Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you're all having a good day today, whether or not you're celebrating. I had a lie-in till 5.30am today; my parents reminded me that when I was a child I was the worst of all my siblings for getting up at ridiculous hours on Christmas morning and getting into mischief, so I guess it's cosmic justice now :-D ( Read more... )

- This Christmas has involved 300% more throwing up than I would like. Nothing like families coming together for sharing of bugs. Fortunately this one seems to have been very shortlived, and hopefully that's the traditional Christmas illness over now ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, everyone! We've had a lovely time here, even if it did start with 5.30am banging on my bedroom door from a boy who'd been waiting and waiting and waiting for Christmas and couldn't wait any longer. He was very happy to be allowed to open his presents and eat Christmas dinner and more chocolate than is really good for him. I hope ( Read more... )

This is the Komarr fic I've always wanted, the one that unpicks all the stuff Bujold writes about how if Komarr will only submit to Gregor and stop wanting freedom then everything will be okay, and shows an alternative. I did the world's most useless beta job on this fic, since all I could say was OMG I LOVE IT. It's the story of Komarran ( Read more... )

I wrote two Rivers of London fics for Trick or Treat, both for the lovely linndechir who wrote a letter full of excellent plot bunnies. They are:

Title: Longhouse
Content: Peter/Nightingale, casefic, h/c, haunted houses
Length: 17,000 words
Summary: On a case outside of London, Peter and Nightingale face danger, death and architecture.

Title: Target ( Read more... )

First off, I have a Yuletide fic! And it's amazing and beautiful and something I didn't know was possible, so all of you should go and read Operation Reunification, a Das Leben Der Anderen | The Lives of Others fic by a wonderful anonymous author ( Read more... )

So I was procrastinating stuck on all my fics and wound up exploring tumblr, as you do. I kind of feel like I can't possibly be too old to get tumblr, but all the same, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, kind of like Facebook (which is even more embarrassing because my 85-year-old grandmother understands Facebook, but I don't. Did you know that ( Read more... )

Fandom_stocking has gone live, and I have a lovely selection of multi-fandom recs and ficlets - thank you all very much :-). You can find my stocking here.

I also wrote four fics of my own for other people:

Live to Serve (500 words)
Five ImpSec agents and their oaths.

Tour Guide (4800 words ( Read more... )

Everyone should go and read
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Life is looking up. I have had three mostly-unbroken nights of sleep in succession, my cold is going away, my son's behaviour is more manageable, and best of all, after more than two months of solid rain, the sun is shining! I actually rode somewhere on my bike today, and I have a vase of sweetpeas on my desk too. It does always get better again, ( Read more... )