Yet another post where I haven't been on this journal because I've been everywhere else instead

[melannen]

1. BOOK GIVEAWAY: This is your absolute last chance to claim any of the books I'm giving away, in the Great Book Giveaway. I'm going to pack them up tonight and mail them out as soon as I can. (I know I said your absolute last chance was a week ago, but we ended up not donating them where we thought we would, so I still have them hanging around, and you're still very welcome to claim.)

However! To mail them to you I need an address. So if you want your books I still need mailing addresses or other arrangements for:

the_rck
marginaliana
dizmo
greybard
zana16
coyotegestalt

PM'ing your address to me is fine; alternatively, if you are local to DC/Baltimore or Chicago, we can make arrangements to meet up, but, uh, you should PM me to propose the place and time because I am terrible at arranging these things. ('melannen's place just to hand them off, give me *your* address', is fine as arrangements, although if you do that you might be forced to sit on the screen porch and talk for awhile, and also while it's just barely *possible* to get here by MD public transit, it is not exactly easy. Where I will be in Chicago you can get to by el train, though.)


2. I posted a tagwrangling-related post to asexual_fandom the other day, about the relationship tags we get that are midway between / and &, because I wanted to see where other people saw the dividing line between the two symbols. You are all invited to fill it out, and pass on the link if you want!

Putting Relationships Into Binary Boxes

...since posting that I have also acquired a 'ship tag for "A/B/C Platonic Power Trio". ohfandom.

3. Also sutcliff_swap went live! uh, about a week ago, oops. I actually participated it in this year, which means that after about fifteen years as a Sucliff fan I've finally written fic for it!

My story was For My Song's Sake, written for Carmarthen, based on The Shining Company which was based on Y Goddoddin.

The story I got was The Emperor's Bodyguard, based on Frontier Wolf, and it was everything I could have wanted - Julius Gavros, minor-character Third Ordo officers, Hilarion Leaning On Things, and Roman ruins being reinhabited.

I am alas being terribly dilatory about leaving proper feedback for this fest but every story I've read in it so far was good and if you're into Sutcliff you should check 'em out.

For My Song's Sake (1372 words) by melannen
Fandom: The Shining Company - Rosemary Sutcliff
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Prosper (Shining Company), Cynan Mac Clydno
Summary:

Patterns don't always turn out the way one expects them to.

Not the Emperor's Bodyguard (1598 words) by bunn
Fandom: Frontier Wolf - Rosemary Sutcliff
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Julius Gavros, Hilarion (Frontier Wolf), Vedrix (Frontier Wolf)
Additional Tags: Roman Britain, romans, sutcliff_swap 2013
Summary:

Julius Gavros arrives at Castellum in charge of the Third Ordo Frontier Wolves. It's not really the job that he'd hoped for...

4. I've also reposted the three Les Mis crossovers I posted a couple months ago to AO3, and also added a fourth, which is a repost of a kinkmeme fill: a Homestuck crossover based almost entirely on the update where Rose is drunk and rambling about that awesome guy who led the antimonarchist revolt. They're all in the series Les Mis Crossovers That Should Not Be. Hopefully #5 will be up soon, I just have to sit down and finish writing the thing out. (I'd better do it soon; I just finished Book #2 of the Brick and if I get to the Amis part before I finish it, it'll no longer count as a Fic Written Without Actually Knowing Canon, alas.) (I also have three more of these half-finished on my hard drive, and I reserve the right to add chapters to any of those, because: me/crossovers OTP, so that series may or may not keep growing...)

Les Mis Crossovers That Should Not Be

5. And finally: Growstuff has pictures now! If you go to my growstuff account you can see pictures of my sad attempt at keeping a vegetable garden as well my pre-existing sad attempt at a garden journal!

Comments

[brownbetty]

I would love Selina's big Score, and, since postage is not much worse for two items than one, Learn to Knit a Sweater, if they are not yet claimed. I live in Canadia, and can help with postage.

[brownbetty]

Also, everything in the post linked in point no. 2 makes my brain cry. I started out trying to fill out the poll because I lick clicking things! and ended up going WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.

[melannen]

I KNOW. That is why I made a poll: sometimes I just have to share the pain. (I love that more people are thinking about relationships in these fine-grained terms! It just makes my eyes water as a tag wrangler.)

[melannen]

Excellent! They are both yours. I forget if postage to Canada is as ridic as postage to other non-US places, so I may want help with postage on that, yes. In the meantime I shall need a mailing address!

[brownbetty]

I usually mail in the opposite direction (obviously) but I feel like it's probably about twice what it would be in the US.

[brownbetty]

Got the books in the mail today!

What do I owe you for postage?

[melannen]

Hey, sorry for the delay getting back to you! It came to $14-something, I think, because international doesn't have cheap book rate. You can gift it to me in DW points if you want, but if not, that's fine!

[zana16]

On the one hand, you are local? On the other hand, how local are you? If mailing is going to be easier, maybe we should do mail.

[melannen]

Until the end of the month, I am about halfway between DC and Baltimore in the wilderness of the Anne Arundel suburbs. If you are still where you were last time we met in person, we are reasonably local. Mail is fine, though, even if you're local! I just need an address to mail to.

[coyotegestalt]

I'm sorry I vanished; too many crises lately. How much longer are you around? Do we still have a chance to figure out a way to meet up,or should we figure out postal stuff?

My apologies for being so flaky of late.

[melannen]

Hey, don't worry about it - life crises always come first. (And flaky is my natural state, as you can see.)

I'm not in Maryland any more, but I'm settled in here now, and I brought the remaining packages with me, so if you can PM me an address I can send it to you from Chicago (no worries about postage.)