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If you look at the post previous to this one, you can see I've been updating my recs list. This is actually something I'm always updating, in a low-key way. It's just gotten to be a bit more of pain to do, because I'm the kind of weirdo who is still determined to keep everything on DW and LJ an accurate mirror of each other, not to mention the Word doc version I keep as a back-up, so every update has to be performed in triplicate... One day, I will find a way to streamline this process yet still satisfy my inner perfectionist, but we're not there yet.

Anyway! My recs are mostly Harry Potter, but I've also got sections for a few other fandoms, which is the part I've been updating. (Especially Merlin, somehow – I seem to have stumbled across great new pockets of Merlin fic, even all these years after the show aired.) I've also been reading enough Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries that I really need to make a recs section for that one of these days. And I secretly have so, so, so many BBC Sherlock recs, offline, but I'm not sure I'll ever manage to collate them into a recs list online, at least while I'm still actively reading in the fandom. Again, because the updating is so laborious. (Is it only me, but...formatting on LJ was always such a pain, but in some ways it's even harder on DW...?)

But anyway. Blah blah blah, me and my tech unsavviness! ;-)

Real life has been some really bad family illness stuff (I'll probably talk about that eventually, just don't feel like getting into it right now) and because of that, I've actually moved back to the US and will be finishing my master's from there. But, because I left Europe so precipitously, I'm now back again for a shorter visit, to finish up some business here (including research for the master's) as well as for a friend's wedding! So I was in Iceland, now Germany, then Scotland and then hopefully Sweden for the research. It's never boring...

I'm hoping my somewhat increased availability will let me sign up for Holmestice, and maybe Yuletide too. As I've had (very) slightly more free time, I've tentatively allowed myself to start a couple of fics again – though it's more an "add a few paragraphs every couple of weeks" type thing. As usual, of course, it's all very obscure things that no one will want to read ;-) ...but at this point I think I'm simply embracing my chosen obscurity! (Thing like genfic about minor Harry Potter characters, or a Tonks-centric F/F fic.)

That's all for now, I think. Hello from Germany, soon to be Scotland.