215. TEN guilty pleasures you allow yourself around the holidays

1. Egg nog - with extra nog!

2. Pfefferneussen (Those are those little round crunchy cookies with powdered sugar on 'em, right? Those.)

3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (yeah, the kid's show. Not a porno. Jeeze!)

4. Christmas carols. ...What?

5. Christmas cookies - with the whole coloured sugar sprinkles and icing and the little silver sugar bbs and all

6. Playing in the snow. What?! Snowball fights can be good target practice and then there's shoving snow up Sammy's shirt to hear him squeak good hand-to-hand practice, too!

7. Bobby's cornbread stuffing. Damn, I could eat buckets of that stuff!

8. Deep-fried turducken. Yum!

9. Cranberry sauce straight out of the can

10. Dr. Sexy's doing the New Year's countdown this year(!)

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Muse: Dean Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural
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1. I miss you. More than words can even say. Most of the time, I find myself thinking about you in random situations, and asking myself what you would say. Asking myself if you’re still proud of the choices I’ve made, or if you feel like smacking me upside my head and telling me to grow up. There’s still a part of me that hates myself for not crying when I said goodbye to you. You deserved tears. God, you deserved a river, and I couldn’t. I don’t know why, but I regret not crying then. I regret not being able to afford anything better than what you got. I regret not saving you, and I really regret where you’re at. Not where you’re at, but your body. It’s in a crater, and I can’t even visit you. I can’t even go there and be alone to talk to you. And it still kills me.

2. I know you hid my Ice Castles DVD. Once I find it? I’m going to make you watch it with me every day for two weeks.

3. Sometimes I feel bad for breaking your heart as much as I did.
…but then I remember about how much you broke mine, and it starts to even out. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you’re happy…but a part of me can’t forgive you, and I know a part of you can’t forgive me. We’ll never talk about it- and we’re both okay with that.

…So why did I bring it up? Bah.

4. It should have been me, not you. He was after me. And yeah, I was shot, too, and technically, for the third time, I died for a few seconds. But you should never have lost your life because of a personal vendetta that was against me. You deserved to go out of this world in a different way. She misses you, and I’m so sorry that we couldn’t save you.

5. You died a hero. He misses you. Monopoly will never be the same.

6. I know you think I’m annoyed with the compulsive calling. I’m not. I love it, and I want you to come home. I want to hear a lecture. I want some tea, I want a cozy, and I want to see you clean your glasses. Besides. It’s not the same hearing your voice over the phone. Your non verbals are missed.

7. Sometimes I want you to hate me to make things less complicated and awkward. I think sometimes you want to hate me, too.

8. I still have nightmares about you sometimes. I hate you for it. Have fun in hell.

9. Am I allowed to go back? Was that just a one way ticket, no refund kind of thing? Am I damned? If it’s not an answer I want to hear, can you lie to me?

10. You’re saving me. I know that sounds really cheesy. But because of you? I can sleep better. You’re warm, (like a furnace, my bed mate’s a furnace!) and you’re nice, and you make me happy. I haven’t been happy in a long time. I’ve been content. You stop the nightmares, and you make me laugh. My face actually hurts from smiling so much. My heart burns for you, and I’m talking like a romance novel. I’m also rambling. I also want you. All the time. You are that thing in my mind that won’t go away. I’ll be devastated if it does. It must be love. Okay, I’m stopping now. Stopping. Stopped. Fin.

Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Muse: Buffy Summers

1. Humor.
2. Make-up.
3. Knives.
4. Chaos
5. Fun.
6. Fire.
7. Being complete.
8. Not being bored.
9. Intelligence.
10. Having the Bat around to needle!

Muse: The Joker
Fandom: Batman

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Honestly, this is just...ridiculous in so many ways.

[Choices-verse]

1. Baileigh
2. Irina
3. Adam
4. Sylar
5. Hank
6. Claire
7. Mohinder because Sylar would be unbearable if he lost him
8. Peter See above, but substitute Adam

[Non-Choices 'verse]

9. Lauren
10. Rachel

Julian Sark
Alias

1. Having met Selene.
2. Stefan disappeared long enough for Elena to get lonely.
3. Bonnie asked to remember that night. I suppose I came off looking well enough.
4. Darling Giselle.
5. The pretty little wizard didn't have his wand with him.
6. Hotel lockdowns.
7. Stefan loosening the stick up his ass a bit.
8. Discovering an interest in genetics.
9. Carnivals.
10. The prospect of a very interesting new year...

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