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I picked my parents up at the airport last night. I'd sort of been sugarcoating the situation with my grandmother while they were on holiday because I didn't want to cause any unnecessary panic or alarm, but they're back now and I can cause all the panic and alarm my little heart desires.

I suppose I should feel bad for passing the buck so utterly, but at this stage I pretty much need to crawl under a duvet with a good book and listen to Radio 4 for three straight days. But one of the things that's been keeping me sane is that the

fandom_stocking reveals were this weekend and I, what's the correct term? Oh, yes, made out like a fucking bandit.

--From

weaselett I got some Lost girl icons which was terrific as there are very few situations where Kenzi's face isn't relevant.
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froggimus_rex recorded a fabulous podfic of my Legend of the Seeker fic The Zombie Dilemma, in which Cara battles zombies and feelings.
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daystarsearcher wrote me a Romana/Leela drabble of girl kissing and zombies, which are basically my two favourite things.
--My ultimate Doctor Who OTP will always be Donna/her awesome Time Lord brain and

paranoidangel wrote me Five Things Donna does with her Time Lord Brain which is fabulous and also has zombies. I just, er, really like zombies.
--Whereas my Being Human OTPs are Annie/her mysterious ghost powers, and THE ENSEMBLE! and

glinda wrote me Five places Annie teleported by accident before she got the hang of it (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) which has perfect Annie and her powers and her friends and her giant heart.
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wnb_darklord wrote me 5K (I know) of Ten & Donna fic with werewolves, where Ten turns into a big soppy puppy around Donna. Literally. It's hilarious.
--Oh, and in recent perfect fic is perfect news

fitz_y wrote me A Far Far Better Thing 10k (seriously. like. a. bandit) of O'Brien's secret feelings about Cora and snarky friendship with Thomas. It's gorgeous, and subtle, and understated and everything I want from a Downton Abbey fic.

And this wasn't part of

fandom_stocking, but it has my name on it so I'm counting it as a present:

sophinisba recorded a gorgeous podfic of

gnimaerd's Merrily on High. Lengthy Merlin femslash podfic? Of one of my favourite fics? Read by my favourite reader? YES PLEASE.

Sometimes I worry about the extent to which I use fandom as an emotional crutch when my life isn't going brilliantly, but what an emotional crutch!

I really wanted to write lots for people, but my life conspired to make sure I spent most of this holiday period gently rattling with stress and crying. So. Sorry. I did manage to finish one thing:

Our History in Cat Years (Merlin; Morgana/Morgause, Aithusa; Reincarnation fic)
Okay, so the talking cat. That probably deserves an explanation.

It's possible I'm a little obsessed with Morgana and her baby dragon. Actually, as I appear to be thinking about Morgana again, I have a theory about her in S4 (I don't have any other theories, I only watched the Morgana bits.) My new headcanon is this: Morgana doesn't especially want to be Queen of Camelot, she hates everything about the place. But she doesn't have a reverse gear, all she can do is keep going in a straight line until it kills her. She's basically a walking death wish at this point. When, really, what she needs is to get the hell out of dodge and find herself a nice queen to serve, she'd be so much happier. Which suddenly explains a lot of my shipping choices for Morgana (Vivian, Elena, Annis, Mithian, etc)