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Maaaaan, but this year has rushed by in a whirlwind!!! I am so behind on so many things, but here’s a little wrap up post ✨ Hope everyone is having a good end of the year, whether you celebrate any particular holidays or not 💖

First things first, the fics for the Yuletide Fic Exchange have been revealed 🤩 I got super lucky this year and got two wonderful Yuletide fics!!!

For the game Fear & Hunger I got this brilliant worldbuilding-by-historical-document fic:
Ales Bestia, or, the Winged Beast, A Broadside, written for the education and enlightenment of members of the Royal Knights of the Tomb of the Rondonian Empire. Written est. 1862, archived 1927.

For the book series Rook & Rose by M. A. Carrick, I got this wonderful post-canon look at what my favorite character Vargo might be up to:
disturbed circles, "The first thing to know is your tools," Vargo said. "Tell me what they are and why they're important."

They’re both exactly the kind of fics I wanted in those fandoms 💖💖💖


( Yuletide Meme )


( Yuletide Fic Recs )


( Fandom Joys )


( Old and Future Plans )


PS. I recently commissioned more beautiful artwork from my friend Linn, featuring the main character of my story “The Crawling Dark of Your Lover” and his love interest. I’ve posted the artwork both on Blusky and on Tumblr, to share the beauty with the Internet 😁.

Or you'd think so, if you were one of my oldest friends whose phone calls keep overlapping with me DMing 😆

I've had a crazy busy couple of weeks, which is delightful though exhausting. So much roleplaying, both with dice and through LARP, and so many fun hangouts with friends. Both of my D&D groups are back up to being active again and are getting to some important plot things soon~

Could do with some writing time soon, but hey, there are only so many hours in the week 😅

Btw, I finally watched RRR! If you've also seen it, I'd love to talk about it 😊 I absolutely adore the main dance number:

Here are five book trilogies I've recently read that I really enjoyed! Posted in alphabetical order, I enjoyed them all equally:

1) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Love its wonderful, surreal world. Horror yet not. Will definitely re-read one day!
2) The Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What if non-human-animals developed 'sentience', in SPAAACE~?! Loved this exploration of self-awareness and how different animal species might take to it should humans meddle with their genetic code. Update: I've been reminded that, unlike myself who think they're adorable, a looot of people are uncomfortable reading about spiders. So yeah, this is a book series about sentient spiders, beware!
3) The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske. Do you want cool descriptions of magic, a high-risk mystery to solve, a secret-magical-side-to-our-world NOT tainted by transphobia, and hot sex scenes? This is the trilogy for you!
4) Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick. Grifter with a heart of gold doing her best to secure her and her sister's future by tricking a noble family she's their long lost relative ends up tangled in a magical conspiracy. An epic adventure that's still character focused! It has excellent worldbuilding and so many fascinating people running about it. I've already written fic for this 😊
5) The Unraveled Kingdom trilogy by Rowenna Miller. A story about revolution from the POV of a reluctant revolutionary. A very realistic take on how complex a revolution can be - not shying away from the danger this puts everyone in -while still adding the fantastical element of probability magic.

Iceland was BEAUTIFUL and such an experience and now I am sooo tired and don't want to travel again for years to come XD My parents love to travel, like several people I know, but my sister and I are homebodies who'd prefer to not leave our apartments besides going to visit people we know. That said, I absolutely don't regret or mean to complain about having gone to Iceland!!!! I saw humpback whales! And puffins! And so many waterfalls! <3<3<3

And now that I'm back to 'regular life', I'm so hyped to do some more writing! I have a gazillion Good Omens fics in the works and I had plenty of brainstorming time at the hotels we stayed at, which led to me figuring out that several of my not-fic writing projects actually are set in the same second world universe :D So now there's this long, complicated timeline for several books I've barely finished plotting yet XD Which is good, really, since that means I don't have to edit them so terribly.

As a note to myself, the WIPs in question are, in timeline order:
"Mages & Marriage" -> Placeholder name: The Baron and the Prince -> Placeholder name: The Summit (brand new aro/aro relationship story idea with so much politics too :D) -> Placeholder name: Pride n Prejudice n A Wizard Did It + Placeholder name: Witches and Fae -> Placeholder name: Mystic Trio

Am hoping to spend next weekend mostly on writing, since this one I'm spending catching up with all the people I've not met all summer :D

In other news, I rewatched the 2011 staging of Much Ado About Nothing because I happened upon it in the wild and I find I must nominate it for Yuletide this year again~! I reread the glorious gift fic I got for that fandom last time I requested it and I Crave More XD

Also, people over on Tumblr are writing modern-AU-nerds!Jeeve & Wooster fanfic and I am rolling on the floor XD

I made the Yuletide sign up deadline after all, with a letter and everything! Go me! :D Just got my assignment and I feel confident I can write something for it that I hope my recipient will enjoy :)

I've still got a ton of work to do, buuuuut I'm not behind on any of it - I'm just not ahead of work as I usually am, so I've decided to try and let that be okay. I don't need to constantly be ahead of things. I can just work my assigned hours. It will be fine (I say through gritted teeth XD)

Relaxing is sort of working already, which feels great :) I've managed to both be a Good Godmother (had my oldest godchild and her mother over for video game time yesterday - yes, I have more than one godchild, no I'm not the least bit religious, I apparently just attract godchild offers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), catch up on a let's play I've been meaning to watch for...years(?), and am finally stress-free enough to be able to enjoy some reading.

Currently reading and very much enjoying:

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (such great justified rage from the MC! TEAR DOWN THE OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM!!)


• Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology (so many sword lesbians~ And a number of other wIw people too, in a lot of fun fantastical settings)


• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (dark but not completely despairing and full of excellent plot twists!)


• The Cold Earth Swept Below by BeautifulSoup & Fancy_Dragonqueen (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fic)


• the measure of the year by BeautifulSoup (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fic)


• and i double dare me as well by iodhadh (The Untamed fic)


• Full Disclosure by cirilien (The Untamed fic)


• Meng Yao vs. the Board of the Homeowner's Association by Ariaste (The Untamed fic)


• soon, they siad, if not today by Ariaste (The Hands of the Emperor fic)

And I get to meet a friend I haven't seen in a long time tomorrow! Huzzah!