So much good food
Dec. 26th, 2018 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI hope all of you had as good a weekend as I did :)
On Saturday I went to two beautiful Christmas markets with my flatmate and her mom – no snow since it had 12° all weekend but I did see a rainbow – and bought myself a plush squirrel that was too fluffy to resist. Then half of our D&D group played a Christmas one-shot that featured zombie suicide pigeons, a reindeer with a breath weapon, and a +2 Good frying pan. We also took out the bad guy's minions with blankets. I played a swordfighter, which was slightly frustrating occasionally because it's way less versatile than playing a spellcaster but by the end (almost 3am) I appreciated the advantages too.
On Sunday I went to three more Christmas markets and then went to a birthday party where we had a lot of fun playing board games. MSZ, who is a very good cook, decided that she wanted to make authentic Ramen so she and LK spent half the day preparing the broth and porkbelly and eggs and so much other stuff there was barely space left on the table, and it was delicious. I ate so much.
On Monday I spent slightly more time than planned reading fic, and In the afternoon I made a 30-seconds-video for the retirement party of my favorite teacher in high school: it was quite difficult to put into words just how much I admire and respect her and how much she meant to me, but I tried.
In the evening I celebrated Christmas with my parents, which means good food and a lot of singing. I got (among some other things) a puzzle, I haven't solved a puzzle in years and I look forward to it.
On Tuesday, more good food, and Yuletide! I requested "Elemental Logic" for three years and this year I got an amazing fic for it. It's so good, it's such a great Medric character study and has such good Medric/Emil and so much wonderful family feelings :)
Oh Good, He's Nineteen (7304 words) by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Fandom: Elemental Logic - Laurie J. Marks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Medric/Emil, Zanja/Karis, J'han/Norina
Characters: Medric, Emil, Zanja, Karis, J'han, Norina, Leeba
Additional Tags: Found Family, parenting, Introspection
Summary: It's winter in Shaftal, and Medric and Emil's pleasant getaway is disturbed by the arrival of their.. family? Perhaps?
Medric thinks of his affair with Emil as an Autumn Romance, two soldiers broken by war finding comfort in each other's arms. The arrival of their - husband and wives? - forces him to come to terms with whether he is a soldier, just who Leeba is to him, and how it can be possible that he is, in fact, nineteen.
Canon Knowledge Required: probably yes
My recipient liked their story as well, so all is good.
Tomorrow we're meeting with family friends for more good food, and I also have plans for the rest of December that I'm looking forward to (apart from the studying, and the cleaning, etc. etc.) Maybe we will even get a few snowflakes again, who knows.
On Saturday I went to two beautiful Christmas markets with my flatmate and her mom – no snow since it had 12° all weekend but I did see a rainbow – and bought myself a plush squirrel that was too fluffy to resist. Then half of our D&D group played a Christmas one-shot that featured zombie suicide pigeons, a reindeer with a breath weapon, and a +2 Good frying pan. We also took out the bad guy's minions with blankets. I played a swordfighter, which was slightly frustrating occasionally because it's way less versatile than playing a spellcaster but by the end (almost 3am) I appreciated the advantages too.
On Sunday I went to three more Christmas markets and then went to a birthday party where we had a lot of fun playing board games. MSZ, who is a very good cook, decided that she wanted to make authentic Ramen so she and LK spent half the day preparing the broth and porkbelly and eggs and so much other stuff there was barely space left on the table, and it was delicious. I ate so much.
On Monday I spent slightly more time than planned reading fic, and In the afternoon I made a 30-seconds-video for the retirement party of my favorite teacher in high school: it was quite difficult to put into words just how much I admire and respect her and how much she meant to me, but I tried.
In the evening I celebrated Christmas with my parents, which means good food and a lot of singing. I got (among some other things) a puzzle, I haven't solved a puzzle in years and I look forward to it.
On Tuesday, more good food, and Yuletide! I requested "Elemental Logic" for three years and this year I got an amazing fic for it. It's so good, it's such a great Medric character study and has such good Medric/Emil and so much wonderful family feelings :)
Oh Good, He's Nineteen (7304 words) by
Fandom: Elemental Logic - Laurie J. Marks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Medric/Emil, Zanja/Karis, J'han/Norina
Characters: Medric, Emil, Zanja, Karis, J'han, Norina, Leeba
Additional Tags: Found Family, parenting, Introspection
Summary: It's winter in Shaftal, and Medric and Emil's pleasant getaway is disturbed by the arrival of their.. family? Perhaps?
Medric thinks of his affair with Emil as an Autumn Romance, two soldiers broken by war finding comfort in each other's arms. The arrival of their - husband and wives? - forces him to come to terms with whether he is a soldier, just who Leeba is to him, and how it can be possible that he is, in fact, nineteen.
Canon Knowledge Required: probably yes
My recipient liked their story as well, so all is good.
Tomorrow we're meeting with family friends for more good food, and I also have plans for the rest of December that I'm looking forward to (apart from the studying, and the cleaning, etc. etc.) Maybe we will even get a few snowflakes again, who knows.
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Date: 2018-12-26 03:56 am (UTC)Also, mm, authentic ramen! How lucky! That sounds wonderful.
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Date: 2018-12-26 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-26 10:52 am (UTC)Glad you had a good Yuletide!!
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Date: 2018-12-26 11:15 pm (UTC)