Sometimes, in the course of doing research for a story, I read every major piece of Arthurian canon from 1100-1350. And sometimes I learn about roofing practices in pre-industrial England, or the comparative practices of human sacrifice in Iron Age Northern Europe and Pre-Columbian Central America, or marriage structures in Heian Era Japan, or the ( Read more... )

I am in Seattle! Weather is much better than I have been led to believe is possible (and for two days in a row we've been able to see Mt. Rainier, even the natives seem a bit shocked by that). Have looked at rather a lot of art, with a considerable amount of art looming in the future. (Dale Chihuly, still pretty awesome. My phone is full of ( Read more... )

I have work dreams on a fairly regular, if infrequent, basis - mostly when things are especially stressful, or when I'm learning something new that I'm afraid of doing wrong. All of a very similar type, where I am setting up an order that gets massively complicated and messy, or where I need to do important follow-up that I can't get done, or I am ( Read more... )

*waves*

Still alive. Just...work. SO MUCH WORK. I've been working so much overtime that I've developed an eye twitch, which used to only happen during finals week when I hadn't slept for four days straight. My boss has been giving me that "you do know you are allowed to use your vacation days" look again, too, since I haven't had any time off yet ( Read more... )

Arsenal, boys, you're breaking my heart. And making Jack Wilshere make the sad puppy face. That is not acceptable!

I don't know, it just hurts to know that they are capable of so much better than this, and then to have to watch them get shot down over and over again. Fucking football, I can't even.

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Bad: Working 2+ hours of overtime doing awful, awful financial tables ( Read more... )

Look, I'm just saying, that there does not exist somewhere on the internet a Horatio Hornblower vid to "Backside Rules The Navy" is clearly a travesty of the highest order. Fandom, I am judging you forever. And so is every midshipman who has ever ogled Horatio when he takes his shirt off.

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Happy New Year, all! Time for Yuletide reveals!

This year I wrote:

Title: The Knight Who TrespassesFandom: Arthurian Mythology ( Read more... )

It's not so much that I ship Javert/Valjean as a thing that is there in the text, or even in the subtext (unlike Enjolras/Grantaire, which is clearly canon). It's that I want to rewrite the whole universe around Javert to give him the better life and the epic, antagonistic, loving friendship/romance with Valjean that could have been. Because he's ( Read more... )

Today I walked six miles through Downtown trying to find a place that in retrospect (i.e. after we gave up and went home and consulted google maps) was half a block from the pub where we started. Just, in the other direction.

Moral of the story: I am never letting hanjuuluver give directions again.

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