sick leave; good omens and it recs

[cimorene]

waxjism was getting panic symptoms and oncoming sniffles symptoms so bad at work that she had to leave early and go to the doctor, and now she's got a week of medical leave, prescriptions for depression and anxiety and a referral to a psychologist. I mean hopefully all that helps, so good (the idea that you can just have 2 days off and then be able to continue work as usual after the death of a parent without adverse symptoms seems insane to me), but that's where she was at: physical illness in reaction to being at her place of work.

Meanwhile, in counter-fug combating measures, today I changed the bed, did the backlog of dishes and assembled the recycling, and cleared our desk area, which is... not all the basics of stuff that needs to be done to make this side of the house as functional as possible, but an adequate start. And I not coincidentally avoided drawing for the first time since the beginning of October (and I've been intending to take a day off to rest my hand and wrist since they started feeling the strain about 2 weeks ago), so that represents a feat of will.

I also bookmarked all the fic that I finished and liked from the last month, which enabled me to delete it off my phone. AO3 says that brings me to 210 Good Omens bookmarks.

The glut of Good Omens fic has been slowing down gradually, as I mentioned before, and that's why I've had to cast about for other things to read - I couldn't fill all my counterphobic compulsive reading needs from the pairing tag anymore. To that end, there are a handful of Eddie/Richie bookmarks there as well. That's the It fandom, which is also what Wax has been reading most of the time lately. I've only seen part 1 after Wax assured me that it wasn't a scary movie - I hate jump scares and don't watch or read horror genre, so I've also not read the book; I actually think the fic would be pretty much comprehensible even if I hadn't seen the movie, although the ability to ask Wax wtf something is referring to has occasionally been of use (she's been a King fan since childhood and has all his books - when we met she had multiple copies of most of them, and Swedish translations of quite a few, which she got rid of about 10 years ago when we Marie Kondoed our book collection).

... Anyway, Wax doesn't enjoy talking about things that she's read that much, so she keeps bookmarks or shares links only with great reluctance, and due to the volume of this fandom, I have been surfing around through bookmark lists from essentially randomly chosen AO3 users rather than just sorting and filtering the whole tag. I haven't approached a fandom in this way in years! But I noticed when I did sort and filter the whole tag that it was already large enough that the good stuff didn't seem to be rising to the top few pages of results, and so far this is having a slightly better success rate. Any recs (or, preferably, recs of bookmarkers reading the pairing to check out) would be appreciated.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

So glad wax is getting a break and maybe some good help!!!

You two are in my thoughts so often. Sending you all the best.

I have no recs for you as I am not in any of the King fandoms but definitely good thoughts.

[saxonvoter]

Oh dear... That's a lot of bookmarks! I'll have to take a look at them. Sadly I haven't had the time to read that much fics lately, but I'm always on the lookout for recommendations (especially if they're fluffy).

Thanks for sharing!