Fics and space

[auroracloud]

I don't seem to get around to actually writing posts these days. Well, let me post just a few random important things.

Finishing Torchwood S2 was certainly bad for my overall productivity. I mean, now there's so much more fanfic I can read. And do you have any idea how much fanfic there is in that fandom, including well-written and thought-out stuff, with interesting plots and delicious smut, and how much of it's is bloody epic in length? I could spend the rest of the year doing nothing but reading fics. I'm trying not to.

Well, I am still succeeding at reading Things That Are Actual Books, still, and one of the books I'm currently reading is Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. In the case you don't know, he's a Canadian astronaut who has, oh, been Commander of the International Space Station and recorded a version of David Bowie's Space Oddity in space, and so forth, and the book is his memoirs of how to become an astronaut and how to be one and what we all can learn from it and how awesome space is and stuff. I'm having a grand time reading it.

I possibly had other things to write, but I can't recall them. Well, let me record that I had a good writing day today.

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He mentioned that in the book, and it seemed to be one of the things he's proudest of. He's really big on making science and space stuff accessible and attractive to the general public, and I love that. I ran across the book when I got impressed by his videos and looked up information on him, and then I found out our local library has it, so I had to put myself on the waiting list. I much recommend the book, it was a really enjoyable to read.

I've found quite a lot of good fanfics, but it varies who likes what. Some of it is too fluffy, some so dark I can't stomach it - the right balance and the right characterizations are hard to find. I've been mostly sailing from rec lists to others, and when I find something I like, I see what else they've written and what they've liked. I should start putting together a recs list of my own, partly so I don't lose sight of everything I've enjoyed!