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Cordelia has started coming in to hug me twice every morning instead of once. She says she just likes hugs. I’m a little worried, though. There was a wet streak next to one of her eyes during the first hug this morning. She said she had just washed her face, but no other part of her face was even vaguely damp, so I don’t know.

I have my doctor’s appointment for my foot at 2:15 today. I’m torn. My foot doesn’t hurt right now, and didn’t hurt yesterday, but it did hurt quite a bit on Monday and over the weekend. I may just have stayed off it enough yesterday that it didn’t get cranky. I’m not sure I want to do something like spending the next hour or two on my feet to see if I can set it off.

I bought Zingerman’s food for lunch yesterday. I ate half of the sandwich I bought, and then Scott and Cordelia split the remaining half as part of last night’s dinner. Cordelia complained that she wanted more, and Scott promised her that we’ll order dinner from there some time later this week. I also got garlic potato salad which I quite enjoyed and a halvah bar which was iffier. It wasn’t bad, but the menu didn’t mention that it was going to come crusted with nuts. The nuts looked like almonds, so I gambled and ate the dratted thing and didn’t end up having a reaction, but really, that’s the sort of thing that a menu ought to mention. I wanted to order kale rather than the potato salad, but they were out, so I couldn’t get that.

Cordelia refused to pick a present for Scott yesterday, so I picked one for her. If I understand correctly, she was worried that she wouldn’t be able to afford even the cheapest of what he’d put on his wishlist. I pointed out, later, that she has more than a month to save up. She gets $3.50 every week in allowance, and she only needs $8 to cover the paperback I picked out.

Scott has two drabble-ish fics (one is 80+ words; the other is 130+ words) he wrote years and years ago that I’ve been urging him to post somewhere. Yesterday, I signed him up on the waitlist for an AO3 account so that he can post them. He should have an account there anyway— He reads there, and leaving anonymous feedback isn’t very convenient. Both of his stories are SG-1 crossovers. I have no idea if they’d draw many readers, but why not?

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I’ve been watching people doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge (snowflake_challenge) with interest. I keep thinking about trying it, but I haven’t been able to find the energy to start. Usually, I find that sort of meme easy, but mostly, when I think about this one, my mind goes blank. I did, however, spend a while yesterday trying to figure out what makes me fannish about a canon. Part of that was trying to figure out what I’m actually fannish about.

Part of that is that I don’t actually have a solid definition of 'fannish.' Is it things I write? Things I read? Things I rewatch/reread often? Things I think about a lot and want to bend into different shapes to see what happens? Actually, now that I think of it, I suspect that that last is the biggest factor. It doesn’t dictate what I love and/or enjoy, but it does dictate what I put on the list below. There are a lot of things I adore and would love to discuss and/or write but usually don’t, and a lot of things I don’t adore but happily write and discuss anyway.

The five fandoms that I’m sure go on that list of yes!-this fandoms are Weiss Kreuz, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Amber, The Pretender, and, oddly, Sky High (which is the only one on the list that I’ve never written). I think they’re not all on the list for the same reasons, though.

Harry Potter and Rurouni Kenshin are on a related list in as much as each has given me one ginormous fic idea that I’ve been chipping away at for years. I don’t feel strongly drawn to write other fics in those fandoms. That’s not to say that I couldn’t or won’t. I very easily could. I just don’t feel like I have to if that makes sense.

InuYasha, Ranma 1/2, Labyrinth, and Phineas and Ferb fall into a third category— They’re things I could get very into in terms of digging stories out of them but that I haven’t actually fallen into for one reason or another. I don’t have specific ideas for any of them or headcanons or anything similar just a general feeling that something there could work.

There are two or three hundred other canons that I’d be perfectly happy writing, given a prompt and time and access to canon for review. My problem for Yuletide and Not Prime Time and such, in terms of offers, is always narrowing things down to less than thirty options. There are probably even more fandoms in which I’m willing to read when I’m in the mood for fic or when a recommendation sounds like exactly my sort of thing.

I don’t need to love something to have a blast writing it or discussing it or reading it. The prompts/story ideas I have saved in a locked entry include things for a number of fandoms not on this list. I have no idea if I’ll get to any of them, but I was interested enough to keep them for later.