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General reading themes this year:
i don't think there were any.

How many books did you read this year? Any trends in genre/length/themes/etc?
if you count the one i'm working on; 32. plus 1 short story & 5 DNF

What are your top 3 books that you read this year for the first time?
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston

What's a book you enjoyed more than you expected?
maybe we keep the dead close. it really had me drawn in the whole time.

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Well, yeah - I did some stuff. I always want to do more! I finished my story, so that was something... I do want to write more, I am just achingly slow at it. I wish we still had some comment fic communities around. Next year I hope to finish off the OFMD icon sets, continue with the 13th Doctor, and bang out some more SG wallpapers (should I do a rewatch?). I was also thinking of redoing some of those early SG episode batches that just don't have the detail and thought in them that older ones do (do I need an excuse for more Stargate?!?).

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Right, yes, 2026 is nearly upon us, when should we have our first Rush?

Poll #34019 Round 157 Dates

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When should we have Round 157?

2-4 Jan
5 (45.5%)

9-11 Jan
5 (45.5%)

16-18 Jan
5 (45.5%)

23-25 Jan
5 (45.5%)

30 Jan-1 Feb
3 (27.3%)

Fic Rush? sure Jan...
7 (63.6%)

the only thing I'm sure about is
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ticky box
8 (72.7%)

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yuletide fic here and there suited my current state, and I've had a lot of fun with it so far, I actually have a whole batch of recs ready to go for once. (I still need to go back and pick up some fandoms, especially in the first half of the alphabet, and I've barely touched Madness).

( 22 recs in As You Like It, British Airways, Cabin Pressure, Cadfael, Dogsbody, Enigma, Flower Fairies, The Good Place, Georgette Heyer, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Ludwig, The Prisoner, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Time Master, Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully & Yes Minister )

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Stede Re-captains the Revenge, whilst Ed becomes the ship's cap.. er, cat - to address trauma, right workplace culture, and for many a fan fic fodder... *ting-a-ling* Meanwhile, Lucius engages in an art therapy of sorts, he and Pete become betrothed, Roach and Frenchie go a little nuts, Olu, Jim & Archie vie with vexation, Fang fishes, and Izzy's leg is taken by a shark... That night, Ed and Stede get a little do-over vis-à-vis 'you wear fine things well' where there's some kissin', and hand holding, thumbs wars, boundaries, and a dead fish between them - how romantic!

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2x05 Curse Of The Seafaring Life

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I've been having a lovely

yuletide, in the right sort of place to do reading through it, if not much else! So much so, there should be a recs post to follow soon. But first of all, of course, my lovely gift!

It was for Enigma, which I was excited enough about just for that, but it is also excellent - a really well-done layered look at Tom & Hester running into Wigram a few years post-canon. Plus, my recip turned up to leave a comment on my assignment, so Yuletide 2025 is a win! \o/ (Even more so, as that other Enigma ficlet I mentioned? The author replied to my comment to say that they'd watched the film because of my promo post, so double yay and bonus outside-of-Yule ficlets!)

After the End (1472 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Enigma (2001)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tom Jericho, Hester Wallace, Wigram (Enigma 2001)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary: Summer 1949. An encounter in a Parisian park.

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1. You have the summer and plenty of money to travel abroad. Where all would you go?
europe. the uk, france, italy, greese, germany, maybe spain.

2. What foods would you be sure you got to eat?
full english breakfast (as many regional versions as possible), french cheeses & pastries, authentic pizza from naples, souvlaki & so much more.

3. What landmarks would you be sure you got to see?
all of the english royal palaces, the louve, the parthenon, the german black forest (not really a landmark though).

4. What airline would you use?
probably british airways, or air france.

5. Would your knowledge of other languages influence where you went? (i.e., would you be more likely to go to France if you spoke French?)
most likely. if i could only go to one country/area, it would be the uk becuse i have a better chance of being understood there.

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