Three Things (The Post-Holiday Edition)
1. Christmas was, with a few exceptions, entirely lovely. Family dinner at my granddad's went off without a hitch, my feuding cousins and their girlfriends were able to stagger their arrival so they never had to be in the same room, and my obnoxious racist uncle managed to not pick any screaming fights with the rest of us until the 26th. All the food was tasty, I got to see some monks carol-ing, and my mom really liked the ice cream maker I got her. Also, I got presents! Mostly cooking implements from the family (I HAVE SO MANY SPRINGFORM PANS OMG), which is awesome. And a book on Victorian erotic literature from
colourofsaying, who perhaps knows me too well.
Also also, someone wrote me an amazing
Niels & Gang fic for Yuletide where 300 and 250 get married, with attendant Niels-related obstacles. I...kind of want this to be canon now, it is so precious and ridiculous and perfectly them.
2. Just once, I would like to have our water go out on a day that isn't hair-washing day. Not being able to take a shower really just throws the whole day off. Along with all the other myriad inconveniences that really require running water, of course. Stupid fucking pipes.
3. I have been bingeing this week on the Vorkosigan saga. I don't know who recommended it to me - maybe it was just general geekish osmosis? - but ahaha I love this series so much you guys. It manages to hit three of my major id-buttons - Russian characters (or, well, post-earth space-Russians, but whatever, I just want the names and the face structure), a hyper-manic strategy-brilliant protagonist, and buckets and buckets of hurt/comfort. Please, break Miles' legs a couple more times, Bujold, tie him up and drug him, let's throw in a couple traumatic nightmares, I cannot get enough of this. Watching Miles suffer is almost more fun than watching him careen around accidentally stopping civil wars through his sheer inability to shut his mouth.
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