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26/12/13 21:28I had a good Christmas with my family!
* I didn't get to see very much of Montreal -- just ten minutes of icy quick-marching between the hotel and the apartment -- and I would've especially liked to have an extra day there because of that. But on the other hand, I had the day off today through some last-minute schedule changes (too late to change the flight) and it was nice to have a day at home to hang out and make apple pancake.
* You know what's weird? The last time I crossed the border by train, in April of this year, they asked me SO many questions and were really kind of nosy and suspicious. But I've gone by plane three times since then, and every time, they pretty much waved me through. I don't know if this is a factor of how they do the border crossings differently by train vs. by plane or what!
*YULETIDE WAS A THING. I put something in the fic I wrote (beyond the thematic preoccupations) that is a pretty strong clue that I wrote it, if you keep close tabs on my reading, which I sort of doubt anyone does. But yes, easily guessable, though I totally failed to realize it at the time.
I got this great fic! Happily Ever Aftering. The fandom is My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr, a wonderful but sadly obscure YA novel about the complicated bonds between Ellen, her brother Link, and James, who they both love. The fic is strong and subtle and has a loving attention to small details, like the book (which I really must reread. So good.)
And speaking of beautifully written novels with gay teenagers in them, how about A Map of the World Without Darkness, based on Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz? Mostly when I read YA romance, even with a happy ending, I imagine that the characters will have a hard but amicable breakup somewhere around their second year of college, and forever after think back on that intense and bittersweet time in their lives. But I really, really want a happily-ever-after for those two. Sweet and tender and honest. (Although I will say that in my own head-canon, Ari wouldn't become a writer. I think he'll never be quite as comfortable with intellectual analysis as he is with his hands, and I think one of the strengths of the novel is that it always respects Ari's intelligence while not shoehorning it into a place of being smart in a conventional book-smart kind of way. But that's not to say the fic is OOC or anything! So much can happen in ten years that I'll happily go alone with an Ari who is writing a book.)
* I didn't get to see very much of Montreal -- just ten minutes of icy quick-marching between the hotel and the apartment -- and I would've especially liked to have an extra day there because of that. But on the other hand, I had the day off today through some last-minute schedule changes (too late to change the flight) and it was nice to have a day at home to hang out and make apple pancake.
* You know what's weird? The last time I crossed the border by train, in April of this year, they asked me SO many questions and were really kind of nosy and suspicious. But I've gone by plane three times since then, and every time, they pretty much waved me through. I don't know if this is a factor of how they do the border crossings differently by train vs. by plane or what!
*YULETIDE WAS A THING. I put something in the fic I wrote (beyond the thematic preoccupations) that is a pretty strong clue that I wrote it, if you keep close tabs on my reading, which I sort of doubt anyone does. But yes, easily guessable, though I totally failed to realize it at the time.
I got this great fic! Happily Ever Aftering. The fandom is My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr, a wonderful but sadly obscure YA novel about the complicated bonds between Ellen, her brother Link, and James, who they both love. The fic is strong and subtle and has a loving attention to small details, like the book (which I really must reread. So good.)
And speaking of beautifully written novels with gay teenagers in them, how about A Map of the World Without Darkness, based on Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz? Mostly when I read YA romance, even with a happy ending, I imagine that the characters will have a hard but amicable breakup somewhere around their second year of college, and forever after think back on that intense and bittersweet time in their lives. But I really, really want a happily-ever-after for those two. Sweet and tender and honest. (Although I will say that in my own head-canon, Ari wouldn't become a writer. I think he'll never be quite as comfortable with intellectual analysis as he is with his hands, and I think one of the strengths of the novel is that it always respects Ari's intelligence while not shoehorning it into a place of being smart in a conventional book-smart kind of way. But that's not to say the fic is OOC or anything! So much can happen in ten years that I'll happily go alone with an Ari who is writing a book.)