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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.

scene: two roommates brushing teeth together in the bathroom

Me: *pushing the toothpaste back to the top of the tube, grumbling* You're one of those people...
Marta: *snicker*
Me: Oh my god, we're so married.

Marta: You know, if we actually were living in a sitcom, people would totes be shipping us.
Me: I'm pretty sure some people already do.

This isn't in any way coherent or anything, it's just a bunch of pictures to show you that I do indeed live in the fucking SHIRE. I'm breaking up the picspams because there are way too many pictures for one post. It's not totally cloudy and weird ALL the time, but it rains a lot here. Like, A LOT. Like, I thought people exaggerated about how much it rains here, but HOLY CRAP THEY WEREN'T KIDDING. It's still gorgeous and incredible and I want to stay here forever and ever.

( The sun's gone dim, and the sky is dark. )

I need a photography icon.

Marta and I went to Barry Island today, because we needed to get out of the house, and we wanted to see the place in the daytime (we were there for the Bonfire Night fireworks last week). It was a gorgeous, sunny day, with flawless blue skies and perfect weather for a walk. I have to go to bed now because I've got class tomorrow, but I will try to motivate myself sufficiently to finally do that Wales! picspam tomorrow/this weekend, but for now, have a ridiculous photo of a sunset: