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I'm not sure I've done this before. Let's try it out.

my present for me
Modern Witchcraft for the Fiber Arts (1124 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fiber Arts (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Knit & Crochet, Crochet & Weaving
Characters: Knit (Fiber Arts), Crochet (Fiber Arts), Weaving (Fiber Arts), Spinning (Fiber Arts)
Additional Tags: Witchcraft, Developing Friendships, Fluff and Mush, Dungeons & Dragons References
Summary:

Crochet doesn't understand why Spinning would let Knit into the coven, especially when Knit practices chaos magic.

Personification of fiber crafts, delightful and charming and I love Yuletide for seeing how many different people treat the same basic concepts!

other things
Frost and Folly - an Emma variation (18381 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 12/12
Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen, Emma. (2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: George Knightley/Harriet Smith, Emma Woodhouse/Robert Martin
Characters: Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith, George Knightley, Mrs Weston, Jane Fairfax, Robert Martin, Mrs Cole, Mr Woodhouse
Additional Tags: Emma has a plan, Emma is inevitably wrong about her plan, Mr Knightley also has a plan, Christmas, Winter, Snow and Ice, Mrs Coles' ball, Emma's Hartfield ball, Friendship, Romance
Summary:

It is winter, and Emma is looking forward to the ball at Mrs Coles', and Hartfield's own winter party. The year has brought many changes to Hartfield, and Emma is determined that nothing more shall threaten her peaceful life and her fledgling idea that she, too, might like to marry. She only wishes to see her friend Harriet Smith suitably settled, and everything will be just as she wants.

But then Mr Knightley makes a hint, and upsets all her plans for herself, and Harriet.

As snow falls, Emma begins to realise that change can be good, and fledgling ideas can leave the nest very quickly indeed.

Bang-on Austen voices and (even better) Austen-style excruciating romantic tension.

The Code (3595 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galaxy Quest (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alexander Dane, Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Tommy Webber, Mathesar (Galaxy Quest)
Additional Tags: Meta, Star Trek References
Summary:

The ever-expanding world of Galaxy Quest proves to be a legal conundrum for the Thermians. Crew to the rescue!

A love letter to the show and the fandom, just as the movie was in the first place, with internal references to GQ fics already in the archive, including (to my surprise) my own entry from Yuletide 2006.

the tale you tell (2991 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baker/Baker's Wife (Into the Woods)
Characters: Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Witch (Into the Woods)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Introspection, Backstory, Canonical Character Death, POV Female Character, Romance, Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:

She never pretended to be the hero of this particular story.

Everyone's recommending this, as well they should. Goosebumps.

pro hac vice (5591 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matt Murdock/Jennifer Walters, Matt Murdock & Jennifer Walters, Mallory Book/Nikki Ramos (implied)
Characters: Jennifer Walters, Matt Murdock, Nikki Ramos
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Law (not so much with the Order), Christmas Fluff, Bureaucracy, Forms & Documents & Filings Oh My, Christmas, Humor, Attempt at Humor, Some Toying with the Fourth Wall, No Smashing (general), New York City
Summary:

Matt Murdock needs help on a case; Jennifer Walters doesn't mind taking a cross-country flight on short notice.

Hey, it's (almost) Christmas.

Again with the pitch-perfect dialogue, and also a level of law-detail geekery (I mean, I assume the writer—whose identity I have begun to suspect for Other Reasons, but never mind—is themselves a lawyer or extremely lawyer-adjacent) that pleases me greatly.

Hopefully more to come as I read further in the next, um. Two and a half days? Before reveals?

The fannish renaissance continues. I got the whole run of DS ripped and organized into Plex, after many years of having only the ostensible season 1 DVD box set, (a) which lacks the pilot and (b) from which episode 3 "Manhunt," episode 11 "You Must Remember This," episode 19 "Heaven and Earth," and episode 20 "Victoria's Secret part 1" failed to copy. So I had sort of two-thirds of season 1 for many years and had to contemplate the rest in my head like Fraser "listening" to a Mahler symphony by reading the score. :-P (It's possible I also have "Mountie on the Bounty" on VHS, but you can imagine how useful a VHS tape is to me in these modern times.)

Anyway now I've got the whole shebang, so I'mma start up another generation of episode reviews. Because I want to, because I can, and because we're doing a renaissance here. Come on back to Dreamwidth, everyone, we miss you!

( Over Christmas )

( Of course New Year's Day )

( A third four-day weekend in a row: )

( This morning all three of us tested negative )

Meanwhile I have accomplished many other items of being a competent and productive adult:

• We've arranged to have some work done on the house and had signed the estimates and returned them to the contractor - and now I've also paid him the deposits required by those contracts. (Okay we were a little late on that, oops.)


• I ordered some hardware with which to adapt the KN94 masks the prince doesn't like so they will fit the way his fabric masks do in the hope he will be prepared to use them instead. (A fabric mask he will wear is better than a better mask he won't; still I'd like to find a way to get him using the masks that work better.)


• I placed an order with a British foods website so in a week or so we should have some honest-to-god Cadbury instant hot chocolate in the house for the first time since who knows when (I don't know why Cadbury's drinking chocolate (add hot milk) is readily available in this country but their instant hot chocolate (add hot water) is not, but the latter is what I want, because mixing the former with powdered milk and then adding hot water is a vaguely viable workaround but I've never got the ratio exactly how I want it) after having the tab open on my phone for literally months and months).


• I am experiencing a fandom Renaissance, which is great because I've missed fandom!, but less great because while I was experiencing my own personal fandom Dark Ages apparently everyone migrated to Other Places and thank god for those of you I know in person because otherwise I wouldn't have a way back in. I'm learning how to use Tumblr (just as it's apparently collapsing; nice timing, self) and I'm on Discord now as well, but speaking of Discord, where the servers at? I got on the Yuletide one in time for this year's Yuletide and I'm on the Bujold one as well. Where else are folks congregating where I could slip in and lurk until I have the hang of the place, as one used to do back in the days of bulletin boards? (I'm not new! It just feels a little bit that way.)

I just have one comment, and it's tiny, but I suppose it's a bit of a ( spoiler: )

I don't mean to be away for that long at a time. I think the issue is actually that I seldom use my laptop at home anymore - I'm on my work laptop at work or when I'm working from home, and when I'm at home not working, I get my internets on my phone, where it's harder to post to DW and much easier to post to Facebook or Twitter. (I'm on the work computer now, of course, because I'm at work. It's not like I can't use it to read and post. But I generally don't, because I'm generally working. Only right now I have done all the work available to me except one project that I really am going to have to dig in my heels before I can face it. So here I am.)

( obU.S. politics )

( Family )

The latest cuteness, was walking home from day care yesterday. He asked me to pick him up at one point, and I didn't argue, so I was carrying him when a neighborhood dog started barking at us from its fenced yard. The prince was alarmed, but he patted my face and said "It's okay, Mommy." ♥

I don't remember who recommended An Ever-Fixed Mark eight million yonks ago, but I had it open in a tab on my phone for many, many months and finally read it. For the benefit of anyone who's further behind than I am, it's a soulmark/wristname treatment of Pride and Prejudice, and that's all I'll say about that except to note that it got me to dig out the 1995 BBC miniseries again (I do love the Netherfield ball scene, before it all goes sideways; in fact I generally like the ballroom scenes in the TV and film adaptations, because the directors pretty uniformly use the scenes properly and achieve what they're going for, as far as I'm concerned, and everyone looks great doing it; I think late Regency fashion might have suited me) and I may one day actually - gasp! - get one or more volumes of Austen down off the shelf and actually read them again.

I sort of miss being fannish about things. I don't consume much new media anymore, because we're not ready for the kid to be watching TV so we don't turn it on until he's in bed, and then there's only a couple of hours at most before we go to bed ourselves, so it's generally hockey or curling or old familiar comfort viewing rather than anything a person would have to pay attention to. Plus Himself and I have different tastes in TV shows; we both like sci-fi, there's some overlap on fantasy, but he's not much of a one for most procedurals (legal, medical, police, political, whatever) and would generally prefer to eat glass than watch a half-hour sitcom from any era or costume drama of any length. (That might be a bit harsh. But he doesn't care for them, and in fact he doesn't watch nearly the amount of TV on his own that I do or did on my own, so if I'm going to "make" him have the TV on in the limited time we're together without the prince in the evenings, I feel it's fair not to "make" him sit through something so far down his list of preferences.) So when I do DVR those, I save them to watch when he's out, which isn't super often. One falls behind. And of course getting out to the movies requires a week's worth of planning these days. We can just about keep up with Star Wars; we might have been able to get a babysitter so we could get to Avengers: Endgame, but we're so far behind on Marvel movies that we're having to do a lot of DVD catch-up before we're prepared, so we're going to have to get that one eventually as well.

No idea if anyone is even reading me anymore. I'd hoped to get back into the posting habit when you all came back from Tumblr, but I haven't managed it well. I'll keep trying, though.

If there happens to be anyone who wants to further transform my transformational works by podficcing or illustrating or vidding or remixing something I've written (or some other transformational process we haven't thought of yet), I - suppose I sort of see how intra-fandom transformation is different than extra-fandom transformation, which is why it's a Done Thing to seek permission from fellow fannish creators when we come right out and say we don't believe original creators should get to grant or withhold permission from us? I guess that's what's going on?

But hey, goose, gander. I didn't ask if I could play with (for example) JK Rowling's toys, and my playing with them didn't make them impossible for her to play with, because this is not a zero-sum activity. So you needn't ask me, either. My two preferences are these:

1. In a thing that is different within fandom than outside of it, I'd appreciate a heads-up if you do podfic (or illustrate or whatever) my stuff, so I can go see it.

2. All of this applies only to things I have written as fiction about fictional characters. I categorically decline to be used as a character in anyone's RPF, and I also decline this on behalf of Real People in my life who are mentioned but do not actually participate here. (Real People who have their own fannish presences can make their own decisions, of course.)

Is there someplace we're meant to be saying all this other than in our own spaces?

Today is my father's birthday.

( Other things. )

via lferion -

The Six Degrees Of Separation Meme:

Give me no less than two and no more than four characters from any of my fandoms, and I will write you up to six ficlets connecting them to each other somehow. (e.g.: 'Six Degrees Of Separation From Dean Winchester To Chloe Sullivan', 'Six Ways Susan Ivanova Doesn't Know She Knows John Matheson', or 'From Dana Scully To John Winchester In Six Steps Or Less'.) Obvious or not, your choice. Crossovers or not, your choice.

My fandoms are or have been Star Wars (the original and best; also the prequels; and all the books from the first Zahn set to the last, before they changed from one imprint to the other, but my recall on those is not the best - it's just that I have known Our Heroes while I have no exposure to the Next Generation whatsoever); The Sentinel; Due South; Harry Potter; Stargate: Atlantis; Sports Night; West Wing; and, erm, probably a non-zero quantity of other stuff too that I just can't remember offhand, so try me.

I understand from the mill that there is some Stuff going on w/r/t OTW. I only have the vaguest idea what that Stuff is.

Please don't tell me about it. (I mean, carry on making your own posts, but please don't use the comment space here to enlighten me.)

I'm not voting. I don't care. I can't care. I don't have the capacity at the moment. (I am up near the brim with - in no particular order - work, school, curling, music, my own health, and nurturing a new relationship that is pretty awesome and I'd like to keep it that way - and then in fact well over the brim with my dad's health issues on top of all that, and having to compensate; so when I'm already not able to deal with all my own issues is not an ideal time to be adding more.) Y'all whom this matters to, I'm sorry you are stressed and unhappy. I'm sorry if it distresses you further that it doesn't matter more to me, but there it is. This is just to note that in my case, my silence is from a level of ignorance that I'm absolutely comfortable maintaining, thanks, because all my give-a-shit is elsewhere right now.

My grandmother didn't laugh much.

But I bet sherrold could have made it happen.

My sympathies to all who loved and will miss her.

I've got a heap of Dreamwidth invites and one (1) AO3 invite, if anyone's interested. Comment (screened) with your e-mail address. Cheers!

So okay: maybe I'm missing something - almost certainly I'm missing something, since my awareness of Twilight comes entirely from cleolinda's summaries and wordplay's occasionally coming into my office and telling me the movies have got to be seen to be believed - but isn't the Edward-vs-Jacob stuff kind of ... nonsense? I think I've thought this since I became aware that there were Different Factions, but especially as it's being advertised on the television in the commercial breaks in the weekend's Harry Potter marathon, isn't it ... aren't the Team Jacob people sort of not unlike the Harry/Hermione shippers?, in that the canon has ... kind of ... spoken?

I'm really asking.