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[katallison]

Today's reflection: after a lengthy holiday run of cookies, chocolate, eggnog, beef tenderloin, potato gratin, more cookies, chips & dip, red wine, pate, fondue, coconut-chocolate bars -- after all this, I tell you what, a nice plain little bowl of cottage cheese is the food of the freakin' gods.

Apart from Christmas day itself, I've spent a quiet and solitary long weekend. Christmas day featured a deeply depressing visit to my dad in the nursing home [approx. 500 words of depressingness edited out], and then a very nice dinner with Mr. P., who made with the cool presents. These included an armload of old hardback editions of Nero Wolfe mysteries [approx. 500 words of how this former interest of mine has re-emerged a a fandom-of-sorts for me, in part due to _aerye_, pulled for further consideration and expansion], and a particularly excellent find, a DVD of the New York Dolls reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall earlier this year [more blithering on this excised as unlikely to be of interest to anyone else except maybe cesperanza].

I've been dipping randomly into the ds_seekritsanta stories, and a few Yuletide pieces, but really I haven't been on the computer much, and am pretty much behind on LJ and everything else. Tomorrow I'm back to work, but I have another long weekend coming up, and a whole bunch of writing on which to get moving. We'll see if that actually comes to pass, however.

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[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

approx. 500 words of how this former interest of mine has re-emerged a a fandom-of-sorts for me, in part due to _aerye_, pulled for further consideration and expansion],

Hopefully to be posted soon?

I've loved those books since I was a wee child, and I'm...uncertain about how I want to integrate that into fannishness. If I do.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I had some hesitation myself. If you want to give it a try, what I'd recommend is going to Parhelion's site. She's an excellent writer, with fine grasp of the voices and style, and has clearly done her research on both the books themselves the social history/context of the times. (She puts me in mind a bit of Sylvia Volk, if that conveys anything.)

She's sorted her stories so that all the PG-rated ones come first, which worked well for me, because I was all "I SO am not ready to read slash with these characters" but she -- uh, sort of eased me into it. *g* "A Christmas Carol," the first on the page, is a good place to start; "Descent" is a wonderful story; "Flowers and Trees" is a good plotty story that does very well with Lily Rowan. Really, there's not a clinker in the lot.