Business + a Fic Rec!
May. 29th, 2019 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maplemoodThings have been busy and I'm coming home most days feeling like all the energy to read/write/comment/do anything but sleep or mess around on my phone has been sucked right out of me, but Monday I went swimming for the first time this summer and that honestly made up for a lot. I don't remember swimming AT ALL last summer, when I was pretty much just as busy, which is insane and awful because if there's one thing all this heat is good for, it's swimming.
Otherwise, I've been trying to get writing and reading done in random spurts; I did just finish one non-War and Peace book (Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) and started on another (An Untamed State by Roxane Gay). I can usually read during the breaks we get in my summer class and while I'm waiting in the hall for the class to start, but once I get home I've either got something else to do or I'm down for the count. I haven't been watching anything lately--I still need to finish Westworld.
Anyway! Reveals happened for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hurtcomfortex and I got the most amazing fic ever, written by one of the most amazing friends ever:
A Road that Bends byacequeenking (Hadestown): This fic was, essentially, me and my id getting repeatedly gut-punched and enjoying every minute of it. There's Hades and Persephone falling in love and out of love and back in love again, there's references to Greek mythology and Americana, there's angry sex and bittersweet-but-mostly-sweet reconciliation sex, there's Hermes being awesome and Demeter being wry and equally awesome, there's bitter old marrieds who do love each other but also deeply dislike each other and know exactly where to twist the knife, there's a genuine effort to make their relationship work, there's hope and an absolutely perfect ending...and there's over 20k words of it all. 20k. I feel ridiculously happy and blessed to have gotten this; it really is the gift fic of my dreams.
Unfortunately, I ended up having to default on my assignments, because business and poor planning and...okay, actually, business and poor planning were pretty much the extent of it. No more exchanges for me, at least for a while--for whatever reason I haven't been able to hack them lately, and if I can't I'd rather not sign up and maybe treat if I'm feeling up to it than leave someone hanging so close to the deadline.
Otherwise, I've been trying to get writing and reading done in random spurts; I did just finish one non-War and Peace book (Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) and started on another (An Untamed State by Roxane Gay). I can usually read during the breaks we get in my summer class and while I'm waiting in the hall for the class to start, but once I get home I've either got something else to do or I'm down for the count. I haven't been watching anything lately--I still need to finish Westworld.
Anyway! Reveals happened for
hurtcomfortex and I got the most amazing fic ever, written by one of the most amazing friends ever:A Road that Bends by
acequeenking (Hadestown): This fic was, essentially, me and my id getting repeatedly gut-punched and enjoying every minute of it. There's Hades and Persephone falling in love and out of love and back in love again, there's references to Greek mythology and Americana, there's angry sex and bittersweet-but-mostly-sweet reconciliation sex, there's Hermes being awesome and Demeter being wry and equally awesome, there's bitter old marrieds who do love each other but also deeply dislike each other and know exactly where to twist the knife, there's a genuine effort to make their relationship work, there's hope and an absolutely perfect ending...and there's over 20k words of it all. 20k. I feel ridiculously happy and blessed to have gotten this; it really is the gift fic of my dreams.Unfortunately, I ended up having to default on my assignments, because business and poor planning and...okay, actually, business and poor planning were pretty much the extent of it. No more exchanges for me, at least for a while--for whatever reason I haven't been able to hack them lately, and if I can't I'd rather not sign up and maybe treat if I'm feeling up to it than leave someone hanging so close to the deadline.
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Date: 2019-05-30 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-30 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-30 09:31 am (UTC)I had to bail on Yuletide this past year and then received a wonderful story and two treats -- felt so guilty! I'm doing SSR Confidential, due soon, and after that I think I'm out of exchanges as well, just due to lack of werewithal to dig into specific canons and etc.
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Date: 2019-05-30 12:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, I felt so bad but it really wasn't possible for me to get those fics done on time. Never say never, but I do want to take a break from exchanges for at least a while now.