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  1. pippychick

    Ok… I guess I will make a start on the next chapter. See if I can get it done for Christmas.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Add in a dash of zombie apocalypse with those hordes of shoppers, and you can have *both* a halloween and a holiday story.  :)

       

    3. pippychick

      pippychick

      If I ever get my hands on the dirty bastard who shoved a pint glass down the gents toilet, it’ll be a halloween story of sorts. But then, the same gang were thrown out the club, and kicked off a load of trouble outside. They were searching through the cctv for the police this morning, because they’d been throwing glasses at the takeaway next door and nearly hit someone. So maybe they will get prosecuted for a public order offence. We can hope.

    4. pippychick

      pippychick

      And… I’m not going to finish. Maybe Boxing Day.

      Went to the ASDA this morning. Picked up a monster turkey, free range, corn fed. No added chlorine…. yet. *sighs* *shudders* I may have to give up chicken if that ever happens, I kid you not. And I feel the same way about chicken as Clegane does. :( Maybe I could keep and kill my own. It’s a thought. Or just go vegan. Without chicken, there’s not much point in eating (or drinking) anything else animally.

      But the turkey… they greyhound has seen it. It’s as big as her. Her eyes nearly fell out of her head. I’d have got a smaller one, but they had three left and that was the smallest. :/

      Clegane, meanwhile, is just in the middle of being massaged into a gooey lump. But he’s about to spoil it by laughing, and he knows this, but it’s okay. Tormund has some plan to just carry on until he’s stopped resisting or something. I don’t know. It sounds more aggressive than it actually is.

  2. pippychick

    Oh wow… I just found the entire soundtrack the ‘The Tribe’ on Spotify…

    I am now reliving some strange part of my youth (that wasn’t really my youth as such, because I’m always amazed by how recent The Tribe really was. I was in my twenties.). I always have this idea I was watching it while I was at school. But no… I must have watched it on sundays when I was hung over after being out on saturday night.

    Next I’ll be digging the dvds out… Gods, how I loved Lex… why the hell wasn’t he ever in anything else ever again?

  3. pippychick
    Chapter Thirty-nine Going on how slow I am lately, this is probably the christmas posting, unfortunately. Sorry.
  4. pippychick
    ¡Muchas gracias! Volveré a esta historia. Estoy escribiendo Game of Thrones en este momento. Musas!
  5. pippychick

    Happy Birthday BronxWench!!!

    Hope you are having a wonderful day, and that you have a brilliant year ahead!  :wub:

    :cheers::birthday::bday::party::twirl:

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @CloverReef  Uh-oh, so we’ve got “Hermits United” gathering going on here?  … scampers away … :safetocomeout:

    3. CloverReef

      CloverReef

      @Desiderius Price If by gathering, you mean a bunch of people individually standing alone in a forest far far far away from each other (and hiding if they accidentally picked places too close together for their hermit holes) then… yes. Unless Hermits united is a weird doctor who reference… then… idk. Maybe? My brain’s not working. Why am I still talking? I just randomly thought of a motto for my hermit club, but I don’t know how to make the others vote… Happy birthday again BW

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @CloverReef  My brain’s never “working”, not properly :)   I’ll go back into my hole now.

  6. pippychick

    After all the crap lately, guess who is putting up the Christmas tree alone? Yep… because, well I’m not quite clear on the because. I took some poinsettia’s around to various neighbours earlier. My mother is under the impression it can be put off even further. Except it can’t, because later this week I will be good for nothing, what with work and various other things, like appointments and other activities. Her birthday meal is one. I haven’t done any christmas shopping. I’m looking at friday at this point.

    I’d write in rebellion, but all the words are flying around in my brain like shrapnel right now, and have been doing for a few days. I don’t know what this means. Maybe an extended break again. :( I hope not.

    I know moving all that furniture about seemed to finish me. I could barely move for two days… then I had to go back to work. I don’t know how to survive this week. I have to go out twice to eat. A dicey prospect on my medication, let alone with the lack of energy. I really don’t have a Christmas in me. 

    I know retreat isn’t the answer. I know it. But honestly this shit is just like stumbling and crawling around in thick, black smoke and the urge to just stay still is unbearable.

    I need space, and time, and something easy for fuck’s sake. Just one thing that’s easy. I am so tired of fighting this.

    Damn. I’m going to make myself a neat, orderly list. When all else fails, a list. Because giving in is not an option.

    *sighs*

    Please send jokes. Or cute pictures.

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Look at those sweethearts! :wub:

    3. pippychick

      pippychick

      :) I love my dogs.

      Well… I’ve done the tree, and made a list of things. I’ve also made a shopping list.

      But now I’ve been made to pay for making a shopping list by way of a ridiculous argument followed by sulking and slamming doors. I give up.

      I’m just going to reread the fic, see if I can have the words arrange themselves in some kind of order again. Because seriously, I just can’t be here. I need something fun.

    4. JayDee

      JayDee

      Cute pics? Everything here:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/

      Also, I hope things improve a little for ya. I know how stressful the time of year can be.

  7. pippychick
    Chapter Thirty-eight
  8. pippychick

    Most of the next chapter is ready. Commencing read throughs. Then, maybe, I can finally get back to the sex scenes. At last. Or some of them. I’ve been doing a lot of plotty stuff last few chapters. I had to separate them to do it, because when they’re together, pretty much all they can think about is doing each other.

  9. pippychick
    Chapter Thirty-seven
  10. pippychick

    Wow… these settees looked a hell of a lot smaller in the shop. Now I have to rearrange again. Already did it twice before they got here. Can’t move for settees. Send help!

    Plus side. I have two happy dogs, who tried them out first. I swear the greyhound was there almost before the blokes put them down. :lol:

     

    1. JayDee

      JayDee

      I remember reading an erotic horror story a long time ago called “The Couch Monster” hopefully these aren’t the possessed kind!

    2. Melrick

      Melrick

      We once bought a recliner that I swear grew the moment it was delivered, because it certainly didn’t seem that big in the shop.

  11. pippychick

    What a horrible day!

    However, I seem to have managed to write most of a comedic chapter, somehow, in the middle of it all. Just a bit more to go, if I can concentrate.

     

     

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      It started with one episode of Stargate SG-1...

    3. Melrick

      Melrick

      Well at least the day is presumably over by the time you read this, and the next day might be much better.

    4. pippychick

      pippychick

      Thank you, Melrick. Yep :) Though it is a day of work and doctors appointments... I like this day better aleady. The archive to do this evening. I am happy.

  12. pippychick
    Chapter Thirty-six
  13. pippychick

    Oh, my… Tormund and Clegane are going to fight! Like, actually, really fight!

    Wow… *types faster*

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Punching Player Pianos?

    3. pippychick

      pippychick

      lol… I think mainly Clegane is really pissed off that Tormund has outdone his: “I’m not a Knight.” statement about a hundred times over by saying: “I’m not a King” *giggles* They’re just working some things out, I guess. Also, Clegane has just admitted he’s pledged himself to Jon Snow, and Tormund is all pissed off about that, because.. well.. he belongs to them. This is so exciting. I really wasn’t expecting it, but it does make perfect sense. The making up after will be amazing. :yes:

    4. pippychick

      pippychick

      Mind you, at this point it’s getting to nearly 48 hours post chapter posting, and not a peep which I expect on aff since reviews are few and far between here, but not even anything over on ao3, which makes me think that after writing this I might have to take the previous one down to have another look at it. :(

      Maybe that 2% really does matter.

       

  14. pippychick

    Writing, sleep, or housework?

    *sighs*

    And by housework, I do mean moving all of *her* shit out of the way. Because it’s getting on my nerves.

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    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      I don’t know… I haven’t turned it on yet. I’m hoping it’s fine. Unlike me. This morning it’s worse. I can feel what I’ve done to my back every time I breathe. *sighs*

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Sounds like your story characters ought to watch out, some hurt might be coming their way (well, it could be theraputic to take it out on them, just saying).  Hope you back recovers.

    4. pippychick

      pippychick

      Thank you, Des :hug:

  15. pippychick
    That’s interesting. Just for the laugh, I tested my latest chapter. It has 449 sentences, of which 9 start with ‘the’… I’m assuming that’s ok. It’s like two per cent though.
  16. pippychick
    Chapter Thirty-five
  17. pippychick

    Well, I have about 5.5k words of filth that might get posted at some point tonight. Commencing read throughs.

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    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      Actually, last thing, while I’m at it… may as well get it all out. And I realise this might sound a bit cold, but…

      Am I really the only person who looks at Melania’s christmas decorations and thinks:

      Here is a women at her sexual peak, married to that thing, and wow – that’s probably as close to joy as her soul can get right now.

      *shivers*

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @BronxWench  Heard something today about he should go to war with North Korea … just him, not the military.

    4. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      @pippychick Melania’s Christmas decorations would strike fear into my heart at Samhain. Seriously.

      @Desiderius Price That’s a splendid plan. Let him go wage war, one on one, with the Hermit Kingdom. Oh, wait… bone spurs… ::pauses to spit::

  18. pippychick

    Well, there is plenty of drama at my house tonight. We have just had to throw my aunt out after a litany of bad behaviour. Including getting dolled up and sodding off for a drink in the pub when my mother was rushed into hospital with a gallstone attack, leaving me to go in the back of the ambulance. She’s spent the last few weeks completely ignoring us, especially my mother, sneaking in and out without so much as a word. Now she’s gone.

    Tried to talk to her first, but (once we’d insisted on her putting her bloody phone down), it’s like she just can’t admit how bad she’s been. Her response to going out during the ambulance thing? “I only went for one pint.” Well, fuck me. I can ony feel the utmost pity for her children. Seriously.

    All we have done is help her.

    The absolute best came as she went out the door, when she told my mother she’d driven my dad and my brother to suicide, and her second husband too. My mother has been widowed twice.

    I think good riddance to her.

    For perspective, this is the behaviour of a forty-seven year old woman.

    In other news, I am nearly 2000 words in to the next chapter.

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    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      Thanks @CloverReef She’s in bed now, but it’s been stressful for her for weeks and weeks to be honest. This has been the final straw tonight.

      @Desiderius Price I’m off to bed myself now, so we’ll see, but I have to be up in like four and a half hours for work. Trust me, my mother has not had the best of luck. Even hours later, I can’t believe her own sister, someone she’s given refuge to, would say something like that.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @pippychick  Get some rest!  I looked for a sleeping emoji, but all I found was :sex:

    4. Melrick

      Melrick

      Life is too short to have people like that in your life.

  19. pippychick
    Wow… almost two weeks delay, but… Chapter Thirty-four Beta read by BronxWench, who is fabulous!
  20. pippychick
    Thank you so much! Yes, I think you’re right about Tormund. He finds hope where he can, and if it can’t be found, he will make it. He’s the opposite of Clegane in many ways, who seems to have found some kind of weird home in hopelessness. It’s like his friend. Yet he’s just as much of a survivor, and just as impressive. During the course of this story, it will be interesting to see how their sway over each other changes. For this upcoming war, and perhaps for a while afterwards, Tormund has the more appropriate outlook. Brienne is where the two meet in the middle. But later, Clegane’s outlook might prove useful, really, and wouldn’t it be interesting if Tormund ever came to rely on Clegane’s strength? On that ability to let despair in and still win anyway? As for the actual ending, I am having interesting thoughts about Varys now, in order to thwart my evil muse (shhh! don’t tell it anything!) Daenerys will never ‘break the wheel’ – she’s likethe Readers’ Digest Prize Draw – too good to be true. Chase that and you’ll chase it forever. Varys, however.. I think he’s got definite anarchist tendencies. If anyone is a candidate for breaking the wheel, and probably melting that bloody chair… it will be him. And if anyone will think it’s slightly weird that three people as hard and experienced as Tormund, Brienne and Clegane can go wandering off into the north with the Night King dead, never to be seen again. Well, that person is Tyrion. This will work. I am sure of it. Well, I’ll leave Westeros in a happy place. The next tyrant is not my concern.
  21. pippychick
    Thank you again! So glad you enjoyed this chapter. And that ending seemed particularly poignant, but fitting, I think. To reach that pinnacle and realise how much there is to lose now… although of course, Brienne is feeling rather emotional at that point. More so than usual. She’ll get used to it… or so my Tormund muse assures me. I can’t help wondering how it will affect either of the lads when they end up inthe middle. Whatever they get up to in the ensuing chapters, they’re going to have to be quiet as little mice. And take things very slowly… unless they pitch their tent about a quarter of a mile away from everyone else, but that’s really obvious too. *giggles*
  22. pippychick
    Thank you Bronx! I have to say, she really took me by surprise here. You’ll have noticed I usually manage to avoid feelings of possession and such from surfacing in characters when I’m writing threesomes. But she really was warning Clegane off! Thankfully, Tormund understands that part of her more than she does. *g*
  23. pippychick
    I think inspiration is dreaming whilst awake. There’s no other explanation for the way the ideas leap between nuances of meaning and plot the way they do. It also explains the way that things can seem utterly silly once that inspiration leaves. That being the case, I often feel like if I can hold onto the atmosphere and emotion of a thing, rather than the intricacies of it, then it stays for much longer. To keep it is to perfect the art of dreaming the same thing over and over again. And, since I write fanfiction, I often find once the original inspiration has struck and you’ve begun writing, you need more than inspiration then. You need to a strike a balance between many closely related things. Inspiration is one, motivation, dedication, impetus, fanaticism and total immersion in the source material are the others. Get it right, and the story will flow like water. And if you’re posting, feedback (and lack of it) is a blessing and a curse. Feedback will buoy you up, but it can also interfere with your ideas. Lack of feedback can make you give up completely, unless the muse is particularly insistent.
  24. pippychick

    Ok… next chapter is currently being written. They get one more lazy lie in before they have to pack up and move out. What will they do with it...? :)

    1. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Lazy lie in with a NO dress code?

    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      Well, I was thinking of some m/m goodness to start, with a hint of lots more to come, then some more DP when Brienne wakes up with a different position, and from the guy’s pov, and then finish it off with a round of bathing and breakfast, followed by a spirited declaration of war.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Well, starting out any war on a full stomach is a good idea.

  25. pippychick

    Well, I have finished the chapter, and it’s still off. I’ve read the entire work, and it’s still off. I’ve tinkered with some things about it, and it’s still off.

    There’s nothing else for it.

    I have to throw it all away and go back to the drawing board *sighs*

    So disappointed in myself right now, because there’s so many things coming up that are partly written, and things coming up that I can’t wait to write. I don’t know why this is being difficult at all.

    I just can’t figure it out. :(

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    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      Well… I’ve been taking a break watching Lucifer, because I went out and got the DVD today. I love Tom Ellis. But… I couldn’t help myself. To be honest, I think it still sounds like them.

      [An unusually large and fearfully well-armed woman is decorating a Christmas tree, when she is disturbed by an unusually large man]

      ROGER: [A man who is not a Knight] “A fucking Christmas tree. Does it have to sparkle like that?”

      BELLA: [A woman who is also not a Knight] “Yes, of course it does! Oh wait, it should be twinkling too.”

      BELLA: [Messes with the plug socket. Lights begin twinkling.] “There.. isn't it pretty?”

      ROGER: [pulls a face]

      BELLA: “Here, hang some knights on it.”

      ROGER: [rather more cheerfully] “Oh, well. All right then.”

      [ENTER a VIKING, also of unusually large size]

      VIKING: “What the fuck is that?”

      BELLA: “It's a Christmas tree. It's to do with Christ being born.”

      VIKING: “You southern twats are always inventing Gods. I think you long to be taken in hand, all of you.”

      ROGER: “Fuck off!”

      VIKING: [touches one of the tree branches] “Oh yeah? What's this then?”

      BELLA: [smiles with delight] “Artificial snow.”

      VIKING: [looks utterly aghast] “Artificial snow? Right. That's it. I give in.”

      ROGER: “What?”

      VIKING: [cracks knuckles and pats knee] “Come here. I'm going to give both of you exactly what you want... you can say you're getting it for Christmas.”

       

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Brilliant! :lol:

    4. JayDee

      JayDee

      Sounds like someone’s going to be getting “a damn good rogering”.

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