Random life notes and a review
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whitewriterI've been drinking a lot of alcohol lately.
I don't think it's work related (shockingly).
Maybe it's because I'm trying to reduce my intake of tea and coffee due to their impacts on iron absorption.
Maybe it's because if I got pregnant this month it would mean no alcohol for... a long while.
I'm seriously not a big drinker but lately I've been having at least 1.5-2 /day.
I've been reading sappy sappy AU by Jenna Tooms.
I finished her "An acceptable level of happiness" on the weekend
only to then start the 4 part series "Shooting stars"
Which is an addictive, longish and trashy but sickly sweet and cute AU fanfic. I'm not sure if I agree with all of the characterisation (I have trouble seeing M and S say the words she writes at times to each other in the story, as it's so lovey- dovey... although if you watch Trustno1 in S9 that ep makes it seem mildly more plausible) maybe I'm projecting how my own relationships tend to be, on what I think about how M and S's would be (whilst I like certain things: I'm not very romantic and neither is Pete).
The story line is basically this: M disappears aka. DeadAlive after M and S had a 70-ish day romantic relationship. She has the baby (and named it Benjamin because that's one thing they discussed during the 70 days even though they didn't realise said baby existed) -- and she raised it on her own whilst working at some lecturing thing at the FBI and looking for M. Finally, 17 years later, she gets a break and finds him. His memory was wiped by the rebels, and he was left to languish on the streets until Krychec took him under h9is wing and forced him into a mental hospital where they drugged him for about .... I don't know how long -- until S finds him, brings him home. The character of Benjamin is a less douche baggery version of the canon William and brings with him a set of pretty alrightly written original characters. Halfway through it felt like the whole thing was being resolved (but I knew there were 2 more parts) and Jenna manages to throw in a fairly realistic spanner into the storyline to keep it going, and then, somehow she predicted in 2002 (when this was published on Gossamer) that S would be pregnant at 53 and I'm nearing the ending now. Pretty sure it'll just get to some sappy conclusion. She's quit the FBI to avoid questions from colleagues and apparently they're loaded with M's money so all good there.
It's a cute story, full of fluff and a bit of angst. Slightly too fluffy to be realistic, but who needs their fluff to be realistic? Decent amount of smut, also included.
It's long. But in a nice way. It feels like Jenna setup her little AU, and just wanted to play with the set up for a little longer -- then a little longer -- and then a little longer -- . And I'm here to lap it all up.
Today I'm introducing the score card, and I've gone back and updated all my previous reviews with overall scores for fun-seys.
Score card:
Characterisation of canon characters: C+
Characterisation of original characters: B+ (almost an A)
Story line: A-
Smut: B-
Overall writing: B+
I've still gotta get through parts 3 and 4 of Alphas. (cause the writing is A+ good, and I want to know the ending). Maybe I'll get back to it after SS.
And I'm still searching for Andrea's "There's a way" (cause its fluffy and I want more)
It's making me think I should start my own fanfic mini archive on my hard drive so say in 20 years from now, If I wanted to re-read things I could. Cause would gossamer still be around then? OR the Annex? of XF FAQ?
FF is a waste of time. Why can't what I use for stress relief, be actually productive, you know, like my piano...
I don't think it's work related (shockingly).
Maybe it's because I'm trying to reduce my intake of tea and coffee due to their impacts on iron absorption.
Maybe it's because if I got pregnant this month it would mean no alcohol for... a long while.
I'm seriously not a big drinker but lately I've been having at least 1.5-2 /day.
I've been reading sappy sappy AU by Jenna Tooms.
I finished her "An acceptable level of happiness" on the weekend
only to then start the 4 part series "Shooting stars"
Which is an addictive, longish and trashy but sickly sweet and cute AU fanfic. I'm not sure if I agree with all of the characterisation (I have trouble seeing M and S say the words she writes at times to each other in the story, as it's so lovey- dovey... although if you watch Trustno1 in S9 that ep makes it seem mildly more plausible) maybe I'm projecting how my own relationships tend to be, on what I think about how M and S's would be (whilst I like certain things: I'm not very romantic and neither is Pete).
The story line is basically this: M disappears aka. DeadAlive after M and S had a 70-ish day romantic relationship. She has the baby (and named it Benjamin because that's one thing they discussed during the 70 days even though they didn't realise said baby existed) -- and she raised it on her own whilst working at some lecturing thing at the FBI and looking for M. Finally, 17 years later, she gets a break and finds him. His memory was wiped by the rebels, and he was left to languish on the streets until Krychec took him under h9is wing and forced him into a mental hospital where they drugged him for about .... I don't know how long -- until S finds him, brings him home. The character of Benjamin is a less douche baggery version of the canon William and brings with him a set of pretty alrightly written original characters. Halfway through it felt like the whole thing was being resolved (but I knew there were 2 more parts) and Jenna manages to throw in a fairly realistic spanner into the storyline to keep it going, and then, somehow she predicted in 2002 (when this was published on Gossamer) that S would be pregnant at 53 and I'm nearing the ending now. Pretty sure it'll just get to some sappy conclusion. She's quit the FBI to avoid questions from colleagues and apparently they're loaded with M's money so all good there.
It's a cute story, full of fluff and a bit of angst. Slightly too fluffy to be realistic, but who needs their fluff to be realistic? Decent amount of smut, also included.
It's long. But in a nice way. It feels like Jenna setup her little AU, and just wanted to play with the set up for a little longer -- then a little longer -- and then a little longer -- . And I'm here to lap it all up.
Today I'm introducing the score card, and I've gone back and updated all my previous reviews with overall scores for fun-seys.
Score card:
Characterisation of canon characters: C+
Characterisation of original characters: B+ (almost an A)
Story line: A-
Smut: B-
Overall writing: B+
I've still gotta get through parts 3 and 4 of Alphas. (cause the writing is A+ good, and I want to know the ending). Maybe I'll get back to it after SS.
And I'm still searching for Andrea's "There's a way" (cause its fluffy and I want more)
It's making me think I should start my own fanfic mini archive on my hard drive so say in 20 years from now, If I wanted to re-read things I could. Cause would gossamer still be around then? OR the Annex? of XF FAQ?
FF is a waste of time. Why can't what I use for stress relief, be actually productive, you know, like my piano...
