soothe my soul

I haven't finished packing, my room is a mess, I feel horrible, but we're leaving the house today and going to visit Caerphilly Castle. Because it's not raining right now and we're not going to get another chance to go.

I ficced again last night, and finished this morning. 1,000 words again exactly, although that's a raw, barely edited text, so that could change. It was supposed to be porny babymaking, and instead turned out creepy porny babymaking. I'm perfectly OK with the creepy, though, as it's rather appropriate. I'll probably post it later tonight and link.

Woke up this morning to the news that MCR broke up. I've never really been *in the fandom, didn't write fic or go to concerts (mostly because there weren't any nearby, and I couldn't afford those farther out), but this was the first band that I was really... emotional about. I remember resisting bandom in general, because loool RPF is silly, but then I fell head over heels, in equal measures for the music, the people in the band, and the fandom itself. I don't know whether they saved my life, per se, but they definitely changed it for the better. *clings to all the bandom people*

I firmly believe we'll be OK in the end, though. And if we're not OK, then it's not the end, to misquote a movie. And as a consolation, have some new music: Depeche Mode's Delta Machine is out now, so right-click and save, and enjoy. (Give it a few minutes to finish uploading, I just want to get this posted before we go.

brb, never crawling out from under the blankets *shivers*

Caerphilly was lovely! The castle is amazing and I seriously envy the people who live in a town with a freaking castle in the middle. We climbed up into some towers and onto the walls and took a bunch of photos I need to run through Lightroom because my camera apparently can't balance between "bright sky" and "dark stone" and most of the pictures are really dark. Someday, I'll figure out how to make the damned thing work properly. We didn't get to see the Great Hall, where apparently scenes from Doctor Who's "Vampires of Venice" were filmed, but the rest of it was still pretty awesome.

It was actually really cold and windy, but at least it didn't rain, so at least that's something? IDK. It's below freezing and snowing in Poland, so that's not going to be pleasant. :\

I guess now I should stop slacking off and try to finish as much packing as I can today. The landlord is coming tomorrow at 3pm to check the rooms, get the keys back from us, and give us back our deposits - well, part of them, because he's taking out a bunch of money for the heating bill. Even though there were days when there was no fucking heat in the house. But apparently we've exceeded the "reasonable" 5GPB/week allotment, so he's taking it out of our deposits. *sigh* I'm just hoping he doesn't try to pick on anything else in our rooms, because seriously, the only reason we've put up with as much of the bullshit in this house as we have - mold growing on the walls, cold drafts everywhere, the fucking dog that barks for eight hours a day, etc. - is that we were only here for a few months, so it wasn't worth it. But I really don't want to get into an argument in the last hours we're here, so keep your fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly tomorrow.

And I posted fic! Another short fic, another Batwoman AU story. This thing is going to be HUEG if we ever finish writing it. But anyway, creepy babymaking porn! The Price of Anything (1,000 words, f/f/m, explicit) - here at atomicvaudeville.