+ I'm very behind on my reading, especially for Yuletide, but here are some recs:

Fic: All the way home (I'll be warm) by analineblue, J/I. Just the sort of quietly intimate scene that I like. <3

The Wine Dark Sea by anon, for Yuletide. Captain Haddock backstory, wonderfully detailed and authentic.

Art: Twas the Night Before Christmas by anon, Merlin/Gwaine. Amazingly beautiful.

ETA: And here's a list of Yuletide recs for fandoms with chromatic characters.

+ There's a cyclone raging over here. I've been marooned at home since yesterday, so I watched one and a half films and wrote two whole chapters of my long fic. Am really getting inordinately fond of Gwaine. And Morgana. Mostly because Katie M is flawlessly beautiful and I'm superficial. If I were making resolutions, I'd totally resolve to write more Gwen/Morgana.

+ Weird guy at work keeps getting weirder. He's taken to giving me unexpected compliments at the end of each day (such as: 'your nails are beautiful'. They really aren't). I think he thinks he'll catch me off-guard and get me to go easy on his training or something. On the plus side, he's given up staking his claim on my chair.

+ Back from Xmas break at home. I miss the cats. My sister made me watch a bit of Glee (which was very fun) and Private Practice (which is apparently even more depressing than Grey's. I'll keep watching the latter for Callie/Arizona though, even if they are nauseatingly domestic this season.)

+ The plot of the Sherlock Holmes film went completely above my head. But everyone in it is very pretty and it's very, very gay. And Stephen Fry is amazing. And Jude Law is terribly lovely, even with the 'stache.

+ Speaking of, I'm reading Fry's The Ode Less Travelled, which is basically like Poetry for Dummies. It's huge fun and I'm actually trying the writing exercises. I will make a terrible poet of me yet.

+ Semester starts on Monday. I want to run away flailing and screaming. The Lovely Advisor gently reminded me that I should be working on publications. A lazy academic's work is never ever done.

+ Thank you daniforblue and chaosmaka for the vgifts. ♥

Ahahaha, I am so pathetic. I had a Ianto-dies-in-Jack's-arms-and-Jack-saves-him dream. It was pretty... detailed, lol. It starts off with them in this really stormy sea, struggling to stay above the water. Ianto looks in a pretty bad way and Jack's sort of holding him afloat, and then he kind of slumps over in Jack's arms and Jack just holds him and sobs and sobs. It was... pretty convincing, actually, as though I was actually watching something that had been filmed. Pity my imagination skipped the part about exactly ~how Jack brings him back, but then they're on some rocks and Ianto is pissed off and aghast, totally in shock about how he's alive again.

My favourite part about all this is that while they're arguing and Jack is trying to convince Ianto that this is a ~good thing, there's this largish black fish that flounders somewhere behind Ianto and starts flopping about. And he gives it a push to get it back in the water, only he's too weak to push it very far and it's still on the rocks, so Jack does it for him. Okay, he throws a boot or something at it to knock it back in the water, but he does it. I went 'awwwwww' at that, because here is this life-altering situation they've just been in and Ianto is worried about a fish, and I suspect Jack just saves it because Ianto wants to. And that's all I remember. Oh, and resurrected Ianto was bare to the waist (probably naked, but I could only see that much of him, which worked out fine because I don't like boy parts all that much and my subconscious knows it, lol) and his hair was kind of adorably curled because it was wet.

And... yeah. That's pretty much my contribution to fandom this week, lol.

Fuck you, Indian armed forces. I can't even. Gah.