Nicki's Lair

Three days off this week! Which is great, and necessary, because work is going to be just wretched from about July 18 to August 1.

In between recovering from my knee injury and making the tiniest bit of progress on my Decathlon fics, I'm entirely captivated by the Twelve Houses world. Expect a lengthy post about that once I finish Reader and Realynx; for now I'll just say this: if Kel was my role model for my early to mid 20s, Senneth is my role model now, and I need that. Also, I adore Amelie's brightness and strength of character; and studly!Cammon is both hilarious and also adorable (and also -- did anybody else get this? -- reminds me of SMACKDOWN 2010 studly!Owen).

COINCIDENTALLY, I PROMISE, I have Senneth hair right now! I got bored with my natural color (light-brown/dark-blond-ish) and went pale sunshine blonde again; it's humid, and I need a trim, and the result is that I have a blonde halo that sticks out in all directions.

Arrrgh.

I want to be writing SMACKDOWN fic tonight, but I can't make myself care enough. Buri/Thayet is going to lose and Lark/Rosethorn is going to win, and that's fine. (Yes, I'm feeling fatalist about it right now.) I have a lot of B/T plot bunnies and ideas, but... it's not happening. I've posted 16 drabbles for this round, which is less than any round last year, and that might be it. As I said in a comment to kitty_ryan  the other day, I really will be delighted to support whoever wins this fight in the next round. (Unless they go up against Circlecest, of course. *g*) And I'm looking forward to, I hope, writing with some of the lovely people I've been writing against this round.

I'm arguing with myself about the next set of fights, too. Work is nuts until March 21 -- after fight 2 ends -- so I'm probably better off staying out of it entirely. But I'm starting to feel motivated about Kel/Maura, so I don't know.

Meanwhile, I'm exhausted almost all the time, and it's getting tedious. I have shit to do! Not sure where to go with that.

Ho hum. Maybe I'll try to write a little, after all.

For fuck's sake. Yuletide isn't government, nor is it education, nor a business trying to garner investments. There's no obligation for "transparency" or "uniformity." It's a fan fiction exchange. For fun. If you don't like it, and if complaining directly to the people who make the decisions doesn't yield the desired result, don't play. Let the rest of us enjoy it, hey?

Still not sure I like the method of sorting being used this year, but I do understand why it's necessary. And more to the point, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what I think. I want to play, I play by elynross's rules. I'm okay with that.

This is absolutely not directed at anybody on my f'list here; I just had to get the *headdesk* out and I don't think the yuletide mods need to deal with yet another person complaining (even if I'm complaining about all the complaining). 

OTOH: should I start a "What's your favorite thing about Yuletide? Tag, you're it!" post on the Yuletide comm? Seems like we could do with some more positive over there.



In other news: who has an "OMG-must-go-to-the-store-NOW" kind of craving for cabbage? Me, apparently. WTF, self?