Brainmeat in a Time of High Anxiety

Grey days, and wishing I could remember how to write creatively. (Remember dialogue? Banter? Romance and explosions and fluff?? Sigh.) OF all things, I've been watching the second season of My Brilliant Friend on HBO and marvelling at an adaptation of woman's inhumanity to woman transformed into an actual difficult friendship. At this point I want an au where the two girls run away from their awful families and social expectations and find freedom together. And AO3 has NO FIC I can find and it's a goddamn crime.

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I had my monthly meeting with my boss. We got our annual review scores a week or so ago, and mine were perfectly fine, and they sent me into the tumult of "but it's not a perfect high score!!!!!!!! I AM SUCH A  FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!!" and then of course the related angst of an academic generally and particularly. "I work so hard and I'm not famous and influential what's the point??????????" and of course the point is "You are gainfully employed and doing what you enjoy YOU IDIOT."

Honestly, you can't take me anywhere, you really, really can't.

A Book a Day: The Lord of the Rings

 I'm going to post a book I like every day. Today is one of the biggies (literally). This is the Science Fiction Book Club omnibus edition from the 90s. (Aw 90s.) (Aw remember when the SFBC was good?)

 

Anyhow this is part of why my score on that "Tolkien or Anti-Depressant?" quiz going around was 22/24. I'd like to pretend the rest was from reading The History of Middle Earth but really it was reading tons of fanfic. Sorry.