A few things
Dec. 3rd, 2023 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeToday is my five-year Dreamwidth anniversary! What a good five fannish years they've been. :)
NTS Kidnapped people who aren't on Tumblr: look, look, we have fanart! And very cute fanart. Thank you,![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
chiropteracupola :D
RL is still busy and stressful, but happily fic is being a good thing amongst the difficulties. I've not quite been keeping up with comments, but nevertheless, a few recent recs:
I've also been playing lots of Birdie, a daily guessing game introduced to me bysanguinity a while ago. You're shown cropped close-up pictures of different parts of a bird, and you have to guess the species in as few pictures as possible, with the game indicating when an incorrect guess shares part of its name with the correct species. They're all North American birds, which makes it more of an enjoyable challenge for me; I suspect it'd be too easy with British birds, but this way I have to do a bit of detective work to figure out unfamiliar species. And it introduces me to so many new, beautiful birds! Today's (which I got in three guesses) is very lovely.
And I've been watching 'The Life of Birds' on iPlayer, which is a lovely de-stressing thing (and has provided an excellent new icon). I'm vaguely considering watching the new Doctor Who specials at some point, but not in this context—the fast-paced sensory intensity of modern TV does not work for calmingness like wildlife documentaries from the 90s.
Speaking of birds, there is a new biography of W. H. Hudson out, by Conor Mark Jameson (whose name I recognise, though I can't remember what else of his I've read). That looks very interesting, I may give it a read at some point. I'm reading another of Hudson's books at the moment and he really does write about birds very well.
I have very nearly finished the beta-ready draft of my Yuletide fic! I have been enjoying writing it :) I've got too many ideas for treats, but in the time between now and reveals I hope to be able to write one or two of them... if they stay short...?
NTS Kidnapped people who aren't on Tumblr: look, look, we have fanart! And very cute fanart. Thank you,
RL is still busy and stressful, but happily fic is being a good thing amongst the difficulties. I've not quite been keeping up with comments, but nevertheless, a few recent recs:
- Behind a Closed Door by thrillingdetectivetales: Absolutely adorable NTS Kidnapped missing scene/smut fic, with especially lovely character voices.
- Shadow March by verecunda: The fort in Frontier Wolf is, historically-geographically, in almost exactly the same place as the House of Shaws, and this fic makes the most of the crossover opportunity!
- They Can Nearly Talk by chestnut_pod: James Herriot as an elf vet in Valinor. Inspired idea, brilliant execution. The f!elf!Siegfried Farnon character is amazing.
- A Disease of So Peculiar a Nature by
chiroptera_in_the_cupola: A team of eighteenth-century characters get inoculated against smallpox together. I don't know the fandom, Team Fortress 2, at all, but I gather this is very AU anyway, and it may be of interest to other 18th century history fans.
I've also been playing lots of Birdie, a daily guessing game introduced to me by
sanguinity a while ago. You're shown cropped close-up pictures of different parts of a bird, and you have to guess the species in as few pictures as possible, with the game indicating when an incorrect guess shares part of its name with the correct species. They're all North American birds, which makes it more of an enjoyable challenge for me; I suspect it'd be too easy with British birds, but this way I have to do a bit of detective work to figure out unfamiliar species. And it introduces me to so many new, beautiful birds! Today's (which I got in three guesses) is very lovely.And I've been watching 'The Life of Birds' on iPlayer, which is a lovely de-stressing thing (and has provided an excellent new icon). I'm vaguely considering watching the new Doctor Who specials at some point, but not in this context—the fast-paced sensory intensity of modern TV does not work for calmingness like wildlife documentaries from the 90s.
Speaking of birds, there is a new biography of W. H. Hudson out, by Conor Mark Jameson (whose name I recognise, though I can't remember what else of his I've read). That looks very interesting, I may give it a read at some point. I'm reading another of Hudson's books at the moment and he really does write about birds very well.
I have very nearly finished the beta-ready draft of my Yuletide fic! I have been enjoying writing it :) I've got too many ideas for treats, but in the time between now and reveals I hope to be able to write one or two of them... if they stay short...?
