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today i read 150k words of fanfic
described as a no powers regency au set in the modern day with a whole alternate kinship system
starring two characters I don't fancy, one of them wildly ooc or, possibly, misnamed
and ending with the other getting a serious head injury which put him in a coma and led to long term issues he maybe might recover from
but, like, as a happy ending? because they're pretty much working out their marriage issues? though partly by the middle class one realising why the upper class one truly deserves all those privileges after all, which, let me tell you, is not politically how i would go
and at no point did it do squat to deal with the systemic inequality or family abuses it set up
so that was frustrating.
and yet, it was, like, good? i liked reading it? even if i did have to recast the sex scenes to avoid just skipping them.

fanfic plays with all these tropes that just, like, get you in the id
its power is truly awesome.



... so now I'm wondering if I should just stop worrying about not knowing the fandom and go looking for AUs with a lot of kudos.
... that... that could go so very poorly...

... I should just go back to reading Avengers fic for all my older science billionaire who looks after everyone needs.



Is frustrating though that so few people / Captain Cold and Heatwave that I've already read all the fic. Well, all above a thousand words. And it gets really repetitive down there of post episode reactions where someone says sorry and then there was sex. I mean I get the appeal but where's the whole yearning having arc come on
i just read 150k and they had sex like two, three times in any detail, there's other things to write about.





also frustrating is how quiet it has gone around here. LJ is dead except a couple of author blogs and some newsletters, DW is not exactly jumping. And tumblr is full of gifs and reblogs, which, not exactly complaining given that's my tumblr too, but does no one else obsessively overanalyse things any more?
*sigh*


maybe if i actually write fic some people will find me?

Alphabetising is more fiddly than you'd think

I have been trying to get my books into alphabetical order.
I know it's not going to work properly until I can unpack the boxes, which I can't do until I can reshelve the DVDs, which I can't do until the new shelving is delivered
which hopefully should be next week, if I remember what the shelf guy just said correctly.
He was just now here to borrow a drawer so he can try and match color
though it won't be exact, because different and much cheaper wood.
well it'll be DVD colored by the time I've put them all in.
... getting the drawer out he pulled the drawer beneath and grabbed a chunk of CDs. 'It don't matter if I muddle them up, does it?' ... yes, yes it does, rather. There are several hundred CDs, and they're all in order. Why... why did you do that... *sigh*
... he actually put them back in order though, so that's okay.
Books though... each individual bookcase is more or less getting to be in alphabetical order
but
the collection as a whole definitely is not.
Not enough shelves, many books still boxed, discovered Brooks hiding behind Pratchett.

The Pratchett collection is a distinct problem al its own, since I got it in hardback since... long and long and long ago. I need several meters more hardback shelving than I currently have, I suspect. Or to rearrange the adjustable shelves in the bedroom, but that means taking all the books off them first, and that means putting them somewhere, and I'm quite out of floor space until the DVDs are back vertical.

Also so many of these books I've never read, so I just keep finding myself resenting the shelf inches, whilst trying to fit everything in. I should read them and save space. Except last time I set out to do that so many of them in a row were nasty that I went off reading for a while.

I need to get the dust out more effectively. I've wiped and dusted with the whatsit, but the back of my throat is reacting to several summers long gone. Books are darling little dust traps *sigh*.



This keyboard that came with this new tablet computer does weird things. Jumps, selects stuff I didn't mean to, helpful stuff like that. I think it's acting as if I've tapped the trackpad, but I've been being careful of my hands and don't think I have. It's a pain in the neck if I want to get anything done though. Still, I'll get the hang of it eventually.


Cleaner day happened, Vacuum Floor is still in theoretical progress, and my week is just... so exciting.

Ah well, onward.