There is a new Bujold novella out and nobody mentioned it to me! Knife Children, a Sharing Knife sequel or epilogue, a sweet little tale about Barr and his daughter. I inhaled it and am reminded of how much I love the Sharing Knife series, every bit as much as I love the Vorkosigan series. They do different things, and TSK is such a gorgeous world ( Read more... )

I'm still here, though still very head-down in RL. Trying to decide whether or not to attempt Yuletide. But I did make the time to read the e-ARC of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and I have thoughts.

( spoilers for GJRQ )

We've just got back from a week's holiday with the in-laws. No injuries, no trips to A&E, no significant breakages, so that's a success. There was some fun stuff too: a random trip to the Tank Museum to escape rain falling sideways turned into a bit of an adventure when it happened that there were Daleks and UNIT troops holding a running battle ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done anything like this, so, courtesy of
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First off, the Bujold Ficathon is up and running this year, so please do go along, leave prompts, write fics and tell all your friends! All details are here.Second off, 'Scott and Bailey'. SO MUCH LOVE. I've watched the first season and wow, the characters. DC Rachel Bailey is the lead, a constable on the Major Incidents team who's about half a ( Read more... )

There is no situation so stressful that a screaming baby can't make it more stressful. Since my motto under stress is 'when in doubt, write hurt/comfort', I signed up for a h/c bingo card, and now I'm wondering where to start. So I figured I'd ask you all - do any of these prompts suggest characters/situations to you? I'm not promising to write ( Read more... )

I happened across some lovely Vorkosiverse art from the Russian fandom. I particularly love the Aral/Cordelia one, and Bel with the hamster ( Read more... )

I recently got my paper copy of CVA and have been utterly distracted with reading it and squeaking with delight all the time. There's a romance, and a plot, and stuff, and other people have interesting and intelligent critiques of those things, but as far as I'm concerned, it's The Simon And Alys Show and I am delighted with it. Here are some ( Read more... )

All right, so I've been blethering a bit about the Olympics (and Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were absolutely beautiful today, I am in love), so now: the Barrayaran edition, in the Nexus Games ( Read more... )

So I saw a meme a while ago where you say what particular characters would do if they were offered the One Ring. Here's my Barrayaran version ( Read more... )