My only NYR is to be more social on DW
Dec. 26th, 2021 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI have some weird kind of thing going on where I feel like I have a sinus infection because of the smell (ever present!) and post-nasal drip, but there's no other symptoms. It's really obnoxious, esp when I'm wearing a mask.
Had a lovely Christmas, although it's definitely been too warm. I suppose that's just the way things are now; white Christmases are going to be standouts going forward.
Just finished Faraway Wanderers today, a little bit of a letdown - I really loved all the fan stuff I saw for it/WOH on Tumblr so I thought I would love it, but it didn't do it for me. However, it is still my best work so far in binding! Partly because I have not bound anything in weeks due to a) writing Yuletide fics and b) my new printer has proved to be unaligned. I am having margin problems and the Xerox support people are making me incandescent with rage at their uselessness. I'm pretty sure that I need to return it and get a new one but I don't have the packing materials anymore.
I DO have a second NYR and that is to get back into writing about historical fashion. Nobody asks questions about it on AskHistorians anymore or they do but it's really tedious old questions I can link old answers to. I have dozens of photos from my exhibition (which is coming down in a couple of weeks T_T) and I want to do an in-depth post on each garment, or at least each women's garment - one is mostly written already. And after that, I'd like to get back into my little ambitious research projects. I would love to actually sew - if I could just! finish! a corset! I could do more interesting stuff afterward - but I try not to beat myself up too much about that given my lack of access to events nearer than Saratoga, which is a 2hr drive.
The other day I realized that we are suddenly getting a lot of great books with queer romances - not the subgenre of romance novels, but just books that feature a queer love story exactly the same way they might feature a het one. And then I realized that all these books are coming from Tor. Like Winter's Orbit and Gideon the Ninth. I ended up spending the Amazon gift card I got from my boss on two new ones, one of which Amazon offered me a little Kindle sample of for while I wait (I virtuously chose the long standard shipping so no warehouse worker would be forced to pack it on Christmas), and I was finally checking it out today. Anyway, this leads up to the point I was getting to, which is: Harry/Draco vibes tend to be quite common in mainstream published lit with m/m romances (like A Marvellous Light, the one I'm reading a sample of), so I wonder how many people who are now writing these love stories professionally got started in H/D fanfiction?
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Got to share the fics I received for Yuletide!
Find some new way (The Secret Garden; Mary, Colin, and Dickon)
The person leaving the person staying, Lily whispered, don’t always want the same thing.
Philosophical Differences (Ghosts (BBC); Thomas and The Captain)
Thomas and the Captain talk under the stars. Well, clouds. But the stars are still up there somewhere.
Write, burn, bury, abandon (Ghosts (BBC); Thomas and The Captain)
Thomas is (unsurprisingly) unlucky in love and the Captain tries to help. It might or might not lead to a small falling out.
I was very kindly treated with two extra fics this year, which was very nice as I ended up writing two pinch hits - so three for three!
Had a lovely Christmas, although it's definitely been too warm. I suppose that's just the way things are now; white Christmases are going to be standouts going forward.
Just finished Faraway Wanderers today, a little bit of a letdown - I really loved all the fan stuff I saw for it/WOH on Tumblr so I thought I would love it, but it didn't do it for me. However, it is still my best work so far in binding! Partly because I have not bound anything in weeks due to a) writing Yuletide fics and b) my new printer has proved to be unaligned. I am having margin problems and the Xerox support people are making me incandescent with rage at their uselessness. I'm pretty sure that I need to return it and get a new one but I don't have the packing materials anymore.
I DO have a second NYR and that is to get back into writing about historical fashion. Nobody asks questions about it on AskHistorians anymore or they do but it's really tedious old questions I can link old answers to. I have dozens of photos from my exhibition (which is coming down in a couple of weeks T_T) and I want to do an in-depth post on each garment, or at least each women's garment - one is mostly written already. And after that, I'd like to get back into my little ambitious research projects. I would love to actually sew - if I could just! finish! a corset! I could do more interesting stuff afterward - but I try not to beat myself up too much about that given my lack of access to events nearer than Saratoga, which is a 2hr drive.
The other day I realized that we are suddenly getting a lot of great books with queer romances - not the subgenre of romance novels, but just books that feature a queer love story exactly the same way they might feature a het one. And then I realized that all these books are coming from Tor. Like Winter's Orbit and Gideon the Ninth. I ended up spending the Amazon gift card I got from my boss on two new ones, one of which Amazon offered me a little Kindle sample of for while I wait (I virtuously chose the long standard shipping so no warehouse worker would be forced to pack it on Christmas), and I was finally checking it out today. Anyway, this leads up to the point I was getting to, which is: Harry/Draco vibes tend to be quite common in mainstream published lit with m/m romances (like A Marvellous Light, the one I'm reading a sample of), so I wonder how many people who are now writing these love stories professionally got started in H/D fanfiction?
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Got to share the fics I received for Yuletide!
Find some new way (The Secret Garden; Mary, Colin, and Dickon)
The person leaving the person staying, Lily whispered, don’t always want the same thing.
Philosophical Differences (Ghosts (BBC); Thomas and The Captain)
Thomas and the Captain talk under the stars. Well, clouds. But the stars are still up there somewhere.
Write, burn, bury, abandon (Ghosts (BBC); Thomas and The Captain)
Thomas is (unsurprisingly) unlucky in love and the Captain tries to help. It might or might not lead to a small falling out.
I was very kindly treated with two extra fics this year, which was very nice as I ended up writing two pinch hits - so three for three!
