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Jul. 18th, 2016 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsWe're heading out to see Ghostbusters this afternoon. Though, considering James just came off his last shift at 2am I suspect the odds of him staying awake through the whole thing aren't good. Really it would have been best to go tomorrow but Monday is cheap day at Odeon which means we don't need to pay too much of a supplement for Gallery tickets.
I don't plan on waking him until dinnertime, so he may be okay, but if not. It won't be the first time -- or last -- he's had a snooze in the cinema, and those couches are comfy.
Had a bit of a scare last week when my FiL fell backwards while putting my MiL's wheelchair in the house and bashed his head on the pavement. We'd just came back from helping nanna to bed when I got a frantic call from MiL who was talking about blood and falling and what should she do? In the end James drove through there, but FiL didn't want to go to hospital, so in the end MiL had to stay up with him all night. He's okay now, just scared people as head wounds do tend to bleed like crazy.
We took nanna out for a few hours last week. It's the first time she's been out of the house for months, so was a positive sign. We ended up at Tynemouth again. I swear, we haven't been to that place for ages and then lately we've been four times in as many weeks. It was good as we could pull the car up near to the door to the pub we went to for dinner, and inside there's a beautiful ocean view. It was lovely to see nanna out and about, and I had to laugh when as usual she said she could barely eat anything after putting away a prawn cocktail starter and a carvery.
We drove to Saint Mary's Island after eating, and as Pauline had come too, nanna said we should go and stretch our legs and Pauline would keep her company. So we did, and had a quick walk over to the lighthouse. Which you can see here. I tell you, this having energy thing is kinda cool.
Fannish wise I've been in a Mag 7 reading binge for the last few days. My pairing of choice remains Vin/Ezra and I was very excited one day to find a 90K ATF story for them. Then I started to read, and knew I couldn't do it. It was just terrible. But thankfully I later found a 100K story for them which I'm reading through now.
I'm also writing. I was thinking about The Musketeers, and looking at my h/c bingo card, and the robots prompt caught my eye. So now I'm writing about a robot&human space sex station. As you do. Well, you do if you're me. No idea if anyone will read, I know the fandom does do AUs, but maybe not space AUs. But hey, I'm having fun with it.
Someone is reading through all my bandom stuff at the moment and leaving kudos and comments. They hit When Day Is Night Alone last night and it's nice to know the story can still prompt a reaction. It's been so lovely seeing those comments come in.
Finally, like many others I've been playing Pokemon Go. It's good stuff, adds a bit of interest to walking and I do love annoying James by managing to grab Pokemon and Pokestops when we're driving slowly. Though he got his own back yesterday by telling me that his workplace is surrounded by gyms and pokespots and he'd caught three pokemon on his break.
I don't plan on waking him until dinnertime, so he may be okay, but if not. It won't be the first time -- or last -- he's had a snooze in the cinema, and those couches are comfy.
Had a bit of a scare last week when my FiL fell backwards while putting my MiL's wheelchair in the house and bashed his head on the pavement. We'd just came back from helping nanna to bed when I got a frantic call from MiL who was talking about blood and falling and what should she do? In the end James drove through there, but FiL didn't want to go to hospital, so in the end MiL had to stay up with him all night. He's okay now, just scared people as head wounds do tend to bleed like crazy.
We took nanna out for a few hours last week. It's the first time she's been out of the house for months, so was a positive sign. We ended up at Tynemouth again. I swear, we haven't been to that place for ages and then lately we've been four times in as many weeks. It was good as we could pull the car up near to the door to the pub we went to for dinner, and inside there's a beautiful ocean view. It was lovely to see nanna out and about, and I had to laugh when as usual she said she could barely eat anything after putting away a prawn cocktail starter and a carvery.
We drove to Saint Mary's Island after eating, and as Pauline had come too, nanna said we should go and stretch our legs and Pauline would keep her company. So we did, and had a quick walk over to the lighthouse. Which you can see here. I tell you, this having energy thing is kinda cool.
Fannish wise I've been in a Mag 7 reading binge for the last few days. My pairing of choice remains Vin/Ezra and I was very excited one day to find a 90K ATF story for them. Then I started to read, and knew I couldn't do it. It was just terrible. But thankfully I later found a 100K story for them which I'm reading through now.
I'm also writing. I was thinking about The Musketeers, and looking at my h/c bingo card, and the robots prompt caught my eye. So now I'm writing about a robot&human space sex station. As you do. Well, you do if you're me. No idea if anyone will read, I know the fandom does do AUs, but maybe not space AUs. But hey, I'm having fun with it.
Someone is reading through all my bandom stuff at the moment and leaving kudos and comments. They hit When Day Is Night Alone last night and it's nice to know the story can still prompt a reaction. It's been so lovely seeing those comments come in.
Finally, like many others I've been playing Pokemon Go. It's good stuff, adds a bit of interest to walking and I do love annoying James by managing to grab Pokemon and Pokestops when we're driving slowly. Though he got his own back yesterday by telling me that his workplace is surrounded by gyms and pokespots and he'd caught three pokemon on his break.
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Date: 2016-07-18 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-07-18 04:13 pm (UTC)please be careful when wandering around staring at your phone - I'd hate for you to get smushed because you didn't see the bus coming down the road
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Date: 2016-07-18 10:20 pm (UTC)Wow, I'm glad to know that your FiL is OK. Head wounds are hella scary because, like you mention, they tend to gush way too much blood.
Hooray for Nanna having a bite or two. ;)
Mag 7 joins the slew of fandoms (such as The Sentinel, for example) that I never got into. Still, I'm legit cringing at you finding a long fic that turned out to be terrible. I'm totes giving you a tired-about-it!fistbump as I experienced something similar a few nights ago. I basically had to delete 4 epic-length MCU fics by 4 different authors because the stories were TERRIBLE!
Somehow, I've managed to avoid H/C bingo and Trope bingo this time around. No idea if I'll eventually give into temptation or not. *knocks on wood*
Yays for writing, tho! Writing for yourself is deffo the way to go. :)
Isn't it lovely to know that people are reading your stuff? It does brighten my heart whenever I get kudos and/or the odd comment or two.
Right now, I'm being the odd person out/rebel for not getting into Pokemon Go. My feelings about it are legit neutral. What I find really interesting are the good or wacky news items about people playing it. ^_^
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Date: 2016-07-19 08:17 pm (UTC)Hooray for nanna having a nice outing!
If a story is too terrible for even you to enjoy then it is indeed terrible ;-)
You're writing, go you!! *waves pompoms encouragingly*
Your reaction is why I've never understod people who're afraid to comment on really old stories because "what if the writer thinks its embarrassing to be reminded of the old stuff they wrote"!
You and James are such a fan pair!
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Date: 2016-08-02 01:53 pm (UTC)If a story is too terrible for even you to enjoy then it is indeed terrible ;-)
You're not wrong there!
Your reaction is why I've never understod people who're afraid to comment on really old stories because "what if the writer thinks its embarrassing to be reminded of the old stuff they wrote"!
That's a really good point. Getting comment is always fantastic, and I love all the people who take the time to leave them.
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Date: 2016-07-19 08:32 pm (UTC)I'm glad the FIL and MIL are doing better.
It super SUCKKKKS when you come across a LONG-FIC with an appealing summary(or tags) in a smaller fandom and then end up going WTF and backing out as quickly as possible.
I wish I knew more about the Mag7 so I could read...my youtube/gamer rpf fandoms haven't been extra active lately.
YAY Writing. There's ALWAYS a need for space aus...ALWAYS. :)
I need to write..but my bandom stuff keeps collapsing and I'm attempting to NOT write youtuber rpf. (This is ALL the fault of the FNAF puppet musical)
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Date: 2016-07-23 12:52 pm (UTC)t super SUCKKKKS when you come across a LONG-FIC with an appealing summary(or tags) in a smaller fandom and then end up going WTF and backing out as quickly as possible.
Yep. I'm just glad it was terrible from the start so I didn't waste too much time on it. Been there done that with stories that got bad and fast.
Mag 7 is a really old fandom, but is interesting how one AU story that was set in the modern era has become it's own canon, so that hundreds of stories based around that story now exist. I think that's such a cool thing.
I haven't written anything since I posted this. Not for bad reasons, just lack of sitting down and actually opening the file.
But, if the yt rpf is calling you, go for it!
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Date: 2016-07-23 06:12 pm (UTC)Dude, that is a SUPER cool occurance :).
Meh, we'll see what happens. I don't really know. Maybe, I'm through writing. IDK.
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Date: 2016-08-02 01:55 pm (UTC)I hope you're not done writing. But I do get know hard it is sometimes. I haven't written a word since this post.
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Date: 2016-07-19 10:01 pm (UTC)Love the pictures! You are getting around, lady. :)
I'm very excited about Ghostbusters. Determined to go see it this week, but not sure when! Eeep.
I hate when I find a story new to me, and then find that I hadn't heard about it because it's awful! Glad you found a replacement.
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Date: 2016-07-23 12:48 pm (UTC)I am. It's lovely getting out and about and exploring things.
Ghostbusters was so good! Hope you enjoy it when you do get to see the movie.
I'm enjoying the replacement. But the first one. I've read a lot of badfic in my time but that took the biscuit.