jamjar

Dear Yuletide,

( here is my probably unhelpful letter )

But I'm off to the states for a week on Monday (two days in DC, two days in NY for work, then Saturday for myself an Sunday to fly out at the crack of dawn), so I figured I should make a post about that, at least.

I've been having mild comics nostalgia, brought about by the new series of R.E.B.E.L.S. The nostalgia has been accompanied by the obligatory "Why do I know more about this character's continuity than the writers?", but not massively. Still, there's only been three issues, so there's plenty of time left!

I've also been reading the Master and Commander series, which are just genuinely good reads in a number of ways. Historical fiction, at it's best, has a thing of making you believe in that era, but isn't restricted by it-- that is, it can present issues and morals and so on for the characters, make you believe they have (or don't have) those... while not actually presenting those things as actively bad or good. The characters are very much a product of their time, but the writer isn't. And part of that means that you know (and you know the writer knows) just how much being a product of that time, of that environment can work against a character. At the same time, the voice, the narration is kept true through the whole thing, so you're not thrown out of the books by random 21st century moral sidenotes. They're fun books, and they do that thing of making me enjoy being absorbed in the early 19th century, while being bloody glad (especially as a woman) that I didn't have to put up with myself.

It snowed last night and people in London are very excited about it.



See, proof! Someone did that at about 10pm last night, because Sunday at 10pm is the perfect time for snowball fight. Get it while you can!

( This is what it looked like last night... )

( And this what it looked like this morning... )

Yes, people with actual weather can start laughing now. And I lived in a country with proper winters, where people would walk to school in two foot of snow, but...

But it snowed even more in the night! Buses were cancelled! Trains and the tube stopped running! It was unanimously declared a snow day!

And the last time this happened, I was 11! So birdsflying and I went out into the park and made snow angels and took pictures.
( See! For the record, I don;t normally look like I've been flattened. )

And random strangers were happy and cheerful* and took pictures of ( each other )

( And it just looked very cool )

*Except for the two schoolboys who had exactly the same argument (but on different sides) for why they did/didn't want it to snow.

Maybe I should have had a New Year's Resolution to post more? Or, you know, at all.

From sister_wolf
Give me two characters from different fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a dialogue happening between the two of them. Without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed, or how they could even meet each other. Just a silly crossover conversation with no backstory, for fun.

And honestly, I'm kind of surprised. I have whole days to spare!

See!

Yuletide!

On a related note, this is also my post to say that I'll be away and internetless when the archive goes live, probably until New Year's Eve(ish), so my deepest thanks to whoever has written for me and I'll read it as soon as I get back.

I'm not sure what more I can say that's not in the sign-up post, but ( here goes: )

That's all I can think of to say except have fun writing. Write something that makes you happy and that'll make me happy too.

She really, really is.

Yesterday I went to the Amanda Palmer videoshoot megolas for Leeds United, which will be the first single off her new solo album, "Who Killed Amanda Palmer".

( Pictoral evidence! I am the shorter one! )

More pictures here, of variable quality.

I also went with megolas on Thursday last week to see Amanda at the ICA.

( She really is kind of amazing (pictures and video below the cut). )

My feelings on the whole thing can be pretty much summed up by this picture.

When you were sweet

Band(s): Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is, Gym Class Heroes
Pairing(s): William Beckett/Patrick Stump (mostly)
Word Count: 30,892
Rating/Warnings: Teenage romance, post-teenage romance bitterness, sex and genderswitch.
Author Notes: How William Beckett spent his summer vacation that time he turned into a girl (or why teenage romantic stupidity transcends gender and doesn't stop even when you're no longer a teenager).

Thanks to calathea and ficbyzee for beta-reading and american checking, and everyone else who listened to me flail about this. Also, thanks to blondiusmaximus and lucentvictrola for the fanart and sansets and abraxas_life for the mixes. I wish I'd had them when I was writing, it would have made the whole thing so much easier!

Any flavour of feedback appreciated

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Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four

Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content


Fanart:

Snapshot, by blondiusmaximus
Image, by lucentvictrola



Fanmixes


sansets's fanmix:
Different
abraxas_life's fanmix:
Soundtrack

( Tracklisting )