you can stand under my umbrella

Jeesh, so much rain, omg. Yesterday we had a brief power outage, and today some of the traffic lights aren't working and the library's electronic borrowing system is down, but it is still officially a Good Weekend because I now have in my possession

a) N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and
b) the first five (out of six) volumes of 紅樓夢/Hóng lóu mèng/Dream of the Red Chamber, in side-by-side Chinese and English! \o/ SO EXCITED, you guys. :> :> Translators for this version are Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, in case anyone's interested.

In other happy-making news, have some recs! Four Remus(/Sirius) birthday fics:
- (Not) Just Another Day [hard R] by midnitemaraud_r
- (Even better than) the real thing [PG]by red_squared
- Let Him Eat Cake [NC-17] by mindabbles
- Fly the Friendly Skies [NC-17] by gryffindor_j

and one lovely present written for me by such_heights:
- Giving Thanks [PG, OT4 gen], written for the prompt of "someone discovers the secret diary of aggrieved sad-panda Merlin Emrys." :D &hearts!

Story-writing and plotting are proceeding on many fronts, if slowly, so hopefully I can keep it up!