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For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

I hope this is okay to post here!

I'm trying to get my LJ back on track and thought it'd be best to get some new friends! And what better way to do that than through a friending meme!?

I'm trying to get some of my favorite fandoms included in this, and feel free to pass it along to some of yours.

You can find the meme over at my journal HERE.


Thanks!
-Jessie

Recommend your Favourite Rent Fics
I'm interested in hearing about what your favourite fics have been. I don't care what length, pairing or genre they are-- just what your favourite stories are, and why. What attracted you to them? Why are they so good?

Recommendations are good too, but what I'm really interested in is your experience as a fan reading fanfiction. As a Renthead, I started out only reading fic, but after having a hard time finding stories that I liked, I started to write (this was not my first time writing, as I had written for other fandoms, but I had originally not intended to write for Rent.) Now, I write more fics than I read because most fics are crap, but I do have a few favourites.

Basically all of the Rent stories by volitaire on fanfiction.net-- she really does her homework, and her stories live. She's sophisticated and funny, but it's when you're laughing hardest that you realize you're sobbing. She has an alternate universe story set in the 1950s that I was hesitant to read at first, but it turned out to be brilliant. You must check out her work (warning: most of her stories are very long.)

And of course, that staple Love Alone by wmmhija, also on ffnet. No explanation needed, as I'm sure you've all read it or heard from other fans who read it and wept. I cry every single time I reread it. The first two times were the best, but it lasts through many rereads.

I have two other favourite stories, but I need to check up on who their author is first, because I forgot.

backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're tall on adventurous spirit, but short on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about bargain hotels and hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!