First snow!

The first real snow of the winter (and I'm the sort who believes that winter starts on December 1st, if not the first snow of the season, though this would mean that winter started back in October): we've got maybe an inch or two out there and it is so pretty to look at. Best of all, it's snowing overnight, meaning we'll have that magical white light tomorrow morning when the sun rises. I always love it when it snows overnight, and you go to bed with the earth cold and muddy and bare, but you wake up to find it covered in white and silvery-blue in the shadows...

St. Nicholas's Day and fandom randomosity

Just brought a bag of Beanie Babies (and some "wannabeanies", ie. beanbag stuffed animals that aren't Beanie Babies but wish they were...) to the Toys for Tots bin at work, and also got my hours for the week: I have ten hours! Yahoo! I guess I got a chance to play St. Nicholas today.

I'm tempted to ask someone to put a Santa hat on my Muraki icon, but I guess if I'm going to stick any Santa hats on any White-Haired Pretty Boys of fandom, it would be safer to stay with the Santa-hatted Flood icon. The least that would happen is he'd get really pissy about it and possibly scream about his hair getting messed-up, but he wouldn't pull anything too nasty (unless the culprit was one of the Merv's operatives, in which case, he'd send them on a suicide mission...). If anyone put a Santa hat on the guy I've begun referring to as "the killer snowflake who eats speshul snowflakes" (well, anyone but his ladyfriend who's only seen in the manga), I'm sure he'd find an especially creative and painful blend of magic and science to kill them.

I've also been beating away ideas for a Dresden Files/YnM crossover. Granted, it could work, but I don't have the time or creative energy to plot another fanfic right now. Meifu likely exists somewhere in the Never-Never, and I don't doubt Muraki is a White Court vampire: I keep hearing Thomas referring to him as "my crazy cousin Kazutaka". Plus, it would be funny to watch Harry and Molly trying to deal with Tsuzuki and Hisoka: I can see Molly crushing a bit on Hisoka, though the snarky young shinigami is unlikely to reciprocate; she might have better luck with Tsuzuki, though I have a feeling the bouncy one with the sweet tooth would be on the bad side with Harry for running up the food bill.