Happy new 2017
Jan. 2nd, 2017 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloHappy new year, everyone. Good health and good tiddings to all.
It's been a strange 2016, with somewhat unbelieveable developments in politics and with rather more celebrity deaths than expected. We'll need all our strength for 2017, since the trend will probably continue.
The first newspaper article I read in the new year described December, not April, as the cruellest month, but frighteningly and bewilderingly alluded to Chaucer, which was... new. (Well, it is the new year.)
Also, schadenfreude all the way.
(Also, who does that? Doesn't it take about 2 seconds to google-check? WTF.)
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For Yuletide, I wrote Roosting Winds, Nirvana in Fire, for Naphyla. It's mostly hints and a couple of scene settings, because I couldn't really find a way of writing about a Jingyan-Mei Changsu reunion without it being OCC-ly gushy and melodramatic.
I did read quite a few Vorkosigan fics:
The Huntsman's Reel, Alys Vorpatil, Simon Illyan, by Philomytha
Odd Men Out, Mark, Dono by keerawa
Peace and Quiet, Ivan, Gregor, by alessandriana
Troublesome to Others, but a Torment to Themselves, Mark, Miles, Kareen by ozymandias314
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Also my brain has been consumed by k-dramas these past two weeks. Whoa.
It's been a strange 2016, with somewhat unbelieveable developments in politics and with rather more celebrity deaths than expected. We'll need all our strength for 2017, since the trend will probably continue.
The first newspaper article I read in the new year described December, not April, as the cruellest month, but frighteningly and bewilderingly alluded to Chaucer, which was... new. (Well, it is the new year.)
Also, schadenfreude all the way.
(Also, who does that? Doesn't it take about 2 seconds to google-check? WTF.)
***
For Yuletide, I wrote Roosting Winds, Nirvana in Fire, for Naphyla. It's mostly hints and a couple of scene settings, because I couldn't really find a way of writing about a Jingyan-Mei Changsu reunion without it being OCC-ly gushy and melodramatic.
I did read quite a few Vorkosigan fics:
The Huntsman's Reel, Alys Vorpatil, Simon Illyan, by Philomytha
Odd Men Out, Mark, Dono by keerawa
Peace and Quiet, Ivan, Gregor, by alessandriana
Troublesome to Others, but a Torment to Themselves, Mark, Miles, Kareen by ozymandias314
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Also my brain has been consumed by k-dramas these past two weeks. Whoa.