Yultide assignment received!

...and I have no idea what I'm gonna write.  I have an embarrassment of riches, this year; my recipient asked for not one but two fandoms I could totally write a story for.  But that doesn't mean I have story ideas bouncing around for them, you know?  One of them is an old movie that I know backwards and forwards because I watched it with my grandparents many, many times.  But I haven't watched it all the way through in, oh, maybe ten years?  At least not since I really got into fandom and fanfic.  I could still probably quote major sections, but I really need to watch it again before I start writing or I'll spend more time second-guessing my memories of the movie than actually writing.  Which means I probably won't be able to write the story until I get home for Christmas break, because I don't have a copy of the movie myself.

(The other isn't a fandom that I signed up for, but it's a relatively recent movie that was on TV just a few weeks ago, and the request is one I could do, it just doesn't interest me as much as the other.  And would require more research.  And, okay, all four fandoms are movies and I could write any of them in a pinch, but only the one from my childhood sings to me, you know?)

And I just realized that I have no cowboy icons.  If I am to write a cowboy story, I must have cowboy icons (hopefully from The Fandom I Am Writing In, because my recipient is right, there is definitely Teh Pretty in that movie).  Time to search LJ and DW.

ETA: and while I could find no icons of that movie (not even a single one!), looking at stills and classic movie blogs is definitely priming the pump.