. Cliched Christmas fic is always welcome here. Does Angel discover that it is a "Wonderful Life?" Does Clark experience "A Christmas Carol" (I know you think - why not Lex? dear Santa - but I think Clark would be a wonderful Scrooge because he doesn't think he is a Scrooge. So he would be in denial -and of course totally knowledgable of the trope- and think that it was Mxytlplx or however you spell it and almost miss the point). If someone wanted to write Cliched Christmas fic that featured a cave-in... Well Santa I have been a *very* good girl this year. I have had *no* cavities and this one time, at vividcon... I um. Had a really good time.

6. Well, right now this is my railroad crossing wish, but I really want

heres_luck to get a new computer. This is absolutely selfish on my part. This is why it is a railroad crossing wish.

7. Actually - I really do want to buy the world a Coke. Me and Scorpy. Can you arrange that? It's been a dream of mine for forever.

8. I swear when I was a kid there was a Linda Carter as Wonder Woman wristwatch and her arms were the dials and I wanted one, except Mom wouldn't get it for me because I couldn't tell time on on regular clockface and you didn't get it for me, not because you hated me (as I thought) but because you don't exist. All this time we have wasted dear Santa, and I think that this watch - well it could be a healing moment for us.

::sings "Oh, Sherry" to Santa::

9. I would like a scarf. Maybe a hat to match. Oh! I want a scarf and a hat that match and I want them to be secretly in love and the scarf to be all "Oh, no - it is impossible for us to be together for you are made in the round and I am linear. It will never work!" and for the hat to be all "Oh, no baby - I swear you are *it* for me. Now come over here and give me some sugar!" and the scarf tries to resist and just cannot and then one day the scarf meets these mittens.... and they coordinate and the hat finds out about the mittens and there is this big huge blow-up and...

Okay - so I want a hat, a scarf, a pair of mittens and silly smut to accompany them.

10. 'Zines are cool. They are portable fanfic (still on desktop PC). I just like 'em.

11. I want Sid's nails to be trimmed and I don't have to do it. Actually Dear Santa - there is only one person reading this that could accomplish that task. Maybe two if my father is reading this. Daddy, do you read my LJ? I haven't asked.

12. I would like a link to Download the episode of "Vegas" where Paul Ben Victor and Vincent Ventresca appeared cause in my head I have this story where The Agency is now under the Federal Gaming Commission and they are actually undercover and having a wacky wacky time and incorrectly assume that Vanessa Marcil's character is a Chrysalis agent because - as they explain to The Official:

[overlapping]

Darien: Well, she looked like Chrysalis...

Bobby: This is true, sir, she did look like Chrysalis...

Darien: I mean, she had the hair, and the eyes...

Bobby: Two of them, sir.

And now I need to see the episode again.

13. I would like each of you to listen to Michael Franti and Spearhead's "Everyone Deserves Music" this month. That means that as many of you as possible and that can afford it should buy the album. I would like their sales to boost.

14. I'd like the shattering "sisabet" that

just_eunice made to be an icon cause it makes me happy and I'd like to watch it while I am at work.

15. I'd like a nice bottle of red wine. Actually, that one is for right now, except it is Monday morning and I'm at work. Sigh.

16. I have a pile of clothes in my ironing basket and... no iron. I thought I had an iron, but I do not. I have an ironing board and a steely gaze, but that really isn't effective in the battle against wrinkles. A few months ago I gave most of my ironing basket to Goodwill, but now there are more clothes in it and I can't afford to give them away anymore.

Shit, my good black coat is still at the cleaners. I left it there in March and I can never remember to pick it up except for when the cleaners is closed and DUDE - I gotta run and try to see if they still have my good black coat.

Oh - and I still want my own Puppet Angel.

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I did not grow up in the south but I have the same "taking care of self=selfishness" problem. This is why it's so hard for me to call in sick to work. I'm convinced that it's just me trying to find an excuse to make a mountain out of a molehill, or something.

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