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Jan. 12th, 2012 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestToday's Snowflake Challenge is to rec three fics that would lure someone into a fandom...
Well. I toyed with the idea of 'popslash post-2008', at which point I'm pretty sure most of the big names had moved on. But, nah. (Although if anyone wants to learn about popslash, I have many fine links for you.)
Then I thought, what about Cramp?
Then I thought better of it. So I'm skipping today's challenge. However, if you think it would be right and proper to recommend Lava Lamp stories for innocent bystanders to read, pray do so in comments.
My cat has been sitting on the floor purring in a pointed way for about an hour and a half. Now she is lying on the floor, Starving To Death. It's a hard life.
I went shopping this afternoon for exercise trousers that do not lose all shape and leave me displaying knees like an elephant's. As every shop in town that has not closed (there were five in a row standing empty in the shopping centre) is having a **SALE**, I also perused the racks (exercise gear was not, of course, going cheap, it being January). It is amazing how many items of clothing can be found on sale which ought not, by rights, ever to have been manufactured, let alone put out to retail at full price, even for five minutes.
I did manage, yesterday, to buy a pair of completely unnecessary boots (they were comfortable! they have laces up the front! And gentle heels! Only £30!), though I failed to buy a pair of completely unnecessary but really cute sandals (only £10!) because the shoes were in fact different sizes. My representations to the staff won me only blank looks and the statement that this was the last pair, so I must assume that someone bought a pair in which the left foot was larger than the right, and is happy that way.... And I resisted the imperative urge to buy a beautiful, beautiful pair of red shoes which had gold sparkliness and pretty cut-outs and all kinds of goodness, because I have no excuse whatever. *sniff* But I still haven't managed to find a pair of not-very-high-heeled black brogue-type shoes, and this makes me cross.
Well. I toyed with the idea of 'popslash post-2008', at which point I'm pretty sure most of the big names had moved on. But, nah. (Although if anyone wants to learn about popslash, I have many fine links for you.)
Then I thought, what about Cramp?
Then I thought better of it. So I'm skipping today's challenge. However, if you think it would be right and proper to recommend Lava Lamp stories for innocent bystanders to read, pray do so in comments.
My cat has been sitting on the floor purring in a pointed way for about an hour and a half. Now she is lying on the floor, Starving To Death. It's a hard life.
I went shopping this afternoon for exercise trousers that do not lose all shape and leave me displaying knees like an elephant's. As every shop in town that has not closed (there were five in a row standing empty in the shopping centre) is having a **SALE**, I also perused the racks (exercise gear was not, of course, going cheap, it being January). It is amazing how many items of clothing can be found on sale which ought not, by rights, ever to have been manufactured, let alone put out to retail at full price, even for five minutes.
I did manage, yesterday, to buy a pair of completely unnecessary boots (they were comfortable! they have laces up the front! And gentle heels! Only £30!), though I failed to buy a pair of completely unnecessary but really cute sandals (only £10!) because the shoes were in fact different sizes. My representations to the staff won me only blank looks and the statement that this was the last pair, so I must assume that someone bought a pair in which the left foot was larger than the right, and is happy that way.... And I resisted the imperative urge to buy a beautiful, beautiful pair of red shoes which had gold sparkliness and pretty cut-outs and all kinds of goodness, because I have no excuse whatever. *sniff* But I still haven't managed to find a pair of not-very-high-heeled black brogue-type shoes, and this makes me cross.
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