louiselux | seXmas

Hello! Christmas day has been very relaxing and lazy, mostly spent with whiskey and chocolate, apart from our afternoon bike ride... except for the bit where we stopped to drink whiskey and, um, eat gingerbread. But! I hope you all are having a happy, peaceful day too. *strokes flist*

Oh, and there is that little thing called

yuletide that I have seen mentioned occasionally. I didn't take part this year, mostly due to teh bad arm (which is a lot better now btw, for anyone wondering) but there has been such a lot of excitement generated this year about it on my flist - more than ever before, that I remember. Anyway, here are some of my very favourites so far:

Antique Bakery
Learning to Fly
Really note-perfect characterisation of Ono and Tachibana, with awesome handling of subtext. Oh, I loved this story and Ono's pov.

Melusine
At the Hands of the Wicked
Good, longish fic that reads like something from the novels themselves and develops Felix and Mildmay's relationship in a very satisfying way. The only Melusine story, but I was so glad to find it.

Wild Adapter
Human eyeballs, the takotaki vendor and the not really dead cat
Just - gah. So good. The way Tokitoh is written really pinged me a lot for Gojyo-- I think this really made me like him even more and he has all these beautiful (by which I mean hilarious and blunt) thoughts about Kubota.

Samurai Champloo
since I am not a bird
Jin/Mugen - sort of gritty and erotic at the same time and irt has a really great view of Mugen through Jin's eyes.

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I read the WA fic last night and Antique Bakery one too. I don't actually know Antique Bakery but some of my favourite authors write it well enough that I don't need to know it and still love them!

I really *heart* the WA. I know what you mean when you say Tokitoh-kun put you in mind of Gojyo. Did not catch the Champloo one, but will look it up when I am done extricating Lego pieces from my foot!

Good news about the arm. SO the chair is really helping together with the various combined therapies, which is good to know and take note of!

DO please continue with the joviality of the holidays. ^__^

Lego+foot=more pain than can be feasibly explained by such a small piece of plastic. Ow.

Hey, glad to hear I was not the only one put in mind of Gojyo - I sort of think it was intended, but maybe not. In any case, it also made me draw more parallels between Kubota and Hakkai.

Yes, the osteopathy is really helping with the arm and neck problems. Each time I go I seem to go through a noticeable improvement.

Also, you really need to read Antique Bakery. It's amazing, really. Such a light touch but serious at the same time and very very funny, with some great parodies of yaoi conventions... Have I sold it yet??

Well I will probably enjoy it..but at the moment...its time that I haven't got and unfortunately financially Minekura owns me too!

I just read the fics. Someone send me links to some scans once and I didn't even have time to go there! *cries*

Oh well, maybe later.

Unfortunately the floor is still a minefield of Lego. ^__^ I will be glad when the hols are over and the children are back in school. For now I'll let them be and just try to watch out for it!

Thank you for pimping it though! It is on my must read list!

Yay! on the arm news. And yay! on the whiskey and chocolate. I didn't participate in Yuletide, but did find a great Yellow story, which I will rec real soon now, think you'd enjoy it. So glad to hear you had a good Christmas. I did, too, very relaxing.

Thanks! It is very much yay about the arm. I was interested to read about your Philosophy experience too - my SO bought me Baby Grace shower gel and body lotion-- it still smells like parma violets and soap. I think I am addicted to it!

Oh, I looked saw your comment on on the longer Yellow stories and totally made a mental note to read it on the basis of that.

I usually love Philosophy but Gingerbread man just isn't doing it for me. Have you tried Falling In Love? I got a big sample set of it and like it, but it's a little floral for me. It's got a wonderful texture though. So soothing. I am completely addicted to their Purity and Hope Is Not Enough. Well, and their lip balm. That's really good too. Hee.

Here's the Yellow story: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/26/tatteredlotus.html

It's so good. Really in character and quite sweet but not at all saccharine.

wow, that champloo story really blew me away. a great view of jin-filtered mugen, true, but also a flawless view of jin as well, and even fuu. as well as teeth-grinding, hot, very sense-oriented erotica. thanks for the rec.

Yes, absolutely-- very very sensual, I thought. The bits of Fuu were great and I was glad she wasn't left out.

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