In case you missed it, I posted a story over the weekend:

I'm crawling on your shore (@ AO3)
Six of Crows; Kaz/Inej; pg; 1,765 words
It's a good thing they're playing a long game.

Because sometimes you just want fraught touching and banter without overdosing on angst. *g*

Speaking of which, I finally watched Mockingjay Part 2, and on the one ( Read more... )

I understand and appreciate that Yoenis Cespedes carried the Mets to winning the division, and Daniel Murphy carried them through the first two rounds of the playoffs, but the World Series is a terrible time for them to regress back to their usual selves. The reason "defense and pitching wins championships" is a cliche is because it is true for the ( Read more... )

Last night, before I went to the movies, I did my Christmas shopping, so now the nieces and nephews are all taken care of, and this morning I completed my yuletide source review and wrote another 300 words of my story, so achievement unlocked! Halfway there! All the setup is done so the story can happen now, I think. I feel like I will want to talk ( Read more... )

So fleurdeleo and I went to see The Hunger Games tonight. I thought it was good, a reasonably faithful adaptation that could have been better, but which mostly gave me what I wanted out of it, which was KATNISS being awesome, and also CINNA.

( slightly more spoilery )

In between getting all my work done yesterday (we were free to leave at 2:30 but I ended up staying until about 4:30; on the upside, I think I got done everything that I could get done), and waiting for the recap of "Zuko Alone" to go up, I skimmed through the Mark Reads The Hunger Games posts, and man, even just dipping into the comments brought ( Read more... )

Okay, I just finished Mockingjay, and I have thoughts. I had been waiting for the trilogy to be finished before finally picking them up, and so I started reading Hunger Games on Monday evening and I just finished Mockingjay and, well.

( quick first impressions )