@strangeseawolf @DoctorMonkey2 @QuokkaMocha @floofpaldi Thank you 🥺 we are close to the find out stage of this story 😬 I've enjoyed playing in Lix's unconscious mind for a bit!

@floofpaldi @aperfectsong @strangeseawolf @DoctorMonkey2 @doctorwanderer @NeanderthalPride @paul @Firlefanz @HeliaXyana @KurtHohmann @QuokkaMocha @therivercrow @dickrubin716 @VulpineDruid

No no no no...you do not want my ancestors back to life 😂

Do I suck at updating fics? Yes. Have I finally done it? Also yes. Forgive me, for I have been neck deep in Czech church records for weeks 🥴

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26465485/chapters/160149637

"She tried to move, to open her eyes, but all she saw was a flickering of white before her face gave up on the endeavour.

The glitter moved like a kaleidoscope, patterns of colour turning in the dark grey.

She stood in the corridor, looking down it at Randall, in shock that he would ever come here. Frustrated that he was to be in charge of the department. Of her. Not that he had ever managed that. Not that he had ever particularly tried."

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#WritingCommunity #writing

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I'm looking at...the opposite? Got to take my mother for minor surgery on Thursday, working delivery Friday, Saturday, Sunday, off Monday, delivering Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, then same again next week 🤪 and I have so much genealogy stuff to type and print and file together 🙃

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Apologies in advance? 🫣🥹

I've been okay. Knackered, a bit ill, but okay! Working more than usual in the run up to Christmas. What about you?

(Also did read the thread and will check out BlueSky when I remember and have sufficient brain cells)

@strangeseawolf @floofpaldi @QuokkaMocha @DoctorMonkey2

What's this? An almost-finished new chapter?!

In between delivering food and looking at military records and newspapers (my current client's ancestors were distilling illicit alcohol and brawling in shops 😭😂) I have almost finished this chapter!

#WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting #fic

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~ Michael gave a laugh. “I’ll bet Spain was a damned sight warmer than this place.”

Randall felt Lix stiffen next to him. He shot Michael a glare. A warning. What was he thinking?

“It was a tad more temperate, yes,” she said to him. “Though one must weigh up the preferable climate to the risk of being shot on sight.” ~

And just like that, Randall's brother has made an enemy of Lix 😅

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I saw this at the cinema last week!

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The thing about Hector is he's not a bad person. He's just damaged and honestly a bit dumb a lot of the time, but he understands the complex things better than than the "easy" things. I suspect Randall was once like that too when he was young, and that's why he kept pushing Hector to prove him wrong.

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Sorry, was making cottage pie. First time I've had time to make anything from scratch in weeks 😂

I love Laura Marling too! A few of my favourite songs are hers.

I hope you even remember where my stories left off, it's been so long 😭🫣

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Hector is the one who would not breathe a word, I think. He knows what shame feels like and that nobody else wants that to be public either, even if the shame is misplaced. Keeping bad news to yourself for the sake of the other person is excruciating, Randall is not having a good day 😬

I'm loving getting back into the writing. I didn't realise how much I missed it until I couldn't do it 😅

Did I need to start another Lix/Randall playlist? Probably not. Am I doing it anyway because I have a lot of driving to do these days? Aye 😂 it's not finished; it'll probably be huge by the time I am 😭

These guys - @floofpaldi @DoctorMonkey2 @QuokkaMocha @strangeseawolf - all know how I love a playlist 🫣

Also, if there are people new to the fandom since I unceremoniously vanished due to general life shit, please say hi!

Rent free in my head: someone was talking about how if the Iolaire disaster had never happened, Mary MacLeod would probably have never emigrated, Donald Trump would never have been born, and we would not be looking at the Tangoed Tyrant for the next at least four years.

As if the Iolaire sinking wasn't tragic enough in itself, it's had an effect over a century later.

Also rent free in my head is this line from Still Game: "That's no' skin, it's rind!"

#scotland #history #usa #stillgame

@floofpaldi I broke out my switch for the first time in so long a few weeks ago! I shall have to add you. I sometimes play between deliveries at work.

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Two chapters in a week. Send someone to check on me 😅

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26465485/chapters/154387027

"She was tough, it was true. But he was unsure how strong she was these days. That was the part that worried him. He had no doubt she could look like she was fine. She always was exceptionally good at that. But being tough was not the same as being strong. Why did so few people understand that?"

#writing #WritingCommunity #fanfic #thehour

@DoctorMonkey2 @floofpaldi @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
Frighteningly stupid, it turns out 😭

@floofpaldi @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha @DoctorMonkey2
The escapism is key to surviving in a world like this, I think. Even if what you're escaping into isn't exactly happy, it isn't the same thing you're facing the other 95% of the time. My local cinema is an independent one, technically a charity, I think. (Montrose Playhouse if you want to have a look 😂). I've done projects with the manager and he's only just noticed most of his staff are neurodivergent and/or gender non-conforming 😅

@DoctorMonkey2 @floofpaldi @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha
SO MUCH ASSHOLERY. My mother in particular is choosing assholery at the moment. Last year it was my sister-in-law, earlier this year it was my brother, recently it's my mother. It's like they take turns 🤪 combined with the general assholery in the UK as well recently, it's been...fun. The US just chose assholery too 🙃 wait til they find out what actually happens when you tariff the hell out of imports. Did nobody watch what Brexit caused?!

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Hope is, at this moment, the only thing left, I think. Holding onto it while the world tries its best to snuff it out is a whole other task.

Thank you, Quokka! I think the need to escape reality is driving me to write more again. It's a funny thing, that I find it easier to write when the world around me (personally and societally) seems to be collapsing. I guess we humans are just weird 😅

@floofpaldi @strangeseawolf @QuokkaMocha @DoctorMonkey2
It's horrible enough watching from here, so I can hardly imagine how rough it is to be there 🫂 the behaviour that's been emboldened in the last two days is disgusting.

I've been spending a lot of time in the cinema recently (I have a very good value membership to my local one) and I've only just realised that I've probably been going just to get a couple of hours outwith reality. I think that's why I'm finding a drive to write again too.