Help?

If any of you have ever received...er...crafted items from me before, would you consider sending me an email at (my LJ name) at gmail.com and give me a quick blurb/testimonial about what you received? Please keep in mind that these would be for my website (where I will be selling said crafted items), and I would like to put your first name with your blurb. If you are comfortable with that, please email me. Thank you SO much. Seriously.

(Please, no mentions of what I make here on the entry, thank you so much!! *hugs*)

The website is nearly done--I can't believe it. I'm so thankful to Website Friend, he really came through, and in such a professional manner. He rocks.

And another crack!dream.

I dreamt that I went to a wedding. It turned out that kakiphony was getting married (I know, this makes no sense, Kaki, I'm sorry), and I was a bridesmaid, and there were six bridesmaids total. So I showed up at the wedding location with my bridesmaid gown in a garment bag.

She was getting married at a mansion, and when I walked in, the groom told me that there were two ceremonies planned, a traditional ceremony and a hot tub ceremony, and they were about to start the hot tub ceremony. I panicked but then he told me that they'd bought hot tub swimsuit gowns for everyone. So I ran off and found the bridesmaids' dressing room, which was so big it could have housed an Olympic-sized swimming pool. It also had a giant hot tub, but not the ceremonial hot tub.

The hot tub bridesmaid dress was charcoal grey with orange stripes at the collarbone and had lots of funky straps at the top. I was trying to find the size when two more bridesmaids walked in. One of them was tapedeck. They promptly took one look at the hot tub and jumped in and started pouring champagne. I pointed out that the hot tub ceremony was about to begin, but Tapedeck said, "We already have a hot tub, we don't need ceremony."

I changed and took off and got there just in time. Kakiphony was standing with her groom in the hot tub (which was shaped like a three-leaf-clover), wearing a white dress that looked like it was made of strips of seventies-style white deep shag carpeting, and I took my place behind the other three bridesmaids, standing in the hot water and waiting for the ceremony to begin.

Checking out Riptide on the net

Exploring the Riptide fandom has been rather intriguing.

First, it has always been a small fandom, it seems.

Second, it was 'zine based at first (the show ran from 85-88), and it appears that not many of the zine stories have been transferred to the internet (though some are still orderable, like this set). (ETA: According to tinx_r, that zine publisher is actually still quite active, and would be the place to go.) This is maddening to me--I want to read some of these stories so badly, but I'm worried that because the addresses listed are 3-4 years old, it might be fruitless to send away for them. I've seen some zines on eBay, too, but then I start thinking, do I really have this to spare right now...

Third, I can only find a single archive (Double Your Pleasure, a slash archive) and a fanpage with a few links. I found way more A*Team fanfic, honestly. Hell, fanfiction dot net has only three stories listed, though you can find five or six if you search diligently. My net mojo has abandoned me in this search...I've been lucky to find a scant handful of stories. Thank goodness for pier56 and the tireless efforts of tinx_r to get people to see the delicious slashy possibilities in a couple of yummy eighties guys living together in a small boat.

Fourth, the LJ presence is very small, and it turns out that pier56 is rather new (and seems like the only LJ Riptide comm).

Fifth, you know your fandom small when you squee and clap your hands because all four of the Riptide regulars commented on your fic.