I feel like I should send you some form of holiday card! Perhaps if we trade proper addresses... <3
This one was a purely fun story, really (watch me indulge my fanfic brain with my own characters: WHAT IF we squished them together?) but the more I think about it the more it really is good for all of them! Perhaps most obviously for Nate, who needs some (very understandable) reassurance (and it helps more, in some ways, coming from Colby, versus Marcus being all, "well, of COURSE you're a good judge!")...probably second-most-obviously for Colby, who is getting back into Doing Public Things and also cautiously making friends (and you know Nate's going to bake him a birthday cake or something! plus the new Foundation set-up and committees...and Colby in some ways really IS an adorable fluffy unstoppable force...)...but it's also good for Jason, who gets to be cuddly and domestic and knowledgeable about food, and who actually ends up proposing the "two winners!" solution, solving non-action-hero problems...and for Marcus, that little moment near the end, when Colby's just like, "you actually are a very kind person, you know," and it means so much, quietly, that someone sees that, when he's been worrying about that since chapter one. :-)
Despite all my content warnings, JMS would like to properly publish "Renovations" as a Character Bleed bonus story, so that is happening in January! And also book one of the Regency magicians thing with Kells, so...things have been busy! We are about 30k into book two...
All the holiday love to you and yours! Things are...interesting...over here; the Family Drama continues to happen. (Have I told you about those developments? There is definitely Drama. My brother is now - as of today! not much notice! - not coming down to our place with everybody - parents, grandparents, lesbian world-traveler great-aunts, etc - for Christmas, not because of us but because of soon-to-be-ex-wife Extra Drama that will affect his schedule with seeing their kids. Which unfortunately means we will probably not see him for Christmas at all, because we have to see Awesome Husband's family the day after...and then Awesome Husband is back at work on Monday, of course, so we can't do a five-hour drive up there!)
Hopefully your holidays are being less stressful, as far as juggling relatives and last-minute plan changes! *sends good thoughts*
Re: Book things
This one was a purely fun story, really (watch me indulge my fanfic brain with my own characters: WHAT IF we squished them together?) but the more I think about it the more it really is good for all of them! Perhaps most obviously for Nate, who needs some (very understandable) reassurance (and it helps more, in some ways, coming from Colby, versus Marcus being all, "well, of COURSE you're a good judge!")...probably second-most-obviously for Colby, who is getting back into Doing Public Things and also cautiously making friends (and you know Nate's going to bake him a birthday cake or something! plus the new Foundation set-up and committees...and Colby in some ways really IS an adorable fluffy unstoppable force...)...but it's also good for Jason, who gets to be cuddly and domestic and knowledgeable about food, and who actually ends up proposing the "two winners!" solution, solving non-action-hero problems...and for Marcus, that little moment near the end, when Colby's just like, "you actually are a very kind person, you know," and it means so much, quietly, that someone sees that, when he's been worrying about that since chapter one. :-)
Despite all my content warnings, JMS would like to properly publish "Renovations" as a Character Bleed bonus story, so that is happening in January! And also book one of the Regency magicians thing with Kells, so...things have been busy! We are about 30k into book two...
All the holiday love to you and yours! Things are...interesting...over here; the Family Drama continues to happen. (Have I told you about those developments? There is definitely Drama. My brother is now - as of today! not much notice! - not coming down to our place with everybody - parents, grandparents, lesbian world-traveler great-aunts, etc - for Christmas, not because of us but because of soon-to-be-ex-wife Extra Drama that will affect his schedule with seeing their kids. Which unfortunately means we will probably not see him for Christmas at all, because we have to see Awesome Husband's family the day after...and then Awesome Husband is back at work on Monday, of course, so we can't do a five-hour drive up there!)
Hopefully your holidays are being less stressful, as far as juggling relatives and last-minute plan changes! *sends good thoughts*