It is good to be on vacation and slowly reading my way through the Yuletide archive. For Christmas this year, I decided to bake my grandmother's Christmas cookie recipes for my family. Pair that with the baking I normally do for holiday parties, plus some Yuletide treats that would not end, and I was quite the busy bee. My family was delighted with ( Read more... )

I surface, dear friendslist, from a haze of cookie baking and writing. I've been pretty MIA because I slid in my last Yuletide treat five minutes before reveals. I want to make some recs post, but first, HOLY MOLY, I was the lucky recipient of SIX full-length fics and a Madness treat.

When I wander home (Check Please!, Shitty/Lardo, 4206 words) - ( Read more... )

Yuletide Assignment: <5000 words, posted
Treat #1: <7000 words, needs editing
Treat #2: <4000 words, in progress
Treat #3: <3500 words, in progress ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wrote 5000 words and today I cooked for 2.5 hours, so I felt comfortable finishing Ancillary Mercy before tackling NaNoWriMo for the evening. Of course I am going to booklog it!

( Here be spoilers for the Imperial Radch trilogy. )

Hello, friends! It's NaNoWriMo! I'm working on an original novella and ALL THE YULETIDE. I finished my Secret Mutant assignment rough draft in late October, but it needs hella editing. Posting my WIP word counts here to encourage me to get today's writing done ( Read more... )

As usual, getting back into the writing habit is hard after a break, cold-induced or otherwise. Fingers crossed that updating here gets my brain back on track.

Food: Made two recipes from the Budget Bytes cookbook today. The autumn baked oatmeal feels like a luxurious breakfast despite being incredibly easy to make. I also made her coconut chicken ( Read more... )

Greetings, citizens! I'm broadcasting live from my sick couch, where I can report no fever heat wave but definite flurries of crumpled tissues. /o\ In all seriousness, I picked up a little cold and I am resentful to be missing Margaret Atwood at the Boston book festival and a Halloween party, among other things I had planned this weekend ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Author,

Congratulations! You're great and I would hug you if I could. I'm certain that I will love and adore whatever you write me! Yuletide is probably my favorite fannish time of year. Celebrating awesome things: always wonderful! You can also find me on my perpetually on hiatus tumblr if you'd like more of a sense of my ( Read more... )

Dear Secret Mutant creator,

Congratulations! You're great and I would hug you if I could. I'm certain that I will love and adore whatever you make me! You can also find me on my perpetually on hiatus tumblr if you'd like more of a sense of my preferences/personality/etc. I'm much more active on my locked Twitter, unfortunately, but pocky_slash is an ( Read more... )

Since my new job is the opposite of an energy vampire, I find myself with lots of time to ponder HOLIDAY EXCHANGE REQUESTS. I also need to decide if I want to request Check Please for Yuletide or do 'Swawesome Santa... OR BOTH. I will also be doing Secret Mutant, and crossing my fingers for Magneto-angrily-retires-to-an-asteroid fic ( Read more... )