I'm actually doing pretty well, you guys. Thursday... okay, Thursday sucked, but I recovered really rapidly (in large part due to you guys and your awesomeness). I don't think I've ever sprung back quite so fast from my dad and his rants, which is a promising sign for my own mental health. And I've been doing better with the socializing thing! Two ( Read more... )

+ Today I had Christmas! my sister is leaving tomorrow and won't be back again for a long time, so we figured we would have Christmas this Sunday, complete with the traditional breakfast (Christmas Morning Coffee Cake, bacon, eggs, oranges/orange juice) and a tree and everything, which turned out really nice. :) We didn't do a lot of presents, but ( Read more... )

You guys you guys. I'm hosting comment_fic this week, and my theme today was 'on the road.' And as a sample prompt, I gave "Merlin, author's choice, road trip AU." And 
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+ Lass wrote more Narnia Durkheim fic, which is naturally awesome. Forms & Foundations. Susan & Edmund. This world tells her, You are Susan Pevensie, a whole equal to the sum of her parts, and she wonders what that entails.

+ Florida got a cold snap in the past few days and my hands are freezing. off. I'm not even really kidding about this - I have ( Read more... )

so I had a FABULOUS birthday and I am spending most of today lounging around, doing some housework and schoolwork and trying not to fall asleep. heh.

yesterday! my dad's birthday present for me was subs for lunch and pizza for dinner, and I'd cajoled mom into letting me make coconut cake on Thursday, so there was lots of good food! also running ( Read more... )

+ my library got in around 11 new Pratchett books. feast on those words. ELEVEN NEW PRATCHETT BOOKS THAT I HAVEN'T READ ASHKLGHDLFKDJGS. well, that's no longer true. I've already finished three of them - Jingo, Equal Rites, and Thief of Time, all three of which were FABULOUS. I now feel a great desire more of Susan Sto Helit, and thoroughly ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS. TIME FOR A POETRY FEST! I have poems to rec to you, and you should rec poetry too! LOTS AND LOTS OF POETRY. poetry in comments! poetry in your journals! doesn't matter which, just POETRY. YAY POETRY!

(sorry for the long post - lj cut was not being cooperative, AGAIN)

Portage by John Glenday
We carry the dead in our hands.
There is no other ( Read more... )

Yesterday night, I watched Masterpiece Mystery's 'Miss Marple: Murder is Easy' (which you can watch online here) with my mom. They've been doing a run of Agathie Christie pieces - there were some Poirot ones, then four Marple ones are due (this is the second). The first one was A Pocketful of Rye last week, which had Matthew McFaddyen in it, who ( Read more... )

Today in things Betsy accomplished writing-wise.

-continued writing Buffy/Narnia crossover. Jumped time. Ignored actual canon show timing (of course!).
-edited M.Pop/S.Pev kind-of fic written by me and Lass and Wyrm some and sent it back. perhaps something shall come of this?
-procrastinated a lot
-had this conversation come up while writing roadtrip! ( Read more... )

Ugh.

You know what I'm trying to do right now? Not drown in life. Write something that isn't fanfiction or crack.

This is proving really really hard.

So! To alleviate my distress, I'm reccing Susan-fics.

Went Forth Unconquered, by gisho 
Susan Pevensie is, in no particular order, an orphan, an atheist, remarkably beautiful, firmly practical, and a Queen. ( Read more... )