Creeping out from under a zucchini leaf
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st_aurafinaFooty season started, which means I get to sip my coffee and relax a bit at work. I don't like football much, but I'm grateful for slightly slower Saturdays. And coffee. Always grateful for coffee.
ETA: Apparently not football yet? IDK where are the people?
I have been in a bit of a slump, brain-wise, but I'm coming up out of it now. (I'm starting to see a pattern via my tumblr queue - I drop posting down to three per day because it's just too hard to keep that queue topped up, then slowly it fills up again as I have more concentration and energy. When I've got 100 posts in the queue, I up the rate to ten per day. It's an odd but definite pattern.)
Today is officially one year since we put the sticker on the sign for the new house. We've been in for six months. It's a lovely house for summer, as it turns out, and catches cross breezes beautifully. The veggie garden went in late, but we've had oodles of zucchini, peas and basil. Only one tomato, unfortunately. It was delicious but tiny.
Cooking has mostly revolved around zucchini, and the question of how we can get more zucchini into each meal. (Chopped and sauteed with garlic goes well into a toasted cheese sandwich, for example.) The Courgette tag at BBC Good Food has been a wealth of fun. Courgette and Orange cake was the recipe I made the most often, I think, though I make it with an orange glaze becauselilacsigil doesn't like cream cheese icing.
Fannishly, I consumed much:
Agent Carter was beautiful and amazing and perfect for me, if not perfect overall. I hope, hope we get a second season. I hope I get a chance to contribute to viewing statistics in some way soon. (I furiously liked things on Facebook, for the little good that does.) I want to write fic. Dottie and Peggy and Angie fic. Le sigh. So many women. Plz come back, writing mojo.
Person of Interest S3 was this amazing blur of femslashy moments, and finally clicking with Reese, and loving all the dystopian AI storylines, and adoring Root in god-mode. And sad about Carter, but if the actress had to leave, wow, her exit storyline was breathtakingly kick-ass. . I'd love recs for fic that's non-spoilery past the S3 finale, if anyone has any.
I am inspired by many gifs on tumblr to give The 100 a try again. Much femslash, actual queer content, wow.
But I've given Gotham the flick - it got too nasty. And apparently Jada Pinkett Smith isn't signing for S2, and there's not much there for me without Fish Mooney.
The Great British Sewing Bee - I'm almost finished. Just the final to go. It was a great season!
The Comic Relief Bake-Off - there was this one amazing episode, with Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Lulu, and Dame Edna Everage. It was like the best episode of AbFab EVER. It was amazing. I love Comic Relief Bake-Off anyway, but this was unusually epic and amazing.
Broadchurch - I have no idea what made me suddenly watch this show - I'm not really fond of that particular style British grim crime drama. I think the small-town angle caught me. And Olivia Colman is ace balls. I'm in the middle of Season 2 right now (so much shirtless James D'Arcy, wow.) For a while, S2 was like "Ellie Miller falls into an AU where everyone is awful and everything is awful and nothing will ever be good again" and I wasn't really enjoying quite how grim it had all become. But then the court scene where Ellie snaps and hugs Beth in the stairwell then stomps over and reclaims her son was amazing. I think it's picking up for me now..
So, anyway. This is me. I am here! And feeling better. And hopefully back to fic soon. I have a build-up of fic feelings.
ETA: Apparently not football yet? IDK where are the people?
I have been in a bit of a slump, brain-wise, but I'm coming up out of it now. (I'm starting to see a pattern via my tumblr queue - I drop posting down to three per day because it's just too hard to keep that queue topped up, then slowly it fills up again as I have more concentration and energy. When I've got 100 posts in the queue, I up the rate to ten per day. It's an odd but definite pattern.)
Today is officially one year since we put the sticker on the sign for the new house. We've been in for six months. It's a lovely house for summer, as it turns out, and catches cross breezes beautifully. The veggie garden went in late, but we've had oodles of zucchini, peas and basil. Only one tomato, unfortunately. It was delicious but tiny.
Cooking has mostly revolved around zucchini, and the question of how we can get more zucchini into each meal. (Chopped and sauteed with garlic goes well into a toasted cheese sandwich, for example.) The Courgette tag at BBC Good Food has been a wealth of fun. Courgette and Orange cake was the recipe I made the most often, I think, though I make it with an orange glaze because
lilacsigil doesn't like cream cheese icing. Fannishly, I consumed much:
Agent Carter was beautiful and amazing and perfect for me, if not perfect overall. I hope, hope we get a second season. I hope I get a chance to contribute to viewing statistics in some way soon. (I furiously liked things on Facebook, for the little good that does.) I want to write fic. Dottie and Peggy and Angie fic. Le sigh. So many women. Plz come back, writing mojo.
Person of Interest S3 was this amazing blur of femslashy moments, and finally clicking with Reese, and loving all the dystopian AI storylines, and adoring Root in god-mode. And sad about Carter, but if the actress had to leave, wow, her exit storyline was breathtakingly kick-ass. . I'd love recs for fic that's non-spoilery past the S3 finale, if anyone has any.
I am inspired by many gifs on tumblr to give The 100 a try again. Much femslash, actual queer content, wow.
But I've given Gotham the flick - it got too nasty. And apparently Jada Pinkett Smith isn't signing for S2, and there's not much there for me without Fish Mooney.
The Great British Sewing Bee - I'm almost finished. Just the final to go. It was a great season!
The Comic Relief Bake-Off - there was this one amazing episode, with Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Lulu, and Dame Edna Everage. It was like the best episode of AbFab EVER. It was amazing. I love Comic Relief Bake-Off anyway, but this was unusually epic and amazing.
Broadchurch - I have no idea what made me suddenly watch this show - I'm not really fond of that particular style British grim crime drama. I think the small-town angle caught me. And Olivia Colman is ace balls. I'm in the middle of Season 2 right now (so much shirtless James D'Arcy, wow.) For a while, S2 was like "Ellie Miller falls into an AU where everyone is awful and everything is awful and nothing will ever be good again" and I wasn't really enjoying quite how grim it had all become. But then the court scene where Ellie snaps and hugs Beth in the stairwell then stomps over and reclaims her son was amazing. I think it's picking up for me now..
So, anyway. This is me. I am here! And feeling better. And hopefully back to fic soon. I have a build-up of fic feelings.
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Date: 2015-03-28 04:52 am (UTC)And Agent Carter was brilliant! I would love to read any and all fic you write for it!
Happy House-aversary, and yay for fresh veg. :)
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Date: 2015-03-28 10:50 am (UTC)I would keep watching for Alfred (I have OT3 headcanon with him and the Waynes - and then they got killed, and Alfred has to mourn and raise their kid and now what do???) But I find myself all hunched up waiting for heinous things to happen to the other women in the show - I think I've got it in my mind that only Fish can survive the skeeviness of the show, and if she's leaving, the others have no hope. /my extensive thoughts on Gotham that you did not ask for, le sigh.
Oh, Agent Carter! So much love.
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Date: 2015-03-28 07:51 pm (UTC)(That said, I did very much enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish, and I'm sorry that her brand of crazy will no longer be part of the show.)
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Date: 2015-03-28 07:41 am (UTC)Yay for growing food!
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Date: 2015-03-28 11:11 am (UTC)We put the garden in so late, but we've had a fantastic crop of zucchini. Lots of fun.
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Date: 2015-03-28 10:38 am (UTC)I have a wee bit of leftover courgette I need to use, so I shall add it to a toasted cheese for lunch, never thought of that before, and it sounds delicious.
I remain unconvinced that Broadchurch actually needed a second series (unlike Agent Carter; oh please, fannish Santa!) but it certainly does pick up from the midpoint.
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Date: 2015-03-28 11:23 am (UTC)I actually skipped a few of the earlier episodes - Alec's beautifully shot man-pain scenes were making me cranky - but I'm glad I tuned back in because that episode where Ellie grabbed her life back was awesome.
I was quite pleased with my zucchini and cheese toasty - it was quite hearty. Make sure you fry it a bit to get rid of the water - it needs to be dry.
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Date: 2015-03-28 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-29 10:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-28 02:13 pm (UTC)And ooh, you're watching POI! I can't wait to hear what you have to say about Root and femslashy moments in S4. Which I am super behind on myself, although I've been spoilered.
Have you watched Isagel's vid, Skeleton Key? It doesn't go past S3, and it is AMAZING.
How are the cats?
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Date: 2015-03-29 11:20 pm (UTC)Cats are good. Chewie is beginning to suspect that there is something on the other side of the glass doors, so we're investigating a cat run for him. He's such an outside cat, but we just can't let him on the road. Baggins is perfectly normal within a narrow set of circumstances that do not involve visitors.
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Date: 2015-03-28 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-29 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-28 11:46 pm (UTC)! Wow, that flew by. Congrats! I'm glad the garden is doing so well and that you're holding up under the onslaught of zucchini. (One of my grandfathers took up vegetable gardening later in life, and one year he grew zucchini. ONE year.)
Agent Carter was glorious. Count me in for being interested in any fic you might write!
And I'm seriously impressed by how much I like The 100. It took a little while to grow on me (the early episodes got pretty clunky), but the show is audacious as hell and has an absolutely fantastic female cast. *^^*
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Date: 2015-03-29 11:28 pm (UTC)I've watched two episodes of The 100, and there was one intensely awesome scene with Clarke's mother and a mechanic. Very vibey, very much what my id wants to see, so I am going to push on. I just need to make sure the apocalyptic stuff is okay for
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Date: 2015-03-30 03:40 am (UTC)The 100 can be terribly brutal, so being an advance scout for her sounds like a good move.
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Date: 2015-03-29 11:36 am (UTC)I miss zucchini season so much. We bought a contraption that turns veggies into spaghetti strands. We love the zucchini with just a touch of arribiata - spicy tomato sauce.
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Date: 2015-03-29 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-29 09:48 pm (UTC)I use tumblr posting frequency as a barometer too except it's completely the opposite - large numbers per month mean I'm mentally in the dumps, small that I am not avoiding real life tasks.
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Date: 2015-03-29 11:46 pm (UTC)I hope you're keeping well!