Well, It Was Sure To Happen Eventually
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teddy_radiatorIt's a little hard to believe that in two weeks' time we'll be in England again. I'm trying to pack and I'm pinning all these travel pins about how to make the most of our time in England and Ireland, and of course I'll be changing my mind on what to wear up until two weeks after we get back.
Work is being a bit of a pig lately; at a time when we need all the hours the gods send, we have almost no work. I don't know when I've been so frustrated with work since we started there, mainly because of lack of communication and inaccessibility. The pros of being our own bosses out in the field also mean that when we need help, we rarely get it, so we are left to flounder around. I was almost in tears today because our supervisor is just not being helpful over some problems that have arisen, but TheHubs™ very wisely reminded me that she could care less that I'm upset, and that it's not hurting anyone but me, and helping no one. I'm just going to go with the flow, and allow myself to become DeMob happy over the next couple of weeks and tackle the issue when we get back.
Two weeks ago, we decided to do a yard sale to get a little more money for the trip. It went ok, but I was a little disappointed. The venue was lovely - a little village green-type place, under a huge old oak tree. It was cool and leafy and comfortable, and we made a little bit. We still had a ton of stuff left over, so we decided this past Saturday to do another one at the house. TheHubs™ woke up feeling really bad (we think it was something he ate the night before), and so I was fine with setting things up while he stayed in and kept cool. The sale was much more successful, especially when you consider the last time I did a yard sale at our house only three people turned up.
We ended up selling a bunch of stuff, and around noon I decided the heat was getting to be too much and called it a day. Between the time I dragged everything into the garage, and picked up the signs from down the road, I was in trouble. I just hadn't taken into consideration just how damn hot and humid it was, and by the time I poured myself into the house, I was exhibiting all the signs of heat exhaustion. I got in a cool shower, but I still so hot I was sweating even as I tried to dry myself. It took me the better part of the past three days to feel normal again. I thought I had bad sunburn; it just turns out I was severely overheating. I've been drinking all the water I can lay my hands on between then and now, and today I feel almost like myself. The money was good, but man, I overdid it.
Evan is almost done with The Chine. He continues to blow me away with his reading of this. This evening, we had this amazing discussion about it. There is a very important homerotic moment in the chapter he was reading, and when he let me know it was ready for listening he asked, Are Dahlra and Elwess ever gonna have full-blown sex?"
Well, that's the question, isn't it? I asked him if he thought they should, and he said that the part he had just read was a turn on and that he would like to see it. Now, my slash chops were never my strongest, but I sent him several of my old Severus/Sirius shorts and the one I wrote for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stgulik called Snow Turns The World Deaf, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought, 'why not? these two men care for one another, the dynamic is there...then Evan said, "for me it'd be really sexy to visualize what Elwess would feel like being full on penetrated by a man for the first time."
This is a guy very comfortable with his sexuality, telling me he'd like to see this. Well, that's a bit too good to pass up, innit? And there is the perfect moment in the third book where the three of them come to a special crossroad in their lives, and this would cement their relationship in a way that would bring the story to a natural conclusion. It's true I had toyed with it, but couldn't get up the nerve to think about trying it, but I think now that maybe I need to do what the characters want done rather than my own ideas.
I remember reading JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood books, where she had two male characters who obviously were attracted to one another and would have made amazing lovers. Their dance around one another was so sexy and bristling with UST, but she chickened out at the end and gave them both het relationships. Later, when her fanbase were still crying out for these two to get together, she created another gay couple to bridge the gap, but their sex was about as exciting as watching paint dry. You have to let the characters move in the direction they're headed.
Work is being a bit of a pig lately; at a time when we need all the hours the gods send, we have almost no work. I don't know when I've been so frustrated with work since we started there, mainly because of lack of communication and inaccessibility. The pros of being our own bosses out in the field also mean that when we need help, we rarely get it, so we are left to flounder around. I was almost in tears today because our supervisor is just not being helpful over some problems that have arisen, but TheHubs™ very wisely reminded me that she could care less that I'm upset, and that it's not hurting anyone but me, and helping no one. I'm just going to go with the flow, and allow myself to become DeMob happy over the next couple of weeks and tackle the issue when we get back.
Two weeks ago, we decided to do a yard sale to get a little more money for the trip. It went ok, but I was a little disappointed. The venue was lovely - a little village green-type place, under a huge old oak tree. It was cool and leafy and comfortable, and we made a little bit. We still had a ton of stuff left over, so we decided this past Saturday to do another one at the house. TheHubs™ woke up feeling really bad (we think it was something he ate the night before), and so I was fine with setting things up while he stayed in and kept cool. The sale was much more successful, especially when you consider the last time I did a yard sale at our house only three people turned up.
We ended up selling a bunch of stuff, and around noon I decided the heat was getting to be too much and called it a day. Between the time I dragged everything into the garage, and picked up the signs from down the road, I was in trouble. I just hadn't taken into consideration just how damn hot and humid it was, and by the time I poured myself into the house, I was exhibiting all the signs of heat exhaustion. I got in a cool shower, but I still so hot I was sweating even as I tried to dry myself. It took me the better part of the past three days to feel normal again. I thought I had bad sunburn; it just turns out I was severely overheating. I've been drinking all the water I can lay my hands on between then and now, and today I feel almost like myself. The money was good, but man, I overdid it.
Evan is almost done with The Chine. He continues to blow me away with his reading of this. This evening, we had this amazing discussion about it. There is a very important homerotic moment in the chapter he was reading, and when he let me know it was ready for listening he asked, Are Dahlra and Elwess ever gonna have full-blown sex?"
Well, that's the question, isn't it? I asked him if he thought they should, and he said that the part he had just read was a turn on and that he would like to see it. Now, my slash chops were never my strongest, but I sent him several of my old Severus/Sirius shorts and the one I wrote for
stgulik called Snow Turns The World Deaf, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought, 'why not? these two men care for one another, the dynamic is there...then Evan said, "for me it'd be really sexy to visualize what Elwess would feel like being full on penetrated by a man for the first time." This is a guy very comfortable with his sexuality, telling me he'd like to see this. Well, that's a bit too good to pass up, innit? And there is the perfect moment in the third book where the three of them come to a special crossroad in their lives, and this would cement their relationship in a way that would bring the story to a natural conclusion. It's true I had toyed with it, but couldn't get up the nerve to think about trying it, but I think now that maybe I need to do what the characters want done rather than my own ideas.
I remember reading JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood books, where she had two male characters who obviously were attracted to one another and would have made amazing lovers. Their dance around one another was so sexy and bristling with UST, but she chickened out at the end and gave them both het relationships. Later, when her fanbase were still crying out for these two to get together, she created another gay couple to bridge the gap, but their sex was about as exciting as watching paint dry. You have to let the characters move in the direction they're headed.
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Date: 2019-08-21 04:33 am (UTC)I noticed you posted your Snack fics on wordpress today! Makes me miss
I'm so excited for your trip! Have an amazing time!!!
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Date: 2019-08-21 02:04 pm (UTC)I’m so excited to hear him speak your words! I tend to be a too fast reader - years of grant writing and research has made me an awful reader and I tend to miss a lot. But when I get cozy with an audiobook... I get to really enjoy a long story again. I am so pumped!!
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Date: 2019-08-21 03:29 pm (UTC)I really must have been sick when I read The Chine - I think you sent it to me around the time All The Horrible Heart Problems began. I’m zipping back to it tonight - and as I said before audiobooks are such my jam lately. And as I’ve said before, I have loved my Audible copy of Her Minder to pieces. It makes me wonder if I left a review, and if I haven’t I’m going to hand my head in shame and then dash over to audible and do it.
I’m excited about the possibility of Elwess and Dahlra together together. Evan is almost like a first reader for you, doing the audio. He gets a perspective of the characters even the regular reader won’t, because he inserts himself into their headspace while reading and voicing/acting the parts of everyone in the book. It’s a different headspace than being the writer, because these people are your darlings. What a valuable relationship to have!
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Date: 2019-08-22 03:06 am (UTC)Wishing you a wonderful time on your trip. I hope there will be pics when you return.
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*runs and hides under the bed*
*friends you anyways*
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Date: 2019-08-23 10:08 am (UTC)It made my night 💯
(I had the worst day yesterday - I had to deal with a congressional complaint and then had a patient scream at me on the phone. LJ always has a way of picking up my spirits, however low they are)
Ugh, now for Friday. *working for the weekend*