next, write Yuletide fic
Dec. 5th, 2011 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloSo, before my exams ended I had all kinds of plans for what to do after. I would knit! Read! Knit and read! Make jewellery*! Write! Watch TV! Write and watch TV!
And then exams ended and I became thoroughly unmotivated, content just to sit on my ass all day. (Although I must say the dream (nightmare)** about flunking exams didn't help.)
Anyway. Got some motivation back now. Sent Christmas cards. Cleaned desk. Knitted (and knitted). Read (and reading).
Fics:
Limited Release, X-Men (First Class), White Collar-ish AU, Erik/Charles, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rageprufrock
These Three Things Remain, Avengers, Steve/Tony,by Siria
When the Lights Go On Again, Avengers, Steve/Tony, link is to chapter 1 (19 chapters in all), completed, byseanchai and elspethdixon
Books:
Persuasion, by Jane Austen. Re-read, but in fairness, a very, very infrequent re-read, and it was in my kindle. (Sense and Sensibility is more my speed.) Fun to notice (again) all the details and all the swipes Austen takes at pretentious people.
Four Souls, by Louise Erdrich. Connected to Tracks, contains seriously scary Fleur Pillager and always hilarious Nanapush. A trifle wordier than I like, and perhaps a little too declaratory, but still awesome. I don't always like "lyrical writing" in my reading, but when Erdrich is good, it doesn't feel tedious or overwrought; it just works.
The Rich and the Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille. Collection of mystery short stories. Some interesting.
*Sort of. I'm an amateur amateur jewellery maker. My expertise extends only to making earrings by attaching pretty beads to earring hooks.
**I don't think my subconcious was being fair when it created a scenario where I flunked an exam on Shakespeare, and to be even more insulting, it was on Hamlet, a play which featured in my school career three times and which I still know pretty well.
And then exams ended and I became thoroughly unmotivated, content just to sit on my ass all day. (Although I must say the dream (nightmare)** about flunking exams didn't help.)
Anyway. Got some motivation back now. Sent Christmas cards. Cleaned desk. Knitted (and knitted). Read (and reading).
Fics:
Limited Release, X-Men (First Class), White Collar-ish AU, Erik/Charles, by
rageprufrockThese Three Things Remain, Avengers, Steve/Tony,by Siria
When the Lights Go On Again, Avengers, Steve/Tony, link is to chapter 1 (19 chapters in all), completed, by
seanchai and elspethdixonBooks:
Persuasion, by Jane Austen. Re-read, but in fairness, a very, very infrequent re-read, and it was in my kindle. (Sense and Sensibility is more my speed.) Fun to notice (again) all the details and all the swipes Austen takes at pretentious people.
Four Souls, by Louise Erdrich. Connected to Tracks, contains seriously scary Fleur Pillager and always hilarious Nanapush. A trifle wordier than I like, and perhaps a little too declaratory, but still awesome. I don't always like "lyrical writing" in my reading, but when Erdrich is good, it doesn't feel tedious or overwrought; it just works.
The Rich and the Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille. Collection of mystery short stories. Some interesting.
*Sort of. I'm an amateur amateur jewellery maker. My expertise extends only to making earrings by attaching pretty beads to earring hooks.
**I don't think my subconcious was being fair when it created a scenario where I flunked an exam on Shakespeare, and to be even more insulting, it was on Hamlet, a play which featured in my school career three times and which I still know pretty well.