Flowers and fic
22 April 2025 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI think some actual dill has finally germinated while I wasn't looking; the seedlings are very hard to tell apart from poppies during the early stage! Two of the over-wintered California poppies are now in golden bloom, and there is a bud just coming out on the miniature rose, which has died back entirely to a vigorous new shoot -- apparently a rose's way of reinvigorating itself, as it has done this more than once before.
I pulled out the dying towel-tomato, which actually seemed to have quite a robust stem after all -- however, it is too late now! One of the second batch is not looking too healthy either, and the chillies are almost all still sitting there with just their single pair of seed-leaves, with only a couple showing signs of putting out a tiny pair of true leaves. But this does tend to happen...
Made some hot-cross buns for Easter, but unfortunately, due to the extreme rush of getting them through the oven after 36 hours' "slow sourdough fermentation", I forgot to put the crosses on this year! At least that means it is reasonable to freeze them and continue eating them after Easter :-P
And I have begun (and in fact now almost finished; I was hoping I might get through it in a single day, but that was several days ago and clearly over-optimistic!) a 'Three Musketeers' fan-fiction. Possibly inevitably at this point, because although I did not want a new fandom, I think I have to admit that I have managed to acquire one; no sane person spends this amount of time and effort on working through different versions of the same thing otherwise, even if it *is* basically mostly the result of the YouTube algorithm's producing a whole selection of things that were not actually what I was expecting to find at the time!
But this is definitely not the fanfic I was half-intending to write for the BBC version†, or would ever have expected to write -- because, apart from anything else, it has been done before. Except that I didn't find the version clearly written for the titillation of the audience at all convincing...
† but didn't write, because I would need to watch the relevant episode of the BBC "Musketeers" in order to get the canon correct, and preferably most of the preceding episodes -- even though I did eventually manage to track down, with no little effort, *which* episode the fanvid clip that produced the prompt came from! (And have a suspicion, alas, that as with '"The Three Deaths of Anita Blake", the context was completely inaccurate to a degree that would have involved a lot of rewriting to make the idea/dialogue fit, if it proved workable at all.)
I pulled out the dying towel-tomato, which actually seemed to have quite a robust stem after all -- however, it is too late now! One of the second batch is not looking too healthy either, and the chillies are almost all still sitting there with just their single pair of seed-leaves, with only a couple showing signs of putting out a tiny pair of true leaves. But this does tend to happen...
Made some hot-cross buns for Easter, but unfortunately, due to the extreme rush of getting them through the oven after 36 hours' "slow sourdough fermentation", I forgot to put the crosses on this year! At least that means it is reasonable to freeze them and continue eating them after Easter :-P
And I have begun (and in fact now almost finished; I was hoping I might get through it in a single day, but that was several days ago and clearly over-optimistic!) a 'Three Musketeers' fan-fiction. Possibly inevitably at this point, because although I did not want a new fandom, I think I have to admit that I have managed to acquire one; no sane person spends this amount of time and effort on working through different versions of the same thing otherwise, even if it *is* basically mostly the result of the YouTube algorithm's producing a whole selection of things that were not actually what I was expecting to find at the time!
But this is definitely not the fanfic I was half-intending to write for the BBC version†, or would ever have expected to write -- because, apart from anything else, it has been done before. Except that I didn't find the version clearly written for the titillation of the audience at all convincing...
† but didn't write, because I would need to watch the relevant episode of the BBC "Musketeers" in order to get the canon correct, and preferably most of the preceding episodes -- even though I did eventually manage to track down, with no little effort, *which* episode the fanvid clip that produced the prompt came from! (And have a suspicion, alas, that as with '"The Three Deaths of Anita Blake", the context was completely inaccurate to a degree that would have involved a lot of rewriting to make the idea/dialogue fit, if it proved workable at all.)