Random Thoughts

I don't know why, but seeing the phrase "Simply put (comma)" at the beginning of any sentence, paper or screen, fictional or not, makes me cringe every single time. I am 90% more likely to click straight out of a story that uses that in an explanatory section, for example; or scroll straight past any blog post containing it. So, all those Ship Wars posts? So not going near them. *twitch*

Haven't been through more than maybe 2% of the stories in the Yuletide archive yet; I've been trying to get the rest of my body of work uploaded to AO3 before the reveal (vain, I know!) and add a bit more to my wordcount before years'-end. (It would be awesome if I hit 200K this year-- though it doesn't look likely, at this point). Not to mention family & friends time. I'll just have to chip away at the reading in January.

Today's schedule: now off to a bonus viewing of Sherlock Holmes with maevebran! I never really got the famous detective before, in the kind of way that would inspire me to buy up the canon and/or write about him and his 'verse; I need a visceral hook into a fictional world to make that happen for me. Boy howdy, did the new movie provide. I think there will be some Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in my book purchases in the new year. <3
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