March Reading

Next year I may deliberately plan to only reread from December to February. Things are starting to feel much less like I'm fighting my way through molasses.

Recent: As well as fanfiction, The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor was very well done and exactly what it wanted to be.

Read Statistics Without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians by Derek Rowntree, very much recommended if that's what you want, I actually wanted combinatorics. And a little more math rather than mindset.

I also read a couple chapters of Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian to check voice for the Hell of the Ball, but didn't really feel the need to keep going. I don't have any nostalgia associated with Heyer so I tend to notice her flaws more than, say, Christie's.

Current: Almost done D&D's Worlds & Realms. I suspect I would find Mordenkainen a lot more irritating if I had not first been exposed to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Also Jeannie Lin's novella Capturing the Silken Thief.

Started listening to Re: Carmilla, which is a really good performance. Every time I forget just how soon and how hard Le Fanu goes on the lesbianism.

Future: After Re: Carmilla finishes I will reread this lovely (dark dark dark) fic that breathedout wrote for me for Yuletide 8 years ago.

A bunch of holds on books I started in January and didn't finish are going to come in sometime in April, so we'll see if those do better without the SAD. Hopefully they'll come in before the advance polls, which I will be working.

AO3 Meme

AO3 meme borrowed from castiron.

1. Most Hits: Let Me, as always, with 43,564.

2. Second Most Kudos: Witness and Testimony, also as always, with 2,325.

3. Third Most Comments: Tinsel Show with 72, being a multichapter and also my longest work.

4. Fourth Most Bookmarks: One Turf Shall Serve with 73, which might be higher on the other metrics too if it hadn't been first posted elsewhere for an exchange.

5. Fifth Most Words: Where Both Deliberate, which is the end of a series, with 11,923.

6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That's Not a Drabble): Rouges Gallery with 105.

7. Seventh Most Common Relationship: Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov, tied with 8 works.

8. Eighth Drabble Posted: Excluding drabble collections, Your Stare Was Holding.

9. Ninth Most Common Character: Lestrade (Sherlock Holmes), tied with 9 works.

10. Tenth Mature and/or Explicit Fic: Tenth posted? We'll go with that. Just How This Would End.

11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic: Blossoms in Ashes, for Yuletide 2023.

12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag: Where Both Deliberate again, because I used to write a lot of case fic but haven't in a while.

Not looking for my favourite title because seriously, I've had to come up with 293 titles, it's a miracle I haven't repeated any. Also, I suspect I appreciate my puns more than anyone else will.