2019/2020, Yuletide
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schneefinkHappy New Year! I had a great ending to 2019 and beginning of 2020 and I hope you did too :)
DD had free tickets, so on December 30th we went to the Museum of Modern Art. By far my favorite "exhibit" was the "human billiard" installation: a big bouncy castle, without the "castle" parts but with large balls :D
Afterwards we went to see the newest Star Wars movie (more on that later.) DD also badly twisted her ankle, which sucks.
Then on New Year's Eve instead of going somewhere this year DD and I invited friends and LB to our place. We had cheese fondue and chocolate fondue, it was delicious. In-between we played a boardgame and destroyed Sauron, and clearly defeating Dark Lords is a good omen.
Today there was more delicious food at my parents', and time to read (so many stories – Yuletide and others – I want to read!) Tomorrow I'm planning to start being productive and studying etc. again, but not yet.
Yuletide fics were revealed. This was my sixth time participating, and so far I've written Steerswoman fic every second year.
Things That Make You Think Different (Steerswoman series – Rosemary Kirstein)
Gen, 2.7k
Summary: Alemeth will go on forever, more or less the same. It's Steffie that's changed.
In a moment of either hubris or not remembering enough of the book, I thought I could write Steffie. Then I reread the book and tried to write him, and his voice is so hard, arrrrgh. Maybe not for native speakers/people with practice imitating narrative voices, but I struggled a lot. In some parts I thought I got it quite well, others I'm less satisfied with. (Having another beta – besides DD, who I asked to take a look even though she doesn't know the series – would have helped, but it took me so long to write there wasn't time, and getting sick in December didn't help.) But my recipient liked it and thought I got the voice right, that made me happy.
I did enjoy thinking about what things would be like for Steffie after "The Lost Steersman," and for Rowan and Bel and Zenna in Alemeth, and the whole town.
DD had free tickets, so on December 30th we went to the Museum of Modern Art. By far my favorite "exhibit" was the "human billiard" installation: a big bouncy castle, without the "castle" parts but with large balls :D
Afterwards we went to see the newest Star Wars movie (more on that later.) DD also badly twisted her ankle, which sucks.
Then on New Year's Eve instead of going somewhere this year DD and I invited friends and LB to our place. We had cheese fondue and chocolate fondue, it was delicious. In-between we played a boardgame and destroyed Sauron, and clearly defeating Dark Lords is a good omen.
Today there was more delicious food at my parents', and time to read (so many stories – Yuletide and others – I want to read!) Tomorrow I'm planning to start being productive and studying etc. again, but not yet.
Yuletide fics were revealed. This was my sixth time participating, and so far I've written Steerswoman fic every second year.
Things That Make You Think Different (Steerswoman series – Rosemary Kirstein)
Gen, 2.7k
Summary: Alemeth will go on forever, more or less the same. It's Steffie that's changed.
In a moment of either hubris or not remembering enough of the book, I thought I could write Steffie. Then I reread the book and tried to write him, and his voice is so hard, arrrrgh. Maybe not for native speakers/people with practice imitating narrative voices, but I struggled a lot. In some parts I thought I got it quite well, others I'm less satisfied with. (Having another beta – besides DD, who I asked to take a look even though she doesn't know the series – would have helped, but it took me so long to write there wasn't time, and getting sick in December didn't help.) But my recipient liked it and thought I got the voice right, that made me happy.
I did enjoy thinking about what things would be like for Steffie after "The Lost Steersman," and for Rowan and Bel and Zenna in Alemeth, and the whole town.
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