So! HAPPY NEW YEARS. I spent my time GMing a pregen for Fear Itself on the fly. Even though we got derailed, it was mostly to hilarious player anecdotes, so it wasn't a total loss. I also drank absinthe out of a Weis glass. CLASSIEST START TO THE DECADE I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR.

New year means YULETIDE REVEAL. I wrote after a warm winter's grip, for Trish, Natsume Yujincho. I picked up this fandom on the fly, so I was super paranoid about the fic in general because I hadn't gotten much in the way of comments, but the recip squeaked in under the deadline and bam, less paranoia. Whatchagonnado.

I haven't made my way into the Yuletide archive as thoroughly as I'd like to have had, this year, but I did beta a whole list of amazing things. They are, in mostly chronological order:

Never Forgotten - Dawn, the Mallorean.
A bit of fixer-upper, the untold epic of Cyrandis and Zakath.

Broken, We Crossed the Perblances - sherold, Doctrine of Labyrinths, Monnette
Set between books 3 and 4, a few moments in traveling between Mildmay and Felix.

To Each His Thunder, Rain and Wind - labellementeuse. Young Wizards. 
Austin AU, and I think an awesome one. There totally needs to be a Dari companion piece, and it needs to not be written by me, despite the temptation. Really. Stop looking at me like that.

Not Your Daddy's Holiday Special - becastaryes. Nextwave.
How Nextwave Does Something To Christmas. What.

And now, I am going to try to inject enough coffee into my system to get home without killing myself. I hope y'all had a good new year's too!

Mom: (talking about the SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH walk she went on yesterday) There were all these fratboys--where was my cone of silence? Where was my cone of silence?
Me: ...
Me: Wrong edition. That's a wizard spell now, Mom.
Mom: ...
Mom: [walks off looking disgusted]

...also, I haven't played D&D in forever, maaaan. I had to look that up. :|

Dear Claritn and coffee:
You are the two substances that are the LIGHTS OF MY LIFE right now let me tell you. The pollen count haets me. Please don't stop working.
- me.

I keep wanting to have time to type out the GRAND SAGA that D&D has brought to my life because, hell, it's very much the time to have Gamer's Oral History, but I should really focus. Instead, a tip of the hat to half the force that shaped my life in so many ways that I canot enumarate, down to being used as metaphors my mother used for good behavior and teamwork as a kid, and I'll leave it at that.

I also had a weird dream in which Bonten, I and a Sparticus were livng together as some sort of weird end-of-days romate sitcom. We traded earings at some point. I was some sort of...crowbeardemon and I was Sparticus's cousin? It didn't make a lot of sense.

I'm also thinking about drawing CFUD landscapes. ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF THIS IS A SLEEP DEPRIVATON THING.

School starts today, and Isaac leaves today and I have work today. Boo. There went that break. Part of the joy of not having much internet except in places where I can find it (much like mining in ye olde MMORPG) is that I've spent a lot of time reading and media consuming. Some highlights include!

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...now I need to download acquire some more stuff to read. Suggestions?

- Molly Ivans died. D:
- Califorina has 50 counties to Texas's 250+.
- My mother turned X0, on Monday*.

...f-f-faiiiilll.

(Also, I am entranced more then is strictly healthy with the idea of a contrary Zenith. And by contrary I mean the shamanic type.)



* where we do not discus what X is.