happy birthday, zarah!

Better later than never, but

Happy belated birthday, dear zarah5!!!

So glad to see you back! I've been thinking of you recently for various reasons, mainly to do with concrit.

I hope 'du hast schoen gefeiert', and most importanly, have a very happy next year!!

asking for recs

I'm not on LJ as much as I used to be so have I missed any really great stories in the last 2 weeks?

Recs! I'm looking for recs! Any fandom, any pairing, fps or rps or orig. Just as long as it's *really, really* good.

Thank you!!

ETA: I just realised how difficult my request is. Because what does "really, really good" mean, anyway? OK, I will amend to: something you have really, really liked.

Second ETA: OK, I am amending again. The sort of fic I feel like right now: has plot and has sex embedded in plot (or no sex), has sex arising from characterisation (or no sex), has not got Viggo or Elijah in it (unless written by azewewish, she's allowed to do Viggo), has a long build-up, has no angst, is set now and not in 2000 or is AU (in case of Lotrips), has sparse prose and no excessive use of metaphor, has little subjective pov, and now I'm realising how absurd this post is and how unfulfillable my current criteria and maybe I should just write it myself....??

off to tchermany

Eep! I just booked tickets via the internet. This always makes me very nervous, for some reason. But we - the kiddies and I - are off to see the sister next weekend. Whee!

Maybe we'll even get to do some Laternelaufen to compensate for missing Hallowe'en??