Saturday dance party, sleepy Sunday

I'm very tired, and have spent most of the day (apart from a long, stretchy yoga class this morning) lying around and scrolling idly through social media. Sometimes, that's how the weekend turns out, and that's okay.

The big thing this weekend was, of course, the Eurovision final. Don't click on the cut if you're worried about being spoiled for the results (although I imagine anyone who cares will know by now).

( Hey ho, let's go! )

The once_upon_fic collection has gone live. I'll post more about my gift, and other works I enjoyed from the collection after author reveals — I never post rec posts during anon periods as I want authors to get full credit for their work — but I'm delighted with the gift I received. It's a sharp, perceptive story based on 'The Sealskin' Icelandic folktale (a variant on the selkie myth) which really digs into the darkness of such stories. For me, selkie stories (or stories about swan maidens, or any other stories about supernatural women captured as human brides) can never be love stories, only horror stories, and that's definitely what I got here — a slow, creeping sense of dread that whispers from the margins, building towards the fic's devastating final lines. I'm so happy with it!

I've started reading my way through the collection, and I would recommend doing the same if you like retellings of fairytales, folktales, or mythology. You don't really need to know canon for most of the stuff I've read so far, but if you feel it would help, all canonical material is freely available online and aggregated here.

And that's pretty much been my weekend.