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I got nostalgic and went looking for KHR fic. You know what's hilarious? That I just found out there's more than one of them with "mafia AU" in the summary. Oh, KHR.

Less under the category of "nostalgia" and more "It's about time", I'm rereading Queen of Attolia. I must have been skimming furiously on the first go, because I completely forgot

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They weren't actually that interesting, so I didn't save the links. A good amount of metisket's fic probably counts as mafia AU, if you haven't already read those?

"No ‘Glory shall be your reward’ for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, ‘Stop whining’ and ‘Go to bed’" :D
I was vaguely confused during that conversation, actually. The whole Trolling From The Great Beyond bit just slipped me by! it makes me like the gods of the Queen's Thief-verse a lot, though.

PS once upon a time you linked me to a Sophos-fic, and I don't know if I thanked you? It was great, so just in case: thanks!

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I just can't handle the more 8059-ish ones because I'm weak like that.
I knoooooow! It made me feel petty but I always got annoyed with the 8059 getting tossed in the background of most of the fics. It's just. my anti-pairing. /whining

Unfortunately some of their motives in The Queen of Attolia totally went over my head the first time I read the book because I was hysterical over Gen losing a hand throughout reading the whole book, haha.
Ha, it was a huge game-changer between the first two books, that's completely understandable. I'm still not sure I get the gods' motivation anyway, but I kinda like that. Gods should be a little inscrutable, you know? PS, what's the other book series you're getting into?

Yuletide should come twice a year. Sometimes you just don't feel like it or have the time when it comes around, and then a couple of months it's all ':( but my small fandoms, they need some love'.

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It really is annoying when you just don't think the most popular pairing works, and it keeps popping up in works you'd otherwise love. But I have to admit, my 'but this isn't canon!'-detector is very easily shaken off when it's something I like, ahaha.

No no, keep picking books by their covers! We publishers love that. We put a lot of effort into covers! But seriously though, covers are targeted marketing - people are doing their best to lure you in with the prettiness, so don't feel too bad about it working.

I will be incredibly motivated to do some fanwork on my own and then I lose my drive and slink back into the dark embrace of one of the more popular fandoms.
Yeah, that does tend to happen. It's so much easier when there's an active fandom around you, keeping the love of the story in your mind and probably being more responsive in terms of comments and discussion.