#Meme Response

[nando161mando]

[zebracorn-chan]

"sped up" "slowed down", IT'S NIGHTCORE AND DAYCORE.

[yasmindifference]

trick or treat!! 👻🎃

Jason very literally aches from head to toe--from his likely concussion to his broken toe and everything in between, including the cracked ribs, sprained wrist, and the deep puncture wound in his right shoulder.

He needs proper medical attention, probably. Definitely.

All he can really muster up the energy to do is collapse on his couch with a couple of ice packs.

After that, he either dozes off or passes out. Hard to say, really. Whichever one it is, he misses Tim's arrival. He has no idea he's not alone until a thump startles him back into awareness.

It takes a few panicky seconds to connect the sound to Tim, who's kneeling next to the couch and staring at him in horror, and then a few more to figure that thump was Tim's knees hitting the floor.

And he's definitely got a concussion, because it's not until after he's slurred out a worried, "What's wrong?" that he realizes the horror on Tim's face is for him.

"Jason," Tim says, shocked. He cups Jason's face carefully, fingers soft against the bruises blooming across his cheek and jaw. "What happened?"

There's a smart answer on the tip of his tongue, but he doesn't have the energy for snark. "Lost a fight."

Tim's hand ghosts over his shoulder, gently feeling the edges of the bandage, and then skips down to hover over his ribs. Sitting up to look would be fucking agony, but Jason knows his whole ribcage must be covered in developing bruises.

"Jason," Tim says again. His hand returns to the bandage. "Do you need Leslie?"

Jason starts to shake his head, but luckily controls the impulse before it can do more than ache in warning. Kinda feels like if he moves it too much, it'll fall right off.

"Nah," he says instead. "He wasn't trying to kill me, just make me suffer."

Tim makes a hurt little sound. "Who did this to you?"

There's an undertone to it, something angry and dangerous beneath the sweet concern. That's Red Robin there, lurking in the back of Tim's gaze and promising vengeance.

Jason knows it won't last, of course. That's why he draws it out, why he waits a long minute to answer. He wants to enjoy the clear rage on his behalf before it becomes disappointment.

"Jason?" Tim prompts eventually.

Jason takes one last second to savor Tim's worry and anger. Then he sighs and admits, "Bruce."

The answer shocks Tim's face into blankness. His careful hands spasm, freezing in the middle of their subtle injury check.

"What," he says flatly.

"Bruce," Jason repeats. He tries to make it defiant, but thinks he only manages tired. His head is throbbing. "We had another little disagreement about my methods."

Tim's jaw ticks. "Did you."

It's not a question, but the request for more information is implied. Jason thinks about telling him--about recounting the entire, fuck awful night--but ends up looking away instead.

In the morning, he'll be able to summon up his usual fury and indignation over Bruce's fucking nerve, the way he dares to think he can dictate how everyone else in Gotham works--the way he acts like he owns the city and outranks every vigilante in it by default.

Right now? Right now every inch of him aches. He can feel his heartbeat in his shoulder, pulsing in the puncture wound the batarang left. All he can feel is exhaustion.

However much of what Jason's feeling Tim reads on his face, it makes him sit back on his heels. He takes a slow, deep breath.

"Okay," he says. "I'll be back in a little while, okay? You need anything while I'm out?"

Jason's eyes snap back to his. He was expecting either a lecture or Tim storming off, not a casual little goodbye like Tim's planning to go get groceries.

"Where are you going?" he asks.

Tim pushes to his feet, bracing one hand against the back of the couch as he leans in to press a sweet, careful kiss to Jason's mouth.

"To find Bruce," he says.

Jason's heart misses a beat. "Tim--"

Tim's next kiss lands on his forehead in such a tender gesture that it steals the words right out of Jason's mouth.

"I'll be back," he promises. "I just need to talk to him, okay?"

To find out what Jason did that was so bad it earned this? To find out if Bruce is still okay with them dating, in light of his latest tantrum?

"About what?" Jason asks, dreading the answer.

Tim's mouth thins. His eyes blaze.

"His fucking methods."

happy halloween! 🎃👻🦇 i gave up on the prompt generator, but wanted to write the classic Who did this to you? i hope you enjoyed! ♡♡

[starspray]

🌹🌹🌹

Fëanor had once said that it was Nerdanel that Maglor had inherited his own talents from. She’d laughed and protested, but Maglor had believed it. He had always loved to listen to her, though she never sang except when she was working and not thinking about it, or when she hummed quiet lullabies to help them sleep as children, and he let himself indulge in it for a verse or two before he stepped away from the window and toward the door.

[gentle-hearted]

"Oh, I bled through my shirt. Cool." - Dylan

Not the oddest thing she's heard from a complete stranger on the street, but--

"...w-why are you bleeding?"

Still, she shrugged off her backpack and began fiddling inside. She knew she has a stray band-aid or two somewhere.

"Not, um, n-not that it's any of my b-business," she mumbled. "Sorry."

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Random Suffering Starters

[iknowmorethanyou]

Follow up

[bedlamsbard]

Enjoyed the directors commentary you've posted so far. Would love to get Nat and Steve coming back to the future (no reference intended) in of home near.

Thanks for giving a specific scene! (Since I have written uuuuuhhhhhh a lot.)

I knew pretty early on (I think the earliest in-text reference to it is in Chapter 2) that the Ancient One was going to be the one to get Steve and Natasha back to 2018, but I was really worried that it was going to come out of nowhere.

The Space Stone’s energy fed into the glittering green mandalas of the Time Stone as the window enlarged with storm cloud flickers at its edges, just like the portal Thanos had used in Wakanda. All they had to do was walk through it and they would be home.

For one horrifying moment, Steve didn’t know if he could do it.

This is one of only a few times times that Steve makes a conscious decision to walk away from something (the other ones are the Valkyrie's suicide plunge in CATFA and walking out in CACW) and being back in 1945, being back at the SSR, with Peggy and Howard and the Howlies, is something that, as he tells Natasha back in Chapter 1, something that he's wanted badly for years. It had to be his choice to turn away from it.

Then he let his breath out slowly and stepped forward with Natasha, feeling energy wash across his skin as he did so. There was a sensation like falling, like the effortless drop of the Valkyrie when he had driven it into the ocean, and his stomach turned over before his next step fell on solid ground.

One of the recurring themes you'll see in my Cap stuff is that the decision to crash the Valkyrie was probably the most consequential one in Steve's life, and one that he would do again every time, but one which he does dwell on sometimes. Turns up in Home too, when Sterns is inducing hallucinations and Steve interprets the drugs as the ice closing in around him.

Bucky had his arms around him even before Steve could draw in a breath, his grip hard enough to hurt as he expertly avoided the shield on Steve’s back. Steve released Natasha to return the embrace as Bucky said in his ear, “You son of a bitch, I thought you were dead.”

When they were growing up, Bucky always thought that he was going to have to bury Steve, post-serum got to the point where he thought that probably wasn't going to happen after all, didn't have to worry about it for a while for various reasons, and then Steve vanishing in front of him brought all of that back up.

“Not yet,” Steve said, drawing back but keeping a hand on Bucky’s shoulder. They both turned to look at the window, at the SSR and the Howling Commandos and the lives they had left behind on the other side. Peggy was weeping, standing shoulder to shoulder with Howard and Dum-Dum, and when she saw them looking she touched her fingers to her lips and raised them in a farewell.

I’m sorry, Steve mouthed silently; he knew they couldn’t hear him. Goodbye.

Steve is sorry, but these are two things that he couldn't both have at the same time, and he had to make a choice.

If Bucky said anything, he didn’t know.

Bucky gets to say goodbye to 1945 too.

There was a flare of greenish energy that was flecked with blue, and then the window was gone. Steve staggered a little, the sense of loss almost too much to bear, and Bucky and Sam both caught him to steady him.

“We got you,” Sam told him, moving his hand from Steve’s bad shoulder to his upper arm when he winced. “Is this – are you hurt?”

I get anxious with this story that there's not enough Sam in it.

“I got shot a couple of days ago, it’s fine,” Steve said, which made Sam say, “You got what? In 1945? By who? The Nazis?”

“The Soviets,” Steve said. He let go of Bucky to hug Sam too, then Rhodey, Clint, and Bruce. Thor bowled them all aside to seize him in a hard embrace, pressing a hand briefly to the back of Steve’s head before he reached out to draw Natasha into the hug. He was shaking a little as he did so, like he couldn’t believe that he had gotten them back.

This is a close-canon AU in a lot of ways since it doesn't fundamentally change anything about the events of IW/the Endgame prologue, but there are a couple of really key character changes that occur as a result of Steve and Natasha vanishing + coming back. Thor is one, Tony is another. For Tony, it's about Steve (apparently) getting killed against an opponent who personally chose to spare him (Tony), and that shakes him up pretty badly. For Thor, it's about actually getting someone back, since Thor has JUST lost his father, his planet, his entire species, his faith in the order of the universe, his brother, his best friends, and as a distant seventh and last, half of all living things in the universe. Getting his closest Earth friend back doesn't make him less depressed (nothing could), but it does fundamentally alter his worldview at this point.

“We’re okay,” Natasha told him, smiling up at him. “We’re both okay.”

When Thor released him, Steve turned to look at Tony, who was sitting heavily in a wheelchair and watching him. He pushed himself upright to face Steve, ignoring Pepper’s attempt to help him, and said, “I guess the old man got the last word after all.”

While the kiss is the big thing, Tony saw a LOT of Howard and Steve's interactions through the time window. (That soft whispered "Dad" when they first notice the time window is one of my favorite scenes.) Howard has been the ghost in the room of every interaction that Tony and Steve have ever had from Day One back in The Avengers, even if he actually only comes up in conversation between them three times prior to Endgame (AoU and twice in CACW) and every time he does you can literally see Tony rewrite the narrative in real time. I've said a few times that I don't think it was ever public knowledge that Howard Stark was in the SSR, since the public line seems to be that he worked on the Manhattan Project, but the timeline literally does not work for him to have been in the Manhattan Project and at the SSR and we know from CATFA he was in the SSR. I don't think Tony ever knew that he was in the SSR; he finds out in IM2 that Howard a SHIELD founder, but there never seems to be any awareness that he was in the SSR, since they are actually different entities. It very much changes his understanding of Howard and Steve's relationship to go from "they met a few times and Dad was obsessed with him" to "they worked closely together for a year and a half." There's a scene in CACW where it becomes clear, in real time, that Tony didn't realize that Steve and Howard didn't just know each other, they knew each other. (The scene with FDR's pen. Watch Tony's face in that scene.)

Over the course of the last hour-ish, Tony has seen through the time window: Steve and Howard hanging out drinking in an empty lab (at one point the kiss was actually in this scene), Steve dragging Howard out the moment he saw the time window, Steve on several occasions either pulling Howard back from the Ancient One or getting between her and Howard, Steve and Howard hugging, Steve trying to give the shield back to Howard and being refused (this part is important to Tony for obvious CACW/Endgame reasons), THE KISS, and also another hug. That's a lot to emotionally parse even if Tony was in tip-top condition, which he is not.

Steve swallowed. “Are you okay?”

“I got stabbed in the gut and spent three weeks dying in space, happens to the best of us,” Tony said. “On the other hand, I kind of wish Thanos had stabbed out my eyes, because I might never recover from the trauma of seeing what I just saw.”

Tony is never going to emotionally recover from this. He could not have prepared for this! It literally never occurred to him that his father wanted to know Captain America biblically! He has to rewrite his entire understanding of his father now and he can't just pretend it didn't happen the way he does every other time Howard comes up. This is a revelation as world-shattering to him as Fury telling him Howard had an entire secret life with SHIELD back in IM2.

Steve flushed. “Tony…”

“Only knew him when he was young and single, huh?” Tony said dryly. He shut his eyes briefly, frowning, then nodded – apparently to himself – and looked up again before he put his hand out to Steve. His voice was a little stiff, but he didn’t hesitate as he said, “Welcome home.”

The "I only knew him when he was young and single" line in CACW is deeply funny to me because if you watch Tony's face when Steve says it -- they aren't facing each other in that scene -- you can see him process in real time that Steve may actually have known Howard, not just met him in passing.

It's costing Tony a lot to say this to Steve, and Steve knows it.

Steve took his hand; Tony’s grip was warm and dry and weaker than normal. “It’s good to see you too,” he said. “We thought you were dead.”

This comes up in the Wakanda flashback in Horizon too: Steve's automatic assumption when Thanos shows up in Wakanda with the Time Stone is that Tony died trying to keep it from him, because otherwise Thanos wouldn't have it. Even if they don't actually like each other -- and I think Steve and Tony's fundamental problem is that despite a lot of trying, they don't actually get each other in a way that's not reparable -- they do both respect each other a lot.

“Not for lack of trying,” Tony said. He released Steve as Natasha came up on Steve’s other side, flanked by Yelena and Clint, and offered her his hand too. Natasha took it, then hugged him when he didn’t pull away.

Since this is primarily a Steve story, most of the emphasis on interpersonal dynamics has to do with Steve's, and Natasha's are mostly in the background, but they are there.

“All right,” Steve said, looking around the room and marking the empty places where the other members of his team should have been with a little shudder of ill-feeling. He didn’t know the blonde woman in the blue-and-red suit with its golden starburst or the round-faced sorcerer in his blood-colored robes, but he recognized the talking raccoon who had come to Wakanda with Thor; all three of the strangers had hung back from the reunion. “What did we miss? What happened in Wakanda?”

oh no I forgot to mention Nebula in this scene. :/ There are a LOT of moving parts in the present day and a lot of characters to keep track of and I do periodically forget that someone should be in the room and didn't get mentioned. (Which is why I got so annoyed at that one post a while back -- I go to a lot of effort to make sure that when I have a dozen characters in a scene that they actually are all in the scene.)

Since Sam and Bucky didn't get snapped in this 'verse (because Steve and Natasha being gone changes the randomness of the Snap), there are actually more people present than in canon, but the people who should be here but aren't are Wanda and Vision.

This is a story that often gets interpreted as being a response to Steve's ending in Endgame, and it's really not -- one of the things I went into this fic with was "if Steve was able to go back to the past, under what circumstances would he stay and under what circumstances would he go back to the future?" Well, we know the circumstances in which he would stay, those are the canon ones. What are the circumstances where he actively chooses to go back to 2018? So a lot of this fic is because Steve got yanked out of very, very specific circumstances, he's pretty desperate to go back -- but it's something that really, really eats at him. There was never a point in this story where I considered having Steve and Natasha stay in 1945. (Though they didn't know that, obviously, and I got a lot of comments unsure about what was happening.) They were always going to go back to 2018; it's why one of the first things I had to figure out for this fic was "how do they get back?"

I will admit that when I wrote this chapter I thought there was maybe going to be one chapter left and then I wrote another 70K+. Looking at the dates on this chapter, I must have written most of it during My Hell Months 2024. (February 2024 was a nightmare for me.)

[inell]

Writing Meme - 1,2,3,4,5

I was tagged by several people, most recently @exhuastedpigeon

Rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on tumblr or FFN!).

most hits Bliss Hermione/Multiple. Adult. 240,193 hits

second most kudos Operation: Chick Flick Sterek. Teen. Kudos: 2857

third most comments Badass Supernatural Immortals 2: Return to Beacon Hills Stiles poly fic. Teen. Comment threads: 159

fourth most bookmarks Secondhand Soulmate Sterek. Teen. Bookmarks: 584

fifth most words Badass Supernatural Immortals 3: Rise of the Guardians Stiles poly. Teen. Word count: 115,424

fic with the least words Kiss Harry/Ginny. Any Age. Word count: 98

Not sure who has done this already so I’ll tag @lavender-lotion @dragonmuse @andrealyn @dragonydreams @littlefreakbuckley @rosieposiepuddingnpie @yogi-bogey-box @clotpolesonly

[bigshot]

"You look like you could use a drink."

Send "You look like you…", complete the sentence, and see how my muse reacts to being told that! || NOT ACCEPTING

"KRIS!!!!! KRIS!! KRIS!! KRIS!!"

"YOU'RE TOO YOUNG FOR [Wizard Ale]!!!!"

[nando161mando]

[chubby-kaito]

Woah. Kaito woke up from few months sleeping! G'morning sleepy bear

[yasmindifference]

12!

Tim is only halfway through his explanation of the case he's been working when Bruce sighs and says, "I'll bring Hood in."

He's so astonished by this idiocy that it genuinely takes him a few seconds to recover; he has to run to catch up. Then, since he's running anyway, he uses his momentum to slide into place a few steps ahead, blocking Batman's path.

In the Cave, that's more symbolic than anything--there's plenty of room to go around him--and B respects that much, at least. He stops in his tracks.

"No, you won't," Tim says very clearly.

Batman frowns. "Red Robin."

"Batman," he returns, and Batman's frown deepens.

He's wearing the cowl now, having pulled it on as he walked--steeling himself for what he's decided he has to do. Shutting Bruce away so his paternal affection doesn't slow him down.

As usual, he's being a complete moron. World's Greatest Detective, Tim's ass.

"Red Robin," Batman says again, "your attachment to Red Hood--"

"--has nothing to do with this," Tim interrupts. "Jason didn't do it."

His pointed use of Jason's actual name goes unacknowledged; Batman sets his shoulders to loom and doubles down.

"The victim profile is clearly in line with Hood's usual targets," he says. "The victim's own victims were children, specifically children from Crime Alley, and his crimes against them were exactly the kind that Hood punishes the most severely. You can't deny that."

He's using the Batman growl and still looming over Tim...why, Tim's not exactly sure. It's not like he ever backed down from this kind of display even when he was a literal child facing down a Batman half-mad with grief. As an adult and a vigilante in his own right, who's been facing down the city's, world's, and occasionally galaxy's worst for nearly a decade...Batman is barely going to make him blink.

So he meets the eerie white lenses of the cowl straight on when he says, "No, I can't deny any of that. But Jason still didn't do it."

"You're being unrealistic," Batman says sharply. "Basing your conclusion on emotion instead of fact."

"No, that would be you," Tim corrects, just as sharp. "You're blinded by your issues with Jason's way of doing things. If you were actually thinking straight--"

"Hood makes a habit of targeting rapists, pedophiles, and anyone who breaks his so-called 'rules' in the territory he claims as his." Batman looms harder. "All three apply to the victim. What evidence do you have to support his innocence?"

"The fact that this isn't how Jason works."

Batman's face blanks out, scowl wiped away as he forcefully suppresses his reaction to Tim's words.

"Hood has never agreed with the no-kill rule," he says, "and despite our truce, he never committed to not using lethal force. It was only a matter of time before he crossed the line again, and this is precisely how he likes to 'punish' those he deems guilty."

Tim has to take a second to deliberately calm himself before he can trust his voice. His hands ache for how tightly he's fisted them.

"No," he says, once he's sure his voice won't shake with the anger trembling in his fists. "No, it isn't."

"Tim--"

"It's true that Jason isn't opposed to lethal force," he says over Batman. "It's also true that he particularly targets people who break his rules and/or prey on children. But not like this!"

If he were anyone but Batman, Tim would say Bruce falters.

"Explain."

Tim doesn't hesitate.

"Yes, Jason is willing to kill," he says. "Yes, he'll even make it hurt if the crime is bad enough. But his goal isn't to punish anyone--it's to protect people."

Batman's flat expression--what little Tim can see of it beyond the cowl, at least--says he doesn't appreciate the difference.

Tim tries again. "Jason doesn't kill because he enjoys it, he kills because he thinks it's the only way to stop the worst of the worst. That's why he goes after the people the system can't or won't contain."

Still, Batman is unmoved. Tim gets to the point.

"Our victim was tortured over the course of several hours," he says again. It was one of the first lines in his little presentation on the case, and should have immediately disqualified Jason as a potential perpetrator. "I estimate at least twelve hours passed between the infliction of the first wound and his death, which was the result of a combination of shock and blood loss."

"You said that already," Batman says, unamused.

"Yes, and you should've known that it ruled out Jason!" Tim snaps. "If Jason had done this, he might have, have kneecapped the guy first, or shot him in the gut, or something, because yes, he'd have wanted to make him hurt. But the death still would have been measured in minutes, because at the end of the day, Jason's main priority is to end suffering, not cause it."

For a long, tense moment, Batman stares at him. Tim's trembling with emotion--not just anger that Batman is doubting him, but fear at what Batman might do to Jason if Tim can't stop him.

For all of Bruce's talk about Jason crossing lines...when it comes to Jason, Bruce tends to cross plenty himself.

Finally, Batman (and he is still so very Batman) says, "I wish I could believe that, but I can't."

"Then believe in me," Tim says, seizing the opening at once. "Just give me a day or two, okay? I'll find the real killer and prove that Jason didn't do this."

After either a few seconds or a lifetime, Batman finally--finally--backs down.

"You have a week," he says, and turns away. "And if you're wrong..."

Tim isn't about to humor that ominous trailing off. "I'm not. You'll see."

"I hope so," Bruce says quietly.

Prompt #12 was one character standing up for the other! Good choice! ♡♡

[starspray]

WIP Game

Rules: You will be given a word. Share a snippet from a WIP for every letter in that word, then tag some friends and give them a new word.

My word is MADE; thanks for the tag @annarobots!

You'll never guess which WIP all the snippets are from

M

Maedhros came around the larger workshop, damp and scowling, with his sketchbook under his arm. He slowed when he saw the two of them. “Breakfast is inside,” Caranthir said. “Try not to drip wet dog water into the oatmeal.” Maedhros made a face and a rude gesture before continuing on inside.

A

Amras reached through the window again to tug on a strand of Maedhros’ hair that had fallen forward over his eyes. “We didn’t go all the way to Ekkaia and back just to have nothing change.” “Things have changed,” Maedhros said. “I’m brooding out here, and not in my bedroom.”

D

“Daeron makes him happy, Ammë,” Maedhros said quietly. “He should be in Lórien,” Nerdanel said. “I know you might not think so, Maitimo, because your judgment is not—” “Then don’t trust my judgment,” said Maedhros. “If he needed Estë’s help so desperately, he would be in Lórien now instead of here. Elrond would have seen to it—Elrond would have brought him west a hundred years ago, rather than leaving him behind in Middle-earth.

E

Elrond sighed. “I don’t know. I know very little of Mandos or its workings. If there are those who know more, they keep their secrets close. I don’t know why Mandos would wait for someone to ask, but make the choice for another without consultation.” “What if it was a mistake? What if—” “Those questions will only lead to grief, Maglor. What is done is done. If it was a mistake…only life can cure it, I suppose, but we cannot live another’s life for them.”

gonna tag @idleleaves @thescrapwitch @vefanyar @dreamingthroughthenoise if you'd like!

Your word is CAVE

[kareenvorbarra]

tagged by @child-of-hurin and @vardasvapors to list ten books I want to read in 2025!

I’m only going to list five here because I actually did a version of this meme back in December, and so far I've only finished two of the books from that list lol...but I want to make a new list because that's more fun! I doubt I’ll read all of them this year because I will inevitably get sidetracked by other things and go through periods where I don't read very much, but this is an aspirational list.

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader (Karel Čapek)

I got this one because it contains the most recent English translation my library had of Čapek's play Rossum's Universal Robots, which I've been curious about for a while! I read some of his short stories when I was in college and found them interesting, so I'll probably just read the whole book.

Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers)

I just finished The Nine Tailors, which was one of the books on my December list, and it took all my self-control not to jump immediately into this one (I'm trying to finish some other stuff first). Seeing people talk about this book on tumblr is what made me start the series in the first place, so you can imagine my excitement!

The Wood at Midwinter (Susanna Clarke)

Juliana got me this book for Christmas because we both love JSAMN, and I still haven't read it! It's very short so I know it'll be a quick read once I start it - I guess I'm just waiting until I'm in the right mood.

The Venus Throw (Steven Saylor)

Like the Sayers, this is another installment in a long mystery series that I've been reading for the last year or so. I've been enjoying it so far; it's set in the late Roman Republic, and the protagonist is basically a regular guy who sometimes gets mixed up in the problems of the rich and powerful due to his career as a private investigator. I really like the way the author handles the time period. The main character exists very much within the morality of his own culture, while also chafing at it in a realistic way; I find him quite likeable, but he still feels like someone from another time.

The Shepherd's Crown (Terry Pratchett)

I'm a big Tiffany Aching fan from way back, and I bought this book in hardcover as soon as it came out, but I still haven't read it. It was released just a few months after Terry Pratchett died; at first I was too emotional about that to read it, and I kept putting it off for years because reading the final Tiffany book would feel like saying goodbye for real. When I finally decided I was ready, I wanted to reread I Shall Wear Midnight, which I hadn't read since its release in 2010 and didn't remember very well. By the time I finally got around to rereading it, The Shepherd's Crown had been out for nearly a decade. Maybe this is the year.

I think most of my friends have already been tagged and we’re almost halfway through the year already, but please consider yourself tagged if you’d like to be!