Dear Yule Goat,

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Dear Yule Goat,

First of all, thank you! I love every fandom that I requested, and rest assured that you can pretty much do no wrong.

Second, I apologize - my style in Dear Yule Goat letters tends towards the word vomit. Feel free to ignore anything I say, or take it and run with it, or do whatever you want! The best stories are the ones authors have fun with. :D

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Dear Torchwood,

We had a good run of it. We'll always have Suzie, and Welsh cannibals, and Tosh's latent lesbianism, not to mention all of the wonderful cracky times of season two. But I've been thinking about this for a while, and, well.

I think it's time we went our separate ways.

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Oh, that rare creature, the public political post on this journal.

If you have a Twitter - or even if you don't - please try to check out Tiger Beatdown's recent posts about Julian Assange and Michael Moore, with a healthy dose of Keith Olbermann.

If you visit just one link, make it this one - the rest are updates, but still important. Please keep in mind that the posts may trigger for sexual assault, since they're about Julian Assange.

I tried to post more details, but it just made me really angry. Rape apologism is never, ever, ever okay, and neither is victim-blaming, victim-outing, minimizing rape, or anything of that kind.

First of all, thank you so much! I have the utmost confidence that whatever you write, I will love, and I hope you have a great time writing it!

Please note that my approach to Dear Yule Goat letters is to throw out LOTS AND LOTS of details and possibilities and prompts and randomness on the offchance that something gets your creative juices flowing, so if you already have an idea or don't want to be overwhelmed, you should feel free to ignore anything or everything in this letter. Which, um, is pretty long.

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But really, anything you care to write will be amazing, and I am just thrilled to see more fic for one of these fandoms in the world. ♥ Again, feel free to ignore anything here that you think is stifling your muse or counterproductive, and write what you want to write! Happy Yuletide!

A bandwagon? LET ME JUMP ON IT.

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A FANFICTION PRAISE MEME

H.R. 4645, the Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, has been reported by its Committee to the full House of Representatives.

H.R. 4635 is a bill that, if passed, will lift all restrictions on travel to Cuba and remove certain restrictions on selling agricultural products to Cuba. Currently, legislation severely restricts American citizens from traveling to Cuba, and the embargo (known in Cuba as el bloqueo - the blockade) makes it incredibly difficult for farmers to sell their products in Cuba. There are several reasons to support this bill: Perhaps the most obvious is that US policy towards Cuba in general has always banked on the Castro regime dying out (sometimes literally) in the next few years...for half a century. Another is that the travel restrictions impinge on the rights of Americans to travel where they see fit, including Cuban-Americans who have no surviving relatives on the island. Opening up agricultural trade to Cuba will not only likely help with the food shortages on the island, but stimulate the economy and open up jobs for Americans.

Please consider contacting your Representative in support of this bill. You can find your representative here; even one email can make a difference.

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Please feel free to link to this post or ask questions; I am always happy to provide citations. Crossposted everywhere, because this is a subject that is very near and dear to my heart, for obvious reasons.

What with all the bingo cards going around, I unfortunately still haven't seen the one I REALLY want to see: Science Porn Bingo. I would be all over that.

SO, if you want, comment with something sciencey that you want to see in a fic. If enough people comment, I'll make a bingo card and try to get bingo! Feel free to comment with more than one prompt, although if it's something that's not astronomy, physics, or computer science, a Wikipedia link would be greatly appreciated.

Hopefully this will help me get my fanfic-writing groove back, as it absconded somewhere around halfway through the semester and is still MIA.