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Dear Person-Who-Got-Me-in-Yuletide!

Hello! This is my first year doing Yuletide, so I hope my prompts were workable for you. I am thrilled to be playing and you are spectacular just for sharing one of my fandoms. If what I say below bugs you or is going to, like, mess with your creative impulses, feel free to ignore it: if I requested it for yuletide, I will pretty much read absolutely anything.

Here are some things, generally, about my reading habits:
- I like romance and schmoop in a totally shameful way.
- I really, really like happy endings.
- I'm not a huge fan of gen. There are exceptions, though! I prefer slash generally, and will read almost any slash pairing in my fandoms, but in any of my yuletide fandoms I would be just as thrilled with het or femmeslash.
- I don't have many squicks. Sex-wise, I'll read just about anything except bestiality and cross-gen.
- My really big plot squick is X character suddenly discovering their warm fuzzy side and deciding they want to stop being such a quote castrating bitch unquote and have kids or, or, or hang curtains. Don't get me wrong, I love kidfic, but not at the expense of integrity or women's lib.
- I think I wrote most of this stuff in my request details, but just in case:
( some stuff about my requests! )

Like the challenge says, feel free to ignore everything I say, and enjoy the holidays!
<3
Tui

Drink to Susan Cooper. Drink to the lost Stanton family members. Drink for Will being 11, dammit.

Yesterday, it being the last day of school and so forth, sixth_light, lady_larla, and I determined to watch That Movie, you know, the travesty one. We decided to numb the pain with vodka, drinking every time we felt our childhoods had been particularly insulted. This was a lot of fun, but we drank nearly an entire bottle of vodka by the time we were 30 minutes in and decided that we were no longer coherent enough to watch anything at all, so I still don't really know what I think. It'll happen sometime, I suppose.

On that note, recommended morning-after breakfast: sliced strawberries and nectarines tossed with icing sugar and balsamic vinegar (and fresh ground black pepper, if you have it) spooned onto chocolate-chip waffles topped with honey-cured chicken bacon. SO good.

This is the horrible essay I wrote about animal rights. Ugh. I always thank god for the designated reading committee (Lucy, Tas, Meg and Mum) who never fail to be timely and useful, but apart from grammar correction I totally ignored everything they said this time because I just could not face revisiting it.

( 'Can they suffer?' Human Experimentation and Animal Rights )

If you do read this, and disagree with me, fair enough because I'm not totally sure I agree with me. However! Please, please read the exchange between R. G. Frey and Sir William Paton, "Vivisection, Morals and Medicine" in Bioethics: An Anthology (Ed. Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, Blackwell 1999). It's a very good article and it summarises what I think is the dilemma that really confronts us, as part of a society that experiments on animals.

Finally, I was going to post about a couple of things lately: the Urewera raids, Yuletide, blah blah. But it all got put to one side, because Dumbledore: gay gay gay! \o/