frog princess

... she croaked. I managed to get the most annoyingly long lasting head cold about two weeks ago. That's just about cleared up but now I seem to have tonsillitis. *tiny fist of poorly rage*

I think it came from Mr Lux's mum last weekend - she was all sniffly too. I sincerely hope I didn't swap it with her for head cold of doom. Anyway, I'm so happy I stored away that giant box of Zapain last year because swallowing is extremely painful. Lying on the sofa drugged yay.

I watched the first series of Breaking Bad yesterday - a very dark comedy drama about a rather put-upon middle aged chemistry teach who, for various reasons, 'breaks bad', ie takes up a life of crime. Bryan Cranston is fantastic in it. I'll definitely watch the rest if I can.

A few fic recs:

Sherlock: My heart pumps yet the poison by colouredink. Not exactly slash, not exactly gen, nonsexual kink. Sherlock tries to get Irene Adler out of his system.

Meet me inside by Wakeneve. Slash, explicit m/m, UST. Sherlock and John meet in prison. It keeps the dynamics of their canon relationship really well, and adds something to them by giving them a different setting.

Star Trek (2009): The Lotus Eaters by Aldora89. Slash, m/m. Excellent and very long adventure/hurt/comfort epic where Jim and Spock are stranded together on a hostile planet. Also they make friends with one of the most endearing original alien lifeforms I've read.

Ps - For anyone who's interested, Adobe have got a free beta download of Lightroom 4.

I am sitting at my desk having somehow ground to a halt. I should get up and organise my work bench for the night shift but I can't seem to move at all.

Good things today:

• Boiled eggs with salt for breakfast.


• Finding out there is New Sherlock on New Year's Day.


• Wearing thick dark green tights with vest tucked in.


• My green diamante frog brooch with the disturbing red eyes.


• Hot chocolate in the afternoon.


• Getting a box of rheasilvia's beautiful soap through the post - I haven't had a chance to open it yet but the scent is wafting from the box.


• The free shiatsu massage chair in John Lewis. I suppose eventually they'd ask me to leave but I haven't tested it.

Bad things

• It's frigging cold.


• The roomba is broken. DISASTER.


• Having to work rather than visit newkate *massive sad face*

I'm off to the parental units for the weekend, back on Sunday eve. Mum's made a Christmas cake for me. She calls it "the house brick".

Even though they now have broadband (at last!), I'm not sure I'll be able to be online very much.

I caved and bought a ticket for the tennis today, but it was from ebay and a far more reasonable price than the Fedal ticket would have been. So I get to see His Royal Hairness, Roger Federer this afternoon! Even though I am too busy and shouldn't! Yay!

The ticket seller sent me two tickets instead of one, so I have a spare if anyone has a free afternoon, is nearby, and fancies a spot of tennis? I'm planning on getting there about 1pm, for the 2pm start. Otherwise I'll try and find someone there who wants it, I'm sure there will be someone.

I finished my goddamn fic! Rejoice.


Title: Greatest of All Time
Author: louiselux
Pairing: Roger/Rafa
Rating: NC 17
Warnings: nsfw, pwp, also infidelity
Word count: 4k
Author notes: thanks very much to emungere and buckle_berry for their inspiration, advice and comma fixing
Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction

Summary: In the future maybe Rafa will be GOAT, but perhaps Roger likes it that way.

You can either read it below, or read at AO3, or at fedal_slash: here

( Greatest of All Time )

emungere and I are having a Finish Your Goddamn Fic challenge this month or perhaps year. If anyone would like to join in, please do, and let me know in comments so I can track our progress. Our current deadline for round one is 21st April to finish a goddamn fic of our own choosing AND edit it and post it. 8 days to go! So there's that.

I can't believe the last post here was in March. Damn you, time.

Notable things about today are that a) I dragged my sorry carcass to the gym for the first time in about four months. It doesn't hurt... yet. They were nice to me though and gave me a membership discount. It was a bit strange being back there but they did seem pleased at my return.

b)I bought Mr Lux the world's most boring birthday present. It's so boring. Partly it was due to inspiration fail but mainly because the exciting things I'd thought of are kind of expensive. But it's useful and he needs one and I'm pretty certain he'll use it a lot. But it's very boring.

Dear Fandom

You all made my year so much fun and about a billion times more bearable than it would have been. Thank you for being funny, kind, hilarious and talented both en fangirl masse and individually.

Hugs and kisses
Lou x

And! Roger, Rafa and that well known Fedal shipper JULIO IGLESIAS wish you a very feliz natal!

( he wants them to kiss )

There has been porridge fail this morning. The microwave is looking very unhappy at the moment. But I just ate the cold porridge now as I was hungry after work. It was not unbearable. Waste not want not and all that.

It's the last day to register for Connotations today, for anyone who hasn't. I'm excited to see all my beloved peeps! This year its in the centre of Durham in a swanky hotel that has a pool. Farewell, dear Park Hotel, Tynemouth. We won't have to wonder about those curious stains the carpets anymore nor swelter in exciting tropical temperatures in our rooms. I will miss that gorgeous beach though.

It's been a while since I posted, mostly because I've been busy with work. I have two jobs now, since I also work part time for my friend's online bookshop as well as running my own shop. But I did find time to go and see Wolf Parade with tarteaucitron , which was highly enjoyable. She made me wear a flat cap though, so I felt a lot like a representative of the Young Farmers Association. I also made this tamarind and date cake. Highly recommended. I also dyed my hair twice so it's sort of a weird gingery colour now, which to be honest is not what I was after.

I went exploring with Mr Lux on the London beaches that are revealed when the tide goes out, mostly along Walbrook stair and the bit opposite on the South Bank. It was completely fascinating and I want to do it again soon. The beaches are made up of mud, pebbles, bones, oyster shells, bits of old clay pipe, blue and white pottery and ancient nails. If you dig down there is proper treasure to be found, apparently.

My fan activities recently have been mostly fic reading, staring at pictures of pretty people, feeling guilty about the fics I am not getting round to finishing, like my fedal_slash au. Arghh. Guilt. I've been on a bit of a tennis hiatus since the end of the USO, feeling a bit burnt out over the passionate emotional turmoil it inevitably creates within me, even though I feel I should be a bitter and detached old tennis queen by now. Clearly I will never learn.

The new season of Merlin has been quite delightful and rather silly - very enjoyable.Also it really makes me feel like Autumn's arrived when i snuggle up on the sofa on a windy and rainy Saturday teatime to watch it. I've been reading Sherlock fictions too, which I am enjoying although I yearn for more actual canon. I am open to recs of all kinds in these fandoms if anyone has anything awesome they must share. I'd like to do a recs list myself at some point but, yeah. Not that likely timewise.

Finally I am sending some paper cranes to my very favourite managka, Kazuya Minekura. It's part of a project (set up by the awesome smillaraaq ) to send her a thousand cranes before she undergoes surgery for her bone condition. A thousand have already been made and sent and now the goal is to make another thousand. I very much hope it brings a smile to her face, or at the very least an expression of bafflement at all those nutso Western fans and their antics. <3 Read updates about the project at cranes4minekura

Just a quick update for those wanting to take part in help_pakistan. I've just seen that bidding has been brought forward and begun already! It will go on until 11:59 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 28TH EST. The due deadline has also been brought forward to October 1st instead of February.

My entry is here - a big thank you to current bidders!

Roger is dressing up like a bowl of Neopolitan icecream for his latest tournament. I am so incredibly enamoured of his look:

( behold the rog )

Also a couple of really interesting thing in his presser about how Mirka was his sort of not really coach (she totally was) and how he met Reto Staubli, his Swiss banker best friend.

Q. You’ve had a period of time when you’ve had no coach. Can you say that you acted like a coach to analyze your own game?

ROGER FEDERER: Well, I spoke a lot with Mirka, you know, because she was a player, too. She understood my game. She came to every practice back then and watched every match. I don’t... I don’t call her my coach, but we just chatted about it. And I had a friend also helping me out a little bit. You know, he was working at Credit Suisse, at the bank, and he played a little bit before, too, and he would just occasionally come and say hi and I would speak to him about it, too. And he put me in a really good mindset as well sometimes.

He just said, You’re a really good player, play on your terms, and do what you do best, use your forehand, whatever it was. And he was just giving me reassurance that I was thinking the right things, too, and I had incredible success. And I was obviously, you know, playing great tennis week in and week out, and that was a tough thing to do, because I used to be famous for being inconsistent in a way. And all of a sudden I was becoming super-consistent

Title: Wherever I find myself
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Gojyo/Hakkai
Rating: R, nsfw
Wordcount: 5700
A/N: this story is for amai_kaminari and lechymonk, who very generously donated to the help_haiti auction back in February of this year and acquired my fiction writing services. I very much hope you like it, and I'm sorry you had to wait so long! Thank you very much to emungere for beta help, and to new_kate for saying encouraging things. The title is from a quite by Maya Angelou: "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."


(  This place is a dump, Gojyo said, looking around. )

My face is literally all :D :D :D at this still from the DVD extras. tarteaucitron, you may want to look at this.

( ADORABLE KISSING )