It is a mystery

We got around a foot of snow, no ice at all. It stayed aroudn 7F all day sunday and rose to a balmy 20F yesterday. My dad got giddy and spent a good portion of the day plowing all the snow, I think he's missed doing it since I came back and have doing it. I cleaned off all the vehicles and shoveled the sidewalk at least. It was -8F this morning somewhat unexpectedly, but I left the faucet dripping and everything was okay there. 

I felt under the weather the last two days, I think I stressed myself out too much with Friday and Saturday work, especially the straw spreading so intensely. My problem elbow (right) feels weird. Not super sore, just weird. I was using it more when putting bales in the shredder to keep pressure off the wound in my left index finger and I think it's unhappy because of that. Someday I will get that checked out. But also I suspect I have a period coming up this week which is always a terrible time. I was able to get a new T prescription finally but the effects won't kick back in for a bit. I suspect my tiredness is hormonal related generally. Bleh. 

Sunday, I spent a good amount of time spinning, which is something I can do so long as I remember to keep my index finger away from thr wool. Can't knit for sure. 

I did remove the stitches yesterday, the skin flap finally sealed itself up solidly and the stitches touching things were hurting more than the cut, so I just got them out. Plus I think I was fussing with them in my sleep even though I had wrapped it. It still makes washing dishes extremely difficult. 

Yesterday, I read fanfiction, made this cookie recipe (delicious even if it was way way way too thick to pipe even after adding a lot more milk, I wonder if the milk quantity was a typo), tried making foccacia and burned the bejeesus out of it, made risotto for dinner and crafted. I was very tired and down feeling for most of the day but I did perk up and feel better with crafting hangout time. Yay socializing! Plus I made progress on projects. 

Fanfiction wise, I have started reading a few witcher fanfics. I don't even go there, but somehow ended up reading (via the author gremble rec'd below):

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack by inexplicifics - listen, I don't even go here. I know basically nothing about Witcher, but this series explains everything anyway. It's very enjoyable. Very wish fulfillment but enjoyable all the same

Then I looked at friend dragonlady7 (bomberqueen17 on Ao3 and tumblr)'s fic which I do love all the stuff she writes in other fandoms and decided to jump in and have read almost all of her witcher fics in the last three days. It's over 1 million words. It's very good. Still ongoing but she's a great writer and I do love threesomes with feelings and she likes writing those. Even her smut is usually in service of character and relationships development so I'll read it which is pretty good for my taste. Most times smut is skippable but I'll read hers mostly. 

other two fanfics I've been reading lately

Bring Down Rain by gremble - ever want to think about the inherent horror of ComfortUnits in the Murderbot universe but also how they're people too???? it's so good. Still updating, but the author is pretty consistent and it's almost done

for the want of a jewel by FormLessVoidbeast - The above series reminded me of this original fic which I had read first and now that I've looked, it is inspired by it. Really fun and good, interesting worldbuilding too. 

there are some fics where I read the tags and go, it can't be that bad right?

yes

thats why it was tagged that way

and I'm very proud to say that I looked at the tags and decided I didn't want to look at that dove or eat it and I'm probably miles better for it

thank god

There is a thin line between "Sam Wilson is a good friend and emotionally supports his friends" and "Sam Wilson is there to be emotional support" in fanfics but it makes a biiiiiiiig difference in the stories

yes what excellent things

Okay so hear me out, marve/mcu but modern day au where clint, nat and sam were all in the same combat unit. it was nat and clint for the longest time and they said they wouldn't leave unless the other wanted to and they both were discharged (I think is the term) after something something left clint permanently deaf but they met sam after the aftermath of riley's death while stateside and just adsorbed him into their group and then all three decided to leave the military for good

so they set up a bakery okay

sam works the front because he's fucking adorable and everyone loves him, clint and nat bake because they've both (somehow backstory blah blah) got mad baking skills like clint and nat are a force to be reckoned with unless it cooking because clint shouldn't be allowed to try fancy cooking, he explodes things that shouldn't be possible.

ANYWAY they all live together above the bakery because it's in a small town where the shops have just one level of apartments above them and they become A Thing, the three of them. Like ace Nat finally gets tired of clint's failboating and sam's flirting with people and smushes their faces together and sleeps in the same bed (except when they have sex because ew no)

and everything is domestic and adorable and they all have their bad days of PTSD and sucky pasts and so many friendships with the nerds next door with the books/gaming store (pepper and steve and tony) and the folks who run the restaurant down the stree (peggy and maria and nick) and some others who I haven't thought about

and finally one day out of the blue nat just decides the three of them should get married because they could have a fricken awesome dessert table at their wedding

and then they do

I fucking love adorable AU's like coffee shop AU's and flower shop AU's and cute things like that

LOVE THEM