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... 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 also 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!
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Now that Yuletide anonymity is up, and doubling as a first Fannish 50 post, I can share my fic!

Like I think I mentioned, I got to write for Scream of the Shalka this year, and for a good friend of mine!

Title: when the summer comes along, for 2manyboys
Fandom: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
Pairing: Ninth Doctor/The Master
Rating: T
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Questionable Coping Mechanisms, The Master being The Master, handwavey lore, this is self indulgent on several levels, Power Imbalance, Romantic Gestures, Mind/Mood Altering Substances, Partial Mind Control, Complicated Relationships
Word count: 5522
Summary: "Florana?" The Master laughs despite himself, gaping at the Doctor in open surprise. "That tourist trap?" — In which a field trip is had, and the Master plots.


I had a lot of fun with the writing despite the hurdles I ran into (and the several things I wanted to include that I ended up not having time for), and thankfully my recipient enjoyed it!

And a proper rec post for the fic I received!

Title: Can you feel this? by Melime for furiously
Fandom: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka
Pairing: Ninth Doctor/The Master
Rating: T
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Complicated Relationships, Injury, Mutilation, android repairs, Angst, Denial of Feelings
Word count: 1445
Summary:
The Master is injured protecting himself and the Doctor, and the Doctor must rebuild his hand. As the hours of tense repairs stretch before them, neither wants to investigate the Master's feelings.

This was a lovely little fic, great characterisation and a couple of lines that really hit, especially the closing line.

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how is everyone doing? i hope you've all had a good holiday, and a good christmas if you celebrate! 🎄

christmas here was very quiet this year - Read more... )

to get myself through the torment nexus that is christmas shopping from the wrong side of the register i've been listening to this audiobook of the wind in the willows which is up on bbc sounds (through some sneaky vpn usage, since i'm not in the uk), and getting regular little instalments of mole and rat and badger and toad has honestly saved my sanity a little this past month.

once i finish the wind in the willows, my read books tally for this year will clock in at 16, which is something like 12 or 13 more than i've been averaging over the past few years, i think, so i'm very happy with that. finally realising that i'm allowed to just read whatever silly nonsense i want has definitely been a large part of it: i've ploughed through something like eight or nine doctor who novelisations aimed at children and had a great time doing it.

i received a lovely little fic for yuletide!! i read it first thing in the morning (well, afternoon), while still in bed, on the 25th and enjoyed it very much: an angsty, introspective doctor/master oneshot for doctor who: scream of the shalka featuring injury-tending, which is just the kind of trope i love.

to my own shock, i also managed to finish my own yuletide fic. Read more... )

i have successfully yuletide-ed for the first time! 🎉 kind of a small milestone; i hadn't tried to do yuletide since i was forced to default twice when i first tried to do it, back in high school, and the experience was so guilt-inducing i never touched it again. 😅 now i can do it again in future without being scared!

 

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Sumer is icumen in, but you wouldn't know it to look at my view atm: we're spending a couple of weeks up north where my mum grew up, which means a tiny island in the North Sea, wind-blasted and with nary a tree except for what people have planted in their gardens, and currently it's been raining and blowing gale force winds non stop for days. It honestly doesn't bother me too much -- getting away from my flatmates and my job and having virtually unlimited time to read and write fanfic is so nice that the lack of sunshine doesn't even register, and honestly the novelty of some proper northern weather is actually kind of fun. We're early enough in the summer to catch the midnight sun this year, and it's beautiful when the rain lets up.

That phase where you're kind of drifting out of a fandom you've been in for a long time is so weird. I was neck deep in The Terror for over two years, and while I still care a lot about the show and characters as well as the historical research side (and I'm still hoping to make some more headway on my research projects), on the fannish side I kinda feel like I've read, and written, most of what I urgently wanted to, which means lately I'm just sort of drifting with a lot of interest and energy that has nowhere to go.

But equally, fandoms come back to you in the oddest ways: rekindling my interest in the Kingsman fandom tided me over for a couple of months -- and then I started chatting on tumblr with an old friend from a past fandom, who's deep into classic Doctor Who lately, which means I have now spent about a month rewatching Third Doctor serials and reading Doctor/Master fanfic, of all the things. I was never properly in that fandom; it was always sort of a blorbos-in-law situation for me (a friend introduced me to the show and we binged a bunch of serials, but I didn't have an easy way to keep watching at the time), but this time around I'm armed with several google drives as well as the Internet Archive, so I can basically read and watch almost whatever I want. It's been super nostalgic and a lot of fun.

Read more... )

A couple of other recs from the love of my life the Internet Archive:
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