Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

I found one in the front yard! I love autumn, I love weird fungi.

( Fairy mushrooms? In my front yard? It's more likely than you think )

The Person of Interest ficathon is open, so if you'd like to read some new POI fic, the collection is here:
Exchange of Interest 2019.

My gift: Fighting Evil By Moonlight (Rated Mature, Root/Shaw)
10k of rollicking paranormal AU, with werewolf-hunting cops. It's kinda Anita Blake-ish, with Root/Shaw instead of Anita/everybody.

Also excellent:
About a Bird (Explicit, Nathan/Harold)
Nathan and Harold at MIT together in the eighties, super nostalgic and full of that sticky dorm room carpet style nostalgia

The Unemployable Leon Tao (Rated Teen, Leon & Shaw & Fusco & Bear)
Wonderful post-finale fic, with Shaw and Fusco rebuilding and recruiting, and Leon Tao trying to knit them together into a team.

I'm off my meds. I am a free-range brain. It is strange and a little unsettling, like the floorboards of my mind are creaking underfoot but holding steady for the moment.

Cutting for talk of roadkill type car accident with animal harm.
( We're okay but the marsupial ain't )

Brief Media Review:

Eps 1-3 of ST Discovery S2
( spoilers are mysterious red lights )

Tidelands S1
Which, if this didn't make it to shores outside Australia, is kind of a paranormal mystery story? IDK. This is the imdb summary:
After an ex-con returns to her fishing village, a dead body leads her to uncover the secrets of the town and its half-siren, half-human residents.

( Spoilers are too glamorous to get sand in their crack )

Sirens S1 Episodes 1-4
( Spoilers are drinking a herring smoothie )

So many mermaids this summer. It's great.

Brain report:
It goes up tiddly up up, it goes down tiddly down down. But it goes up? I guess that's good. I'm back to two sessions a week with my trainer and I think it's giving me a mood boost, but with every mood boost comes a kind of mood flop. I wake up, I feel good and optimistic for a few hours, then it feels like the ground has dropped out from under me and I wonder what the point is to existence.

It's one year since 60% of Australia voted to let me get married. I am surprised at how bitter I am about the whole fucking thing. Every time I see my straight friends on facebook congratulating themselves on being so openminded, I want to cry. I mean, in that twelve months I didn't get married. I weaned myself off the extra antidepressant I had to start taking so I wouldn't have panic attacks in public during the debate. Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off. (And down tiddly down down...)

Okay. Up. Go up, brain. There are lots of good things in my life. I have a big bang to post at the end of the month! I'm 22K into this year's NaNo! I have lots of lovely wool to work with! It's okay. I can manage this.


Garden report:
Tomatoes went in the beds on Cup Day (the first Tuesday in November) as is traditionally recommended by old gardners who know things. We've got three from Bunnings (big box hardware): Grosse Lise, mini Roma truss and Nonna's Favourite. And from seed I've got Green Zebra and Red Pear in the beds. In the greenhouse there's Orange Sunrise Bumblebee (this is too many adjectives for a tomato, IJS), valentines, and Wapsipinicon Peach which is apparently a fuzzy tomato. (Not sure if want? But could not resist trying to grow it.)

Cucumbers: Lebanese and Crystal Apple. Zucchini: Blackjack and Costata Romanesco. Climbing beans: Purple King, European and Northern. Peas: purple and yakimono giant. (The giant peas really are huge. Fingertip to wrist in length.) I've optimistically started eggplants - Long Purples, which I call Lebanese - and put lots of dynamic lifter on this time but they've been stalled at the two-leaf stage and I think I really can't grow eggplant which is one of life's cruel ironies.

Is that everything? Lime and Genovese basil... Some other rando tomato leftovers from years past that I can't remember. Oh, purple spring onions, but they're still at the skinny chive-looking stage. Celery is finishing up. Broccoletti is getting lots of brockles. Spinach has been slumbering all through winter, sadly, but is now starting to get leafy.


Linkspam:
History
- I think this comes via jenett? Folklorist shares the untold story of Australian fortune teller, Mary Barrell
I find this fascinating because of my long-languishing YA Melbourne based Victorian-era paranormal novel. I love all these gradually disappearing stories of Australia's occult history.

Politics and Reproductive Health
Via goodbyebird, The California Sunday Magazine: A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.
Interesting but very explicit - it talks medication, equipment, training for providing grass roots abortion.


Recs
Fic rec of great love from the Person of Interest Big Bang:
Just One Stray Match (41961 words) by loveandthetruth, livenudebigfoot
Chapters: 14/14
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lionel Fusco/John Reese
Characters: Lionel Fusco, John Reese, Harold Finch, Sameen Shaw, Root | Samantha Groves
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Firewatch Fusion, Cabin Fic, Wilderness, Hiking Porn
Summary:

1989. Lionel Fusco doesn't belong in the woods in general or the Shoshone National Forest in particular. But he doesn't need to be a good fire lookout. He just needs a place to hide.

Unfortunately for him, he's been found.

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It's an AU set well before the series, and it's a fusion with Firewatch, a mystery video game where you play someone living in one of those firewatch cabins in the forest looking out for brushfires. It's so good. It's loyalty kink and examining who you really are when you're outside your comfort zone. It's an ode to Fusco and his utter goodness (which as a dirty cop can be problematic.) It's a love song to National Parks and hiking and living wild in isolated places.

If you're not familiar with the fandoms, I'd still rec it, since it takes place long before we get to know the characters from the show, and you don't need much canon info. Think of it as a story about a disheartened dirty cop who takes a summer job he's completely unsuited for, and falls for a mysterious and traumatised stranger living wild in the forest.

(Bearing in mind the week that California has had, if you're unhappy reading about fire or fire damage, this one probably isn't for you.)

tl;dr, it's the kind of fic that makes you pick up a fandom - I've got the Firewatch game in my wishlist on Steam for the next time it goes on special.
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More recs:
- Fanart - No I in Team - by goss. Beautiful, beautiful Daredevil and Ironman art for marvel_bang. Just - when can I see this on a comicbook cover pls? Pls.

- XVII by phoxinus. Tarot fanart for Watership Down in the style of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. It's beautiful and full of symbolism and very apt. Of course Hyzenthlay is the Star. Of course. I second everyone saying they'd love a deck in this theme.

- Singing Again at Seven Bells by selden, from the Original Works Exchange. I'd say "Lady pirate mermaid femslash" and that would ordinarily be enough for me, but there's so much more going on in this fic. There's boarding school backstory and there's historical pirate world building and there's... so much. It's so good. Nhhgggnh.


Other Fandom Joy
-This Metafilter post: Please rec me your fabulous fanfiction
Take a trip down memory lane or find some new faves

- Femslash Kink 18! The Annual Femslash Kink Meme 2018 is Coming!
Prompting opens soon.

- at navaan, Spicy Advent, a porn advent calendar.
All the slots are filled (snerk) but the collection is open for submission (snerk snerk) and as Advent progresses, navaan will post the links. (I think? I think this is how it works. It sounds like fun.)

Non-Fandom Joy
- At Mashable: If you want to explore the Australian bush as a sleepy wombat, 'Paperbark' is the game is for you.
I cannot wait for this game, it looks so pretty!!

- From the ABC, A sleeping quokka in the Rottnest Island settlement.
Everything quokkas do is adorable.

- Monterey Bay Aquarium Builds Life-Sized Blue Whale Art Installation Made from Discarded Single-Use Plastic to Raise Awareness About Ocean Pollution.
It's a very pretty whale, too.

- Also from the ABC, Warrnambool's popular wombat mural a happy accident.
This is such a country town thing - artist goes to his local bridge to do a trial of chalks on concrete thinking it will just wash away in the next rains. Council worker sees wonderful mural and realises that it's just in chalk, so quickly seals it in place. Presto! Permanent mural!!

- From Eyewatch Warrnambool's facebook, Why did the duck cross the road?
Obligatory 'police stop the traffic for ducklings' video. Interestingly, this is just near the old McDonalds that got turned into a funeral parlour. (Must make for some interesting ghosts, I think.)

- via spindle_ella, the first episode of Wellington Paranormal: Wellington Paranormal S01E01 - Demon Girl.
This show is amazing. Just. Yeah. Amazing.

In conclusion, my NaNo progres:

Eleven millionth try at making a post. I have been very slumpy and garbage-headed. There have been actual panic attacks for the first time in ages, and self-harm thoughts, and no sleep, and all that anxiety crap.

I saw a locum doctor and she was twelve, so I helped her decide that I needed some more medical support and that support would be amitriptyline 10mg at night. I dream of a doctor that will actually give me medical advice. (And since I'm dreaming, a doctor who is LGBT friendly rather than oblivious and likely to freak out if I even ask if they're LGBT friendly.)

The amitriptyline is working though: my mood is slowly elevating, I can sleep, and a work day doesn't strip me back to bare bones with exhaustion. I can write this entry! I'm still wanting to sit still with headphones on and crochet all day, but there's no harm in that. I have made a lot of hats.

I managed to get a Yuletide letter written, and and my sign-up done in time. I love my assignment and will love writing it. I wrote a last minute treat for femslashex.

I've got so many fics to post - some from fandomgiftbox that need posting here, and some unposted for 15kisses that are written but I can't seem to find the energy to actually post. And I need to plan for NaNo: I've got a sequel to Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters to write, my never-ending fixit fic for S5 of Person of Interest to finish, and my super never-ending post-Winter Soldier road trip fic to finish. I think the Winter Soldier one is closing in on the end? I think??

And I have made no Christmas cards. And I'm out of sympathy cards. (I make my own sympathy cards because I need them quite frequently, which sounds gruesome, but I work in healthcare with some very elderly patients. It's a nice thing to be able to send a handmade card when one of them passes on.)

Media I have absorbed:

( Mindhunter: spoilers for the whole series )

( ST: Disco Very - spoilers up to 1.06 Lethe )

( Spoilers for The Good Place )

( Thoughts on Black Sails - spoilers for the first eight eps )

( Spoilers for Supergirl S3.03 Far From the Tree )

It has actually taken me two weeks to write this post. Things aren't great in my treehouse. Kangaroos loose in the top paddock. One snag short of a barbie. Few sangas short of a picnic. (How many of these can I spool out? Mullions, mate.)

My little sister gives me life - she asked me about the acceptance ring, which is put out by AirBnB in support of marriage equality in Australia. I said I thought it was a good idea (apart from AirBnB being a super sketchy company) but that the debate was starting to hurt me when it used to energise me.

Me: Honestly, I've kind of given up hope on it going through.
Her: Don't worry. I'll buy one and carry your hope for you.
Her: I'll buy a few and wear them on my fingers and toes
Her: And nipples.

I'm taking her up on it, though. The debate is ugly and unnecessary and so fucking stressful at this point that I just don't read about it anymore. But she will carry my hope. On her nipples. Lovely girl. Best sister.


The temperature got into the negatives last night. (Negative 2C is 24 F, for you Fahrenheit types.) That doesn't happen! Also, the oak tree finally dropped all its leaves, like, FOOMP! It always goes last, and I always wonder if it's actually going to happen, because I don't get deciduous trees. It's so weird to have bare, wintry looking branches in the middle of all this green.

We're in that bit of winter where it's too cold to sow anything or start seeds, and nothing that technically can grow through cold weather is actually growing very much. My baby lettuces are chugging along in the greenhouse but at a rate of millimetres/week which makes salads a long-distant prospect. I miss summer salads! I miss 'throw a whole cucumber on that' salads. I still eat winter cucumbers, but they're nothing like summer.

Not that I miss the heat. Not one bit. Neither do the cats. They are so very loving right now. It's definitely our strong family bond and nothing to do with draining our body heat.


Tiny linkspam:
- multifandomdrabble is open for writing treats: Request summary. It's for 100 word ficlets - yay for the proper use of the term 'drabble'! (I will fight you over this, btw), and they're due on Tuesday.
ETA: I should have mentioned that treats go in the treats collection, not the main collection. So, here: Multifandomdrabble treats 2017

- equinox_exchange is open for nominations until the 8th: Fall Equinox 2017 begins July 2nd!

I messaged the person responsible for the floral dinosaurs made by the neural network to ask if they were okay with their designs being used for tattoos and got the okay. So, that's the first step, omg. I really, really want a dinosaur tattoo designed by a neural network. I didn't know until now. Now I have to decide if I want floral dinosaur, a sailing ship one, or one of the Escher-esque ones made of stairs. Chris, the person who runs (cares for?) the neural network offered to try some other designs - I wonder what would work? I wonder if using text would work? (This was the link in question from my last post: A Neural Network Turned A Book Of Flowers Into Shockingly Lovely Dinosaur Art There's fruit, flowers, ships and staircases)

- Free crochet pattern: Ragdoll Fox crochet pattern.
I shouldn't like foxes - they're an introduced species and they're eating all the bilbies, but this is pretty darn cute.

- more neural network fun: Harry Potter and the Neural Network fan fiction. Neural network learns about ships! Neural network learns ALL ABOUT CAPSLOCK HARRY! Neural network generates strangely plausible user names, like desire_at_the_malfoy or siriusly_harry. BelladonnaLeek! I think this is my favourite neural network thing yet. It invented the word 'hugulate' and now I want to hugulate the world.

- 'Parks And Rec' Star Natalie Morales Comes Out As Queer. My Little Pony, Dubby! (I'm sad it doesn't say "Middleman Star Natalie Morales" but then, why would it?)

- Things I Found Out: What A Swell Party This Isn’t. Thanks Pia Zadora. (I literally just figured out that Pickfair is a smooshname like Bennifer or Brangelina. Only from the olden days.)

Now I have to go home from this very weird day at work and write drabbles.

Today I very much feel like the world is a terrible place, and people are always going to be hurting other people, and I just want to lie down on the grass and pretend to be a tree.

But it's raining.

(lilacsigil: Trees don't lie on the grass.
Me: Dead trees do.)


Cheerful things:

1. GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF IS BACK

[Mary Berry's elation at the mention of gin.]

My life is made whole again. And wow, 9 million viewers for the first episode, yay.

2. Captain America NaNo rewrite is in the middle of a Howard POV bit, a WWII flashback. I really like this fic. I like writing it, and I like editing it, and I need to hurry up so I can get to my favourite bits. And I need to get it posted before it gets jossed by a third MCU movie. (This fic has JARVIS in it, and old Agents of SHIELD before shit went down, and apparently there's a scene with 80's Peggy Carter in Ant Man and she doesn't have the steel bob I imagined her with in this fic so i probably need to check this out.)

3. weelittlestitches put out an X-Files pattern.

[Mulder and Scully, cross-stitched figures. Text says 'The truth is out there']

4. Whale season! At our local beach, we've had Southern Right whales, porpoises, dolphins, and seals. And a pod of orca - I didn't know we even had orca down here. There's seals lazing outside the surf lifesaving club right now.

Further afield, back in July there was a Migaloo sighting: Rare white humpback whale spotted in Cook Strait

5. ( Spoilers for Agent Carter )

6. Hats for dogs! Hats with ear holes for dogs! By jessie-plaskett.

[The noble Golden Retriever, in a pink and white striped beannie with plaited ties.]

7. This terri-bad movie is finally coming out:

It was shot in Warrnambool, and it mostly seems to be fart jokes and it looks so amazingly cliched and bad. But Warrnambool is all WE'RE IN A MOVIE COME TOURISTS COME LEAVE YOUR LOVELY TOURIST DOLLARS HERE! I don't know. There are Maremma dogs guarding the penguins, that's true. I'm just all cringe-amazed by the trailer. It's so Strayan. Onya, mate.

Oh, lordy, tonight's X-Files rewatch is 'The Field Where I Died'. It's, like, 75% a good episode, and 25% stubbing your toe repeatedly against a brick wall. Mulder's past life regression hypnosis scene is so painful and embarrassing I had to stick my fingers in my ears.



Gosh, when you miss a week, the recipes actually pile up.

Something I cooked recently:

Mango Cream Cheese Ice-Cream, based off this: Strawberry Ice-Cream

This was the actual recipe:
3 mangoes, which gives about 2.5 cups of pulp
2 blocks of cream cheese
3/4 cup of sugar (I'm still playing around with the quantities, and I think I could have used less.)
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1.5 cups of skim milk
A good squeeze of lemon juice


Blend the mango pulp. Add all the other ingredients. Blend more. Freeze in machine. I use the kitchenaid ice-cream maker attachment, and this pretty much perfectly fitted in the bowl. It made about 1.5 litres of ice-cream. And it's super, super tasty. I wasn't sure that the vanilla was a good idea, but it really was.

I'm always surprised at how little cream cheese taste this recipe has - it really doesn't taste like cheesecake to me. And my particular lactose intolerance handles this recipe a lot more gracefully than ice-cream made with cream or custard.


Coffee Jelly Or Jello, if you prefer.

I love this - it's an extremely dignified way to absorb caffeine on a really hot day. We ate it with a really nice vanilla yoghurt.



Zucchini Herb Bread

This is a bread machine recipe, and I don't have a bread machine so I make it by hand.

( Adapted recipe )


Zucchini Sheet Cake

I found out, with a giant bowl of cake batter, that not only have I never made a sheet cake before, I didn't have anything to bake a sheet cake in. (For other Aussies, they're 13 x 18.5 inches, 2 inches deep.) So, I improvised and split the batter between two roasting pans, and it worked out okay.

So, I guess I made a cake, of sorts? It wasn't a real cake, though, it had a very unusual fudgy texture, thanks to the shredded zucchini. I wanted to try a different kind of icing/frosting, since lilacsigil hates buttercream and ganache is out because the cream is not good for me. I like this boiled milk icing in this recipe - it tasted good, and it's extremely convenient to be able to pour it on the hot cake. Will definitely try it again, especially as there is an avalanche of zucchini coming for us.


Something I have solid plans to cook soon:

Kindkit's Four Grain No-Knead Bread

I love no-knead bread cooked in a cast-iron pot! I don't have any rye flour, though, and the supermarket doesn't stock it. I'll try the health food shop in Warrnambool next week, but if I can't wait, I'll just tinker. Maybe substitute wholemeal wheat? Or I've got some spelt.


Baked Zucchini Chips

A ha ha, there are so many zucchinis coming. So very many. I don't have a mandolin - they scare me so much! - but I'm hoping I can cut these fine enough with the chef's knife. (It scares me less.)



Something I'm idly thinking about cooking in the future:

A real cake. One that you cream butter and sugar, add flour, etc. And don't over/under bake. Our plumber dropped by with a bag of plums, so maybe a plum cake? Maybe Gâteau aux Prunes? I have all the ingredients.


Work on a granola bar recipe. I've got a bunch bookmarked, here, and I'm hoping to hit the goldilocks zone of chewy but not gooey, toothy but not crumbly.


Oh, and this actual recipe that a customer gave me today. She wrote it down on the bottom of her prescription. It's for an apple slice. (For those who've heard me talk about my customers before, this is Mrs Lemon. She's a boss.

( See actual recipe here! It's large, because you need to see the hand writing. )


Now we're watching the Canadian broadcast of the pairs figure skating short routine. One of the Canadian skaters looks an awful lot like Natale Morales, which has given me a Middleman plotbunny that is not an ice-skating AU so much as it is an ice-skating case fic. *makes note to include the German team's giant cow bell*


Think of us tomorrow. It's going to be a billion degrees. We will surely dry.

1. It's still raining, which, yes, is good, but it's starting to get marshy on the lawn, and on Sunday it was so windy that we decided not to put the smallest rubbish bin out for collection. It's the regular bin, which is only ever half full, and I just didn't want to have to pick up rubbish from the front lawn. The rubbish is bagged, but we have these ferocious, problem-solving, tool-using crows and a black plastic bag doesn't stand a chance against those bastards.

The upside is that it's been really cold, which means lots of huddling under the blankets, draped in cats, and drinking Milo. Milo is an Aussie staple - hot malted chocolate drink a bit like Ovaltine. lilacsigil has a knack with making it nice and foamy. She doesn't even need much milk - she uses hot water. This is amazing, and anyone who has ever had Milo on school camp will understand.

I have an awesome mug right now:
( It's too rude for work )


2. You know those movies, where a drum of toxic waste washes up on the beach, and then giant ants swarm the town? Or whatever?

I watched this movie at a formative age:
( I, for one, welcome our giant ant overlords )

Well, yesterday every siren in town went off, for something listed on the Country Fire Authority website as "Hazmat Incident". This morning, we learn that a 44-gallon drum washed up on the beach, oozing a mysterious foul-smelling substance.

When we heard the sirens, I texted my local gossip hub - that person in town who always knows what's going on - to ask if we should evacuate. She said "No, I don't think so. They only sent the small fire truck."

It was all very Night Vale, now I'm thinking of it.


3. Speaking of which: Night Vale Live Shows! How awesome would that be?


4. More mundanely, I put away the clean laundry I've had stashed in a basket for two weeks. Now I don't have to start my mornings by mining for socks.


5. The greengrocer had blood oranges! They're not quite ripe yet, but I bought a bunch so hopefully they'll keep stocking them. I guess I could make a granita or something? They're lovely but still a bit tart to eat as is.

Dreamwidth has activated the cross posting function, hooray! I can post to LJ from here. This is very exciting.

I don't think I've ever done one of those introduction type posts. And I guess this is a good place to answer any questions you've ever wanted to ask me, if there are any.

1. The geographical part: I'm an Aussie, and I'm discovering more and more that I'm a patriotic Australian. I'm the eldest of four - we go sister, sister, brother over the span of five years, then another NINETEEN years until my baby sister was born. I'm a first generation Australian - my dad came over from Italy when he was four. I don't speak Italian, but I wish I did. I live in Victoria, the wedge-shaped state in the bottom right quadrant of the mainland. I live at the fat edge of the wedge, in a tiny country town with a population of less than 1000. It gets a bit feral out here.

2. The personal part: I have a life partner, lilacsigil. Legally we can't get married. We've talked about it, and though I don't know if we would, we'd both like to have the choice. I met lilacsigil at a role-playing convention. (For the vintage Victorians, it was Conquest '94. Good times!)

3. The professional part: I'm a pharmacist, this makes me cautious with my identity - I don't share details of my personal or professional life much online. I've been a pharmacist for thirteen years. (Thirteen years? Wow.) I also have a Bachelor of Science degree. My life was going to be one of academic pursuits, huddled inside a lab, making bold discoveries in the field of endocrinology, until I discovered, in my honours year, that I actually loathe research.

4. The fannish part: I've always been a fan, but lilacsigil hooked me up with fandom. (Critical statements include: "Read my fanfiction about Henry McCoy", "Do you know, some people on the internet think Remus and Sirius are lovers" and "There's this thing called Livejournal".) Famdoms I've dabbled in include X-Men, Daredevil, Harry Potter, House MD, Doctor Who, Hellblazer, Lord John Grey, Narnia, Bones, Middleman. A few other bits and bobs here and there. I'm just starting to get into manga.

5. The TMI part: I have a pretty hefty dose of social phobia. I'm exploring the possibility that I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum. I'm trying to be more aware of my privilege as a middle class, educated white woman, especially living in a part of the country with strange racial dynamics that I know I don't have a handle on. I can put my foot in my mouth in spectacularly stupid ways, and I'd like to apologise if I've ever done that. Please, call me on my mistakes. I would like to know where I've wrong-footed myself.

6. The journal part: It's perpetually defriending amnesty day, here; I do not take offence if you decide we've drifted apart fannishly. On the other hand, I really enjoy reading the journals of people from the fandoms I'm not so involved in anymore. I may not always subscribe to your OTP, but I will respect you and enjoy your passion for the fandom alongside you. My journal is a body-positive place, not a place to discuss weight loss or body-hatred.

7. Cats. Three of them! I quite like dogs, but I'm owned by cats. Aeon, Baggins, Chewbacca, our darlings.

*ponders* I think I've covered everything? Yeah.

Wow, you guys are so busy in LJ world, I can barely keep up with my flist. Every time I skip 20, I find myself looking at the same page, because there's been 20 posts in the time it took me to read 20 posts.

My Yuletide fic is done and betaed once. Now I'm looking for a fandom-specific beta which is proving a little problematic. But the fic is done and I think it's not going to need huge plot shifts or anything. And on the plus side, my search for a beta made me brave the #yuletide IRC chat room, which was a much less scary process than I thought it would be. It didn't net me a beta, but it was a positive experience.

And I still can't let go of NaNo. Now that I'm free of the time limit, I'm cheerfully writing the great and epic love story of Edgar (gay Edwardian accountant) and Louis (hopeful gold prospecter from Canton, angry about his vampire existence). It is great and epic. And look at this: yet another story from our local paper, about a Warrnambool man killed in WWI, whose father sailed from Canton in the 1850s to prospect for gold. Same time, same place as Louis! I did my research, and so far, it's holding up. I really like the way it all slots together.

We're going to see Twilight on Monday. It's our only window of opportunity before school breaks up, and we have hordes of teenagers to contend with. We had this problem with the Harry Potter films - their release almost always coincided with a lot of teachers scratching their heads and wondering what they can do for the last week of school, and deciding that going to the movies is a good and relevant thing. I'm quite excited. I want to read reviews without fear of spoilers. lilacsigil has been happily spoilered, and sits next to me chortling and chuckling while she reads reviews, and I'm jealous. But I will keep my mind pure and unspoiled. Like Edward. And my enjoyment will completely overwhelm the fear I have of the looming dental appointment the next day. Yes. It will.

This reminds me of a thing I saw while cruising around Twilight comms:

Hey, Sorry to be a post hog but how do you guys say Carlisle?
I think its Car-lizle...- I know its wierd but that's just how it turned out when I read it.
And my friend said it was Carl-ise so the second L was silent...

In our house, Carlisle (who is my favourite character) is forever known as Car-lizle. It's so badass.

*sighs* This post is brought to you largely by PMT-related lack of concentration.