A traveler from an antique land

Happy holidays to you too, Secret Santa!

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And yes, X-files was probably my first fandom, although since it was 1993 and I was 13 I didn’t get to participate in it in an organized way. I wasn’t aware fic existed at that point and so all my fics for that one remained vague nebulae in my head.

The tree-climber, we discovered upon our return home, did manage to break an ornament, though not one of my expensive ones so that's fine. Plus he likes to drown his catnip mice and my SD made a cute little felt ornament for us back in 2010 and sure enough, into the water dish it went. The tree, as of now, has about the bottom two feet ornament-free to help him avoid sinning.

Hi SSS, apparently I DID get this ask. I watched s1 when it first came out in the US, so maybe a few months after the UK got it? I am a Sherlock Holmes aficionado from small times and will watch anything with him in it (which has led me to some… interesting media). But I didn’t ship Sherlolly until he was a dick to her with his deductions in ASIB. At that point I saw their faces and thought, “Oooooh, that’s not just a crush she has, is it? Oooooooh, that isn’t just one-sided, is it?” and I was gone and started looking for fics. Didn’t get motivated to create my own until Mary Morstan and S3, tho.

However he’s calmed down a lot and so this year apart from a few “these look EXACTLY like my toys which you LIKE me playing with so why are you spraybottling me MOTHER?!?!?” moments it’s been good.

Hi secret Santa! I’m actually in New York City at this moment on business which really kicked my Christmas spirit off. It’s exactly like every Christmas movie ever, apart from the smell:). Like the late great Mary Morstan, I bake my own bread but otherwise basically the world of baking is a mystery to me. Happy Christmas!

Otherwise “The Power of the Dog,” was a good but misleadingly advertised film. Beautifully shot, well performed, what minimal plot ther was was good. Go see it. But people from Montana don’t sound like that.

Like I want a black or navy pantsuit appropriate for a senior engineer doing senior engineer business things. This did not used to be complex. Macy’s and Dillard’s had eff all. I’ll hit up the internet but I hadn’t realized these aren’t a thing anymore.