First things first: darling Kaino wrote me a fic for the Hetalia Nordics exchange (being assigned to my friend was a pleasant surprise in itself) and I'm absolutely delighted by it! It's the story of Denmark and Iceland's relations, from Kalmarunionen up to post-WWII, written in a saga/fairytale-esque style: Saga of Two Brothers. Go read it if you ( Read more... )

Well! Solstice has passed. I'm so glad. It was starting to get so dark so early, I just couldn't handle it. Though it'll be a while before it's light at an early hour again, I'm definitely looking forward to it. That's what I get for living so far north, but... one would think I'd be used to it by now ( Read more... )

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I'm finished all of my Christmas cards! What a relief. But I have some stamps left, so I might track down some more people for their current addresses. I don't know. Have to decide. I'd normally just leave it be, but the stamps that I have remaining are Christmas stamps, so I might as well use them up for now. Or not.

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I wish I could Elsa it up and say that the cold doesn't bother me, but alas, no. It's -30C out and it's just going to get worse. Why do I live in northern Alberta, again?! ... Oh, wait. Because this is where the jobs are. Right ( Read more... )

Was thinking about doing Christmas cards this year... If anybody wants one, send me a Direct Message on Dreamwidth or Livejournal. (If you don't celebrate christmas but want a card anyway, that's fine, I have some cute normal cards that I can send too)

I'm so tired and it's only Monday... this is going to be a long week.

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Wow, Tumblr's new margins certainly cause... issues... for photosets/image quality/proper display/etc. I was thinking about making some imagesets this weekend, since I took a lot of caps while playing VH and wanted to try putting them together in an interesting way, but uh. I think I'll hold off on that until this gets sorted out. Hopefully Tumblr ( Read more... )

Finally watched Paranorman. Man, if someone told me earlier that it's a stop motion film, I probably would have seen it ages ago. When it was in cinema, even. I love stop motion, and this one was beautifully executed. It doesn't stick with me as much as some others - I'm thinking mainly of Nightmare Before Christmas - but for what it is, it's ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is on Monday, but we're going to have our big fancy supper tomorrow, because it's nice to have an extra day to relax before going back to work. I think it's just going to be us this year, no other guests. And to be honest, I'm fine with that; I like having a nice, quiet holiday supper. It's more relaxing that way ( Read more... )

So, somehow in the last two days I've managed to pound out 2k of Link Between Worlds fic. This is not normal. Usually I'm doing awesome if I can manage to write 500 words of Hetalia fic in that amount of time. I write pretty slowly on average. So this much, for a fandom and characters that I have no experience with, is just ??? how the heck did ( Read more... )