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[yuuago]

There was snow on the ground today. I am not impressed.

Transferred all of my vacation photos from my nextbook to the desklaptop. There are... uh. A lot of them. Might take me a while to go through these.

While I was doing that, transferred the draft of the fic I was working on. Revised it... now I'm just waiting to get the proofreading back. Then, who knows. I still kind of feel antsy and unsure about it. It deals with historical stuff, and that always leaves me nervous, even if it's dealt with in a vague way. So damn worried about getting something incorrect. Sometimes it's really difficult to understand what's going on in history - I mean, it's such a clusterfuck. But, we'll see.

Indexing done, by the by. So glad that I finally caught up on that.

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[const-victoria.livejournal.com]

I am!! We've had a remarkably warm and sunny autumn so far, but now the cold and the gloom are finally beginning to catch up and everybody is praying for some snow already.

I hope you're better in appreciating photos than I am. ._. /usually ends up stuffing them in some folder without as much as looking through the whole lot

Oh yes, the history aspect is probably the most complicated and yet fascinating thing the fandom offers. Nad while the proccess of researching in itself is fun, the fact that it's just nor possible to research everything is a bit of a let-down.

[yuuago]

Most of my friends are expecting a photopost, so I'm going to have to edit at least a few of them. xD But man, I am so lazy with it. [/puts it off until tomorrow, again]

The history bit is probably what drew me in and still keeps me in this fandom, honestly. Wouldn't be as interesting without it. But man, writing the stuff is so hard. Not just because research is difficult at times (sometimes I wish I wrote about Canada more because finding resources would be so much easier for me, sigh) but because just plain understanding what was going on at the time is very... difficult. A lot of it just goes over my head and I have to read a bunch of different sources about the same thing just to understand what was going on. Trying to figure out who did what to whom and why. Alliances all over the place. European history is like a freakin' soap opera. :V

[const-victoria.livejournal.com]

I think I'll join them in waiting. :D

That's why I'm pretty relieved sometimes that Norway is my main point of interest, as most of the time the country had a pretty limited number of relations - um, that is, aside from being affected and indirectly involved by Big European Events. And then the Napoleonic wars happened. And all of the 20th century.
But to be honest, what's driving me up the wall is that I have no idea (and almost no way of finding out) what the people's day-after-day life was like several centuries ago. I can research some parts and guess others, but in the end even the most mundane irrelevant thing can turn out a mistake. It makes me second-guess everything: "Wait, could they really grow this kind of vegetables? What did their nightclothes really look like? How many days this journey would take?" and so on. And the saddest part is that I actually like researching domesticality - it's just that free resources that offer detailed information on it are few and far between.