Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I was hoping to come up with a New Year’s Resolution as good as last year’s resolution to watch at least one movie directed by a woman each month (things got a little out of hand and I watched 106), but nothing has occurred to me. I suppose you can’t expect to have a life-changing project every year.

I have resolved to burn more candles this year. This is a low-key resolution but I think nonetheless a cheerful one.

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Oh! And I wrote a treat for Yuletide. It’s been ages since I’ve done that, but I was reading through the letters and a story just started rolling through my head, so here we are.

The Lady’s Boon (1542 words)
Fandom: The Perilous Gard
Rating: G
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kate Sutton (I guess Kate Heron at this point), the Lady, Christopher Heron
Summary: When Kate falls very ill, the Lady appears.

Snowflake Challenge Day 1

Every year I mean to do the snowflake_challenge and every year I do maybe one or two and then wander off into the wild blue yonder... but this year! Maybe this year will be my year.



Day 1: In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calm you or keep you sane.

Is this what we're using Happy Place to mean now? I always thought it referred to, like, an actual place - maybe a place that you imagine rather than a place where you physically go, but this makes it sound like it doesn't need to be a place at all and you can just be like "My happy place is a cup of hot chocolate."

Not a cafe where you get hot chocolate in a china mug with two fat marshmallows on top and a piece of shortbread on the saucer and you drink it sitting at a table made out of a reclaimed door. Not drinking hot chocolate while wearing a soft sweater in front of a roaring fire as fat snowflakes drift through the window and you know you don't have to go outside all day if you don't want to. Just the hot chocolate.

The snowflake_challenge graphic has given me hot chocolate on the brain, but to be fair hot chocolate is joyful and calming. I also like tea in this capacity, and I would like to welcome hot spiced cider into the fold but I can't seem to make it quite as delicious as I would like. Oh well. Maybe next year.

My happiest place is a comfy couch with a book and a blanket and a nice hot drink. The hot drink is an addition I have made in adulthood, but the rest of it has been basically my favorite place since I learned how to read.