I'm sick of being sick.

[sarea]

Thanks for all the well wishes, guys. I really wanted to feel better, since you all so nicely demanded/encouraged it, but I'm not quite there. Maybe tomorrow. I'm rooting for being able to taste food again.

So it's like, midnight now, and I should be going to bed, only I didn't get out of bed today until 7pm. Partly it's because I'm still extremely sick (I've never had anything last this long before, and it's so freaking annoying), partly it's because it never got very bright today (it is, however, a winter wonderland outside), and partly it's because I didn't get a very restful sleep with all the hacking and such.

Okay, I'm done whining about how ill I am. Now I am going to whine about how I'm so behind on everything, including snippets of FY that Pud has posted, Steph's debfic, and God knows what else. Has anyone written any smut that I've missed? I'm in the mood for smut. The muse has actually hit me w/ a v. smutty premise, but there's no way I can write in this condition, and even if I could write, I have plenty of other things I should be working on instead. You never appreciate the wonderfulness of not being sick until you're sick, isn't that right?

Christmas gets less and less Christmasy every year, if you know what I mean. Pretty soon I'll be like, "Oh. It was Christmas yesterday, wasn't it?" Is it just becoming an adult that does it, or is this just a sad, sad commentary about me?

This year's Best Christmas Prezzie prize goes to Ropo, because she not only gave me all things that I really wanted, but also overcame my own total lameness to do it. Thanks d00d!! The Nice Try award goes to Jade, who wrapped up things I had already paid for and tried to pass them off as Christmas gifts. (The baster, however, rocks.) You've really got to admire that kind of spunk.

Comments

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Your post has pinpointed why I've been so disinterested in fandom lately, complete dearth of quality D/G smut is the problem!

The flu sucks. I got it over winter break and spent the better part of a week sleeping. Get lots of rest and warm liquids!

*loffs*

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

So you got over yours in a week? Pud was saying it took her three weeks to get over hers, and given the severity of this thing so far, I fear that my fate will be the same. *SOB*

I saw your post about being disinterested in fandom. Lack of smut will do that ... and yet it's not so surprising that your interest may have waned. I mean ... everything runs its course eventually, and now you have other pretty and shiny things that hold your attention. It's probably healthy that this should be so. Still, it won't be the same without you obsessing right along with me. ; ) It seems possible that I will get into the Alias fandom, though I don't think it'll replace D/G. Not sure I can get out of HP until my two WIPs have been completed, which may be never. Heeheehee.

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

For the record, I'm not totally sure I had the flu. It also might have been bronchitis since I was coughing up phlegm for two weeks, but the need to sleep all the time symptoms passed in a couple of days.

Not sure I can get out of HP until my two WIPs have been completed, which may be never.
Hahaha. Did you read angiej's post in HP_Paradise about quitting fandom? "Fandom is like the mafia, you can't get out alive." Especially if you have the mad rabble waving sticks at you to finish your WIPs. :D

Re: lack of smut. Christmas holidays were v. disappointing in the smutty D/G department. Why did no one want to write holiday D/G smut this year? Wah. And thus I resort to reading Buffy/Spike smut. :P

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I'm sure whatever I have will develop into bronchitis, as I have the coughing down and I always seem to get it. Grrrr.

I think I missed that particular post by Angie, but I liked a lot of what she had to say when she was attempting to get out. <g> Actually, it's not so much the stick-poking that keeps me from leaving, as I would never try to put out a product that I wasn't interested in anymore, but that I hate leaving things unfinished, especially when they're as finished in my head as TSA and IYOK both are. When I "left" the XF fandom (never officially), I was in the midst of co-authoring a novel that I still think about from time to time. I have next to zero interest in XF fandom now (other than all the great people I met), but I still get wibbly about the fact that I have something unfinished out there. So I suppose it's not unheard of for me to abandon ship ... but I don't see that happening w/ HP any time soon. The thing with XF was that when the show ended, it pretty much ended my interest as well (which had been waning, anyway). But HP isn't episodic television; it's already all just in my head, and canon only comes out every few years to "ruin" and change fanon, so ... it's different.

Ohmygod at how much I'm rambling. Please forgive me. I blame the flu.

Tell me you've read the B/S stories by RivkaT and MustangSally that I've mentioned once before. So v. good, and has great smut, too.

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Alas, I haven't gotten to the stories you mentioned. But it astounds me how easy it is to find good fic in the Buffy fandom as compared to HP.

But HP isn't episodic television; it's already all just in my head, and canon only comes out every few years to "ruin" and change fanon, so ... it's different.
Hmmm. I do wonder how much interest people will have in the fandom when all seven books are done and the canon is "closed"--I suspect it will be probably less than now.