Well, as of this morning, when I finished posting the Captain America/ Peggy Carter story that I’ve been working on, I’ve got eleven short stories and over 100K words posted on A03 ( Read more... )

Saturday I forced myself to do some housework. The place isn’t that bad, the house did get a basic cleaning a week ago. I picked up when fionaniconnor came over for waffles last weekend, cleaned the bathroom and did the dishes. But I ran out of time before I got to the floors. And the floors needed to be done. So I really wanted to do some cleaning this ( Read more... )

Having a great deal of fun today, doing all sorts of WWII research for some Peggy Carter stories that have been floating around in my head this week.

Am I weird that I think research is fun?

No, of course I'm not. I've made enough history geek friends that I don't really even worry about it any more. Research, all the cool kids are doing it.

So I’m feeling pretty grateful at the moment that most of the problems in my life seem to be problems of abundance (too many interesting projects to work on, too many books to read, too many things I want to do, too much stuff in my house, too many calories, etc.) rather than problems of not having enough (money, time, friends, food, etc.). “First ( Read more... )

I really love this portrait.


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It took me a while, but I found some of my missing motivation yesterday. I will admit that I’m currently suffering from a fairly intense desire to do nothing. But there is shit that needs doing, and I’m trying to find a balance between relaxing and getting shit done ( Read more... )

I fell down the 18th century research rabbit hole again today. More museums and Pinterest and costuming blog posts.

I can't do that again tomorrow. If only because I really need to finish up some 16th century sewing before our school show on the 12th.

Gotta try and find where I put my self-discipline tomorrow morning. =P

So one of my 18th century friends had a really long (like 50 - 100 comments long) post about the clothing standards for the Hermione last Sunday (5/24) . Now, this was the first I’d seen of this, and I didn’t yet know what the standards were that they were talking about, but I followed the conversation with interest, because back when costume_snark was still an ( Read more... )

I got home late Friday night and (of course) was up a wee bit too late on the Internets. I slept badly, and still woke up at pretty much my regular time Saturday morning. I had two different plans for Saturday, either get up and run a bunch of errands, or spent the whole day self-indulgently in my pajamas. Because of the bad night’s sleep, I ( Read more... )

I'm SO excited. A couple of years ago I bought this woodcut from kass_rants.
[Woodcut]

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