fic recs and other things

[luninosity]

Apologies for the less frequent updates! Holiday busy times. Plus end-of-term rapidly approaching. Why does everything always have to be done at once...? Anyway, have some fic recs and some random thoughts!

-if you have somehow not yet heard, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are appearing in the next X-Men film! THE UNIVERSE IS EXPLODING WITH

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[raffi]

Sorry to hear that it had been very busy for you D: It's not like 'all stress, no fun', I hope?

Oh yeeeees! These news are all over the Tumblr! :DDD I can't wait! (Although, I'm not sure if I would like Wolverine to be back..)

Recs: Apples and Ink is spectacular, I agree! Also, I've just finished reading The Winter of Banked Fires by Yahtzee. Dear lord almighty! ALL OF THE FEELINGS!

Also! Congrats on your soon-anniversary!!! ♥

Song: These lyrics really ring true for Erik/Charles. I need to download that song to my player, yup.

[luninosity]

Oh, yes. It's a good sort of busy, but, well...time, where have you gone? Partly the Secret Mutant Beast's fault, though. Good heavens. 1k word limit...and here's me writing a 12k and growing story

[raffi]

Well, time has a tendency to go by so fast, especially when you don't want it to. That fic sounds monstrous, indeed. In a good way, of course! I can't wait to read it! :DDD And I bet that the requester would be thrilled to read such a long, well-developed fic! ♥

'The Winter of Banked Fires' is extremely good. But I will never, ever get over 'Fool me Once, Fool me Twice'. After finishing the last chapter, I was like 'What now? What am I suppose to do now?' It left me completely heart-broken and lost, but those kind of stories are just as great as fix-it ones, they have a very special place in my heart (since, really, I can't see our boys ending up together in any cannon way..)

Plans are awesome! :DD Have a blast, dear! And oh! A new fantasy fic: YES! Yes x 1000000000!!

Speaking of songs, this is my ChErik song:

I was raised from a broken seed

[luninosity]

Well...the three hints that I gave to someone else, about the Secret Mutant Beast, are as follows (I couldn't resist; I'm excited, darn it!): 1) I had to look up the year that Bloomingdale's and Sears were founded; 2) I also got to re-read some H.G. Wells; 3) holiday decorations... *tantalizes*

Agreed about "Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice". *sobs incoherently* Beautiful, but I find that I don't re-read those heartbreaking ones as often--I just can't. (In my head-canon, at some way-off future date, Erik and Charles DO end up together, old and battle-weary and falling at last into compromise, realizing that their lives've only ever been about each other, in opposition or together. But that's a long way ahead.)

New fantasy fic hopefully today. Though that's actually a very old fantasy fic. *laughs* You can all know my shame.

Those are gorgeous lyrics, if a bit heartbreaking! (Which band/songwriter?) Will I learn how to be one of you someday? ...I hope the answer's yes. *wistful expression*

[raffi]

Oh, silly me! The song is 'Broken' by Sonata Arctica. They have other absolutely wonderful songs (well, in my humble opinion), such as 'Shy', 'Kingdom for a Heart' or 'UnOpened'. Speaking of ...

Another misspelled rhyme,
written in the book of time.
In one page I've spent all my life.
Ink ain't even dry. I've been living in a lie?
How could I trust in someone of your kind?

And I got today, another letter in the mail
I can't read it here, not today.
And when years go by,
the unopened letter meets my eye.
I'm older and wiser, but still afraid.

What if I read it and it is - full of love.
How can I face it if I am wrong?

Do you feel? Do you care about me?
Did you wait and love me all this time?

I am here, would you come and find me?
Does your writing guide me through this all (c) UnOpened

Sorry, sorry! I'm just rather passionate about this band. :DD

Hints: Oooooh! ♥ You know, those hints are not helping! I want to read it even more!! (When was the posting time, again