Daily Happiness

1. Totally off my regular sleep schedule again, thanks to a nap that turned into a full-length sleep, but at least I got a good night's sleep? After several days of 4-5 hours' sleep this week, it was nice.

2. Rain! I hope it lets up for a while so we can take a walk at some point, but still, I am happy there's rain.

3. Bleach was AWESOME. Shinji! ♥♥♥ Oh my God, those two panels of Shinji were brilliant. I love the longshot of him swinging his zanpakuto and then the closeup of that GRIN OMG. And him and Hitsugaya working together = heartburst! Two of my favorite characters, bweeeeee!

Fic reviews: Sherlock Holmes

Except for the Way a Traveler Knows a Traveler by wintercreek
2300 words. Holmes loses his memory and Watson tries to help him get it back.

This was cute, but I wasn't wowed.

Five Times That Watson Did Not Wake Up in Canon by Taz Rec
10,000 words. Five moments that lead to Holmes and Watson getting together.

This is the second Holmes five-things fic I've read where unlike most such fics, the five scenes are all from the same universe and build on each other to form one long story. This could have used some editing (mainly typos and oddly-placed commas), but was quite enjoyable.

To Rise to the Occasion by ponderosa Rec
1600 words. Surely a single uncooperative limb does not render a man useless.

Oh, this is great! I think there was an SGA fic where someone can't get it up (I have it bookmarked to read at some point), but you don't really see this sort of thing that often in fic.

Jump the Gate by blue_soaring Rec
2700 words. Once Watson regains the power of speech he isn't at all certain he wishes to utilise it.

I clicked on this because it had the tag "premature ejaculation" and I was curious. It wasn't quite what I thought it would be, and had a little more ashamed!Watson than I really care for, but I enjoyed it.

Impecunious by damned_colonial Rec
4000 words. So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. -- A Study in Scarlet

Yes, you've seen me rec this one before. But this is an expanded version, now 4000 words instead of the original 600! This isn't exactly what I would want in a rentboy!Watson fic (like, I would want him to actually be a rentboy, not just mistaken for one!), but it's definitely enjoyable.

At a Blind Corner by eggshellseas Rec+
7200 words. Holmes discovers he possesses a curious power over Watson, and that Watson is a man who still has a few secrets.

Quite by accident, Holmes discovers Watson is submissive! I love how he proceeds to test his theory (and how Watson goes along with it).

Zelda Twilight Fuckery

Wow, I am really not impressed with this game so far. I have spent an hour playing and have not even got out of the village and started doing stuff yet. The whole beginning has you doing these little tasks for the villagers which are I guess to teach you various skills you'll need to know for later in the game, but omg, I am about ready to kill someone because I just spent twenty fucking minutes trying to catch a fish so this woman's cat would go back to her so I could buy a damn slingshot from her and I cannot for the life of me catch a fish! There's nothing I can do. I'm stuck at the beginning of the game because their fishing system is horrible and I cannot make it work. If I'd wanted a fishing game, I would have bought a damn fishing game. I just...is there something I'm doing wrong? I put the hook in the water, and then some fish swim towards it and then...nothing. There's no way to tell if any latch on, and whenever I've pulled my line back up, there's never any fish on it. This is so frustrating because it's not even the point of the game! ARGH!