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Same.

In the past week my aunt, and last relative of that generation, died and my mom's bestie (and sort of an honorary aunt for me) died. I'm a bit sad. They were both in their 80s, long lives well lived and all that. But still.

I'm sorry, Calli. Yes, it is good to celebrate lives well lived, but it doesn't spare you the grief of loss.

{{{Calli}}}

Love to you, Calli. That is hard.

Yeah, one time I agree with Anya. Sometimes mortal bodies suck.

Thanks, y'all. I'm the youngest of my generation in the family by a fair bit. So I don't feel like I'm part of the "wise elders" group. But there's no generation before me holding up that torch, so I guess the subsequent generations are stuck with me and the cousins. I spent far too long this morning debating whether to get a welcome mat that says "Definitely not a trap door," so subsequent generations had best moderate their expectations accordingly.

(Calli))

David, I hope the next trip down goes much smoother.

I've read 2 MCU fics I have to rec-- both are AU and probably out of character but I don't care.

The first is My Big Fat Wolf Wedding (https://archiveofourown.org/works/31175741) Steve (who is a vampire) accidentally gets engaged to Bucky (who is a werewolf). -- Steve just thought he was biting a hot guy, Bucky thought he found his true mate or something.. Bucky in this is a very sweet, kind of himbo-ish werewolf dude who has a love of romance novels and Steve just wants to have the best werewolf wedding for Bucky as possible since he accidentally got werewolf married/engaged to him.

And then there is the Bait and Switch verse [link] Bucky is the Winter Soldier, Sam is Captain America, Steve is just a regular guy (not a super hero) but definitely has some Thoughts on Tactics and Strategy he shares with Tony, (after Tony invites himself and Sam to Bucky and Steve's lunch date). I still haven't started reading any actual books. I need to do that.

Timelies all!

Urgh. My dad called to say my mom's in the hospital. She's had an UTI that isn't responding to the antibiotics she's been prescribed, and now she has low blood pressure. Hopefully they'll find something that works, and she'll be back home soon.

I hope she's home soon, Sheryl.

I have just one biological aunt left, and she's not all that with it. I have a feeling that I'm going to drift further away from my cousins on that side once she's gone. They're all at least a decade older than me. Weird that I spent so much of my childhood around them, and now the ones I talk to are the ones on the other side, the ones I didn't really interact with much until I was an adult.

JZ, if you haven't read the Temeraire series, you must. And it will last you a while.

Warning, though: the first book DID cause me to email the author and say, "Goddamn it, you made me cry at work." (Maybe I shouldn't have been reading it on my lunch break, but I wasn't expecting the floodgates to open! Also, damn, that was a long time ago.)

I'm mostly reading, umm, L&Co. fic. There's a good one that dropped yesterday that I've already read...three? four? times. There's also a great Kipps character study that updates on the regular. It's one of those fandoms that's just large enough for regular content, just small enough that I keep running out.