I'm back! Temporarily...

Just got back from a long weekend in Nottingham. It was a colleague's stag do and we went to Warhammer World and played 40k for a weekend. Never been on a stag do before but I appreciated how geeky it was :D

Wasn't really sure what it was going to be like. I've played 40k before under Simon's (the stag) tutelage. but this was a BIG game with two players on each side combining their armies.

I did appallingly on the first day (we lost 12-0) and better the second day (we won 6-1) but it was fun! Tiring though. I am so bad at strategy games and concentrating for lengthy periods like that was exhausting. But we had nice chilled out evenings with food and alcohol.

We went to an awesome Russian vodka bar on Friday night which did amazing food and so many different flavours of vodka. Of course we had to try some for science.

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And so I got home this afternoon and I have the rest of the day and tomorrow and then I fly to the US. I certainly know how to keep myself busy!

Sunday Fic Recs

This will be my last fic rec post until I get back from the US at the end of October. Next post will be on the 25th.

Dorian/Bull (Dragon Age)
How to Share a Bed Without Killing Each Other: a Love Story by electricshoebox
Sleeping together is all well and good (very, very good) but sleeping together is... well, another beast entirely.
Aww! So sweet!

Always Good at Bad Ideas by electricshoebox
A dragon fight leaves Bull gravely injured, and Dorian feeling frantic and vulnerable enough to blurt out the one thing he wanted to keep hidden.
Aww!!

Nathaniel/Velanna (Dragon Age)
More Earnest Than Truth by feust
Velanna has one more conversation with the undecipherable Nathaniel before leaving for Amaranthine to defend the city from the darkspawn.
My Dragon Age Awakening OTP and this is so perfect!

The Raging Quiet by selkit
Velanna finds herself out of her comfort zone when Nathaniel returns to camp in a darker mood than usual.
Argh! I love them so much! This is great!

Tempest by amandakitswell
After the battle at Vigil’s Keep, Velanna leaves the Wardens, intending to search for her sister, and never return. But when Nathaniel comes after her, she realizes walking away without looking back might not be as easy as she thought.
*melts into a puddle of feels*

A Walk in the Sun by electricshoebox
Delilah is determined to get her brother to tell her the details of his burgeoning relationship with that elf woman, and Nathaniel finds himself thinking of their first kiss.
I’m basically just making incoherent cooing noises at this point

Atonement by selkit
When a routine Deep Roads mission goes awry, Velanna is forced to come face to face with her prejudices.
Lovely bit of hurt/comfort

J2 (Supernatural RPF)
Tell-Tale by cherie_morte
He can’t help it if he thinks it’s kind of sweet. He keeps the heart in his mostly empty freezer, peeking at it every few days. It's probably not human, anyway. Obviously he’d report it if it was human.
The summary had me curious and wow this is amazing! I haven’t read J2 in years and so glad I read this one!

Illya/Napoleon (The Man From UNCLE (TV Universe))
The Kissing Bandit by blondie54x
This is an AU story in which Illya Kuryakin is, as he was fated to be, Number 2, section 2 in the U.N.C.L.E., New York, but Napoleon Solo - who took a left turn instead of a right at the crossroads of his life - chose an altogether different path. Oblivious to each other’s existence, events (or should I say destiny) are about to bring them together.
This is so cute and so much fun!