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*pounces on griza* Ehrmergerd! Thank you so much for the package, LOL! unexpected!Harry Styles and chocolate cheered me up no end when I was off sick yesterday! *loves all over you*

Here, have an armed and dangerous Damian Lewis as a thank you...

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


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In an experimental mood, I put a couple of my 1D fics up on AO3 yesterday (the latest one, and a rentboy-Harry one from ages ago). Within an hour they'd got more hits than some of the other fics I've had up there for a year! Oh, the joys of a large fandom LOL.

I can certainly see the appeal of AO3, getting hits and kudos and bookmarks is much more satisfying than LJ where suzie_fic might have *coughs* over 10,000 members, but of those I have no idea if anyone's actually read a particular fic. And other than my darlingest darlings who comment on nearly all of them (♥), they don't get a huge number of comments. (I'm terrible at commenting myself, I never know what to say past a brainless flail, so I'm not complaining, but this is where a hit counter and the option of leaving kudos is so great for a shy fandom haha).

I'm not abandoning LJ, but I might start cross-posting to AO3 as well. Something else I've been considering for a while is unlocking the fics on suzie_fic. (I'll have to change them all individually which is a pain, unless I fork out for another paid account, which ain't gonna happen. Although that would give me page stats as well....no.) I'll probably leave the more dubious ones (underage and dub/non-con) locked though. I've always been a bit wary of posting RPF unlocked at all, but there's so *much* 1D fic out there now I reckon I'd be safely buried and anonymous. Any thoughts?

So my main achievement this evening has been to make a pasta sauce so unutterably vile I was forced to throw it away :(

My grocery delivery arrived in the middle of cooking it, and I think I must have burnt the garlic, I don't know why else it would have turned out so disgusting.

I have been forced to open a tin of tuna instead, and then fight two cats for possession.

Oh, balls. So I ordered the next season of Supernatural, and the day before that I also pre-ordered the new Charlaine Harris/Sookie Stackhouse book (now there's another tv series I need to get back into watching) and they've both just been dispatched on the same day. Which means whereas one at a time they would have gone through my letterbox, if they turn up combined in the same package they won't, and I'll have to trek up to the sorting office, which only opens at randomly inconvenient times. Bugger.

So I appear to have watched the whole of series 4 and 5 of Supernatural in just over a week. Errr. Oops? (Dear Amazon, please send me season 6 quickly, or I will have to bite you, thanks.)

Anyway, I now appear to be in love with Castiel AND Crowley. I'm guessing this is a common reaction, although so far I'm keeping my distance from fandom things, because the only thing I know about the Supernatural fandom is that it apparently harbours even more insane wank than the 1D fandom. And that's an achievement. (Although also because I don't want to be spoilered for the seasons I haven't seen yet).

So, still off sick. Meh. Brain too fried to write, so in the last three days I've watched the whole of Supernatural season 4 (although this might explain why my brain is fried). And I know I'm about 5 years late to the party, but hellooooo Castiel.

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Mysterious clockwork apocalypse machines, mechanical bees, female secret agents, gangsters and shady government departments - this should have been everything I look for in a book, but having ploughed through all 566 pages of it, I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it.

I originally almost gave up by page 12, having discovered (a) that it was written in the present tense, which is immensely irritating, and (b) the main protagonist starts off by trying to kill a cat. Not the best of starts. But having paid Actual Money for it, I determined to read the rest.

And by and large, it was worth it: it's gripping, inventive, exciting, funny and has some great characters. It's also very nasty (descriptions of human and animal torture), meandering, occasionally confusing (there's a lot of timeshifting between narrative streams), and the main protagonist for the most part comes across as a dull lump of placeholder bemoaning his lot. Not to mention that after an immense amount of build up across decades and continents the ending also feels rather rushed and unsatisfying.

On the whole then, I'm glad I persevered, but it's not a book I can see myself re-reading, or that makes me want to search out the rest of his work.



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So it turns out the feeling of impending collapse at work wasn't just me being hungry and over-worked, but actually ill, and I've been off sick for the last two days with the shivery aches. Lovely. At least the cats appreciate me being in bed.

Anyway, random link time - Mark Gatiss just retweeted this: On 1970s Twitter, Doctor Who fans react to rumours of the 10th anniversary If I'm honest, the thing that made me laugh most was the 'Who to follow' section...

Oh, and a fic rec - Plausible Deniability - a crossover between Good Omens and Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series.

After a long, tiring and stressful day during which at one point I thought I was about to pass out due to lack of food (on the plus side, I was handily outside the A&E dept at the time heh) I came across the following news item which made me crack up and feel a lot better.

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[Digital Spy]

I was going to write a proper post about changes at work, and a small rant about my local council, but then I saw this on twitter this afternoon, and it largely broke any chance I had at coherent thought, so.

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