and also Yuletide!

[jlh]

I am so excited about my Yuletide gift fic, Where There Is Peace! It's Anne of Green Gables (which I secretly thought it would be given the fandom counts) and is all about Leslie and Owen and their family during WWI, the time period of Rilla of Ingleside.

It's funny, I was talking to lillijulianne the other day about my childhood holidays, when I'd mostly sit in the corner reading because there's no one in my family around my age. Well, I'll do it again this year, because the story has sent me back to canon--I admit, I hadn't read Rilla or Rainbow Valley in quite a while, so good thing I'm home in Maine, where all my Anne books still sit on the small bookshelf in the small bedroom.

AND, AND, I got the loveliest comment from my own fic recipient, so this first Yuletide experience has been pretty much aces! So hard to sit on my hands until the reveal, though!

In completely unrelated news (since AI is too big to make Yuletide) yesterday was Ryan Seacrest's 33rd birthday, and like lessthangreat I saw his new P&G Oral Care commercial while watching the VH1 marathons (how great is that shit, btw? fun, and you can totally watch it with your mother). I hate the "backstage" chatter part because it's so badly written (by D'Arcy, I'm pretty sure) that I can sit down write now and tell you what the advertising brief was, never mind that I hate those ads where people "just happen" to be talking about either the Key Benefit or the Reason to Believe. Oh, P&G, never change.

But what I do love is the "on the set" part with Josie Moran. When she is so entranced by Ryan's Scope-fresh breath and Crest-white smile that she gets all up in his grille, he reveals his usual discomfort when women behave in a non-faghag-like manner. Oh, Ryan, never change.

Comments

[lessthangreat.livejournal.com]

I hate the "backstage" conversation as well. Very horribly written, and it's obvious that they were trying to build on Ryan's metrosexual thing, but they failed miserably at it. It's all worth the exchange with Josie, though. Anything that describes Ryan as smelling like "a fresh minty snowstorm in heaven" and leaves him looking that uncomfortable is completely okay with me. :)

Happy Christmas, hun! ♥

[samgrrrl.livejournal.com]

I read your Yuletide fic, and oh! ♥!! It was lovely and heartbreaking and I'm totally running out this afternoon to get an emergency set of the Anne books, since mine are wrapped up in storage in NY.