Ultra's Fic (and Other Stuff)

Wishing you all a (belated) happy new year. I've been lurking around a little bit online the last few days, but not really back to 'normal service' until today. Hope everybody had a fab Christmas (if you celebrate it - or a fab whatever you have been celebrating!) and that you're all enjoying an excellent new year already :)

There has been much enjoying of gifts and food and fun for me and mine in the last week or so. I feel very relaxed and happy, and almost ready and prepared to get back to work next week (but only almost! lol)

The weather here is cold as anything (hovering around 0C/32F - a little above in the days, a little below at nights) and we're under warnings for snow/ice. Thank goodness we have nowhere to go and plenty of blankets to hide under!

This is me basically disappearing for Christmas now. Catch you all after the festivities and such :)

(list format snagged from fadedwings)

All the fanfiction that I wrote/posted/completed in 2020 (word counts are approximate). Many links go to Archive Of Our Own, some go to Fanfiction.net.

January (6 fics = ~2,975 words)

Gilmore Girls - Outside Edge - Jess & April - G - 300 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)
Hart of Dixie - Welcome to the Family - Lemon/Lavon & TBD - G - 600 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)
Labyrinth - Waiting for You - Sarah/Jareth - G - 520 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)
Leverage - Being What We Are - Eliot & Parker - G - 550 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)
Pride & Prejudice - An Eligible Match - Elizabeth/Darcy - G - 525 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)
Veronica Mars - A Helping Hand - Mac/Dick - PG-13 - 480 - (Chocolate Box Exchange)

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Total Word Count for 2020: ~482,030

It's the evening of 22nd December... and I can hardly believe that's possible! Still, it is what it is, Christmas is practically here, and as crappy as the situation in the world is right now, there is always hope, especially at this time of year. Thankfully, I have my family here with me, and we have our gifts and our food for the festive celebrations all stowed away, so we can stay indoors, stay safe, and make the best of it.

Thought I'd share something nice with you all, something happy, so under the cut is a pic of a T-shirt with a Christmas tree design on it that I made at the start of the month (and have worn several times since and will no doubt wear again on Christmas Day) plus links to my latest festive fics - enjoy! :)

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I realised the other day that when I listen to music, I don't just have favourite artists, favourite albums, or even favourite songs, I have very specific favourite lyrics, certain lines that I feel strongly about, because they really say something or they just evoke an image in my head. There's quite a lot of them when I think about it, so I did think about it, and here's the list I came up with... so far.


"There's a shopping cart in the ravine, the foam on the creek looks like pop and ice-cream."

"I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering-ram on a silver-black phantom bike."

"Give me a second, I need to get my story straight, my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State."

"Life's like a box of matches, sometimes the whole thing catches, and all you can do is watch it burn."

"We were shining like Aurora Borealis."

"I don't wanna touch you too much, baby, 'cause making love to you might drive me crazy."

"Life's a journey, not a destination, and I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings."

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I feel like I've been watching so many episodes of things and just boxsets of late, it was time for films this weekend! I watched three in the end, one I'd never seen before and two that I had...

Jane Eyre - I never have read the book or seen any film or mini-series version of this, but I always meant to get around to it. I ended up watching the film starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, and though the acting was great, the film was not! It felt long and kind of boring in places, and my goodness, sad and depressing! I just don't think I'm a Bronte sort of person, as I never got anywhere trying to watch a mini-series of Wuthering Heights years ago either. I think I'll stick with Austen.

Saving Mr Banks - Still can't get through the ending without tears! Beautiful film though, so moving and very well done. Funny in places, painful in others. The life of PL Travers and her working relationship with Walt Disney is something to behold. I'll probably watch it several more times yet, but I doubt I'll ever not need tissues for the ending! lol

The Decoy Bride - Ah, sweet comedy. Well, I needed it after the other two :P It's so much shorter than it seems when you're watching it and there's something bizarre about David Tennant, who is natively Scottish, being the one guy doing an English accent in a film set in Scotland, but I do love it so. It's just such a weirdly sweet film :)

The upside to waiting for a season of TV to come out on DVD before watching rather than watching via TV or the internet week by week (apart from being able to binge-watch, of course) is that you usually know if this is your finale season or not. By the time The Librarians S4 boxset arrived at my house (on my birthday, no less) I knew this was the end, or at least that it probably was (I hear Dean Devlin's doing all he can to get another network, but you never know).

This was the end of a show I had loved for three seasons and that made me nervous. Shows do get cancelled whilst they're still great but more often they get cancelled when they've gone downhill - please, no!

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So, I decided to start at the far end of my MCU DVD shelf and go through the whole thing. It's so long since I watched some of the, especially the Phase 1 stuff, and I kinda think it'd be cool to get right up to date in time for Thor Ragnarok coming out in Feb. (For those that don't know, I'm not a cinema goer and I don't download films from the web - I wait for DVD releases).

I found that I still love Iron Man & Iron Man 2 as much as ever, and that Captain America The First Avenger and Thor are still cool too. (I don't have The Incredible Hulk as I never cared for it, and it's not Ruffalo, so I don't feel like I need it anyhow). Avengers Assemble was always my favourite, and yet it seemed to be missing something on this rewatch. I wonder if it's just that it feels as if characters are missing now that the 'verse has expanded so much?

Iron Man 3 - I was convinced I didn't like this the first time around, and yet on this rewatch, I really enjoyed it! Then I started on Agents of SHIELD Season 1, watched up to Episode 7, and then dived into Thor The Dark World. Wow, I'd forgotten how 'blah' the second Thor film is. I have an affection for Season 1 of SHIELD still, but I'm in that strange minority that really enjoyed the format of the first season and gave up watching after the whole HYDRA/Ward is evil/superhero thing started happening, basically, once we were in a post-Captain America Winter Soldier world.

So, yeah, on I shall go through the rest of the films. I have everything in Phase 2, and all of Phase 3 that's on DVD so far, save for Doctor Strange (because seriously? What the hell was that? Sorry, didn't care for it at all!)

I might post again about this when I've rewatched some more, especially once I rewatch Age of Ultron, because I remember not caring much for that the first time either. Time will tell, I guess :)