Coloured lanterns and the sound of waves
I am writing this from a seafront restaurant in Dahab, Egypt, which sounds wonderful, but is sadly undermined by the exciting upper respiratory tract infection that has lain me low for the past nine days, IE my entire holiday so far. :| I went to Cairo and didn't even see the pyramids, can't dive because of congestion, and I'm too weak to bus out to Jerusalem or Petra. Sigh. I've spent most of the time sleeping and not eating - they put me on a drug cocktail drip for a while to fix that damage, but I'm still a little weak and wobbly. So, if you're waiting for a response for me on anything, give me a couple days more, okay? I'm not ignoring you, just running slow. :) (Unless it's urgent, in which case feel free to prod me along. But you know, please only prod if it is urgent, I am still quite sick.) On the bright side, rescheduling to go home early means I'll make the UK Avengers opening, and catch Hunger Games in theatres.
In other news, the divine
Ironfries drew the most wonderful fanart for Secrets of a Successful Marriage; it's just perfect. Go here, and marvel. I mean - their faces. All of them. So precious and expressive. I tried to leave feedback in her ask, but I'm a Tumblr n00b and don't know if I did it right, so I'll just roll and squee here about my all-encompassing ecstasy. I literally cannot pick a favourite picture; Steve's amazing disappointed face, his fish-related ecstasy and Tony's helpless fondness for Steve's fishlove, Tony despairing in the Pontiac, and them dancing, oh, the dipping ♥. Maybe Steve's disappointed face is my favourite. It is so very, very, disappoint. Like, you practically don't need to read the story now. You can just look at these pictures and it's like taking a highly distilled version of the story and rubbing it on your face.
The diligent kalakirya has podficced Tomorrow Belongs To Me! Ten hours! Due to being abroad, I haven't had a chance to download and listen, but I'm pretty psyched. And impressed. That is some serious patience! cybel has made it into an audiobook.
And thanks to
pkai7, who gave me a blue dragon that made me smile when I was down. ♥
Going back a little further, I got two delicious gifts in the C-Im Secret Santa, which as usual went very smoothly due to the general good behaviour of the participants. I got a sweet fic by
snowynight, Join Your Hands which is a nice external voice on Ult Steve and Tony and the little personal ways they interact. Ult Jan is always one of my favourites, and Steve has some lovely quirks here. :) And plingo_kat wrote me buy the brooklyn bridge about Steve happily spending money, which is just delightful - lovely spun fluff with just enough weight to be comforting, like a favourite blanket. All told, an excellent haul. I wrote three fics I was generally pleased with; my favourite was Elizabethan privateers, although I made poor
muccamukk tear out her hair.
muccamukk: you're certainly ticking the costume porn box
valtyr: With a thick pen. Twice.
muccamukk: in the first two paragraphs
valtyr: Ah
you wait
muccamukk: ahaha
valtyr: That's more costume light flirtation
muccamukk: what kind of ship is it!
valtyr: I own multiple books on Tudor costume
valtyr: IDK
muccamukk: ?
valtyr: I don't have any books on that
Then we argued about which deck they were on and which masts people were leaning against and would a proper lady be on the main deck and was Natasha really the kind of lady to worry about being on the appropriate deck. I still don't know what holy stoning is, but I did win the debate on who had superior cannon by saying Tony Stark's presence in weapons design trumped historical accuracy. And I called the fic Pillars of Hercules, which is probably the classiest dick joke I've ever told.
Anyway. A little shaky, so I will post this now. Hope all you good people are well, and excited for Avengers time. I am excited for Avengers time. ♥
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In other news, the divine
Ironfries drew the most wonderful fanart for Secrets of a Successful Marriage; it's just perfect. Go here, and marvel. I mean - their faces. All of them. So precious and expressive. I tried to leave feedback in her ask, but I'm a Tumblr n00b and don't know if I did it right, so I'll just roll and squee here about my all-encompassing ecstasy. I literally cannot pick a favourite picture; Steve's amazing disappointed face, his fish-related ecstasy and Tony's helpless fondness for Steve's fishlove, Tony despairing in the Pontiac, and them dancing, oh, the dipping ♥. Maybe Steve's disappointed face is my favourite. It is so very, very, disappoint. Like, you practically don't need to read the story now. You can just look at these pictures and it's like taking a highly distilled version of the story and rubbing it on your face.
The diligent kalakirya has podficced Tomorrow Belongs To Me! Ten hours! Due to being abroad, I haven't had a chance to download and listen, but I'm pretty psyched. And impressed. That is some serious patience! cybel has made it into an audiobook.
And thanks to
pkai7, who gave me a blue dragon that made me smile when I was down. ♥
Going back a little further, I got two delicious gifts in the C-Im Secret Santa, which as usual went very smoothly due to the general good behaviour of the participants. I got a sweet fic by
snowynight, Join Your Hands which is a nice external voice on Ult Steve and Tony and the little personal ways they interact. Ult Jan is always one of my favourites, and Steve has some lovely quirks here. :) And plingo_kat wrote me buy the brooklyn bridge about Steve happily spending money, which is just delightful - lovely spun fluff with just enough weight to be comforting, like a favourite blanket. All told, an excellent haul. I wrote three fics I was generally pleased with; my favourite was Elizabethan privateers, although I made poor
muccamukk tear out her hair.
muccamukk: you're certainly ticking the costume porn box
valtyr: With a thick pen. Twice.
muccamukk: in the first two paragraphs
valtyr: Ah
you wait
muccamukk: ahaha
valtyr: That's more costume light flirtation
muccamukk: what kind of ship is it!
valtyr: I own multiple books on Tudor costume
valtyr: IDK
muccamukk: ?
valtyr: I don't have any books on that
Then we argued about which deck they were on and which masts people were leaning against and would a proper lady be on the main deck and was Natasha really the kind of lady to worry about being on the appropriate deck. I still don't know what holy stoning is, but I did win the debate on who had superior cannon by saying Tony Stark's presence in weapons design trumped historical accuracy. And I called the fic Pillars of Hercules, which is probably the classiest dick joke I've ever told.
Anyway. A little shaky, so I will post this now. Hope all you good people are well, and excited for Avengers time. I am excited for Avengers time. ♥
This entry was originally posted at http://valtyr.dreamwidth.org/104811.html. Comments: