Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Visitors, man. VISITORS

I have never had so many visitors ever and it is weird. Weird-good and weird-exhausting. They are visitors I like quite a lot, and they are visitors who say "No, let me wash that" or "How about we cook dinner for you tonight?" which is great, but they are also seven more voices in the house than I have ever experienced. Weird and tiring in that sense.

The cats have handled it in different ways - Chewie hid in my underpants drawer for two days, and has just started following lilacsigil out into the living room when she tells him to come. (We have discovered that walking him on a leash means that he also heels. It's very cute.) He yells and sidles up to people to have his head scratched.

Baggins had a bit of a nervous collapse - he hid in my bed for so long that he peed in my bed, poor baby. (I assumed he had snuck out while we were all asleep to use his tray but this was not the case.) Now we've got a secondary cat station set up in the ensuite bedroom, where he can eat and use the spare tray, and when he's done, go back to hiding in my bed. He's chirpy and chatty and snuggly, as long as he doesn't have to go out of my room.

So, it's hard and it's weird to have people in the house, even people that I like. I think it's getting easier? I have to remember that this is why we wanted to move to a bigger house, though, and this is part of me trying to be a more social entity. I can be social! Kind of.

They're all off seeing a movie right now, so I'm taking this chance to post. And to blow off a bit of steam. Being social! It's haaaaaard.




I haven't had time to post about Yuletide! (I haven't had time to open my computer! I read in my last post, where I drunkenly said that none of the buttons are working - turns out my trackpad is kind of busted, and I can only mouse on the right hand side.)

I had an awesomse Yuletide! I got ALL the presents!

your hands can heal (3245 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stigmata (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Andrew Kiernan/Frankie Paige
Characters: Frankie Paige, Andrew Kiernan
Summary:

Frankie and Andrew travel to Egypt to on a mission from God (and to look at some old Bibles.)

Pretty much the perfect sequel story to the movie for me - Andrew and Frankie going around the world doing good things and being themselves. There's a real sense of location here, and I always love a story that does clever things with ~special abilities

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cause a hundred veils to fall (2747 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ms. Marvel (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kamala Khan, Nakia Bahadir, The Inventor, Bruno (Ms. Marvel), Lockjaw (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Female Friendship, Secret Identity Fail, Slice of Life
Summary:

Best friend troubles, wild deceptions, and mad scientists: or, Kamala Khan, this is your life now.

This is like someone took a big icecream scoop of the comic and put it on my Christmas plate - it is ADORABLE, and perfect, and exactly what you think an awkward teenage superhero's like would be like. I particularly love Nakia and her part in the story - she gets to be awesome and cool and find a place in Kamala's life in a way that is really in character.

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Feel The Earth Move When You Speak (9630 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Characters: Julian Lynes, Ned Mathey
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Victoriana, Magic, Ghosts, Oxford
Summary:

"Lynes. Do you believe in ghosts?"

(He doesn't. But Ned might be losing any choice in the matter.)

Ugh, this is gorgeous. Long and gorgeous and magical and wow. It's case fic set in Oxford, which would be awesome enough as a story, but the person who wrote this (and I am pretty sure you're on my flist, btw) has gotten hold of the magical system from the book and used it in a way that is clever and timey-wimey and exactly how I like magic to be used (and that would be awesome enough too) but also heart-rending and hopeful at the same time. And there are kitties. (If this isn't written by someone I know, I will be very surprised. And very delighted, because hey, there's person out there who thinks about things in a way that I think about things, yay!)

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Devil's Trap (100 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Orphan Black (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Helena (Orphan Black), Grace Johanssen
Additional Tags: Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational, Misses Clause Challenge, Past Abuse
Summary:

Helena and Grace have a lot in common.

And one Yuletide treat - and it's a drabble, and it's 100 words, which makes this old fan very happy because a drabble should be 100 words, no arguments brooked. This is Helena, looking after Grace and getting her out and away from her family. Lovely and perfectly in character.

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So, such a good Yuletide. Thank you to my mystery authors! And now, hopefully I'll have another spare moment to put up some recs. *crosses fingers*