year-end memes
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bedlamsbardShamelessly snagged from highlyeccentric.
1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Graduated college. Moved to another country. Started graduate school. Learned to spindle. Made pizza. Drank tequila. Made ice cream.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I suspect I didn't make any, unless it was something along the lines of "please don't be so crazy," in which case, sort of? And I still tend to think of the New Year as commencing with the school term, which makes this past year particularly screwy, ha.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My cousin A. had her baby on Christmas Eve!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My Japanese grandfather died in November.
5. What countries did you visit?
Moved to England, so I guess that counts.
6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A plan of some sort. I mean, I had a plan, it just didn't really seem to work out. Acceptance to a PhD program, please gods, or at least something that lasts longer than one year.
7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
You'd think I'd say the day I graduated from Tulane, but I can't even remember if I graduate in May or June. *hangs head* The only two dates I can remember from the entire year are October 1, when I started my postgrad program (and trust me, I wouldn't remember if it wasn't the first day of the month), and uh, December 14, when The Hobbit came out. Though I didn't even see it that day!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Actually getting my shit together to apply to a postgrad program, hands down. I'm less impressed with the fact I got in than the fact I actually managed to apply.
9. What was your biggest failure?
This is mostly from 2011, but I made the decision in 2012, so: not writing my senior honors thesis. In the long term I think it was better for me emotionally, because I was a wreck in the back half of 2011, but because I didn't end up writing it I do still feel like a failure, sometimes, when I think about it. And again, partially from 2011, partially from 2012, not having my shit together enough to do proper graduate school applications, both for entrance in 2012 and 2013.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Anxiety, I guess? Not sure if that counts, but it wasn't as bad this year as it was last year, so there's that.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new computer. My gods, it actually works, whaddaya know.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Oh, man, I don't know. My Tulane roommates, for putting up with me for four years and not killing me violently in my sleep?aella_irene, for being a wonderful human being?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
*shrug* I don't know. My father, maybe, but that's not exactly new and it's not that bad.
14. Where did most of your money go?
England. Food. New computer. Books. Yarn.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Uh. Star Wars and The Hobbit, for def.
16. What song will always remind you of 2012?
I feel like this is one of those things that I'm not going to know till later. Like, I have that playlist of songs that I basically wrote my final papers to? But I'm not sure if four years from now I'll listen to those and go, Man, 2012, what a year. (Although there is a song that reminds me intensely of 2008, weirdly enough.)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier, I guess? This time last year I was a nervous wreck trying to come to terms with the fact that I'd failed myself by not being able to write my thesis and by not getting my grad school apps done. Though I'm still freaking out about the latter, because I just can't learn, I guess. Last year I spent almost the entire year in a high state of stress and anxiety, and this year has been less stressful and anxiety-inducing, so there's that.
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same, I think. Maybe a little thinner, since I generally lose weight when I'm away from home, though I'm not sure.
iii. richer or poorer? My grandmother keeps giving me money, so despite the fact I'm paying for graduate school and I don't have a job, about the same, I suspect.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I was better at long-term, or at least longer-term, planning. I feel like I spent a lot of time rushing around at the last minute trying to get things done: final papers, postgrad applications, visa applications, plane tickets, train tickets, everything.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
And see above. Less last minute.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I was home in Washington with my mother.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Same way I spent Christmas! At home in Washington with my mother. In theory my father is coming back from abroad on New Year's Day.
22. Did you fall in love in 2012?
No.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program(s)?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, definitely! And NCIS: LA. I kept up with others, but those are the big two.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. And hate's such a strong emotion.
26. What was the best book you read?
I have no idea. I read a lot of books this year (154, with four still in progress, to be exact), including rereads and audiobooks and not including comic books, and best is so hard to say without falling back on rereads. The best academic book I read this year was Ulrike Roth's Thinking Tools: Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
*hands* I don't know. I don't think I really listened to anyone knew that I had to run out and buy their CDs.
28. What did you want and get?
Admission into a postgraduate program in another country! And a new computer.
29. What did you want and not get?
My life perfectly planned out for the next ten years, eurgh. And peace of mind.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I think the last movie I saw multiple times in the theatre was Prince Caspian, so yeah, Hobbit, definitely. Though there were a surprising number of good movies this year: Brave, The Avengers, For a Good Time, Call...
31. What did you do on your birthday?
For the first time in three years I was home for my birthday, so I stayed home and ate cake. I think. It was in January, it was a while ago.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
"Being better prepared" just sounds so abstract. I feel like it's always a case of things I didn't do, rather than things I did or did not have.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
2012 was the year I really embraced the fact that I was living in a subtropical state, so -- way more so than the previous years I lived in New Orleans -- I managed to get very comfortable wearing shorts, tanktops, sundresses, and sandals. And boobalicious tops. Then I moved to England, so, whoops, there went that, and I switched to jeans, tall boots, and sweaters.
34. What kept you sane?
Fandom. Or the way I participated in it, anyway, which is mostly a case of consume! Squee! Sometimes produce! Do not engage! Star Wars for the first half of the year, the other half -- I watched a lot of Criminal Minds and a lot of Chopped. And then Hobbitses came along, so that's where I'm at now. Knitting and spindling. Reading books. Writing. All y'all.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Oh gods. *facepalm* Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth, along with the rest of fandom. SURPRISE.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
As much as I hate politics, I couldn't avoid the U.S. election. Except I actually kind of could, since I didn't vote because my ballot never showed up.
37. Who did you miss?
MY TULANE FRIENDS. I lived with them for four years, and then all of a sudden, poof, gone. We're still in touch online, but it was such a shock. And New Orleans, desperately and painfully and always.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My English flatmate N., maybe? Or Lin, one of my profs at Leicester? (She's fabulous, I love her.)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
(a) TMI and (b) you can put your hair in a bun with just a small alligator clip. Even my hair! And I have a lot of hair.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"still, pretty good year."
And another end of the year (fannish) meme, snagged from various peoples.
Your main fandom of the year? Weirdly, Star Wars. I think this is the first time in four years it hasn't been Narnia, but without checking and doing the math on wordcount, I wrote a hell of a lot more Star Wars fic than I did Narnia fic, and I was definitely consuming various Star Wars media all over the place.
Your favorite film you watched this year? The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I just -- I have so many feels about this movie that sometimes I can barely talk about it. And I saw it twice (so far) in theatres; I haven't done that since Prince Caspian. There were definitely some great movies this year, though: The Avengers and Brave and For a Good Time, Call.
Your favorite book read this year? I don't know. I read a lot of books this year (154, plus the four in progress!), including rereads and audiobooks and books for school.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? I don't know! I tend to listen to the same thing over and over again for a few weeks to a month, then move onto something else. Right now it's The Hobbit OST. (BLUNT THE KNIVES AND BEND THE FORKS *kisses*)
Your favorite tv show of the year? Star Wars: The Clone Wars. So many feels!
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? I don't even know. I'd say Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Star Wars Clone Wars comics, but I was in SW before, so I'm not sure that counts as new even though I was reading and watching things I was before. All the amazing Hobbit fanart out there, maybe; I swear that fandom has the best art I've ever seen. (Plus, feels.)
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Fringe's life choices. I mean, I enjoy it and I'm still watching, but I'm not so intensely emotionally involved anymore because of various things that they did in the last two seasons.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Obi-Wan Kenobi!
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Ahsoka Tano? Padme Amidala? Huh, I don't know. Oh, wait! Amanda Thorne/Emily Clarke from Revenge, def.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? The Hobbit. Both times.
The most missed of your old fandoms? I'm still in my old fandoms (Narnia!) and I actually returned to an old fandom this year (Star Wars!), and I don't miss my pre-Narnia fandoms (CSI:NY and Miracle), so...maybe BSG? I was too emotionally wrought to try Blood & Chrome, so I haven't seen that yet, but that's me, not the PTB. Oh, I know. I stopped watching Game of Thrones near the beginning of S2, and I couldn't get myself to try the new season of Criminal Minds (I am easily emotionally wrought, I need someone to tell me it's still good), and I never ended up finishing S1 of The Borgias. All three of those are non-productive fandoms for me, though.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I keep meaning to watch Elementary and Once Upon a Time, which I haven't tried yet.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year? THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG OMG (DWARVES IN BARRELS) and also The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey extended edition omg omg omg. Also I hear there are some other movies coming out, haha; I'm looking forward to seeing what Thor 2 does, and I live in hope that someday S.M. Stirling will finish the Emberverse.
And the first lines of the first posts of each month of 2012 meme:
January: Happy New Year!
February: Wow, this is the second slashiest thing I've ever read in the EU, where Anakin cuts his way through an army of bounty hunters screaming for Obi-Wan after having ~visions, while Obi-Wan snarks and Ki-Adi-Mundi despairs.
March: I love Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
April: So I read this, which triggered my fannish hindbrain and sent me back to reread this.
May: My university has two 3000-year-old Egyptian mummies that have been in the university's collection since 1852 (for an American school, this is old).
June: Okay, at this point, "water trickster demon" is actually the only reasonable explanation.
July: Brave is fantastic, guys.
August: I have made an amazing strawberry frozen yoghurt today, thus christening my new ice cream maker.
September: I am really not taking the whole "not in New Orleans this year" thing well.
October: I am ensconced at my August Institution of Higher Learning, which manages to be equal parts overwhelming and underwhelming.
November: Looking at graduate schools -- for the PhD this time -- is just depressing, especially since I've got several problems:
December: Here is a thing which I am not writing.
And first lines of fic from the first fic written each month (uh, this seems unlikely, I'm just saying).
January: Jill hasn’t had occasion to visit Anvard’s kennels before, but a man-at-arms in the palace livery points the way out to her and she soon finds herself pushing open a door with a stylized pattern of various dogs chasing each other engraved on it. (Dust 27)
February: The death of a single Jedi, violent, unexpected, can leave ripples in the Force for decades, even centuries afterwards. (SW genderfuck ramblings, the double genderfuck)
March: Somewhat to Obi-Wan’s surprise, Dooku takes her to what must be his private holocomm chamber. (Dirt in the Machine 4)
April: The decision was taken out of her hands a few days later. (Bad Moon Rising 2)
May: The last time Obi-Wan had been in the presence of this many politicians, she’d been briefly undercover as one of Queen Amidala’s handmaidens as Amidala addressed the Senate. (Bad Moon Rising 4)
June: She sees the manor house first. (Dust 28)
July: n/a
August: n/a
September: By the time that King Rilian the Disenchanted, son of Caspian X the Seafarer (the first king of a more or less united Narnia), assumed the throne, his betrothed had already been married for some eleven years, and had three boys and two girls with her husband. (How Prince Col Came to Leave Narnia,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
narniaexchange fic)
October: n/a
November: n/a
December: Natasha arrived in SHIELD’s round atrium just in time to see a beam of blindingly blight cut clean through the ceiling and emboss a familiar round knot pattern on the marble floor. (Avengers lolarity ramblings, with alt!Loki)
highlyeccentric.1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Graduated college. Moved to another country. Started graduate school. Learned to spindle. Made pizza. Drank tequila. Made ice cream.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I suspect I didn't make any, unless it was something along the lines of "please don't be so crazy," in which case, sort of? And I still tend to think of the New Year as commencing with the school term, which makes this past year particularly screwy, ha.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My cousin A. had her baby on Christmas Eve!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My Japanese grandfather died in November.
5. What countries did you visit?
Moved to England, so I guess that counts.
6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A plan of some sort. I mean, I had a plan, it just didn't really seem to work out. Acceptance to a PhD program, please gods, or at least something that lasts longer than one year.
7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
You'd think I'd say the day I graduated from Tulane, but I can't even remember if I graduate in May or June. *hangs head* The only two dates I can remember from the entire year are October 1, when I started my postgrad program (and trust me, I wouldn't remember if it wasn't the first day of the month), and uh, December 14, when The Hobbit came out. Though I didn't even see it that day!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Actually getting my shit together to apply to a postgrad program, hands down. I'm less impressed with the fact I got in than the fact I actually managed to apply.
9. What was your biggest failure?
This is mostly from 2011, but I made the decision in 2012, so: not writing my senior honors thesis. In the long term I think it was better for me emotionally, because I was a wreck in the back half of 2011, but because I didn't end up writing it I do still feel like a failure, sometimes, when I think about it. And again, partially from 2011, partially from 2012, not having my shit together enough to do proper graduate school applications, both for entrance in 2012 and 2013.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Anxiety, I guess? Not sure if that counts, but it wasn't as bad this year as it was last year, so there's that.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new computer. My gods, it actually works, whaddaya know.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Oh, man, I don't know. My Tulane roommates, for putting up with me for four years and not killing me violently in my sleep?
aella_irene, for being a wonderful human being?13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
*shrug* I don't know. My father, maybe, but that's not exactly new and it's not that bad.
14. Where did most of your money go?
England. Food. New computer. Books. Yarn.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Uh. Star Wars and The Hobbit, for def.
16. What song will always remind you of 2012?
I feel like this is one of those things that I'm not going to know till later. Like, I have that playlist of songs that I basically wrote my final papers to? But I'm not sure if four years from now I'll listen to those and go, Man, 2012, what a year. (Although there is a song that reminds me intensely of 2008, weirdly enough.)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier, I guess? This time last year I was a nervous wreck trying to come to terms with the fact that I'd failed myself by not being able to write my thesis and by not getting my grad school apps done. Though I'm still freaking out about the latter, because I just can't learn, I guess. Last year I spent almost the entire year in a high state of stress and anxiety, and this year has been less stressful and anxiety-inducing, so there's that.
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same, I think. Maybe a little thinner, since I generally lose weight when I'm away from home, though I'm not sure.
iii. richer or poorer? My grandmother keeps giving me money, so despite the fact I'm paying for graduate school and I don't have a job, about the same, I suspect.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I was better at long-term, or at least longer-term, planning. I feel like I spent a lot of time rushing around at the last minute trying to get things done: final papers, postgrad applications, visa applications, plane tickets, train tickets, everything.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
And see above. Less last minute.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I was home in Washington with my mother.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Same way I spent Christmas! At home in Washington with my mother. In theory my father is coming back from abroad on New Year's Day.
22. Did you fall in love in 2012?
No.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program(s)?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, definitely! And NCIS: LA. I kept up with others, but those are the big two.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. And hate's such a strong emotion.
26. What was the best book you read?
I have no idea. I read a lot of books this year (154, with four still in progress, to be exact), including rereads and audiobooks and not including comic books, and best is so hard to say without falling back on rereads. The best academic book I read this year was Ulrike Roth's Thinking Tools: Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
*hands* I don't know. I don't think I really listened to anyone knew that I had to run out and buy their CDs.
28. What did you want and get?
Admission into a postgraduate program in another country! And a new computer.
29. What did you want and not get?
My life perfectly planned out for the next ten years, eurgh. And peace of mind.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I think the last movie I saw multiple times in the theatre was Prince Caspian, so yeah, Hobbit, definitely. Though there were a surprising number of good movies this year: Brave, The Avengers, For a Good Time, Call...
31. What did you do on your birthday?
For the first time in three years I was home for my birthday, so I stayed home and ate cake. I think. It was in January, it was a while ago.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
"Being better prepared" just sounds so abstract. I feel like it's always a case of things I didn't do, rather than things I did or did not have.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
2012 was the year I really embraced the fact that I was living in a subtropical state, so -- way more so than the previous years I lived in New Orleans -- I managed to get very comfortable wearing shorts, tanktops, sundresses, and sandals. And boobalicious tops. Then I moved to England, so, whoops, there went that, and I switched to jeans, tall boots, and sweaters.
34. What kept you sane?
Fandom. Or the way I participated in it, anyway, which is mostly a case of consume! Squee! Sometimes produce! Do not engage! Star Wars for the first half of the year, the other half -- I watched a lot of Criminal Minds and a lot of Chopped. And then Hobbitses came along, so that's where I'm at now. Knitting and spindling. Reading books. Writing. All y'all.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Oh gods. *facepalm* Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth, along with the rest of fandom. SURPRISE.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
As much as I hate politics, I couldn't avoid the U.S. election. Except I actually kind of could, since I didn't vote because my ballot never showed up.
37. Who did you miss?
MY TULANE FRIENDS. I lived with them for four years, and then all of a sudden, poof, gone. We're still in touch online, but it was such a shock. And New Orleans, desperately and painfully and always.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My English flatmate N., maybe? Or Lin, one of my profs at Leicester? (She's fabulous, I love her.)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
(a) TMI and (b) you can put your hair in a bun with just a small alligator clip. Even my hair! And I have a lot of hair.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"still, pretty good year."
And another end of the year (fannish) meme, snagged from various peoples.
Your main fandom of the year? Weirdly, Star Wars. I think this is the first time in four years it hasn't been Narnia, but without checking and doing the math on wordcount, I wrote a hell of a lot more Star Wars fic than I did Narnia fic, and I was definitely consuming various Star Wars media all over the place.
Your favorite film you watched this year? The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I just -- I have so many feels about this movie that sometimes I can barely talk about it. And I saw it twice (so far) in theatres; I haven't done that since Prince Caspian. There were definitely some great movies this year, though: The Avengers and Brave and For a Good Time, Call.
Your favorite book read this year? I don't know. I read a lot of books this year (154, plus the four in progress!), including rereads and audiobooks and books for school.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? I don't know! I tend to listen to the same thing over and over again for a few weeks to a month, then move onto something else. Right now it's The Hobbit OST. (BLUNT THE KNIVES AND BEND THE FORKS *kisses*)
Your favorite tv show of the year? Star Wars: The Clone Wars. So many feels!
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? I don't even know. I'd say Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Star Wars Clone Wars comics, but I was in SW before, so I'm not sure that counts as new even though I was reading and watching things I was before. All the amazing Hobbit fanart out there, maybe; I swear that fandom has the best art I've ever seen. (Plus, feels.)
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Fringe's life choices. I mean, I enjoy it and I'm still watching, but I'm not so intensely emotionally involved anymore because of various things that they did in the last two seasons.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Obi-Wan Kenobi!
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Ahsoka Tano? Padme Amidala? Huh, I don't know. Oh, wait! Amanda Thorne/Emily Clarke from Revenge, def.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? The Hobbit. Both times.
The most missed of your old fandoms? I'm still in my old fandoms (Narnia!) and I actually returned to an old fandom this year (Star Wars!), and I don't miss my pre-Narnia fandoms (CSI:NY and Miracle), so...maybe BSG? I was too emotionally wrought to try Blood & Chrome, so I haven't seen that yet, but that's me, not the PTB. Oh, I know. I stopped watching Game of Thrones near the beginning of S2, and I couldn't get myself to try the new season of Criminal Minds (I am easily emotionally wrought, I need someone to tell me it's still good), and I never ended up finishing S1 of The Borgias. All three of those are non-productive fandoms for me, though.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I keep meaning to watch Elementary and Once Upon a Time, which I haven't tried yet.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year? THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG OMG (DWARVES IN BARRELS) and also The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey extended edition omg omg omg. Also I hear there are some other movies coming out, haha; I'm looking forward to seeing what Thor 2 does, and I live in hope that someday S.M. Stirling will finish the Emberverse.
And the first lines of the first posts of each month of 2012 meme:
January: Happy New Year!
February: Wow, this is the second slashiest thing I've ever read in the EU, where Anakin cuts his way through an army of bounty hunters screaming for Obi-Wan after having ~visions, while Obi-Wan snarks and Ki-Adi-Mundi despairs.
March: I love Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
April: So I read this, which triggered my fannish hindbrain and sent me back to reread this.
May: My university has two 3000-year-old Egyptian mummies that have been in the university's collection since 1852 (for an American school, this is old).
June: Okay, at this point, "water trickster demon" is actually the only reasonable explanation.
July: Brave is fantastic, guys.
August: I have made an amazing strawberry frozen yoghurt today, thus christening my new ice cream maker.
September: I am really not taking the whole "not in New Orleans this year" thing well.
October: I am ensconced at my August Institution of Higher Learning, which manages to be equal parts overwhelming and underwhelming.
November: Looking at graduate schools -- for the PhD this time -- is just depressing, especially since I've got several problems:
December: Here is a thing which I am not writing.
And first lines of fic from the first fic written each month (uh, this seems unlikely, I'm just saying).
January: Jill hasn’t had occasion to visit Anvard’s kennels before, but a man-at-arms in the palace livery points the way out to her and she soon finds herself pushing open a door with a stylized pattern of various dogs chasing each other engraved on it. (Dust 27)
February: The death of a single Jedi, violent, unexpected, can leave ripples in the Force for decades, even centuries afterwards. (SW genderfuck ramblings, the double genderfuck)
March: Somewhat to Obi-Wan’s surprise, Dooku takes her to what must be his private holocomm chamber. (Dirt in the Machine 4)
April: The decision was taken out of her hands a few days later. (Bad Moon Rising 2)
May: The last time Obi-Wan had been in the presence of this many politicians, she’d been briefly undercover as one of Queen Amidala’s handmaidens as Amidala addressed the Senate. (Bad Moon Rising 4)
June: She sees the manor house first. (Dust 28)
July: n/a
August: n/a
September: By the time that King Rilian the Disenchanted, son of Caspian X the Seafarer (the first king of a more or less united Narnia), assumed the throne, his betrothed had already been married for some eleven years, and had three boys and two girls with her husband. (How Prince Col Came to Leave Narnia,
narniaexchange fic)October: n/a
November: n/a
December: Natasha arrived in SHIELD’s round atrium just in time to see a beam of blindingly blight cut clean through the ceiling and emboss a familiar round knot pattern on the marble floor. (Avengers lolarity ramblings, with alt!Loki)