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I seem to have found myself writing The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow fanfic - specifically, I made a post asking for au prompts on tumblr for three-sentence-ficlets, and I'm now working my way a number of coldwave (as in Mick Rory/Leonard Snart) fics that are mostly turning out to be a lot more then three sentences.
The first one is a Star Trek AU and it's the only one actually three sentences long. Sort of. (I kinda gave up on the three sentences thing after the first one...)
The second one, Rogues in Twilight, was supposed to be a general vampire au, but kinda ended up as a crossover with Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series (of which there's a new book coming out in English this fall - yay!!!).
The third one, First Impressions, is an age of sail au, with Mick and Len meeting after they've both been shanghaied.
The fourth (and probably not final) one is a viking au (I can't imagine how I managed to write anything viking-y, can you? I know absolutely nothing about viking-y stuff.) - Hervararkviða, which has grave-robbing for ancestral swords, because that really was the only proper way of getting a sword back then.
So that's what I'm getting up to, lately - apart from work, which is winding down for the summer, but I'm getting to catalogue a bit now instead of just ILL, so that's cool. And there has been two summer days at work - the one for the entire university library staff, which had a couple of fairly interesting lectures, a nice sandwich lunch and a visit to Arbejdermuseet, which is actually gorgeous and we need to go visit and get authentic 50s food at the cafe or something (also, they had a hallway made out as a 50s shopping street, and there was posters for Bundfald, aka the movie with pure innocent cinnamon bun Ib Mossin ending up a rent boy).
The other summer day was - less fun. It was with my department at work, and it was originally supposed to have been lunch and a walking tour, which got morphed into lunch and a boat tour to Sydhavnen and back, because our guide fell sick. And the boat tour was alright, but the lunch - the food was fine and the cafe was lovely and I would have liked to visit just with a couple of friends, but - it felt. It felt like they'd have really liked us to spend more money. They kept asking, "should we not get you all a snaps" "should we not get you all a cup of coffee", except our budget was pretty tight and our manager wasn't planning on adding anything to it, and it was just kinda embarrassing, okay? We have almost no budget for this sort of thing - and most of my department are older than me, and far too many of them will wax poetic about department summer trips to Hven or Funen and it's just - we don't get that sort of money anymore. I'm halfway tempted to volunteer to arrange it next year, just to avoid us ending up somewhere that we've only just barely halfway managed to afford, except really, there's almost no budget, so it's very much not fun to try to organize any sort of outing... (Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant, didn't it?)
And now the summer has decided to leave us early. Hopefully it'll be back at some point. Like early august.
The first one is a Star Trek AU and it's the only one actually three sentences long. Sort of. (I kinda gave up on the three sentences thing after the first one...)
The second one, Rogues in Twilight, was supposed to be a general vampire au, but kinda ended up as a crossover with Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series (of which there's a new book coming out in English this fall - yay!!!).
The third one, First Impressions, is an age of sail au, with Mick and Len meeting after they've both been shanghaied.
The fourth (and probably not final) one is a viking au (I can't imagine how I managed to write anything viking-y, can you? I know absolutely nothing about viking-y stuff.) - Hervararkviða, which has grave-robbing for ancestral swords, because that really was the only proper way of getting a sword back then.
So that's what I'm getting up to, lately - apart from work, which is winding down for the summer, but I'm getting to catalogue a bit now instead of just ILL, so that's cool. And there has been two summer days at work - the one for the entire university library staff, which had a couple of fairly interesting lectures, a nice sandwich lunch and a visit to Arbejdermuseet, which is actually gorgeous and we need to go visit and get authentic 50s food at the cafe or something (also, they had a hallway made out as a 50s shopping street, and there was posters for Bundfald, aka the movie with pure innocent cinnamon bun Ib Mossin ending up a rent boy).
The other summer day was - less fun. It was with my department at work, and it was originally supposed to have been lunch and a walking tour, which got morphed into lunch and a boat tour to Sydhavnen and back, because our guide fell sick. And the boat tour was alright, but the lunch - the food was fine and the cafe was lovely and I would have liked to visit just with a couple of friends, but - it felt. It felt like they'd have really liked us to spend more money. They kept asking, "should we not get you all a snaps" "should we not get you all a cup of coffee", except our budget was pretty tight and our manager wasn't planning on adding anything to it, and it was just kinda embarrassing, okay? We have almost no budget for this sort of thing - and most of my department are older than me, and far too many of them will wax poetic about department summer trips to Hven or Funen and it's just - we don't get that sort of money anymore. I'm halfway tempted to volunteer to arrange it next year, just to avoid us ending up somewhere that we've only just barely halfway managed to afford, except really, there's almost no budget, so it's very much not fun to try to organize any sort of outing... (Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant, didn't it?)
And now the summer has decided to leave us early. Hopefully it'll be back at some point. Like early august.