Fangirling is hard work but at least it's distracting

I apologise for the delay in posts of actual content.

We had to put one of our dogs down on Saturday so that kind of killed the mood for thinking about anything except for why pets can't be immortal.

I am a grown woman. I have had to put multiple pets down due to illness and old age. I have had pets just not wake up one day because of old age. I have had...well the rooster wasn't really a pet but I liked him...animals eaten by other animals.

I still don't see why they can't just be freaking immortal so I don't have to do this.

Alternatively, why we can put animals out of their suffering but it's immoral to allow terminally ill people the choice.

Additionally, I hope deeply that animals are exempt from the zombie apocalypse. Because if not, there's a small army buried in the back of the property and I am screwed.

And now I am going to go get a couple of hours (or maybe an hour, I keep typing) sleep before I attempt to read an 850 page novel in one day.

Because reasons, that's why.

Regular posting will resume after I have collapsed from this feat of insanity and woken up again two days from now.

Seriously. Not even half way through reading The Scottish Prisoner but it reminds me of how much I love this woman and her work.

Lord John is made of win.

My reaction to Lord John and Stephan finally getting together?

Fangirl squee followed by the explosion of my ovaries. The *only* pairing that would make me happier in that world would be Lord John and Jamie and dammit I *know* why that's never going to happen and understand. But *still*.

Here's hoping everyone survives the book!

Naamah's Curse

Done. Actually 560 pages, but still feels light and fluffy after Outlander. Hmmm..I've noticed that I don't feel as frantic and anxious for Moirin and Bao as I did for Phedre and Joscelin or Imriel and Sidonie. It *might* be because I'm coming off of Outlander, which takes a lot of emotional investment from me, or it could just be because Moirin and Bao lack the dark edge that ran through the other two trilogies.

On the other hand, I do find Moirin and Bao adorable and want to smish them together. Maybe that's it! They're cute where Phedre and Joscelin and Imriel and Sidonie were *epic* and slightly tragic and angsty too! Meh. But the next book in the series promises to have demons again, and that makes me a happy camper.

And I do wish that we could get a book (or series) based on the travels of Elua and his Companions. I think that'd make excellent stories, plus we'd get to know them as characters and not gods.

Now, I'm reading Sizzling Sixteen, and then, on to the Neil Gaiman section of my library!

Unexpected Bonus

to reading all 7 Outlander books (plus the three Lord John's) all in a row.

The next 540 page book you pick up to read? Is light and fluffy by comparison.

Dear Diana Gabaldon,

I both hate and love you in almost equal measure.

On the one hand, you write exquisite books. I love the characters. To the point where, when I read Ian's death, I wept. I feel silly weeping for fictional people, but there you go. You made me do it. And not just a little tear, but sobs. And I really get invested in the characters, like Lord John. I do love him, I really, really do. And I *never* want to read about his death, do you hear me? NOT EVER. As far as I am concerned, Lord John is a bloody immortal.

On the other hand, holy crap woman, knowing that you take three to four years to write a book, why, for the love of all that is holy, do you end the book with so many freaking cliffhangers?!?!

Roger's in the past, maybe, looking for Jem, who is *not* in the past, but under the mountain, in the tunnel, with a passage that, if he falls into it, will send him back to a time when there was no tunnel, thereby *killing* him instantly, and how will Roger figure out that Jem's not in the past? Will Bree and Mandy and Jem follow? Will Bree beat Rob Cameron to death with a frying pan? (I'm voting for that one.) What about William MacKenzie? He doesn't get back to his own time, fine. But is he going to be helpful at all?

You had Lord John sleep with Claire. Right, fine, I get it. I don't like it, but I get it. Copious amounts of alcohol, and both of them mourning the same man, whom they love very, very much. I get it. But, for fucks sake, Lord John is *gay*. Like, not bi, but *gay*. The only reason he's *ever* slept with a woman was to maintain the fiction that he is not gay, and therefore not get *murdered*. I do not like him sleeping with Claire! It's out of character. And aside from all that, what is Jamie going to do? You had Lord John tell him, but then you *stopped*! I know, in my heart, that Jamie will not kill Lord John. I know it because it must be true! But...*whimper* I *like* the painful relationship between Jamie and Lord John! They're friends, and Lord John is going to love Jamie *forever*, and if Jamie hates him for this...*GAH*! I mean, I've come to terms, in my head, that Lord John and Jamie are never going to be *together*, but I cannot live with them not being friends!

And wee Ian and Rachel! Is Arch Bug dead? I think he is, but maybe not. And the fact that William also fancies himself in love with Rachel, who loves Ian, who loves her back. And Ian and Willie are cousins...

And *speaking* of Willie. He *knows*. Which, um, yeah. I mean, it had to happen, but wow. *That's* going to be a hell of a conversation that he needs to have with Jamie and Lord John at some point in the near future.

What about Fergus and Percy and that whole, lost heir to a French fortune? Oooh...what if Fergus and Marsali's kids and their descendants are Claire's ancestors? *brain squishes* Time travel, man...

And is Claire going to be arrested as a traitor now that Jamie has 'abducted' Lord John and she's left with William, who is off being pissed off at the world? And Henry! Will Henry live and marry Mrs. Woodcock? Dottie and Denny! Hah! How'll Hal deal with his kids all going nuts and marrying rather inappropriate people?

And what will Jenny and Claire say to each other now?

*flail*