So, those of you that follow me on tumblr already know that this Christmas wasn't great for me.

( Cut because this is kind of a bummer )

Happy Christmas eve, everybody! As usual my grandparents are visiting my family with all the attendant 'fun' that that entails, but I wanted to pop on here and wish you all a very merry Christmas and sort out a few items of business that fell by the wayside during workaggeddon.

1. Like many others, I have blown the dust of my old Dreamwidth account ( Read more... )

Title: Santa Baby
Author: thewaterbandit 
Character(s) or Pairing(s): The Doctor, Amy, Rory
Rating: G
Summary: flying_girl73 asked for 'the Doctor and some of his companions (and maybe enemies) do a Secret Santa'. I'm afraid I fiddled with it a little bit because Christmas shopping has been on my mind lately! Rory, Amy and the Doctor all go about Christmas shopping in their ( Read more... )

Title: An Hetalia Christmas Carol
Author/Artist: thewaterbandit
Character(s) or Pairing(s): England, America, Finland, France, Canada, Russia, Italy, Sealand, Lithuania, Prussia, and sundry other nations with non-speaking parts.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Very mild language
Summary: In which England is visited by four very familiar spirits and really fails to ( Read more... )

Halfway through Carol!fic- it's about 3,000 words now. Those that know me can appreciate that, for me, this is touching on epic length. Hope it'll be done in time for Christmas D: Please send help.

In other news, I made a Wordle for my blog and the results are rather amusing:


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Here's an excerpt of something I'm currently working on in between dissertation stuff:

"You will be visited-" began France, but England cut him off.

"Don't tell me you came all the way across the Channel just to play silly buggers-"

"YOU WILL BE VISITED," France repeated, louder and shaking his chains for emphasis, "By three spirits..."England ( Read more... )