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Happy New Year!

Together with several friends I spent New Year's Eve at an AirBnB a few hours from Vienna, having raclette and playing board games and making tiny animal good luck charms for each other and others out of colorful modelling clay. I also brought one of those ~wire-looking head massagers, which was a big hit. It was raining lightly at midnight but we went to the lake for a toast and to watch the fireworks anyway, and then we continued playing games until 3am.

We'd booked an extra night, which was great because it meant we could have a very relaxed brunch the next day and then two people left but the rest of us had a nice stroll around the small town and more games and then raclette again because we had so many leftovers and then I wanted a reading break so D and F tried out a card game for two people and we also just sat around and chatted and cuddled, a very nice evening.

It was a wonderful way to start 2024. Today the travel home went well and now I will meet up with LB for a spontaneous dinner+movie night at his place so that is even more good things.


I wrote Yuletide fic:
Dreaming of a Rainbow (A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon)
1.2k, Kuposa pa Nikeya/Noziken pa Dumai, 5 things
Summary: Five times Nikeya dreamed of Dumai.
Canon knowledge required: Yes

Notes: I enjoyed getting more into Nikeya's head. My recipient asked for that and to see how Nikeya fell in love with Dumai and tbh I could have included more of the latter but by that point I was already attached to the five moments I'd chosen and I think it turned out fine.

Date: 2024-01-02 05:03 pm (UTC)
dolorosa_12: (champagne)
From: [personal profile] dolorosa_12
Happy new year! That sounds like a lovely way to celebrate the arrival of 2024.

Date: 2024-01-02 05:33 pm (UTC)
vriddy: Cat looking out of the window beside a cup of tea and books (window cat)
From: [personal profile] vriddy
It sounds like such a lovely way to welcome the new year :D Happy for you, and happy new year!

Date: 2024-01-02 07:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] trobadora
That sounds like a lovely way to ring in the new year!

Date: 2024-01-03 03:30 am (UTC)
scintilla10: close-up of the Greek statue Victoire de Samothrace (Default)
From: [personal profile] scintilla10
Aww, how lovely to welcome the new year with friends! That sounds wonderful. Happy new year!

Date: 2024-01-03 11:38 pm (UTC)
nonesensed: My cat is a happy cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] nonesensed
What an excellent start to 2024! And huzzah for Yuletide fic writing 🥳 (which reminds me I should get around to reading A Day of Fallen Night soon 😁).

Date: 2024-01-05 10:31 pm (UTC)
nonesensed: My cat is a happy cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] nonesensed
Thanks for the heads up! I've made the mistake of not rereading a long book many a time before I've picked up prequels/sequels, so I know how frustrated I tend to get if I don't recall everything from the previous book. Will heed your advice! 😊

Date: 2024-01-06 01:31 pm (UTC)
nonesensed: My cat is a happy cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] nonesensed
I haven't read "System Collapse" yet because of feeling I need to reread at least "Network Effect" if not more of the Murderbot books before I do - glad to hear I was right to assume that and haven't been rereading unnecessarily!

I too assumed I could read the prequel without rereading the first book 😅 Oh well~

Date: 2024-01-07 08:30 pm (UTC)
nonesensed: My cat is a happy cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] nonesensed
Gret to know, thank you 💖 And yeah, Murderbot and ART's meeting is A+, definitely need to read again one day!

Date: 2024-01-07 04:58 pm (UTC)
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lannamichaels
Happy (belated) new year! I'm curious at those head massagers, do you know what they're called?

Date: 2024-01-08 09:16 pm (UTC)
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lannamichaels

Thanks! That does look nice :D

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