happy days & afk

[propinquitine]

I hope everyone's having a wonderful end-of-the-year season and getting however much rest and rejuvenation you need. Between some extended-familial estrangement and my parents making their final break from the whole religion thing (two entirely unrelated events!), we had a quiet, relaxing, secular Christmas chez moi yesterday -- my favorite kind!

Now I'm headed of to Ireland until January 4th (and just realizing that I really should've mentioned this beforehand, and gleaned some travel tips from you all, drat!). I'll probably be able to check email intermittently, since at least one of our hotels has free wifi, hurrah, but won't be around much otherwise. But then: actual & regular reading/responding/posting, for real this time!

Oh, and since I won't be back until after the sga_santa reveals are up (and will be thus slightly delayed in responding to the lovely feedback!), if you want to guess which one I wrote, comment here and I will write you a little something if you're right (and, er, if you want me to). I can't wait to find out who wrote the sweet team-y John/Rodney story Growing Pains for me!

Finally: anyone who's feeling a little post-holiday (pre-New Years?) blues should go check out chkc's absolutely darling holiday chibis. There's even a Leverage chibi!team! Guaranteed to put a smile on your face, (unless you hate joy, I guess).

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[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Fadó fadó!

(This is the only bit of Gaelic I know. It literally means "a long, long time ago" and is their equivalent of "once upon a time." You can tell I'm a fairy tales geek. *g*)

Have lots of fun and I hope the new stricter air travel regs don't cause any problems!

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

I know that too! I also know a drinking toast or two and other things which if I think longer I can come up with :)

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, I have remembered the SGA selkie story! What the Sea Has to Give by siriaeve. Such a pretty story!

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Whee! I shall bookmark that!

There are a number of selkie AUs in SGA, I'm rather fond of them even if they are so often sad.

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

But this one is a happy one! :)

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! :) Thank you for that!

[propinquitine.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Fadó fadó did not come up during my travels, even with all the history (and some fairy tales!) that we were learning, though our tour guide did sheepishly admit to us that he didn't know much Gaelic at all.

We did get to hear about the highway that got re-routed around a hawthorn tree at the cost of several million dollars: Hawthorns are considered likely fairy-dwellings, apparently, and no one on the construction crew would cut down this massive tree that was in the way of the new road, so the foreman says that he'll cut it down himself the very next day, but then on the way home that night he gets killed in a car accident. And of course then really no one will cut it down, and they decide the most prudent thing is to move the path of the road instead. So that's kind of a fairy-story!

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

That is quite the fairy story, even without the fadó fadó! They do tend to have more of the harsher fairies in Ireland than the fluffy ones.

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Huh. I feel like I've heard that before, only I haven't. What I mean, I guess, is that's exactly what would happen in an Irish folk tale. :)

[propinquitine.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know what you mean! When the driver started the story with "So there was this fairy tree in the way of the road construction," I could already guess how it was going to end. Way to be predictable, fairies.

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Way to be predictable, fairies.

I'm pretty sure there's some fairy somewhere telling the other side of the story and it ends with 'Way to be stupid and predictable, humans!' and most likely with a sneer also.