It Came! It Came!

My assignment came, and MCU Ladies is on!

Bookish Things

So during the holiday season, I picked up a few books. I made myself wait until I'd written 2K words of fics I owe before I posted this, and that much is done, so here goes.


Yuleswap:

I requested poetry and my very dear, much appreciated swapper sent me three books of poetry. Yay.

1. Favorite Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


2. Selected Poems - Emily Dickinson


3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

I adore Longfellow, I like Dickinson's cutting style, and I love Spanish, so it's nice to have something bilingual like this to settle into and drown in a few verses. Total win.


Personal Purchases:

1. American Sniper - totally research; I keep writing about this character who's a sniper and it caught my eye four or five times


2. Bourne Ascendancy - I like the Bourne fandom, so when I saw the mass market at a nice, low price, I snagged it


3. Dealing with Dragons - P.C. Wrede - to get to free shipping on a Christmas present, and because I originally bought this book for less than two dollars at a thrift store and mourned it when it got lost in a move, so lovely to have it back


4. Whimsy, Ink, and Love - a collection of my own poetry for a Christmas gift for family, not to be published


5. Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine - for this fic I'm writing (and shall now get back to)

Read anything good this past month or two?

Not Bad

I had various plans that did not happen and my to-do list is still ridiculous (what else is new?), but I'm happy because I wrote:

1. 2114 words on one giftfic


2. 129 words to sketch out pretty much the entirety of another (thank you, those who let me bounce off you in email


3. 144 words of post-winter finale AoS fic that's eating too much brainspace

Now, I just need to get some work done on something original, not come down with my coworker's congested cough (does anyone cover their mouths anymore?), and consider starting from scratch on the collab. Not bad.