i_hope_that
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.

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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.

Tags: crafts, diygifts, do it yourself

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.

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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.

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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.

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Title: Worse Than Lisa
Author: edna_blackadder
Rating: PG
Pairings: Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn, mentions of Sam Seaborn/Ainsley Hayes and Sam Seaborn/Lisa Sherborne
Word Count: 521
Disclaimer: The West Wing was created by Aaron Sorkin. Given the corporate nature of TV, I’m not sure who owns it, but definitely not me. No money is being made from this, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Post-ep for “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail.”
Author’s Note: Someday I will manage to write these two without one of them being drunk. Today is not that day. Thanks to sarcasticsra for the beta. The fake cut leads to my fic journal, secret_dossiers.


( Worse Than Lisa )

Title: Sam Between
Author: rivestra
Rating: NC-17 (warning: consensual BDSM)
Character / Pairing: Sam Seaborn / Sam Winchester (a Supernatural crossover)
Spoiler Warnings: West Wing through 4x09
Disclaimer: For fun, not profit. I own nothing here.

Summary: California's been hard on Sam Seaborn, but a fund-raising trip to Stanford winds up giving him something he never knew he needed. (Set in the time period between 4x09 and 4x17 of the West Wing, which coincides nicely with the Stanford days of Sam Winchester.)

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