stellaluna

scarletts_awry fulfilled my holiday fic request with Family, which is amazing and gut-wrenching and perfectly captures that particular kind of angry melancholy that just kneecaps me every single time. It's a Danny gen story, set around "Run Silent, Run Deep" with flashbacks to other significant times in his life, and the whole thing bleeds with a furious tension between the real and the not-real, between knowing and not-knowing. Certain things may be at the mercy of fate, and Danny will make other people pay if he can, but the price is high for him, too.

I love it like whoa, and it's the best kind of holiday fic present.

ariesjen also got inspired by a drinking reference I made in one recent story, and the very funny One In a Million is the result. Everyone is drunk, everyone is wobbly verging on incoherent, and Adam really can't hold his booze.

I put up the Christmas tree yesterday and started writing cards. I am slightly panicked about the fact that I go back East in ten days, and am trying to find a good pair of walking boots. I'm leaning toward getting a pair of black wedge-heeled ankle boots, which should go with everything, and which will be more comfortable than my usual three-inch heels.

Company party this week, and various gift exchanges. I think I'm finished shopping, at least.