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happy birthday to the Master
Mar. 1st, 2025 11:53 pm... aka, happy birthday to Roger Delgado, who would have been 107 (!!) today. This old fanvid drifted across my tumblr dash yesterday and made me laugh, so it's getting a share on the big day:
In other brief news:
Crocheting is going better: while watching Cadfael in the evenings, I've finished one (1) square consisting entirely of single crochet stitches! :D Now it just needs a border in a different colour and I will have reached my first goal of making a basic potholder!
I've started reading the first of Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels! I've had a couple of them sitting around for years, and I've thoroughly fallen in love with the characters now from watching the TV series. The prose is so lovely -- a little lyrical, period in a way that feels effortless, and genuinely funny. Reading it feels like a warm cup of tea and a blanket.
I wrote a short anonymous fic for The Terror, for a prompt-meme event that was run on tumblr and in the server I moderate. It was very out of my comfort zone (dubcon/sex exchanged for career advancement, in a rather coercive way), so I wasn't sure at all if it was a success. But it took me no time at all to write, compared to my usual, and with posting being anon, it didn't feel like it would be too embarrassing if nobody liked it or it wasn't what the prompter had wanted. So I posted it, and even though the same prompt received another fill which was much longer (and better, imo!), I still got three very lovely comments on my own fic within 24 hours! Baffling, but very encouraging!
In other brief news:
Crocheting is going better: while watching Cadfael in the evenings, I've finished one (1) square consisting entirely of single crochet stitches! :D Now it just needs a border in a different colour and I will have reached my first goal of making a basic potholder!
I've started reading the first of Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels! I've had a couple of them sitting around for years, and I've thoroughly fallen in love with the characters now from watching the TV series. The prose is so lovely -- a little lyrical, period in a way that feels effortless, and genuinely funny. Reading it feels like a warm cup of tea and a blanket.
I wrote a short anonymous fic for The Terror, for a prompt-meme event that was run on tumblr and in the server I moderate. It was very out of my comfort zone (dubcon/sex exchanged for career advancement, in a rather coercive way), so I wasn't sure at all if it was a success. But it took me no time at all to write, compared to my usual, and with posting being anon, it didn't feel like it would be too embarrassing if nobody liked it or it wasn't what the prompter had wanted. So I posted it, and even though the same prompt received another fill which was much longer (and better, imo!), I still got three very lovely comments on my own fic within 24 hours! Baffling, but very encouraging!
