Odds and Ends

[extrapenguin]

My stocking is up at fandom_stocking, should you wish to give me stuffs. I even made a bullet-pointed list of prompts!

In the traditional year-end chat, my boss told me to chillax over the holidays and relax more. (I probably should.)

As per the poll results, I've stuck my bookmark in The Ghost Map. I might read it over the weekend, next week at latest. Depends on how much time I need to do stuff like vacuuming and laundry and the other million small bits of reversing entropy resulting from human habitation.

Also, I've discovered a fan translation of Nirvana in Fire the novel, which I may read while bzeurghing at the screen, unwilling to do any synthesis of properly new information.

Also also, I have discovered The Legend of Xia Xia, a Nirvana in Fire fanwork thing, which is HILARIOUS and I read some bits via Google Translate but hey IT WAS STILL FUNNY. Best NiF fic ever, made me fall off my chair, A+.

Oh, and yellow tea tastes good. I should get some more.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I was wondering if there being no "Machineries of Empire" tag on my stocking was a one-off or just the fact that the tag doesn't exist yet, but since it looks like you don't have it either, hopefully they just haven't gotten around to creating the new tags yet and will add them later?

[extrapenguin]

Same. I'm not that bothered with the lack of Dichronauts etc tags, but I'd rather like for there to at least be an "untagged fandoms" tag for us small-fandom aficionados!

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah... I'm surprised they aren't using some kind of "need to add tags later" tag as a placeholder... Hopefully they'll get around to adding the tags once the bulk of the stockings are up at least? Since the whole system relies on tagging...

[extrapenguin]

Indeed. I've heard that there's often a spreadsheet of stockings, which may make things easier to find?

[hamsterwoman]

I hope so, but I'm also wondering if the spreadhseet relies on the community tags? (I don't remember seeing it myself in my past years, so maybe it does more than that...)

[extrapenguin]

Ohhh yeah that might be a problem... I haven't actually looked at it, but hopefully there's something more than just the community tags list?