Fic Updates!

[mrstater]

It's been ages since I linked my fics here (or posted anything at all--to my chagrin!) so here's what I've been writing lately:

We had a winter challenge at GameofShips, and I returned to ASOIAF with a couple of pre-canon Jorah/Lynesse fics (because apparently I can't do ships that aren't doomed):

Hibernation
What do (she) bears do in winter? [T

Comments

[shimotsuki]

Hi! Glad to see you on LJ; I fell off the Tumblr train over the holidays and just haven't had time to get back into it again. It takes so long to go through my feed, and I only follow about 9 people! The pretty pictures are fun, but I miss just hearing about what people are up to. LJ is much better for that.

Thought DA S4 was generally pretty good, although some aspects of the Anna plotline were somewhat disturbing, while others blew over faster than I thought they should have. Did think that some of the things they did with Mary were interesting (pigs FTW). And loved some of the Isobel-and-Violet interplay. Also, the last scene of the Christmas special --!!! Adorable. (Being all oblique here because I don't know what's still a spoiler for the US program schedule.) ETA: Forgot Edith (how could I); lots of interesting stuff there. And I'm not entirely sure what I think of Tom's new friend, but I've really liked some of the things they've done in exploring Tom's relationship with the rest of the family.

Really looking forward to getting back to reading SWH; glad you're still going with that. But lately most of my fic reading/writing and LJ time have been swallowed up by this crazy idea gilpin25 and huldrejenta and I had to try a new, small-scale Remus/Tonks comm at rt_morelove -- which has been lots of fun, and reminded me of the old days. :)

[mrstater]

Aw, I've missed you and LJ friends, too...I feel like I hit this point where I have time to blog or to write fiction and the latter ends up winning out every time--and for RL updates I mostly keep up FB. It's difficult to balance the various media platforms!

I saw rt_morelove--looks like lots of participation, that's awesome! For further HP nostalgia, are you following the latest with JK Rowling and her comments on Hermione/Ron? The shipping wars have started again as vehemently as they ever were, LOL. The HP fandom will never change. ;)

On the whole I enjoyed DA S4 but I felt like there asn't a lot of consistency in terms of how serious some of the plots were with how frivolous others were? I hate how Anna's rape somehow became all about Bates.

I just can't be bothered about any of Mary's new suitors. (I love Evelyn but really, why is he there? And in S1 he'd pretty well moved on from Mary in any kind of romantic way when he knew she wasn't into him so...why is he pining 10 years later? Evelyn is better than that!) Plus I just have this fundamental problem with how Mary was basically on the shelf in S2 and suitors were scarce so what's changed now? She's even older and has a child who will inherit an estate and also men are scarce after the war? I just really do not understand it.

I think no matter how much I enjoy Downton I'll always think..."But it could be so much better!" LOL.