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First thing: I have been trying to do a personal tumblr again. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it, but I do enjoy looking at pictures. If we haven't connected on there yet, let me know your tumblr (mine is just neveralarch).

Second thing: I have been consuming media this summer! It's nice.

Still watching FMA! It is good, and keeps subverting my expectations, because I know how the story goes and IT'S NOT GOING THERE. Reserving final judgment until I finish the series - I'm at like episode 41 right now.

Next - I saw The Lion in Winter with my mom and brother, and OH MY GOD

( lion in winter reaction )

Finally! I have blown through books two and three of the Matthew Swift series. I think there are a couple people on my flist who are fans? I can't remember.

( matthew swift reactions! )

So, yes. I am enjoying consuming all of this media.

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Drove over 1000 miles Saturday and Sunday, and made it back to grad school land. It's -20 windchill out there. I can't really say I'm pleased, but everything's unpacked and I am become human again instead of a driving machine, so that's awesome.

Tomorrow is my first (only) class of the week! And tomorrow evening I'm directing sabre at a highschool competition, for which service I will be given Money. So my outlook on life is pretty great :)

ALSO, on the drive I was listening to the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell audiobook, which is rad. I guess some people complained about how the footnotes interrupt the story, but I'm not sure how they could have gotten around it. Skipping the footnotes could have gutted some of the chapters, and I didn't find them that distracting. But I have also read the book twice? three times? so it's probably easier for me. I do wish they had gotten a woman to do the reading though, since I've always felt that the strong (and female) authorial narration was great in Strange and Norrell. But audiobooks always seem to be read by dudes, for some reason. I love the guy who's doing the audiobook now, his voices are excellent, but... dudes.

The main thing I am getting out of this relistening is that this book is ridic long. Which I knew, obviously, but I just drove 18 hours and I'm not even halfway through the audiobook. I will persevere! I love listening to audiobooks, because I'm way more active than when reading - I shout at the tape and laugh more and try to give the characters advice. My current favorite exclamations are "Poooor Mr. Norrell," "Strange, your life is so hard, I'm sure," and "CHILDERMASS."

Which brings me to the other main thing I am getting out of this relistening - I love Childermass. And Norrell. They're such terrible people. And I really really want to write Childermass/Norrell, that's probably going to happen soon.

But first, I filled all the not!fic prompts a little while ago, so here are the links to the two new ones:

BBC Sherlock: Moran/Moriarty kidfic (warnings for blood and death)

RDJ!Holmes movies: secretly a virgin Moran/Moriarty (featuring demisexual/greyA!Moriarty)

And now, here are a bunch of feelings about Commander Sam Vimes:

( I am not sure if I recommend clicking on this cut, it is mostly me trying to sort myself out wrt class and authority and inter-generational mobility, and I'm not sure whether it amounts to anything )

So, in conclusion: I have a lot of class issues to work through! (I knew that already.) I really want to know how Young Sam develops as he grows up! And I don't think this was very coherent, sorry!

Let me mention my giftfic again real quick first: A Pain in My SideKICK (The Non-Adventures of Wonderella) and Nonstarter (By the Sword), both by leidolette who is apparently a stellar human being. They're awesome.

Here is what I wrote:

Some Time Before (7080 words), for anstaar
Discworld, Teen. Sybil Ramkin/Samuel Vimes, Adora Belle Dearheart/Moist von Lipwig
Summary: The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.

My assigned fic! I was deeply uncertain about this as I was writing it, but people liked it and I think it must have turned pretty well after all. And it has four of my favorite Discworld characters in it, so.

And then I wrote ten treats while not writing a term paper:

( these are cut to save your scrolling )

The end! Tomorrow I start replying to comments, and then I will finally stop talking about Yuletide for at least nine months.

It's been a while since I posted! I am alive. Minneapolis got a huge amount of snow on Sunday, and the roads were slippery for a while, but I did not crash my car or crash in someone else's car, although my fencing coach does enjoy fishtailing WAY too much when he's giving me a ride.

I'm kind of buried under papers and also Yuletide atm - one paper is almost done, and I need to start the other one soon, but I'm feeling optimistic. And my Yuletide fic is very very close to done, so that's good, as I also have an exam on Monday that I need to prep for.

Everything's winding down for the semester - classes ending, last fencing practice yesterday (though I might go to the club on Tuesday if I'm caught up enough with my paper), people abandoning campus. I'm driving out on Thursday and plan to be home for almost a month, which will be great. As long as the roads are clear for my two-day drive.

I was really into the not!fic meme for a while, but I've since run out of time for writing things that don't have a deadline. I promise I'll get back to the unanswered prompts soon! In the meantime, here is what I've done already:
Skyfall:
Whishaw!Q & Dench!M bodyswap for justice_turtle
Elizabethan Skyfall AU for narwhale_callin
Hornblower:
Bush/Hornblower highschool AU for aralias

And I am still taking prompts if you don't mind waiting a while for a response. Writing these is actually really great - I'm writing them the same way I write plot summaries before I write a fic, and I'm definitely tempted to try and flesh a couple (or all of these) out into a real fic once the semester is over and I can breathe.

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Just got back from five-ish days without real internet: planning on dealing with comments and things momentarily. But I just finished reading another Hornblower book, and I'm trying to sort through how I feel about the series, so I thought that now would be a good time to make a post about that.

( cut for a lot of FEELINGS, and some minor spoilers )

It has been a week and my computer is almost fixed but not actually. I am waiting on hinges, and then apparently the IT people are going to have me and my dad actually glue everything back together, because some of the modifications we have made to the outer casing of my laptop are sensible but not intuitive. So I'm very occasionally on my mom's laptop for now, with access to my laptop's hard drive (hurrah!), but not enough confidence in my cache/history deleting skills to log into my fandom spaces much (boo). This means I have been reading LJ on my phone and tumbling not at all, though tumblr probably hasn't noticed my absence.

For some reason I am totally okay with writing fanfic on my mom's laptop, though, which is good because I am very close to done with this Bruce/Clint/Natasha Avengers fic. I had originally planned on 5k words of character studies, which became 10k words of plot and Clint Barton feelings, which has developed into a 20k ship manifesto for superspies and scientists with issues. I'm not sure what happened here, but I'm projecting 25,000 words and I'm pretty sure none of it makes sense at all. (This is all code for: I would really like a beta if anyone wants to volunteer, because I can only gear myself up to betahunt in new fandoms once a year and I have already used it up on BBC Sherlock. I would be very grateful and also very patient, because I know this is kind of. A lot.)

What else has happened? I have been reading books at my old pace, i.e. one every other day or so. I finally read the new Garrett PI and Discworld novels, which had been backburnered because of school. I have been attempting to find housing for the fall, but haven't had much luck yet. Will keep trying, because I value shelter. And we had a garage sale, which went pretty okay but unfortunately involved revealing my location to a bunch of strangers (which I am normally fine with, but for some reason caused a lot of anxiety in this case). But they were strangers who gave me money for things we didn't need, which was the important part.

And that is all! Hopefully my next post will come sooner rather than later, and will be typed up on my own laptop (fingers crossed).

I acquired a microphone on Sunday, for a SECRET PROJECT which I will probably be working on for quite a while with nothing to show for it as of yet. But while I was testing the microphone and retraining myself on audacity, I recorded a bunch of very short podfic of my own stories. It's all in very small fandoms, so I don't know if anyone will be interested, but I figured I'd let people know anyway.

Also, concrit is super appreciated at the moment, as I have no idea what I'm doing. Unless it's about how I mispronounce things, because I know I do that and I try to correct it, but it's unfortunately going to keep happening until I learn how to pronounce ALL the words, haha.

( Under the cut: podfic for Dinosaur Comics, Doctor Who BFA, Journey to the West, Making Fiends, and Tintin. )

Let me talk about my Carnivale giftfic again, first: From the Dirt by arllama was really great, and I love it and the author forever because I got a story for meeee. (I'm like this during every story exchange, but especially Yuletide. A story for meeeee.)

And Reveals! I wrote eleven fics again, just like last year - it may possibly become a tradition, though it's probably best that I don't try to commit to it. I was much more delayed on my main fic this time, and then I ended up writing a second fic for my assigned person and a bunch of random treats on the 20th, which was better than last year (when I wrote treats on the 24th). Basically my only resolution last year was to start writing treats earlier, so that worked out, haha.

Short headers and some commentary:

( ...under the cut )

In summary, Yuletide was a blast and now I have to go respond to comments. And start stockpiling obscure fandoms for next year.

I'm flying to Florence tomorrow, so I might be out of contact for a few days. Hopefully I'll be having fun with a place to stay, although the people who have offered me a spot in their backyard are being a bit off-and-on with the giving me information thing. Anyway, after that I'm flying to the US next Saturday. I'm just going to apologize now for long delays in responding to anything.

But before I go!

sophia_sol was doing this meme where you answer five questions, and then you give other people five questions. These are my answers - if anyone wants some questions for themselves, just ask (although, as noted above, you might have to wait a while for the questions).

( This is cut for babble and a tiny bit of swearing. Possibly an abuse trigger? Only discussed in a fictional and vague context. )

Here is my first shot at trying to write commentary for a fic. It is for When Gangster Bosses Ruled the City (gen Tintin fic), and it was requested by

curuchamion . I hope this is interesting and not just pointless navel-gazing? If this works out, this will probably be one of those vaguely irregular features like the deanons that I do instead of bothering to come up with new content. Woo! Commentary in bold.

( lots of words under the cut )

To sum up, I was exhausted and then noir. I guess? It's just one of those things that happens.

This weekend has been super busy, except for today, when I just kind of melted into my bed at some point. I disapprove of the current heat about as strongly as I disapprove of the forecasted rain for this week. June :|

Anyway, I went to Munich yesterday! And it was amazing, so amazing, I love it. People kept telling me about the bars to go to and so on, but because I am me I went to six museums and climbed to the top of Old Saint Peter and walked way too much. Also, I was awake and moving for around 22 hours, between getting up at 3am to catch my train and finally making it back to my apartment at 1 am. The last few hours of that trip were a little surreal. Definitely affected my ability to move and be a person today, I have no idea if DS9 chat noticed the difference. I did manage to submit my entry for the second Machine of Death anthology, so there's that.

Also, a couple weeks ago, I finished Tristam Shandy. And it was amazing, so amazing, I love it. It's such a weird book - probably not one I would have read, if it hadn't been one of the few English-language books at the local library. But it was silly and fascinating, and people who have talked to me/read my fic may have noticed that I have a weakness for shaggy dog stories. Tristam Shandy is the ultimate shaggy dog story, the best kind, the kind where you know that's it's not going to go anywhere but you've given up on caring and can just enjoy the ride. Anyway, there's a movie based on Tristam Shandy which I've now seen - A Cock and Bull Story. This movie was amazing, so ama- okay, I'll stop. But it is really good, though I'm not sure what people who haven't read the book thought of it. I, flush with my knowledge of canon, was literally crying with laughter at the end. It has Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Dylan Moran, Gillian Anderson and more, all of them playing themselves as well as characters in Tristam Shandy. How was this ridiculous meta thing something that was made?

Finally, I've been reading Camera Obscura in a desperate attempt to familiarize myself with Anji and Fitz. I guess Lloyd Rose's crush on Paul McGann is fairly well-known, but I was still surprised. How many times can you mention the Doctor's hair/face/general aura of handsomeness in a chapter? Lots.

Okay, off to watch the new episode. I'm excited for being able to look at my flist and facebook and reality again without being spoilered.

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bunch of random media things
Fic: I Reached Out My Hand
Back in the Twin Cities
Overidentification with fictional characters part 83
Reveals!
quick update
Fic: Mirror
Horatio Hornblower: man of action and really a lot of angst
Checking in
a bunch of random podfic
Yuletide reveals!
A post of stuff
Fic commentary: When Gangster Bosses Ruled the City
Life: update

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bunch of random media things

Fic: I Reached Out My Hand

Back in the Twin Cities

Overidentification with fictional characters part 83

Reveals!

quick update

Fic: Mirror

Horatio Hornblower: man of action and really a lot of angst

Checking in

a bunch of random podfic

Yuletide reveals!

A post of stuff

Fic commentary: When Gangster Bosses Ruled the City

Life: update