The Day Today

[laliandra]

I am going to try and be organised today!

First OoB: IT'S JUNE. Which means it's Book Day, aka the release day of The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan (sarahtales ).

Do not walk, run and go and purchase this book! DO IT! Ahem. Seriously though, it's the best book I've read all year, and I have read many books, many of them excellent. I can't think of a single reason why not. Also, the fandom is kickass, and you get to be a marmalade_fish .

I fail at summerising, so here is the book in 20 words, according to Miss Rees Brennan " Fencing. Fighting wolves with bike chains. Torture. Demons. Magicians. Ravens. Books. Families. Rooftop chases. Lies. More lies. Love." If you need more convincing I will explain why any one of these things is impossibly awesome.

Second OoB: My brain twin mcollinknight has returned to us from Kenya! So I am Order of Businessing in her honour. She built a school, people, I have no words for how sparkling she is.

Third OoB: SUMMER. HOTHOT SUMMER. I am so happy that it is hot and sunny. I love Leeds in the summer, because of the park.



Everyone goes and plays and sunbathes and meets up and barbeques. It's brilliant. What did I do in the park? Well firstly i wore a very large straw hat. But I also had a range of fun activities

Eating ice lollies, reading the paper/doing the crossword, reading The Demon's Lexicon, again, and writing Jenn's birthday story.

Which brings me to my Forth OoB: Namely, it may seem like I haven't been writing a lot but, um, I've been hiding it away! I've been doing bits and dabs of writing for a cute AU, which kind of borders on RPS, and I didn't know if all y'all would be okay with that. But, well, I'm enjoying it, and I like what I've written more than anything I've done in a long time, and so if you would like to read it, I am going to unlock it/link. There is kissing in the rain, the throwing of inanimate objects and boys being hopeless! But also, it uses real life politicians and pundits, so if you feel uncomfortable with that, cool, I'll warn, and I really, really don't mind if you don't read it.

OoB Five: Mission 101! Holy crapola, this is late...

I have

• made Thai Green curry from scratch.
• made Eccles cakes, which are a northern tradition, and very yummy, pastry and dried fruit affairs. I love making pastry!
• Completed The Guardian crossword, in ten mintues flat! 4/10
• Begun an address book.
• Ginone for drinks with people from French and a photo exhibition with Melinda.

I didn't drink champagne on Mum's birthday. I was busy and poor and in the middle of exams. I might make that a different goal, IDK.

So I'm feeling very summery in a dress I got for free, with the summer stretching out before me, full of potential. I'm pretty damn happy right about now.

Comments

[miabee023.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, once again I spent ages reading through your writing, having no idea what was going on, and loving every minute of it. (PLEASE WRITE SOMETHING IN ONE OF MY FANDOMS SOON. It would probably double the awesomeness of your writing for me, or better.) Particularly the first one you linked to, because... well, I am me, and that was awesome. (Though I can't say I understand the concept of RPS in general. I just pretended they were random characters which happened to have the names of famous people, it helped.)

Anyway, v. lovely, good show, however - I agree a little bit (though not completely) with the person who commented on your punctuation and whatnot. Mostly I just think you might benefit from someone doing a read-through beforehand for errors, or just doing a more thorough one yourself. (I am available for beta-ing, if you were interested in the first option, just a heads up.) It's just that the occasional error in punctuation or a word that forgot to be deleted, while possible to understand and thereby ignore by the reader, is an unnecessary distraction.

Those are my main comments, but I would just say that I loved and enjoyed it all as always, and of course that is the most important thing. (Commas, while important, are still second in rank. Sorry, Remus Lupin.) Thank you for sharing!

Also, I am hitting Demon's Lexicon as soon as I get home. As well as every other book you have recommended (once I go back through all your posts and make a proper list of them).

Glad to hear summer has arrived!

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Well thank you so, so mcuh for taking the time to read them anyway, that is so nice of you. I'm glad you liked them.

Me, I do not get RPS either. These are just characters to me really, because it's not like they all went to uni together at all. The AU has got it's own canon and I don't really think of them as anything but Jon who takes Political sciences and is good at football but bad at being a jock, or Stephen who is a crazy drama student and loves fantasy. It's very strange.

Oh commas, my nemesis!The first one was put up without much checking, it's a bit shameful. I wrote it in like 3 hours... Thank you for the offer, and the lovely feedback! I have been meaning to write more Havemercy stuff for ages, and failing. Maybe after the next book comes out?

[miabee023.livejournal.com]

Wait, this is... like... a thing? A fandom? Surrounding a weird AU of a bunch of famous people at uni together? I'm sorry, but... WHAT. I thought I knew the internet and all the weird crap it could give me. Apparently I was wrong.

PLEASE DO. I personally will be trying to make a celebratory quote icon post before the new book comes out. I think we all should do our part, in fact, in trying to make this the best book premiere EVER, and the addition of some fanfic from you would undoubtedly make it AMAZING.

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Well there's this whole kind of political fandom (IDK, okay, please, no judgement) and a massive pundit fandom, which I have somehow ended up in, and the smooshing together of the two into this weird AU just ended up being an amzing series of fics. The internet has broken me. And I kinda like it...

Cool! That sounds like a very good idea. I am just feeling kind of museless for HM atm, I don't suppose you have any ideas?

[miabee023.livejournal.com]

...alright. Whatevs. Just so long as it's not Thomas the Tank Engine slash fiction, I'm cool with it.

Oh yes. SHOVE THE PRESSURE ONTO ME. I dunno, I hardly ever write stuff outside of my own story stuff, honestly. Ummmmmmm...

- a NON-slashy first meeting between Royston and Adamo (just, like, the two of them being awesome or something)
- Thom working for his acceptance into the Versity? or actually his acceptance? and leaving? it would be a life-changing moment, you could do something with that, I feel.
- Rook (well, John) as a kid, after believing Thom (well, Hilary) to have died in the fire
- something with LUVANDER (my fave, obviously)
- Rook/Thom would be cool too, if you are into that - reading in between the chapters? future forecasts? whatever you feel like. - i would personally do something relating Rook's loss of Have into seeking solace in Thom... but that is me, with my rather annoying air for melodrama, so maybe not.

So those are a couple of ideas. Hopefully some of them might inspire some better ones in your brain. What can I say, I tried.