Snow falling on new Christmas Lights

My dad has been adding to the light display outside, specifically a new 12-foot tall pyramid tree (it's got long strings of lights going down to the ground... and they twinkle, too!). Plus, he got two 36-foot faux pine garlands with colored lights that look something like those early 20th century thorny-looking lights (except these aren't wired in series, ie. if one bulb goes out they aaaall go out. Anyone remember those?) to put on the bannister going upstairs. He and I put it up just to see if it could be done. Looks nice! I'm planning to take a picture of it and use it for a Christmas card next year.

And as if to mirror the snow outside, it was snowing in the MxO when I "jacked in". Sieges had a lovely evening killing Silver Bullets gang goons/Masked hoodlums, aside from the times she got killed.

Funny line of the night -- This from ingame!Flood at the conclusion of the latest critical mission: "You know, you almost seem competant sometimes. I'm probably just drunk."

Another fandom to avoid like the plague

Remind me never to go looking at "A Knight's Tale" fanfics. I just took a look at the AK'sT section on ff.n and what did I come up with, but, on the first page:

--Wat/Chaucer slash. I don't see that at all, particularly since Wat reminds me eeriely of Mark, so it's like slashing my best buddy.

--William/Chaucer slash. All right, I could almost accept UST (unresolved sexual tension), but not outright slash. William, for all intents and purposes, is straight, considering how gaa-gaa he is over Jocelyn. Sure, he's closer to his three buddies than he is to Kate, the female blacksmith, but Kate is, effectively, "one of the boys". Close friendship among guys =/= TEH GAY!!111111 (Okay, it may not necessarily equal that, but I couldn't think of the right sort of punctuation marks to use). After all, the medieval age wasn't exactly a gay-friendly era. ( VERY graphic stuff; don't click if you're under 17 )

But for that matter, the whole film has a refreshing, lumbering sort of innocence about it, like a St. Bernard puppy. Even the scene where Jocelyn comes to William's tent in the night was handled very tastefully. I don't wanna see that innocence mauled.

--A Mary Sue fic with two Sues (William fanbrats in disguise). No. Just... no. I imagine William, aka. "Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein probably had tons of fangirls, and it would be funny to see a fic like that... it would make a really cute parody, but I don't wanna see the fanbrats contaminating the waters, s'il-vous plait.

--A Gary Stu named Xander, and the author's name is Xander. Not the most medieval sounding name, either, and despite the charming anachronisms in the film, this wouldn't work. Alisaunder might work better.