#ltbradystories

[ltbrady]

So I've been quiet, but a) I locked myself out of the account and b) I went and got married! Which is amazing and weird and wonderful. And no-one told me they'd all agreed to put the rings on the cushions of the cats and bow/curtsey as they presented this so I spent a good chunk of the ceremony cackling like a lunatic!

[fangirlzone]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 32/? Fandom: Suits (US TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mike Ross & Harvey Specter Characters: Harvey Specter, Mike Ross, Gordon Specter, Donna Paulsen, Jessica Pearson Additional Tags: Family, Father-Son Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Kid Fic, Character Death, Canon-Typical Drug Use Summary:

When Mike Ross' family are killed in a car accident, his guardianship reverts back to the Specter Family. An AU with Harvey as Mike's father and all that goes with it!

Sooo

it’s the best ff I have ever read and basically I know it by heart now but I still read it every few days just hanging there waiting desperately for an update. 

also I’m pressuring all my friends to read it and it just became a thing I do and I think soon I will be annoying enough to reach this goal

not to be nagging but I remember reading the last update on a beautiful September day, on a beach, thinking there will be next update before I’ll finish my holiday AND KNOW HALF YEAR LATER I’M STILL WAITING the world is ending and I’m still waiting.

I don’t really write about my feelings (cos I don't really know them) or about anything for that matter but It’s the only thing I’m recently passionate about and I hope this means I still know how to feel so you’ll have to suffer 

and the sheer talent and how, words, this , I just can’t put my words into how I’ve read books where the storyline wasn’t half this good and researched 

the emotional and psychological trauma too

i’m just signing off 

it’s too much 

with love and adoration,

Lucy

[watsonsanatomy]

Excited to read this #Sherlockholmes story 💕🕵🏻#Sherlock #ltbradystories #ltbrady #johnlock

This used to be the Faithful Compass series!

[ltbrady]

10,000 words into the third book in the series (which is great), but wow do these characters have a mind of their own! At least one keeps running away from a conversation!

[ltbrady]

Fahrenheit 451

I started to read Fahrenheit 451 as my first text for this new resolution. Two reasons for this: one, it’s thin – it’s a small book and only 184 pages. In terms of an easy manageable task, this suited me perfectly. Two, I ‘borrowed’ it from work about six years ago because I was told by someone it’s the perfect text to make you appreciate the books that we all know we should read, but few of us rarely do.

I won’t even lie: in my head, I had an idea that this would be like a fireman film (think Backdraft-esque) crossed with Equilibrium and after seeing a trailer for the new series based on the book, that idea was solidified.

For those of you that haven’t heard of the book, the main character is a fireman and a fireman’s job is to burn books and those that do read books are hunted down through the use of a mechanical hound.

I think with Equilibrium in mind, I was very much focused on it being about the emotions that writing and art provide, but that definitely hindered me in understanding the text. But about sixty pages in, I clicked onto the point of the book and was blown away and had to keep checking the publishing date because this was published in 1953. Call it what would happen if political correctness went way too far (the way some claim it is), call it dumbing down the world, call it what we might turn into if politics is conducted through twitter. Fahrenheit 451 explores the consequences of humans’ desire for quick hits of controlled, easy information rather than fully exploring ideas, even if they are uncomfortable.

I’m 100 pages in now. Montag, the main character takes a while to settle into: his wife the first time we meet her, is close to death because she has taken pills and the care of her is treated like servicing a machine. Montag’s distant reaction to it is hard to understand at first, but it makes sense once you realise what has become important in this society. His walks with the girl next door are perfectly innocent and it’s more about what they talk about than anything else.

But this bit surprised me and I’d be interested in people’s thoughts: at one point when talking about books a character says: ‘You can shut them [books] and say ‘Hold on a moment’. You can play God to it.’

I never thought of books that way. That I can try out a new world, a new idea and, if something gets too uncomfortable, I can shut the book. That I have the power to pause. Because TV and films can haunt you if you glance at an image, create stark pictures that even without context can disturb (my parents will certainly agree with that given the nightmares I had as a five year old having glanced at a TV when Batman was on and the joker was in a vat of acid), but a book…usually the uncomfortable feelings come from the detail, the build-up, our investment and the emotional atmosphere that the writer creates. In many ways that it’s like having a parent watching over you – new experiences are offered, but there’s a safety net if you get uncertain. And the good books should give you that, should take you to a new place that you can, in some ways, control. But I think of people that I know who are anxious and I wonder, how much do books help us explore the world and offer different perspectives in a safe way?

And that’s what’s important about this book. That we need to have context, experiences and be challenged. And it has made me more willing to look back at those ‘clever books’ I usually avoid because actually how brilliant are the things they offer?

I’ll finish Fahrenheit 451 off today because I have a lovely long journey coming up. Gonna grab a book from the page my book is on next – the two that interested me the most were ‘The Super Ladies’ by Susan Petrone and ‘Beyond Relatively Normal’ by Mikaela Hancock. ‘The Super Ladies’ is, from what I gather, about three middle aged women in Cleveland that become superheroes while ‘Beyond Relatively Normal’ seems to be a modern, slightly surreal take on Jack in the Beanstalk.

Both sound fantastically fun!

[ltbrady]

...and rewriting and rewriting and...

I think we can all agree that it's rare that you are pleased with the first thing that you write and dear lord has that been true of the first chapter of the third book in Sins of the Father. I wrote the first chapter six years ago and have been editing ever since!

Still, when I came to it this month, laptop issues fixed, time to play around and, you know, actually needing to get that first chapter and the tone of the book fixed, I must have walked away from it about thirteen times in five days. Then, last night, I cracked it. Sort of. It still needs editing, but the bones of what I need are now there and that's amazing and it's sorted and-

And I now need to go and rewrite chapters 2-5. And it's such a beautiful day and I swear some of my friends think I'm becoming a gremlin creature, but my imaginary people are finally starting to behave and we've found a compromise and I am not letting that go for anything.

Except for ice-cream. I might be swayed outside for ice-cream!

[ltbrady]

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[ltbrady]

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