blue_eyed_1987

So, Saturday I'm off to the parents house. Tomorrow night M's parents are coming down, stopping the night and then heading back to the midlands. I'm having a meal with him, his parents and his grandparents, then off to endure whatever mishaps my parents house will hold. I'm incredibly anxious about it all, because it's not been the best year financially for them, and they can't deal with stress in any productive way (I can see where I get my flailing from). Sooo I'm anticipating stress. 

I'm only there until boxing day, then back up here and work on Thursday. Yaay. Will have some time to myself to decompress after Christmas as I'm not sure when M's coming back but it won't be the same day as me, so yeah. 

The short story is, I'm not going to have guaranteed/great access to the Internet until Wednesday evening, so:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I hope you all have brilliant weekends/holidays, Christmas, if you celebrate it. 

I'm looking forward to the actual day - I love playing with the kids and helping set things up (we all clubbed together to get them a wii with all assorted bits and pieces, they're going to be so excited!). It's just the run up with everyone stressing out that's going to be awful.

I'm not going to be watching Merlin, as I haven't at all, and I'm not ready at all for the end, but I'm not that fussed about spoilers? So there's that. I'm feeling a bit distanced from fandom in general, but I think that's because of RL, so after Christmas I think I'll be fine.

I've signed up for hp_kinkfest again! Got an awesome Remus/Sirius prompt, because otp <3. I'll do more writing after the holidays. 

Anyway, love to you all! See you on the otherside!

Now I've finished my paperlegends I'm taking a bit of a break before working on my Sherlock WIP. I've sort of been wanting to write something silly and utterly self-indulgent, but there' a lack of plot bunnies hopping around my mind (prompt welcome!), so I've turned back to knitting.

I'm knitting this:

http://jwgh.livejournal.com/475358.html

Isn't he adorable? I've chosen a deep red, because I've got a lot of that yarn, and it was cheap, so it's my default 'testing' yarn. If it work out I might do more in a different colour. This'll be the biggest non-scarf thing I've ever knitted :D

So my book review site failed epically, because I fail /o\. But I do want to keep a bit of a record of what I've read this year.

So far (in order):

Snow Crash
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Maus (Graphic Novel)
The Millennium Trilogy
The Hunger Games Trilogy

9 books in 6 months isn't bad going, I don't think. I've enjoyed all of them immensely, but I'm definitely on the lookout for something more upbeat next time - I found the Hunger Games quite hard to get though.

The only thing I have on my to-read list for definite is Neverwhere, but I'm not sure if I want to read that next. Will have to go through our books and find something to read tomorrow.

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So, I'm planning my Merlin big bang at the moment, and it's ...odd. I don't normally plan. Anyone who's ever beta'd for me will know that what I start off writing and the finished product can be almost entirely different things.

I write ideas as they come and then mould, edit, and shift them to where they fit as my ideas evolve. I write scenes out of order, leave them half finished to jump to another idea I've had - it's surprising anything I produce makes sense. I feel for anyone who betas for me, I really do.

But I'm planning this fic. Timelines, character backgrounds, scenes, the works. I tried to write some the other day, and I came to something I hadn't figured out, and I stopped and went to plan it out. Which felt odd. Normally I would just breeze through it, put a and move on, but I couldn't here. I had to go plan (incidentally, I'm using scrivener at the moment - it's very good isn't it? Not sure I'll be able to afford the full amount come the end of my trial. I might have to see if there are any alternatives anywhere.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm worried I'll forget things during the long slog of writing it, or because paperlegends hasn't started yet, or just because I'm paranoid I won't hit the word count (never mind the deadline), but apparently I now have to plan everything for this fic. Which means my cheerleader is getting a lot of flailing from me.

Tell me flist, are you a planner or a just write and see what happens-er?

So, I'm watching the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film again, and while the Sherlockian in me is screaming a bit at the flagrant bastardisation of canon, my heart is stupidly in love with these two. Like, I have a ridiculous smile on my face, because I love the friendship there (they totally love each other, I never ship them so hard as I do in this verse), I love how badass Watson is, I love the banter.

Apart from the scene where Holmes has hired the fortune teller to tell Watson's future (the warts!). Because that's silly :P

( Look at the pretty )
I have a total suit/hat fetish, and this film does things to me. I don't find these two that attractive normally but hnnngh. Especially in HD, om nom. I'm really looking forward to the next one. I can't wait to see Fry!Croft.

So, my mood has gone to shit after a whole 3 day run of not having a sad. I do have friday to monday off work, so I just need to get through tomorrow.

To that end, does anyone have any recs of happy/funny fics? Anything will do, just something to brighten my mood a bit.


Thank you

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